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Five Essential Elements to Develop Your Mindfulness Practice

Sometimes, all we need is a simple road map to get us started with mindfulness—or restarted, if it’s been some time since we practiced. Science...
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Is Self-Doubt Stopping You from Achieving Your Goals?

You have your heart set on something you really want in your life and the motivation juices are flowing. You’re feeling inspired, you’ve gathered...
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10 Things to Do When You’re Overwhelmed

Life can be challenging. With all the demands put upon you by work, family, relationships, external circumstances, and even yourself, it often feels as...
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Practicing Self-Compassion Can Boost Your Mental Health

New research looks into how mindfulness and compassion-focused therapy can help treat depression, anxiety and stress. Most American adults will experience stress, anxiety or depression...
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5 Stress-Reducing Herbal Teas

Stress. Just hearing that word can conjure up feelings of anxiety. Life offers many stressors simply during day-to-day events. School, work, health issues, busy...
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Mindfulness: How to Do It

  Mindfulness meditation practice couldn’t be simpler: take a good seat, pay attention to the breath, and when your attention wanders, return. What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is...
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An Ayurvedic Approach to Anxiety

Anxiety is an extremely common problem, affecting approximately 23.4 percent of females and 14.3 percent of males. In fact, it is the most common...
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10 Rules for an Ayurvedic Diet

Ayurveda has long used diet as a principal means of creating health within the body and mind. Hundreds of years before Hippocrates instructed, “Let...
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What Is Vedic Cooking?

Ayurveda, an ancient, holistic practice rooted historically in India, is guided by two main principles: The mind and the body are connected. The mind has the...
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10 Foods That Help Fight Stress

Stress is a word everyone is familiar with and a feeling that everyone experiences. There are different kinds of stress—mental, physical, emotional—but the body...