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May is National Meditation Day - Learn What Hellagood Life has going on in May! You may be asking yourself - Am I meditating the right way?

May Is National Meditation Month. Are you ready to Try Daily Meditation?

What will you do for National Meditation Month? May is National Meditation Month. How will you celebrate it? Are you thinking of beginning a meditation routine? If you answered yes, you are in luck because May is National Meditation Month.    This is the month to begin meditating or re-energizing your existing meditation practice.   […]

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9 tips for working on breaking free from depression

9 Tips I Offer when Someone is Struggling With Depression

Caution Let me start out by saying I am not a therapist or medical expert. Any ideas shared here are from my own firsthand experience and so may work or not work well for others. I only share because when I was in two years of a dark depression, these are the things I used.

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Thich Nhat Hanh - walking meditation with Plum Village - living the Five Mindfulness Trainings

Planting the Seeds For Overcoming Suffering: Buddhism’s Five Remembrances

can these thoughts help everyday people in overcoming suffering? Let’s discuss a bit… Are the Buddhist Five Remembrances just for Buddhists? One of the things I love about Buddhism is its practical wisdom for living life. You do not have to be a “Buddhist”, or even practice “Buddhism” per se, to benefit from Buddhist wisdom (well,

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Buddha offering guidance on wholesome living via the Five Mindfulness Trainings. Hellagood Life

the 5 Mindfulness Trainings and WHOLESOME LIVING

Wholesome Living? Why Bother? What the heck is the 5 Mindfulness Trainings? Why bother living wholesomely? I’m sure at one point in my life I would have chuckled at this thought. I want to LIVE life and have fun and “wholesomeness” certainly doesn’t sound fun does it? Growing up within conservative Christian beliefs, I was

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How do you deal with big life changes?

How to deal with big life changes and come out on top

Graduation, Job Loss, Empty Nest, Divorce, Accidents, Health Issues, Death, Moving, Marriage, Child Birth and the list goes on and on, right? Heraclitus is most notable for his quote, “the only constant in life is change.” Regardless of the stage you’re in, there are myriad changes happening. With age, however, some of these changes become

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Use exercise to help overcome heart disease.

Changing hearts and saving lives; lifestyle secrets to overcoming heart disease

According to the center for disease control, heart disease is the number one cause of death in the United States. Data reveals heart disease accounts for more than 25% of all deaths. Also known as coronary artery disease, this condition strikes fear in the hearts of many. To most, heart disease is an almost unavoidable condition. However,

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3 Benefits of Meditation: Self-Awareness, Stress Management, and Anxiety Control

3 Benefits of Meditation: Self-Awareness, Stress Management, and Anxiety Control

There are sooooo many benefits of meditation. Today we’ll cover 3 benefits of meditation, some big ones. Meditation is a practice where you train your mind to focus on a particular object like your breath, or on an activity like walking. If your mind runs wild, what meditators call Monkey Mind, no worries, there are

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To get good times, you'll need to go through and deal with bad times - hellagood times require some hellabad times

Creating a Hellagood Life Requires Accepting Hellabad Times

Hellabad Times? Accept them? Are you crazy? When ‘friends’ aren’t really being friendly to nonconformists.     Brace yourself for a long, painful, personal story of bad times, and some brief thoughts on how I overcame them.     Over the last 7 years, I’ve been working on some personal struggles in my life. I

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Billy Corgan says he can relate with Chris Cornell's suicide

Suicide & Healing: Billy Corgan Says He Can Relate With Chris Cornell’s Suicide

Should we have concerns for Billy Corgan? Could he be another suicide in the future? I just read an article (Billy Corgan on Chris Cornell’s Death: “I’ve Been in That Exact Spot a Thousand Times”) where Billy Corgan was talking about suicide and how he’s experienced feelings that might be similar to what took Chris

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