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Expert Interviews
Deep Listening 

To really listen to others, say David Rome and Hope Martin, we must first learn to listen to ourselves. They teach us three techniques for tuning in to body, speech, and mind. Read More 

  • David Rome
  • August 26, 2010
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Expert Interviews
Making the Right Choice 

Daniel Goleman, author of the best seller Emotional Intelligence, says the key to becoming a socially engaged consumer is being mindful at the moment when you're deciding whether to buy something. Knowing the full range of a product’s impacts is one of the best things you can do for yourselves and the Earth. Read More 

  • Daniel Goleman
  • August 25, 2010
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Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Surrendered to Love 

How Martin Luther King's vision of life based on a love ethic could heal our wounded world. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 25, 2010
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Magazine
Using the Energy of Anger 

“Why is it so hard to awaken?” asks Ezra Bayda, author of At Home in the Muddy Water: A Guide to Finding Peace within Everyday Chaos. “In part it’s because the life force, or energy, necessary to awaken is leaking away from morning until night.” Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 25, 2010
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Expert Interviews
Coming Home 

Michael Stroud, unsure about how to be both a Buddhist and a Jew, talks with well-known Buddhists who have returned home to Judaism. They’ve found it fulfilling to practice both Buddhism and the religion of their birth. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 25, 2010
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Magazine
Can I Be Honest with You? 

Telling the truth requires that you know the truth. Mindfulness meditation, says Cyndi Lee, helps us see the ways we deceive others—and ourselves.  Read More 

  • Cyndi Lee
  • August 25, 2010
A group of four airplane passengers, each in their respective seats: Seat 12-F, an elderly man appreciating the beauty seen with age; Seat 5-B, a young woman learning to trust her instincts while traveling; Seat 42-C, a man whose children changed his worldview; and Seat 17-A, a woman mourning but gradually finding each day a bit easier.
Magazine
Wisdom in the Next Seat 

A chance meeting on a plane reminds Sylvia Boorstein that striking up a conversation with a stranger and being truly interested in what they say can lead to unexpected insights. Read More 

  • Sylvia Boorstein
  • August 25, 2010
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Magazine
Mindful Childbirth 

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.  Read More 

  • Barry Boyce
  • August 24, 2010
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Expert Interviews
Robert Coles and the Moral Life 

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. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 24, 2010
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