Why Effective Meditation Can Be Different for Men and Women

I’m a huge fan of meditating. It’s so good, right? Its benefits to your mindset and creativity are nothing short of amazing and increasingly crucial to your relationships and your business, whether you work in corporate land or own your own business. There are many apps out there to help you get started and improve […]

Meditation as Relationship Pillar

One of my first jobs out of college was writing technical documentation for an IBM contractor. While the job wasn’t my dream, I learned buckets about writing and I met some people whom I still remember to this day. And while they were all such rich characters, none of them compared to… Dee and Candi. […]

Meditation and Moms

Imagine it’s a reasonable waking hour in your bedroom. The same bedroom that is cocooned in a spa-like ambience: clean, with the peaceful aroma of lavender floating out of the diffuser like gossamer being spun. You arise from the perfect-number-of-hours slumber refreshed and ready for you day. You touch your still-sleeping prince charming gently on […]

The Pillars of Meditation: Pillar 1 – Prepare

This is the first in a four-part series about what I call the pillars of meditation. Whenever I think of pillar, I envision Grecian columns holding up important touchstones of civilization. Pillars provide a foundation on which other things rest. In this case, it’s the foundation of what will hopefully become a successful meditation practice, […]

Breathing 101

If you are like most people, at some point during a time of stress, some well-meaning person has told you to take a deep breath. This statement may have perplexed and even annoyed you because it’s more difficult to breathe deeply when you are stressed. Said person might not have known it, but when they […]