Tag: meditation
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What’s the Right Age to Start Mindfulness?
A question that people often ask when they learn about mindfulness is what’s the right age to start? And the answer is: whenever you want! While most people begin practicing mindfulness during or after a stressful life-changing event, it doesn’t matter when you start. Mindfulness is something that anyone can benefit from in any stage…
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5 Ways to Use Mindfulness to Reduce Workplace Stress
Even if you’re lucky enough to have a super laid back and relaxed work environment, I’m willing to bet that stress still gets to you at work once in awhile. One study found that 60% of employee absences could be traced back to stress, and that number has been on the rise. While there are…
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Sleep Better Without Sleeping Pills, Try Mindfulness
So many of us have trouble sleeping! Some struggle to fall asleep every night, while others only have occasional sleepless nights. Either way, at some point in time we’ve all experienced at least one night of constant tossing and turning, minds that just won’t stop running. We’ve all woken up exhausted because we just couldn’t…
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Wearable Technology to Help You Relax and Focus
While technology does a lot to distract us from the present and bring us stress, it can also do a lot to help us relax and be more present. As much as I like to encourage people to set their devices down and be present, we all use technology—it’s not going anywhere! So why not…
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Keep Calm and Download this App
Move over Headspace, there’s a new player in the mindfulness app game and it goes by the name of Calm—and they’re aiming to become more than just an app. Calm is a 14-person mindfulness startup. The founders, Michael Acton Smith and Alex Tew, began the company with hopes of commercializing the countless benefits of meditation.…
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Study: Using Mindfulness to Help Children with ADHD
In theory, mindfulness sounds like the perfect solution to helping children that suffer from ADHD. Mindfulness helps us become more aware, it helps us focus, control our thoughts, and manage our emotions—things that those with ADHD have trouble with. Today, people are trying to get away from using medication to treat their problems and turning…
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Be Happier & More Present Tomorrow: 5 Tips
We all want to be more present, whether it’s for our kids, or significant other, or just ourselves, right? And we all want to be happier, no matter how happy or unhappy you are, we crave that feeling of happiness. But why is so hard to just be happy? What makes it so difficult to…
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Study: Find Motivation to Live Healthy with Mindfulness
When someone, like your doctor, tells you that you need to lose weight, start eating healthier, or working out more, do you feel upset? Or you consider what they have to say and attempt to take their advice to help better yourself? What if you’re told that if you don’t lose weight you risk developing…
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Meditate to Calm your Political Anger and Learn to Accept Trump
No matter which side of the aisle you’re on, if you’re like most people, you’re probably feeling angered or even outraged by the outcome of the latest election. Either you’re upset about who has been chosen to run your country, or all the people that are upset are angering you. Either way, no one is…
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Technology is Taking Over Minds Whether We Notice or Not
Technology is such an integral part of our lives, and as technology evolves and becomes more useful, it also becomes more manipulative and addictive. And the things is, the creators of these technologies know that—they design their websites or apps to work in this way. Sometimes they do it unknowingly, but more often than not…
