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    Two young female friends drinking coffee on chairs outdoors - Healthy Self-Alignment: How Mindfulness Can Lead You There

    MIND THE GAP: Mindfulness as the practice of living in one piece

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    RECLAIM YOUR TIME THROUGH PRESENCE: 5 research-backed ways to do so

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    SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING: How teaching youth about emotional intelligence promotes happiness and success

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    Bird footprints in snow - 4 Soothing Poems, Including ”Sacred Heart, Sacred Light”

    POEMS BY JIM JOHNSTON: For Larry, Tracks and more

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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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    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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    Hands against background of a heart - Travelling With Intention: Why Is It So Important?

    NATIONAL VOLUNTEER MONTH: Moving through the world with intention

    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]

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

Contributing Writer·April 29, 2014
Tina Welling is the author of the newly published Writing Wild: Forming a Creative Partnership with Nature, as well as three...
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JUSTICE FOR A DAY: 5 ways to sustain the drive for change

Cindy McMann·April 3, 2014
March is an important month for social justice issues. There are a number of days specially devoted to the international...
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A TIME FOR CHANGE: Whispers of a spiritual revolution

Erica Roberts·February 4, 2014
Sometimes we need crisis to create change. Over the last hundred years, there have been many unfortunate political conflicts, such...
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IT’S OK—IT’S JUST TRANSFORMATION: Change is a natural part of growth

Contributing Writer·August 16, 2013
Change is inevitable. Sometimes we long for it and can’t stop talking about it. Reality seems tinged with new sparkles...
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CREATE EFFECTIVE CHANGE: Awakening to your inner purpose

Contributing Writer·May 23, 2013
Some people predicted the end of the world on December 21, 2012, but amazingly we are still here! Others, with...
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FLASH MOBS: Participatory performance art for a cause

Contributing Writer·April 25, 2013
A flash mob is an unrehearsed, spontaneous, contagious and dispersed mass action. Flash mobs first emerged in 2003 as a...
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SPEAK OUT!: Have the courage to question, wake up from corporatism and create change

Contributing Writer·April 7, 2013
“The power to question is the basis of all human progress”—Indira Gandhi From the abolition of slavery, to women’s rights...
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LIVE YOUR LIFE TODAY: Radical life changes can be risky, but fulfilling

Melissa Venditti·March 23, 2013
When we become young adults, we’re usually encouraged to make a life plan. Often, that plan consists of getting a...
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PSYCH–K: Discover subconscious limiting beliefs using this process and free your mind

Contributing Writer·February 5, 2013
“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering...
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THE INCIDENT: Student activism and the need to speak out

Max Reif·December 22, 2012
This story appears in the book Toward an Interior Sun: Awakening by a Master, and the Difficult Journey toward Discipleship....
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THE DOCTOR WITHIN: Eliminate negative emotions from your mind

Contributing Writer·July 23, 2012
With all the noise in your brain how can you even think straight, let alone try to listen to yourself? We're going to do just that. You'll need 10 minutes to sit down and get comfortable...
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REAL MEANING: A personal essay on questioning the fabricated reality of one’s life

Contributor·July 8, 2012
Growing up in a well-to-do American family is materially comfortable. Family troubles aside—and they can be considerable—life is full of pleasure: desires are...
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MINDFULNESS AND ACCEPTANCE: Worrying is natural—accept and be aware

Contributing Writer·June 19, 2012
When asked how to hold a sword correctly, the actor Errol Flynn replied, “In the same way you would hold a bird, not too tightly and not too loosely. If you hold too...
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FORGIVING THE UNFORGIVABLE: Effective forgiveness strategies by Master Charles Cannon

Contributing Writer·March 4, 2012
Forgiveness. It’s one of the toughest things to do. I wonder how many of us DON’T have someone in our lives that we haven’t been able to forgive? Of course, at...
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LIFE IS CHANGE: Learn to let go of fear and accept change

Contributing Writer·February 16, 2012
Imagine that you have your hands full of chocolate cookies and your mother comes along with a cherry pie, hot from the oven with crumbles on top (feel free to...
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CHANGECAMP: A network dedicated to community transformation

Contributing Writer·January 30, 2011
I believe that much of what causes us to gather around the word “Change” from such diverse walks of life comes from the reality of the world in which we find ourselves. Our problems are outstripping our capabilities to solve them.
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