Guided Meditation VR is the first virtual reality meditation app to hit the scene. Developed by Cubicle Ninjas, it allows you to “expand your mind,” by placing a headset over your eyes and ears and immersing yourself in a serene illustrated environment like a lush, sandy beach or a burnt orange and rusty red-hued treescape, while listening to a guided meditation of your choosing (the nine options include “Zen” and “Relaxation”)....
We give very little attention to learning to listen, learning to really hear another person or situation. Yet think back to the moments with other people when our hearts were engaged and we felt fed by being together. In those moments, weren’t we hearing one another? In times like those, when we have listened to and heard one another, we have felt life arising from a shared perspective. Why We Miss New Opportunities Why We Miss New Opportunities...
The folks at Fast Company have put together an infographic that details the damages of sitting all day, including some easy ways you can set up a standing desk and find time to move around during the day. And with screen-time on the rise, sitting at your desk all day might not be the best way to carve out uninterrupted time to focus on work. As Mindful blogger Ed Halliwell tell us, the mind benefits when we incorporate movement into the process....
The most successful people are those who, faced with their own inadequacy, move forward anyway. They’re not blessed with special talents, they’re just people who keep going despite all the reasons not to. You grow into yourself as a leader when you learn to stop pretending to have all the answers and instead are willing to be yourself—warts and all—and step into the immense uncertainty of leadership. Scared, absolutely. But undeterred....
“It was nonstop for two years,” says Modabber, who has dark curly black hair and a warm smile. “That period in my life was so hard that I blocked it out. I don’t even remember my teachers’ names. The entire class turned on me.” Modabber is now the principal and founder of Golestan Education, a Persian-language preschool and after-school program in Berkeley, California that collaborates with other local schools on cultural education, where my son will be going to preschool next year....
