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Endocrine Today, November 2015
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Nov. 17, 2015 1:40 p.m. ET
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Asking a child to sit still for meditation doesn’t sound like a recipe for easing stress.
Yet more families are making a few shared minutes of quiet contemplation a part of their daily routin
Last week my wife Penny and I had the opportunity to keynote the Mindful Leadership Summit. At the summit, 750 participants gathered to discuss how mindfulness practices could change global leadership for the better. As Charles Lief, president of Nar
