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Meeting the Challenge of Exercise Successfully
How do you view exercise? You surely know that physical exercise is a key activity to keeping your body in great shape. However, just the thought of having to sweat yourself out over countless bench presses and weight lifting may not seem so appealing. Nor does the idea of having to grit your teeth and […]
What are Mala beads? How do I use them?
What are Mala beads? Mala beads or Buddhist prayer beads are a string of beads — 108 is a common number — of uniform size. They have a large role in Buddhist and Hindu meditation practices. We first were introduced to Mala beads by Rory Trollen while on a yoga retreat in Thailand. How do I […]
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What the Prisoner’s Dilemma Taught Me
I’m more actively engaged in learning more now than I ever was in college but there are college intellectual experiences that I often reflect on. Learning about psychologist Robert Alexrod’s 1984 experiment, The Prisoner’s Dilemma is one of those. This experiment taught me about decision making and the role that emotions play. It taught me about […]