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Emily Fletcher, founder of Ziva Meditation and author of “Stress Less Accomplish More,” shares insights on the effectiveness of meditation for acting and life.Read more

What do you tell yourself when you don’t get the job? Be honest. Generally it follows something along the 5 stages of Grief. (Sometimes all within the same minute!) 1). Denial. “Ummm . . . What? They definitely don’t know what they’re doing! They’ll figure it out and when no one else does a betterRead more

Now you can train your mind to do the impossible. That’s a catchy title I saw recently in the Huffington Post. But was I surprised by what this mind-training tool is? Not really. Meditation. It seems neuroscientists have proven that meditation actively rewires our brains over long periods of time and creates neuroplasticity to makeRead more

  Last week I discussed not letting our reptilian vagus nerve get the better of us in stressful situations (like auditioning or asking Heidi Klum out on a date or parachuting at 10,000 feet) and thereby shutting us down from the potential of expressing empowered, authentic feeling that these experiences may evoke. But just likeRead more

  We’re living in an exciting time where many of the major tenets of a spiritual and meditative practice, neuroscience and the art of becoming present seem to be on an amazing synergistic parallel course leading to the same place: living a more creative, abundant, fully expressed and joyful life. But in order to makeRead more

  A couple week’s ago I lectured on “Sharing Your Crack.” Which is a metaphor of sorts on understanding that the neural noise in our heads is often generated by an original, false premise that tells us we are unlovable and undeserving of love. That’s myth. But it feels real because of the paradigms thatRead more