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How to Overcome Laziness

“Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead...
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Meditation and the Brain: 9 Ways Meditation Improves Your Mind

How does meditation improve your mind? Here are some interesting facts about meditation and the brain and why you should consider trying it. The human...
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A Practice for Cultivating Moment-to-Moment Gratitude

Gratitude journals and gratitude exercises are useful, but they remain punctuated interventions in an otherwise habitual mental life. The deeper ambition in contemplative traditions...
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Try a Self-Compassion Break

A sense of interconnectedness is central to self-compassion. It’s recognizing that all humans are flawed works-in-progress, that everyone fails, makes mistakes, and experiences hardship...
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How Too Much Stress Can Actually Shrink Your Brain

Having elevated levels of stress for extended periods of time can do a lot of damage to various parts of the body. Most of...
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The 6 Essentials for Cultivating Self-Love (That Psychology Actually Endorses)

Self-love has a reputation problem. It has been co-opted by wellness marketing and reduced to bath bombs and face masks, which has made serious...
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4 Hard Truths About Today that Will Make You a Stronger...

1.  Everything you love and everything you are comfortable with is changing today. Over the past decade, as Marc and I have gradually worked with...
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The winning mindset of success

    The winning mindset Are you unhappy when others are succeed? Does your success seem dependent on someone else’s failure? “Keeping up with the Joneses” is an...
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Addicted to Productivity:Getting Things Done? Here’s What to Do

You can get addicted to productivity when you are checking off boxes and completing things.This is the compulsive inability to go to bed at...
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Build Courage with These 3 Warrior Poses

Warrior Poses The warrior poses are among the most well recognized postures in the Hatha yoga tradition. Standing poses that are accessible to almost everyone—Virabhadrasana I, II, and...