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How Meditation Protects the Aging Brain from Decline

By B. Grace Bullock — 2017

A string of recent research suggests regular meditation practice may boost mental flexibility and focus, offering powerful protection against cognitive decline.

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The Focused Leader

How effective executives direct their own—and their organizations’—attention.

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Daniel Goleman
2013
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If You Want to Change, Start from the Ground Up

When people seek personal change in their lives, they often don’t get very far.

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Deepak Chopra
2020
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How to Make Your Meditations Effortless

Meditation has a built-in problem that needs solving, the problem of noncompliance. Countless people have taken up the practice, motivated by the benefits of meditation supported by literally thousands of studies.

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Deepak Chopra
2020
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How to Start a Home Meditation Practice

Zen teacher Norman Fischer proposes a two-week trial run to get your meditation practice started and looks at how to deal with some of the obstacles you may encounter.

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Norman Fischer
2019
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How Meditation Helps in Difficult Times

Pema Chödrön on four ways that meditation helps us deal with difficulty.

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Pema Chödrön
2009
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‘I Realized I Don’t Have to Believe My Thoughts’

Our mindfulness practice is not about vanquishing our thoughts. It’s about becoming aware of the process of thinking so that we are not in a trance—lost inside our thoughts.

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Tara Brach
2014
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I Joined Airbnb at 52, and Here’s What I Learned About Age, Wisdom, and the Tech Industry

Perhaps a little more intergenerational learning is just what other high-tech firms need.

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Chip Conley
2017
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How Midlife Professionals Can Leverage Their Age, Wisdom, and Experience More Powerfully at Work

In our increasingly accelerated world that reveres the young, many midlife professionals sense that the ground is shifting beneath their feet, leaving them feeling invisible, undervalued and threatened by the digital natives nipping at their heels.

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Kathy Caprino
2018
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How Meditation Changes Your Brain—and Your Life

When neuroscientists tested expert meditators, they discovered something surprising: The effect of Buddhist meditation isn’t just momentary; it can alter deep-seated traits in our brain patterns and character.

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Daniel Goleman, Richard Davidson
2018
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Sister Joan Chittister on Freedom in Our Later Years

As we grow older, we no longer need to “fit in” but are free to be ourselves and explore new ideas.

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Joan Chittister
2014
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