Mindfulness for Students
Simple Mindfulness - Simple Steps to a Happier Life
by Paige Oldham
3y ago
News about the negative impacts of social media and our current lifestyles on kids of all ages is appalling (see the top of the infographic below).  Levels of anxiety, depression, and suicide among young people have risen astronomically. While therapy may be what’s needed for some, many can benefit from beginning a mindfulness practice to learn how to manage living in our current environment. I recently read a great article about this by Lachlan Brown at HackSpirit.  With his permission, I have republished the infographic below.  I would encourage you to read his entire article ..read more
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How to Live to 100 (Or At Least Improve Your Chances)
Simple Mindfulness - Simple Steps to a Happier Life
by Paige Oldham
3y ago
“Imagine a Ms. A – a wellness junkie who dutifully attends her trampolining and Pilates classes several times a week, eats five or more servings of fruits and veggies a day, watches out for saturated fats, avoids sugar, and has never smoked. Now imagine a Ms. B – an overweight couch potato who loves cookies and chips and sometimes has a few shots of tequila too many. “Ms. A is also a slightly neurotic workaholic who feels like she is always running around.  She is single, lives on her own, and doesn’t know her neighbors.  She also doesn’t have time to go out with friends and often fe ..read more
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How Mindfulness Can Support You In Times of Uncertainty
Simple Mindfulness - Simple Steps to a Happier Life
by Paige Oldham
3y ago
The recent events around the globe have thrown us into an unprecedented state of uncertainty.  It seems that no one can plan anything because we have no idea what tomorrow, much less next week or next month, will bring. This uncertainty can create anxiety because we have seemingly lost our ability to control many aspects of our lives.  Having a sense of control helps us feel better about ourselves.  But, why? A false sense of control There is actually very little that we can control, global chaos or not.  While we may exert our wishes on the world, we can’t control how the ..read more
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What I Learned from the Masters on Mindfulness, Healing & Stress Reduction
Simple Mindfulness - Simple Steps to a Happier Life
by Paige Oldham
3y ago
With all the craziness going on in the world today (and ‘today’ could refer to now or 100 or 500 years ago), it’s easy to get caught up in the madness and lose our sense of ourselves.  The monkey mind picks up on the changes it sees and starts screeching because it hates changes.  It will do anything to maintain the status quo which, of course, is impossible. The only constant is change.  Accepting that is one of the keys to happiness. Click To Tweet Because we can’t control the world we live in, the monkey screeches and increases our levels of stress and anxiety.  It makes ..read more
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How to Lower Stress and Anxiety Using Your Unique Learning Style
Simple Mindfulness - Simple Steps to a Happier Life
by Paige Oldham
3y ago
Given the need to focus on various forms of technology to get our jobs (and just about everything else) done, it’s more and more difficult to unplug and get in touch with natural things (which lower stress and anxiety).  Being “plugged in” most of the day and evening creates a subtle agitation in our nervous systems that makes it difficult to unwind.  We’re wired. And because this is generally happening all day and part of the night, we see it as our norm and generally don’t notice its effect on our minds and bodies.  Then we wonder why we feel anxious and stressed much of the t ..read more
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How To Improve Your Life Using the Law of Attraction
Simple Mindfulness - Simple Steps to a Happier Life
by Paige Oldham
3y ago
There’s a lot of hype (and mystery) out there about what the law of attraction is and how it can change your life.  After reams of research and real-life experimentation, I’ve figured out what’s real and what you can ignore.  In this article, I’ll highlight some of the key concepts of the law of attraction and how you can use them to improve your life.  For more in-depth information and a host of exercises and meditations you can use to implement what you learn, check out my latest book, The Mindful Guide to the Law of Attraction. After reading The Secret by Rhonda Byrne years a ..read more
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How To Find The Therapy You Need
Simple Mindfulness - Simple Steps to a Happier Life
by Paige Oldham
3y ago
When readers leave comments here on Simple Mindfulness asking for help or advice, I do my best to share what I know that may help.  In some cases, that’s enough.  In others, it’s clear that the reader needs more in-depth help than I can offer in a comment.  In those cases, I frequently recommend that the person seek professional help – a licensed therapist of some sort. But how does one go about seeking such help?  What are the steps?  What can you expect? Then there’s the stigma that’s wrapped around needing help.  By asking for help it’s as if you’re saying, “Th ..read more
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The Mindful Guide to Sleeping Better
Simple Mindfulness - Simple Steps to a Happier Life
by Paige Oldham
3y ago
We could all use more sleep.  Most of us are pushed to keep going, going, going to produce more, more, more.  Sleep is usually portrayed as some kind of necessary evil, to be reduced to as little time as possible. While it’s “common knowledge” that we all need eight hours of sleep a night, there are plenty of articles and programs out there that will tell you that this is a myth and you really only need four or five hours.  From my personal experience, that doesn’t work so well.  I need seven or eight hours, but I know others who thrive with four or five. Over time, I’ve ap ..read more
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How to Find Your Happiness In the Most Unlikely Place
Simple Mindfulness - Simple Steps to a Happier Life
by Paige Oldham
3y ago
Society programs us from birth that whatever we have or achieve and whoever we are is never enough.  We’re subconsciously sent on a never-ending quest to accumulate more and better things, find better relationships, make ourselves different and “better,” achieve more goals, more, better, more, better… Every time you achieve your next goal, you’re happy for a bit then the happiness bubble pops, and you’re on the path to another goal that you’re sure will make you happy.  But the happiness never lasts.  What’s wrong?  You may ask: “What’s wrong with me?  I’m doing everyt ..read more
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How To Be Happier by Expressing Your Authentic Self
Simple Mindfulness - Simple Steps to a Happier Life
by Paige Oldham
3y ago
We all want to be happy.  One of the best ways to be happy is to be yourself as often as possible.  When you express yourself from your heart, you feel good. But how often do you act the way you think other people want you to act, stifling your True Self?  How often do you later regret what you did or said because it wasn’t coming from your heart, it was coming from your desire to please? Two of the top regrets of the dying are: I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. I wish I had let myself be happier. It’s amazing how unh ..read more
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