Ari Zandieh's Blog, page 2
June 22, 2020
A Simple Breathwork Technique - Deep Belly Breathing
This is a great practice to teach children and is an easy introduction to meditation. Lay in a comfortable spot. Then take a deep breath and feel yourself pulling air from your belly. Keep pulling for as long as possible...
May 18, 2020
Meet SO & HUM: The most powerful words in breathwork
This simple, yet profound, breathwork technique is great for children starting 6 years of age as well as adults. The So Hum breathwork technique is probably one of the most popular and well known of the mantra meditation...
May 4, 2020
10 WAYS TO BE MINDFUL WITHOUT EVEN TRYING
This wonderfully simple and inspiring quote by Eckhart Tolle is your clue to how to live mindfully without even trying. The more we want to try, the more we may actually push something away. Therefore, the best way to do...
April 20, 2020
CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: A TIME OF INTROSPECTION
It's clear by now that though we're all in this together, we're not all in the same boat.
April 6, 2020
Why Improving your Focus is Key to Being Mindful
Mindfulness is defined as 'the quality or state of being conscious or aware of something' and being consciously aware of something requires focus. However, we live during a time when there are currently more devices on t...
March 23, 2020
WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM DUCKS IN ORDER TO RELEASE NEGATIVITY
I was re-listening to one of my favorite books by one of my favorite authors, A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, when I was reminded of the story about the two ducks who had a negative encounter.
March 9, 2020
7 DAILY MINDFUL ACTIVITIES FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
One quote which always makes me smile is by author Sharon Saltzberg because it's just so simple and true. She reminds us, "Mindfulness isn't difficult. We just need to remember to do it." By definition, mindfulness means...
February 24, 2020
WHY WE NEED TO BREATH MORE DEEPLY
As we go through our days talking, feeling tense or anxious, we may not be aware that we're mainly breathing from our chests rather than our lungs via the diaphragm. In turn, the diaphragm-a muscle at the bottom of your ...
February 10, 2020
HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH YOUR BODY THROUGH THE BODY SCAN
Throughout our busy days, we barely notice that the most important instrument that is taking up through life-our physical bodies. We expect it to function for us and do what our mind demands of it but seldom take time to...
January 27, 2020
WHY DISCOMFORT IS THE NECESSARY INGREDIENT FOR CHANGE
A key factor to mindfulness is to experience change without resistance. For years I had studied this and talked about it noting that the only constant in life is change. Yet what's really key is the variance of discomfor...
