by Dr. Chris Johnson | Mar 1, 2018 | Practice
While skiing on the slopes recently, I was relishing the fresh powder and the fact that I was, well, skiing. Thoughts of work, of bills to pay and decisions to be made back home were merely fleeting thoughts and far, far away if they were present at all. I was on...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Feb 25, 2016 | Attention, Consciousness, Embodied Leadership, Mindfulness
Recently on a phone call with a vendor, attempting to articulate a situation gone south and deep in the details, I was interrupted, mid-stream with a torrent of words, imagined hands waving in my face. “I can’t believe what you’re telling me! This isn’t what we agreed...
by Brian Fippinger | May 29, 2015 | Attention, Practice
Last week I was at a frightening ½ day conference. No, it was not about the latest evidence of how climate change is destroying the planet. Nor did it have anything to do with the already ubiquitous 2016 Presidential election. No this was a very well organized...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Jan 15, 2015 | Attention, Consciousness, Learning, Practice
Rife with colds and flu, the cold winter months can present significant challenges. Perhaps like many of you, I became super ill over this past month and didn’t like it one bit! While I ‘hated’ most moments of it–the fatigue, the coughing, the...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Sep 15, 2014 | Attention, Consciousness, Embodied Leadership, Practice
What are you practicing these days? If practice makes perfect (as my first grade teacher said) or if practice makes better (as our aikido sensei teaches) or if practice simply makes possible, it makes good sense to know what we’re practicing. As human beings...
