Category: Mindset

Slow Beauty in a Fast World

Shel Pink sat mesmerized, watching a tortoise on his slow—somehow self-satisfied—walk across her kitchen floor. Step by deliberate step, he seemed in a constant state of meditative calm. Pink’s son had brought home his class pet, Torti, and what a contrast he provided to Pink’s own fast-paced life. That was about 10 years ago, and…


The Key to Defeating Procrastination-Induced Stress

Procrastination is a pervasive human problem. The more people I’ve talked to, the more I’ve realized that nearly every person struggles with it in certain areas or time periods of their life. There are very few exceptions. For me, it’s been a problem that I’ve struggled with since high school. Depending on how you look…


Solving Anxiety

Nearly 20 percent of the population suffers from an anxiety disorder, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or social phobia. While there are serious concerns about diagnostic inflation—that is, the expanding definition of behaviors that may not actually reflect a mental illness—some researchers argue that the rise in these disorders is more than just psychiatric overreach….


Cancer Patient Recovers in 10 Days—Was It the Placebo Effect?

An optimistic state of mind is beneficial to health, while a pessimistic one is harmful. Modern medicine has recognized the so-called placebo effect. However, you may not know that human thoughts, emotions, and beliefs not only change the physical body, but also to the extent that they can possibly reverse cancer. Below are several real-life…


Turning a Stumbling Block Into an Advantage

Brooke Gottlieb is 21 years old and a student at Coastal Carolina University. A competitive lacrosse player for a Division I school, she’s majoring in health communication. She’s earned straight A’s every semester since her first year of college, and has been nominated for multiple writing awards. While that may not seem remarkable, Gottlieb is…


Mindfully Free of Wanting People to Be a Certain Way

One of the biggest sources of difficulties for every single human being is the desire for people to be a certain way. We can’t seem to help it: we want the world to be the way we want it. Unfortunately, reality always has different plans, and people behave in less-than-ideal ways. The problem isn’t other…


Should Versus Want: Freeing Yourself From the ‘Shoulding’ Habit

Have you ever noticed how much of your life is driven and dictated by the word (and feeling) of should? Most of us devote an inordinate amount of time and energy to doing and being what we think we should do and be. At the same time, we spend a surprisingly small amount of attention…


Is It Time for a Mental Health Makeover?

“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate…


Mindset Shift to Deal with Overwhelm

In recent weeks, almost every coaching client I’ve been working with has been feeling one big thing: overwhelm. It seems almost universal: people can’t seem to deal with the big things in their lives because they’re feeling too overwhelmed. They can’t take on their more meaningful projects, because there’s just too much. You can deal…


Hospital Design Should Consider the Psychological Aspects of Healing

Long before COVID-19 made the public aware of the importance of good air ventilation, designers had been concerned with how physical environments affect people’s well-being and mental health. In the 20th century, hospital design underwent a profound change. Hospitals used to be a place for only the treatment of diseases and injuries—or places strongly associated…