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Bay Area author and psychiatrist Jean Shinoda Bolen explores the connection between a person’s emotional state and their physical health; and how “moments of truth” may be revealed when facing dire illness.

A truly spell-binding speaker, Geoffrey Canada was described by Newsday as “Harlem’s Father Figure.” In 1997, he drew a line on a map around a twenty-four block area in central Harlem where he believed children were woefully underserved. He dubbed it “Harlem Children’s Zone” and has proceeded to deploy more than a dozen programs now […]

Medical researcher, meditation teacher and best-selling author Jon Kabat-Zinn discusses a powerful-yet-simple meditative technique known as “mindfulness.” The essence of this practice is to calm down and focus only on the present moment — lifting from us the enormous burden of worrying about the past or future. As emeritus professor of medicine and founder of […]