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MIND tools & inspirations

  • Mind Tools & Inspirations are experiences to help you operate your human system, drawn from yoga, science, and game design

  • Made for busy, smart, curious people trying to survive and thrive in challenging times.

  • I offer short and super-short experiences (try this), audio narration if you can take time to be guided,  and explanations (why do this?).

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Skillfull Shrugs - March 30, 2025

In this 1-minute practice you focus your attention on breath and gentle shoulder shrugs.

 

Engaging in skillful shrugs gives your mind something to do. This can help you interrupt self-talk, release tension, and get a little distance and perspective.

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  Practice Seeing - April 14, 2025

This 2-minute experience guides you to visually appreciate objects in the room around you. You shift your attention to perceiving the world around you.​

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Solid Ground-- May 5, 2025

A good way to feel like you are on solid ground is to embody the feeling. This 3-minute experience helps you to do that.

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“Being on solid ground” is a metaphor grounded in a physical experience that can imply coming from a stable foundation, having a secure base, being well-supported, or coming from strength and confidence

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Those Who Came Before - May 12, 2025

Remembering those who came before—who have faced what we are facing—can feel comforting and inspiring.

 

This 3-minute experience helps you to do that.

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Coming Soon - May 26, 2025

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Letting off Steam - April 7, 2025

Perhaps something in the world is bothering you. Even then, it’s OK to feel a little bit better.

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In this 4-minute experience I guide you to use breath and attention to release tension or tightness.

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Checking the Weather - April 21, 2025

Like raindrops on a window how you feel colors and shapes what you see.

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Becoming aware of how you feel gives you information. In this 3-minute experience you bring your awareness to how you feel—to your internal “weather”.

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Noticing how you feel lets you recognize and consider the messages your body is sending.

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A Cup of Kindness - April 28, 2025

This 1-minute practice can help you bring more of the quality of kindness into your actions and decisions.

Imagine your hands are holding a warm cup filled with kindness...

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Coming Soon - May 19, 2025

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