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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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THE PATH OF THE SOUL: How I got rid of my Sunday night jitters

Contributing Writer·January 9, 2018
You know the jitters I’m talking about? The tightness in your chest just as you’re falling asleep, the vague worries...
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MY PATH TO PEACE: Embracing a lifestyle of simplicity and neutrality

Contributing Writer·January 7, 2018
In India, Saturn is a dreaded planet, for it’s capable of bringing obstacles and misery. They fear the arrival of...
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CURE FOR ADDICTION: The 3 keys to recovery include discipline, service and teaching

Contributing Writer·January 4, 2018
According to an article in the September 1, 2017 issue of the Daily Herald, statistics show that one in three people...
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WRITE FOR RECOVERY: 3 pen-to-paper prompts that’ll lessen anxiety and depression

Contributing Writer·January 3, 2018
Choose a moment in your day. It can be as small as when a clerk smiled at you, when you...
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SELF-DOUBT: The terrorist living within our souls

Contributing Writer·December 24, 2017
A flower in a field full of flowers will blossom, and regardless of how beautiful the flowers around it are,...
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MEDITATION BONUS: 6 positive ways meditation can change you physically and mentally

Contributing Writer·December 23, 2017
While meditation is known to make you feel relaxed and at peace with the world, did you know that your...
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CHAKRA TO CHAKRA: The 7 levels of an energetically committed partnership

Contributing Writer·December 20, 2017
Relationships are amazing opportunities to meet Spirit face-to-face, and to refine ourselves even more than we’re able to on our...
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I AM BISEXUAL: A letter to my ex-girlfriend about what I could never fully say

Contributing Writer·November 19, 2017
When I was eight or nine years old, I remember having a vivid dream that had an unforgettable effect on...
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NOTHING IS FOREVER: Embracing death will help you become greater and happier

Contributing Writer·November 8, 2017
I grew up among sickness and death. My father was a veterinary surgeon, and I’d accompany him on farm visits...
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THE SHIFT TOWARDS RECEIVING: To be a human being, instead of a human doing

Contributing Writer·November 1, 2017
“Can you feel the support of the chair?” My Rosen Method therapist asked. “Hmm … no.” Seated across from my...
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CAUGHT IN A CULT: Australia’s Osho Samaya Ashram is far more than a meditation retreat

Contributing Writer·October 29, 2017
Earlier this year, I found myself losing the plot with my mental health in Brisbane, Australia. I ended up getting...
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THE SCIENCE BEHIND MINDFUL EATING: How to make healthy choices when internal cues lead you astray

Contributing Writer·October 25, 2017
Eating mindfully is the best way to eat and involves learning to listen to our bodies for cues about what...
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RECOVERY FROM ADDICTION: 5 ways mindful meditation helped me heal

Contributing Writer·October 22, 2017
I struggled with drug and alcohol abuse all through my preteen and teenage years, and part of my young adulthood....
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DOC HOLLYWOOD AT RISK: How to teach our kids to appreciate the gist of the risks they face

Contributing Writer·October 4, 2017
In 1991, Michael J. Fox starred in the charming movie Doc Hollywood. The story tells of Benjamin Stone, M.D. (played...
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THE LESSON OF NOW: Alzheimer’s and making peace with new limitations

Contributing Writer·October 3, 2017
“To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times...
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HELP FOR PTSD: From gang violence to the other side of fear

Contributing Writer·October 1, 2017
For 30 years of my life, I called El Salvador my home. It’s a beautiful country with beautiful people, and...
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MY SUMMER WITH FALUN DAFA: How I discovered new energy through practicing Qi Gong

Contributing Writer·September 19, 2017
Before I started graduate school, I took a temporary job at a call centre to hold me over until it...
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BECOME ALCHEMISTS: Align your vibration to resonate with the Earth

Contributing Writer·September 13, 2017
There’s a positively charged electrical field surrounding the Earth. The Earth itself carries a negative charge. While not taken seriously...
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ENCOUNTERS WITH HISTORY: Monuments only serve to commemorate or mythologize aspects of our shared experience

Contributing Writer·September 12, 2017
The director Akira Kurosawa talked often of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, which devastated Tokyo, killing almost 150,000 people. In its...
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A NAGGING SHAME: From vegetarian to vegan and food activist

Contributing Writer·September 3, 2017
I’m ashamed. It’s not a shallow shame, like when you forget your spouse’s birthday. It’s a deep shame. A shame...
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A BLUEPRINT FOR PROSPERITY: Use your mind to create prosperity in your life

Contributing Writer·September 1, 2017
Prosperity is a word that’s used frequently in our material, success-driven culture. But what, truly, is prosperity? Webster’s Dictionary defines...
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THE DAY MY LIFE CHANGED: It took the near-death of my little son to wake me up

Contributing Writer·August 30, 2017
My wake-up finally happened with a devastating accident. From time to time, I still experience guilt because my 3-year-old had...
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BUDDHIST IRELAND: A week at Dzogchen Beara Buddhist Meditation Centre

Contributing Writer·August 22, 2017
If you’d told me a year ago that I’d spend a week at a Buddhist retreat in Ireland, I would’ve...
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MY FATHER’S LOVE: “You’re one of the good ones”

Contributing Writer·August 16, 2017
I felt my father’s heartbeat and his shallow, calm breathing as I lay on the Mexican tile floor beside him,...
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