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Know Thyself: How Mindfulness Can Improve Self-knowledge
March 14, 2013
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Mindfulness--paying attention to one's current experience in a non-judgmental way--might help us to learn more about our own personalities, according to a new article published in the March 2013 issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.Full StorySource
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