by Carla Naumburg | Sep 25, 2013 | PsychCentral.com
I recently got the following question on my Twitter feed: Do you feel meditation has really changed you? More relaxing, less stress? So on? The short answer to these questions is YES! All of the above! But that answer isn’t terribly helpful, so I thought it would be...
by Carla Naumburg | Sep 22, 2013 | PsychCentral.com
“Water, please.” It was a small voice, but we live in a small house so I heard it instantly. It was about 3 AM, but I was having trouble sleeping. I had just been away on a mindfulness retreat for four days, during which time I had missed my daughters terribly. I...
by Carla Naumburg | Sep 16, 2013 | PsychCentral.com
“This meditation stuff is so great. You’ve got to do it. What a pain in the ass.” Jon Kabat-Zinn, one of the individuals most responsible for bringing for bringing mindfulness and meditation to western popular culture, said those words at a conference I attended last...
by Carla Naumburg | Sep 12, 2013 | Huffington Post
“Mindfulness is not hitting someone in the mouth.” Those were the words of an 11-year-old boy who had just completed a five-weekmindfulness-training program at his school, as reported by The New York Times. It’s a simple statement, but it speaks to several of the...
by Carla Naumburg | Sep 5, 2013 | Huffington Post
I will never forget the first time I tried to meditate. I was sitting on a hard floor in a stinky gymnasium, hoping to score an easy PE credit so I could graduate from college. A tall, thin man dressed all in white with a long, wispy beard instructed us to cross our...
