Right now everything sucks. I want you to embrace it. Seriously. You need to read this.

There monsters in your head. And they are real. No treats. So what are you going to do?

Sometimes it feels like we have no control over our brains. There’s a simple way to describe a complex series of interactions. Knowledge is power, and control.

We love the Internet.  Oh let’s be honest, we adore the Internet. But how we do know if it’s too much?

A new study show vaping helps people quit smoking. But there’s more you need to know.

For a lot of us, some of our earliest memories involve our mother telling us to say thank you. “What do you say?” she implored, understanding the power of those two little words. And like so many other things in life, mothers were right. But it wasn’t just because it’s polite, we now know that being grateful is actually good for us.

When my father was diagnosed with leukemia it was quite a shock. Sitting in the oncologist’s waiting room I wondered, could teaching cancer patients how to meditate, and the foundational attitudes of mindfulness, really make a difference in their lives? The answer is, yes.

For people in the recovery there are still too many myths about whether and when to stop smoking.  Too many believe that quitting everything at once will lead to a greater chance of relapse, when in fact, according to several studies, the opposite is true.

Now the same skills that have helped people succeed in life for thousands of years can help people quit smoking.   

According to a recent study published in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) one out of three Americans are taking medication that has a side effect of causing depression. Furthermore there are millions of Americans taking anti-depressant medication with their own slew of side effects. What should we do?

Let’s talk about love—loving kindness. It’s one of the foundational attitudes of mindfulness and without it, well let’s face it, you might be paying attention but not with an attitude that will reduce your stress.

Let’s face it, our brains are lazy.

Given the option of stopping and thinking about how to respond to a particular situation, or doing what we have done for decades, our brains are going to opt for the easy way out: autopilot. But another way of stating that is to say we are being mindless, that is the exact opposite of being mindful.