Modern technology presents both amazing opportunities and incredible challenges for today's young people. The Wisdom 2.0 Youth Conference will explore this balance. With more than 75 per cent of teens now owning cell phones, and sending or receiving an average of 3,339 texts a month, the impact…
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"So there I was driving," writes Elisha Goldstein, "only to look up and find that I was three exits past where I needed to get off. Talk about being on auto-pilot. Sound familiar?"
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Asthma cases in the U.S. are on the rise, and mindfulness has been shown to help mitigate attacks. Yesterday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed new statistics indicating that nearly 1 in 12 Americans were diagnosed with asthma by 2009. The Vital Signs report found that people diagnosed…
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Somerville officials want their city to be the first in the United States to systematically track people’s happiness. Like some European leaders, such as in Britain and France, for example, the officials say they want to move beyond the traditional measures of success (such as economic growth) to promote policies…
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What if, once an hour, you brought your life back to what is happening right now? Elisha Goldstein offers this practice.
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Change the way you take pictures—and change the way you see the world, say Andy Karr and Michael Wood.
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Is it just us, or are references to meditation showing up more frequently in mainstream news? In fact, they seem to be showing up in some of the strangest f---ing places...
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Patricia Jennings, an expert you met at the 2011 Creating a Mindful Society, explains. Watch the conference livestream here.
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Bridget Hildreth looks for the true meaning of a common but sometimes misunderstood term and finds it at Oregon's Flora Valley Farms.
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Bridget Hildreth has an MFA in Non-fiction Writing from Eastern Washington University's Inland Northwest Writers Program. "I live," she says, "on the wild and spectacular southern Oregon coast near Bandon, Oregon where I was raised. I am the Journalism Coordinator and writing instructor at Southwestern Oregon Community College. As a narrative place writer, convergent media…
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