Articles about Connect with Self & Others
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Strong Connections On & Off the Apps
Instead of experiencing love through your likes, apply a little more mindfulness into your day-to-day interactions to achieve the same feeling. See how you can get the most out of your relationships, on and off the apps.
How does Meditation Affect Personal Growth?
In science and mindfulness, personal growth isn’t just a component of wellbeing, it relates to each element of wellbeing.
Medicinal Magic of Nongmangkha
For the indigenous people of northeast India, the nongmangkha’s antipyretic and antibacterial properties make for a healing shrub.
Mindfulness for the Classroom
Try these simple, effective tools for a focused classroom with engaged students.
Try This Practice for Self-Love
Research shows that practicing for as little as 7 weeks reduces stress, improves cognitive function, and increases positivity.
Is Mindfulness a Leadership Trait?
It’s through conscious awareness that we can begin to develop empathy, benefiting both leaders and employees alike.
DIALOGUE: Sean Sherman
The James Beard Awards-winning Sioux chef sketches a blueprint for wellbeing from the ancestral wisdom of Indigenous peoples.
4 Healthier Social Media Habits
If you find yourself ruminating on negative thoughts or comparisons, try these exercises to pull you back into reality.
DIALOGUE: Sandor Ellix Katz
The award-winning author explains how fermentation not only enhances the nutritional quality of food, but can also teach us much about life and death
FORAGE: Dia(spore)ic Cooking
Food anchors us to our roots, but for those who are far from home, working with what's local and seasonal can invite constructive “troublemaking” in family recipes — adapting and redefining traditions of wellbeing.
The Case Against Resolutions
Use mindful awareness to shift your relationship with financial strain, navigating family relationships, and change in routine.
The Purslane Passport
Find out how a humble weed can be a portal to meaningful relationships, a new view on the world, and even hope for a climate-challenged future.
Are You Lonely or Uncomfortable?
Meditation can help you sit with your feelings and take more control when loneliness creeps up.
DIALOGUE: Bryant Terry
An advocate for food justice, editor in chief of 4 Color Books, and vegan chef Bryant Terry talks about his wellness practice, his favorite season for cooking, and what's in his pantry.
How You Can Pay It Forward
Giving back is an essential ethic — everyone can and must give back, in whatever way they can.
The Healing Power of Dal-Chawal
Comfort food doesn’t have to be highly processed, elaborately prepared, or overly sweet. In India, simple rice and lentil dishes are the backbone of a healing diet.
Tamu Lewis: Let Go of Control
How To Raise Mindful Kids
We learn from a handful of parenting experts, and offer parenting tips and tricks for raising an evolved being.
Chai Is Life
Chai is family, chai is ritual, chai is coming back to the soul.
To put it another way, chai is who I am.
Jonny Benjamin: Beyond the Journey
PRACTICE: Rice Is Life
Across India, rice dishes appear as blessed offerings in temple kitchens. Rice is ritual, rice is nourishment, and — sometimes — rice is a way to say farewell.
The Stories We Tell: The Power of Using Your Voice
Advocating for yourself can be a can be difficult, even scary sometimes, especially when many of us are taught not to rock the boat.
The Stories We Tell: Why Opposites Attract
Join spiritual teacher Nithya Shanti in deep conversations with a wide range of special guests as they open up about their personal journeys.
How to Befriend Your Ego
Welcome to 'The Stories We Tell'
Find Purpose Through Service
Living with Earplugs Out
Now that I wasn’t able to find time for my regular meditation routine, I wondered how it could help.
To Cook, To Hope, To Understand
As the years pass and a parent enters her 80s, a daughter feels a sense of urgency about cooking alongside mom in the kitchen — and renewing a family connection to Japan
The Last Goodbye: Leave a Legacy of Love
Death is a difficult reality we all must face one day. But when you think about it with intention, you can find joy to bequest to the next generation.
Return to Office: What Happens to Family Time?
We’re stepping into a new ‘new normal’ — the return to office, schools, and colleges. While it may cut down family time, there’s no need to fret over the quality of connection with our loved ones.
How to Support Parents in the Workplace
Being empathetic, offering flexible schedules, in-house creches, paternity leave and family-friendly policies can be a huge support for parents in the workplace.
Things Not to Say to Women in the Workplace
That snide remark on her lipstick or work-life balance may not be as “harmless” as you thought. Read on to know what NOT to say to female co-workers.
How to Avoid Workplace Loneliness
Workplace loneliness is a rising problem, however, it’s never too late to address it. Organizations and individuals need to be more aware of their initiatives towards offering support.
Here's Why Your Organization Needs Paternity Leave
Offering paternity leave can reduce gender inequality, social stigma in the workplace, and help working fathers establish work-life balance.
Role of Wellbeing Champions in Wellbeing Programs
Wellness champions in the workplace are integral to understanding the needs of your employees and ensure the success of your wellbeing program.
Happiness Quotient Boosts Employee Productivity
Happy employees are the most productive. By taking small steps to create workplace happiness, conflicts can be prevented and absenteeism reduced. This can lead to increased engagement and output.
Creating a Healthy Virtual Work Culture
Have you evaluated your company’s virtual work culture? Here are the things you should be focusing on.
Hybrid Workplace Model — Good or Bad For Work Culture?
We are trying to decode the new hybrid workplace in the best way possible — a list of its pros and cons!
Successful Virtual Teams Stay Socially Connected
Virtual teams are here to stay in the midst of this unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. Learn how a successful virtual team stays socially connected.
Fraternity For All: We Are One Global Family
We are not alone on this journey of life. Every relationship in our lives has a lasting impact on our Wholistic Wellbeing.
New year, new relationships
It’s not necessarily about broadening our friendship group, but about re-examining our present relationships to make them more worthwhile.
Wholistic Wellbeing and the Joy of Giving
Honoring International Human Solidarity Day
Interspecies Friendships: How Can Pets Facilitate Wholistic Wellbeing?
Seeking Wholistic Wellbeing through our elders
From CSR to Corporate Citizenship
How can we extend the culture of giving back beyond the office space?
Should You Meditate With Your Pet?
We often come into meditation postures with a gentle touch and a lightness in our energy that invites our pets closer.
Why your Company Needs a Robust Wholistic Wellbeing Plan
Redefining workplace needs in the post-pandemic workplace
Pushing Past Pain With Meditation
I saw how our ancestry can shape us. And I saw how, along with generational trauma, comes generational wisdom.
What Is Attention Activism?
Use this practice that highlights the need to reclaim our attention with intention.
Collaboration for greater Wholistic Wellbeing
Invest in Inclusivity for Wholistic Growth
How can technology assist Wholistic Wellbeing in creating a more inclusive workplace?
How to reframe our view of disabilities through Wholistic Wellbeing
As we move away from the abled VS disabled binary towards a world where we value everyone's different abilities, Wholistic Wellbeing can help us create a more inclusive world.
Planetary Wellbeing for Personal Wellbeing
Being mindful of your carbon footprint can enhance both your own wellbeing and that of the planet.
The Joy of Connecting with Children
How can learning from those younger than ourselves improve our Wholistic Wellbeing?
Excellence V Perfectionism
How can we encourage employee excellence without pressuring perfectionism?
5 Ways to Heal Your Inner Child
When you feel old wounds drowning out your authentic self, use these tools to help heal your inner child.
The Secret to Stronger Relationships
Try and love one person without limits or bounds. If you can commit to this, everything else will feel small compared.
Why I Created the Roundglass Foundation
Wholistic Wellbeing has been an inspiration to give back to the communities that shaped me.
The Secret to True Self-Acceptance
To build the world each of us deserves, it's important to truly love our ethnic background from a place of compassion.
How I Made Deep Adult Friendships
Just the awareness of the way I was walling myself off from others, changed me. Something started to soften.
3 Mindfulness Tips for New Parents
Instead of letting your mind make up a story about how it's going to be, embrace the unknown.
How to Connect to Your Ancestors
These connections can help us feel more fulfilled and supported in our lives, and they are not mutually exclusive.
3 Virtues That Benefit Humankind
As you cultivate these virtues, you’ll find you’re giving a gift not only to yourself, but to the world around you.
Loving-Kindness & My Mother-in-Law
It wasn't that she changed at all; I just saw her very differently, with the help of loving-kindness.
Meditation Made Me A Better Friend
That seems to be a fruit of my practice — not only do I like to be around me, but other people like to be around me now.
Mindfulness Got Me Off Autopilot
We train in befriending ourselves, including all our neuroses and complexities.
Here’s How I Teach Compassion
If there's one thing I like to teach, it's compassion as our natural way of being.
You Are Who You Hang Out With
Who do you spend the most time with? Who are the people you most admire? Are those two groups of people the same?
How a Chipped Nail Imparted Wisdom
My perfectly imperfect nails impart more wisdom than you might guess from their chipped appearance.
How Ants Taught Me About Generosity
The rewards flow back in many beautiful ways when you do things out of goodness and without condition.
Healing My Family Through Meditation
Once I realized that my thoughts didn’t always tell me the whole truth, I became suspicious of my negative emotions.