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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

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    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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A young man and woman have a quiet conversation with a coffee cup in the foreground - Myers-Briggs humour

MYERS-BRIGGS HUMOUR: 5 cartoons about the introverted folks among us by INFJoe

Contributor·September 27, 2017
butterfly on pond with wave ripples

MIND HYDROLOGY: Joyfully redirecting the course of your thoughts

Robert Kopecky·September 25, 2017
Pint of ice cream, almost all eaten - The happiness challenge

THE HAPPINESS CHALLENGE: We can’t choose happiness, but we can help it choose us

Contributor·September 22, 2017
large open plan home with high ceilings

DREAM INTERPRETATION: Explore more aspects of your mind [symbols: house, children, friend, water]

Aneta Baranek·September 21, 2017
Falun Dafa the fifth meditation

MY SUMMER WITH FALUN DAFA: How I discovered new energy through practicing Qi Gong

Contributing Writer·September 19, 2017
Deepak Chopra signing books - I'm a soul and I'm perfect

I’M A SOUL AND I’M PERFECT: An illuminating past-life regression exercise at Deepak Chopra’s meditation centre

Contributor·September 18, 2017
large rainbow coloured kite in the sky

DREAM INTERPRETATION: An incredible sense of freedom and inner-connectedness [symbols: sky, wires, flying, death]

Aneta Baranek·September 14, 2017
Alchemist Sendivogius (1566–1636) by Jan Matejko, 1867

BECOME ALCHEMISTS: Align your vibration to resonate with the Earth

Contributing Writer·September 13, 2017
WW1 battlefield with bunker

DREAM INTERPRETATION: In every conflict, there’s an opportunity for growth and change [symbols: hand, war, rags, father, fireballs]

Aneta Baranek·September 7, 2017
Blueprint of an artist's house

A BLUEPRINT FOR PROSPERITY: Use your mind to create prosperity in your life

Contributing Writer·September 1, 2017
All Giza pyramids

DREAM INTERPRETATION: Evaluate who and what you’re believing and why [symbols: phone, Egypt, picture, woman, white]

Aneta Baranek·August 31, 2017
Man swimming in sea by clifftop - Dream interpretation

DREAM INTERPRETATION: Look at ways in which you sabotage your efforts due to ego [symbols: clifftop, helicopter, sea, rifle]

Aneta Baranek·August 24, 2017
emdr therapy eye movement

EMDR: An emerging therapy involving eye movements and bad memories

Contributor·August 23, 2017
Quiet, snowy town at night - Life lessons

LIFE LESSONS: 12 short meditations from Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way

Contributor·August 20, 2017
students in classroom taking an exam

DREAM INTERPRETATION: How do I approach responsibility and life in general? [symbols: classroom, 3, students, test]

Aneta Baranek·August 17, 2017
father holding baby

MY FATHER’S LOVE: “You’re one of the good ones”

Contributing Writer·August 16, 2017
Alien

CONSPIRACY THEORISTS: Delusional and/or Paranoid Personality Disorder or using deduction, logic and common sense?

Jack Surguy·August 14, 2017
Julian Daizan Skinner teaches Zen Yoga - Boris's story

BORIS’S STORY: How an academic merged scientific and spiritual belief to find peace within

Contributor·August 12, 2017
Mansion on hill

DREAM INTERPRETATION: You aren’t comfortable with your emotional state of being [symbols: guy, mansion, hill, wealth]

Aneta Baranek·August 10, 2017
boy screaming at cowering girl

PSYCHOLOGICAL & SPIRITUAL THERAPY: You choose to stay in an unhealthy relationship

Jack Surguy·August 8, 2017
Thich Nhat Hanh in Vietnam

HEART SURGERY: An epiphany on day 6 of silent meditation with Thich Nhat Hanh

Contributing Writer·August 7, 2017
Man floating on back in water (Philippines) - Present-moment acceptance of waking-up-ness

PRESENT-MOMENT ACCEPTANCE AND WAKING-UP-NESS: Notice yourself as a spiritual being in the here and now

Mike Larcombe·August 4, 2017
Woman with red lipstick

DREAM INTERPRETATION: A need for more direction, more purpose in your waking life [symbols: car, drunk, kidnapping, rape]

Aneta Baranek·August 3, 2017
Temples in Myanmar

SCIENCE VS. RELIGION: Are humans better off without religion or spirituality?

Jack Surguy·August 2, 2017
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