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Life Is What Happens To You While You're Busy Making Other Plans
Many of us would like to have a peaceful ride, enjoy the present moment, yet we can’t help but make future plans so we feel secure, or we spend time digging on past hurts. But... the true experience...
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Creating a Place of Solitude & Refuge In Your Home
Any place we live must accommodate a number of activities: socializing, sleeping, cooking, eating, bathing, relaxing. But what about quiet alone-time? Renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell insisted we...
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What's Real? Why Your Past or Future Need Not Impact Your Peace
Your stories about your past, your current circumstances and future only exist in your mind, not in reality. And once you fully get this, you can more confidently release your grasp on the need to...
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Embrace the Astounding Strength of Kindness
The impact we can have on the world we share, if we choose to be kind in every circumstance or even in an occasional situation, simply can’t be overestimated. The shift in how life would feel to...
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Opening Up to a Sense of Connection and Love using Sacred Attention
Attention, as with awareness, can be understood as a relationship. It is the relationship between the one who is aware, or the "awarer" (whom we know as "me" or "I"), and the object of awareness. When...
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You Don't Have to Find Your Path, You're Already On It
You stumble along thinking you don't know the way, and then one day you realize you're in the middle of it. I'd always thought that a path was a means to an end. A course of study, a tour of duty. The...
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After Age 25, We’re More Forgetful When Distracted
Older people are nearly twice as likely as young adults to have their memory impaired by distractions such as irrelevant speech or written words.
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Receptivity and Honoring the Feminine: The Power of Stillness
Most of us have heard about male and female energy, and how we all have a bit of both within us. In truth, these energies are one, inseparable and incapable of existence as singular entities....
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Mindfulness: How To Be In The Moment Right Here, Right Now
Remember then: there is only one time that is important – Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. This quote by Leo Tolstoy in What Men Live By and Other...
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What I Learned About Living From Dying of Cancer
Many more patients are now living for years with the diagnosis of terminal illness. The author describes her journey to what she calls "livingly dying" - facing her death by living in the moment with...
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The Brains Of People With PTSD Are Changed With Mindfulness Training
The brain findings suggest that mindfulness training may have helped the veterans develop more capacity to shift their attention and get themselves out of being 'stuck' in painful cycles of thoughts,
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How Mindfulness Can Help The Shift Towards A More Sustainable Society
We know that mindfulness can transform the life of an individual. But did you know it could also change the world? We need to develop new social practices and encourage a broader cultural shift towards...
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Just What Is Mindfulness?
You’ve probably heard of mindfulness. These days, it’s everywhere, like many ideas and practices drawn from Buddhist texts that have become part of mainstream Western culture.
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How Mindfulness Apps With Acceptance Training Can Reduce Stress
Mindfulness meditation apps can reduce the body’s response to biological stress, new research suggests.
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Do Attention And Distraction Refer To The Same Behavior?
A constant complaint in our unpredictable world is that we live in an age of distraction. I am quick to label students who stare at their phones in my class distracted...
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In Praise Of Doing Nothing
In the 1950s, scholars worried that, thanks to technological innovations, Americans wouldn’t know what to do with all of their leisure time. However, modern life seems to encourage acceleration for the...
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How To Manage Exam Stress
A little stress around exam time can be a good thing, as it motivates you to put in the work. But sometimes stress levels can get out of hand, particularly at the end of an academic year.
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How To Survive Your Annoying Relatives This Holiday Season
Social allergies are a lot like seasonal allergies. They’re annoying, exhausting and hard to avoid. They’re also especially common around the holidays. That’s because the holidays put you at a high...
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Why Attention Is Not A Resource But A Way Of Being Alive To The World
‘We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.’ Those were the words of the American biologist E O Wilson at the turn of the century.
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