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		<title>Celebrate Contentment</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is wrong with this comment:    “I only meditated twice this week”    Lets applaud the fact that I meditated twice this week!!!!!  Doing the actual practice of meditation on a daily basis is super hard!!! It takes patience and more patience to work towards a daily practice.   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workplace mindfulness: an antidote to burnout?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stress is not going away.    Over the last 30 years, self reported levels of stress have increased 18% for women and 25% for men. Job related stress has been identified by the World Health organization as a “world wide epidemic.”    The bottom line cost of stress for companies, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ways That a Meditation Practice Affects Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the ways that a meditation practice affects us that are super obvious but rarely discussed.    I talked about the first one on Jan 29 – Our relationship to the body.    Today we will  discuss our relationship to time – a particular favourite of mine.    [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is this thought in my best interest?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 17:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once we become familiar with how our own minds work and the kind of thoughts we habitually focus on, we can begin to better choose the thoughts that are in our best interest.    As an exercise (a great place to start is at work), during the day check-in and ask yourself, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Quick Thought Intervention</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[     During my mindfulness coaching sessions I hear some of the most amazing and wonderful insights from my clients.    “You don&#8217;t realize that you have a choice weather or not you have to follow your thoughts.”    This comment really affected me. As a long time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is more powerful, a Word, Action or Thought?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 03:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What is more powerful a Word,  Action or a Thought?&#8221;    &#8212; from Step One, Breaking Ground, Week 2, &#8216;A Centred Mind&#8217;    Outwardly it appears our actions, followed by our words and then our thoughts shape our lives; yet upon further investigation we see that our thoughts – correction, our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Matter Where You Are</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am trying to get back into blogging. Something that I like but, for me, it requires diligent effort.    I just did a mindfulness presentation to call center employees and really hummed and hawed about which aspect of mindfulness to explain.    I decided to work with some things that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wake Up Get Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like any positive change, getting to the cushion, waking up a bit earlier - requires effort. At first it may require a lot of effort until it becomes a new habit, a new behaviour, a new way of being.]]></description>
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		<title>Is ‘Unhappiness’ a requirement for Happiness?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.meditationvillage.ca/?p=831</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is so much talk about happiness today that it seems like anything that makes us happy is good and anything that falls under the &#8216;unhappiness&#8217; umbrella is bad only to chase the things that create the former and avoid the things that make us feel the latter.    Has the pendulum swung [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trying to make practice my vocation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ideally there is little to no separtion from formal sitting pracitse to daily life.  Over the years I have learned some of the things that I should take up and some of the things that I should give up. An attempt to stop living in preparation for practice but to make practice my vocation.
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