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The Life-Changing Practice of Meditation

Anita Mathias — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 18:24:05 +0000

So, a couple of years ago, almost on a whim, my husband Roy and I took an intensive eight week course in Mindfulness at the Oxford Department of Psychiatry! (and at the famous local psychiatric hospital, the Warneford!!) I didn’t really know what Mindfulness was, but I “knew,” we should do it. You can imagine […]

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On a Shortcut into Happiness

Anita Mathias — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 11:52:37 +0000

When we sleep, I have read, the unconscious begins to process, resolve, and heal the buried emotions of the day. That little inadvertent thing which seemed so massively embarrassing, but which everyone else has forgotten. The awkwardness, the stresses, the misunderstandings, the little buffetings of the heart. Anxieties, shame, fears, tensions, and triumphs–we relive them, […]

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Sleep, Chronotherapy, Light Boxes, and Waking Early.

Anita Mathias — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:23:00 +0000

Hmm, interesting article from New York Times. I used to use lightboxes 13 years ago, and it worked. Then I forget to do it, then forgot how to do it. As happens with many things. (Faith, for instance, or prayer.) After reading this, I dug out my old lightboxes, started using them the moment I […]

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