TJT with Dar #3: Gratitude and it’s Importance in Living a Joyful Life

TJT with Dar #3: Gratitude and it’s Importance in Living a Joyful Life

With the holiday season fast approaching, it is a great time to talk about gratitude and how important it is to have a joyful life. Making gratitude a part of your life, just like breathing, is such a huge help if you are searching for joy. But you can't just conjure up a life lived in gratitude. - unlike being thankful, which exists in the mind, gratitude is an appreciation that comes from the heart. It has to be cultivated and practiced. Today's #ThinkJoyThursday explores ways to do this and even offers some helpful hints to make joy a habit in your life.

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TJT with Dar #2: What’s Perspective Got to Do With It?

TJT with Dar #2: What’s Perspective Got to Do With It?

On this episode of #ThinkJoyThursday, we will be exploring the relationship between perspective and joy. Choosing the way you look at the world is a major key in having a joyful life. You can learn that it is possible to hold joy and sorrow in the same hand by using perspective. It’s not always easy to do this, so we will discuss ways to incorporate perspective into your life, as well as some tips and tricks to make it become your go-to tool when confronted with difficult situations.

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Episode 6: Meditation Mondays with Barbara Chutroo

Episode 6: Meditation Mondays with Barbara Chutroo

Welcome to the next episode of our Meditation Mondays series, created with MBC patients in mind.

In today's meditation, we will be focusing on how in meditation we're listening to ourselves and finding space to open up and offer ourselves the attention and the care.

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TJT with Dar #1: The Difference Between Joy and Happiness

TJT with Dar #1: The Difference Between Joy and Happiness

On this episode of Think Joy Thursday, we will be exploring the difference between happiness and joy. We will share some scientific research that has been done to determine if we are pre-disposed to being joyful and will delve into ways to help you spot true joy. We will explore how to have joy even if you are experiencing difficult life circumstances by sharing ways to find joy when confronted with both the big and small challenges of life.

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Episode 4: Meditation Mondays with Barbara Chutroo

Episode 4: Meditation Mondays with Barbara Chutroo

Welcome to the next episode of our Meditation Mondays series, created with MBC patients in mind.

There are a lot of principles of meditation or of the practice that contains meditation.

Being with the truth of whatever is here in this moment with compassion and without judgement and knowing that we're not any one thing because we are constantly changing, is at the heart of this practic

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Episode 3: Meditation Mondays with Barbara Chutroo

Episode 3: Meditation Mondays with Barbara Chutroo

Welcome to the next episode of our Meditation Mondays series, created with MBC patients in mind.

Why do we meditate? We meditate to be aware of ourselves, and we meditate to concentrate, and we meditate to develop compassion.

Our meditation leader is Barbara Chutroo, a longtime meditator, experienced meditation teacher, and an MBC patient.

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Episode 2: Meditation Mondays with Barbara Chutroo

Episode 2: Meditation Mondays with Barbara Chutroo

Welcome to the Meditation Mondays series, created with MBC patients in mind and designed for people who want to assist their body's natural tendency to repair and heal. The focus of this episode is practice of awareness. When we meditate, what do we learn about ourselves?

Our meditation leader is Barbara Chutroo, an MBC patient herself. Barbara is a longtime meditator and experienced meditation teacher. She's also a movement therapist and a clinical social worker.

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