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	<title>360 Degrees of Mindful Living</title>
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	<description>Putting mindfulness into practice in every aspect of your daily life, with Pavel Somov.</description>
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		<title>Acceptance of Denial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Denial is often viewed as a failure of acceptance.  When viewed as such, denial seems irrational.  But, of course, it isn&#8217;t.  Denial is an affirmation of status quo.  Denial is an insistence on what subjectively is.  Reality changes non-stop.  But mind doesn&#8217;t.  Mind first creates an illusion of permanence and then clings to its own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindful-living/2011/07/acceptance-of-denial/</link>
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		<title>Does a Whirlpool Have Identity?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two thoughts, two writers (both “me”), a few minutes apart: (1) “Writing reorganizes the organism that authors it.” (2) “All mind is second hand info.” As “I” look at these two thoughts, “I” feel that they were written by different writers.  And they were: when “I” wrote the first thought “I” reorganized myself.  This new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindful-living/2011/06/does-a-whirlpool-have-identity/</link>
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		<title>Hunting Unicorns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People say: “Perfection is unattainable.”  And yet they chase it.  What a psychologically toxic set-up!  What a self-fulfilling destiny of dissatisfaction!  Chasing theoretical perfection is like hunting unicorns.  Good luck. Dare to consider: reality is (already) perfect and perfectible.  This “and” is the hardest “and” to swallow for a dualistic mind.  Reality is already the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindful-living/2011/06/hunting-unicorns/</link>
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		<title>Koans: Uncertainty Training Therapy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Psychologically speaking, koans are a unique way to inoculate a human mind to the anxiety of uncertainty.  When we encounter uncertainty, we are stumped.  Uncertainty frustrates us with its enigmatic nonsense.  Koans, in their unanswerable quality, effectively simulate such moments of uncertainty.  Author Hee-Jin Kim explains: the koans are “realized, not solved” (1975, 101). Admittedly, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindful-living/2011/06/koans-uncertainty-training-therapy/</link>
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		<title>Existentially Rich</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the edge of the Grand Existential Canyon we sit, minds dangling over the cliff, Burning* millions upon millions of our cellular bodies, daily, like endless money, Feeling grand as ever, as if we were rich (and we are (we just don’t know it yet (but we will (eventually)))). *metabolism is a slow cellular fire]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindful-living/2011/06/existentially-rich/</link>
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		<title>Perfectionism is a Destiny of Dissatisfaction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagination is always at least one step ahead of reality.  When we appraise the world, ourselves, or others, we compare what is (the real) with what theoretically could be (the imagined). Say you got a B on a test.  You look at this grade and you think that you could have done better, that you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindful-living/2011/06/perfectionism-is-a-destiny-of-dissatisfaction/</link>
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		<title>There Is No Evil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no evil.  Do an inventory of this planet and you will find no living, breathing, menacing evil.  There is just human behavior, in all its self-serving short-sightedness.  Evil is a concept, a reification of an observed pattern.  It is a useful semantic short-cut to flag dangerous (as in “unsafe”) people.  But there is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindful-living/2011/06/there-is-no-evil/</link>
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		<title>I Love Junk Email</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love junk email: its desperation, its naiveté, its brazenness.  I can relate to the humanity (psychology) behind it.  Can you? For example (from this morning): “LOAN OFFER!  READ THE ATTACHED FILE AND CONTACT MR. CLARK.” Yes, it was all in caps.  And no, I didn&#8217;t contact Mr. Clark&#8230; You just know there’s suffering and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindful-living/2011/06/i-love-junk-mail/</link>
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		<title>E-Health is Psychological Health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who are we saving all these word-processing files for? Are we going to read what we wrote?!  All these unfinished poems?  All these unpolished stories of narrative fiction?  All these drafts of actualities? Of course, not: we are once, we are ever a-changing, we are - in a sense &#8211; never&#8230; Even if we save [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindful-living/2011/06/e-health-is-psychological-health/</link>
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		<title>A Summertime Compassion Training Opportunity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summertime means bugs (particularly, stink bugs in Eastern US).  Bugs bug us.  We don’t like to be bugged so we kill bugs.  We are playing gods, taking it upon ourselves to decide matters of life and death.   No big deal, right?  After all, it’s just a bug, right?  Right, it is just a bug. Where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindful-living/2011/05/a-summertime-compassion-training-opportunity/</link>
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