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Four Mindful Tools
to Add to Your Daily Routine

We don’t feel acknowledged by our
partners, we go shopping. We feel
overwhelmed with work, we go for drinks.
We feel helpless, we go for Ben & Jerry’s.
These instant gratification actions we
commonly reach out to for stressreduction purposes provide us temporary
comfort and feel-good feeling. But,
wouldn’t you prefer to have this feel-good
feeling, always? I do. The thing is that we
have been looking for feel-good-feelings
in all the wrong places: clothes, cars,
shoes, alcohol, praise, vacations and
even praise.
What do we value the most? Our
partners, our kids, our parents, our
career. Now, what makes us stressful?
Usually, our partners, our kids, our
parents and our careers. It’s ironic that
what we most value can also provide us
with so much anxiety and tension. The
more we do, the more we want to do and
the more we feel we never do everything
we need to do.

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By Anllelic Lozada
In the cover story of the February
edition of Time Magazine, Kate Pickert
argued that if multitasking and having
never-ending to do-lists make us more
distracted, then the opposite–
mindfulness – must be the most logical
response.
Hollywood therapist and meditation
teacher, Ron Alexander, states that when
we practice mindfulness, “Your
awareness and consciousness really
tones. This is an excellent strategy for
becoming successful in your profession,
as well as the bigger game of
transforming yourself and the people who
work with and for you.” Mindfulness helps
us build what Alexander calls “mind
strength.”
Ed and Deb Shapiro, from
RevolutionaryMindFulness.com, explains
the effects of mindfulness in the human
body as it “turns off the stress response
of your nervous system by activating the
relaxation response of the