Topic Archive
Practices
Emotions
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Play is not a privilege, it’s a primal need
Americans spend a big part of their free time watching TV. You might need a different kind of play for wellbeing and spiritual health.
Emotions
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Why You Need to Make Time for Play
You might be surprised about the benefits of play for your wellbeing and your spiritual health. Here's how to get more in your life.
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.
Mindfulness
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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.
Mindfulness
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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."
Emotions
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A Practice: Small Acts of Love—An invitation to create and explore
Is it possible to create a more loving world? Practices that link us to our senses support our ability to love.
Hope
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Summer of Love: Is it Possible to Create a More Loving World?
Love is more than a feeling. It is a conscious decision, and requires practices and skills in order to live it out.
Mindfulness
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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.
Practices
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A Practice: Dr. Lisa Miller on Closing Doors so Others Can Open
Dr. Miller leads you through a practice where you imagine two doors – one red and one yellow. The red door is closed to you and the yellow door is open. How can you use this practice to understand opportunities and direction for your life? How can you identify how you have been guided along the way?…
Practices
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A Practice: Dr. Richard Davidson on Gaining Insight
Dr. Davidson leads a brief meditation on gaining insight into a struggle present in your life. Envision how things might be different with a different set of beliefs and expectations about the situation.
Practices
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A Practice: Dr. Lisa Miller and Your Table of Spiritual Companions
Dr. Miller leads a brief meditation where you set a table before you with those who love you and ask them to tell you what you need to know now. This practice helps develop a connection to a deep kind of spirituality that is intuitive and imaginative and helps one to feel loved, held, guided, and never alone.
Agility
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Why Can’t I Change? How Flexibility Might Be the Key to Getting Unstuck (Part 2)
We can thrive by flexibly facing change, rather than avoiding it. This post is Part 2 of a two-part series.
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