Tag: mindfulness tools
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Dealing with Presidential-Sized Stress
Although the presidential election is still months away and the 2 parties have yet to choose their nominee, the election is clearly in full swing, and has been for a while! The busy schedules of the candidates, constant public appearances, and tough questions can be described as one thing: stressful. So how is it…
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6 Ways Mindfulness Can Change Us
If there’s one thing that I could confidently say can impact every single aspect of our lives (work, health, relationships, etc.) its mindfulness, but in our crazy lives mindfulness can be lost. Being more mindful can affect multiple aspects of our lives. Whatever you’re putting your energy into doing right now could be affected,…
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A World of Difference: The Benefits of Meditation
The benefits of mindfulness and meditation have been proven time and time again, especially for it’s ability to help leave stress behind. The benefits of meditation are almost countless, although Live and Air did a pretty great job of listing a good chunk of them—76 benefits of meditation, to be exact!
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What’s Worthy of Your Time?
In two of our recent blogs we talked about distraction and the theories behind why we as a society are so distracted—the two oldest theories, and one new theory—but how can we combat distraction?
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The Third Theory of Distraction: Is There a Solution?
In our previous post Two Theories of Distraction: Is it Becoming a Bigger Issue?, we talked about the two oldest and biggest theories of distraction: spiritual and material distraction. But there’s a new theory of distraction that’s been brought to light by Matthew Crawford in his new book The World Beyond Your Head: Becoming an…
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Pause, and Just Relax with Help From Your Phone
You’re sitting at work with what feels like 10 million things to do before the day is over and you’re starting to feel the stress build… sound familiar? You need to relax, but at the same time, if you stop to relax, that means less time you’ll have to work on everything—it’s truly a dilemma.…
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Shutdown Rituals: Leave The Work Stress at Work
We hate to admit it, but nearly all of us take work home with us, it can be hard to just pack up and the end of the day and leave everything at the office. Whether we literally take home things to do after leaving work, or mentally take work problems home, it happens.…
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Review: Focus@Will Uses Music to Help You Stay Mindful
Focus@Will is a web site that plays music designed to increase the amount of time you can stay focused. I started using the site a few years ago, after seeing two of the site’s founders, Will Henshall and Dr. Evian Gordon, give a presentation about the site at one of the Wisdom 2.0 conferences.
