Leveraging the Power of Intention An Excerpt from Boundless Leadership Conflicting intentions often lie at the root of our most ill-advised efforts. For instance, if someone criticizes us, we often feel the need to correct them. We may feel that we’re being helpful by setting the record straight, but our critic feels we’re being defensive [...]

How Not to Be a Hot Mess A Survival Guide for Modern Life ENTER YOUR EMAIL TO RECEIVE THREE GUIDED VIDEO MEDITATIONS TO YOUR INBOX. Authors of How Not to Be a Hot Mess, Craig and Devon Hase, offer a series of meditations that are short, introductory practices you can do anytime and anywhere to [...]

Craig and Devon Hase talk about how they entered into the world of meditation, why they chose to write this book, and their journey writing it together. How did you find your meditation practice? Craig: Devon and I both came to meditation very young and we have our own unique stories that we tell more [...]

Purposeful Communication & Negotiation An Excerpt from Politics and Conscience Hammarskjöld cared about nothing so much as dialogue and its formal version, negotiation. It was the heart of his activity as secretary-general, and the hum of purposeful dialogue is needed throughout the world if we are to find our way. From his perspective, dialogue isn’t day-to-day [...]

Relax An Excerpt from Relax and Be Aware Relax and be aware. Many meditators think that being aware means focusing on an object with a great deal of energy. In fact, exertion like this causes tension because it’s the result of trying hard to create a positive or happy state of mind, which actually is [...]

Insightful Reflections Excerpts from Awaken Every Day 65 Keeping Our Hearts Open Let’s strive to cultivate love and compassion for other living beings regardless of whether they’re receptive to our help and advice. When we see someone going down the wrong path and there isn’t much we can do because they don’t want our advice, [...]

The Power of Intention An Excerpt from Say What You Mean "I developed NVC as a way to train my attention—to shine the light of consciousness—on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking. What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual [...]

Wisdom for Navigating Our Modern Lives I can’t get no satisfaction ’Cause I try and I try and I try and I try I can’t get no, I can’t get no Satisfaction (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction The Rolling Stones’s first big hit in the United States was “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” and is [...]

The Buddha Walks into the Office seemed a particularly apt choice for our Shambhala office book club. After all, if anyone should aspire to an awake, uplifted workplace, it should be us. We dove in to see if Lodro Rinzler, teacher in the Shambhala tradition and founder of MNDFL meditation studios in New York, had [...]

We have excerpted the chapter “Busy Days” from Relax and Renew by Judith Hanson Lasater. This chapter describes three series that bring restorative yoga into your busy life. The first one you can practice at home or on vacation; the second is for the office; the third is for when you’re on the go. Click [...]