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How To Relax Into The Rightness, Right Now
Let your guard down today, relax your defenses. Don’t fret, the peace abounds. After having a dull headache for a few days this past week, I had to admit that I was tense. I felt tightness in my shoulders and neck, and even my jaw one day. This, despite my daily meditation practice. Why the…
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3 Reasons To Meditate Before Answering Your Calls
You’re about to take a sip of your cup of fresh tea, and the phone rings in the next room. What do you do? Do you hurriedly put down the tea cup while spilling hot tea all over, rush out of the chair with second-degree burns, and start running towards the phone? Or perhaps you just…
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Take These 3 Steps To Freedom
Freedom is a state of mind – where’s your head at? Not that long ago, my life was like a prison. Toxic relationships, road rage, no time for myself, plus the stress of working as a 911 operator all added up to “no fun!”. Tension headaches, acid indigestion, a short temper, and a generally bad…
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Tweet Yourself To Some Mindfulness
When you see someone tweeting about #mindfulness, does it seem a bit strange they’re not spending their time in being mindful instead? That’s exactly what Emma Reynolds at news.com.au was thinking, so she started to investigate. In an article published yesterday, she writes: I’M PRETTY cynical about new-age, hippy trends. Even now yoga is ubiquitous, I can’t…
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Working Too Hard? Try Something Else
Greetings, dear friend! Today, see if you can walk the middle way. In the midst of our busy lives, we have a tendency to overwork, play too little, and, as a result, get very serious about things! I’m sure you know the feeling. It’s been one of those weeks that feels like it might never…
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Japanese Shakuhachi Meditation Music
Nature is a multifaceted being of immense beauty and hidden wonders. Take a bamboo tree for example. Certain species of bamboo can grow 35 inches within a 24 hour period. Not only that, bamboo can be used for anything from making paper and building houses, to Chinese medicine and food. But in terms of wonders, all these…
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If There’s Fear, Roll With It
Today is a great day to check-in with your fear and see it for what it is. Tell-tale anxieties? Limiting beliefs? They’re no match for present moment awareness. You’ve decided to make a change, pursue a new endeavor, reinvent an aspect of your life. The vision for this new way of being inspires you. Maybe…
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[INFOGRAPHIC] Meditation Not For You? Read This!!
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Just two days ago, Happify and Dan Harris posted this infographic at the Huffington Post, and prefaced it by saying: “Lately, it seems that meditation has become as prominent in the workplace as weekly meetings — and there couldn’t be a greater reason for it. Research suggests the practice can help boost focus, lower stress…
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How Can Nature Help You?
Have you gotten your dose of nature this week? The benefits of being outdoors are so many, but us city-dwellers tend to spend most of our time in the office, in the car, at home, rarely venturing off the beaten path and into the woods. In fact, a 2009 report from the Environmental Protection Agency…
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Laugh Your Way To A Good Meditation
With her big laughter, Carla Reichman has been compared to the laughing Buddha. In a recent article, Kristine Crane at U.S. News reports on how laughter is being used to help with meditation. When Carla Riechman laughs, you hear it. With her big laughter, the former District of Columbia school teacher has been compared to the…