The Academy Award-winning actress is the founder of The Hawn Foundation, which promotes mindfulness techniques for schoolchildren through its MindUP program. Hawn joins a long list of presenters at the Omega Institute, including Dan Siegel, Sharon Salzberg and Susan Kaiser Greenland, to offer educators practical advice on instilling mindfulness in their students and on maintaining, and benefitting from, their own practices. Click here for more information.
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And the same might be true of happy people, too. According to a new study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, happy people are less influenced by social comparison—comparisons between themselves and others—when deciding who to spend time with. Like good leaders, they aren’t deterred from being around people who might seem smarter than them, and they reap the benefits of good company. In a series of studies, researchers invited Korean undergraduates to imagine they got a mediocre score on a test....
