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How mindfulness can help you in the face of a crisis
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Mindfulness is a mental state achieved by focusing one’s awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one’s feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations. It is a practice that originates from Buddhist meditation and has been widely adopted in various forms of therapy, including cognitive-behavioral therapy. In the face of a crisis, mindfulness can […]
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Why critical thinking is important for living with awareness
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Our education disconnects us from ourselves and from our intrinsic humanness. Instead of developing the faculty of critical thinking in our students, we teach them to become highly competent knowledge gatherers. We teach them what to think, instead of how to think. Little wonder then that when they grow up, they have no real […]
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