Whether you’re one of a kind or one in a crowd, says Sylvia Boorstein, you’re still going to have to deal with the mind’s instinct to make a big deal of itself.
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When a sharp word turns a friend into an enemy, it’s always difficult to go back to the way things were. Sylvia Boorstein tells her own story of estrangement and healing.
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Pregnancy, birth and early parenting are the most transformational time in the adult life cycle. Barry Boyce reports on a mindfulness center that teaches skills that interrupts patterns of dysfunction.
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So much talk of morality today is marked by aggression and self-righteousness, but Robert Coles speaks in a gentler and deeper moral voice. David Swick profiles this child psychiatrist, civil rights activist, and author who has spent his life considering the nature of morality and its central place in our lives.
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Anne Cushman's young son, Skye, keeps her on her toes with his many questions: How do we know the things we know? How do we justify our decisions?
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Many people look at the aging population as a problem, but author and history professor Theodore Roszak thinks it could result in a wiser and more caring society.
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1. Understanding Life’s Ups and Downs Life is full of economic, personal, and health fluctuations. Just as rocks are polished by a stream, every challenge refines our strength. Each obstacle you overcome builds resilience—yet it also highlights how helpless we can feel when others suffer. 2. Meditative Training…
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Jon Kabat-Zinn, a keynote speaker at the 2011 Creating a Mindful Society conference, teaches you how.
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When author Barbara Gates got breast cancer, she found healing by recognizing the strength in her animal community and learning to trust her body and the earth.
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Barry Boyce explains how mindfulness teacher Elana Rosenbaum turned a cancer diagnosis into an opportunity to help others live.
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