Author page: lkovitz

The 10-Second Breather

Mindfulness Moment’s Three Ways Take time each day to completely stop what we are doing, relax the body and bring all attention to the breath. With 10-seconds of intentional breathing, we can soothe the entire system. We can interrupt the stream of endless thoughts to liberate the habitual mind and be an daily participant of our bigger life affirming goals.…

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Basic Meditation Instructions

The Basic Breath Meditation From a comfortable meditation posture. Bring all the attention to the breath. Observe the breath at the nose as you exhale. Observe the breath at the nose as you inhale. Observe every breath. What You Will Notice The mind wanders…alot! No problem, the point of the exercise is to NOTICE THAT THE MIND HAS WANDERED, and then,…

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Stress Relief Activities

  How To Reduce Stress & Tension Learning how to be OK during the not so OK moments and months of our lives; we reduce stress and tension naturally. “Lean into the yuk” I’d notice that when I got sad or anxious, often the second derivative of those feelings made them doubly upsetting.  When I felt down, I also felt down…

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How To Practise Mindfulness Outside

Between 1996 and 2011, I spent about 6 years in India, a year in Korea, a year in Thailand and about another year travelling to Nepal, Laos, Germany Mexico and, South Africa. My goals were to study and practise Buddhism and Yoga. This was a long time to be travelling alone as a western single female tourist and I found…

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