It is natural to want love. But sometimes, in spite of all the good things you are doing to keep it going, love falls apart. And you fall apart and everything around you seems to fall apart. And it feels rotten. Even if you have a regular mindfulness practice, at this gut-wrenching moment you might not want to focus on your breath or your body because it all feels so raw and horrible—and then you might feel guilty because you think you should be practicing, but you just can’t or don’t want to....

In the final year of my PhD program at Princeton, one warm September afternoon, my wife and I were riding our bikes side by side, lost in conversation. We didn’t notice as we veered toward each other—until our handlebars locked together at full speed. CRACK. I heard the spokes in my front wheel shatter as my handlebars twisted uncontrollably. I launched forward head first onto the gravel path. Five seconds later I lay on the ground, staring up at the blue sky, my head, neck, and jaw throbbing, my wife leaning over me....

Define the purpose and desired outcome Get clear why you want to create this community and what you hope to accomplish. For example, you might want to start a community to help people manage stress, or you might want to help build a culture of awareness by teaching people to find comfort in stillness, or you may want to connect with others who already practice mindfulness and share ideas. Find a champion A champion is a person in a senior role (or someone with influence) inside the company who can help you promote the group and deal with any potential legal or human resource issues....

This type of braiding hair may feel old school to some, many of us can remember getting our hair braided with wet and wavy hair during our teenage years, but believe it or not, it’s not as trendy as you think. It’s more of a classic. This type of hair can be styled in so many different ways that work for any season or reason. We highlight different ways you can wear wet and wavy braiding hair below:...

The boots aren’t a knockin’, and as a matter of fact you are just trying to survive day by day most of the time, so what on earth do we do about Valentine’s Day!?! Holidays in general can be a bit rough if you are in a rocky relationship, but Valentine’s Day seems to be especially hard! I mean come on, this is an entire day devoted to the mushy, gushy love stuff and there may be a shortage of that currently in your relationship!...

But it’s not just a matter of each media outlet hoping we’ll absorb the latest information, says scholar and author Tim Wu. It’s about getting your eyeballs on the screen in order to sell your attention to advertisers—that’s been the business model for newspapers since the 1830s. You sell the minds of the audience to advertisers—that’s your product. In his new book The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads, Wu highlights how this business model has permeated into so many areas of our life....

Remarkably, feelings about one situation rarely color our first impressions of new people or situations that we encounter soon afterward. We seem to have a built-in regulatory mechanism to protect us from this “emotional spillover,” and a recent study published in the journal Psychological Science explored a specific brain area that might be responsible. This region is known to be involved in controlling our impulsive urges, like when we choose healthier food over junk food....

Recipes Matter Staff at Bon Appétit and the home-cooking website Epicurious spoke out about racism in the workplace after a photo of then editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport in brownface circulated online. As a result, Epicurious launched the Repair Project, auditing 35,000 recipes dating back to 1965. They’re addressing issues relating to authorship, appropriation, and racial insensitivity, editing words like “exotic” and bringing honesty to the history of certain dishes. Hug a Cow While many spent quarantine in too close proximity to family members (taxing patience and internet connections), others experienced severe loneliness due to a lack of connection....

“I’m Lucky to Have You” is one of the best things you can say to your spouse on March 17. Why not give them a whole pouch full of reasons why you feel lucky to have them in your life? Check out how easy {and adorable} this surprise is to put together! Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. To learn more about ’em, click here. I love how simple this project is!...

The skit was funny and wildly popular because, in its desperate plea to be convincing, it captured perfectly the trick and the trap of most self-help: there’s too much self. The genre invites you to be self-involved, self-serious and usually overly self-critical and ultimately self-defeating. The self-help aisle screams out for your attention with promises of a new and better version of yourself. You will be lighter, calmer, fitter, less stressed, less angry, smarter, and more prosperous....

Dealing with that onslaught of negative internal commentary (“My nose is too big/too small.” “I wish I had more hair/less hair!”) can actually help us be more compassionate overall. Try this mindfulness practice from Mindful magazine: “5 Steps to a Better Relationships with Yourself.”

All is fair in love and war, right?! Well, today we are going to find out. I have the perfect end of summer date night for you and your hubby OR for a big group. Leave this invite with a bag of ammo to get them excited. Next up, you’ll need to prep your weapons. Lucky for me, my awesome brother made these for us for Christmas this past year so the hard work was done for me....

I want to believe that regular mindfulness practice could make life easier for all of us. But in spite of my sincere efforts, I can still be reactive (ok, verrry reactive), I am not debt-free, and I can’t even find jeans that make my butt look good! Life presents us with obstacles, tragedies, death. How can mindfulness practice combat the injustices of the world when it can’t even prevent water retention?...

Everything You Need to Know About the Male Top Knot The male top knot is, quite literally, one of the coolest ways to wear your hair this year. Not only is it a trending look, but it also is a put-together way to wear your longer top lengths while you wait for your undercut to grow out (or, you know, while in quarantine). Read on for tips and tricks on creating the perfect male top knot: First things first: A top knot men love is just an ordinary knot made by pulling hair halfway through an elastic....

Mindful Cities Launches In May, Flint, Michigan, became the first city to adopt mindfulness programming to support the community. Civic leaders took part in Collective Wisdom, a two-day gathering featuring the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute mindfulness-training program, created at Google. Supported by the Foundation for a Mindful Society—the parent organization of Mindful—and The Crim Fitness Foundation, the initiative provides education and resources to city leaders and the public about the benefits of mindfulness meditation....

From Reuters: For the new report, the researchers searched several electronic databases that catalog medical research for trials that randomly assigned people with a certain condition—such as anxiety, pain or depression—to do meditation or another activity. These randomized controlled trials are considered the gold standard of medical research. The researchers found 47 studies with over 3,500 participants that met their criteria. After combining the data, Goyal said his team found between a 5 and 10 percent improvement in anxiety symptoms among people who took part in mindfulness meditation, compared to those who did another activity....

How to Wear Red Mermaid Hair this Halloween Whether you’re dying your hair or wearing a bold wig this Halloween, find your best fit for mermaid hair in our guide below. 1. Dip Dyed Red Hair Looking to sport the mermaid hair without having to commit your full hair color to the look? Then try this dip-dyed hair look. This hairstyle can be achieved using red hair wax or hair spray dye....

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