Tag: mental-health
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The Hidden Key to Informal Meditation: Unlock Your Brain’s Urge to Be Happy Anytime, Anywhere
I love my formal meditation. It’s taken me more than a few years to get there, but I love connecting every morning to a basic sense of okayness that is always there. I find this easiest to recognize early in the day when my body is still and my mind is free of distractions. Informal…
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How I Built My Wisephone
A little over ten years ago, I had what my charming meditation teacher calls a nervous breakthrough. I enjoyed my job as a freelance journalist and book critic in 2012, but the smartphone had ruined everything. The newspaper that had been the backbone of my income folded. Glossy thick magazines, now skeletal, were paying half…
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How Meditation Is Like Looking at The Sun
I was incredibly fortunate to experience the 2024 solar eclipse in optimal conditions. It was a warm spring day. The sky was clear. Montreal, the city I live in, was devoted to making this a communal experience, providing hundreds of thousands of eclipse glasses for free. Most of the schools were closed so that people…
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Harnessing The Unhappiness of Future Generations
Whether AI will support the happiness, or the misery, of future generations is up to us I didn’t need a world happiness report to tell me that young adults in North America are suffering alarming levels of unhappiness. I witnessed this first hand last week, when I went to see Dune with a young family member…
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Never mind the mindfulness
5 key differences between awareness meditation and mindfulness meditation I remember my first experience of awareness meditation like I remember the feeling of riding a bike without training wheels. Meditation master, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, used a Tibetan singing bowl for two very short guided meditations. In the first, the instruction was simple and clear: “Listen…
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Compassion over empathy in the era of AI
A while back, I had some very difficult news to convey to someone I cared about. Out of respect for privacy, I’m not going to go into details, but I knew this was news that was going to have a serious impact. I also knew the way that I delivered it might shape this person’s…
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