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

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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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SIMPLE LIVING GUIDE: Financial Independence—valuing your life energy at work [Step 7]

Contributing Writer·March 11, 2013
Last step led us through a contemplation of what we really need to feel fulfilled in our lives; along the...
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead

Contributing Writer·March 10, 2013
Death is real, it comes without warning and it cannot be escaped. An ancient source of strength and guidance, The...
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BUDDHIST QUOTES: Mindfulness, meditation, impermanence, suffering

Contributing Writer·March 9, 2013
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not...
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SIMPLE LIVING GUIDE: Valuing your life income—minimizing spending [Step 6]

Contributing Writer·March 8, 2013
[Read Step 5 of the Simple Living Guide. Go to Step 1] The previous step asked us to create a...
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GODS IN PRINT: Masterpieces of India’s mythological art

Contributing Writer·March 8, 2013
As a child, I would lie on an enormous wooden swing, which was right in the middle of my grandparents’...
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THOSE PESKY EMOTIONS: Step back and allow your higher Self to deal with emotions

Contributing Writer·March 6, 2013
Just like our five senses, our emotions enable us to interact with other people, animals, plants and circumstances. Our emotions...
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MARKETING MEANNESS: How marketing messages encourage bullying among children

Contributing Writer·March 5, 2013
I hadn’t really understood how systemic and how damaging bullying gets until two months ago, when I overheard a hall...
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IMPERFECTIONS & RELATIONSHIPS: Relating to the imperfection in others to build stronger relationships

Contributing Writer·March 4, 2013
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become...
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SIMPLE LIVING GUIDE: Making life energy visible [Step 5]

Contributing Writer·March 4, 2013
[Read Step 4 of the Simple Living Guide. Go to Step 1] The last step took us to the core...
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THE ONENESS OF TEA AND ZEN: Experiencing the beauty of ordinary life through tea brewing and drinking

Contributing Writer·March 4, 2013
Updated: March 29, 2019 When we talk of Zen thoughts concerning tea culture, most readers will think of Japanese Teaism....
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GUT PROBLEMS: Our stomach health is dependent on the food we eat

Contributing Writer·March 3, 2013
“All diseases begin in the gut,” said Hippocrates. And back when he said this they didn’t have all the junk...
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Who is the real enemy?

Contributing Writer·March 1, 2013
Watch this TEDx talk with Dr. Charles Raison on the need for cultivating compassion. – Dr. Charles Raison believes our survival as...
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Keep your mind even

Contributing Writer·March 1, 2013
Remember, when life’s path is steep, to keep your mind even. – Horace Twenty years from now you will be...
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SIMPLE LIVING GUIDE: How much is enough and the nature of fulfillment [Step 4]

Contributing Writer·March 1, 2013
 [Read Step 3 of the Simple Living Guide. Go to Step 1] In the previous step, Where Is It All...
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UNDOING THE DOGMAS OF SCIENCE: Interview with Rupert Sheldrake on how modern contemporary science has turned into dogma

Contributing Writer·February 28, 2013
In his explorations for a better understanding of consciousness, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake challenges the mechanistic dogma of contemporary mainstream science....
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A MINDFUL NATION: Rep. Tim Ryan relates his experience with mindfulness practice and how to realign the mind with the heart

Contributing Writer·February 27, 2013
It was cold and grey outside as I walked by the bottom of an imposing mountain. It felt as though fall had turned into winter in just a few hours. Snow was falling on my face as I walked...
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DEEP ACCEPTANCE: To be free from our limitations we must discover what it is to be free in our limitations

Contributing Writer·February 26, 2013
At a recent organizational gathering I was honoured for my years of service. A number of very kind things were...
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BREAK DOWN THE WALLS: Using Zen koans to open your mind

Contributing Writer·February 26, 2013
Within each moment there is time and energy, space and solidity, creation and erosion. The dynamic lends itself to the...
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SIMPLE LIVING GUIDE: Where is it all going? [Step 3]

Contributing Writer·February 25, 2013
[Read Step 2 of the Simple Living Guide] The most important point to remember from the previous step is that...
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THE BLUE BUDDHA: Lost Secrets of Tibetan Medicine [documentary]

Contributing Writer·February 25, 2013
Twelve hundred years ago the people of Tibet developed a comprehensive medical system. They understood how the mind affects the...
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POETRY AND MINDFULNESS: Go beyond the words and rhyme

Contributing Writer·February 24, 2013
After meditating or going out on a long walk, I often sit with a poem and allow the words to seep into the heart of my present moment experience. The theme of the piece could be centered...
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TAKING REFUGE IN SERVICE: An American doctor committed to the principles of seva—selfless service—assists Tibetan refugees in India

Contributing Writer·February 23, 2013
A young woman stands inside the kitchen of her small mud-brick home in a Tibetan refugee camp in Ladakh, India. “She’s scared,”...
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A LAUGH A DAY: The healing power of humour [infographic]

Contributing Writer·February 23, 2013
Screen reader version: Pain When we laugh our brain produces endorphins, which are up to 500 times more effective at...
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THE CONSTANT CHOICE: Discrimination in the workplace

Contributing Writer·February 23, 2013
When I finally joined Young & Rubicam, directly out of Stanford, I joined the workforce full of hope, confidence, and thriving...
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