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Get at least seven and a half hours of sleep a night. He's educated and wise, and the breadth of his knowledge helps him see how interconnected many social problems are. Vipassana meditation addresses the other component: insight. However, if everyone will be wearing jeans and t-shirts, don't show up …

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Father says that I'll never amount to much, that my brothers are smart, that they take after him, and that I'm stupid like my mother. They thrust it into the fire until the point was blazing hot. The central focus of this phase is to encourage your clients to develop …

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In the long term, physical exercise enables the mind to give the best of itself. I do remember hearing my dad explain it to people and realizing that for him, who had studied at U of T and at Harvard, Ryerson might seem like a step down. Because our culture …

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At last, a solution to quietening down all that monkey-chatter in our heads for greater peace and calm. David always seemed surprised when I'd hand him a letter or note I wrote during particularly boring lectures. Like their namesake, iceberg beliefs can be difficult to steer around and can even …

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One has to live by another one and constantly oriented towards another one. I mean, don't try other people's feelings in their coordinate systems. Research indicates that over half of us will recall having had a lucid dream at least once in our lives, but that fewer than a quarter …

And if the criticism is valid, I consider: what's working, what's not working, and what could I do differently? These groups also apply several modern and proven to work tactics that may end up exposing others to danger. I trust the influencers who are brave enough to sacrifice pride and …