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Date Time Pride of place: a new scholarship supports LGBTIQ+ community 5 March Balancing the demands of university with a commitment to volunteering and activism, Hayden struggled to make ends meet. A new scholarship changed everything. If Hayden has a spare moment between studies, you can guarantee that it’s spent volunteering and campaigning to improve the lives of minority communities. A passionate advocate for the LGBTIQ+ community, Hayden dreams of one day working for an organisation that changes lives for the better. But being an activist comes at a price. “I love every min...

January 17, 2021 The plane had hit turbulence—the rollicking kind that makes some people cry out, while others grip their armrests tightly, and mutter a prayer to the power of their choice. But the woman seated in front of Gregory Grieve on that rocky flight from New York to North Carolina appeared perfectly calm. “She had her headphones on, and she was sitting there blissful, as happy as can be,” Grieve recalls. The secret to her serenity? She was listening to Buddhify, a mindfulness meditation app. This was a telling moment, says Grieve, a professor of religious studies at the Univers...

Mindfulness and meditation really do make people feel better. But how much can they do to counteract the problems we face at work?

January 17, 2021 If you’re looking for a way to feel more centered these days, one of the best things you can do is to take up a mindfulness practice—and there’s a plethora of apps eager to help in exchange for your downloads and dollars. More than 2,500 meditation apps have launched since 2015, so it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the choices. But it’s important to figure out which app will suit your needs and tastes, since we’re much more likely to keep up habits that we enjoy. And when it comes to meditating, consistency is key. “Research shows that the more consistently a per...

Each episode is only about 20 minutes and provides a good foundation of knowledge, in a delightfully easy to understand way, that can get you started.