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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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Mindfulness and Customer Focus
Serving customers well is a skill problem rather than a process problem. Empathy increases with recognized similarity, and compassion is what keeps…
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Mindfulness and Creativity
Most of what suppresses creative work is not a shortage of ideas. It is the cost of saying one out loud. Here…
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Mindful Workplaces
Most organizations treat mindfulness as a class, then wonder why nothing changes. A lecture about exercise does not make anyone fitter. Here…
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Physical Exercise and Nutrition
Sleep, water, food, and movement are the platform the rest of this work sits on. Exercise also rebuilds trust in your body’s…
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How Our Brain Works
Your brain takes in your experience, matches it against everything you have lived through, and builds beliefs that shape how you feel…
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It All Starts With Being Mindful
Mindfulness is not meditation, and it is not about achieving a quiet mind. It is the skill of knowing what is actually…
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Benefits of Mindfulness
Mindfulness gets credited with almost everything. Here is what awareness actually delivers on its own, what needs the other three steps, and…
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Reframing
Reframing is the skill of shifting a belief toward something more reasonable and better supported by evidence. It is not positive thinking,…
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Affirmations
An affirmation only works if you believe it. Here is why repetition changes the brain, and how to build a ladder of…
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Mantras
A mantra is an affirmation used as the object of focus in meditation. It trains attention and works on a belief at…
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Meditation Practices
Meditation is the exercise. Mindfulness is the skill. Here are the three methods we use, how to begin, and why a wandering…
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Visualizations
Visualizing lets you rehearse what is coming, draw on what has already worked, and loosen the certainty holding an unhelpful belief in…
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