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Why Seeking To Be Perfect Never Works

Soren Gordhamer | Posted 10.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Self Esteem, Soren Gordhamer, Relationships, Self-Hatred, Mindfulness, Perfectionism, Meditation, Self-Esteem, The Inner Life. Identity, Spirituality, Living News

While I have nothing against cool clothes, exercise, and health drinks, let's get one thing straight: perfection is something that exists inside us, never from the outside.

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Art of Attention: Unplug and Recharge With Pranic Healing

Elena Brower | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Energy Work, Virayoga, Meditation, Meditation on Twin Hearts, Healing, Master Choa Kok Sui, Energy Healing, Mark Pellerano, Pranic Healing, Elena Brower, Unplug and Recharge, Living News

Every time I take the time to open myself as a conduit for the healing of my own heart and the heart of the world, I am quietly uplifted and fully recharged.

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On Sloth and Other Virtues

Amy Hertz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Donald Trump, Sloth, Homer, Slow Movement, The Odyssey, Meditation, Buddhism, Slow, Books News

This month, we're celebrating Carl Honore's In Praise of Slowness and throughout The Huffington Post you'll have a chance to see how others are embracing the Slow Movement, of which Carl is the godfather.

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Mindful Eating Meditation Inspired by Rg Veda

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Mindful Eating, Weight Management, Rg Veda, Mindless Eating, Meditation, Eating, Diet, Overeating, Vedanta, Rigveda, Living News

Mindful eating - to borrow another metaphor from Indian (Buddhist) philosophy - is an opportunity to glimpse your Original Face.

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What's Happiness Got To Do With It .. Women, Life and Pleasure? Try the Tantric Approach!

Dr. Elsbeth Meuth | Posted 10.05.2009 | Living

Happiness is a state of being! And how did I arrive at that state of being? For me it occurred through two major life experiences that woke me up.

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How to Deal with Stress in the Recession

James S. Gordon | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Meditation, Complementary Medicine, Stress Relief, Economic Recession, Anxiety, Recession, Stress Reduction, Living News

I have been practicing psychiatry for 40 years, but I've never seen this much stress and worry about economic well-being and the future. I've found there are simple strategies for helping people cope.

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Cirque du Soleil and the Meditating Clown

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 11.29.2009 | Denver

Read More: Meditation, Beauty, Magic, Clowns, Entertainment, Cirque Du Soleil, Circus, Kooza, Self-Transformation, Denver, Denver News

The focus and concentration of Cirque du Soleil clowns and acrobats is a kind of meditation -- one slip and it could all be over!

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Will Spirituality Ever Be Serious?

Jay Michaelson | Posted 11.29.2009 | Living

All too often, however, spirituality reinforces rather than transcends conventional limits, boundaries, and notions of the ego. Sandwiched in between manicures and lunch dates, the quickie yoga class becomes just another way to augment and reinforce the self.

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There Is a Beauty Within You #7: Where Is This Self of Soap Opera and Love Song?

Bob Lingvall | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Meditation, Identity, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Self-Realization, Living News

Where is this self that demands so much time and attention, fixing and cajoling, encouraging and pampering?

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What is Work? Listening to Inspiration, With Songwriter Darrell Scott

Sharon Glassman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Creativity, Listening, Inspiration, Darrell Scott, Long Time Gone, Tim O'Brien, Steve Earle, Hit Songs, Meditation, Dixie Chicks, Songwriting, Job Creation, Happiness Tips, Happiness, Gary Ogan, Cherokee, Colorado, Nashville, Entertainment News

Two years ago, during a working trip to Lyons, musician Darrell Scott visited an energy healer. It changed the way he thinks about music.

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How to Breathe Better at a Mile High

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 11.14.2009 | Denver

Read More: Breathing, Relaxation, Sports, Denver Broncos, High Altitudes, Living, Breath Exercises, Meditation, Lungs, Denver News

Learning how to belly breathe will instantly help you to release stress and relax your whole body, as well as get more oxygen flowing.

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There Is a Beauty Within You #5: I Am Silent Awareness

Bob Lingvall | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Meditation, Meditation Practice, Spirituality, Self-Realization, Living News

Let's begin the work of reducing our attachment to the idea of "I" by engaging in experiences of awareness using our spiritual sculpting tools of silence, service, inquiry and intention.

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Pema Chodron: How To Do Tonglen, A Meditation Practice For Difficult Times

Waylon Lewis | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Tonglen, Loneliness, Chogyam Trungpa, Relationships, Sad, Suffering, Buddhist, Spiritual, Meditation, Buddhism, elephantjournal.com, Waylon Lewis, Shambhala, Spirituality, Pema Chodron, Living News

I grew up knowing Pema Chodron (the second most popular Buddhist in America, after that Dalai Lama guy). Or, rather, she knew me (I was just a little kid running around not paying attention to anything).

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Is There A Formula for Happiness?

Tara Stiles | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Meditation, Meditation Practice, Spiritual Practice, Happiness, Tara Stiles, Tara Stiles Video, Living News

I was talking with a friend about what we were going to have for dinner, and out of nowhere a "deep" conversation about happiness showed up at the table.

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There Is a Beauty Within You #4: Sculpting Tools for Freeing the Angel Within

Bob Lingvall | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychological Health, Present Moment, Meditation, Michelangelo, Spirituality, Spiritual Practice, Devotion, Intention, Living News

Michelangelo had the eyes of an artist, able to see an angel where others saw only stone. We want to see compassionate, blissful awareness where others see only flesh and blood.

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Your Yoga Poses Aren't 5,000 Years Old: A New Perspective on "Old" Yoga

Sadie Nardini | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Meditation, Yoga, Teachers, Health, Poses, Living News

Only when we let go of the belief that yoga, or anything for that matter, must remain static in order to be pure, are we free to work together to create our most life-enhancing future

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5 Habits Of Healthy People You Can Have Too

Tara Stiles | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Tara Stiles, Healthy Living, Analysis, Yoga, Drink Water, Meditate, Fruit, Vegetables, Meditation, Wellness, Healthy Habits, Living News

We all want the secrets to health and vitality. We can buy bottles, creams, and whatever else is advertised to us, but ultimately anything sustainabl...

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Why Life Does Not Make Sense: Overcoming The Attentional Blink Through Meditation

Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Srini Pillay, Concentration, Meditation, Attention, Perception, Focus, Srinivasan Pillay, Attentional Blink, Living News

When we are watching something with our eyes open, even if our eyes do not blink, our attention does. Either way, eye-blinks and "attentional blinks" mean that there is some period of time when we are missing seeing something.

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Computer Loneliness

Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Loneliness, Mind.Body.Soul, Mindfulness, Traveling, Mindful Eating, Meditation, Healing, Anxiety, Appreciation, Relaxation, Living News

Take some time away from cyberspace and connect. Appreciate. See life and yourself as small miracles and allow yourself to experience awe.

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Zen and the Art of Web Spinning

Kelly Carlin-McCall | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Zen, Depression, George Carlin, Meditation, Death, Spiders, Living News

Like a spider, I am also caught up in an urge to move forward, make order and fix what has been undone by time.

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Freedom Behind Bars

Jenny Phillips | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Anthropology, Massachussetts, Meditation, The Dhamma Brothers, Meditation in Prison, Prison, The Giving Life, Living News

My discovery of this complicated and emotional prison world came over a dozen years ago when I found a distant, foreign land down the street from my home and safe neighborhood: A medium-security prison in Concord, Massachusetts.

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Summer Vacation? 'Nothing' Doing

Michael Sigman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Bob Dylan, Robert Wright, Buddhism, Jdate, Meditation, Nirvana, Yoga, Vipassana, Yogi, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Living News

Having just attended a silent Vipassana meditation retreat at Spirit Rock in woodsy Woodacre, I can report that sitting still and doing nothing was, in fact, the primary activity on my summer vacation.

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There is a Beauty Within You #3: Knowing Yourself as Compassionate Awareness

Bob Lingvall | Posted 10.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Spiritual Health, Meditation, Discernment, Compassion, Positive Energy, Identity, Self-Awareness, Living News

Throughout your day imagine being compassion, radiating warmth and love from the center of your chest, especially when you want to relax and feel more grounded.

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Is Guilt a Good Thing?

Jay Michaelson | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Huckleberry Finn, Religion, Guilt, Conservatives, Judaism, Liberals, Christian Conservatives, Ethics, Dogma, Meditation, Liberal Guilt, Gay Issues, The Inner Life, Living News

If tomorrow, you could completely free yourself from guilt -- if you'd never feel guilty again, no matter what you did -- would you do it? Americans ...

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Dance Your Blues Away

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Happiness, Freedom, Dancing, Ed and Deb Shapiro, Gabrielle Roth, Deb Shapiro, The Inner Life, Meditation, Dance, Spirituality, Ed Shapiro, Living News

When Ed was just 16 he won a dance contest on TV's popular Ted Steele's New York Bandstand and became a regular on the show; when he was 19 he won the...

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