by Laura Donnelly | Sep 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
Watch this simple video to increase your awareness of Easiness Our mind is a muscle. Training our minds is like learning any physical skill. Therefore, shifting our awareness toward what’s going well and away from what’s going wrong requires gentle...
by Laura Donnelly | Sep 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
Easiness is our natural state of being Due to stress, fatigue, injury, or fear our minds can shift to thinking repeatedly about our stress, what makes us tired, or the things that make us fearful or frustrated. Thinking and worrying about what’s going wrong...
by Laura Donnelly | Aug 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Many people are talking about mindfulness these days. The definition I like is from www.merriam-webster.com: “a mental state achieved by focusing one’s awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one’s feelings,...
by Laura Donnelly | Mar 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
Read on a little before you say “Not possible!” It’s 1975, my senior year in high school. My mom drives me to school every morning because we only have one car. I cross the street, walk across the front entry, climb three steps, approach the bank of six doors, and...
by Laura Donnelly | May 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
For many involved in formal education the end of the school term is here along with the pressure to complete the dreaded “final grades.” Having returned to my normal “learning all the time” and “test by practical application” schedule, I’ve begun to observe some...
by Laura Donnelly | Mar 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Today I was talking with a friend about unraveling patterns and she lamented that she needed a few new routines to help her focus and create more order in her life. My friend resigned from a job she’d had for 23 years about 10 months ago. She’d been less than...
