It is the most liberating experience to live life with no expectations. When you have expectations, you have preconceived ideas of how things should be that you are attached to. Expectation creates fear because you think what you desire may or may not happen. Free of expectations,...

Mindfulness is a Buddhist-based concept and practice that is increasingly being incorporated into Western psychological and psychiatric practices.Mindfulness is being happy, with present-moment awareness of what is happening inside and outside you, relaxing into the moment to find...

In a study of 333 mothers and fathers in Portugal, a team at the University of Coimbra analyzed the correlations between mindfulness, mindful parenting, parenting styles, and stress.Some of the strongest correlations involve mindful self-compassion, which emphasizes self-kindness-...

There are two ways of being in the world. One is called the “doing mode,” and the other is called the “being mode”. When we operate in the “being mode”, we are usually happier than when in the doing mode, for obvious reasons. If you are in the...

Mindfulness is a way of being that can create more happiness in your life. It is based on the Buddhist tradition dating back nearly two thousand five hundred years, which focuses on the “vipassana” form of meditation, which means “çlear seeing” in Pali, the...