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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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    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]

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

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LESSONS FROM NAVDANYA: Food sovereignty starts with the seed (bija)

Contributing Writer·May 30, 2013
The sound of threshing murmured softly in the background as I stood in front of a striking one-dimensional frieze at Navdanya, an organic...
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I AM: The magnetic core that draws us into a greater experience of the Self

Contributing Writer·May 29, 2013
From radiation in far off galaxies to our own sun’s radiation, we’re surrounded by forces beyond our control. Solar flares,...
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POEMS BY MAX REIF: Recovery, Canada 1971, Saturday Evening Todos Santos Park, I took a Step

Contributing Writer·May 28, 2013
RECOVERY He had been drowning for a long time. Lately, he’s felt his feet touching, actually walking on, the bottom....
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RELATIONSHIPS THAT WORK: Following the creative cycle to find the right person

Contributing Writer·May 25, 2013
Many people seek a real and satisfying relationship, but few get to experience one. A common approach is to believe in...
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THE GOD I AM: No longer held captive by the Bible

Contributing Writer·May 25, 2013
I’ve questioned Christianity all my life, but the ship didn’t start sinking until a few years back when I wrote...
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WHOSE LIVES ARE WE LIVING? Practicing helicopter parenting or facilitating life learning

Contributing Writer·May 24, 2013
These are times of confusion and polarization regarding what sort of parenting children need. And life learning parents seem to...
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LETTER FROM THE FUTURE: Legacy—not a love story with the Earth

Contributing Writer·May 24, 2013
Hey there Mr. Prime Minister, President, King, Despot, Corporate Mogul and globally cloned counterparts—congratulations from the new century! The year...
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CREATE EFFECTIVE CHANGE: Awakening to your inner purpose

Contributing Writer·May 23, 2013
Some people predicted the end of the world on December 21, 2012, but amazingly we are still here! Others, with...
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THE LAW OF REVERSE EFFECT: The harder you try, the more difficult everything becomes

Contributing Writer·May 22, 2013
Updated: March 11, 2019 A natural law of reverse effect exists in the energetic universe. Understanding how reverse effect works...
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WORDS OF WISDOM QUOTES: 40 of the most wise quotations from various authors

Contributing Writer·May 21, 2013
A collection of 40 of the best words of wisdom quotes by Confucius, Lao Tzu, Henry David Thoreau, Pema Chödrön, Albert...
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THE BIG MOVE: How to simplify your life when relocating

Contributing Writer·May 21, 2013
After planning the big move for quite some time, Ann and I moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to...
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PEACE IS A PROCESS: James Twyman on continuing the manifestation conversation

Contributing Writer·May 17, 2013
I directed and produced a film called The Moses Code, which is in many ways, an answer to The Secret,...
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KIVA MICROFINANCING: Making solar energy available in developing nations

Contributing Writer·May 16, 2013
Imagine this: You’re in a developing nation with little access to electricity. In fact, you don’t have access to a...
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POEMS BY R. CHRISTOPHE RYBER: Ascension, On a Dark Night, Synchronicity

Contributing Writer·May 16, 2013
Ascension Regret and painful choices scream Their mournful song into my ears Like banshees howling in a dream Intoxin’d by...
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DEEP LOVE QUOTES: A collection of 26 of the best deep love sayings

Contributing Writer·May 13, 2013
We’ve compiled some of the best deep love quotes, sayings and thoughts by loving souls such as Thich Nhat Hanh,...
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The Economics of Happiness

Contributing Writer·May 13, 2013
Nowhere in the world can the drastic negative effects of globalization be seen as in Ladakh, India, where it took...
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A MENU OF MINDFUL WORDS: Pause and defuse toxic thoughts using these words

Contributing Writer·May 11, 2013
Wisdom is often described as the ability to accept two seemingly contradictory ideas, as each true in their own way....
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ZEN UNDER FIRE: 5 yoga and meditation steps to cultivate courage

Contributing Writer·May 8, 2013
One of the most common responses I get to my book, a memoir about the time I spent living and...
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EAT SEASONALLY: The key to eating sensibly is eating seasonally

Contributing Writer·May 8, 2013
In just a few generations our diet has changed immeasurably to the point where “eating organic” and “natural farming” have...
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SPIRITUAL ATHEISM: Good idea with a bad label?

Contributing Writer·May 6, 2013
There’s no question that one of the challenges we atheists face is to show that life is not empty and...
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IN PRAISE OF WRITING: A poem by Mercedes O’Leary

Contributing Writer·May 4, 2013
You do not have to be good.  All you have to do is tend a blade, a leaf, turn grains...
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BEYOND MATERIALISM: Redefining what really matters to us

Contributing Writer·May 3, 2013
With a deep and fundamental understanding of who we are as individuals, our perception and experience of the world changes....
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POEMS BY KELLY HAAS SHACKELFORD: I Existed, High School Reject, A Mother’s Box of Dreams

Contributing Writer·May 2, 2013
I Existed Snatches of time, imprisoned, in tattered albums, a recital of snapshots of the happy-lil’-family that never was. Like...
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MINDFULNESS MEDITATIONS FOR KIDS: An excerpt from Yoga for Children

Contributing Writer·May 1, 2013
Mindfulness—the practice of cultivating awareness and acceptance, free of judgment—has always been inherent in the teaching and practice of yoga....
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