A meditation teacher and fellow occasionally anxious person shares Buddhist advice for calming the stressed-out mind.
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Best Self Mind
Rethinking Procrastination: Maybe It’s Not So Bad After All?
A surprising take on procrastination — how to use it, not be used by it — and clear up the mind-clutter in the process
Best Self Body
Yoga for Sciatica: Seven Poses for Relief
Is yoga beneficial for sciatica? Yes! Here are the 7 best yoga poses for sciatica pain and which poses to avoid
Cheers! Here’s to Redefining Our Relationship To Alcohol (and Ourselves)
Redefining our relationship to alcohol needn’t require abstinence—it’s about putting self-care practices in place before the holiday hangover
Planet
Not In My Backyard: The Reality of Human Trafficking and 5 Steps to End It
Revealing the ugly underbelly of human trafficking, one woman answers the question: What can we do?
To Sea or Not to Sea: An Entrepreneur’s Vision For Environmental Change
27-year old founder of Rockay, an environmentally responsible enterprise, explores the problem and solutions of the growing ocean pollution crisis.
Youth
Kids, Quarantine & Devices: Managing Screen Time During COVID and Beyond
In a time where parents find themselves wearing many hats, it’s easy to reach for a screen. Here are tips from an expert on managing kids & technology.
Happy Right Now: Empowering Children To Find Happiness Within
A children’s book teaches that the best way to be happy is to embrace the circumstances we find ourselves in each day rain or shine.
Gallery
Bright Lights, Covid City: Broadway in the Dark
An ode to the city that (almost) never sleeps; a photographer turns his lens on New York City’s majestic theatre district during COVID
Following The Doodle: An Artist’s Journey Of Reclaiming A Long-Forgotten Passion
How a doodle reconnects an artist to her past and her present and unleashes a body of work.
Best Self Bytes
I Don’t Live There Anymore
A recent dream reminds me of the journey, the whole journey; where I once was, where I am today (and where I don’t want to go again).
BECOMING: Beyond Achieving, Acquiring, Doing…Who Are You Becoming?
Are you lost in achieving and far from being? Release yourself from the rat race of ‘doing’ and focus on ‘becoming’…all that your soul truly desires.
Fresh! New Inspiration
Wait for it: Exploring the Virtues of Patience
We are not a society that practices or values patience; but what have we lost in our pursuit of instant gratification?
Turning Your Home Into a More Healthy and Productive Space in 2021
If your home has become your office of late, maybe it’s time to look deeper into making a more healthful environment where you work
BE STILL: The Power of Stillness & Silence
Practicing stillness and silence is a simple, yet profoundly beneficial form of self-care… here’s why
