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Become a Guru in Just Two Weekends!

March 22, 2014 by Ed and Deb Shapiro

Every day we get sent emails proclaiming the latest discovery, teacher or workshop that we MUST do if we are to have lasting happiness and self-mastery. Each proclaims that if we follow their instructions then we will be free, transformed, changed for ever, joyful as never before, fulfilled, fully enlightened. We even received notice of […]

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5 Ways Meditation Makes You Kinder

March 9, 2014 by Ed and Deb Shapiro

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. The Dalai Lama When the Dalai Lama said his religion was kindness it made us wonder how the world would be different if we all were a bit kinder. Luckily, he shows us the way to such an ideal through his daily practice of meditation. Meditation […]

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The Way Of Mindfulness: Paul McCartney, Richard Gere, Deepak Chopra

February 23, 2014 by Ed and Deb Shapiro

Mindfulness is a hot buzzword at the moment, furthered by TIME Magazine having The Mindful Revolution on its front cover. But what does mindfulness look like in practice? What difference does it make on a day-to-day basis? How does it change our lives? These questions, and others focused on what is needed for people to […]

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10 Great Ways Mindfulness Turns Fear Into An Ally

February 16, 2014 by Ed and Deb Shapiro

At first glance you might not put mindfulness and fear together, or think that one can counterbalance the other. But while mindfulness invites us to be present with fear rather than run from it, it also frees us from being stuck in fearful thoughts and feelings. Mindfulness allows fear to be, just as it, without […]

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4 Ways Mindfulness Can Transform Your Life

February 2, 2014 by Ed and Deb Shapiro

There’s an amazing epidemic sweeping America and it’s a healthy, vital and enriching one. In every walk of life people are hearing about the value and importance of mindfulness and meditation. Yoga is now available on every street corner and mindfulness is fast catching up. Ohio congressman Tim Ryan, author of A Mindful Nation, calls […]

Meditation Awakens Your Inner Joy

January 20, 2014 by Ed and Deb Shapiro

Within you is a fountain of joy, within you is an ocean of bliss! Swami Sivananda While in Greece we were invited to a local village dance. It was to be held in a nearby field, and we were fascinated to discover it started very late, about 11pm, lasting until the early hours of the […]

Mindfulness Meditation Is The Direct Way To Happiness

January 13, 2014 by Ed and Deb Shapiro

We often wonder what our lives would be like without meditation or mindfulness. We were talking with our partner, neuroscientist and yogi Brian Jones, about this recently who said, “With all the mass overstimulation and continuously heightened levels of stress it’s easy to see why we’re all going crazy. The modern world demands […]

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The True Santa Is Within Every One Of Us

December 20, 2013 by Ed and Deb Shapiro

With all the fuss over what color Santa is, we thought it was good to remind ourselves that Santa is neither black nor white, or pink or yellow for that matter, as who he is way more than skin tone. Nor is the true Santa just a jolly guy in a red outfit; he […]

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Do You Appreciate Yourself?

November 24, 2013 by Ed and Deb Shapiro

When times are hard, if we are sick, have lost a partner, job, or home, then it’s not always easy to be thankful. Yet those can actually be the very best times to give thanks – for the things we do have, not those we don’t have. Rather than bemoaning that we have lost our […]

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Is Your Ego Your Servant or Your Master?

November 11, 2013 by Ed and Deb Shapiro

“I think I’m the most important person in the world, but nobody else thinks it’s about me, time doesn’t think it’s about me, space doesn’t think it’s about me, the planet doesn’t think it’s about me,” says Prof. Robert Thurman in our book, Be The Change. “It doesn’t take much to get the message that […]