Being+Mindful

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The times they are a changin' ...... How do we manage the information overload we face every day? What does it mean to multi-task? How can we become more mindful about the way we live our lives?
 * ~ **Exploring the Questions** ||


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"Mindfulness is a state of active, open attention on the present. When you're mindful, you observe your thoughts and feelings from a distance, without judging them good or bad. Instead of letting your life pass you by, mindfulness means living in the moment and awakening to experience." [|Psychology Today]

Wholeheartedness is an undivided commitment to something. This [|article from The New York Times] shares a classroom practice. What effect might this have [|emotionally], intellectually, for students and teachers?

//Mindfulness, while common in hospitals, corporations, professional sports and even prisons, is relatively new in the education of squirming children. But a small but growing number of schools in places like Oakland and Lancaster, Pa., are slowly embracing the concept — as they did yoga five years ago — and institutions, like the psychology department at __ [|Stanford University] __ and the Mindfulness Awareness Research Center at the__ [|University of California] __, Los Angeles, are trying to measure the effects. //

Howard Rheingold's video on Attention Literacy. Let's share ideas about this.

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Let's also take a look at these: [|Brain Rules] [|Fully Present]

**About Your Guide:** Susan Carter Morgan [|blog], [|twitter]

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