The RAIN Practice RAIN is an acronym for a practice specifically geared to ease emotional confusion and suffering. When a negative or thorny feeling comes up, we pause, remember the four steps cued by the letters, and begin to pay attention in a new way. R — Recognize: It is impossible to deal with an emotion—to be resilient in the face of difficulty—unless we acknowledge that we’re experiencing it. So the first step is simply to notice what is coming up....

Check out these amazing foolproof updo hairstyles to wear on a rainy day: Rainy Day Updos to Withstand the Weather You don’t have to let the rain stop you from having a great hair day. Check out these updos, which make the perfect go-to style when you still want to look put together, but don’t want to worry about your hair all day. 1. Side-Twisted Bun The perfect hairstyle for those days you happen to get caught in the rain....

All Hallow’s Eve If you are looking for a Halloween couples date, these gals throw an amazing one called All Hallow’s Eve. There are ideas for everything you need to throw a fantastic Halloween affair. They had luminaries lining the walk with warning messages on them, an old dracula movie playing through their window, and a spooky specimens treat table with everything from Box Jellyfish Tentacles to Brazilian Wandering Spider Eggs....

We’re pretty sure others have caught onto the trend too, so don’t be surprised to spot a lot of baker boy hats at your favorite fast fashion stores tomorrow (you might just see them today, too). To help you stay ahead of the game, we’re helping you decide what hairstyles look best with this fall accessory. Read on to check out some of our favorite easy hairstyle ideas to try with your baker boy hat this season....

Well, to my surprise, I started hearing music play. My hubby had put a CD that he made for me when we were dating, into the CD Player. ALL love songs! It definitely set the mood for the rest of night and was totally unexpected.

Sodium Chloride Free Shampoo: Is It Worth The Switch? First off, what is sodium chloride? Well, it’s just an elaborate word for table salt. It’s used as an additive in tons of personal hygiene products, like shampoos, conditioners, face wash and even toothpaste. It’s used as a thickener and helps give off that sudsy, bubbly lather in shampoos and conditioners, and helps give off the appearance that you’re getting a deeper, richer cleanse....

Gym Hairstyles for Guys 1. Fluffy Wave With you look being all about your well-conatined fluffy hair, you may find that that using some gel like the Axe Messy Look: Matte Gel will get your hair off the sides of your hair as your style is concentrated towards the front. 2. Curly Top This gym hairstyle enables much of your hair to be off your neck where you don’t have to worry about it getting in the way....

There is no denying that there is something MUY sexy about the Spanish language and culture, so this date night is sure to be hot, hot, HOT! INVITE: Start by inviting your, soon to be, latin lover with this beautiful invite by Leah Aldous. Write in the FECHA (date), HORA (time), and the LUGAR (place) and leave it for your spouse to find. Anticipation is everything! SPANISH PHRASES: There is a reason that the Spanish language is considered a “Romance Language”....

This GORGEOUS care package will surely make anyone GREEN with envy this St. Patrick’s Day! We’re all about love over luck and we’ve got the printables to help YOU celebrate! While this festive Irish holiday focuses a lot on luck, many of us realize that marriage can be hard work but sooo worth it! This care package printable is a great reminder that marriage needs more than luck, it needs LOVE!...

Get ready to treat your family to dinner at… “St. Patty’s Party Pub!” This is a super-simple party that your kids will remember forever, and with our free printable dinner menu- we’ve got all the hard part done! It’s time to get a little crazy because this is no ordinary menu! In fact, your kids won’t have any idea what they’re ordering. Instead of the menu having the actual food names, you’ll be using St....

3 Summer Day Hairstyles to Try 1. Double Dutch Braid A classic Dutch braid is perfect for warmer weather. But we say why not go for two Dutch braids? Follow our Dutch braid tutorial to learn how to create this simple summer day hairstyle. You can even take it up a notch by giving it a sleek and wet look by adding in some Nexxus Exxtra Hold Sculpting Gel to your roots before braiding....

A Mindful Garden Walk In a natural setting, we can be refreshed by the qualities in nature, so one of the ways to begin is to try to find a garden or a forest. Today we’re situated in one of the most beautiful gardens in the world, the San Francisco Botanical Garden, and it provides an excellent place for awareness meditation in nature. Try This Awareness in Nature Practice In focused attention practice, we talk about if the mind is wandering, rest your attention back on the breath or find the way back to the breath....

From Gretchen Reynolds, writing for The New York Times‘ Well blog: When the volunteers made their way through the urbanized, busy areas, particularly the heavily trafficked commercial district at the end of their walk, their brain wave patterns consistently showed that they were more aroused and frustrated than when they walked through the parkland, where brain-wave readings became more meditative. While traveling through the park, the walkers were mentally quieter....

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So how do you facilitate meaning, connectedness, and true happiness for the people you lead? Or, more specifically, what qualities of mind does a leader need to develop to be better at leading this changing workforce? Based on extensive research—including surveys and assessments of tens of thousands of leaders—the three mental qualities stand out as being critical for increasing engagement, happiness, and productivity: Mindfulness (M) Selflessness (S) Compassion (C) These are foundational qualities of great leadership that we call MSC leadership....

Wikipedia Entry from 2050 The Insight Age is a period in human history characterized by the shift from “continuous fractured attention” brought on by The Information Age through technology, to an age based on an expanded awareness and an increased ability to harness control of our attention to what matters. The onset of The Insight Age is associated with The Mindfulness Revolution, just as The Digital Revolution marked the onset of The Information Age....

“These days there are apps for learning mindfulness. There are mindfulness programs that are just a couple of hours long. I see and hear of teachers who are doing things that are a very long way from what I would recognize as a mindfulness-based stress reduction program,” says Susan Woods, who helped develop and set up the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy certification training curriculum for the Mindfulness-Based Professional Training Institute at the University of California, San Diego....

Just when you think you’ve out-lemon-ed anything there is to lemon (elbows, your highlights, the bathroom tub), here comes this fun new color trend proving, yet again, that our hair is one of the best canvasses out there for creative expression. Selfies of women with bright, zesty citrus-themed hair shades—like yellow, orange and lime green—have been blowing up our Instagram feeds and making us even more excited for sunny summer days ahead....

Celebrating World Afro Day The first World Afro Day Awards were held on Saturday, September 15th in London and featured a judge who hosted the evening for a night spent celebrating Afro excellence, including Afro hair, culture and identity. A well-rounded panel of judges included experts in the beauty, television, advertising, fashion and academic industries who are deeply invested in the representation of people of African descent in these spaces....