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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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INTO THE LAND OF WOO-WOO: My hunt for the Afterlife

Contributing Writer·August 10, 2018
I was an angry young man, though I didn’t see myself as such at the time. I was a loner,...
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THE MYSTERY OF SYNCHRONICITY: Coincidence asks us to comprehend the universe

Contributing Writer·August 3, 2018
Have you ever noticed that you’d been thinking about something and it suddenly came true? Have you been seeing repetitions of specific numbers...
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MUSIC AND THE MIND: The surprising links between music, creativity and wellness

Contributing Writer·August 2, 2018
Do you know someone who seems to get lost in music? Put on some beats and their world dissolves around...
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LIFESTYLE CHANGE: From coffee to matcha green tea

Contributing Writer·July 24, 2018
Have you ever come across people who can’t make it through the day without downing their favourite drink? Well, here’s a...
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MIND BLOWN: The sixth sense is the conscious Self

Contributing Writer·July 16, 2018
In kindergarten, they teach you that you have five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. But to solve the...
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DON’T GET MAD, GET CONSCIOUS: Can President Trump make you a better person?

Contributing Writer·July 15, 2018
It’s been said that the people who irritate us the most are our best teachers, and that reacting to to...
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FROM AN EX-ADDICT: 5 ways to improve your mental health

Contributing Writer·July 8, 2018
These days, there’s lots of talk about healthy living. We’re no longer in the era of the TV series Mad...
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BIPOLAR DISORDER: To medicate or not to medicate?

Contributing Writer·June 27, 2018
I’ve been symptomatic all my life, but didn’t always know it. Of what, you ask? Bipolar disorder Bipolar disorder is...
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LOG OUT OF FACEBOOK: Lessons from a social media experiment

Contributing Writer·June 12, 2018
A few months ago, I joined an experiment called 99 Days of Freedom. This online study came about as a...
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GRIEF TRAIN: My father’s death taught me about love and letting go

Contributing Writer·June 6, 2018
My father passed away just before noon on October 30, 2017. He’d been diagnosed with cancer 18 months earlier. I...
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IT’S NOT A DIET: 4 benefits of mindful eating for recovering addicts

Contributing Writer·May 13, 2018
My childhood was a particularly troubled time. Instead of being outside with friends, trading sports cards, I’d taken a different...
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BINGE-PURGE: It takes small, slow steps to walk away from an eating disorder

Contributing Writer·May 10, 2018
Once upon a cigarette, I sat doing homework outside my favourite downtown Denver coffee shop, across from a boy I was...
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A HEART FULL OF GRATITUDE: When the land of rain and clouds beckoned

Contributing Writer·May 2, 2018
A trip to Nagaland in Northeast India was what I’d dreamed about for quite a long time, and it happened last December....
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THE ROAD TO ZEN: The art of motorcycle maintenance in Southeast Asia

Contributing Writer·April 24, 2018
[su_quote style=”flat-light”] You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In...
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ADDICTION RECOVERY: How I used faith to make it through my alcoholism

Contributing Writer·April 19, 2018
When someone says the words “a hopeless place,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Maybe it’s a dark room...
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TIME TO QUIT: Sometimes it’s better to allow your project to fail

Contributing Writer·March 9, 2018
Everybody knows we’re supposed to have the ‘serenity to accept the things we cannot change’—but it’s one thing to tell...
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WALK IN BEAUTY: 4 tools that’ll help you gracefully navigate everyday life

Contributing Writer·March 6, 2018
We’re not here to be perfect enlightened beings, we’re here to experience. Fear, grief, pain, joy, love—the ebbs and flows...
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JOYFUL WEIGHT LOSS: Count blessings, not calories

Contributing Writer·February 27, 2018
On February 20, 2018, JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) published the results of a long, extensive and expensive...
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SUPERHEROES ON A SUPERNAL PATH: A reminder of our 3 greatest superpowers

Contributing Writer·February 25, 2018
Having only an intellectual understanding of our Divinity and true eternal nature, versus actually knowing and living through it in every...
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THE CENTRE OF THE WHEEL: We’re all part of an interdependent system called life

Contributing Writer·February 11, 2018
Ever since I can remember, I was told what I “should” be doing with my life. I should do well...
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CHARISMA: What it is and 9 ways you can develop it

Contributing Writer·February 1, 2018
Charisma is a word often used to describe remarkable people. The word comes from the Greek “khárisma” and means “gift...
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MANAGE STRESS: Focus on these 7 elements to relieve stress and live a balanced life

Contributing Writer·January 21, 2018
Here’s the first thing you need to know about stress: it’s not just a mental or emotional dynamic in our...
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TURN RETIREMENT INTO RENEWAL: 5 key pieces of advice for the senior man

Contributing Writer·January 18, 2018
Retirement today is a far different reality than what it was decades ago. In the era of the company man,...
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FIGHT YOUR EATING DISORDER: Without letting toxic New Year’s resolutions get in the way

Contributing Writer·January 14, 2018
I don’t like January. It’s a time of starting new diets and reassessing why we failed to lose the 10...
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