by Dr. Chris Johnson | Oct 1, 2021 | Practice, Purpose, Resilience
Let’s face it, we’re 21 months(!) in and we’re all tired of COVID. We’re tired of hearing about it on the nightly news and listening to vaccination rates across the country. We’re tired of feeling whatever we’re feeling about it (agitated, anxious, and angry are among...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Sep 1, 2021 | Attention, Mindfulness, Resilience
Even with my day breezing right along . . . I can get twitchy. Waiting at a stoplight. Anticipating an important call or email. Fussing in the kitchen after dinner (instead of relaxing). I’m guessing you can relate. On a day-to-day basis, we don’t label these...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Mar 1, 2021 | Learning, Practice, Purpose, Resilience
COVID, politics, grief, inequities – have ravaged & revealed. They’ve revealed our fault lines, our expectations, our fictions about how the world works, the personal stories we cling to like life rafts, trying to avoid the treacherous, uncertainties...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Jan 1, 2021 | Consciousness, Mindfulness, Resilience
We crossed the threshold. It really is 2021! “Good riddance, 2020!” “Whew, glad 2020’s behind us.” “That year was a real sh*t show!” You’ve likely made these types of comments, I know I have. But the reality is that the pandemic’s not over and violence...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Dec 1, 2020 | Consciousness, Mindfulness, Resilience
Prior to COVID-19 descending last spring, our lives were so oriented around time that we were hard-pressed to leave home without our posse of electronic devices strapped on, tucked in and gripped by our hands. We’d learned to live our lives by the clock, allowing...
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...
