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Andy Puddicome, founder of the online meditation app and program Headspace, kicked off the campaign last week with a meditation session in New York. In April, anyone who visits Westin Well-being web site will be able to download seven free 10-minute, meditation sessions designed by Puddicombe for both business and leisure travelers. To learn more about the Westin’s initaitive, read the New York Times article. Looking for a little meditation yourself?...

Hispanic Heritage Month has been celebrated in the United States for over 30 years, honoring cultures and traditions from over 20 countries and a territory. From September 15th to October, we, as a nation, recognize the legacy and impact left for thousands of Hispanics throughout history in all aspects, including, of course, the world of beauty. ** Many immigrants from Hispanic origins came to the United States with hopes, dreams, and struggles....

The culture of mindfulness often reinforces this attitude in subtle ways: books, articles, and podcasts present these practices as a kind of panacean remedy for all our ills, so we struggle to understand why others wouldn’t want to give it a try. Being excited about mindfulness may seem harmless, but when we get too pushy about it in our most intimate relationships—especially with our partners and spouses—it can become a source of relational friction, and even conflict....

“We act like wind-up toys, repeatedly bumping into the same walls, never realizing there may be an open door just to our left or our right,” writes Susan David, a psychologist at Harvard Medical School, in Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life. Her book is a guide to life’s trickiest emotions: not how to avoid them but how to learn to move through them. If we have the courage to do this, she argues, we will cultivate deeper relationships and a more authentic life....