The New York Times
How to Find a Meditation App for You
6 min read · 2020-06-18 · If you want to steal a few minutes of Zen and achieve something like contentment in the face of chaos and uncertainty, you might be tempted to download a meditation app.
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Leo Babauta
Essential Meaningful Productivity
4 min read · 2020-07-04 · I don’t care about being efficient and productive just to be a better person, to get more done, to be more awesome. Cranking out more stuff for productivity’s sake doesn’t interest me anymore (it used…
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Mindful
A 5-Minute Breathing Meditation To Cultivate Mindfulness
2 min read · From 2020 · Reduce stress, anxiety, and negative emotions, cool yourself down when your temper flares, and sharpen your concentration skills.
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Mindful
A Directory of Mindfulness Teachers and Events
2 min read · From 2020 · The Oxford Mindfulness Center, EventsList, and Mindful.org collaborate on a new global directory of teachers, coaches, and events.
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The New York Times
How to Stop Touching Your Face
4 min read · From 2020 · We know it’s hard. Try these four tricks to help limit the number of times you touch your face each day to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
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Leo Babauta
Coming Back to Powerful Habits (plus 6 Powerful Habits)
3 min read · From 2020 · I was talking with a client about how he felt constantly behind on his email, Slack and other messages and small tasks. I suggested having regular times to do those things: 15 minutes in the morning…
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TIME
Niksen Is the Dutch Lifestyle Concept of Doing Nothing—And You're About to See It Everywhere
4 min read · From 2019 · A new way to look at 'doing nothing'
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Inc.
10 Mindfulness Techniques to Practice at Work
5 min read · From 2019 · Learn how to practice mindfulness while on the job.
Reader View · Shared by 138, including Barb Giamanco, Bill George, Real Marsha Wright®, Niklaus Gerber, Larry Kim, Small Business Trends, Katja Evertz, Liv 😷
GQ Magazine
How to Get Your Brain to Shut Up
3 min read · From 2019 · Author Ryan Holiday on saying no, staying calm, and his new book Stillness is the Key.
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Quartz
The solution to most sleeping problems: mindfulness
2 min read · From 2019 · The key to deep sleep is in your mind.
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Mindful
Loving-Kindness Meditation May Protect Your Genes and Slow Aging
2 min read · From 2019 · A new study explores how various forms of meditation affect our health at the genetic levels.
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Farnam Street
The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness – “the eight simple virtues of an organization where creativity is pervasive.”
2 min read · From 2019 · Along the same vein as Yvon Chouinard’s Let My People Go Surfing, comes The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness. You can think of the book as a map for the desired organizational culture at Ogilvy &…
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MacStories
Second Life: Rethinking Myself Through Exercise, Mindfulness, and Gratitude
20+ min read · From 2018
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The Guardian
Master of mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn: ‘People are losing their minds. That is what we need to wake up to’
~12 min read · From 2017 · By taking the Buddhism out of the practice, Kabat-Zinn pioneered a meditative approach used all over the world to treat pain and depression. He talks about Trump, ‘McMindfulness’ and how a 10-second…
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Harvard Business Review
Spending 10 Minutes a Day on Mindfulness Subtly Changes the Way You React to Everything
5 min read · From 2017 · Put it on your calendar.
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TED Talks
A simple way to break a bad habit
From 2016 · Can we break bad habits by being more curious about them? Psychiatrist Judson Brewer studies the relationship between mindfulness and addiction -- from smoking to overeating to all those other things we do even though we know they're bad for us. Learn more about the mechanism of habit development and discover a simple but profound tactic that might help you beat your next urge to smoke, snack or check a text while driving.
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