Sublime

Practicing mindfulness can help us avoid the external cues that trap us, avoid mindless eating, and focus in on the practices that keep us healthy.

Society on the whole is very much fixated on the achievement of tangible results and becoming something definable to others.

Ultimately, the goal is to be more of myself.

we have created this modern society in which we have every comfort, yet we are losing our ability to regulate our mood, our emotions.

When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it.

“We should take a step back and look at the society we’re living in and how that is actually determining our stress levels, our fatigue levels, our despair levels,” said Elizabeth H. Bradley, president of Vassar College and co-author of the book “The American Health Care Paradox.” “That’s for everybody. Health is influenced very much by these facto

Knowing how much energy the sheer act of survival requires keeps me from being surprised at the price they often pay: the absence of a loving relationship with their own bodies, minds, and souls.

Life brings an accumulation of unremitting stress, especially for those subjected to inequity — and not just from immediate and chronic threats. Even the anticipation of those menaces causes persistent damage.