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Short, plain-language pieces on how the mind actually works.
Each one explains what the science means for the way we feel and live.
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Which Step Do I Need Right Now?
Knowing the four steps and knowing which one you need today are different things. Four questions that tell you where the process…
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Open and Allowing
Discomfort runs on resistance. Stop pushing at it and it runs out of fuel. The least intuitive move in the method, and…
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Skewed Thinking
Thinking goes off track in a small number of predictable ways. Catastrophizing, mind reading, discounting the positive. Naming the pattern is most…
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The 5-Whys
The belief causing the trouble is rarely the first one you find. Ask why four or five times in a row and…
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What Your Brain Is Optimized For
Your brain was built to keep you alive, not to make you happy. Criticism sticks, praise slides off, and rest feels unearned.…
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Why Anxiety Feeds on Itself
Sometimes the alarm will not turn off because the thing setting off the alarm is the alarm itself. How a normal stress…
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Nothing Is Broken
Anxiety is not evidence of a defect. It is evidence of a system running correctly on inaccurate information, and information can be…
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The Three Themes: Trust, Value, and Acceptance
Every difficult emotion, however complicated it feels, comes back to trust, value, or acceptance. Fear points to a lack of trust, shame…
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What Your Emotions Are Telling You
Your emotions are a readout of where your well-being currently stands. A difficult one is not a malfunction, it is a signal,…
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Feelings and Emotions Are Not the Same Thing
A feeling is a body sensation. An emotion is that sensation with a meaning attached. Two people with the same racing heartbeat…
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Mindfulness Return on Investment (ROI)
The usual return-on-investment calculation for workplace mindfulness does not survive scrutiny. Here is what the evidence actually supports, and the one variable…
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A Guide to Mindfulness at Work
Mindfulness initiatives fail in a predictable way: a course gets delivered and nothing changes. Here are the seven components that determine whether…
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