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How Can Mindfulness Help Us At Work? 

If mindfulness training leads to better focus, performance, and well-being, it comes—ironically—from letting go of the very desires for focus, performance, and well-being that motivates many in their jobs. Read More

  • Ed Halliwell
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Try This Guided Meditation As a Mindful Writing Prompt 

The invitation is to connect with your senses in a real or imagined setting. What do you hear? What do you smell? Note the emotional content of the space. And when you’re done, take what you learned to the page in whatever way suits you. Read More 

  • Stephanie Domet
  • June 10, 2024
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Free Yourself from Reader Ghosts for Deeper, More Mindful Writing 

When we’re caught up in what an imagined audience will think about our writing, we are much less likely to actually write anything. Mindful writing teacher and former state poet laureate Alexandria Peary explores how we can (re)discover the joy of writing by freeing ourselves from the judgy reader ghosts in our mind. Read More 

  • Alexandria Peary
  • March 31, 2024
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