George Mumford had just emerged from a detox center in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and it was the first time he could remember being sober for 21 days straight. George had been drinking pretty heavily since he was a teen and had gotten hooked on painkillers in college, which later morphed into a full-blown heroin addiction. For a long time, he’d been able to hide his habit and hold down his job as a financial analyst for a digital equipment manufacturer, but after his marriage fell apart, he turned to Alcoholics Anonymous and that inspired him to try to get clean....

STOP (Stop, Take a breath, Observe your experience and Proceed) Click here to enlarge the chart. RAIN (Recognize, Allow, Inquire, Non-identify/Natural Awareness) This acronym created by Michelle McDonald and popularized and adapted by Tara Brach, is incredible for helping us gain perspective, self-compassion and confidence with our difficult feelings. We also experience stepping into our natural awareness. POINT (Pause, Open, Inquire, Non-identify, Truth) Here is the latest acronym that I think gets to the essence of mindfulness and because there is no prior reference to this, I’ll spell it out here....

Users will be able to access these features within the Mobvoi app installed on a connected smartphone. The subscription will cost $4.99 a month and provide users with things like upgraded sleep tracking and analysis, more than 50 sleep aid songs to help you drift off, and AI insights like reminders about your sleep cycle and recommendations for each of your sleep stages. Additionally you get an overview of your sleep patterns for each week, and on a monthly basis....

Despite more people wanting to go shopping this Prime Day, the average spending has dropped almost 30 percent. The surveyed consumers are willing to spend an average of $233 on Prime Day shopping this year, down from $326 in 2021. This should be an indication of the impact of the global inflation crisis. Other retailers such as Walmart and Target also tend to host their shopping events around the same time as Prime Day....

As the name suggests, this router offers Wi-Fi 6E connectivity on supported devices. It is the latest Wi-Fi standard that brings a notable speed boost over the older Wi-Fi 5 standard found on the last Nest Wifi model. We are talking about a theoretical peak speed of 9.6Gbps Vs. 2.2Gbps. Wi-Fi 6E doesn’t offer higher speeds than Wi-Fi 6 but thanks to the addition of a third 6GHz band, it makes your network less crowded, enabling more reliable internet across the network....