OK, so I finally threw out the remaining crumbles of Thanksgiving stuffing last weekend. Now that we’re headlong into the rush and buzz of the holiday decorating/shopping/singing/gift-giving season, I have this deep need to hold onto the simplicity of Thanksgiving—“the holiday that’s just about food and family”, as one of my friends described it. I’ve [...]
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Thanksgiving Leftovers
Posted in Happiness, Stress on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Power of Preparation & Flexibility in Banishing Stress
Posted in EQ, Flexibility, Problem Solving, Stress, Stress Tolerance on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recently, at an EQnomics Series “Pulling the Stress Plug” event I discovered at the last minute that the LCD projector’s cords were not in the bag. I realized one of my colleagues may have inadvertently put them in her/his laptop bag at their last presentation. While normally, I would double-check the cord was there, however, [...]
“La La La and Smiling”
Posted in Happiness, Mindfulness, Problem Solving, Stress, Stress Tolerance, Training on August 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The other day I was preparing for the “Pulling the Stress Plug” workshop as a free “Thank you!” Training Demo for one of our long-term clients. Of the various stress mastery techniques and mindsets that we teach in this workshop, one of them involves a neuroscience bio-feedback technique called Quick Coherence as developed by HeartMath. [...]
Mindfulness, Stress and “The Peace of Wild Things”
Posted in Mindfulness, Stress, Stress Tolerance, Training on July 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my childrens lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron [...]