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Monday, December 22, 2008 12:00 AM

What your loneliness is telling you

New science says being lonely speeds aging. Old philosophy says the holiday blues are a signal to examine and change your life.
By Katharine Mieszkowski

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  • Sunday, December 21, 2008 07:37 PM

    Be Here Now

    In a book about mindfulness I read recently it stated that for most people 80%-90% of their thinking was repetitive, useless, dysfunctional and negative-even harmful.

    I find myself having internal conversations with people about things that haven't come up yet and may never come up. A friend calls this "writing scripts."

    Watch yourself! Observe your thinking and you will see where your problems come from. Live in the now. It's all you have.

    —Mister Dot Read Mister Dot's other letters

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