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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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    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

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    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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Girl making shadow of heart with hands on wooden wall - Living with intention

LIVE WITH INTENTION: Answer your heart’s wake-up calls with more love and less fear

Contributor·January 5, 2018
The funny thing about wake-up calls is that they keep calling until we answer. Each call gets louder and louder....
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LESSONS FROM THE MAT: 7 truths that apply to a Yoga practice and life itself

Contributor·December 27, 2017
[su_panel background=”#fdf0c6″ color=”#000000″ border=”0px none #ffffff” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #ffffff”]The following article has been adapted from Soulful Simplicity: How Living...
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NOTHING IS FOREVER: Embracing death will help you become greater and happier

Contributing Writer·November 8, 2017
I grew up among sickness and death. My father was a veterinary surgeon, and I’d accompany him on farm visits...
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DREAM INTERPRETATION: Where we put our attention determines what we create [symbols: cats, meadow, path, hand]

Aneta Baranek·October 5, 2017
In our weekly Mindful Dreams column, Aneta Baranek of the School of Metaphysics is offering free dream interpretations to The...
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HELP FOR PTSD: From gang violence to the other side of fear

Contributing Writer·October 1, 2017
For 30 years of my life, I called El Salvador my home. It’s a beautiful country with beautiful people, and...
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Alien

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

Jack Surguy·August 14, 2017
In his “Confronting Reality” series, Jack Surguy challenges commonly held assumptions that our society has adopted as truth. His thoroughly...
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Police shoot man with taser in New York City - Fuelled by fear

FUELLED BY FEAR: The connection between fear-mongering and the nanny state

Kiva Bottero·August 6, 2017
A s the American people watch their “land of liberty” get mangled into a version more fitting for a sci-fi...
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THE ENERGY OF YES: Listen to your intuition as it guides you towards your dreams

Contributor·July 24, 2017
[su_panel background=”#d5c38b” color=”#000000″ border=”0px none #ffffff” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #ffffff”]The following has been excerpted from The Fearless Path: A Radical...
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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
[su_panel background=”#d5c38b” color=”#000000″ border=”0px none #ffffff” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #ffffff”]The following has been excerpted from The Bravest You: Five Steps to...
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Heart-shaped cloud in blue sky - Poetry by Woven Green

POETRY BY WOVEN GREEN: Lift it Up, Turning of the Tides, The Call, Victorious Smile, Breaking Free

Contributor·May 14, 2017
Lift it Up I dreamed I saw the world from high above Aboard a ship of stars on a cosmic...
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Rain on car windshield - Poems by Robyn Phillips

POEMS BY ROBYN PHILLIPS: The Threshold of Acceptance, There is the Wind, Allies, The Wipers

Robyn Phillips·May 6, 2017
The Threshold of Acceptance something deep within yearns … thirsts for more a longing, markedly hazy but with these eyes...
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Young girl with arms wide open sitting in a canoe on a lake

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS: A snapshot of a perfect day with the grandchildren

Contributing Writer·March 27, 2017
One last evening on the pier On the last beautiful evening of what has been an almost flawless grandchild visit,...
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Peace sign on the struts of a bridge

PSYCHOLOGICAL & SPIRITUAL THERAPY: Post-election imperative to become vessels of peace and communication

Jack Surguy·January 24, 2017
[su_panel background=”#d5c38b” color=”#000000″ border=”0px none #ffffff” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #ffffff”]In our weekly Psychological & Spiritual Therapy column, therapist Jack Surguy...
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PSYCHOLOGICAL & SPIRITUAL THERAPY: Combat boredom by successfully dealing with “life tasks”

Jack Surguy·December 13, 2016
[su_panel background=”#d5c38b” color=”#000000″ border=”0px none #ffffff” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #ffffff”]In our new weekly Psychological & Spiritual Therapy column, therapist Jack...
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Drawing of a woman trying to balance on a sagging tightrope

PSYCHOLOGICAL & SPIRITUAL THERAPY: Fearlessness will aid you when dialoguing with others being driven by fear

Jack Surguy·November 30, 2016
In our new weekly Psychological & Spiritual Therapy column, therapist Jack Surguy is offering professional advice to The Mindful Word...
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Wooden canoe filled with water

DREAM INTERPRETATION: How to be aware and face our fears [symbols: train, canoe, water, kidnapper]

Aneta Baranek·July 14, 2016
Hi Aneta, I have had three dreams in the last four days all with the feeling of impending doom/death. First, I was standing at...
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Using compass on forest path - Fear as desire unexpressed

FEAR AS DESIRE UNEXPRESSED: Use your Internal Guidance System to get in touch with what you really want

Contributor·June 21, 2016
The following has been excerpted from Your Inner GPS, in which life coach Zen Cryar DeBrücke teaches readers how to get...
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Woman jogging powerfully - Mastering Your Mean Girl

MASTERING YOUR MEAN GIRL: Becoming wildly wealthy, fabulously healthy, and bursting with love [book review]

Erica Roberts·March 27, 2016
MASTERING YOUR MEAN GIRL: Becoming wildly wealthy, fabulously healthy, and bursting with love Melissa Ambrosini [TarcherPerigee, 288 pages] When I...
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Brown mouse in grass and dirt - Fiction story mouse and dandelion

THE MOUSE AND THE DANDELION: Lessons in life and love

Kathy Roberts·January 10, 2016
“Excuse me, excuse me, move over, coming through, ahem, pardon, beg yours,” said the mouse, as he scurried rather randomly...
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Two kids and mother meditating - The Mindful Monster fiction

THE MINDFUL MONSTER: A children’s story about dealing with fear and anxiety

Contributor·October 3, 2015
Excerpted from The Mindful Monster by Darcie Nuttall, a therapeutic story about mindfulness for kids.  Oliver Bear’s monster jumped onto...
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woman running away from a bunch of hands

SOCIAL ANXIETY: How to overcome the fear of your own shadow

Contributing Writer·July 21, 2015
SOCIAL ANXIETY: Scared of my own shadow Imagine you’re walking down the street and every person is staring at you. Laughter is heard from behind, and you know it’s in some way related to you.
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Caterpillar and butterfly on twig

SURVIVING HARDSHIP: How to make the most of difficult times

Contributing Writer·June 24, 2015
SURVIVING HARDSHIP: Making the most of difficult times Life can be difficult. Scratch that, life is difficult, and for some it is much more so than for others. Circumstances within our lives can sometimes be outside of our control, leading to emotions such as sadness, fear, frustration or anger.
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DISCOVERING YOUR PURPOSE: Live a life of joy, love and fulfillment

Contributing Writer·April 27, 2015
DISCOVERING YOUR PURPOSE: Live a life of joy, love and fulfillment There is, without a doubt, a purpose for your life. There is a reason why you are here. There are things you were meant to do and be in this lifetime. You are connected with everyone and everything that has stood for that purpose that has ever been or ever will be.
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Standing in water

EMBRACE SUFFERING: Looking into the story of yourself

Robert Kopecky·February 9, 2015
Everyone has their own story of themselves. If yours is anything like mine, it’s mildly heroic—in an appropriately humble way,...
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