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Practical Ways To Get Into Flow
If you have ever been entirely focused and absorbed in something, you might have been experiencing what Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and other psychologists refer to as flow. Professor Csikszentmihalyi defined a state of flow in the 70s. It is described as a blissful state in which people are so immersed
November 16, 2021
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Science, Mihaly and His Legacy
"Concentration is like breathing: you never think of it. The roof could fall in and, if it missed you,you would be unaware of it." – Chess player In 1992, during the NBA championship series, the Portland Trailblazers were winning over the Chicago Bulls when the Bulls' coach called a timeout. Michael
November 9, 2021
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Technological developments to achieve mindfulness
Jay Vidyarthi is the inventor of the Sonic Cradle. He led the UX Department of Muse: The brain-sensing headband. He’s been involved with Brightmind, Character Lab, Retreat Guru, and many more companies as an expert in using technology for meditation, wellbeing and mental research. When we think abou
November 4, 2021
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What is Flowing and Why is it Important Now?
"The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing timesThe best moments usually occur if a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile" – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Picture this: you are driving down the
November 2, 2021
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Develop strategies to FEEL your emotions
Marc Brackett is the author of "Permission to Feel", research psychologist and the Founding Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and Professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University. I think most people are looking for strategies to be happy and, while I think happiness is im
October 29, 2021
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The mental health impact of the Internet
Nina Hersher holds Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis with an individualized degree in Digital Culture and Program Development. She is the CEO of The Digital Wellness Institute. Digital wellness helps to bring us back together. It helps to wake up, it's really about creati
October 29, 2021
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Yoga in Education, Health and Governance
"The yogi who perceives the essential oneness everywhere naturally feels the pleasure or pain of others as his or her own." – Swami Satchidananda On an individual level, yoga is undoubtedly beneficial to our bodies, minds, and souls. But what about the benefits of yoga on a grander scale? Can they b
October 24, 2021
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The Techniques to Yoga
The practice of yoga has a very long history as a unified lifestyle science. Those who practice yoga in its full form find that it connects with almost every aspect of their inner and outer lives. When understood simply as a physical fitness practice, it is easy to lose the true meaning of yoga. How
October 24, 2021
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Yoga from a multidimensional perspective
"Yoga practice takes an individual on an inward journey, and through Yoga, one enters a rarefied state of consciousness, a transparency, and luminosity described by its great philosopher Patañjali as being 'like a clear jewel.' "– Christopher Key Chapple Living with freedom, happiness, and conscious
October 24, 2021
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The "Yoga" path to freedom, consciousness, and happiness.
"Yoga means union. It shows us how to unite all our life-forces by directing them inward. The goal is happiness and happiness lies within". – Swami Vishnudevananda So many people on this planet suffer from unhappiness, stress, anger, fear, tension, frustration, hate, jealousy, superiority, or inferi
October 24, 2021
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Why focus on Contemplative Sciences now
Contemplative science is interdisciplinary and aims to clarify such mind/brain/body changes across cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and perceptual domains. These focus on relating such changes to neurobiology and first-person experience. Over the past 2500 years, mindfulness practices have been slo
October 8, 2021
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Albert Einstein and His Quantum Leap for Humanity
One of the greatest scientists of all time was the renowned physicist Albert Einstein. He brought us the theory of relativity, the famous formula E = mc2 which every person, from the age of ten to 110 knows. He brought us into quantum mechanics as well. He laid that foundation on which the downright
September 22, 2021
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