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Taking Care of Color-Treated Relaxed Hair Taking Care of Color-Treated Relaxed Hair 1. Shampoo with your color in mind. Most gals with naturally curly hair tend to also have dry hair because oils from your scalp have a hard time reaching your ends. When you relax natural hair, oils will have a bit of an easier time moving down, but your ends will likely still be on the dry side. We recommend finding a shampoo that works for you that covers both dryness and color protection....

What Colzato and her team discovered was that open-monitoring meditation was far more effective in stimulating divergent thinking, a key driver of creativity. Not surprisingly, the study also showed that focused-attention meditation was more strongly related to convergent thinking, which is important for narrowing options and formulating a workable solution. (Note: Most common forms of mindfulness meditation use a blend of both approaches.) Two years later, another Dutch psychologist, Matthijs Baas, expanded on Colzato’s work and demonstrated, in a series of studies, the importance of specific mindfulness skills in the creative process....

Are you ready to find out about the Perfect Date your spouse has been DREAMING about?!? We have created the perfect survey to get down to the bottom of what they really want to do with you this weekend!! My amazing husband was the inspiration behind this post. We were chatting the other day and out of the blue he starts describing the perfect date with me. He had EVERY SINGLE DETAIL figured out from what we would eat, where we would be, what I would be wearing… everything....

As the world has evolved, whether it’s in a personal way or it’s in a global way, we have tremendous difficulty with people. Now I did a group in Barre, Massachusetts where the Insight Meditation Society is that I co-founded in 1976. And this guy in that group said to me, “You know my whole life I’ve thought that of course we like everybody, but loving somebody—that’s like an extremely unusual, rare, rare state....

To read the seven reasons why mindfulness made noise in 2013, click here.