Mindfulness

What Are You Thinking?

Kay Goldstein | Posted 08.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Finding Happiness in an Uncertain World, Segment Intending, Tibetan Buddhism, Mindfulness, Karma, Meditation, David Michie, Spiritual Path, Spirituality, Buddhism for Busy People, Living News
Kay Goldstein

For those of us attempting to live in the world in a more conscious way, there can never be enough reminders, for we humans are such forgetful creatures.

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Happiness Project: How To Enjoy The Process

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Travel, Daily Life, Mindfulness, Happiness, Living News
Gretchen Rubin

By re-framing marginal, disfavored parts of my trip -- like the Newark airport -- so that they were no longer inconveniences, but actually part of the action, I prevented myself from getting aggravated.

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Top 25 Brainy Haikus. Yours?

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 08.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Mind-Body Connection, Sharpbrains, Mind.Body.Soul, Brain, Haiku, Mindfulness, Health, Brain Teasers, Meditation, Mind Games, Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

Can you write a haiku describing anything crossing your mind now?

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The Art Of Patience And Inner Guidance

Joan Borysenko | Posted 06.28.2008 | Living

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Joan Borysenko

We are a stunningly impatient culture...a fact that has been reflected in a lot of poor choices that have compromised the environment, the economy, th...

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Mind/Body/Spirit: The Meditation Connection

Kay Goldstein | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Meditation Research, Gut Instinct, Meditation, Multi-Tasking, Jill Bolte Taylor, Mindfulness, Tibetan Monks, Spirituality, The Inner Life, Living News
Kay Goldstein

Science is finding ways to verify what the ancients already knew: practices that expand awareness and consciousness can be of benefit to all aspects of the human condition.

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Mindful Not Eating

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Weight Control, Healthy Eating, Food, Eating, Weight Loss, Mindfulness, Diets, Diet Tips, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

Have you ever found yourself standing in front of the fridge, looking for something to eat? before you eat ask yourself, "Am I hungry?" If not, see if you can do something else.

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Jill Bolte Taylor: Her Stroke Sent Her on a Dazzling Head Trip

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 06.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Harvard, Stroke, Right Brain, Left Brain, Mindfulness, Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight, Living News
Jesse Kornbluth

A serious scientist had a powerful experience. And she found herself in a universe she had never played in. And, boy, is she happy she found it.

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Four Steps Toward Peace

Susan Smalley | Posted 06.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Mindfulness, Spirituality, The Inner Life, Living News
Susan Smalley

I heard on the radio last week that the genocide in Darfur has been going on for five years, 200,000 people have died and 2 million people have been d...

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Setbacks on the Path - In Meditation and Life

Kay Goldstein | Posted 06.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Eckhart Tolle, Mind Chatter, The Inner Life, Mindfulness, Meditation, Finding Peace, Spiritual Practice, Living News
Kay Goldstein

A friend recently sent me the following email: "I had a 'set back' yesterday and was struggling with 'too many thoughts' and feeling frustrated. I di...

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In The Name Of The Father

Susan Smalley | Posted 03.13.2008 | Living

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Susan Smalley

I heard the words, "In the Name of the Father" many times in my Lutheran upbringing in Indiana. While not of any religious orientation, I have had ex...

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Quiz: How Mindful Are You?

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 03.12.2008 | Living

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Gretchen Rubin

Mindfulness brings clarity and vividness to present experience. It can enhance a sense of well-being and calm troubled spirits.

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A Dialogue With Myself

Stacey Lawson | Posted 03.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Meditation, Stacey Lawson, Mindfulness, The Inner Life, Spirituality, Living News
Stacey Lawson

Have you ever had a situation where you wanted to love someone freely but you couldn't? For whatever reason you felt constricted or tight? Your hear...

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TED And The Open Mind

Susan Smalley | Posted 03.06.2008 | Living

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Susan Smalley

Until I was curious enough to study my habitual patterns and behaviors of avoidance, I could not let go of them.

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Using Nature To Rediscover Intuition

Susan Smalley | Posted 02.28.2008 | Living

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Susan Smalley

I just returned from Burlington Vermont where I spent a few days with my son (a student at the University of Vermont) and gave a talk in the Medical S...

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Look Inside, Not To God

Susan Smalley | Posted 02.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Meditation and Prayer, Signs of Mental Illness, Mental Illness, Illinois Shooting, Mental Illness Treatment, Mindfulness, Shooting Northern Illinois University, The Inner Life, Meditation Practice, Spirituality, Living News
Susan Smalley

In the aftermath of the shooting last week on another college campus, I am reminded of a common response to such horrors: to pray and seek solace from...

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Ladies Who Launch: Matrix Calling

Amy Swift | Posted 01.16.2008 | Living

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Amy Swift

Reaching out of one's comfort zone is a way to still the mind and focus one's energies.

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Musings From Two Therapists

Jane Shure and Beth Weinstock | Posted 12.31.2007 | Living

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Jane Shure and Beth Weinstock

When we are unaware, and have learned to disregard the conversations that take place internally, we are more at risk for feeling bad about ourselves.

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The Holidays Shouldn't Be A Race Against Time

Susan Smalley | Posted 12.20.2007 | Living

Read More: Holiday Season, Mindfulness, The Inner Life, Spirituality, Tips for Holiday Season, Living News
Susan Smalley

We don't need to understand Einstein's theory of relativity to see that time is an elusive construct. Nowhere is this changing perception of time more...

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Kindness Is the Key To Health And Happiness

Susan Smalley | Posted 12.13.2007 | Living

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Susan Smalley

When kindness is a guiding principal, hurting another - whether human, animal, or the earth, will not be easy.

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Step II Of My Spiritual Journey: In Which I Am Honest

Verena von Pfetten | Posted 12.12.2007 | Living

Read More: The Inner Life, Radical Honesty, Yoga, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Sister Wendy, Living News
Verena von Pfetten

I've already told you that I'm not spiritual, which I think is important, particularly because it manages your expectations. I couldn't very well star...

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Thich Nhat Hanh's "Relationships For Dummies"

Perry Garfinkel | Posted 12.07.2007 | Living

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Perry Garfinkel

"Don't just do something; sit there. With all this socially engaged work, with interpersonal relationships, with inter-being, first you must learn what the Buddha learned, to still the mind. They you don't take action; action takes you."

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The Future of the Body (Part 3)

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.30.2007 | Living

Read More: Complementary Medicine, Mind Body Medicine, Mind-Body Connection, Homeopathic Remedies, Medicine, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Alternative Medicine, Living News
Deepak Chopra

The brilliant success of mainstream medicine in many areas has led to an attitude of "I'll do what I want and let them fix it later."

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A Balanced Life, A Balanced Nation

Susan Smalley | Posted 11.29.2007 | Living

Read More: Mind.Body.Soul, Islam, Black Firday, Black Friday Best Buy, Mindfulness, Judaism, Bad Administration, Thanksgiving, Christianity, Spirituality and Consumerism, Best Buy Black Friday, Spirituality, Living News
Susan Smalley

On the heels of our annual celebration of giving, there is this rapid shift in attention toward 'getting' with the consumer blitz of Black Friday.

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Thanks For The Silence

Susan Smalley | Posted 11.22.2007 | Living

Read More: Meditation, Mind.Body.Soul, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Preparing for the Holidays, Living News
Susan Smalley

As I look forward to Thanksgiving and my children returning from colleges to hang out together, I am consciously going to talk less and figure that I will hear a lot more.

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Mindfulness And Meditation In The Modern World

Susan Smalley | Posted 09.18.2007 | Living

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Susan Smalley

As a scientist, I love the challenge of understanding my mind, from the inside, while learning what science tells us from the outside. The merging of the two will yield knowledge far greater than either can alone.

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