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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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FULLY ORGANIC: Bhutan aims for 100 percent organic farming in 10 years

Contributing Writer·October 30, 2012
The Kingdom of Bhutan—a Buddhist nation located in between China and India—recently announced that it aims to become the world’s first 100 percent organic nation...
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THE HEALING BREATH: Learn to breathe and create wholeness

Contributing Writer·October 29, 2012
The Healing Breath involves a 180 degree turn. It takes you from a mindset where you thought “taking a deep breath” was the preferred way to breathe to a truer understanding of our natural...
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ACCEPTANCE QUOTES: A collection of 31 of the best quotes about acceptance + The Serenity Prayer

Contributing Writer·October 28, 2012
Are you struggling with accepting something? We’ve curated this collection of 31 acceptance quotes from a range of thoughtful luminaries...
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SUGAR ATTACK!: Insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome

Contributing Writer·October 27, 2012
INSULIN RESISTANCE IS RISING WITH EPIDEMIC PROPORTIONS. Insulin resistance is a state in which the body cannot use insulin effectively. Insulin is needed to help control the amount of sugar in the body...
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TO LIVE UNENCUMBERED: Finding the courage to drop attachments and free ourselves

Contributing Writer·October 24, 2012
We all know what it's like to be tested. My experience currently is intense and challenging. Perhaps the quality of character that's required most of all during challenging times...
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DEAR EGO: Goodbye, I’m breaking up with you

Contributing Writer·October 23, 2012
I'm breaking up with you. No more circular discussions, no more eleventh hour recriminations. We’re through. This is not an emotional decision. Actually, it doesn’t feel...
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6TH MASS EXTINCTION?: What scientists say and what we should be listening to

Contributing Writer·October 21, 2012
Extinction: A dire word for an extreme occurrence—the absolute end to an entire species. Extinction, like evolution, is a natural phenomenon. Background extinction...
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CONSCIENTIOUS STUDY: At what cost an MBA?

Contributing Writer·October 17, 2012
There's been an increasing hype about the value of an MBA in India recently. With the global economic outlook still gloomy, rising unemployment rates, an MBA has become an increasingly...
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ARLYN OF THE OCEAN: Pollution killed my friend

Contributing Writer·October 14, 2012
My childhood summers were filled with the salty air and seashells of the Gulf, my favourite place to relax and play. I vividly remember the cold ocean water splashing at my...
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THE HUMAN CONDITION: Human being or human going, what of time?

Contributing Writer·October 12, 2012
As human beings living in the modern world, we must sometimes ask ourselves, "How does our being coexist with all our going?" In our everyday lives, we're constantly and...
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GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS: Measuring happiness with sustainability

Contributing Writer·October 11, 2012
If you've ever studied basic economics or if you tune into the news regularly, you’ve probably heard terms like GDP and GNP being thrown around rather frequently. Gross...
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KIRTAN: Strengthen the heart connection through this path to the heart

Contributing Writer·October 9, 2012
The eternal flame of spirit dances within every one of us. But sometimes we forget. The demands and stresses that come with living in the 21st century can keep us ...
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INTERNET RIGHTS: The impact of the Internet on human rights [infographic]

Contributing Writer·October 8, 2012
The Internet impacts our lives in many ways. One aspect of our lives that it has a big impact on is our human rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights for example...
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THE EDIBLE TRUTH OF SUFFERING: In the garden, difficulties become blessings

THE EDIBLE TRUTH OF SUFFERING: In the garden, difficulties become blessings

Contributing Writer·October 4, 2012
Why vegetables grown in the stony alluvial soils of freezing Maine have significantly more flavour than the photogenic ones produced in the year-round sunshine of California...
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GIFT ECONOMY: How a win-win gift exchange works

Contributing Writer·October 3, 2012
Synergic science is the study of how things can best work together. It examines the processes of light, particles, atoms, molecules, the plants, the animals and we...
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HONOUR AND COMMODITY: Socrates taught how to live and die with honour

Contributing Writer·October 1, 2012
With maturity one's honour and love of truth can deepen. I've found, for instance, that my appreciation of a man born some 469 years B.C., has increased with...
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PICK NO PATH: Being present when travelling and open to everything

Contributing Writer·September 28, 2012
When you travel, how do you come to decisions about where to go, the route you will take, or things to do along the way? Do you have a goal that you're moving towards...
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FOOD INC.: Do we actually know what we are eating? [video]

Contributing Writer·September 28, 2012
This well-produced documentary (2008) illuminates and explores the mass-producing corporate machine that is quietly and steadily gaining control of the United States food supply. Four giant meat companies command 80 percent of the market, while Monsanto alone has a near-monopoly on seeds—representing an industrial food system in which one hamburger might contain bits of 1,000s of different cows, and in which one quarter of the products in the average American supermarket contain corn or its derivatives...
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WOODLAND HOME: The story of a family building their eco-home in Wales

WOODLAND HOME: The story of a family building their eco-home in Wales

Contributing Writer·September 26, 2012
Take one baby, a toddler and a building site. Mix well with a generous helping of mud, combine with six weeks of solid Welsh rain whilst living under canvas. Do...
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SUPERWEEDS AND SUPERBUGS: Intro to GMO and its consequences on our food supply

SUPERWEEDS AND SUPERBUGS: Intro to GMO and its consequences on our food supply

Contributing Writer·September 25, 2012
GMO stands for “Genetically Modified Organism.” Most genetically modified organisms are plants, although cows, mosquitoes and salmon have also recently had their genes...
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AWARENESS AND INVOLVEMENT: Step back from the forest to see the trees

Contributing Writer·September 25, 2012
The correct starting point for any creative activity is an acceptance of the present situation, exactly as it is. However, to start from that starting point you need to be able to...
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FROM SEA TO SKY: BC’s beautiful yet controversial coastal drive

Contributing Writer·September 23, 2012
There are few highways in Canada as controversial as the Sea to Sky highway (99). Nicknamed the Ski-and-Die for the many people who have died while...
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ANIMAL QUOTATIONS: Horses, dogs, cats, pigs and other quotes

Contributing Writer·September 22, 2012
It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. – Mexican Proverb
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GROWING PAINS: 12 tough truths to accept as you grow up

Contributing Writer·September 22, 2012
As you look back on your life, you will often realize that many of the times you thought you were being rejected from something good, you were in fact being redirected to...
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