Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Best Self Magazine

    Mind Yoga | Why and How to Bring Awareness to Your Thoughts

    by Annette Quarrier Jun 23, 2017 3 minutes
    Mind Yoga

    Photograph by William Randles

    Bringing awareness to your thoughts allows you to identify unserving ones and replace them with thoughts that empower you

    ________________________________

    Recently a friend asked me, “what is mind yoga?” I responded that it’s thinking deeply about something you just read, heard or saw. It’s realizing what we’re thinking about and making an effort to determine if that thought is serving us or not. It’s taking your thinking to the next level.

    I started incorporating (physical) yoga into my workout about a

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Best Self Magazine

    Best Self Magazine6 min read
    Navigating Grief with Ayurvedic Principles: A Q&A with Sweta Vikram
    Estimated reading time: 9 minutes — In this Q&A, Bill Miles, Co-Founder and Creative Director of Best Self Magazine, puts forth questions for Dr. Sweta Vikram, inspired by her new book, The Loss that Binds Us: 108 Tips on Coping with Grief and Loss.
    Best Self Magazine5 min read
    Balancing Act: What I Learned from Letting Go of a Lifetime of Accumulated Possessions
    Estimated reading time: 7 minutes — When my wife passed away in 2017, I needed to downsize from a house to an apartment. I was too overwhelmed by grief and the complications of life to think clearly about much of anything. So I filled three storage
    Best Self Magazine7 min read
    How I Left: Reflections on My Journey into Marriage…and Out
    Estimated reading time: 10 minutes — My grandmother was fourteen when a man in her Southern Italian village asked to marry her. He was twenty-eight, a stranger to Gramma. She said, No! But her mother told her, “Marry him. He’ll take you to America.”

    Related Books & Audiobooks