I propose we spend a few minutes every day taking some time to PAUSE. Taking some time to reorganize ourselves.

I thanked the word NO, for giving me this much-needed solitude.

Asking the right questions might be most life-affirming favor we can do for someone. Or for ourselves.

My ability to manage the HOW I do things is the difference between feeling steamrolled by my life and feeling like I can (just) manage it.

“If I’m not scared, I’m not doing enough,” Mary told me. This was her attitude toward life. She was a jazz singer I took lessons with when I was a teenager. ...

Changing my position, giving myself, quite literally, a different perspective, tends to rattle something free in my brain.

What if we were to expand our idea of ourselves to include the WHOLE THING?

To do one thing at a time is so unusual in our culture that we may feel sheepish doing it. It’s downright counter-cultural. It’s radical.

$100,000,000,000 – Estimated Total Cost (per year) associated with Back Pain in the US (as of 2009). 31,000,000 – Number of Americans experiencing low-back p...

Saying NO to the million tiny habits of body and mind that contribute to feeling diminished, to feeling like I can’t go on.

I kept catching myself lifting my shoulders, hunching toward my paper and holding my breath. Old habits die hard.

Sometimes the most “productive” thing to do is nothing. Productive of renewed energy, refreshed thinking, rediscovered enthusiasm.

When I was little, my mother put a piece of paper on the fridge with a magnet. On the paper she had written “NO COMPLAINING!” That paper stayed there for y...

Hunching over or puffing up are not benign, but are instead powerful information about what is happening inside our children (and ourselves)

I’m a big fan of movement. But sometimes this moving-to-try-not-to-be-stiff is counter-productive.

“I’m so mad at my body!” my student reported to me on Monday morning. I imagine many of us have felt this way.

What a revelation to be in the city and to See it, Breathe, and not make myself small. To be present in a way I never was in my 20s.

We all wish for change to be a relatively fast, easy and painless process, but real change is slower and slipperier.

The hardest thing for me is the RESISTANCE. Because actually taking the simple steps that would make me feel better is still SO HARD.

A warm-up is a preparation. It may, quite literally, warm one up, but it also gets one in the right frame of mind to do whatever is next.