Enhance Your Health with Inner Smile Meditation

Enhance Your Health with Inner Smile Meditation

Often life is fraught with both exhilaration and exhaustion. It is essential to balance daily obligations with time to rest and recharge.

A Taoist technique I often use—to bring myself back into the present moment, and to provide a burst of positive energy—is the Inner Smile meditation.

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9 Reasons to Go on a Spiritual Tour

9 Reasons to Go on a Spiritual Tour

A spiritual tour is designed to enhance your appreciation of other cultures and deepen your connection to your inner wisdom.

Intentional spiritual travel helps you change your way of thinking while you explore vibrant cultures and gorgeous landscapes elsewhere in the world.

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9 Tips for How to Beat Holiday Stress

9 Tips for How to Beat Holiday Stress

The holidays bring twinkling lights, the scent of baking cookies, gatherings with friends and family, and stress. The increased social and financial pressures of this season often create extra challenges. However, implementing these 9 tips may help reduce stress during the holidays.

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How Mindfulness Supports You as You Age

How Mindfulness Supports You as You Age

Mindfulness is the secular practice of intentional, present moment awareness of your thoughts, bodily sensations, and feelings without judgment or distress. It counteracts when your brain is on autopilot and is a useful tool helping you effectively respond to the demands of daily life. Mindfulness is an essential component of healthy aging.

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10 Scientific Benefits of Compassion Meditation

10 Scientific Benefits of Compassion Meditation

In western culture, meditation was once considered to be a new-age, mystical practice. However, mindfulness and meditation have become mainstream. Over the past ten years, researchers have studied and validated the benefits of mindfulness, and current research now highlights the scientific benefits of compassion meditation as well.

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