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Breaking Borders
Exploring Colombia's Barrio Egipto—a neighborhood that foreigners are warned not to go anywhere near.
2018 January/February
3 Best Practices for Future Happiness
Awakening at the Sunrise Suite
“Someday,” I promised Iris, unable to completely quell my bourgeois roots, “I will take us there in grand style.” It didn’t happen like that.
What Is Transformational Travel?
A new way of thinking about and experiencing the world takes your vacation to the next level.
The Ultimate Adventure
Leaving the security of a world you know and hurling yourself into a new one will teach you to trust not only others but also yourself.
Transform the Way You Travel
How to help generate positive economic and environmental benefits for local communities
From the Editor: Where Do You Want to be Right Now?
Close your eyes and take a journey in your mind—ask yourself, “What is calling to me right now—and what do I need now?”
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• Spiritual Journey
Talk to Us: January/February 2018
Fine Print Commandments I really love Paul Sutherland’s Fine Print Commandments. Those big 10 are delicious treats for the spiritual soul. I have one request: remove the word will…Tags:
• Community
Features
3 Best Practices for Future Happiness
“We all want our future self to be happy, so we ask: ‘What can I do to relieve this person’s suffering?’
When Guilt is Good
"Recognizing and responding to the source of guilt with wisdom, maturity, and compassion liberates us to live in a healthy relationship with others and with ourselves."
Finding Joy with Those Who Don't Think Like You
The two of us have been digging in to reconcile the differences between us for 15 years. What are we digging into? The thick, rich, confusing soil of the different ways we think, experience, and understand the world.
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• Communication
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5 Questions for Flora Bowley
Artist, author, and self-identified “permission-giver” Flora Bowley shares how she blends creativity and spirituality in day-to-day living.
Columns
The Heart of Money: Time to Move Abroad?
Columnist Paul Sutherland offers his personal experience living abroad to shed light on the question.
The Happiness Track: The Life Stories We Tell for Health
Genetics play a role in our health, but we also have control in the choices we make about how we live.
Our Walk in the World: Regret
Making amends can help loosen the weight of the past.
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• Acceptance
Rabbi Rami: Am I Morally Bound to Chastise Meat Eaters?
Rabbi Rami answers your spiritual questions.
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• Beliefs
Toolbox
Toolbox: Writing Well
Create sacred space for crafting your own personal journaling practice with these finds from S&H.
Connections
Finding Abundance in Having Less
What happens when we measure riches in terms of relationships, spirituality, and creativity?
Is Your Yoga Class a Stanley Milgram Experiment?
Perhaps the hardest pose—and greatest enlightenment—is to sit comfortably.
Healing Neck and Shoulder Pain
How I learned to tame my subscapularis muscles, buried behind each shoulder blade.
Best Books of 2017
Look to these exceptional titles as guidance to navigate your way through the joys and heartbreak of this one precious life.
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• Book Reviews
My New Diet Involves Cutting Out the Violence
Decreased consumption of violent media can significantly improve your quality of life—learn how.
My Solo Whitewater Rafting Retreats
Going alone has risks. It also allows you to assess the choices that changed the direction and goals of a lifetime.
Time to Update Your Projections
Psychological projections serve an important role for self-growth and awareness. So why not strive to be a source of projection for generations to come?
Poetry Page
Poetry: Gratitude Pillow
An excerpt from Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners by Naomi Shihab Nye.
From The Editor
From the Editor: January/February 2018
A note from our editor in chief, Stephen Kiesling.
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• History
Marketplace
Marketplace - Jan/Feb 2018
Books, services, education and products that are sustainable and environmentally friendly.
Reviews
Book Review: Tell Me More
Forget reviewing this book; after reading it, I had the urge to call the author and invite her over. I’d pour us some sauvignon blanc and blare the Richard Thompson and we’d toast …
Book Review: I Know How You Feel
It’s not easy to make friends as adults, and becomes more difficult as we get older. At the same time, according to the psychologist F. Diane Barth, women rely on other women for s…
Book Review: The Healing Self
Why do some people exposed to cold viruses easily fend off illness? How do monks in a deep state of meditation control their body temperature even in freezing weather? “Mind over m…
Book Review: Happy Together
Could you write a book with your spouse and still be speaking to each other afterward? I don’t think many of us could—my husband and I can’t even agree on a dishwasher-loadin…
Music Review: Solo
“Most people would never realize that I am closer to Thelonious Monk than to any other artist,” writes Wadada Leo Smith in the liner notes for his latest album, Solo: Reflections a…Tags:
• Music Reviews
Music Review: Komitas
Komitas (1869–1935) was a poet, priest, singer, and composer whose music ushered in contemporary classical music in Armenia and influenced composers like Claude Debussy. Komit…
Music Review: Wonderville
Adam Bauer began his musical career as a bass player in a reggae band in Massachusetts. In 2001, Bauer took a new direction. “I ended up hanging out with Krishna Das in Hawaii and …Tags:
• Music Reviews
Film Review: Jane
Brett Morgen’s thoroughly absorbing documentary about the life and career of world-renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall is founded on a treasure trove of footage—countless…
Film Review: One of Us
“Nobody leaves unless they’re willing to pay the price,” says one subject in Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s documentary about three former Hasidic Jews who have left their communit…
