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Passionate about accessible education and evidence-based wellness, Laura founded The MAPS Institute, an educational wellness editorial and platform. Aside from her passion for research and educating, Laura is a classically trained vocalist, sound therapist, and a practitioner and teacher of Ashtanga and Restorative Yoga. She is the creator of the MAPS (Mindfulness, Activation, Purpose, and Surrender) philosophy and is in continual pursuit of helping her students and herself find balance amid the chaos around and within them. When not sifting through Nature Magazine, complaining about their paywalls, she enjoys trying new wine varietals, experimenting in the kitchen, riding her bicycle (sometimes cross-country), and spending time with her husband Charlie, cockapoo Miles, and expected baby girl, Ella. Click here to follow the MAPS Institute on social media.
It is estimated that over 400 MILLION people meditate around the world. Our supermarket shelves are bursting with magazines, and since 2015 this budding industry has launched more than 2,500 meditation applications and now claims millions of online practitioners. Yet it seems that people are more stressed out than ever before. Why?
“Water makes up a tremendous percentage of our adult bodies — about 60% — or that everyone from doctors to wellness advisors prescribe regular water consumption.
But have you ever considered that how you consume that water might make a difference?
Shockingly, it does. “
What’s your relationship with uncertainty?
For many of us, it can be very unsettling. But learning to deal with uncertainty can unleash tremendous power within us.
Amid the fear, the guilt, the hate, and the uncertainty that has exploded this past week, I decided that a Tonglen meditation, which is a meditation to cultivate compassion, was appropriate.
Morning routines are a part of everyone’s life. Each time we do something, our brains form a neural pathway — a shortcut — affirming our choices. So we need to get them right.
While listening with our ears is what most of us think about when we talk about listening, there is a much more dynamic form of listening that you might consider a function mindfulness.
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