Researchers used smartphones instead of in-person work to see if learning new skills would boost social contact and reduce loneliness. After two weeks, the acceptance and attention group participants had roughly two more social contacts per day, and were 22% less lonely. The other groups showed little change. Researchers concluded that having an attitude of acceptance and paying attention to our experience can increase social connection and reduce loneliness. Sport performance gets a boost from mindfulness Sport performance gets a boost from mindfulness...

I’ve seen over and over again how doing the work to clarify what you want, and then orienting toward that vision increases your odds of achieving your goals, whatever they might be. But purpose, as a tool, is actually not a destination but a spectrum. On one side of that spectrum, purpose can be a future end to which you subordinate the present, and on the other, a present to which you subordinate the future....

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A Three-Year-Old Girl Dead After Falling From Slide In Ghatkopar Mall A Three-Year-Old Girl Dead After Falling From Slide In Ghatkopar Mall It was an accidental death as confirmed by the authorities and they have started an investigation but the family did not provide a formal complaint and it was a major mistake. She was playing on the fifth floor of the mall and almost all the children were there and they had been enjoying their evening playing with each other but she suddenly got on the slide and fell off and sustained heavy injuries....

To get a bird’s eye view of how mindfulness is being brought to bear in the delivery room and beyond, we had writer Susan Freinkel attend Bardacke’s classes, right alongside a group of expectant couples. And then when Bardacke talked about “contractions of life,” we saw this was a parenting story that’s relevant to everyone. The number one goal? Learning to recognize and accept what you’ve got and then working with it....