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Living Mindfully in Motion: How Humor, Music, and Movement Shape Present-Moment Awareness
Many people first encounter mindfulness through quiet meditation. They sit still, focus on their breath, and attempt to observe thoughts without distraction. While this approach offers clear benefits, it does not represent the full range of mindfulness practice. In fact, mindfulness can exist in nearly every moment of daily life. Humor, music, and movement expand this understanding in powerful ways. They invite awareness into situations that feel natural, expressive, and dynamic.
Clarity in Motion: Discovering Awakening Through Insight Meditation
Insight meditation, also known as Vipassana, centers on the direct observation of the mind and body. It encourages individuals to witness their inner world without distraction. Instead of chasing calm or avoiding discomfort, practitioners stay present with whatever arises. As a result, they begin to understand their experiences more deeply. This approach traces back to the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, who taught that awareness leads to freedom.
Robert Beatty Provides Practical Mindfulness Techniques to Reduce Stress in Professional Settings
Mindfulness has become a powerful tool in enhancing workplace well-being, offering practical strategies to improve focus, emotional regulation, and stress management. In high-pressure backdrops, even small shifts in awareness can lead to meaningful improvements in productivity and social dynamics. Whether it’s through deep breathing, body awareness, or pauses, integrating mindfulness into daily routines helps employees feel more grounded and resilient.
Living Awake: Four Decades of Lessons from Teaching Vipassana
When I first encountered Vipassana, I searched for relief from mental noise. I wanted calm, yet I also longed for understanding. Therefore, I committed to sitting in silence and observing my breath. Although I felt uncertain at first, I sensed that this practice had depth. That intuition guided me forward. During those early sessions, I faced distraction at every turn. My thoughts replayed conversations and imagined future outcomes. However, the instruction remained simple.
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Meditation and Poetry for Inner Growth in Daily Life
In a world filled with constant demands and endless distractions, many people seek meaningful ways to understand themselves and the experiences that shape them. Meditation and poetry for inner growth offer a powerful path toward clarity, resilience, and emotional balance. These two timeless practices complement each other beautifully. Meditation creates space for stillness and reflection, while poetry gives voice to thoughts and feelings that might otherwise remain hidden.
IN MEMORIAM: Black America’s cultural giants lost in 2025
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent The losses came steadily in 2025, not as a single rupture but as a quiet procession. Voices that once filled sanctuaries, arenas, studios, television screens, and living rooms went still. The year closed with Black America taking inventory not only of who died, but of what each life carried into the culture and what now remains behind. From gospel and soul to film, television, activism, and sport, the deaths cut across generations.
Building a Mindfulness Practice for Everyday Life
Modern life often moves at a relentless pace, and many people feel mentally exhausted by the end of the day. Work demands attention, personal responsibilities compete for time, and digital distractions never seem to stop. Because of this constant pressure, mindfulness has become more relevant than ever. Mindfulness does not require retreating from daily life. Instead, it invites awareness into the moments you already live. When practiced consistently, it helps create balance without adding burden.
La IA salta al escenario: videos virales, deepfakes y el nuevo show digital
Una noche de verano, sin poder dormir, Andy Kosovskiy comenzó a experimentar con Veo 3, la herramienta de creación de video que Google había lanzado recientemente. El resultado podría haber marcado el inicio de una nueva era para las redes sociales, y quizás para todo el negocio del entretenimiento.
Serafina and the Twisted Staff: Serafina Book 2 Book Review
age 8+ Spooky mystery sequel keeps up thrills and chills. Parents need to know that Serafina and the Twisted Staff is the sequel to Serafina and the Black Cloak. Set in North Carolina in 1899, the story picks up three weeks after the events in Book 1. You don't need to read the first book to follow the story here; the past is explained, and even though the plot springboards off the first book, it's separate enough to follow on its own. The overall atmosphere is very creepy.
Willa of the Wood, Book 1 Book Review
age 9+ Action-packed, violent, absorbing, heartfelt fantasy. Parents need to know that Willa of the Wood is a fast-paced, action/adventure fantasy by the author of the popular Serafina series, Robert Beatty.
Willa of Dark Hollow: Willa of the Wood, Book 2 Book Review
age 9+ Intense, exciting companion to environmental fantasy. Parents need to know that Willa of Dark Hollow is intended as a standalone companion book to Willa of the Wood, by popular middle-grade author Robert Beatty. It can stand on its own, but it picks up the same characters about a year after the events in Willa of the Wood, and readers will get a deeper appreciation of the world and the characters by reading that one first.
Awakening Through Insight Meditation
Insight meditation has transformed countless lives for centuries. Rooted in ancient wisdom, this practice helps individuals cultivate clarity, peace, and profound understanding. Unlike other meditation techniques that focus solely on relaxation, insight meditation emphasizes awareness and direct experience. By integrating this practice into daily life, practitioners uncover the subtle layers of mind and reality, opening doors to lasting transformation and spiritual growth.
Insight Meditation for Beginners: A Path to Inner Peace
Insight meditation for beginners—often called Vipassana—is an ancient Buddhist practice designed to develop deep self-awareness and mental clarity. The word Vipassana means “seeing things as they truly are,” and this method encourages observing thoughts, feelings, and sensations without judgment. Instead of focusing on a single object like in concentration meditation, insight meditation broadens your awareness to include everything that arises in the present moment.
Walking the Middle Path: Lessons from Ordination in Burma
For centuries, ordination in Burma has been a defining practice of Buddhist culture. In Burmese tradition, young men—and sometimes women—step into monastic life temporarily, not always for lifelong commitment but for spiritual deepening. This practice is unique in its accessibility. Even a few weeks of wearing the saffron robe are regarded as highly meritorious for the individual and their family. My decision to enter this path came from a search for silence in a world of noise.
How Non-Dual Teachings Deepen the Insight Meditation Journey
Meditation has long been a practice of self-discovery, inner peace, and spiritual awakening. Among the many approaches, insight meditation—also known as Vipassana—has gained attention for its emphasis on awareness and mindfulness. It teaches practitioners to observe thoughts, emotions, and sensations with clarity, allowing them to see the impermanent and interconnected nature of life.
NC bestselling author wrote tale of a deadly 100-year flood. Then Hurricane Helene hit. Original
Bestselling author Robert Beatty envisioned his latest page turner of a novel years before the tale tragically played out for real with Hurricane Helene. " Sylvia Doe and the 100-year Flood " is a nature-based mystery adventure about a forlorn 13-year-old who saves people and animals during a "flood of the century" in the North Carolina mountains. Helene killed at least 103 people in North Carolina as of Nov.
Sylvia Doe and the 100-Year Flood
Sylvia Doe and the 100-Year Flood Review posted September 26, 2024. Disney Hyperion, October 8, 2024. 314 pages. Review written June 26, 2024, from an Advance Reader Copy sent by the publisher. Starred Review Sylvia Doe and the 100-Year Flood is about a girl who's grown up in an institution that insists it's not an orphanage. Kids are supposed to get placed in homes, but every time Sylvia gets placed somewhere, she runs away to come back.
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Sylvia Doe and the 100-Year Flood
A hurricane changes the course of a river and the life of a lonely girl in this nature-based mystery-adventure by the best-selling author of the Serafina series and the Willa series Robert Beatty, a master at telling atmospheric tales of mystery and suspense set in the natural world, has crafted another ingenious, unputdownable story. Thirteen-year-old Sylvia Doe has lived at the Highground Home for Children nearly all her life.
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Open Forum: Trust Sturdivant with the future of schools
ROBERT BEATTY If you’re a parent of a school-aged child in 2023, and you’re not upset or at least worried about the quality of education in our public schools, you must not be paying attention. I don’t blame you. We send our children to school and entrust our public schools to give them everything they need to succeed. The schools of today are not the schools that we grew up in. More than half the students are reading below grade level.
May Events and New Releases
Author Robert Beatty Meet the Author of the Serafina Series and Forthcoming Willa Series Saturday, May 26th 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. at The Hop Join Asheville author Robert Beatty and his family for a Book Signing & Ice Cream Social at The Hop Ice Cream Cafe. Meet the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Serafina series and the new novel, Willa of the Wood, set for nationwide release on July 10.
Planetary Solar Rotation
This included some radioactive minerals which reacted to start forming a heated core. Eventually, the developing hot spot forms a weakened planet face which explodes to form a new satellite which can orbit the planet or the Sun. Other orbiting options are discussed in the PLS text. At the point of initial eruption, the gas jet force reacts on the surface of the planet as shown in Exhibit 3 – Common Solar and Satellite Rotation Initiation: Earth – Moon example.
The Chrysalis BREW Project
Wanda the Wanderer is a sexual adventurer who works as a repair and installer technician for a major telephone company. She is a practitioner of the movable feast, barroom pick-up artist, skilled technician at electronics, and seduction. Wanda dedicates herself to the art of seduction and the quick, trouble-free escape as the second phase of her life begins. She doesn’t want to date or get married, and neither does she intend to. However, things become more challenging when she meets Clark.
Multi-disciplinary artist and musician Robert Beatty on the value of taking a non-traditional path
Multi-disciplinary artist and musician Robert Beatty discusses how limitations can be useful, what he learned from growing up in relative isolation, when collaboration doesn't work, and why it's worth getting things wrong. Highlights on How was art/music reaching you as a pre-internet, indoor kid in Kentucky? Cable TV was huge back then, in the early ’90s. It was a window to the outside world. TV was a lot weirder, too. I remember USA Up All Night where they would show strange B movies.
Stupenda conquista - Film 1951
Stupenda conquista è un film del 1951 diretto da John Boulting con Renée Asherson e Richard Attenborough. Durata: 118 min. Paese di produzione: Regno Unito. Titolo originale The Magic Box Data di uscita nd (Italia) Genere Drammatico Anno 1951 Regia John Boulting Paese Regno Unito Durata 118 Min Trama del film Stupenda conquista La vita dell'inventore e pioniere del cinema britannico William Friese-Greene: dalle innovazioni ai problemi familiari.
Denial of Natural Immunity ‘Unprecedented in Modern History’
Published on January 20, 2022 Written by theepochtimes.com Denying natural immunity in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) vaccine mandates is “unprecedented in modern history,” a prominent public health expert said. Dr. Scott Atlas, a former White House COVID-19 Task Force adviser during the Trump administration, made the remarks after the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decide to uphold the CMS vaccine mandates in a Thursday ruling.
Time to end our ‘warped risk perception’ of COVID
Published on January 14, 2022 Written by nationalpost.com We’re the safest we’ve ever been from COVID. The vast majority of us are vaccinated and the highest-risk people have boosters. The virus has mutated into its mildest version ever. Yet, in Canada, governments are once again closing schools, locking down businesses and deploying the same fearful, knee-jerk responses they’ve always used.
Covid Vax Death Rate 21 Times Higher Than All Other Vaxxes!
Published on January 11, 2022 Written by Pierre Gosselin German site Transparenztest.de has compared the figures for adverse events of COVID mRNA vaccines with other vaccines.
Former Head Teacher’s Open Letter Destroys Politicians’ Reasoning on COVID
Published on January 12, 2022 Written by pandata.org A private citizen and former Head Teacher in Northern Ireland has written a letter in response to the Ulster Unionist Party’s public health policy. This policy supports further enforcement of mask-wearing, mandated vaccine passes for hospitality and vaccinations for schoolchildren. The letter is reproduced here: Good morning, Thank you for your quick response.
Boris Johnson Once Argued For “Population Control”
Published on January 7, 2022 Written by freedombeacon.com Boris Johnson, the so-called “Conservative” Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is not exactly popular right now. Despite delivering Brexit, the British PM has repeatedly sided with COVID authoritarians and climate alarmists since taking office – and now, a new report from The National File reminds the world that Johnson once talked about the idea of population control.
Lancet: 89% of new UK COVID cases among fully vaxxed
Published on December 30, 2021 Written by The Lancet High COVID-19 vaccination rates were expected to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in populations by reducing the number of possible sources for transmission and thereby to reduce the burden of COVID-19 disease. Recent data, however, indicate that the epidemiological relevance of COVID-19 vaccinated individuals is increasing.
Global Coal Demand On Track For Record As ‘Green’ Transition Crumbles
Published on December 21, 2021 Written by zerohedge.com There’s no question that the ‘greenification’ of the global economy has returned many industrial countries to coal in 2021. New data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows that the amount of electricity generated worldwide from coal is on track to hit a record high. IEA’s Coal 2021 report says global power generation from coal soared nine percent in 2021 to an all-time high of 10,350 terawatt-hours.
NY State Assembly Wants Involuntary COVID Quarantine Camps
Published on December 21, 2021 Written by gellerreport.com Admittedly, it takes quite a bit to raise my blood pressure, but this is one of those real-world issues that does it. There are a lot of really good people in upstate New York and outside the boundaries of that crazy city they are best known for. The New York state assembly passing a bill [A416 LINK HERE] to set up involuntary COVID quarantine camps needs to be stopped right now. This is nuts.
There is no pandemic and here’s why
Published on December 21, 2021 Written by Jerm Warfare Last night I was joined, on my podcast, by Denis Rancourt. He is a Canadian scientist and social theorist. Denis co-authored a massive paper in which they concluded that, in the United States, there is no evidence of a pandemic. They studied all-cause mortality, which is the most reliable data because, as Denis said, deaths are deaths, regardless of cause. Either somebody died or somebody didn’t die. Here is the full 170-page paper.
How many slaves does it take to build a solar panel?
Published on December 17, 2021 Written by www.bizpacreview.com Products that are fundamental to nearly all global “green pledges” — including electric vehicle batteries, solar panels, wind turbines and industrial-grade storage batteries — require minerals that are produced with significant human rights violations.
In the Race for ‘Climate Leadership,’ Everyone Loses
Published on December 15, 2021 Written by newsweek.com Last year, Joe Biden campaigned on the promise that America would lead the world in the fight against ‘climate change’. At last month’s Glasgow climate conference, however, President Biden diluted candidate Biden’s bold promise to a plaintive “hopefully”—implying, he said, leadership by example.
Healthcare Chief Says Omicron “May Signal End of COVID-19”
Published on December 15, 2021 Written by summit.news The CEO of South Africa’s largest private healthcare network says that the Omicron variant is “so mild” that it “may signal the end of COVID-19.” According to Richard Friedland (pictured), chief executive officer of Netcare Ltd., the early days of the variant suggest there is absolutely no need to panic and that it might actually be a good thing.
Masks were to soften you up for Plan B
Published on December 12, 2021 Written by Laura Dodsworth ‘Masks were a softening up exercise for Plan B,’ according to a government whistleblower. He told me that while there is little appetite in the Cabinet for a full lockdown, Covid Passes are ‘oven-baked’ and ready to go. In my opinion, the UK government’s Winter Plan was always about Plan B. It displayed a classic ‘foot-in-the-door’ strategy – the raison d’être of Plan A was to prepare you for Plan B.
Omicron Variant Sends Vaccine Makers’ Stocks Soaring
Published on December 7, 2021 Written by childrenshealthdefense.org VAERS data released Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included a total of 913,268 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 19,249 deaths and 143,395 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and Nov. 19, 2021.
Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality
Published on November 18, 2021 Written by powerlineblog.com Some people, not all of them liberals, think that electric vehicles are the wave of the future, part of an inevitable “green” revolution. But the facts suggest otherwise. My friend Robert Bryce testified before a House committee yesterday on the subject of electric vehicles. Robert is one of the country’s most knowledgeable experts on energy, and I encourage you to read his entire testimony.
Fatally Flawed COVID Vaccines Falling Like Dominoes
Published on November 13, 2021 Written by Pierre Gosselin Taiwan halts Biontech Covid vaccines after European countries pause Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and Astra Zeneca. Governments are being extremely naïve to think a normally years-long process could be winged in a matter of weeks. Over 95 percent effective and safe, so insisted vaccine manufacturers, government agencies and mainstream media. Everyone should get out and take the jabs so life could get back to normal.
Cardiologist told non-vaxxed “I won’t cry at your funeral,” dead 2 weeks after 3rd Jab
Published on November 13, 2021 Written by thecovidblog.com A 52-year-old cardiologist, hospital director and hockey coach is dead after spending much of 2021 belittling the non-vaxxed. Dr. Sohrab Lutchmedial received his first mRNA injection on January 16, according to his Facebook page. It’s unclear whether it was Pfizer or Moderna. It also doesn’t matter. But those were the only two injections authorized for use in Canada at the time.
American Airlines Flight 2740: Why Vaxxed Pilots Should Not Fly
Published on November 10, 2021 Written by darwinnationalreview.com American Airlines Flight 2740, an Airbus A320, Was Enroute From Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Fort Meyers (RSW) When the Unthinkable Happened. Incident 1 As the plane began a gradual descent toward southwest Florida, the pilot in command (PIC) began convulsing and had a cardiac arrest.
Italy Drastically Reduces Its Official COVID Death Toll Number
Published on November 6, 2021 Written by summit.news The Italian Higher Institute of Health has reduced the country’s official COVID death toll number by over 97 per cent after changing the definition of a fatality to someone who died from COVID rather than with COVID. Italian newspaper Il Tempo reports that the Institute has revised downward the number of people who have died from COVID rather than with COVID from 130,000 to under 4,000. “Yes, you read that right.
Pending International Treaty Empowering the WHO
Written by Dr Urmie Ray B.A., M.A., Mmath, Ph.d. Cantab Between 29 November and 1 December 2021, member states are meeting in a special session with the World Health Organisation to discuss, possibly sign, a new treaty on pandemic preparedness and response.
Positive Vibrations
A Moment Sound healer Lavender Suarez on the connections between what we hear and how we feel. Words by Anupa Mistry, Illustration by Robert Beatty IN THE WEEKS before I spoke with sound healer and meditation teacher Lavender Suarez, I’d been dealing with a new upstairs neighbor, or more specifically, the sound of a new upstairs neighbor: thunking, clunking, laughing, living. I couldn’t recall the former tenant — a techno producer! — being this noisy.
Doctor Reveals Remdesivir Is Real Cause Of COVID-19 Maladies
Published on August 11, 2021 Written by James Fetzer Dr. Bryan Ardis makes an astounding revelation. He states that Dr. Fauci pushed the use of Veklury® (remdesivir) as a treatment for COVID-19 knowing that it would be unsafe and ineffective for patients. Veklury® (remdesivir) is a nucleotide analogue RNA polymerase inhibitor.
Positive Vibrations
A Moment Sound healer Lavender Suarez on the connections between what we hear and how we feel. Words by Anupa Mistry, Illustration by Robert Beatty IN THE WEEKS before I spoke with sound healer and meditation teacher Lavender Suarez, I’d been dealing with a new upstairs neighbor, or more specifically, the sound of a new upstairs neighbor: thunking, clunking, laughing, living. I couldn’t recall the former tenant — a techno producer! — being this noisy.
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