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The Thrall & Detriment of Distraction: How the Focus of Meditation Can Help Us Show Up

But my brain, I realized, wasn’t just drifting. It was hungry. It was demanding to be fed the way the Net fed it—and the more it was fed, the hungrier it became… I wanted to beconnected. —Nicholas Carr, The Shallows:… Continue Reading…

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YOGA NIDRA: learn relaxation from the ancients

A two-hour workshop with Halli Bourne  Saturday, March 5, 2016 at Wellspring Yoga  3:00-5:00pm Yoga Nidra, or ‘the sleep of yogis,’ has been used for millennia to achieve alert relaxation and heightened inner awareness. The practice of engaging non-judgmental presence… Continue Reading…

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Changing the Way You Feel and Saving Yourself Suffering Through Mindfulness

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly… You must take a plunge… Continue Reading…

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Mindfulness Resolutions: A Decision For A Completely Different Year

You cannot change what you refuse to confront. ~John Reyes Last week I chatted with the attendant at the coffee shop I frequent about the imminent close of 2014. “I can’t wait for this year to be over,” she breathed,… Continue Reading…

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From Thinking To Being: The Mindful Solution To Daily Stress

Thinking, thinking, thinking. The mind is a stream, a rapid succession of thought layered upon thought, into a swirl of fear, hope, loathing, delight, discomfort, anger, relief and pain, where calm and peace for many of us are but mental… Continue Reading…

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Mindfulness Stress Busters: how to manage stress through mind-changing awareness

•Are you feeling overwhelmed by the daily grind and find your health and happiness suffering? •Do you feel bogged down in the small stuff? •Do you crave a way to detach and recharge? If you answered YES to any of… Continue Reading…

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Youthful Awareness

This writing is copyrighted and the exclusive work of Halli Bourne of True Self Wellness, LLC. …the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood…    ~Edna O’Brien How many of us reminisce about our younger days… Continue Reading…

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Simple Presence

This writing is copyrighted and the exclusive work of Halli Bourne of True Self Wellness, LLC.` The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ~Albert Einstein  An unexamined past can keep us stuck in patterns… Continue Reading…

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