INTERRUPTER: Spring Vista
Grab some fresh air. What's outside? Scan the vista for two or three signs of spring.
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Read inspiring and moving stories by people facing life’s challenges with mindfulness and compassion, and learn how to enrich your own life through art and creativity, sports and recreation, and your own spiritual practice.
As Tom Preble drives a noisy school bus to its destination, he befriends a nine-year-old blind boy named Rollie. Over time, the pair come to help each other better appreciate the world around them.
Barry Boyce talks to Parlan McGaw, who leads Meditation for Actors in New York City, about how mindfulness can help one deal with the ups and downs of an acting career.
When body and mind join as one in the moment, performance is at a peak and the experience is almost spiritual. Noa Jones talks to high-performance athletes including kung fu master Jet Li, about flow, focus, and the practice of sport.
Karen Armstrong, author of The Case for God, wants to reclaim religion. Michael Valpy talked to this author, speaker, and activist about the problems with fundamentalism and secular modernity.
You can use any sound in your house as a mindfulness bell—the ring of a telephone, the purr of a cat. For Toni Bernhard, it's Rusty's bark.
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