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Mindfulness
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How Can Savoring Improve Your Quality of Life?
Can we increase our feelings of happiness simply by noticing when we are happy? Research tells us we can through the practice of savoring.
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Screen Time: How Much Do We Pay for Our Screen Time Subscriptions?
What are the real costs of our screen time? How can you become more mindful for yourself and your children? Writer, Amy Dunn, explores this question and more in this series.
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Screen Time: Here’s What Happened When I Took my Kids’ Screens
Writer Amy Dunn tells us that taking screens away marked her. "I watched my kids immediately become completely lost in their own imaginations for not just minutes, but hours and hours."
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A Practice: Dr. Cynthia Eriksson Body Scan for Awareness
Dr. Eriksson guides you through a practice of scanning the body to cultivate awareness of sensation present there. This technique is an important first step – regulation – of building a resilience practice.
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Theological Perspectives on Beliefs and Communities of Practice
Book: The Routledge International Handbook of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Character Development, Volume I Conceptualizing and Defining Character Chapter 18 (34 pages) Theological Perspectives on Beliefs and Communities of Practice Virtue Systems as an Integrative Approach for Psychologists  Abstract In order to offer a theological perspective of virtue development, we treat virtues as habitus, moral habits that are cultivated in local communities with transcendent belief narratives. Virtues are dependent on traditions to inform their purpose or telos and to give definition to the good life. Although psychology offers a conceptualization of virtues focused on the self-system—including characteristic adaptations and…
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Cultivating a Healthy Mind: The Neuroscience of Awareness, Connection, Insight, & Purpose with Dr. Richie Davidson
What is a healthy mind? Do you practice mental hygiene? Dr. Richie Davidson’s mission is to cultivate wellbeing as a skill, and relieve suffering through a scientific understanding of the human mind. As a pioneering neuroscientist, a mindfulness and meditation teacher, and a global public advocate and guide—he has been a proponent for healing, wellbeing, and social change, finding evidence that awareness, connection, insight, and purpose are the pillars of a healthy mind—and woven through it all, is compassion. Includes two real-time meditative practices to help integrate empirical and spiritual insights with a practical way of being.
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A Practice: Reflecting on Love and Goodness Towards Others
This practice helps build compassion for the struggles of others by shifting our perspective and imagining how we can offer love.
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Want to become more present, healthy, and connected? Pay attention to your body (Part 1)
Thrive Fellow, Lauren Van Vranken, offers practices for reconnecting to our bodies and asks us to think about our relationship to our embodied selves.
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A Practice: Using the 5 A’s to Slow down and Offer Thanks
Practicing gratitude can change your life. Use the 5 As mindfulness practice to offer thanks and live into a practice of gratitude.
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New Rhythms: How Can I Grow my Daily Spiritual Practices?
Dr. Pamela King invites us to find daily spiritual practices that will draw us closer to ourselves, others and God.
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A Practice: 4-Step Mindful Breathing Exercise
Practicing mindful breathing can help us pause, check in with our bodies, manage our emotions, and redirect our attention.
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Grief and Mindfulness: How to Manage Your Emotions
Dr. Joey Fung discusses the myths of grief, offering 3 ways mindfulness can help us manage our emotions during times of grief.
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