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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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ADVICE FOR WRITERS: Q&A with Story Circle Network’s Mary Jo Doig

Contributing Writer·April 3, 2013
Recently I had the opportunity to interview Mary Jo Doig, a member of Story Circle Editorial Service from 2008-2012 and...
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A SILENT SCREAM: Participants of another generation

Contributing Writer·April 3, 2013
Years later, when Dr. Bradford told me about another meeting of incest victims to be held at the student counselling...
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The Marketing of Madness

Contributing Writer·April 2, 2013
Emotions, the very thing that makes us human, are being turned into a massive money-spinning industry and psychotropic drugging has...
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FOOD WASTE: A major worldwide problem [infographic]

Contributing Writer·April 1, 2013
Food waste in the U.S. is estimated at an astounding 40 percent, as pointed out in our interview with NRDC....
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LIGHTNESS OF BEING: Separation is the fall and Union is the restoration

Contributing Writer·April 1, 2013
We’re in the midst of a deep, inexorable tide of intensification—one that is leading to the healing and restoring of...
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I CAN DO IT MYSELF!: Encouraging active learning by just “being there”

Contributing Writer·March 30, 2013
Some of the best memories that I have from when my daughters Heidi and Melanie were young involve us hanging...
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MIND QUOTES: Top 30 quotes by Buddha, Albert Einstein, Kahlil Gibran and others

Contributing Writer·March 28, 2013
A collection of 30 top mind quotes by some of the world’s greatest thinkers The mind is not a vessel...
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BEAUTIFUL DAY! Practice love-centred living to connect with others

Contributing Writer·March 28, 2013
This experience of being a human being sure is interesting. We spend our whole lives looking for love, and will...
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THE PRIMAL BOND: Finding solutions through universal love

Contributing Writer·March 27, 2013
There is a primal bond that holds all things together—from the atom to the cell to the solar system and...
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DIABETES & MINDFULNESS: Mindful eating equals traditional education in lowering weight and blood sugar

Contributing Writer·March 26, 2013
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Eating mindfully, or consuming food in response to physical cues of hunger and fullness, is just as...
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DOT COM CHILDREN: Raising a child in the new millennium

Contributing Writer·March 24, 2013
It’s been 13 years since the explosion of the dot com era. We live in a technological age where iPads, Netflix,...
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TO COMPROMISE OR NOT TO COMPROMISE: How to build sustainable relationships

Contributing Writer·March 22, 2013
Many popular psychologists, such as Dr. Phil, preach that compromise is the key to resolving relationship conflict and essential to...
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WHAT IS LOVE?: Expanding our capacity to give and receive love

Contributing Writer·March 21, 2013
One of the things that most people are at least a little confused about is love. This is probably because...
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A JOURNEY TO SELF-HEALING: Somatic Learning and the healing power of presencing

Contributing Writer·March 20, 2013
My healing journey: From crippling pain to ever-greater freedom and aliveness To introduce Somatic Learning and the power of Somatic...
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MONEY/LIFE BALANCE: Managing Your Finances [Step 9]

SIMPLE LIVING GUIDE: Living your life at enough [Step 9]

Contributing Writer·March 18, 2013
[Read Step 7 of the Simple Living Guide or go to Step 1] This is the ninth and final article in the...
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LIFE LEARNING: Cultivate a love of learning by focusing on process, not content

Contributing Writer·March 17, 2013
Nathan Isaacs, a British author and educator who has popularized the work of the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, has described...
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DEAD LINES: A lesson from snakes about deadlines

Contributing Writer·March 17, 2013
One day, several weeks before my column was due, I pondered the upcoming topic: deadlines. I tried to remember if...
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IS REINCARNATION HOCUS-POCUS? Explore the many signs of past lives

Contributing Writer·March 15, 2013
One thing I’m not here to do is to “build a case” for reincarnation. I prefer to share with you what...
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SIMPLE LIVING GUIDE: The crossover point [Step 8]

Contributing Writer·March 15, 2013
[Read Step 7 of the Simple Living Guide or go to Step 1] In the last step we looked at valuing your...
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SYMBOLISM & RELIGIOUS MYSTERY: An excerpt from Joseph Campbell’s Thou Art That

Contributing Writer·March 14, 2013
 Symbolism and religious experience With respect to the mystical tradition, one can divide the world into two great groups: one to...
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PRANIC HEALING: Spirituality blended with science

Contributing Writer·March 14, 2013
Prana (Sanskrit for life force) is one of many words often used to describe the non-physical body of essential energy...
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GOING VEGAN: Eat a healthier diet, lessen your environmental impact and save money [2 infographics]

Contributing Writer·March 13, 2013
These two infographics present a compelling case to switch to veganism (or at least to cut down on meat consumption)...
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MINDFULNESS QUOTES: Thich Nhat Hanh, Ajahn Chah, Sharon Salzberg and others

Contributing Writer·March 12, 2013
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. ? Thich Nhat Hanh Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need...
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UNCOMMON QUESTIONS: A poem by Mercedes O’Leary

Contributing Writer·March 12, 2013
How could we make flames from handfuls of clear sky? What could we do but stand still and pray for...
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