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November 5, 2019

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What Focusing on the Breath Does to Your Brain

What if you could regulate your stress levels by controlling your breath? A new study from the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research suggests that while fast breathing rates may promote feelings like anxiety, stress, and fear, slowing down our breath may reduce these very same emotions. This article from Greater Good Magazine examines how breathing impacts various regions of the brain responsible for thinking, feeling, and behavior. { read more }

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November 4, 2019

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What Are the Best Ways to Prevent Bullying in School?

Did you know that all 50 U.S. states require schools to have a policy against bullying? Despite this preventive measure, there has been a slight uptick in bullying over the past 3 years. “Bullying occurs everywhere, even in the highest-performing schools, and it is hurtful to everyone involved, from the targets of bullying to the witnesses–and even to bullies themselves.” In this Greater Good article, Diana Divecha, Ph.D., a developmental psychologist and assistant clinical professor at the Yale Child Study Center and Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, explores two of the most effective methods for combating bullying: building a positive school environment and advancing social and emotional learning. Read on to learn about why these methods are so effective and how they can lead to more inclusive, accepting educational environments. { read more }

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November 3, 2019

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How Oral Surgery Taught Me a Lesson in Wholeness

Andy Smallman created an “Anonymous Kindness” class some years back, suggesting each participant offer an anonymous kindness act toward someone each week. Recently he met with an anonymous act of kindness toward him: an organ donor’s bone to fill a hole in his mouth after oral surgery. Whose bone was it? he asked himself, and came up with a new answer “ours.” { read more }

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Smallman points out that we actually will never know what impact our small acts might have. Yet one small act can lead to many small acts that together might change the world. Try it for yourself and see if your small act of kindness creates further generosity. Then check out his website https://kindliving.net.

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November 2, 2019

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The Underland is a Deeply Human Realm

Robert Macfarlane writes vividly about outdoor spaces, borders, and the way in which one type of territory transforms subtly into another. His new book, Underland, descends into a quite literally overlooked landscape: the one beneath our feet. He wrestles with grand questions about humanity and its effects on the natural world even as he chronicles journeys to isolated caves, the man-made caverns below cities, and scientific research facilities whose underground isolation is essential to their mission. { read more }

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Macfarlane reminds us that there are consequences to the power of our numbers and technologies, including “a keen sense of time and space running out.” Do you feel time is running out on our life as humans on this earth? How could all of us be more aware of “the deep-time future we are presently making”?

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November 1, 2019

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Visible Work, Invisible Women

“‘Visible Work, Invisible Women’, is a fully curated, online still-photo exhibition. This video tour takes viewers around the entire physical exhibition, with original photographs and texts reproduced below as an article. All the photographs were shot by P. Sainath across ten Indian states between 1993 and 2002. These roughly span the first decade of the economic reform and end two years before the launch of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.” The beauty of the photographs and the spirit of the village women they depict are powerfully moving. Sainath’s voiceover adds meaningful context and depth to each image. { read more }

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Created by P. Sainath and his team, The People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) is a journalism website reporting the stories of 833 million rural Indians. It is an archive of the living past, a journal of the present, a textbook of the future. You can learn more about it here. { more }

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October 31, 2019

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13 Life Lessons From 13 Years of Brain Pickings

“On October 23, 2006,Brain Pickingswas born as a plain-text email to seven friends. It was then, and continues to be, a labor of love and ledger of curiosity, although the mind and heart from which it sprang have changed –have grown, I hope — tremendously. At the end of the first decade, I toldits improbable origin storyand drew from its evolution the ten most important things this all-consuming daily endeavor taught me about writing and living — largely notes to myself, perhaps best thought of as resolutions in reverse, that may or may not be useful to others.” Brain Pickings is now thirteen, and reflecting on the last three years, its creator Maria Popova adds three more insights to the original ten gleaned from her journey. Read all thirteen here. { read more }

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Reflect on the past thirteen years of your own life. What insights have surfaced from your experiences in this timeframe?

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October 30, 2019

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Bye Bye Plastic Bags

“Five years ago, two young women decided they were going to do something about the plastic problem on their island of Bali. And Bye Bye Plastic Bags was born. How young? So young one of them couldn’t make it to our midweek interview. “She’s at school,” explained 18-year-old Melati Wijsen, talking about her 16- year- old sister Isabel.”She’s just halfway through grade 11 and she’s putting her focus more into graduating high school.”Bali is part of the island nation of Indonesia, which is the world’s second biggest polluter when it comes to marine plastic…”NPR shares more here. { read more }

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