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My Three Favorite Tools For a Healthy, Happy Life with Soraya Bakhtiar

06/20/2019

The world of fashion has become a cyclone that whizzes through each season, and despite the overwhelmed audience left in its wake, the storm only continues to gather speed. At the eye of this confusing whirlwind, Soraya Bakhtiar can be found, calm and confident. Read more

Choose A Meditation Practice You’ll Stick With

05/19/2019

Modern life is demanding and stressful, and in a lot of ways, meditation is the perfect antidote. But while having the intention to meditate is one thing, establishing and maintaining a regular practice is another thing entirely. Read more

Finding Stillness Beyond The Surface

02/11/2019

“I feel more depth and equanimity…there is a part of me that is deeper and unshakable. That part offers a little whispered voice during those really tough moments, that says: this is the surface. There is something beyond this, and you are fine there.” Read more

“It Hit Me, Quite Literally, After Endless Months Of Going To Sleep Wired”

10/31/2018

“With the thick soup of emotions, activities, actions, and lack of sleep that makes up modern life, many of us find ourselves in a constant state of stress — whether we realize it or not. Our fight or flight responses are jacked up, leaving us in a pickle of confused cortisols and befuddled coping mechanisms, which really just mask the inner noise.” Read more

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Tom Hanks And The Afternoon Crash

07/23/2018

The Afternoon Crash. The 3 O’clock Slump. The Post-Lunch Syndrome. Whatever you call it, we’ve all experienced that point in the afternoon where energy seems to evaporate and productivity plummets. Read more

A Highly Personal Yet Highly Impersonal Endeavor

05/22/2018

I wake up every day excited to give people – rich or poor – a precious tool to transform their lives in ways they hadn’t even imagined, and to discover a wealth of possibilities within themselves. Read more

Life With Terminal Cancer — Finding A Positive Perspective That Fosters Mental And Emotional Healing

04/24/2018

I thrive on being busy and learning new things, and so I’m struggling to adjust to the idea that my time may be getting cut quite short. It has suddenly become impossibly hard to figure out what I actually do have time for anymore. At this point, for me to take on anything new, I really have to believe in its merits. Read more

Raising Healthy, Resilient & Self-Driven Children

03/16/2018

How often do you come across something that will give your children the gift of being able to take a step back, to de-stress and find calm amidst the chaos of life? This is why having my kids learn the TM technique has been so rewarding for me. Read more

An Abundance Of Time While Working 70 Hours A Week

02/22/2018

After years of 70-hour work weeks in the advertising industry, I had to call it quits. I was mentally and physically destroyed from the constant urgency around every little task — none of which actually mattered in the real world —  and was left with almost no energy to figure out what to do next. I needed a break, but I also needed a paycheck, so I turned to meditation. Read more

20 Minutes Morning & Evening, 50 Dogs All Day

01/15/2018

Practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique has been a huge element in my work with dogs. It helps me be in the moment, and the more present I am, the greater my awareness to observe and feel out the dogs I’m working with. Read more

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