Conscious Lifestyle

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Stressed Out by Mindfulness Meditations? Here’s How To Decompress Without The Stress

Ira Helderman

Conscious Lifestyle

Many people swear that the ultimate antidote to stress and anxiety are mindfulness meditation practices. But does mindfulness meditation actually make you feel more stressed out? You aren’t alone.

How Mindful Meditation & Spirituality Aid in Healing Cancer

Anthony Maranise

Conscious Lifestyle

The “cure” to alleviating the negative impacts of such heightened anxiety or depression is mindfulness, meditative practice. Mindfulness focuses on the present.

Purpose Without Kids: 3 Routes To Fulfillment For Non-Parents & Empty Nesters

Kate Kaufmann

Conscious Lifestyle

When kids grow up and leave the nest, or were never in the picture, we find new ways of rejuvenating our meaning and purpose in life.

Millennials Need Meditation, Not Medicine, for Stress Relief and Happiness

Peter Darrow

Conscious Lifestyle

Millennials need meditation, not meditation to create sustainable, lifelong change to improve health, happiness, and stress relief.

7 ½ Steps to Fostering Presence Here & Now

Kayce Stevens Hughlett, MA, LMHC

Conscious Lifestyle

If you come to the end of the day or week or month and realize you haven’t been consciously present, don’t berate yourself. Offer grace and begin again.

5 Ways to Recognize Toxins You’re Using & How to Rid Yourself of Them

Christine Dimmick

Conscious Lifestyle

I was living a manufactured version of health and wellness – one that many corporations carefully crafted to make me believe what I was using on and in my body was not only on trend – but good for me too. And then I took a closer look.

5 Tips to Make the Holidays Kinder Than Ever

Donna Cameron

Conscious Lifestyle

With the holiday season upon us, we've got kindness on the mind. In this article we share our top tips for exhibiting kindness during the holidays & beyond.

Organize Your Thoughts Like You Organize Your Closet

Meg Myers Morgan

Conscious Lifestyle

Toss what you fear, donate what you hear, and keep what is clear. Here's how to organize your thoughts by filling your mind with things of value.

Clearer Living: 3 Ways to Uncover & Treat Addiction

N Lawrence Mann

Conscious Lifestyle

N. Lawrence Mann didn't use a 12 step program to get sober. His personal 3 step program got him started, and writing "addiction fiction" keeps him going.

Free Your Mind: 4 Ways To Breakdown Belief Systems

John B Lane

Conscious Lifestyle

We’re at the mercy of belief systems that mass-produce ignorance and cognitive dysfunction. Here's four tips to free your mind and breakdown belief systems.

Sea.Hear.Now and the Ascent of Asbury Park

Christopher Baldi

Conscious Lifestyle

Sea Hear Now is not just another upstart music festival, it might as well be the Official Comeback Party of Asbury Park.

Danny Clinch: The Harder I Worked, The Luckier I Got

Christopher Baldi

Conscious Lifestyle, Interviews

Danny Clinch is a Grammy-nominated photographer, filmmaker, and musician. We caught up with him prior to the Sea.Hear.Now festival in Asbury Park.

5 Ways To Achieve Work-Life Balance & Emotional Wellness

Audry Van Houweling

Conscious Lifestyle

Maintaining work-life balance and emotional wellness is not an accomplishment that is one day reached and completed, but a daily, intentional endeavor.

4 Ways to Achieve Success without Sacrificing Your Personal Happiness

Michael Deane

Conscious Lifestyle

If you had to choose between being happy or being successful, which one would you pick? Is it a choice you really need to be making, or is there a way to avoid it? Let’s find out!

Five Traps to Avoid in the Pursuit of Happiness

Eli Jaxon-Bear

Conscious Lifestyle

Our Declaration of Independence states that we are all created equal and enjoy the rights of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” The sad joke here is that the “pursuit of happiness” almost never leads to lasting happiness. Eli Jaxon-Bear describes the five traps to avoid in the pursuit of happiness.