From Zero to Zen: A Beginner’s Guide to Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness meditation is a practice that involves focusing your mind on your experiences, such as your own emotions, thoughts, and sensations, in the present moment.
Mindfulness meditation is a practice that involves focusing your mind on your experiences, such as your own emotions, thoughts, and sensations, in the present moment.
These techniques have been carefully selected to help you establish a strong foundation in your meditation practice.
Anxiety can have a serious negative impact on our physical and mental well-being, so finding effective techniques and natural remedies is crucial.
In this article, we’ll explore the various advantages of practicing mindfulness and how it can positively impact your physical, mental, and emotional state.
At the Urban Monk, our dedicated team is here to help you improve your overall well-being through our unique approach to holistic living.
Hopefully, if working from home is an option in your life, you’re already doing it. In fact, it’s very likely you’re already familiar with the
For many of us, the last earnest attempt at journaling we made was somewhere very painful in our adolescence. And it probably had something to
Your body registers these two emotions in exactly the same way, physiologically: nervousness and excitement.
But try telling yourself that when you’re in the middle
So this was going to be your year — the year you stop missing the Farmer’s Market by sleeping in on Sundays, the year you
From the very beginning of our consciousness, rest is a catch-all palliative for any number of maladies. Cranky? Take a nap. Can’t think straight? Close
Mindfulness meditation is a practice that involves focusing your mind on your experiences, such as your own emotions, thoughts, and sensations, in the present moment.
These techniques have been carefully selected to help you establish a strong foundation in your meditation practice.
Anxiety can have a serious negative impact on our physical and mental well-being, so finding effective techniques and natural remedies is crucial.
In this article, we’ll explore the various advantages of practicing mindfulness and how it can positively impact your physical, mental, and emotional state.
At the Urban Monk, our dedicated team is here to help you improve your overall well-being through our unique approach to holistic living.
Hopefully, if working from home is an option in your life, you’re already doing it. In fact, it’s very likely you’re already familiar with the
For many of us, the last earnest attempt at journaling we made was somewhere very painful in our adolescence. And it probably had something to
Your body registers these two emotions in exactly the same way, physiologically: nervousness and excitement.
But try telling yourself that when you’re in the middle
So this was going to be your year — the year you stop missing the Farmer’s Market by sleeping in on Sundays, the year you
From the very beginning of our consciousness, rest is a catch-all palliative for any number of maladies. Cranky? Take a nap. Can’t think straight? Close
It’s becoming common knowledge in scientific circles that our guts, or “second brains,” have a symbiotic relationship with almost every other system in our bodies.
What this means is that the composition of your microbiome is not only influenced by your body’s systems…
But that it influences them as well.
According to recent research, our bodies’ homeostatic temperature isn’t actually 98.6º Fahrenheit. In fact, it’s closer to 97.5º. How could that be? Scientists say the
Here’s a truth harsher than the chemicals in your skin care products: Nothing should go on your skin that can’t also go in your mouth.
In mid-February, you may think the circulation in your tending fingers is weak and frozen, having forgotten what it means to pick, spread, dig, pat, and otherwise foster a seedling from taking root to flowering.
Maybe you can start gardening again in April!
Well, you could… but you’d be missing out on all of the vegetables that bloom beautifully in April and May. And to enjoy those, you’d have to start thinking about growing them around now!
In part one of this article, we discussed the first two phases of digestion: intake and breakdown.
Although it may seem obvious to some, most people are vastly unaware of how their digestion actually operates. And if you don’t understand the mechanism itself, fixing the mechanism is a moot point.
(If you don’t understand what’s under the hood of your car, you could end up replacing coolant endlessly when the answer is a blown capacitor. I don’t know anything about cars — see how crazy that sounds?)
So in this post, we’re going to continue down through the digestive tract on our adult-level refresher of the system that effectively determines every feeling we have.