Upcoming Webinar On Contemplative Activism

The webinar will be a live stream lecture, during which participants will be able to chat and submit questions of Makransky live. John Makransky is the author or Awakening through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness and teaches at the Harvard Divinity School. For more information on the webinar and how to register visit the ACMHE website.

January 24, 2023 · 1 min · 56 words · Jeff Gutierrez

Verizon Announces 10 Year Price Lock For Its Home Internet

This is a limited-time offer, though. While Verizon didn’t specify any dates, the company made it clear that the offer won’t stay forever. T-Mobile’s price lock, meanwhile, is always available and is a lifetime offer. Your monthly rental will remain the same as long as you are a customer, not just for the next ten years. And this is for both mobile and broadband services. Moreover, Verizon only covers the “monthly base price” of your home internet service, which starts at just $25 per month....

January 24, 2023 · 2 min · 353 words · Matthew Baker

Veterans Relearn Compassion Through Meditation

Veterans Affairs estimates that hundreds of thousands of servicemen and servicewoman who return home develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). And in 2007, the VA reported that no drug should be considered effective for PTSD. It seems there is no easy answer. But there are alternatives. Leah Weiss, a meditation expert at Stanford University, leads vets through compassion cultivation training. The aim is to shift their thinking from others being a potential threat to others being “just like me....

January 24, 2023 · 1 min · 154 words · Joshua Gillespie

W A I T A Minute

That’s a lot of rapid-fire, non-face-toface communicating. For teenagers this can be especially tricky, expecially once you add in an adolescent’s proclivity for impulsivity—makes it a little easier to understand how they can land themselves in the world of sexting and cyber-bullying pretty fast. “Adolescents are biologically more prone to making decisions that are not well thought out,” says Tristan Gorrindo, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital. “The part of the brain right behind the forehead, which controls judgment, is at that time undergoing a rapid period of development,” says Gorrindo, who is studying the way families use technology....

January 24, 2023 · 2 min · 231 words · Christina Brown

Want To Change In The New Year It Starts With Mindfulness

There’s simply so much truth to this. However, most of the time we live without intentionality, and that’s when we look back many years later and say, “Where did it all go?” It’s time to live as if it mattered. We can think of mindfulness, the act of paying attention on purpose and without judgment, as a kind of mental training to be more intentional with our lives. Think about how the act of priming works: If the morning starts out with worries about all the work to do that day and the mind keeps practicing worrying, then when you get to work, everything you see will be regarded through an anxious lens....

January 24, 2023 · 2 min · 321 words · Paul Freeman
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