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The Mindfulness Lover’s Gift Guide

The Mindfulness Lover’s Gift Guide

Do you love giving gifts? Not just buying presents, but finding the perfect thing you just know your friend/family member/partner/coworker will genuinely appreciate and use? We do, too. That’s why we’ve compiled this list of gifts the mindfulness lover in your life will adore.

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Breaking the Cycle of Fear with Mindfulness

Breaking the Cycle of Fear with Mindfulness

Anxiety disorders occur when you - repeatedly and over time - become extremely anxious even when there is no apparent reason. Your heart beats faster, you feel hot or cold, and it’s tough to regulate your breathing. As a result, you might become very fearful of certain situations that you believe will worsen your anxiety, like driving or going to crowded places alone. 

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What is The Vagus Nerve? Your Biological Key to Peace and Calm

What is The Vagus Nerve? Your Biological Key to Peace and Calm

Therefore, when we play the singing bowl to access that “rest and digest” state, we’re asking the Vagus nerve to help us push the right internal buttons. To deliver the message through its many threadlike tendrils running through our body

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Can Meditation Keep You Young?

Can Meditation Keep You Young?

Exercise, sunscreen, water, skin creams. A lot of us do what we can to slow down the aging process. But is it our meditation practices that are truly the fountain of youth? A newly published study says meditation could indeed slow biological aging.

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