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How To Be Calmer - Super Pack 5 Books In 1: Learn 25 ways to reduce stress and discover how to calm down
How To Be Calmer - Super Pack 5 Books In 1: Learn 25 ways to reduce stress and discover how to calm down

A selection of my Medium articles with simple ways to build a more calm and joyful life.

2021

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Zen Michael
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Zen Breaks

·6 days ago

Good News: “You Don’t Exist”, Says Alan Watts

We are a happening — The things we do. The things we think we do. The things we feel. And all the other things. The things that happen without us doing anything. The things we think without wanting to. The things we feel without knowing why. How much of what happens to us results from…

Alan Watts Quotes

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Good News: “You Don’t Exist”, Says Alan Watts
Good News: “You Don’t Exist”, Says Alan Watts
Alan Watts Quotes

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Zen Breaks

·May 16

Letting Nature Calm Us

105 | A very special meditation with Mark Coleman — Every once in a while we find a guided meditation that really wraps us completely in tranquility. Recently a friend shared with me a mediation that teaches us to feel the calm that nature can provide. With a very calm voice, Mark Coleman helps us to relax through the senses…

Time In Nature

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Letting Nature Calm Us
Letting Nature Calm Us
Time In Nature

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Zen Breaks

·May 6

My 1 Minute Videos for Short Breaks

104 | Micro breaks allow you to enjoy the journey — Taking small, frequent breaks in your daily life is a fundamental technique for managing stress. Short breaks allow the body and mind to regulate themselves more easily. They create the space necessary for our nervous system to recover from stressful situations and find balance again. Several scientific studies even suggest…

Youtube Shorts Video

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My 1 Minute Videos for Short Breaks
My 1 Minute Videos for Short Breaks
Youtube Shorts Video

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Zen Breaks

·May 2

Simplicity Touches Our Heart

103 | The Lion’s Vision — “Pain is a remedy. The breaking of that shell is painful. But that pain accesses, brings with it, so much more. The uncomfortable, depressing places, they teach me so much more about myself than any good time has ever revealed to me. I allow myself to feel all of the pain.” — Luzuko Madonci…

Emotional Intelligence

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Simplicity Touches Our heart
Simplicity Touches Our heart
Emotional Intelligence

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Zen Breaks

·Apr 24

Kaizen: “Start With the Smallest, Practice the Easiest”

102 | Your mind will agree — Many of us set great and noble goals to change our lives. So big and so noble that they become too heavy for us to carry for a long time. And because the weight is so great, we end up giving up and feeling unable to change. The video I…

Kaizen

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Kaizen: “Start With the Smallest, Practice the Easiest”
Kaizen: “Start With the Smallest, Practice the Easiest”
Kaizen

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Zen Breaks

·Apr 18

The Pain of Not Knowing

101 | Do we need to explain everything? — “Why what happened, happened. It’s a door opening into potential growth and the letting go of pain…” — Jenny Jackson The guilt It’s strange how often we can suffer and feel guilty for not having done something we didn’t know we had to do or didn’t know how to do. Or for…

Not Knowing

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The Pain of Not Knowing
The Pain of Not Knowing
Not Knowing

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Zen Breaks

·Apr 11

Challenge: 100 Ways to Relax

100 | Share your experiences — help others live better — This week we reach the 100th edition of Zen Breaks and I need your help to celebrate. As a way of collective celebration, I thought we could, all together, create a little guide with 100 simple ways to relax in everyday life. 100 ways that with small breaks we can…

Zen Breaks

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Join the Challenge: 100 Ways To Relax
Join the Challenge: 100 Ways To Relax
Zen Breaks

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Zen Breaks

·Apr 4

Habits — Try to See and Not Recognize

99 | Remember you can be fooled (by yourself) If you thought you knew all the traps and pitfalls of your mind from the last article, we have bad news… There are many, many more habits that we fall into without even realizing it. In the second part of this…

Mindtraps

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Habits — Try to See and Not Recognize
Habits — Try to See and Not Recognize
Mindtraps

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Zen Breaks

·Mar 28

Decisions or Mind Traps?

98| Our thoughts are full of fallacies — “You may go through your entire life or well into adulthood completely unaware that you are carrying around these thinking errors and mental shortcuts that influence your day-to-day thinking.” — “Escaping Ordinary (B.C Marx)” The fantastic video that I suggest today explains 11 mechanisms that condition many of our apparent…

Mindtraps

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Decisions or Mind Traps?
Decisions or Mind Traps?
Mindtraps

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Zen Breaks

·Mar 21

Seated Qi Gong

97 | The practice that adapts to your needs Recently I was on the phone with a friend and I remembered to suggest that she try the Qi Gong classes that I attend. She seemed very enthusiastic and willing to try it, but at the moment she can’t do it…

Sitting Qi Gong Routine

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Seated Qi Gong
Seated Qi Gong
Sitting Qi Gong Routine

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