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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

    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

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    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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CURE FOR ADDICTION: The 3 keys to recovery include discipline, service and teaching

Contributing Writer·January 4, 2018
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WRITE FOR RECOVERY: 3 pen-to-paper prompts that’ll lessen anxiety and depression

Contributing Writer·January 3, 2018
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SELF-DOUBT: The terrorist living within our souls

Contributing Writer·December 24, 2017
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THE STORIES WE’RE LIVING: Perseverance and transformation within a marriage

Max Reif·December 17, 2017
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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
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NOTHING IS FOREVER: Embracing death will help you become greater and happier

Contributing Writer·November 8, 2017
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I’M SORRY AND I LOVE YOU: A practical interpretation of the Ho’oponopono way of forgiveness

Mike Larcombe·October 31, 2017
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RECOVERY FROM ADDICTION: 5 ways mindful meditation helped me heal

Contributing Writer·October 22, 2017
Site of 2017 shooting in Las Vegas - Mass shootings and mass hatred

MASS SHOOTINGS AND MASS HATRED: 4 stages of healing for grieving individuals

Contributor·October 11, 2017
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I’M A SOUL AND I’M PERFECT: An illuminating past-life regression exercise at Deepak Chopra’s meditation centre

Contributor·September 18, 2017
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A BLUEPRINT FOR PROSPERITY: Use your mind to create prosperity in your life

Contributing Writer·September 1, 2017
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MY FATHER’S LOVE: “You’re one of the good ones”

Contributing Writer·August 16, 2017
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THE ENERGY OF YES: Listen to your intuition as it guides you towards your dreams

Contributor·July 24, 2017
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THE GREATEST LESSON: What my father’s cancer taught me about Heaven

Contributing Writer·July 3, 2017
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TAKE TIME TO BE HAPPY: 100 ideas that’ll help you build your emotional buffer

Leanne Hoffman·June 17, 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
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UNMOTIVATED?: Try these 3 things to get your mojo back  

Contributing Writer·June 2, 2017
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COMING HOME: The release from having to ask permission to live your life

Contributing Writer·May 28, 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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DISCOVERING YOURSELF FOR A LIVING: An artist’s perspective on creativity and being true to yourself

Leanne Hoffman·April 30, 2017
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HEALING IN THE PRESENT: 3 tips for dealing with pain and letting go of the past

Leanne Hoffman·April 8, 2017
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A SAGA IN SYMBOLS: How an external object can become imbued with significance in your own life

Max Reif·April 7, 2017
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