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08/17/2022

Settling in at our new location

07/24/2022

07/06/2022

OpenMind is on the move again! It was an amazing time along the New River. Thank you to everyone who made this a very special place!!

01/01/2022

Exhale 2021 and inhale the best and highest potential of 2022

Teachers can help students in preschool and the early elementary grades use mindfulness to find calm when they feel overwhelmed.

12/01/2021

“Awe is what we feel when we encounter something vast, wondrous or beyond our ordinary frame of reference. And, given its documented benefits, awe might be our most overlooked, undervalued emotion.”

Here’s how experts say we can infuse more awe into our everyday lives — and why we should.

06/08/2021

OpenMind is on the move again! It has been an amazing year on Miami Beach!

04/10/2021

What is Integrative Health? Integrative Health is whole-person health. What does it involve? It involves you. Encompassing body, breath, science, and mind, it places you in the center of your health and well-being. I’m an Integrative Health Coach and I partner with my clients in their personal health planning and behavior change. Optimal health is its own reward. Have you discovered yours? Find me at Open-Mind.com

10/01/2020

“You aren’t born calm; you work on it.”
https://www.menshealth.com/health/a34032850/focus-like-a-brain-surgeon/

Tips from a guy who actually is one.

09/20/2020

“Measuring well-being is the link between how you feel and what you should do about it.” https://elemental.medium.com/can-you-measure-well-being-3875e79d108a?utm_source=Center+for+Healthy+Minds&utm_campaign=514567460c-Apr2020_DNewsletter_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cce2315563-514567460c-8683801

An inside look from scientists working to quantify feelings

07/21/2020

“The Gut-Brain Axis (GBA), also known as the Gut-Brain Connection, refers to the bidirectional communication between the central nervous system and the enteric nervous system that connects cognitive and digestive behavior.”

Have you experienced nausea or cramping in your stomach during an anxious moment? Or felt butterflies in your belly? Researchers are working to better understand this phenomenon and the underlying mechanisms that might also contribute to more serious conditions. It may be that your diet affects your...

07/21/2020

New studies are demonstrating ways in which our organs - heart, lungs, gut - transmit information to the brain to influence how we perceive; how we interact; and how we define our experience.
“What’s readily apparent in that work, too, is that “the world isn’t just a stable thing,” Garfinkel said. “How we perceive it is based on our own bodies.”

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-your-heart-influences-what-you-perceive-and-fear-20200706/

The heartbeat and other bodily processes play a surprising role in shaping perception and cognition.

06/09/2020

OpenMind is on the move again! It has been an amazing year in Baltimore 🤗

12/07/2019

We moved to a new location - So happy & appreciative to be included in this amazing creative community of The Mill Centre

03/02/2018

Interesting article on the study and testing of wisdom as opposed to intellect. “Wisdom is about using your abilities and knowledge not just for your own selfish ends and for people like you. It’s about using them to help achieve a common good by balancing your own interests with other people’s and with high-order interests through the infusion of positive ethical values.”

One distinguished psychologist explains why he believes this is so and how to reverse course

02/26/2018