A Monk, Philosopher and Psychiatrist on What Matters Most

A Monk, Philosopher and Psychiatrist on What Matters Most By Matthieu Ricard, Christophe Andre, and Alexandre Jollien on Saturday November 17th, 2018 Upliftconnect.com Image: Sounds True Practice Makes Perfect We all have a mixture of shadow and light within us, but that doesn’t mean that we are doomed to stay that way forever. Our habits […]

The Science Behind Mindfulness and Good Health

The Science Behind Mindfulness and Good Health By Jill Suttie on Friday November 30th, 2018 Upliftconnect.com Image: Mitchell Griest Five Ways Mindfulness Can Benefit Us According to thousands of years of tradition, Buddhists meditate to understand themselves and their connections to all beings. By doing so, they hope to be released from suffering and ultimately […]

How to Criticize with Kindness

By Maria Popova on Saturday February 4th, 2017 Upliftconnect.com Seeking Truth Instead of an Opponent In disputes upon moral or scientific points, let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery. Said Arthur Martine, […]

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How to Silence Your Inner Critic and Grow Stronger

By Sara Fabian on Friday August 3rd, 2018 UpliftConnext.com Six Practical Ways to Stop your Negative Self-Talk When there’s no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm. – African proverb Have you ever heard an inner voice telling you disempowering things, like “I don’t think I can make it,” “What if I […]

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How A Fourth-Century Taoist Concept is Treating Anxiety

From our friemds at UpliftConnect.com Learning to Flow with Life While the Tao Te Ching is not one of the world’s most discussed religious texts, at least relative to the amount of attention the Bible, Quran, and Buddhist and Hindu doctrines receive, Laozi’s slim volume of instructions has massively influenced how we think about Eastern […]

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