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Transcendental meditation is going corporate. Here’s why that’s a good thing.

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Thanks to the continued research touting its advantages, meditation has hit the mainstream. More and more people are willing to give it a try, often despite a measure of initial skepticism. Nowhere is that more true than in the workplace, where everyone from C-suite executives to entry-level assistants can share in the multitude of benefits. “More and more companies are offering meditation rooms and allowing employees to meditate on company time, because if you’re dragging at 4 p.m. and you have READ MORE

This is what Tibetan monks and Navy SEAL’s have in common

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Abraham Maslow once famously said, When all you’ve got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. What he meant was, when it comes to problem-solving, we tend to get locked into using familiar tools in expected ways. The technical term for this is the Law of the Instrument. Give someone a hammer and, indeed, they’ll look for nails to pound. But present them with a problem where they need to re-purpose that same  READ MORE

Not all processed foods are bad for you. How they’re made matters

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Not all processed foods are bad for you. How they’re made matters

Ah, processed foods. The term has become a sweeping generalization for anything that comes in a bag or a box. Even my nutrition advice usually includes the general statement eat less processed food and choose fresh food instead. But that sentence really simplifies a more complex story. Of course, how we process the food matters. Some ingredients can undergo changes: like being frozen, fermented or sprouted, that makes them equally or more nutritious READ MORE

Can a mouse meditate? Why these researchers want to find out

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Can a mouse meditate? A new study suggests the answer is … kind of. Researchers from the University of Oregon in Eugene have replicated some of the same brain patterns exhibited by human meditators in the brains of mice: no tiny meditation cushions or squeaky mice required. Still, experiments show that the meditating mice were more relaxed and less stressed than those with no rodent meditation training. The authors say the work, published Monday in PNAS, provides a proof READ MORE

You can’t stop thinking, but you can be more present

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Many people get frustrated with meditation as they can’t stop thinking. But it is impossible to silence our mind. Our eyes cannot not see. Your ears cannot not hear. In the same way, itís human to have thoughts. When you try to stop your mind, you are doing the impossible. A quiet mind is not a mind with no thoughts. It is a decision you make to embrace every emotion and thought within you. Eckhart Tolle says: Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them. READ MORE

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