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Mindful Minute, 1jan

As you take a moment to ponder these words, notice what feelings, thoughts and/or body sensations might be occurring for you. What can you learn from this experience?

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Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

Mindfulness meditation — nonjudgmental awareness of sensations, feelings, and state of mind —  has been proven to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress. According to the Harvard Gazette, a team led by Harvard-affiliated researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital are the first to document

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Mindfulness: Meditative Awareness

"The purpose of a meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at un-extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life." ~Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard Have you ever: Looked up at the night sky and marveled at the stars and planets? Tasted a

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Reminder to Meditate

“We live, embrace and put to rest our dearest things, including how we see ourselves, so we can resurrect our lives anew.” ~Mark Nepo Meditation is the practice of mindfulness, of being present to “now”, this moment, non-judgmentally. It is the practice of meditation that strengthens and anchors the skills of mindfulness, of reducing the stress of

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