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    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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    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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DEEP HEALING FOR UTI’s: When cranberry juice isn’t enough

Sarah Harvey·December 9, 2014
As I type this, I’m quite certain I’m on fire. No, not in an empowered type of way. I want...
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OVERCOMING ANXIETY: How to handle anxiety disorders

Contributing Writer·November 5, 2014
If you have an anxiety disorder, you’re pretty good at feeling nervous and afraid. Think of all the energy you...
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BE STILL AND KNOW SELF: A meditation exercise for quieting the ego

Contributing Writer·August 15, 2014
Many wonder how they can learn to still themselves and move into a state of peacefulness. Stilling the mind as...
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ENERGY IN MOTION: Six steps for managing fear and anxiety

Contributing Writer·July 10, 2014
All of us, at some time or another, experience fear and anxiety. We worry about our teenager driving at night....
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FEAR OF THE FUTURE: Understand the purpose of fear and where it stems from

Contributing Writer·June 17, 2014
Adapted from Time in a Bottle: Mastering the Experience of Time by Howard Falco. Fear is one of the most debilitating, negative...
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GETTING UNSTUCK: How to identify when you’re stuck and how to push through it

Anjali Mani·March 17, 2014
There comes a point in everyone’s life where we reach a fork in the road. It could be a career,...
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A Virus Called Fear

Erica Roberts·January 19, 2014
You’re strolling through an intersection, sending text messages to a friend, when you suddenly realize that a city bus is...
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STOP THE FEAR: How to train the brain out of fear based thinking

Contributing Writer·July 4, 2013
It seems there’s a lot more fear in the world these days. Having struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), I...
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ZEN UNDER FIRE: 5 yoga and meditation steps to cultivate courage

Contributing Writer·May 8, 2013
One of the most common responses I get to my book, a memoir about the time I spent living and...
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FREEDOM FROM FEAR: A personal essay on building a sustainable farm community

Contributing Writer·April 4, 2013
My conversations with friends and relatives across the economic and ideological spectrum keep coming back to what we fear. I...
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IS REINCARNATION HOCUS-POCUS? Explore the many signs of past lives

Contributing Writer·March 15, 2013
One thing I’m not here to do is to “build a case” for reincarnation. I prefer to share with you what...
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SIMPLE LIVING GUIDE: The crossover point [Step 8]

Contributing Writer·March 15, 2013
[Read Step 7 of the Simple Living Guide or go to Step 1] In the last step we looked at valuing your...
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LOVING DOGS, LOSING FEAR: Loving-kindness in practice

Kiva Bottero·January 22, 2013
“Rabies is your biggest risk,” my travel doctor said in a serious tone of voice. “Rabies,” I responded with surprise....
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EMOTIONAL STRESS: Recognize the emotions and deal with the stress

Contributing Writer·September 9, 2012
Emotional stress happens when your negative emotions begin growing out of control and take over your life. Why do you set things up in your life the way you do? Do...
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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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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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“SUPER” PANDEMIC: The virus that spreads fear and harvests control

Jane Olivier·January 18, 2012
A newspaper headline screams “DOCTORS MISS NEW SUPER VIRUS”, and I am not sure whether to laugh, snort, choke or scream myself. Even viruses ...
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CHECKMATE: Play the game with mindfulness and equanimity

Kiva Bottero·August 7, 2011
A stray cow is walking toward me. I cross the street to give it space, careful to avoid stepping on a tail of one of the many sprawled out, potentially rabid, dogs that lay on the other side.
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A SURPRISE OF SYNCHRONICITY: Meeting Charlie Russell

Kiva Bottero·October 16, 2010
A standing room only crowd of 100 packed Fernie's Arts Station to see Canadian naturalist Charlie Russell. I couldn't believe that on a Saturday night more than 2% of the town's entire population...
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