Five Ideas To Maintain Stress In Your Life

1. Attempt to control absolutely everything – Instead of focusing all your attention on what you are doing in the moment, divert most of it towards trying to figure out how to ensure a particular result.
2. Believe in the possibility of ‘making it’ – This is a search for identity, and experientially it can be [...]

Keeping Your Heart in the Present

 
Some think that keeping your heart in the here and now is just too abstract a notion to consider.  By heart, I mean your spirit, conscience, center.  This part of each of us is manifest in our emotions.  While there are large range of emotions to consider, and while it is often very useful to name and [...]

Keeping Your Mind in the Present

Some of us are very adept at staying mentally present in the here and now.  Others like me, have to work at it.  I am a day dreamer.  For much of my life, my mind just wandered aimlessly here and there.  I had a difficult time staying focused on the task at hand.  I wouldn’t [...]