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Fear
How the fear mechanism works in a crisis, why fear grows when we follow the news, and what to actually do about it.
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Emotions
Three ways to understand emotions and — accordingly, what to do with them.
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Research
Happiness in a U Shape
Have you ever wondered — how does happiness change as we grow older? Do we become happier, or — quite the opposite?
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Self-Control and Relationships
Self-control — the ability to not chase after urges, to not give in to temptations, is a valuable and developable quality. From the classic marshmallow experiment, through money management skills...
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Tools We Don't Use
Do you have tools at home that you no longer use?
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On the Culture of Discussion
A few principles for better discussion
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Maturity
Maturity is the ability to cope with oneself.
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In the Press
Emotional Hygiene
To reduce the risk of illness, everyone must observe hygiene. We wash our hands, brush our teeth, tidy up our clothes, home, and yard. Especially in spring, we organize clean-up events. It is equally important to care for...
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Why Are We in Relationships?
We are in relationships because we don't know ourselves. Only through relationships can we truly get to know who we are.
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Articles Science
Mindfulness and the Brain at the World Economic Forum in Davos
If the significance of an idea can be judged by the kind of people discussing it and the venue where they do so, then this morning in Davos, at the World Economic Forum, two of the world's leading researchers are talking about mindfulness and its impact on the brain...
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Seminars
Mindfulness: 8-Week Course
Over eight sessions, I will explore through the lens of mindfulness such topics as attitude, willpower, self-discipline, stress management, working with destructive emotions, mindfulness in communication, eating, movement, ...
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Un-Mindfulness
Some people have asked me, why should one train mindfulness? What does it give? What is it needed for?
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Articles Psychotherapy
Five Steps to Change.
The process each of us goes through when making changes in our lives.
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Articles Seminars
New Year's Resolutions Restart
Three weeks have passed since the new year began. Many people start each new year with new goals, with a resolution to start something this year, to accomplish something, to achieve...
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Mindfulness Practice
An opportunity to gather on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings to practice mindfulness — to participate in a kind of 'morning spiritual exercise.'
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Articles
Tea Ceremony
Several people have asked me how it is possible to practice mindfulness in daily life? How to do it? - here is a description of a 10-minute mindful tea drinking ceremony.
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Seminars
Mindfulness
Lecture times and locations
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Seminars
Attitude and Changing It
We hear such frequent sayings: 'Attitude determines everything,'
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Seminars
Willpower -- A Public Lecture in Two Parts
Willpower is a human quality that greatly helps in achieving one's goals. Willpower can be developed. Unfortunately, it often works contrary to logic. More about willpower - in the public lecture.
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Articles Seminars
Happiness as a Skill
Modern brain research confirms millennia-old insights from spiritual practices that happiness is not a coincidence of external circumstances that can be achieved and obtained, but rather...
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Letting Go of Attachment
One of the fundamental insights of Buddhism is that life is suffering and the cause of suffering is attachment. It is in human nature to become attached. We seek stability because uncertainty and unpredictability create anxiety in us....
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Some Insights About Life
At a Neale Donald Walsh seminar, I heard these 15 points — insights about life. Attitudes that usually, for most of us (at least for me), are the opposite of what is written here.
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Shows
January 17 and 19 on the show "Here and Now" — guest Solvita Vektere
Everyone is probably familiar with the tradition of starting a new life in the New Year — resolving to finally start exercising, eat fewer sweets after six, start learning that German language...
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The Forest Is My Meditation
People say the forest, dance, or gardening is their meditation. What actually distinguishes meditation from any other activity?
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