Left Brain Buddha
the modern mindful blog
Spring Cleaning with Meaning
Spring cleaning? Put some mindful meaning into it!
Mindfulness Practices To Help Kids Calm Down
Learn simple mindfulness practices you can do with your children, or students, to help them calm down and focus!
Why You’re Not Finding Time For Yourself
Think you’ll never find time for yourself? Well, you might be right…
How to Literally, Metaphorically, and Mindfully Survive the Cold
Winters are inevitable, whether they arrive seasonally due to the tilt of the Earth’s axis, or unexpectedly due to a tilt in our life circumstances. Learn 5 mindful ways to survive the times when you are frozen and raw.
“Mommy, What ARE We?”: Rethinking Religion
As my daughter gets older, I find I need to think more about the big questions…. What is religion? What ARE we?
Where the Wild Things Are
Our little Maxes will eventually sail off, in days or weeks or years, to where the wild things are. How do we help them navigate? Let’s start by nurturing their emotional lives.
10 Mindful Ways to Take Care of Yourself — So You Can Care for the World
“If the Earth were your body, you would be able to feel the many areas where it is suffering.” Thich Nhat Hanh It's distressingly easy to find suffering in the world right now. On top of that, we're divided politically, our civil discourse is anything but civil, our...
The B.O.D.Y. App
Are we turning to all sorts of tracking devices because we’ve become so disconnected from our bodies we can no longer detect the analog signals they’ve been sending us our entire lives?
The Best Mindfulness Apps for Moms, Kids, and Teens
Let your phone help you be mindful and aware — instead of distracted — with these great mindfulness apps!
Zen and the Art of Tap Dancing
I love to dance ~ I danced in a performance group in college and I really missed dancing once I moved on to “real life.” Several years ago I was happy to discover that the dance studio my daughter attended also offered Moms’ classes. Awesome! Until I discovered that...
The Easiest and Hardest Part of Mindful Parenting
Mindful parenting is just as easy and, sometimes, just as hard as it sounds.
5 Awesomely Mindful Things About “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
Even Jedi Masters are not perfect … and four other mindful lessons we learned from Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Sleigh Bells Ring. Are You Listening?
What a wonderful time of year it is: no matter where you go, you can hear gorgeous songs about goodwill to men and peace on earth and shining stars and singing angels and saviors who arrive on silent and holy nights. No matter what this time of year means to you, you...
LIFE: Unscripted!
Did you know you're a screenwriter? Don't believe me? Well, I bet right now, you are writing a script. It might read something like... SCENE: A calm Monday morning. The mindful and compassionate main character opens her computer browser to read a blog post about...
Mindfulness for Teens
OMG teens are stressed these days, amiright? According to the latest research from the American Psychological Association, teens report higher levels of stress than adults do (at least during the school year). And almost half of teens say they're not doing enough to...
The Day of Rest
For anyone who’s ever wondered why their Day of Rest isn’t more restful…
Why Mindful Parenting Works For Me
Of all the parenting approaches out there, you would think one that reflects teachings and ideas from such varied sources as psychology, Buddhism, and even Seinfeld (stay with me here) would provoke little controversy. But in keeping with our American tradition of the...
10 Ways You are Exactly Like Your Computer
#3. You probably have too many windows open.