What is Your Stress Type?
Robin Patino Robin Patino

What is Your Stress Type?

Understanding your stress reactions enables you to mitigate the negative impacts on your health and relationships.

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Practice the Pause
Robin Patino Robin Patino

Practice the Pause

In life, it's inevitable that both moments of connection and conflict may arise. What you do with those moments are your choice.

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Beginner's Mind
Robin Patino Robin Patino

Beginner's Mind

By adopting this attitude of curiosity, we can create our lives from a clean page and define our own unlimited possibilities.

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The 9 Attitudes of Mindfulness
Robin Patino Robin Patino

The 9 Attitudes of Mindfulness

Jon Kabat-Zinn’s 9 Attitudes of Mindfulness are qualities that can be cultivated everyday for a more present, connected and easeful life.

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Exciting News!
Robin Patino Robin Patino

Exciting News!

When injury surprised me 3 years ago, I found the way to my first MBSR course. It changed my life. And now 2 years later - I'm a teacher!

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Cake in the Clouds
Robin Patino Robin Patino

Cake in the Clouds

We left before dawn, hoping to reach the Iron Cross by sunrise. By mid-morning, the day had become one of the most memorable in all my trips along El Camino.

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Do You Think You Will Break?
Robin Patino Robin Patino

Do You Think You Will Break?

Closing the door to her Manhattan apartment for the final time, Robin Patino left behind a 20-year business career to embark on a two-year journey of healing and self-discovery.

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El Camino de Santiago
Robin Patino Robin Patino

El Camino de Santiago

El Camino de Santiago is one of the world’s great pilgrimage routes and also a UNESCO World Heritage site, with monuments of historical significance all along the way.

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Developing Empathy
Robin Patino Robin Patino

Developing Empathy

Our research shows that empathy is a key skill in becoming a more powerful advocate for both ourselves and the world in general. Try our free mindfulness practice to develop your own.

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Personal Power
Robin Patino Robin Patino

Personal Power

Being an Advocate means taking control of your own mind, of practicing personal and relationship mastery. Our findings show that these allow you to live a life of accomplishment and integrity and become a much more powerful presence in the world.

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Being in Action
Robin Patino Robin Patino

Being in Action

You don’t see many Bystanders walking El Camino de Santiago. Just in the act of being there, pilgrims have become Advocates walking with purpose towards their goal.

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A Matter of Perspective
Robin Patino Robin Patino

A Matter of Perspective

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So are most other qualities – it all depends on the perspective you are holding. Our research has found that this is especially true if you spend a lot of time in The Victim archetype.

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Mindfulness & Language
Robin Patino Robin Patino

Mindfulness & Language

Learning a new language engages many of the same principles and processes as those of developing a mindfulness practice. Science shows that both activities flex a muscle in the brain involved in the regulation of attention.

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