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The Power of Slowing Down (A Mindfulness Practice)
New York City is a metropolis filled with tall skyscrapers, home to wealthy elites, major finance corporations, and technology startups. One word describes this city: “fast.” Every day there is a sense of rush in the air. The energy moves quickly. This same energy can be felt in most major large cities similar to New York. On the other end of the spectrum, I can compare growing up in a quaint farm of my childhood. On the outskirts of the Pacific Ocean in Southeast Asia, I lived in a village province in the Philippines. My childhood was spent among green grass, mountains towering over houses, rectangular matrixes of farmland patched with…