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How Meditation Improves Sleep

  • Post last modified:May 3, 2026
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Meditation doesn’t replace sleep, but it enhances it. It improves focus, increases attention, and most importantly, improves the quality of your sleep. One of the biggest causes of poor sleep today is a restless, racing mind. While things like caffeine, screen exposure, and artificial light disrupt sleep by affecting melatonin production, the deeper issue is mental overstimulation. Nothing calms that restless mind like meditation. Sleep aids, alcohol, and other substances…

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Do I Deserve Happiness?

  • Post last modified:September 4, 2026
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Does Everyone Deserve Happiness? Realizing You Are Worthy Right Now If you are breathing, you deserve happiness. Now, I don’t mean this as some political human right or some new-agey “soul” right. I also don’t mean that we deserve to always be laughing like fools. I don’t even mean that we deserve a perfect world or a world free from suffering, because that would not actually make us happy. If…

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How to Deal With Lack of Affection in Your Life

  • Post last modified:September 3, 2026
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Understanding Affection Deprivation and the Drive for TouchWe all need human touch and affection. It is as innate a drive as hunger and thirst. We love love, and so we seek it out, we crave it, and it is this force that has helped us work together to survive and thrive on this planet.Modern Technology: Isolation vs. Real ConnectionIt is true that in our modern society, it’s become easier to…

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The Spiritual Practice of Watching the Watcher

  • Post last modified:May 11, 2026
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If the unexamined life is not worth living, the unexamined mind is not worth having. Who are we? At the deepest sense of ourselves? What is this consciousness peering out at the world? And is it possible to turn our awareness back on itself? If we fail to look at ourselves, to understand who we truly are, to understand our unconscious thought patterns and habits, we are doomed to repeat…

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How can I stop feeling bad about aging and wrinkles?

  • Post last modified:May 1, 2026
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There’s no aging. There’s just this moment. There’s no future. There’s no past. There’s no “I was young, and now I’m old.” This is all comparison. This is all an illusion. This is all the symptom of a mind that can’t focus on reality and is always comparing this to the past, my life to someone else’s who’s better. Be grateful for this moment as it is. Don’t worry about…

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Fighting Jealousy and Insecurity: Stop Comparing Yourself to Others

  • Post last modified:September 1, 2026
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Why does someone else's success make us feel so crummy? Why do some people take pleasure in other people's successes, and other people become miserable with envy? We all know comparison is the thief of joy, so why do we still get jealous when scrolling through friends' vacation photos or seeing other people achieve big things or dealing with toxic colleagues? And most importantly, how can we be inspired by…

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How to Undo Societal Conditioning

  • Post last modified:September 1, 2026
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The Foundations of Conditioning Human Adaptability and Culture Human beings are the most remarkably adaptable species on Earth. We are blessed with the ability to adapt to any environment, location, and situation. A baby growing up in Spain will adapt to her culture and learn Spanish. A baby growing up in the Arctic will learn to icefish and speak Inuit. This adaptability gives us the variety of rich cultures and…

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My Experience at a Buddhist Himalayan Monastery

  • Post last modified:September 1, 2026
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"Buddhism is not a religion, it is a way of life."Visit to a Himalayan Monastery: Sanctuary in Dharamsala, IndiaI'm going to tell you about the time I visited a Buddhist monastery in Dharamsala, India, which is the home of the Tibetan people in exile from Tibet. India has been very kind in letting the Tibetans have sanctuary in Dharamsala and McLeodGanj in northern India. Very few, if any, countries were…

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Path to Peace Why We Quit on Ourselves So Easily

  • Post last modified:August 29, 2026
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Send me a message We quit on ourselves because we tied our confidence to the finish line. When the goal gets delayed, the confidence goes with it. If achievement is the only thing that makes us feel good, then 99% of our lives will feel like failure. The answer isn't smaller goals. It's moving where the good feeling comes from. Getting back up is the achievement. Real confidence comes from…

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How to Deal With Uncertainty About the Future in Life

  • Post last modified:August 29, 2026
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None of us are promised tomorrow, we are only promised this moment. Understanding why it is important to live in the present moment can turn that fear into beauty, making this instant far more precious and special. That can be scary, but it also makes this moment more beautiful, more precious, and more special. And while tomorrow’s uncertainty can be scary, the fact that this infinitely wondrous world is still…

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