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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

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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

    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

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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

    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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MIND OVER MATTER: Use the power of a peaceful mind to remember who you really are

Pieter Van Cauwenbergh·June 10, 2017
Toad crawling under door

DREAM INTERPRETATION: Feeling disrupted or invaded by habitual ways of being or an unknown entity [symbols: toad, boyfriend, poltergeist, phone]

Aneta Baranek·June 8, 2017
Car accident on a snowy road - The bravest you

MAKE A CHOICE AND MOVE FORWARD: Uncertainty can dictate outcomes, for better or worse

Contributor·June 7, 2017
Atomic bomb explosion

SKEWED STATISTICS: The problems with science and the peer review process

Jack Surguy·June 6, 2017
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UNMOTIVATED?: Try these 3 things to get your mojo back  

Contributing Writer·June 2, 2017
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DREAM INTERPRETATION: Take care of your physical, mental and emotional states of being

Aneta Baranek·June 1, 2017
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COMING HOME: The release from having to ask permission to live your life

Contributing Writer·May 28, 2017
Loire Valley view from far away, up high - Fiction as therapy

FICTION AS THERAPY: Thoughts engendered by Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale

Max Reif·May 27, 2017
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DREAM INTERPRETATION: Pay attention to aligning your outer self with your inner self [symbols: man, head, mouth, saliva]

Aneta Baranek·May 25, 2017
Almost full moon

REMEMBER THE MOON: When prayer is difficult, thought-send words of poetry to comfort a suicidal friend

Contributing Writer·May 23, 2017
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LOOKING AT THE WOUND: Meditation, trauma and coming to the place in which we “hear the sun”

Contributing Writer·May 22, 2017
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HEALING WORDS: Writing the inner story that you need to tell

Contributing Writer·May 20, 2017
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MY INNER MUGABE: Addressing my Jungian shadow and asking, “Who am I to judge?”

Contributing Writer·May 19, 2017
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DREAM INTERPRETATION: Redefining how we view those dark aspects of ourselves [symbols: three, shadow figure, bed, husband]

Aneta Baranek·May 18, 2017
Philosophers garden, Budapest

PHILOSOPHER OR MEDITATOR?: How meditation can help us resist the fantasies and ideas that control our lives

Finn Janning·May 17, 2017
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DREAM INTERPRETATION: Through imagination we manifest our deepest dreams [symbols: singing, famous people, stage]

Aneta Baranek·May 11, 2017
Kundalini yoga festival - Kundalini awakening

KUNDALINI AWAKENING EXPERIENCES: 3 stories of intense and sudden energetic transformation

Contributor·May 10, 2017
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PSYCHOLOGICAL & SPIRITUAL THERAPY: Constant coughing for 13 years after brain injury

Jack Surguy·May 9, 2017
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CHILD’S PLAY: The loss of imagination and the dangers of over-stimulation

Angelica Pajkovic·May 5, 2017
Solid wall of red roses

DREAM INTERPRETATION: Pay attention to your inner perceptions and thoughts [symbols: roses, bed, hotel]

Aneta Baranek·May 4, 2017
Defective science The big Lebowski

DEFECTIVE SCIENCE: The Big Lebowski guides the way on how to respond to scientists’ hurt feelings

Jack Surguy·May 2, 2017
An artist’s perspective on creativity and being true to yourself

DISCOVERING YOURSELF FOR A LIVING: An artist’s perspective on creativity and being true to yourself

Leanne Hoffman·April 30, 2017
Raccoon

DREAM INTERPRETATION: Exploring the need to be more purposeful in your life [symbols: raccoon, hand, kitchen, brother]

Aneta Baranek·April 27, 2017
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PSYCHOLOGICAL & SPIRITUAL THERAPY: Using hypnotherapy to alleviate stress and assist healing

Jack Surguy·April 25, 2017
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