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An interesting thought about winter, which is showing itself even before the solstice: “There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you…. In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you…

Last week I took a most lovely yoga workshop than ran every morning. In it, the teacher asked us again and again to notice when we got so stressed we actually stopped breathing. Like the Buddhist-ish instructor she is, she emphasized the importance of simply NOTICING, not instantly following up with self-flaggelation. Then one student…

What really makes you happy?  Get clear about that, advises Christine Arylo in her fabulous gallery of tips to build self-confidence.  She says: “Stop trying to fit into the expectations that outside forces–society, family, work, friends–have said you must achieve in order to be successful, happy, and accepted, and start asking yourself, “What really makes…

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