How to Start a Meditation Practice When You’re Stressed
How do we keep calm and carry on in chaos? Here are 10 helping coping tips in stressful times.
Tag: mindfulness
Jonathan Merritt On A Skeptic’s Guide to Christian Meditation
In his latest book, Learning to Speaking God from Scratch, best-selling author and religion writer Jonathan Merritt, discusses a chronic pain condition that left him “blurred” and “helpless like Job” (Merritt 96). In a recent post, Merritt adds that he sought out mindfulness meditation and yoga in order …
How to Make 2019 The Best Year Yet–One Breath at a Time
Today is the official Launch Day of One Breath at a Time: A Skeptic’s Guide to Christian Mediation. Yesterday, This is My Body author and dear friend Hannah Shanks told me: “If we ever needed deep breaths and ways to hold onto ourselves, it’s now.” 2018 wasn’t exactly stellar. It’s hard to remember a year that was. …
This is Your Life: How Presence Brings Joy
One of my 2015 resolutions was to become more mindful. Not lotus-sitting, 24-7 monastic mindful, but a little less wound up and a lot more present. I’ve needed that resolution this year, as the past 12 months have brought a mix of busyness, joy, wonder, …