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    REDUCE YOUR BRAIN’S BLIND SPOTS: How cognitive training enhances self-awareness

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    EXERCISE AS PLAY: Movement, mindfulness and mental health

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    COMPLICATIONS, CONTRADICTIONS, CONFUSIONS: 3 words that became markers on a mindful path

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    TSYPL: The best—and most mindful—stock to invest in right now

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    POEMS BY GEORGE PAYNE: Sturgeon Moon, That Morning In Athens and more

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    ALASKA WINGS: Soaring across the mountains while releasing fear and doubt

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    MINDFUL LEADERSHIP IN STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS: Empowering leaders to create positive change

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    HANAMI DREAMING: The start of spring in Japan

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    REFLECTIONS ON TODAY’S POLITICAL REALITIES: We can prevail over ignorance, lies and Trump

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    Malecon in La Paz, Mexico - Back on American Soil: A Safe Return Home From La Paz

    IMPEDIMENTS FACED: A safe return home from La Paz, Mexico

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    TYING UP LOOSE ENDS: One last—and glorious—day in La Paz, Mexico [Part 7]

    Facebook on laptop in La Paz hotel room - NIGHT SEA JOURNEY: Buying back sanity in La Paz, Mexico

    NIGHT SEA JOURNEY: Buying back sanity in La Paz, Mexico [Part 6]

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RELATIONSHIP RECONNECT: 3 ways to strengthen connection with your partner

Contributing Writer·March 8, 2014
Love partnerships give us the opportunity to become intimate and connected with another human being. The depth of that connection...
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THE JOY OF GIVING: The more you give of yourself, the more you find of yourself

Contributing Writer·March 7, 2014
We all know how great it feels to receive gifts. However, the joy of getting is short-lived. Our lives are...
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NEW HOPE: 5 ways to live well with chronic medical conditions

Contributing Writer·March 5, 2014
About fifteen years ago I finally went to one of the top academic medical centres and got official diagnoses for...
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ARE YOU ADDICTED TO STRESS?: 5 ways to let it go

Contributing Writer·February 28, 2014
According to the most recent APA “Stress in America” survey, Americans are addicted to ever-increasing levels of stress (here’s the link)....
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PRIMAL SPIRITUALITY: Follow your innate, intuitive knowing of the nature of all things

Contributing Writer·February 28, 2014
We are each born with an innate, intuitive knowing of the Being within all Creation. We are born with that...
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WARRIOR POSE: 6 life-transforming lessons to help heal from a serious condition

Contributing Writer·February 21, 2014
The greatest adversity in your life is also your greatest gift. A 2013 study found that those who reported the...
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LIVER-GALLBLADDER CLEANSING: Total body detoxification and the way to healthy aging

Contributing Writer·February 15, 2014
The blood tests requested by Dr. Gordon Tessler when I first visited him in 1982 revealed that all my liver enzymes...
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HO’OPONOPONO: 5 tips for clearing the subconscious and opening to the divine

Contributing Writer·January 29, 2014
After practicing Ho’oponopono for almost 10 years, it’s clear to me that the Hawaiians have a wonderful tool for clearing...
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A SENSE OF CURIOSITY: Finding the wonder in life just as a child does

Contributing Writer·January 27, 2014
In spiritual literature there is often an admonition to stay childlike. Childlike is very different from childish. Of course these...
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BRAND BUILDING AND BEING YOURSELF: Technology’s capacity to build one’s self

Contributing Writer·January 23, 2014
“Mummy, can you look something up for me?” asks my seven-year-old daughter. So I open Google, and there is my...
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ASSESS YOURSELF: How mindfulness can help us learn more about our personalities

Contributing Writer·January 21, 2014
Mindfulness—paying attention to one’s current experience in a non-judgmental way—might help us to learn more about our own personalities, according...
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CONSCIOUS CONSUMERISM: Thinking about the consequences of our actions

Contributing Writer·January 13, 2014
We have the power to help our communities by shifting our spending patterns. Consumption links us to an interconnected web...
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THE ART OF COMMUNITY: Building the new age of participation

Contributing Writer·December 28, 2013
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” —Vincent Van Gogh As my watch...
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MINDFULNESS & PAIN: Study finds mindfulness may help relieve chronic inflammation

Contributing Writer·December 16, 2013
MADISON — People suffering from chronic inflammatory conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and asthma—in which psychological stress...
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Mindfulness improves reading comprehension, memory and ability to focus

Contributing Writer·December 4, 2013
(Santa Barbara, Calif.)—If you think your inability to concentrate is a hopeless condition, think again—and breathe and focus. According to...
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VIVA LOS FUNHOGS: California to Patagonia and the climb of Fitz Roy

Contributing Writer·November 21, 2013
It was an epic journey, a wild and historic climb, an unusual adventure, a formative experience. In the context of...
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THE MYTH OF PROGRESS: Is cognitive dissonance being pushed to the breaking point?

Contributing Writer·November 7, 2013
Pick a topic, any topic, and it’s a pretty safe bet that  the collective imagination defines it these days as an...
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PERCEPTION OF INTERCONNECTION: As ecological consciousness emerges on a mass scale the metanarrative of us-versus-them is no longer a compelling case for war

Contributing Writer·November 5, 2013
Why is the American public so unenthusiastic about bombing Syria? Certainly the case for war is weak and hypocritical both in...
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WHO IS FORGIVING WHO? Dreaming of Debt, Practicing P/Reparations

Contributing Writer·November 3, 2013
Some activists have been calling for debt forgiveness for the “global south” as a form of reparations. Referring to such...
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WHAT REWARD?: Mindful individuals less affected by positive feedback and immediate rewards

Contributing Writer·November 3, 2013
TORONTO, ON – A new study from the University of Toronto Scarborough shows that people who are aware of their...
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JOIN THE SHARING ECONOMY: The Gen Y guide to collaborative consumption

Contributing Writer·November 1, 2013
When our parents graduated from college, the bachelor’s degree was a coveted badge of honour. It gave applicants instant cred...
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RELIGIOUS SENSIBILITY: Understanding the substructure of perceptions, emotions and intuitions on which religions are built

Contributing Writer·September 25, 2013
In a recent article posted on my blog, the Archdruid Report, I attempted to imagine the far future without reference to...
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THE STATE OF SURRENDER!: Embracing life exactly as it is

Contributing Writer·September 16, 2013
I’ve lived in the State of Wisconsin all my life, but have recently been spending time in a different state,...
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AMAZING ALGAE: Spirulina—concentrated nutrition in every gram

Contributing Writer·September 7, 2013
Spirulina, literally the most nutritious food known, is an edible blue-green algae used all over the world for its nutritional...
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