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		<title>How &#8220;letting go&#8221; helps us get things done</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe, a student in my online class, was worried that meditation would hurt his career. He works in a very competitive business where everyone is single-mindedly pushing and driving hard all the time. The whole idea of &#8220;letting go&#8221; seemed absurd in that context. But at the same time his stress and anxiety levels were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laura Trice suggests we all say thank you</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are we so reluctant to show our appreciation to others? And why do we feel it&#8217;s not OK to ask for appreciation from others? This is a short (only 3 minutes!) lovely TED talk about the power of saying thank you. Why not?]]></description>
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		<title>Sampajañña: unraveling lifelong habits with mindfulness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sunada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s discouraging, isn’t it, to watch ourselves fall repeatedly into our same old habitual traps. We try to practice mindfulness, but it can be frustrating. Do you ever have days where you’re so caught up that you realize only at night, despite your best intentions, that you weren’t mindful for even one moment? And it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Negotiating with heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really appreciated this perspective from Locana, who wrote about a recent negotiation she was in over buying a new car. Negotiation doesn&#8217;t have to be a hard-ball, combative situation. By treating the salesman with empathy and understanding, she ended up getting what she wanted! Can Good Communication Save You Money? &#8211; Natural Negotiation I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When metta doesn&#8217;t mean &#8220;love&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/personal-change/when-metta-doesnt-mean-love</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sunada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meditation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember feeling very frustrated &#8211; and frankly a little baffled &#8211; when I was first learning the metta bhavana practice. Especially around the fourth stage, the difficult person. How was I supposed to feel warmth and affection for somebody I admitted not getting along with? It was a tall order, and the whole idea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motivating myself to start a healthy new habit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sunada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on getting a daily yoga practice going. I thought it might improve my overall energy levels, and help with the chronic tension in my back and shoulders. But it&#8217;s been a &#8220;two steps forward, one step backward&#8221; sort of path. It&#8217;s especially on those days when I&#8217;m feeling pretty good that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jon Kabat-Zinn on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sunada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past spring, I attended professional training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) &#8212; a program started by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the UMass Medical Center. Basically, MBSR is a way of presenting meditation in a secular context &#8212; for health, wellness, and self-awareness. It brings the transformative power of mindfulness out to the mainstream in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mindfully navigating out of depression</title>
		<link>http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/everyday-mindfulness/mindfully-navigating-out-of-depression</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sunada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a long history of depression. And though it’s thankfully not a constant companion anymore, it still drops by for a visit now and then. This past week was one of them. Being in it again gave me another opportunity for practice. But it also showed me how far I’ve come. I now have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditating on anxiety</title>
		<link>http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/personal-change/meditating-on-anxiety</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sunada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meditation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my clients — I’ll call him Mark — took up meditation to help with his lifelong anxiety. He was all too aware of his tendency to over-analyze and worry about everything. He’d been meditating on and off for two years, gone on retreats, read tons of dharma books, done everything he could think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This precious human birth</title>
		<link>http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/everyday-mindfulness/this-precious-human-birth</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sunada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Cecily recently lost her brother to illness. He had just turned 50 the week before he died. She is devastated. Cecily is one of my best friends from college. We’ve known each other for 32 years. It&#8217;s that rare kind of friendship where even if months pass without connecting, we still pick right [...]]]></description>
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