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Is Virtual Zen Real?

Photo by orvaratlii Virtual Zen sounds like a contradiction. After all, Zen means waking up to each moment. It’s very much about being real and inhabiting life fully. Can ‘virtual’ Zen work? Our first Virtual Zen Retreat, AWARENESS: MIRACLE OF NOW, was a foundational retreat. My aim was to offer an opportunity to learn how [...]

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Can Meditation Heal?

Photo by bluewinx15 By Mary Jaksch The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is [...]

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How to Slow Down Time

By Mary Jaksch Does time seem to run faster and faster as you go through life? Sometimes time seems to zap by in a flash; at other times boring hours seem to go on and on for ever. Especially on Friday afternoons! If you look at your life, and especially at your work: do you [...]

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17 Guest-Posts You Don’t Want to Miss

By Mary Jaksch In response to requests from readers, I would like to offer you a list of 17 guest posts I wrote. Why Leo Babauta of Zen Habits Gave Me His Blog Resilience: The Key to Surviving Anything Are You Sabotaging Your Plan to Exercise More? Know Your Strength for More Success: Are You [...]

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Optimize Your Life With the SWOT Matrix

Photo bySolar ikon The economic crisis is casting a shadow on many lives at the moment. Maybe you too have some fears about the future? Are you worried about your job? Or about having less opportunities? I’m going to to show you a simple way of optimizing your life. It’s called the SWOT analysis and [...]

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De-stress, Unwind: The True Value of Silence

Is stress driving you round the bend? Do you feel something has to give in your life? There is a simple remedy: Silence . Check out your soundscape at the moment. What do you hear? I bet it’s not waves lapping at the shore, or a dawn chorus! It’s more likely to be traffic noise, [...]

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Save the World – One Breath at a Time

By Mary Jaksch What do you think about most? It’s likely to be about yourself. How you were, how you are, how you will be, what people think about you, and so on. . That is why the world is like it is: full of suffering. Just open the newspaper and you will see suffering [...]

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