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	<title>The SMART Buddhist &#187; Skills</title>
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	<description>Recovery From Destructive Habits Using Modern Psychology &#38; Buddhist Philosophy</description>
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		<title>Dr. Gabor Maté: &#8220;When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published by Democracy Now! Febuary 15, 2010 The Vancouver-based Dr. Gabor Maté argues that too many doctors seem to have forgotten what was once a commonplace assumption—that emotions are deeply implicated in both the development of illness and in the restoration of health. Based on medical studies and his own experience with chronically ill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Six-Session Program On Handling Job-Loss Stress</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Smart Buddhist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unemployed? Need help with succeeding in your job search? Join us for a 6 week free online job search support program. Being out of work can trigger a cascade of stressors that correlates with anxiety, down moods, and painful conflicts, thus making sticking to your recovery goals more challenging.  With the holidays approaching, SMART Recovery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello, Darkness: Discovering Our Values by Confronting Our Fears</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Steven Hayes Originally published by Psychotherapy Networker, Inc. Sep/Oct 2007 I keep a supply of Chinese finger traps in my office to show to patients. When you push your fingers into each end of these straw tubes and then try to remove them, the tube diameter shrinks and grabs the digits firmly. The more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Status Quo Bias</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more difficult the decision we face, the more likely we are not to act, according to new research by UCL scientists that examines the neural pathways involved in &#8216;status quo bias&#8217; in the human brain. The study, published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), looked at the decision-making of participants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addiction &amp; Brain Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a link to a lecture given by Dr. Gabor Maté to a Canadian First Nation group. He gives a great overview of some of the science behind substance addiction. He also gets to the root of passing the behavior to our children. This lecture is very educational and explains some of the &#8220;causes [...]]]></description>
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