by Dr. Chris Johnson | Sep 3, 2020 | Consciousness, Mindfulness, Practice
COVID’s tragic impact—on health and the economy, working remotely or job seeking, juggling kids and school, racial strife, and a divisive US election soon—is like nothing we’ve ever had to address (1). Yet, if these past few months of enforced pause have shown us...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Aug 1, 2020 | Embodied Leadership, Learning, Practice
When I met him, Matt was frustrated. “Why don’t they just listen to me?!” A bulk of a man with a booming voice, he’d built his business through sheer will & hard work. He’d made it, despite the odds. He could not, for the life of him, understand the disconnect or...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Jul 1, 2020 | Consciousness, Learning, Practice, Purpose
What’s your score? You know, the number of times ( especially lately ) you’ve hit ‘Send’ on an email or text that was terse and instantly regretted it? Or, how about the number of times when you’re working at home and your spouse or child interrupts to ask what they...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Jun 1, 2020 | Consciousness, Learning, Practice
You’re probably familiar with feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and spent lately. Given the sudden arrival of COVID-19, the state of the economy, stresses on your family and friends, the deaths of 100,000 Americans – and the tragic incidents of racial...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | May 1, 2020 | Consciousness, Practice, Resilience
What are you practicing these days? Whether practice makes perfect (my first-grade teacher said so) or if practice simply makes better (my aikido sensei teaches this), it makes good sense to know what we’re practicing. In fact, as human beings we’re incapable of not...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Apr 1, 2020 | Learning, Mindfulness, Practice
It’s official. Life as we’ve known it is over, at least for the moment. None of us could’ve prepared ourselves for how unsettling the novel coronavirus would be to our daily routines. Our old routines that once seemed drab and repetitive, now fill us with a sense of...
