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		<title>Lessons from Those Who Lost &#8230; and Found</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What an inspiring trio of life stories. Three people who went through a major loss &#8212; one that took away arguably their biggest gift in their lives &#8212; and used it to become all the stronger and wiser because of it. The three are Grant Achatz, a chef who lost his sense of taste; Jill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the internet does to our minds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sunada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday mindfulness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some words of caution on web surfing, from Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains: &#8220;When you’re constantly taking in new bits of information – as we do when we browse the Web, check e-mail or read text messages – we take things in very quickly, and because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to focus in the age of distraction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sunada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday mindfulness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a great little diagram! Thanks to Learning Fundamentals.]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;Pursuit Of Silence&#8217; In A World Full of Noise</title>
		<link>http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/uncategorized/pursuit-of-silence</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/uncategorized/pursuit-of-silence#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sunada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Silence isn&#8217;t just an absence of sound.  It creates a spaciousness and clarity that opens up our perceptions in new ways. And far from being a empty void, it has a fullness, richness, and an inviting warmth, in my experience. This book, In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buddhism &amp; the Mindfulness Movement: Friends or Foes?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/social-change/buddhism-the-mindfulness-movement-friends-or-foes</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sunada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a post by Vishvapani, a mindfulness trainer and senior member of my Buddhist order. I&#8217;m very much in agreement with his views &#8212; that the meeting of these two streams is creating a wonderful synergy that can profoundly benefit both. I, for one, am dedicating my energies to advancing this cause. Buddhism &#038; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s your emotional style?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/uncategorized/whats-your-emotional-style</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/uncategorized/whats-your-emotional-style#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sunada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This little quiz is a little taste from Richard Davidson&#8217;s latest book, The Emotional Life of Your Brain. It&#8217;s a self-assessment test to identify your emotional style along six dimensions: Resilience: How quickly you recover from adversity. Outlook: How long you are able to sustain positive emotion. Social Intuition: How adept you are at picking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A back tip for meditators, or how to sit with more ease</title>
		<link>http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/meditation/a-back-tip-for-meditators-or-how-to-sit-with-more-ease</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/meditation/a-back-tip-for-meditators-or-how-to-sit-with-more-ease#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sunada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meditation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t seem to find a comfortable way to sit in meditation? Here’s something really simple to try. It’s actually a mindfulness practice in itself. It’s a way to balance your natural ability to relax with the forces of gravity to find a well-aligned posture that’s effortless and free. I do this myself at the beginning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mirror in the Mirror</title>
		<link>http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/miscellany/mirror-in-the-mirror</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/miscellany/mirror-in-the-mirror#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sunada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend posted this beautiful piece on Facebook recently, reminding me how much I’m always so moved it. It’s by the contemporary Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. Called “Spiegel Im Spiegel” (“Mirror in the Mirror”), it refers to the infinity of reflections that happen when you have many mirrors reflecting off each other. It also reminds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Seven Fears of Highly Successful People</title>
		<link>http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/everyday-mindfulness/the-seven-fears-of-highly-successful-people</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/everyday-mindfulness/the-seven-fears-of-highly-successful-people#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sunada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday mindfulness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[personal potential]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excellent post by Martin Murphy about what it takes to live up to our potential. As he puts it, &#8220;Your ability to create and experience more success is equal to your potential (which nobody knows), minus the resistance&#8230; Successful people experience the same challenges as everyone else but they respond effectively as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journalism and Compassion</title>
		<link>http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/social-change/journalism-and-compassion</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/social-change/journalism-and-compassion#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sunada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a wonderful interview with Nicholas Kristof, the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for the New York Times, who often covered the worst of human suffering &#8212; like Darfur. In particular, I appreciated his insight that telling the stories of individual people help pierce through the wall of compassion fatigue. Nicholas Kristoff on Journalism and Compassion]]></description>
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