Jane Lodato: Pause

Jane Lodato, Mount Sinai Surgery
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Insert a Pause into your day to decrease stress, gain perspective, focus and ease. We all get hijacked by our thoughts and feelings, often they are habitual. With practice, you can rewire your brain to identify and decrease your own reactivity which in turn can make your life easier. While we cannot change what comes at us any given moment we do have a choice as to how we want to respond. In that choice lies the opportunity to live with increased ease. 

  1. 09/08/2024

    Be Intentional. What Matters Most?

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    7 min

  2. 09/08/2024

    Find the Ruts in Your Mental Roads

    Each time we get angry, anxious or cocky, we get better at becoming angry, anxious or cocky.  These become mental habits, like roads we drive down again and again.  We can look for these "ruts in the road" and choose to create a new road, a new neural pathway, freeing ourselves from these habits.  The first step is simply noticing what is on your mental "playlist" each day.

    7 min

  3. 09/08/2024

    Insert a Pause

    A foundational practice of Mindfulness is becoming aware of our thoughts, emotions and reactivity.  When something happens that triggers anger, anxiety or any emotionally loaded auto-pilot resonse, we react.  If, instead of reacting, we can insert a pause, we have an opportunity to use that moment to choose how we want to respond.  Our chosen response in turn creates the opportunity to free ourselves from the auto-pilot reactions that can cause us more problems.   This Pause gives you the tools to practice witnessing your thoughts instead of being caught up in therm

    9 min

  4. 09/08/2024

    Let Go of What Isn't Working

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    7 min

  5. 09/08/2024

    One Thing at a Time

    In a world where we often feel we can never get everything done, we try to do more and more by constantly multitasking.  Peter Drucker, a business and leadership scholar and teacher, wrote a book titled "The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done".  In that book he points out that those who are most effective at getting things done do one thing at a time.  This priciple is aligned with mindfulness which cultivates our ability to be fully aware in the present.   Letting go of multitasking will not only help to get more done, but will diminsh the accompanying feelings of being overwhlemed and undelying anxiety that comes along with that.

    5 min

  6. 09/08/2024

    Random Acts of Kindness

    When was the last time someone was kind to you simply to make your life easier or to make you feel good?  How did it feel?  Notice what a big difference a small gesture makes.  This is a practice that we can all develop if we decide to.  Try it, it will make your day a better day, along with that of the recipient of your thoughtfulness.

    6 min

  7. 09/08/2024

    Simply Being vs Always Doing

    Mindfulness teacher Jon Kabat-Zinn has many words of wisdom, amongst them:  "Often our lives become so driven that we are moving through our moments to get to better ones at some later point.  We live to check things off our to do list, then fall into bed exhausted..."  We do this again and again don't we?  We can shift from doing mode to being mode by simply applying our attention and honing our awareness.  When our "doing" comes out of our simply "being", we are more effective, less exhausted and can enjoy the only moments we have:  the present moment.

    6 min

  8. 09/08/2024

    Standing Steady Like a Mountain

    How can you stand steady and grounded through all the weather fronts that come at you daily?   This reflection will provide you with perspective and imagery to help get through the day, the week.

    6 min
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Insert a Pause into your day to decrease stress, gain perspective, focus and ease. We all get hijacked by our thoughts and feelings, often they are habitual. With practice, you can rewire your brain to identify and decrease your own reactivity which in turn can make your life easier. While we cannot change what comes at us any given moment we do have a choice as to how we want to respond. In that choice lies the opportunity to live with increased ease. 

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    Jane Lodato, Mount Sinai Surgery
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