Get Some Headspace: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day by Andy Puddicombe 2012, St. Martin’s Griffin The Idea You can travel anywhere in the world, but if you’re suffering from ennui when you depart, chances are those feelings are going to follow you to your destination. You can’t escape your […]
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Sometimes in life the best choice you can make is to go away. If I had to look back at every major shift in my own life, I can attribute it to a change in environment. It’s easy to be lured by a life filled with comfort, predictable outcomes, and security. When I look back
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What exactly is happiness? How do we find it and why do we so often miss it? And how can yoga help us discover a personal path that will guide us? For years, I wouldn’t even entertain the idea of trying yoga. My impression was that yoga was the territory of lithe, Paltrowy girls and snobby
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The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck 1978, Simon & Schuster The Idea Life is difficult, and the sooner we come to terms with that, the easier it becomes. We’re all shaped by early-life experiences, primarily the massive influence of our own caretakers, and unraveling
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I am sitting at my desk with Phantogram blasting into my ears. Email after email spills in and I accept them like the soft runoff of a waterfall. Sometimes I even get mad about things inside the emails. It’s such a sweet and sacred emotion. Because it keeps my mind off the fact that I
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The concept of spiritual wellness is a relatively new one for me. I’d certainly heard of “wellness” many times before and always thought that just included physical, mental, and emotional wellness. But I never even considered that wellness could also include the spiritual side of us, because quite frankly, what is spiritual wellness and how
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One of the most uncomfortable experiences in contemporary life seems to be waiting: we’ll do practically anything to avoid it. From the small screens of our smart phones and internet browsers we expect immediate connection to what’s going on with our work, friends, blogs, social media pages, internet dating messages and on; a people hooked
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