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	<title>Mindfulness &#124; Present Moment</title>
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		<title>No laughing matter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nowadays,  especially at parties, I hear more and more people joke about things like AIDS, rape, and even murder.  Sometimes, I even pretend to laugh along so as not to appear unsocial.  However, deep down I feel disgusted that people make light of these things and even more disgusted with myself for tolerating their antics.
Although  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growth.ws/2011/02/18/unclean-thoughts-unclean-actions/</link>
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		<title>The mindfulness of corruption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Transparency International, Cambodia ranks 154th out of 178 on the Corruption Perceptions Index.  Having lived here for a while, I hardly need Transparency International to tell me that this is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
One thing that we need to understand about corruption is that it is a major [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growth.ws/2011/01/28/the-mindfulness-of-corruption/</link>
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		<title>Help yourself, help others</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible to be generous to a fault?
I think so.
Throughout my life I’ve helped a lot of people. Yet, of all these people I could recall no more than three or four  who successfully had been helped by me. Actually, I can’t take credit for these three or four people at all because, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growth.ws/2010/09/16/the-nature-of-helping-others/</link>
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		<title>Mindful anger management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anger is a conditioned response to a perceived threat to the ego.  It is a complex experience that combines unpleasant physical symptoms with upsetting memories, personal assumptions, deeply held beliefs, prejudices, and other characteristics of the ego.  Often when we are angry, all that we are aware of is our angry mood, which may range [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growth.ws/2010/05/02/mindful-anger-management/</link>
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		<title>Driving mindfully</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For many of us driving is an inconvenient and time-consuming daily routine. Traffic jams, poor road conditions, and reckless motorists have become familiar nuisances in this daily ritual. The heart-sinking sight of mangled vehicles on the road and the wailing sirens of ambulances rushing to the scene of an accident offer a grim reminder of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growth.ws/2010/05/02/driving-mindfully/</link>
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		<title>Attending to every moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night feeling that I haven&#8217;t accomplished anything in my life.  Actually, I think I&#8217;ve accomplished quite a bit&#8211; it&#8217;s hard not to, considering that I work 12 to 14 hours a day.
All  of us have had our shares of successes and failures in life.   Still, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growth.ws/2010/04/29/attending-to-every-moment/</link>
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		<title>Cultivating body awareness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We seldom ponder about being present in our own bodies because we already know that we are. Therein lies the problem. So many aspects of our lives are put on automatic pilot that we have come to rely on habituated thought patterns to sustain a stable, predictable world. We know that we are in our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growth.ws/2010/04/26/cultivating-body-awareness/</link>
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		<title>Every moment is infinite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean that every moment is infinite?
A person&#8217;s lifetime, no matter how short or long, is made up of an infinite number of smaller moments. A single day is made up of an infinite number of smaller moments. Even a single second is made up of an infinite number of smaller moments.
If we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growth.ws/2010/04/26/infinity-in-every-moment/</link>
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		<title>Finding contentment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having a desire to succeed in life is great. It drives us to work harder and to make the most of our abilities. At the same time, attachment to success habituates us to equate happiness with career achievements. When we strive for something, we should remind ourselves that what we really want is contentment.
We may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growth.ws/2010/04/26/mindful-striving/</link>
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		<title>Stillness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In mindfulness we embrace stillness. Stillness leads to clarity. If puddle of muddy water is left undisturbed for a period of time, it eventually becomes clear on it own as dirt particles settle to the bottom. Clarity is an addition by subtraction– we value what is not there rather than what is there. Just as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growth.ws/2010/04/26/stillness/</link>
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