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		<title>Is &#8220;patience&#8221; a state of mind?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I struggle with patience.  Two phrases make me cringe, &#8216;be patient&#8217; and &#8216;have faith.&#8217; I don&#8217;t know why. Is it because I am immature or childish and I just want what I want now? Does one have patience because they have faith and trust or is patience something that transcends the content of thoughts and better understood in the context of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Ways to Get Present, Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are five ways to get into the moment when you&#8217;ve lost your center and stess has taken over. Maybe you have heard all of these words of wisdom before; however, here is the medtitative or yogic perspective.  Remember, our mind, attachment to our thoughts, our stories, are the source of our suffering (stress); in order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resistance, a most common approach to life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched as my brother started the process of putting his son to bed. His then two and half year old screamed and cried – seems he really didn&#8217;t want to go to bed. My brother inquired without judgment, &#8220;you can do this the hard way or you can do this the easy way, it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“The hardest thing to do in the world is to show-up”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was watching Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness lecture to Google employees on Youtube and as he spoke these words or something like them I thought “that’s it, isn’t it?” It seems for most of us, or the people I hang-out with, once we start whittling down our wants and needs, once we get past the “once X [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are we addicted to thinking?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I talk to lots of  people about meditation. We were just at the Yoga and Pilates Conference in Vancouver where I heard about participant&#8217;s experience with meditation.  Interestingly, the thing we heard most was &#8221;I can&#8217;t meditate because I can&#8217;t stop thinking &#8230;&#8221;   Imagine that, the very thing we are trying to get a little control over, a little respite from, [...]]]></description>
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