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Are You Happy? Consider These Five Points

Every tradition and many guidebooks have teachings about how to be happy. Yet that question remains one of life’s great mysteries. As a beginning to understanding happiness, start by asking your self the following questions and then journaling what comes up for you.

1. Write your definition of happiness. Are you living it? If not, are there habits or attitudes you might consider changing?

2.

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Mindfulness Basics: A Simple and Usable Review

Thankfully the word “mindfulness” is becoming what we call, in our culture, a household word. We see it everywhere from books to articles to talks – on YouTube, TED talks and other media channels. Being a pioneer in the “mindfulness movement”, I am overjoyed. Yet I got to wondering: could we use a review, a “short version” of what mindfulness is…and isn’t? Maybe we’ve forgotten

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Answering the Fundamental Question of Mindful Self-Compassion

Guest Post by Steven Hickman, Psy.D., ED of the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness, Dir of Professional Training, Center for Mindful Self-Compassion

It’s a simple question, really. But one that often brings on a state of perplexed astonishment when someone asks us: “What do you need?”

Unless we are a sobbing child who has come rushing to his mother after some sort of sibling

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TED Talk Tuesday: Mindfulness and Neural Integration with Dan Seigel

Relationships and Reflection in the Cultivation of Well-being

Dan Siegel is a prolific and highly respected author, speaker, researcher and clinician. In this Ted Talk, “Mindfulness and Neural Integration”, Dr. Siegel explores how schools can combine with technology in promoting self-regulation in children. And, as well, how positive relationships and reflection help to cultivate resilience and well being in our youth.

In an engaging and

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Mindful Minute: Doing Enough by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or

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Unconditional Love by Hāfez

Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī – known by his pen name Hāfez – is considered one of the greatest Sufi poets of all time, renowned for his lyrical, mystical, healing poetry.

For me, the poem quoted above is deep and beautiful and may be an invitation to let go of our expectations of others – of our sense of being owed something by someone

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