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While we cannot always eradicate pain, practicing mindfulness can help us change our relationship to it. In this video, clinical psychologist Elisha Goldstein demonstrates a practice to welcome pain from his book, The Now Effect. Explore This Guided Meditation for Pain Explore This Guided Meditation for Pain “We spend much of life resisting and fighting with our pain and this is often the cause of further suffering,” says Goldstein. “In this practice we begin to sample a radically different approach that evidence shows cultivates greater healing and makes us more present, focused, and effective to pay attention to what matters....

** Eunice Lucero, Editor In Chief “I grew up with stick straight hair and I didn’t really have many issues with manageability. Now though it’s more of experimenting with different textures and lengths—how I can realistically have fun with variety, but also remember that I don’t have a professional stylist on the ready. I need a style and routine that is fashionable, for sure, but one that’s also sustainable.”...

Well, it’s me. I am in constant battle with speed and anxiety—sure, the sheer velocity of modern life is not easy, but it is the speed of my own mind that is so devastating. It races from thought to fear to idea to doubt to possibility to judgment, all the while trying to absorb endless input from all the screens I’m exposed to: computer, TV, smartphone, iPod, Sonos, and on and on....

Exercise: Investigating Judgments If you allow critical judgments to remain unexamined, they can come to occupy many of your thoughts and emotions, and even your dreams. But if you examine them, you’ll find repetitive themes that are connected to earlier life events and discover that even your judgments regarding others are often rooted in self-judgment or events that happened earlier in your life—sometimes when you were very young. It’s a good practice to investigate all of your judgments, and this practice will help you do exactly that....

** 1. Wispy Waves 1. Wispy Waves Ask your stylist to include small layers at the bottom of your bob to give extra shape and texture. 2. Voluminous Layers 2. Voluminous Layers The easiest way to ensure a more voluminous bob is to add shorter layers to your style. The shorter the layers, the more voluminous the wave. 3. Rounded Layers 3. Rounded Layers The way your stylist incorporates layers into your style will play a key role in the shape of your bob....