Many of us are controlled by our personal insecurities and triggered by the success of others. Our fear of inadequacy leaves us feeling shame and guides us down the path of gossip and complacency. To make matters worse,we also experience an intrinsic psychological process called hedonic adaptation, which only adds to our clinging behavior. Hedonic adaptation, also known as the hedonic treadmill, is the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level

If you know anything about me and my story you know that I am no stranger to physical pain. When I initially got hurt, I knew nothing about the mind/body connection. I didn’t yet understand that my emotional turmoil was getting in the way of physical healing. I was the ideal patient. Visiting doctor after doctor and religiously following protocol after protocol. Nothing worked. It wasn’t until I was introduced to mindfulness that I started to understand that the mind and the