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  • article: mindful eating

    Byheartwideopen December 5, 2017March 28, 2018

    Rosie Garner writes, “Now more than ever before, we need to take a deep breath, connect back with our body’s own innate intelligence and become curious when it comes to food and eating. And we can do this through Mindful Eating…  Firstly, let’s look at mindless eating for a moment. What does that look like, or feel like?…

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  • video: feeling for healing

    Byheartwideopen October 21, 2017

    UPLIFT CONNECT explores the benefits of embracing our emotions in the short video “Feeling for Healing“

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  • article: 6 ways to practice mindful eating

    Byheartwideopen July 31, 2017

    Christopher Willard writes about informal mindfulness practices for those of us who don’t have five minutes to contemplate a raisin. “I can still remember the raisin from that first mindfulness class I took in a family friend’s basement office, almost twenty years ago. I myself was only 20 years old and that first awe-inspiring taste…

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  • article: which meditation style suits you?

    Byheartwideopen March 3, 2017March 3, 2017

    Finding Your Favorite Meditation Practice Cassie Shortsleeve writes, “At times, meditation seems like a practice for someone else. While the benefits are clear — research has shown that monks who meditate for thousands of hours alter the structure of their brains and significantly decrease emotionally reactive behavior — it’s easy to think: “How nice for them, but…

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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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  • quote: neuroscience of singing

    Byheartwideopen January 9, 2017

    The neuroscience of singing shows that when we sing our neurotransmitters connect in new and different ways. It fires up the right temporal lobe of our brain, releasing endorphins that make us smarter, healthier, happier and more creative. When we sing with other people this effect is amplified. — Cassandra Sheppard

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  • article: freeing yourself from overwhelm

    Byheartwideopen November 3, 2016

    Four Steps to a More Peaceful Life Jacob Devaney writes, “Overwhelm is a constant state of being for many of us, but it doesn’t need to be. Most of us are under a deluge of responsibilities like running errands, responding to emails, keeping up with house-chores, hurrying to meetings, and more. Though this is normal in our modern…

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  • article: what you think is as important as what you eat

    Byheartwideopen September 21, 2016

    How to Think Your Way to Better Health Carl Stronter writes, “Some are calling it the next frontier in the field of health: mind-body medicine, which is the study of the interaction between the body and mind as it relates to health and disease. In recent years, many extraordinary, well-researched studies have come out showing…

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  • article: reasons to chant

    Byheartwideopen May 4, 2016May 24, 2016

    Donna Quesada writes, “Chanting is a pleasure that transcends the senses, it takes us beyond the bounds of time and space… It soothes on a cellular level. It merges our finite identity with the infinite, and so dissolves us. It relieves us from the sights and sounds and stimulation of the material world and delivers…

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