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Mindfulness for People Who Cannot Sit Still
Somewhere along the way, mindfulness got a costume popularised in social media channels: a cushion, a silent room, forty uninterrupted minutes, and a person who already seems calm. If that is the requirement, most of us are disqualified before we begin. Here is the version without that ‘perfect moment’. Mindfulness is paying attention to what…
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How to Find Your Values When Everything Feels Urgent
Values sound like a luxury item, something for people with quiet schedules and time to think. When your days are a chain of deadlines, school fees, client messages, and family obligations, the question “what do you truly value?” can feel almost insulting, the way being told to relax feels when you are drowning. And yet…
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Aromatherapy for Beginners: A Practical, No-Hype Guide
Walk through any online marketplace and you will find essential oils promising to cure almost everything, priced suspiciously low or ridiculously high, reviewed by thousands. Then you will find wellness accounts insisting oils changed their lives, and skeptics insisting it is all perfume and placebo. A beginner standing between these camps deserves a calmer answer,…
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What Tawhay means, and why we named a practice after it
The story behind the word, and what we’re trying to build around it. | Written by Balot Del Rosario, founder of Tawhay. Tawhay is a Hiligaynon word that means serenity, but not the kind you find on a postcard. The word points to a specific quiet, the one that arrives after a long breath, when…