When you're stressed, it is so tempting to fantasize about being not stressed. You imagine feeling peaceful and relaxed later -- when you get home from work, or when this project is finished, or when this exam is over, or when you get to the beach, or maybe when the...
(1) Comments | Posted April 12, 2012 | 10:41 AM
Last year, for National Stress Awareness Month, I published a series of articles here about how contagious stress can be. With the support of the HuffPost editors, I asked readers to vow not to pass their stress on to others for one day.
This year, for National Stress...
(4) Comments | Posted February 17, 2012 | 8:40 AM
According to this article in the New York Times this week, "How 1-Minute Intervals Can Improve Your Health," high-intensity interval training (HIIT) has significant physiological benefits.
HIIT is an approach to exercise that involves alternating short, intense bursts of exercise with equally short rest periods -- for example,...
(4) Comments | Posted August 27, 2011 | 2:44 PM
Let me be brief, as there is a hurricane coming and I have lots to do.
But I really need to say this:
Over the last two days, I have heard many politicians and emergency officials on the East Coast reminding us to be "smart" or "cautious." But...
(23) Comments | Posted August 7, 2011 | 8:45 AM
Since writing my book, "One-Moment Meditation: Stillness for People on the Go," (titled "The One-Moment Master: Stillness for People on the Go" in the U.K.), I have met many people who were, at first, incredulous at my proposition that you can meditate in just a moment.
...(15) Comments | Posted May 6, 2011 | 8:59 AM
For National Stress Awareness Month, I wrote two articles here about how we pick up stress from others and pass it on -- what I called "stresscalation." I argued that we have an ethical obligation to stop our own role in this stresscalation.
But could we also...
(23) Comments | Posted April 15, 2011 | 8:45 AM
When we pass stress on to others, we create a more stressful world.
It doesn't matter how we got stressed in the first place, or whose fault it was originally. As soon as we're stressed, it is our responsibility, and what we do with it is up to us....
(31) Comments | Posted April 5, 2011 | 8:53 AM
It is so easy to get stressed these days.
Watching the news makes you stressed. Checking the weather makes you stressed. Then there are the thousand shocks you must bear in just going about your daily life: You are driving and someone cuts you off. Your boss barks at...
(153) Comments | Posted March 26, 2011 | 11:55 AM
According to the National Sleep Foundation, 41 percent of Americans report having sleep problems every night or almost every night. Meditation, of course, can help, but not as you might imagine.
Yes, it's true, through regular meditation practice, you might become so profoundly peaceful that you will never again...


(0) Comments | Posted April 13, 2012 | 4:00 PM