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Five challenges in your expat life and how to overcome them

Moving to another country, especially if you don’t speak the local language, can bring huge challenges for you to deal with. Things get even more complicated when you go and have your kids with you. Then you know, like every mother, that their well-being and adjustment comes before yours. Three years ago, we relocated from

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What is an OBE?

I was once slowly riding my bike on Marbella’s paseo by the beach in an area frequented by families. I was suddenly caught by the sight of a tiny little girl who couldn’t possibly be over 2 years old as she could barely walk. This little bundle of love had a very excited look on her

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On Mindfulness

Reading books about mindfulness is fine. It can be helpful, instructive and explanatory. But it is only an intellectual entertainment and will stay purely that if you don’t put away that book and finally do this simple exercise that is described in it. There is nothing wrong with entertainment, just call it what it is and

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COMING OUT… OF BODY

I’ve always known magic. As a child it was an absolute certainty that connected me to everything around me. I remember playing with that. And I remember that feeling of permanent Christmas Eve, knowing that something was about to come alive, at any time. And I remember the incredible shock of coming “back to reality”,

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On Mindfulness

I spend most of my time in an ordinary every day. Thera are chores, errands and jobs to be done. There are things to be organized and fixed. This every day is normal and average. My intelligent mind can call it: boring, unpleasant or stressful. The great critic in me constantly explains, judges, entertains and

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On Mindfulness

I like to take a break from thinking, so I can come back to it with a different perspective and a refreshed mind. This break is called meditation and being more precise is not about not thinking, it is rather about not paying any attention to thoughts appearing on my mind. As we all know

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On Mindfulness

How to solve a problem? Usually we engage our intelligence to do that. We use our knowledge and sometimes other people knowledge to approach the problem. This accumulated knowledge comes always from the past. But sometimes it is not enough. We are left with our mind spinning with thoughts without getting any help from it.

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