Finding Life’s New Rhythm
Think of your favorite song—what is the rhythm? How does the beat structure the music? Where are flourishes that sustain your attention? Like music, life has a rhythm too with…
Your Happiness Playlist
Experience embodied delight through music. Sounds are vibrations hitting your eardrums, but the rest of your body is resonating too. Imagine yourself as a guitar or piano – music vibrates…
Resolve to Refresh
Have you ever returned from a vacation feeling depleted rather than replenished? Maybe you were jetlagged after an international adventure or drained from overextending yourself to host family or friends. As you…
Inside Out movie – don’t miss it!
Don’t let this animated film trick you into thinking that this movie is just for kids. Inside Out, Pixar Studio’s new movie, offers a delightful and thought-provoking vision of the inner workings…
Willpower
Often we know what needs to be done to improve our lives, but we just aren’t doing it. Whether it is exercising more, drinking less, working less or harder, getting…
Know Your Stress Style
An important resiliency resource is awareness of your usual patterns of behavior, thought and emotion. Awareness is cultivated by intentional self-observation. Develop it by pausing regularly throughout the day to…
Resilient Mindset
Resiliency is defined as the capacity of a substance “to spring back into shape after bending, stretching, or being compressed.” Though devastating circumstances might leave us feeling flattened for a…