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Meditation: The Illustrated Guide

Meditation: The Illustrated Guide is your perfect guide to learning  meditation so you can enjoy happiness, health, and peace of mind today.

Written by meditation teacher Paul Martin Harrison, Meditation: The Illustrated Guide is an authoritative guide to everything you need to know about meditation.

With this guide you will learn the  best, most powerful, and more important meditation…

Helen Mirren Calls Sexism And Ageism In Hollywood “F***ing Outrageous”

Dame Helen Mirren is known for having a way with words. Now she’s chosen to speak up against ageism and sexism in Hollywood. Her precise words were “F***ing outrageous”.

Couldn’t agree more.

It was during a press conference with The Wrap’s Sharon Waxman that Helen Mirren, now 69, decided to voice her opinion on sexism and ageism.

The conversation then turned to Maggie Gyllenhall, who was turned…

7 Mind Blowing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Video Games

Some people say play video games is a complete waste of time. Pah. Little do they know. We’ve discovered that gaming offers profound life lessons. Here are seven of the most amazing life lessons we’ve learnt from gaming.

Don’t forget the trigger: This is the deepest life lesson. It’s going to change the very way you think about reality. You’re so distracted by work and family, you’ve forgotten…

10 Essential Ways To Have The Self Worth You Deserve

Let’s start right now by getting something straight: self worth does not make you an egotist or self centred. The notion that if you value yourself you’re an egomaniac is total, straight-up bullshit.

Self worth is about self compassion, about self-respect, about valuing your own person.

But the problem is that near all of us (and this definitely goes for me as well, by the way), we all get our…

10 Things Highly Resilient People Do Differently

We all go through those awful times when it seems as though life itself has conspired against us. Relationships become rocky, we get a bad review at work, we discover a health problem… but we get through.

When you face bad times, don’t dwell on the negativity. Instead, bring to mind the most resilient people you know. By focusing on other resilient people, you’ll inspire resilience in yourself.

I…

10 Life Goals To Achieve Before 40

At 33 I can feel the big 40 slowly creeping up on me like a stranger in the night. I see a shadow of myself as a 40 year old. I’m not there yet, but soon I’ll look in the mirror and say “Well, here I am, 40.”

Eh. It’s not that big a number. My nan’s a 102. But 40 is definitely an age at which we should have achieved at least a few pretty serious life goals.

And so I’m writing this post as much…

5 Easy Ways To Control Your Anger And Improve Your Life

Your heart and your mind is a storage place for intense memories—some good, some bad, some beautiful, some just plain ugly. You’ve likely got more good memories than bad. But even though there are more good memories, it’s the bad memories that most of us choose to focus on.

That needs to stop.

We need to stop focusing on the bad memories. Accept the pain that you’ve been through in your past.…

5 No Nonsense Ways To Clear Your Mind Before Bed

Do you lie in bed at night with thoughts racing through your mind? Do you struggle to find that calmness and relaxation necessary for you to drift off? If you’re busy or dealing with stress, your mind starts to overflow with thoughts. Then when you lie down your mind is on autopilot talking to itself and refusing to fall silent.

At times those thoughts that rush through your head are somewhat…

9 Refreshingly Different Bucket List Goals To Schedule Before You Die

You’ll have to excuse my morbidity. I don’t mean to bring up death. It’s often a lot more pleasant to just bury our heads in the sand and pretend that time isn’t slipping us by. But in truth it’s actually one hell of an advantage to be able to squarely face up to death.

We’re going to die.

Because we’re going to die, right now we need to live. And to live right now, we need to push ourselves to…

Science Shows This Sleep Technique Can End Racism And Sexism In Under 2 Hours

A new scientific study has found that you can unlearn your prejudices during your sleep. In fact, any bias that you have can be unlearned, whether it’s something trivial (like a bias for a particular type of music) or something far more serious (like racial and sexual bias).

 All your biases can be unlearnt in as little as a short nap.

A study led by Xiaqing Hu at Northwestern University shows…

Breaking Scientific Discovery Shows Chimps Can Cook

For the past hundred years scientific studies have continued to prove just how closely related you and I are to chimpanzees.

The latest discovery shows that chimps even have the intellectual abilities required for cooking.

It’s a discovery that could have profound implications for human evolution.

A new study found that chimpanzees prefer to eat cooked food, that they’re prepared to wait for it,…

Why You Must Demand That Your School Protects Your Kids From Depression

This morning I read some shocking news about teenage depression rates. Namely, one in 25 teens attempt suicide and one in Eight consider taking their own lives.

If you’re like me that news will make you feel sick in your stomach.

The plain and simple truth of the matter is this: schools aren’t doing enough to protect teens.

So what can you and I do, right now, to change this disturbing trend and…

5 Psychologically Tests Ways To Be More Courageous In Life

In this day and age, the only thing that can make or break your success is you.

In a lot of ways we’re lucky to live in the days and age we live in.

Only a decade or two ago, it was extremely costly (and near impossible) for most people to buy or hire the tools they needed to succeed. Cast your mind back twenty years or so and you’ll remember that a lot of people didn’t even have a computer.

I…

3 Simple Tricks To Add 2 Years To Your Life Span

Your mind is inherently related to your body. Think of the last time you were truly happy and you’ll probably remember that you had a bounce to your step and a smile on your face.

Your psychical and mental health are interlinked, the one dependent on the other.

We’re at a fascinating time in history, scientifically, when researchers are making amazing discoveries about the relationship between…

This Is How Your Adorable Dog Saves You From Depressio

If you’re a pet owner like me I’m pretty confident you’ll agree on one thing. Your pet is about the best mood lifter you know. That wagging tail, those droopy and soulful eyes, the warm fur…. You already know that your dog makes you really, really happy,so this bit of news might not comes as a surprise, but…

Science has proven that your dog is a natural antidepressant

Here are some of the amazing…

Science Just Proved That if You Want To Lose Weight You Should Love Yourself More

Healthy eating is about so much more than the food you put in your mouth. It’s about the reasons you choose to eat what you eat. It’s about psychology.

Let me lower my head just a sec and level with you: I used to be a stress eater. But then I researched the reasons why I was a stress eater. Learning the psychology behind my habits made a huge difference for me, and it will for everyone else too.

20 Insane Photos That WIll Make Your Hair Stand On End

Your extreme sports friends will love these insane photos. They’ll make your heart race and your hair stand on end.

These extreme climbers are absolutely inspiring. After watching what these climbers have done, you’ll probably feel like grabbing some rope and finding a mountain.

Why not add some of these crazy daredevil adventures to your bucket-list?

American extreme skier Scott Schmidt…