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How to End Restless, Useless Thoughts: What Neuroscience Actually Recommends

The mind does not have an off switch. This is its design, not its malfunction. The default mode network (DMN), the brain system active...
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Chakra Poses and Affirmations to Reassess Your Life

  It’s halfway through the year (already!), and it’s a good time for a personal chakra poses check-in: Are you on a path of happiness? Are you...
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Emotional Recognition Technology on the Horizon

Emotional Recognition Technology Emotion recognition technology is about much more than machine learning looking at an image of your face. We can learn a great...
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Is Self-Compassion the Recipe For Optimal Health?

  Self compassion as said by Louise Hay, author of You Can Heal Your Life, once said that “Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years...
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3 Lessons in Having Purpose from Those Who Live to 100

100 year old people In the first part of this series about lessons from those who live to 100, we learned about people who live...
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Two Tricks for Would-Be Meditators

Meditators Tricks I’ve carved out time and space in my home for Meditators Tricks. But, I still find it so easy to avoid it! Are...
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Woman Transforms Her Birthmark Into Beautiful Art

Woman Transforms Birthmark If life has taught us anything it’s that when we get lemons we must make lemonade. 24 year old Paige Lauren Billiot...
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Leaving the Shore of Illusion

Leaving Illusion Leaving Illusion. As a child, Buddhist practitioner Leslie Davis escaped her painful reality by daydreaming. Through meditation, she’s learned to resist the urge...
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Everyday Mindfulness: 7 Steps to Deepening Presence in Daily Activities

Everyday Mindfulness: 7 Steps to Deepening Presence in Daily Activities. Establishing a formal meditation practice is a powerful way to tap into stillness, manage stress, enhance...
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Your Potential Starts with Your Beliefs

Your Potential Starts with Your Beliefs In the book, Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement, Tony Robbins explains how Your Potential Starts with Your...