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    Person wearing watch, grabbing puzzle pieces - How to Reduce Your Brain’s Blind Spots With Simple Training

    REDUCE YOUR BRAIN’S BLIND SPOTS: How cognitive training enhances self-awareness

    Senior couple walking down trail in fall - Exercise as Play: A Small Shift Makes a Big Difference

    EXERCISE AS PLAY: Movement, mindfulness and mental health

    Three wooden markers on signpost on outdoor path - The 3 Powerful Words That Became Markers on My Mindful Path

    COMPLICATIONS, CONTRADICTIONS, CONFUSIONS: 3 words that became markers on a mindful path

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    Glass jar full of blue paint next to paintbrushes on table - Take Stock of Your Precious Life: An Inspiring Fiction Story

    TSYPL: The best—and most mindful—stock to invest in right now

    Full moon behind a rural house - “Sturgeon Moon” and 3 Other Poems With Passion

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

    Train travelling through Alaska mountain range - Don’t Doubt Yourself—Spread Your Wings and Soar

    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

    hanami cherry blossoms closeup

    HANAMI DREAMING: The start of spring in Japan

    Joe Biden with other world leaders - Political Power: 3 Ways Democratic Voters Can Battle Fascism

    REFLECTIONS ON TODAY’S POLITICAL REALITIES: We can prevail over ignorance, lies and Trump

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    Malecon in La Paz, Mexico - Back on American Soil: A Safe Return Home From La Paz

    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]

    Facebook on laptop in La Paz hotel room - NIGHT SEA JOURNEY: Buying back sanity in La Paz, Mexico

    NIGHT SEA JOURNEY: Buying back sanity in La Paz, Mexico [Part 6]

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Tumbleweed - Alternating Current story

ALTERNATING CURRENT: Sometimes you need to get lost in the flow, before you can be found

Max Reif·July 25, 2014
Toddlers - Battle for the nap room

BATTLE FOR THE NAP ROOM: A journal from the front lines

Max Reif·July 11, 2014
Therapeutic abstract art - Catina Noble poetry

POEMS : Art Class, A Time for Growth, Animation, Sojourn, Blues

Catina Noble·July 5, 2014
writer

CAMP NANOWRIMO: One month and 50,000 words of growth

Erica Roberts·June 24, 2014
Dented car - Another Ordinary Day fiction

ANOTHER ORDINARY DAY: Humorous fiction by Max Reif

Max Reif·June 21, 2014
Black marker on paper - Making Marks excerpt

MAKING MARKS: Open your imagination’s floodgates with “stream drawing”

Contributor·June 19, 2014
Red hibiscus flower and clouds - Kufre Udeme poetry

POEMS BY KUFRE UDEME: From the Insight Garden, Sweet Dreams

Contributor·June 8, 2014
Pen and paper - journaling

CENTRED WITH COMPASSION: Journal writing as a mindfulness practice and healing tool

Anjali Mani·June 2, 2014
Woman singing - expressing herself

EXPRESS YOURSELF: Finding a voice within an authoritarian social system

Contributing Writer·May 26, 2014
Women on isolated bench - Susan Ksiezopolski poetry

POEMS BY SUSAN KSIEZOPOLSKI: The Bench of Solitude, Coming and Going, Gap Year

Contributor·May 21, 2014
Beach beauty - Living in the now

LIVING IN THE NOW: Positive, spirit-lifting mid-tempo tunes [music review]

Erica Roberts·May 14, 2014
Colorful - Hold fast to your dreams

HOLD FAST TO YOUR DREAMS: 30 inspirational quotes about life

Contributor·May 11, 2014
Mountain with river in foreground

WRITING WILD: Q&A with Tina Welling about forming a creative partnership with nature

Contributing Writer·April 29, 2014
St. Francis statue - The Love Letters Excerpt

A CATHOLIC LOVE STORY: Finding God in both words and silence

Contributor·April 26, 2014
Eco Environment - Save The Planet

CELEBRATE THE PLANET: 30 eco-friendly quotes in honour of Earth Day

Contributor·April 19, 2014
Sunny path - Poems by Max Reif

POEMS BY MAX REIF: The Difference Between Happiness and Contentment, Blessed Afternoon, White Guy in an Asian Supermarket, Cities

Max Reif·April 12, 2014
backlit dark dawn - always do your best

ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST: 35 free motivational quotes that will get your mojo going

Contributor·April 7, 2014
Woman meditating - The Mindfulness Diaries book review

THE MINDFULNESS DIARIES: How I survived my first nine-day silent meditation retreat [book review]

Contributor·March 30, 2014
cassette tapes - music

THE MAGIC OF MUSIC: How the balance of tension and release in music affects our appreciation of it

Jerry Kvasnicka·March 25, 2014
Lone man - Poems by R. Gerry Fabian

POEMS BY R. GERRY FABIAN: Dated Evidence, Mistaken Identity

Contributor·March 23, 2014
Smileys - Humor and Ingenuity

HUMOR AND INGENUITY: 25 artful witty quotes

Contributor·March 22, 2014
standing on scale - fat-shaming

FAT-SHAMING: Why do I owe an excuse?

Contributing Writer·March 18, 2014
Meher Baba's tomb-shrine

IRWIN AND THE AVATAR: A love story for the ages [book review]

Max Reif·March 12, 2014
Drowning warning sign - Fiction story Saved

SAVED: A story

Erica Roberts·March 2, 2014
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