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  • video: mindfulness, youth voices

    Byheartwideopen January 29, 2017

    KELTY MENTAL HEALTH explores the benefits of mindfulness with the short video “Mindfulness: Youth Voices“.

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  • article: a loving-kindness meditation to cultivate resilience

    Byheartwideopen January 17, 2017

    A 20-minute loving-kindness practice to help us extend compassion to ourselves, those around us, and the larger world. Mark Bertin writes, “In this compassion practice, there’s no aim to force anything to happen. You cannot will yourself into particular feelings toward yourself or anyone else. Rather, the practice is simply to remind yourself that you…

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  • article: the disease of being busy

    Byheartwideopen November 7, 2016

    Omid Safi writes, “I saw a dear friend a few days ago. I stopped by to ask her how she was doing, how her family was. She looked up, voice lowered, and just whimpered: “I’m so busy… I am so busy… have so much going on.” Almost immediately after, I ran into another friend and…

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  • article: 3 daily practices to cultivate mindful reverence

    Byheartwideopen October 8, 2016

    Linda Joy Rose writes, “Developing mindful reverence is to become actively engaged with the focus of one’s attention, be it a person, place or phase, with an abiding appreciation and understanding that nothing is permanent; it’s a way to imprint mind, body and spirit with gratitude and acknowledgment for what exists in the moment and…

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  • video: kaira jewel lingo, happiness

    Byheartwideopen April 14, 2016June 10, 2016

    KAIRA JEWEL LINGO (former Buddhist nun at Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village), speaking about happiness.

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