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		<title>How to Deconstruct the (Hidden) Assumptions in a Personal Attack</title>
		<link>http://mindfulconstruct.com/2012/06/15/how-to-deconstruct-the-hidden-assumptions-in-a-personal-attack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Karnaze</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s talk about personal criticism, or when someone tries to convince you that you are wrong, misguided, stupid, too emotional, irrational, or otherwise bad. I&#8217;m sure personal criticism doesn&#8217;t make you feel good, but maybe you can&#8217;t always pin-point why. The psychology of personal criticism Whenever someone personally attacks you, or criticizes your actions, personality, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Holidays from Mindful Construct</title>
		<link>http://mindfulconstruct.com/2011/12/20/happy-holidays-from-mindful-construct-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Karnaze</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;d like to become more mindful of your holiday-related constructs this winter, Mindful Construct offers stimulating articles on&#8230; Deconstructing the myth that lying to kids about Santa is all good Questioning your use of the God construct Why you may be sabotaging your own &#8220;happily ever after&#8221; (which is usually portrayed in countless Christmas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sign Up for Mindful Emotions &amp; Let Your Emotions Work for You</title>
		<link>http://mindfulconstruct.com/2011/11/14/sign-up-for-mindful-emotions-let-emotions-work-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Karnaze</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emotions are part of who we are as humans; there&#8217;s no way around that. For ages, philosophers and scholars have relegated emotions to pests, antagonists to &#8220;reason.&#8221; Only recently have psychologists started to empirically answer our questions about what emotions are, how they are formed, and how we can respond to them in healthy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re the Only Expert You Can Trust</title>
		<link>http://mindfulconstruct.com/2011/11/11/youre-the-only-expert-you-can-trust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Karnaze</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boundaries]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindfulconstruct.com/?p=8927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You put your trust into others every day. Lack of trust can threaten your sanity. Putting out too much trust isn&#8217;t smart either. Think about all the professionals you work with or rely on. From local librarians to surgeons to government officials. You trust them to do their job, right? (You probably trust some professionals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why You&#8217;re Too Afraid to Succeed, Thrive &amp; Love Boldly</title>
		<link>http://mindfulconstruct.com/2011/11/07/why-youre-too-afraid-to-succeed-thrive-love-boldly/</link>
		<comments>http://mindfulconstruct.com/2011/11/07/why-youre-too-afraid-to-succeed-thrive-love-boldly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Karnaze</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does it take to succeed? To thrive? To love boldly? You&#8217;d think it takes perseverance, knowledge, and courage. Sure, they help. But only if you go beyond their conventional definitions. Perseverance doesn&#8217;t mean toughing out the challenges &#8212; it means learning to live with and work with self-doubt, mistakes, guilt, and regret. Knowledge doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Quick &amp; Easy Ways to Be More Mindful of Your Emotions</title>
		<link>http://mindfulconstruct.com/2011/11/04/3-quick-easy-ways-to-be-more-mindful-of-your-emotions/</link>
		<comments>http://mindfulconstruct.com/2011/11/04/3-quick-easy-ways-to-be-more-mindful-of-your-emotions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Karnaze</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ego]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honesty]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindfulconstruct.com/?p=8849</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether you want to increase your emotional intelligence, or you don&#8217;t want your emotions &#8220;messing&#8221; with your logic &#8212; you can benefit from being more mindful of all of your emotions. It&#8217;s when you don&#8217;t recognize and process your emotions that they can guide your behavior in negative and subconscious ways. Here are three quick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Telltale Sign You&#8217;re Not Mindful about Mindfulness</title>
		<link>http://mindfulconstruct.com/2011/11/02/a-telltale-sign-youre-not-mindful-about-mindfulness/</link>
		<comments>http://mindfulconstruct.com/2011/11/02/a-telltale-sign-youre-not-mindful-about-mindfulness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Karnaze</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MER: An integrative review]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindfulconstruct.com/?p=8540</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mindfulness meditation can be used to dissociate from your unwanted &#8220;negative&#8221; emotions. Did you read that sentence mindfully? Did you see the word &#8220;can?&#8221; (It makes a huge difference in your interpretation.) So how can you use mindfulness in ways that thwart your emotional health? It&#8217;s really simple: by not being mindful about mindfulness, itself. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>88 Emotionally Stupid Things You&#8217;re Wasting Your Precious Time On</title>
		<link>http://mindfulconstruct.com/2011/10/31/88-emotionally-stupid-things-youre-wasting-your-precious-time-on/</link>
		<comments>http://mindfulconstruct.com/2011/10/31/88-emotionally-stupid-things-youre-wasting-your-precious-time-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Karnaze</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boundaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Codependency and You]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much time are you going to waste today on people, things, or activities that emotionally drain you? It&#8217;s actually easier to spend your precious time on the emotionally draining &#8212; than to work on emotionally-enriching endeavors. Why? Because you&#8217;ve been conditioned (by yourself and others) to avoid &#8220;negative&#8221; feelings, thoughts, and experiences. You&#8217;re taught [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn How to Respond to Adversity in 5 Powerful Steps</title>
		<link>http://mindfulconstruct.com/2011/10/28/learn-how-to-constructively-respond-to-adversity-in-5-powerful-steps/</link>
		<comments>http://mindfulconstruct.com/2011/10/28/learn-how-to-constructively-respond-to-adversity-in-5-powerful-steps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Karnaze</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[personal development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindfulconstruct.com/?p=8707</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So life happens to you&#8230; Then what? Then it&#8217;s up to you to respond. How destructively or constructively you do you so is up to you. However you do so sets a chain reaction and co-creates your future experience in many complicated ways. People spend years trying to deny this, or to somehow prove it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Belief in God Mask the Fear of Death?</title>
		<link>http://mindfulconstruct.com/2011/10/26/does-belief-in-god-mask-the-fear-of-death/</link>
		<comments>http://mindfulconstruct.com/2011/10/26/does-belief-in-god-mask-the-fear-of-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Karnaze</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindfulconstruct.com/?p=8455</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Michael A. Persinger, if a person experiences God, their brain might just be playing a trick on them, for good reason. In the episode &#8220;Is There a Creator?&#8221; of Science Channel&#8217;s Through the Wormwhole, Persinger explains how the sense of self must be tied to language and left-hemispheric processes. The prototypical God experience [...]]]></description>
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