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mindfulness

Yoga Promotes Weight Loss – Dr Weil’s Daily Health Tips

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One of my yogi friends recently explained the difference between practicing yoga and working out in the gym this way: When you workout in the gym you use your mind to exercise your body but with yoga you work your body in order to exercise and focus your mind. This mindfulness is what sets yoga [...]

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Doctor and Patient – How Mindfulness Can Make for Better Doctors – NYTimes.com

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I found this article about mindfulness in the New York Times interesting. It talks about more and more physicians becoming disenchanted with their profession because of the many distractions on the job: cell phones, email, text messages, etc. These distractions take away from the joy of the work. I think this is a problem not [...]

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