Tag: mindful
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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…
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Mindfulness Tool Your Kids Will Actually Love
It seems as though each generation is becoming more and more consumed with technology as it becomes a larger part of our daily lives. Items like our smartphones, which just 20 years ago were non-existent, now seem to be necessities in our lives. Children no longer see these items as a tool, but as a…
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Mindful Breathing is an Art, One That Anyone Can Learn
Stop what you’re doing stand up for a moment and just breathe… now pay attention to that breath. Follow it as it goes and your chest expands with each deep breath, feel the air flowing outward. Okay. Now how do you feel? If you’re like most people, you’re probably feeling more relaxed, more present, and…
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What’s 2017 Looking Like for Mindfulness and Meditation?
The consensus is in, and meditation and tech experts across the board say that in 2017 is going to be the year that mindfulness and meditation take a huge leap into mainstream health. People today know they need to watch their health, their eating healthier and working out, but what about mental health? While mindfulness…
