Pause: Mount Sinai Surgery
Insert a Pause into your day to decrease stress, gain perspective, focus and ease. We all get hijacked by our thoughts and feelings, often they are habitual. With practice, you can rewire your brain to identify and decrease your own reactivity which in turn can make your life easier. While we cannot change what comes at us any given moment we do have a choice as to how we want to respond. In that choice lies the opportunity to live with increased ease.
Episodes
61 episodes
Live Contentedly Now
With all that is stressful in the world and perhaps in your life, finding happiness may seem challenging. Often we think "if this happens, then my life will be happy". Letting go of the "if only this, then that" and tuning in to the...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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5:03
Three Step Practice: Peaceful Breathing
This Pause teaches a peaceful breathing series borrowed from mindfulness teacher Thicht Nhat Hanh. It is easy to learn, easy to practice, and effective.
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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7:16
Find Your Steady Center
We all benefit when we come from a place of feeling steady and centered. When there is chaos swirling - whether in our minds, our day or in the world- becoming grounded provides all with a sense of calm and direction. Th...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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6:25
Strategies for Working with Fear
Anxiety is at all time high in our culture and seemingly everywhere in the world. We are living in challenging times. Anxiety can create fear. This Pause presents three practices that we can use to temporarily calm ourselves.&...
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9:25
One Thing at a Time
In a world where we often feel we can never get everything done, we try to do more and more by constantly multitasking. Peter Drucker, a business and leadership scholar and teacher, wrote a book titled "The Effective Executive: The Defini...
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5:07
Insert a Pause
A foundational practice of Mindfulness is becoming aware of our thoughts, emotions and reactivity. When something happens that triggers anger, anxiety or any emotionally loaded auto-pilot resonse, we react. If, instead of reacting, ...
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9:25
Cultivate Gratitude
We each have the power to shift our mindset. This reflection and instruction on gratitude makes a difference if practiced daily and it is really easy to do. The more we focus on the little things that are good in any given day the m...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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5:29
Let It Be
Our natural tendencies are to get away or get rid of what is uncomfortable and to grasp for more of what feels good. The uncomfortable inevitably returns to eat at us, and grasping for more of the good can lead to habits that do not serve...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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9:55
Breathing In Ease
Need to reset? Pause, breathe consciously, and invite ease into your body and mind. This simple guided breath practice is a good one to use every day.
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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7:37
Emotional Intelligence
We often focus on our IQ: we have test scores and grades, data. Our Emotional Intelligence, known as EQ, has been shown to be a key factor in life, in achieving greater success and happiness. "Knowing One's Emotions, Self ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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9:44
Choose Your Words, Tone and Volume: Mindful Speech
We cannot take back our words. Life is easier if we pay close attention to our choice of words, the tone in our voice, and the volume with which we speak. When caught in reactivity we can easily lose sight of all three. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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8:08
Anger 911
Do you find yourself feeling less tolerant these days? Angry?Often our anger comes back at us to create ongoing difficulties that compound as a result of losing our temper. We may have alienated someone we care about, we may...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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6:21
Practices to Reduce Anxiety
Most people experience varying degrees of anxiety. The world, the news, our own challenges over the past few years have increased anxiety levels to what must be an all time high. If this is something you relate to, you are not alon...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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8:48
Expand Your Window of Tolerance
We often have a very narrow "window of tolerance" for emotions that are strong, including anger, fear, overwhelm. When we cannot tolerate these feelings we may say or do something that in hindsight we wish we hadn't. This practice w...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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7:11
Fine Tune Your Awareness
Becoming aware in the present moment is a mental skill that can take us off autopilot. The benefits of honing awareness include reducing stress, gaining perspective, making more informed decisions and so much more. With practice we ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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6:27
Breathing Exercise to Reset Nervous System
This simple breathing exercise is a good one to reset the nervous system.
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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6:40
Are You Suffering from a Misperception?
Misperceptions can cause suffering. This reflection on "wrong perceptions" from Zen master Thicht Nhat Hanh is worth thinking about. When we assume people or situations are something that they are not it can cause us to carry ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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3:55
Weathering Strong Emotions
Strong emotions, like anger or anxiety, can take over like a forceful storm. This practice can help one be prepared for those storms. Learn to become grounded and deeply rooted.
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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6:35