It’s easy to lose yourself when you have so many responsibilities, so many tasks that demand your attention. However, if you don’t learn to stop, to find a balance between family life, work and personal time, it’s highly likely that you’ll end up suffering the consequences…

The practice that we know today as Mindfulness has its origin in one of the oldest forms of meditation, Vipassana meditation. Its cultivation helps us to acquire a clearer awareness of what is happening at the same time as it is happening.

In this sense, we could define Mindfulness as a way to develop our ability to be truly present…

Impermanence is one of those concepts that you understand intellectually: “Life is continual change”, “Nothing stays the same, everything is in flux”, “We begin to die when we are born”…

These are truths that we know and repeat, but you don’t really understand them until you experience them. Until they touch your heart and you have no choice but to confront them head-on…

Throughout the centuries, most spiritual traditions have used stories as the preferred method to guide us towards a deeper and more meaningful life. When we read or listen to a story, paying conscious attention, we open ourselves to the possibility that a profound transformation takes place inside us.

On this occasion, I would like to share with you a story from oriental Sufi literature. It’s called “This too shall pass”…

Sometimes it isn’t easy to know what to do, how to cope with certain situations. As if it weren’t enough to deal with our own inner world, in which we sometimes feel pulled in different directions, we have to add to the equation people’s expectations or the image we may be projecting.

Things become considerably more complicated when we talk about active job seeking…

Remember the “meditation in a minute” that we shared a few weeks ago? Well, if you feel that your life is so full that spending even a minute of your time on yourself is too much, with this post you no longer have any excuse!

In my last post, I shared three of the most common obstacles to meditation. Today, as promised, I’m going to talk about two other stumbling blocks – and I’ll give you a few recommendations to help you improve your mindfulness practice…

Meditation looks like it should be easy. But when we try it ourselves for the first time, we often find that it doesn’t go as smoothly as we imagined.

If you’ve had the same feelings, then please know that you’re not alone. Most people approach meditation with pre-conceived ideas and hopes that don’t match the reality of the experience…

In our 7-day mindfulness challenge, we mention that one of the most frequent causes of stress and fatigue is an excess of mental activity.

If you’ve ever had one of those days when it feels like your mind just won’t stop, then you’ll understand the upset, nervousness and frustration that I’m talking about…

Did someone you know ever say something that got stuck in your memory forever? I mean the kind of comment that you feel becomes a part of you…