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		<title>The Necessary Ingredient to Prime Your Mind Toward Happiness and Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back I wrote the blog Neuroplasticity, Gratitude, and Your Mental Health: Food for Thought and thousands of people viewed it and were reminded of the really powerful effects of counting blessings over burdens. This made me think of two critical elements that can help shape our happiness and success.The first is proactively looking at what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Unstuck from Automatic Negative Thinking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you were sitting in a room and just outside you heard the waves of the ocean on one side and a jack hammer on the left side, assuming the decibel level was the same, which would your brain be drawn to? If you guessed the jack hammer, you’re right. But why is it that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Happiest People Don&#8217;t Have the Best of Everything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Throughout our lives we&#8217;ve been interpreting and making meaning out of all kinds of events. Every event by itself is just an event, but the way we see it, the importance we give it, how it weaves into the fabric of our cells makes all the difference. This meaning that we make then goes on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mindfulness, Children and Parenting: An Interview with Amy Saltzman, MD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The theory and practice of mindfulness as a way for children to calm their busy minds, self regulate, become more hopeful and happy has been an area of increasing interest. The potential impact on our culture is great as it affects future generations. It&#8217;s my pleasure to bring you this interview with Amy Saltzman, MD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addiction: Breaking Free from the Next Fix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Addictive behaviors are universal. According to the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, one in eight Americans suffers with addictive behaviors regarding drugs or alcohol and it costs society approximately $250 billion per year. In addition to addictive behaviors potentially having a strong genetic link, the increasing stress in our culture makes it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindfulness/2012/01/addiction-breaking-free-from-the-next-fix/</link>
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		<title>Mindfulness Over Mood: The Now Effect and Your Mental Health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every moment of our lives our brains are rapidly taking in information and making snap judgments, interpretations and decisions based on what we see, hear, smell, touch, and taste. Depending on how we&#8217;re feeling we&#8217;ll interpret it differently. Even though we believe our thoughts represent reality, the truth is, our thoughts are not facts. A lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindfulness/2012/01/mindfulness-over-mood-the-now-effect-and-your-mental-health/</link>
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		<title>What Drives Out the Darkness? Wisdom from Martin Luther King, Jr.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I grab a quote from a man whose dream lifted millions of people and whose inspiration is felt all over the world today. Martin Luther King, Jr. said: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” This reminds me of an earlier blog post I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindfulness/2012/01/what-drives-out-the-darkness-wisdom-from-martin-luther-king-jr/</link>
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		<title>Bringing Mindfulness to Schools: An Interview with Co-Founder Megan Cowan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been following The Mindfulness and Psychotherapy Blog, you&#8217;ve read and interacted around the psychology and neuroscience of mindfulness in relation to stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and so much more. Today, I have the honor of interviewing, Megan Cowan, Co-founder and Executive Director of Mindful Schools bringing mindfulness to children. Megan will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindfulness/2012/01/bringing-mindfulness-to-schools-an-interview-with-co-founder-megan-cowan/</link>
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		<title>How Do You Generate Gratitude? Watch the Unfolding of Life (Video)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The experience of gratitude has now been well researched and documented as something that is good for our health and well-being. But more importantly, with any of experience gratitude, we experience health and well-being and that has to be the most important indicator to generate this in our daily lives. Perhaps it&#8217;s because when we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindfulness/2012/01/how-do-you-generate-gratitude-watch-the-unfolding-of-life-video/</link>
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		<title>Forgiveness: 9 Steps to Releasing the Burden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I see it every day. We all hold grudges against other people who we feel have hurt or offended us in some way or another. We even hold these grudges for people who aren&#8217;t even alive anymore. We do this with the false idea that somehow we are making them suffer by being hurt and [...]]]></description>
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