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How to Create the Life You Really Want
Australians are loosing their laidback, carefree reputation, as we continue to work longer hours, exercise less and neglect our leisure and family time. Recent research indicates that 67 per cent of Australian professionals spend at least 20 hours a week thinking about their job when they should be relaxing, and less than half take their entitled annual leave.
Total Life Planning Institute Inspires
Want a Livelihood -- and a Life -- You Can Love? How to Turn Your Dream Into Reality in Five Minutes a Day and Other Tips for Time-Stressed Dreamers
Winning Begins The Minute You Do.
Remember The Heroes
How to Succeed for the Rest of Your Life
Relishing Enchanted Moments
'There is a Magic Technique That Will Change Your Life,' Says Author
One-Minute Wake-Ups
Magic Wheel. Some ideas to help women through rough times
Practical Ways to Bring Enchantment into Your Life
Money - The Lie Revealed
Relinquishing Your Dreams
What You Can Do About Procrastination
Your Pot of Gold: Waiting for the Rainbow's End
The Key to Remembering God
Will You Be Part of the Bigger Picture?
Just Let ‘Em Go!
How To Stop Smoking
Waiting for the Medical News
Your Place Or Mine?
Top Ten Ways to Live Authentically
THE YEAR OF HAPPINESS
Your Personal Owner's Manual
Mirrors
Surviving A Dysfunctional Family
The Right Words at the Right Time
Listen To Your Wisdom
Vivation--The Skill of Happiness
Just Allow. But How?
Survival Kit for the Holidays: Grace, Gratitude and Random Acts of Kindness
The Balance Between Joy and Seriousness.
Top Ten Things to Build a Bridge and Get Over
Surfing Your Adrenalin Wave: How to Dissolve--Not Disguise--Anger
Limiting Beliefs: The Lies We Believe With All Our Heart
THE JERK IS NEVER ME
The Way to Live
Potholes on the road to success
Love, Fear and Reaching Out
Your Mind is a Garden
The Real Feng Shui
Mindfulness and Perspective: Getting Hip
JOY
Mindfulness and Mystery: Sleuthing Toward Interpersonal Awareness
Life’s an Illusion…
Mindfulness and Mood Swings: 7 Secrets to Successful Mood-Watching
On Living Well
The Value of Good and Bad Experiences...
The Inner Reality of Selfhood
The Art of Communication
The Purpose of Fortune Telling
The Infinite Passion of Life
The Vacuum Law of Prosperity
Mindfulness and Empathy: Using The News
Seven Simple Exercises to Invite the Extraordinary Life
Polishing the Mirror
Your Heart is Your Center
How to become an expert Customer Services Tester
Regain Control of Your Life!
The Importance of Emotional Intelligence
Mind Poo
IN PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE
Poetry “Reborn” Emerges In Thriller Mystery Novel
The Universal Connection
The Importance of Balance
Top 5 Ways for an ADD Adult to Have a Happy Holiday
Top 5 Tips for Being Fulfilled
What makes a champion?
The Present is Perfect?
What Keeps You From Your Destiny
The Powerful Universal Law That Shapes Your Life
Please Forgive Me...
Playing With Mindfulness: Sneaking In The Back Door
How to Be Happy All The Time, No Matter What
Life Lines
How To Be Happy
Life Lines
How to recognize Intuitive Messages vs. Mind Chatter
Using Excuses to Avoid Fun
Improve Your Workplace to Make Your Life Better
It's Time To Slow Down
How Bryant & Stratton College Internship and Career Placement is helping the Local Economy to grow
Life Is Thought
THE ABC’S OF INSURANCE “ Complementary Health Series” hosted by Lester J. Robinson FICF .Show 26: New TV show coming to Western New York “ Lets Go Buffalo Show
Recover Your Life Purpose From Your Childhood Memories
What is your Giss?
Spring Into Enchantment
Your Best Is Plenty Good Enough.
Reconciliation of Inner Conflicts
SEO Writing Strategies for Graphic-Oriented Sites
Recognize and Reduce the Top Ten Emotional Stresses of the Holiday Season
How to Protect You and Your Children from West Nile Virus
Nourish Your Soul
The Power of Positive Habits
PLANETARY GEMOLOGY
News & Commentary on the Modern Spiritual Search
Life Engagement
Nothing Ever Stays the Same
How to Plan a Vacations of the Mind
Life Balance: How Can You Attain it?
THE HALL OF MIRRORS
You, 5.0: How To Master Any Skill Quickly
How to overcome your “Obstacles”.
What is real freedom?
Why Haven't I Changed?
Life as a Work of Art
What is Processing?
To think for oneself
It's February, Do You Know Where Your New Year's Resolution Is?
How to Overcome Procrastination in 4 Simple Steps
To Thine Own Self Be True—Reboot Your Life to Become the Woman You Want to Be
No Need For Being Happy All The Time
It’s all to do with the way you wake up.
How to overcome life's difficulties and achieve more? What's my big secret?
Leveraging Your 'Incidents of Coincidence'
No More Crappy Holidays!
Selfishness- A virtue
WHY DOES GOD LET BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE?
No Happiness Without Patience
To Know Success, First Embrace Failure
Why Do People Lie?
How Not to Be a Desperate Housewife
The Power of Focus
Really Scary Stuff…
"The 3 Critical Factors Of A Rich Mind"
The Power of Feeling
Letting Go – In my own words!
The Power of Faith
What is holding you back
I’m My Own Grandpa!
You Have to Resist To Not Receive
Nine Steps To Keep You Healthy and Happy
How Much Is Enough?
The Gift of Gratitude
How Much Dysfunction Should You Allow Into Your Life?
Personal Inventory: A Difficult but Necessary Task
The Power of Clarity
What is Flow and How Do You Get Some?
Personal Core Values: Your Key to Success and Happiness
SPEED READING EVELYN WOOD SEZ: STRESS
If You're Happy and You Know It
How To Marry The Right Woman
The Gardner
Why be Happy tomorrow When you Could be Happy Today?
The “G” Word
The Top Ten Things to Know About Optimism
The #1 Sin made by Success Seekers!
You Can't Sing If You're Dead
How I Did It - An Average Person's Account of Weight Loss
Self Indulgence: It Isn’t Just About Chocolate
Why Are You Struggling?
How humans become robots?
The Freedom Solution
Why Are Affirmations Important?
Perfectionism - The Dangerous Trap
HOW TO MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE
Understanding the Masculine & Feminine Side
Perfection
Self Growth - The First Step [Conquer your Ego]
IF ONLY PEOPLE WERE AS GRATEFUL AS DOGS . . .
"THANK YOU" - 10 FORMULAS TO MASTER GRATITUDE
Understanding Mental Health
What Is a Power Song and Where Do I Get One?
Matching Your Outsides With Your Insides
Lessons from the Drive Thru Window. The Power of Asking
Whose Pictures Are You Taking Home?
Lessons From The Bathroom Sink
What Inspires You?
THE TOP 10 WAYS to KEEP WORKING WHEN SPRING FEVER STRIKES!
"Penury Perpetuates Poverty"
Massage Your Mind!--A Spontaneous Woo to You
As I was driving to a friend’s house recently, I passed the Dublin Pub, a local watering hole known for its live music. On the reader board, one band’s name caught my eye: Spontaneous Woo. Hmmm, I thought. What a cool concept. There is nothing quite like letting out a joyous, spontaneous “WOO!” when things are going our way. We might personalize our woo, making it come out as “YESSSS!” or “Sweeeeeet” or even “Woo-HOO!” No matter what elicits this response, we know it means something good has happened.
Lessons About Life from the Apple
We transform ourselves and our lives when we look at things differently. Take a new look at THE APPLE and what it can teach us. "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World," (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375760393/susandunnmome-20 ) is a delightful book full of fascinating facts as well as profound truths.
Massage Your Mind!: Who's Winning--You or Your Stuff?
Maybe it's just a weird week. Three times in the past three days, I've bumped into someone I know and started a conversation with, "Hey, how ARE you?"
Is Your Court in Session?
Is your courtroom in session? That is, are you acting as
How To Maintain Your Weight Loss Motivation
One of the hardest aspects of getting yourself into shape, is maintaining the motivation you need to achieve your weight loss goals. Just about anyone will lose some of their enthusiasm, a month or so into a weight loss program. I have learned a few things that keep me motivated and dedicated to achieving my goals. They have helped me tremendously and I think they will help you as well.
Who's In Charge Here?
Who's In Charge Here?
Tips for Making the Most of Vacation Time
You’ve worked hard all year, and now that summer is here, you want to enjoy your time off with your friends and loved ones. You might not have the time nor the funds to travel to a faraway destination, but at the same time, the thought of more barbeques and museum trips isn’t exactly taking your breath away!
New Beginnings: Ten Tips for Starting Over
This is the first day of the rest of your life. And although this is a cliché, it is true that we don’t have to wait for New Year or a birthday or the last Friday of the month to decide on a new direction for our lives. According to the Buddhists, life means suffering, in the ego mind at least. Until we aspire to become detached from and connected to each other at the same time, we tend to suffer from the illusion of separation and aloneness. Many fears, though they appear as realities, ultimately fade back into the ether. And in the end we realize that it is our minds that are making it all up. Most of it is just an illusion. “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries of life disappear and life stands explained,” Mark Twain wrote in Notebook, (1898.)
Identifying as an Empath
Author: Rev. Alesia Matson, D.D.
Successful Change Starts With A Shift In Perspective
Like so many in corporate America today, Susan needed more balance in her life-but she did not know how to get it. Faced with a 60-hour work week and a lengthy daily commute, Susan was left with little time for outside interests. Her job was literally draining her of energy, and her attitude at work was changing, especially within her business unit.
What I Like About Vivation
Copyright 2001 BY JIM LEONARD
Who's Creating YOUR Reality?
“What is happening within us will create what happens
Who should win the Oscar?
Who, do you think, should win the Oscar this year? Who has been the best male actor in film this year? Should it be Don Cheadle, in Hotel Rwanda, Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland, Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator, Clint Eastwood in Million Dollar Baby or Jamie Foxx in Ray.
You Can Be Happy
Author: Lyman Reed
What Happens After You Make a Wish?
What Happens After You Make a Wish?
Who Needs Heroes?
When we were talking the other day we started to think about our heroes when we were young. After we had discussed the usual film star and sports stars that we idolised I remembered Derek. Derek was a couple of years ahead of me in school and he had everything; he always got straight ‘A’s’ and was formidable on the football field as well as one of the fastest over 100 metres. What’s more he didn’t appear to work at it. When the rest of us were ‘slaving’ away at our homework or sweating buckets trying to impress on the football field or athletics track he just turned up and got on with it. A natural, was how one of our teachers described him.
Never have an argument again. Yeah right!
Author: Paul Drayton
Learning to give ourselves time (understanding pain)
NOTE: Whilst clinically, the distinction is made between pain and suffering, (the former referring to a physical (gross) phenomenon while the latter refers to a psychosocial (subtle) phenomenon), in this article, the word ‘pain’ is used in reference to both types of phenomena.
Is Working Good for Your Health?
IS WORKING GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH?
Quick Fixes: Happiness in a Bottle
This is the age of the Quick Fix - the magic bullets that claim to take away our sorrows, our tiredness, our sadness.
The Fear of Money
Many people, it seems, have a fear of money. Does the thought of having a lot of money make you uncomfortable? Cause you anxiety? If so, it may be that you are buying into the myths about money. Myths that are simply untrue. In fact, many of the most common statements about money are often misquoted, wrong, or were made by people who did not understand money ... or had none.
How Do I Overcome Fear?
© 2003 Jim Denney
The Top 10 Reasons to Give Us All a Break and Quit Using Your Cell Phone in the Car
Yes, USING it. Read the data about just the conversation part. Read the data about the hands-free part. Go here http://www.nysgtsc.state.ny.us/phon-ndx.htm for tips for safe cellular phone use in the car (if there is such a thing).
You Are What You Think You Are!
Imagine yourself walking up to a full-length mirror, pausing—then audibly saying to the person in front of you: “I’d like to introduce you to me.” That is virtually what is going to happen here. I am going to introduce you to yourself.
The Top 10 Reasons people don't live a prosperous life
If it were easy, everyone would do it; everyone would have it. That "IT" is prosperity and we're all trying to achieve that stage in our lives where wealth, health, success are a daily part of our lives. So what's the problem? Why aren't some of us living a prosperous life? Read on, my friends...
You Are What You THINK You Are
Think out of the box, they say. But what's a box?
Success Programming
I was behind a one-armed man at the sub shop. He was complaining about the fact that the lady cut the tip off of the bread she was making his sandwich on.
Pathways to posttraumatic growth
On the fateful night of April 19, 1989, a young woman known as the Central Park Jogger was raped, beaten, and left to die. After a 14-year silence, she finally revealed her identity as Trisha Meili. She has appeared at Larry King Live and other talk shows. She also tells her story in her book entitled "I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibilities."
Is This It...?
For most of us the turbulence and drama of a mid life crisis take place over a number of years, hallmarked by those nagging questions of “Is this it? Is this all there is to look forward to?” To others, our friends and family, the external signs are all too obvious: relationships breaking down, drama-fuelled affairs, workplace-related dissatisfactions and their own concomitant frictions. Internally though, the restive anger and confusion are symptoms of a deeper, more profound anxiety. We may be reaching a watershed that marks the end of growing up and the start of growing old, but do we understand it? We often sense intuitively the momentousness of the change we are caught up in. However, the sheer size and weight of its implications usually engender a fear that is paralysing. All the security that accompanies our life plans is gone because there is no longer a life plan. The comforting linear progression of life, job, family, career has been erased like a chalk mark from a blackboard, leaving in its place a
I want to create
What would you like to create? A peaceful life, a successful life, a good life, a sculpture, a piece of art, a book? What is it that you would like to create? Whatever you want you can achieve it. All you have to do is follow your natural compass. Remove the rubbish that takes you off course and let the natural you come through. It is not the case of adding new behaviours to create what you want. No. It’s a case of moving the obstacles out of the away and let the natural you come through.
The Facts About Coaching
It seems that everywhere you turn, someone is calling themselves a coach. Every field seems to have a coach specializing in the same area of expertise: business, IT, finance, relationships, spirituality, life, etc.
Learning From Life
Do you ever find yourself thinking, "Life has taught me some tough lessons, and the scars do not heal easily."? This article can help you learn valuable lessons from the past, instead of allowing the past to determine your future.
Who Is More Likely To Be Happy
Here’s a multiple choice question for you. Who is more likely to be happy?
I want to Create
What would you like to create? A peaceful life, a successful life, a good life, a sculpture, a piece of art, a book? What is it that you would like to create? Whatever you want you can achieve it. All you have to do is follow your natural compass. Remove the rubbish that takes you off course and let the natural you come through. It is not the case of adding new behaviours to create what you want. No. It’s a case of moving the obstacles out of the away and let the natural you come through.
How to Jump-start Your Emotional Health
You've probably heard the expression: "It's not what you're eating. It's what's eating you!" This well-known saying reminds us that the thoughts we entertain can have an impact on our health.
THE TOP 10 EASY, PRACTICAL WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR DIET, YOUR HEALTH AND YOUR LIFE
Because I believe diet and exercise are so important, I'm often frustrated with the recommendations I receive. Nutrition and natural health ideas are often so negative (don't eat this, watch out for that) or so rigorous (be sure to eat some raw, natural, organically grown vegetable I've never heard of) or so complicated, I end up ignoring them. And yet, I know diet is critical to my health and well-being, so I made up my own rules. My objective was simplicity, so all of you with greater will-power and more discipline, cut me some slack, OK? For the rest of us, I hope you find them useful.
Manifesting happiness
MYTH: “I will be happy when...”
Who Is Dr Robert Anthony and Why Is He One of My Mentors and Heroes?
So who is Dr Robert Anthony?
What does it take to be happy?
Author: Faadiel Rehman
Is there a Monster in your Closet?
The world is a mirror. There are many books written on the belief that we are what we see and experience around us. Every person we meet is here for a specific reason, whether we understand that reason or not. They give us the opportunity to get a little further on our personal path of self-discovery and enlightenment. Sometimes the message comes through loud and clear; for instance we may be hearing the same thing from three different and unrelated sources. But other times these messages, or lessons if you will, are offered to us in disguise. What of those people we immediately have an adverse reaction to? The aversion you feel for them is a sign that there is something to be learned here for you.
The Time to Give Is Now
August 1998 marks the first anniversary of the deaths of Mother Teresa and Princess Diana. Rather than honor their memory with platitudes, why don’t we memorialize them with our own lives by following their examples?
Two Choices That can Make Next Year The Best Year of Your Life
What if there were just two choices you could make to insure that next year would be wonderful? There actually are, and these choices are quite simple in concept, yet not easy to do. They are not things you do on the outside, such as exercising your body (which is always a good thing to do!) but ways of thinking and being on the inside. These have to do with your attitude and your intent.
Who has the most fun and why?
All kinds of research has been done to see if certain kinds of people have more fun than others. The results? No particular kind of person is prone to more fun. There are lots of happy poor people and plenty of dissatisfied rich people. Race, political or religious beliefs, boy or girl, it just doesn’t seem to matter. First-world country or third-world country will have an effect, but there are plenty of happy people without three TVs and twenty pairs of shoes. It doesn’t matter who you are, how intelligent you are or where you live, everyone has the ability and is entitled to a life full of joy and happiness.
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Searching for the Truth
It’s confusing isn’t it? Anyone who has been traveling the road toward their own personal self improvement or spiritual enlightenment can quickly attest to the fact that it’s not a particularly easy journey. We quickly find that our projected well-defined path is suddenly obscured by the glare of thousands of spotlights – all sweeping our pitiful little road and beckoning to us. “This way!” “Follow me!” “I am the true way!” “Yo Butt-Head, over here!”
Manifestation 101
Manifestation 101
Twelve Winter Blah-Busters
Feeling stuck in a never-ending winter? Declare an early spring with these quick ideas.
Searching for the meaning of life
A member of the Self Improvement Zone asked me the other day:
You Are In Control
You can control your own actions and reactions. You can control others. You can control the situation. It is your choice.
Manifest Your Ideal Life the Mystic's Way
Over the past several weeks I've received dozens of email solicitations for books, CDs and videos that promise to reveal newly discovered techniques to improve my life. These emails promise a wide variety of benefits: how to get rich, lose weight, meet the woman of my dreams and buy a million dollar mansion with no money down. In some cases the salesman will throw in a "Ginzu knife" or "pocket fisherman" if I order immediately!
You Are Always Happy!
Author: Alan Michael Ross
What do you want?
INTRODUCTION
How Can I Find My Passion?
Ronnie Nijmeh, ACQYR.com
Who Are You?
It may seem like a simple enough question, but most of the people I ask have no answer to this question. Those who do have an answer speak of their work, family, accomplishments, or physical characteristics. Have you ever changed your circumstances in life only to find that in time you feel that same familiar restlessness?
So, You're Bothered
OK, let's say something's bothering you.
What Do You Really Want?
WHAT DO YOU REALLY WANT?
Scientific Development of Human Consciousness
Scientific Development Of Human Consciousness
Is Nutrition Really Important?
Is Nutrition Really Important?
Needs Versus Wants
How often do the words "I need" come out of your mouth, as it relates to your business? When you run your own company, it's easy to think that the only way to succeed is to be moving forward with your expenses -- the newest technology, a broader circle of professionals providing you services, involvement in more and more costly marketing efforts, etc. And it's particularly difficult to resist the urge when you know you can generally take a tax DEDUCTION for any business expenses. But did you ever stop to think how many of those requests are actually needs, and how many are simply wants?
Turning "Too Many Interests" Into A Great Life!
Turning "Too Many Interests" Into A Great Life: Secrets of the 21st Century Renaissance Soul
SUCCESS
Everyone wants to be successful. The people who are most looked up to have achieved massive results in life – people like Bill Gates, Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, to name a few.
Put Wings On Your Dreams
We Need Dreams
How Being Intentional Makes You Happy
"Inspiration does not beget action. Action begets inspiration." - Chinese Proverb
Ten simple steps to a life filled with joy, happines and spiritual power
1) DO NOT DEPEND ON OTHERS
Is man's Next Step Like A Can Of Potted Meat?
Is it the dawning of the Age of Aquarius? For years, predictions have indicated that humanity is readying itself for a golden age, a so called new age that is right around the corner just waiting to roll in. According to these forecasts, the air we breath will be clean and our environment pure. Hunger, starvation and disease will be eliminated. Most importantly, we will finally experience the peace and harmony we all desire and we will live in the spirit of brotherly love.
Where's Your Value?
The simple action of writing the every day grocery quietly demonstrates how we truly value our lives and inspire future actions. Each week, many of us spend 10 to 30 minutes or more writing down the weekly future grocery purchases, clipping coupons and checking advertisements. Unfortunately, sometimes, we forget to bring the list and end up with additional purchases, spending more money than originally anticipated and probably having to return to buy the missed items. All of these actions have wasted money, time and energy and more importantly have contributed to increased stress levels as well as negative, unhappy feelings about ourselves. Just think about the last time you forgot your list and how did you feel about yourself? Were those thoughts fleeting or did they stay with you a while?
Ten Signs of Emotional Intelligence
We're hearing more and more about EQ (emotional intelligence) these days, and for good reason. How you handle yourself and others makes a big difference in your success and happiness, both in your career and in your personal life.
Turning Obstacles Into Blessings
Gerri D Smith Copyright, 2003
Turning Obstacles Into Blessings
Gerri D Smith Copyright, 2003
Where's Your Happiness Hiding?
It’s no accident that certain stories rivet our attention. Listening to these tales with perked “inner ears” alerts us to possibilities we’ve never considered before. Reading these stories with keen “inner sight” awakens us to previously unseen guidance or support. The story I’m sharing with you touched the core of my being and propelled me towards my dream. This true tale is about Kathy, whose quest for her dream took a sudden and unexpected U-turn.
So Who Gives a *#@&! if You Swear?
Cursing, cussing, swearing -- whatever you prefer to call it -- is generally considered part of our contemporary language. Most people do it, some people don't like it, but no one much thinks about it. The fact is, swearing does much more damage to our relationships, our image and our own peace of mind that we image. Maybe everyone swears, but no one swears everywhere. You might say swearing is harmless, but why do you restrain yourself in certain situations? You are acknowledging that it is not perfectly okay. For example, maybe you don't swear in front of kids. Why not? Is cursing an adult privilige? Actually, swearing is juvenile! Adults should have the vocabulary, maturity and emotional control to avoid using trashy language.
How to Have Ten Times More Fun (Without Ever Having to Be Funny)
It's easy, and dangerous, to forget the distinction between fun and funny; when we focus on trying to make people laugh we can quickly get discouraged because we end up putting a lot of pressure on ourselves. This is a mistake because, as I explain in this article, you short circuit the amazing natural medicine of humor.
The Thief Of Fulifilment
One of the biggest problems we can encounter when we consider making changes to our life is fear. Even though the changes we want to make will bring more happiness by considerably enhancing our lives, fear will still raise its head to try and stop us in our tracks.
Learn About Fun & Success From Children
Have you every watched children and their emotions? I mean really watched their emotions. They are wonderful at living in the present! They don’t worry about the cake they couldn’t have yesterday, or the toy they may not get next month. They simply care about what is going on right now.
Navigate life to peace and happiness
To know if our life is moving forward or reverse will be an interesting exercise.
Turning Fear into Power
How would your life shift if you moved into what you feared not away from it, if you moved into the future with controlled abandon –think about it! One of the things I know from working with people for close to two decades and from my own development is that – things change. And yet how many people say they hate change. If change is inevitable in growth and you hate change you have a bad equation for a good life.
The Test
The Test
How to Have Fun Again
Author: Debbie Mandel
So What is Success Anyway?
Well I’ll tell you what it’s not. Even though many of us like to periodically visit our own personal Fantasyland complete with its mansions, servants, fancy cars and trips to exotic places (check under the heading of “What I Would Do if I Won the Lottery”) most of us over the age of twelve with any experience under our belts are realistic enough to recognize our Fantasyland for what it is. A fun place to visit but one sorely lacking in personal fulfillment.
Turn Your Pain into Blessings
Have you been told that you need to forgive and forget? That you need to just get over it? That it's time to move on? That time will heal all wounds? That you should just put on a happy face?
The Enchanted Illustrated Letters From Sir Henry Thornhill (Kaka)
There is a new English site with the largest collection of illustrated correspondence in the world. www.ultimategrandparent.com is a touching story of a grandfather’s unique way of creating a loving relationship with his grandchildren, who early last century, by a twist of fate, had moved across the world to India, whilst he had just returned from India to England to be close to his grandchildren.
What Do We Really Seek In Life?
How many of us truly know what we seek in our lives? Do we confuse our desires and wants with our needs?
How to Have an Abundant Holiday
How To Have An Abundant Holiday Season
How a broken leg became the beginning of a new lifestyle
A man I know had an accident one autumn as he was working in the woods. The leaves had fallen to the ground and the rain had fallen on the leaves. Wet leaves are very slippery, and this man knew that, but on a slope he lost control, fell and broke his right leg.
Paradigm Shifts
This publication, Paradigm Shifts, may be the most efficient, easiest manual for self-improvement available. But beyond that, it is the ultimate mind tool for identifying and overcoming all unnatural problems, destructions and conflicts on a personal scale for oneself, and ultimately on a global scale for everyone. It reveals the basis of the current, world-wide anti-civilization, from which all unnatural problems arise, and compares all aspects of that current civilization with a natural civilization, in which conscious beings live free of all the artificial boundaries.
Is Life Real? Life Is the Experience You Give It
How many times and how many ways can it be said that you have complete control over your life; in any area of your life? This was recently brought home to me in a very powerful way.
TIME
That which is, has been; that which is to be, has already been; and God seeks what has been driven away. Holy Bible, Ecclesiastics 3.15
How to Have a Happy Thanksgiving
Author: Debbie Mandel
Savoring Moments Through Mindful Eating
We all eat. But how mindful are we of every bite we take?
SMILE YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS
Smile brings beauty to your face, charm to your personality and money to your pocket; apart from being your recognition as a cheerful, friendly, loveable person.
Savor the Moment
It was my Mother who instilled in me my love of the natural world. Through her example, I learned to savor the wondrous gifts this grand earth has to offer. Mom’s approach to life has always been one of childlike wonder. She delights in the sound of crickets on a warm summer evening; the rich smell the earth exudes at the first drops of a summer rain and the feel of stones made smooth from the endless wash of waves. On more than one occasion she roused the five of us kids from a deep slumber to witness the power and magnificence of a dramatic lightning storm.
How To Give Up Insomnia
I am writing this on a Sunday morning following a very restless night when sleep just didn’t want to be my friend. I have suffered with insomnia for many years but, by using a combination of techniques, it is more or less under control.
Hot To C.O.P.E With Anger
We fill our lives with dramas that rival the Greek Tragedies. We play the lead actors reliving the stressful scenes, keeping the conflict alive and ever present. Anger begins to dominate our thinking. However, who are we really angry at? When someone like a boss, a lover, a friend, or a family member pushes our button, are we most angry with that person because he or she mirrors what we most dislike about ourselves?
The Dynamic Power Of Listening
Listening.
How To Give the "Gift of a Lifetime"
Giving that special someone a special gift can be very difficult. Depending on the situation and occasion, it can be a very tricky thing. You want to do the right thing, but if you’re not careful, it can backfire. As many have found out, you need to give this some considerable thought.
How To Give the "Gift of a Lifetime"
Giving that special someone a special gift can be very difficult. Depending on the situation and occasion, it can be a very tricky thing. You want to do the right thing, but if you’re not careful, it can backfire. As many have found out, you need to give this some considerable thought.
Hope in Humanity
Let us renew our hope in humanity. It’s so easy to lose faith when someone cuts us off on the highway, when a ‘friend’ blows us off (for the second time) and fails to show, when we get burned in a business deal, when a co-worker doesn’t do what they said they were going to do, or
Hope in Humanity
Let us renew our hope in humanity. It’s so easy to lose faith when someone cuts us off on the highway, when a ‘friend’ blows us off (for the second time) and fails to show, when we get burned in a business deal, when a co-worker doesn’t do what they said they were going to do, or
Telling the Hard Truth
Watching television’s “sitcom’s”, I can’t help but notice that most of the plots revolve around the same theme – someone being afraid to tell someone else the truth. We saw it in the years that Ross loved Rachel, that Niles loved Daphne, or that George hated Susan. We saw it in virtually every episode of Three’s Company.
Telling the Hard Truth
Watching television’s “sitcom’s”, I can’t help but notice that most of the plots revolve around the same theme – someone being afraid to tell someone else the truth. We saw it in the years that Ross loved Rachel, that Niles loved Daphne, or that George hated Susan. We saw it in virtually every episode of Three’s Company.
Telling the Hard Truth
Watching television’s “sitcom’s”, I can’t help but notice that most of the plots revolve around the same theme – someone being afraid to tell someone else the truth. We saw it in the years that Ross loved Rachel, that Niles loved Daphne, or that George hated Susan. We saw it in virtually every episode of Three’s Company.
What Are You Telling Yourself?
"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."~ David Carradine
What Are You Telling Yourself?
"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."~ David Carradine
Making the Growth Choice
Life is a continuous series of choices, and with each choice we make, we feed either our positive or negative tendencies. At one time, almost without our awareness, we might choose to be insensitive and strike out at a store clerk or loved one; and at another time, despite our own personal challenges, we find the strength within to comfort a struggling co-worker with a cheerful smile and a much appreciated word of encouragement. Not one of us is perfect, and the best we can do is to make wise choices a conscious and regular part of our lives.
What Are You REALLY Communicating?
When Martin Luther King stood on the steps and proclaimed "I have a dream!" he did more than give a speech.
The Disenchanted Forest, The Enchanted Self - A Tale of Female Development in a Strange Land
Once upon a time there was a Princess who set out on a raft to find the Enchanted Forest. She took with her a canteen full of hopes and dreams, minimal provisions, and outdated maps. The raft swayed. the wind blew. It was too cold. It was too hot. She was hungry. She was tired. She was scared. At times she was almost swept overboard.
Three Inspirations for Happiness
The following three inspirations were adapted from A Daily Dose of Happiness, and they represent three key ways to increase our happiness.
Protect your self-care when others tempt you to stray
So, you've set your self-care goals and you're all set. You've even considered the ways you'll sabotage yourself - but wait! What about those well-meaning friends and relatives who:
When You Attract Negative People, Be Thankful
Laws of Attraction are clearly defined. What comes back is a reflection of the energy you are radiating. If negative people are being attracted to you, then be self-assured that you are sending out energy that appeared on their radar screen.
Laugh your Way to Enlightenment!
Laugh Your Way to Enlightenment! by Pragito Dove
Overcoming Obstacles to Organization
You may have made attempts to get organized in the past only to hit an obstacle that seemed insurmountable. You may believe that your very nature inhibits you from getting and staying organized. It is true that some people are more naturally organized than others. But it is a myth that if you are prone to disorganization you are destined to a lifetime of chaos and clutter. Organization is a skill that can easily be learned by anyone. The following are examples of behavioral obstacles you may experience as you attempt to get organized and their solutions:
The Smile of Gratitude
The gift of the smile - The faculty of direct expression from the heart is truthfully reflected in the eyes of the giver.
The Dawning of Freedom
Key Lesson
When Will Life Stop Being a Struggle?
A question I hear often, along with many others. "When will I finally have time for me...for my life? When will I be successful?" or "When will I know true happiness?"
How You Can Live Happily Ever After
In life, many of us simply plunge ahead, only to realize later that some of the things we did, we wish we hadn't, and some of the things we didn't do, we wish we had. How do you keep yourself on the right track, the right path? And how can you live happily ever after? Here's how. Here's one simple easy-to-do thing that can help keep you on the right track and help you live happily ever after ...
Home for the Holidays
Be it townhouse, mansion or even the White House, there's no place like home for the holidays. This year, more than ever, we need to create a peaceful and comforting environment for our families and ourselves. If it seems harder to get in the mood for the holidays this year, you are not alone. Being in the midst of a war and a bad economy can squelch any holiday spirit and make "peace on earth" and "joy to the world" seem very far away. But if you read the following stories and take the advice of our contributors, you will be able to create a cheerful holiday in no time. It's never too late to have a happy home for the holidays!
True Happiness
True Happiness
Looking for a New Direction? Follow Your Intuition!
It’s impossible to ignore any longer. Your hair is beginning its transition to “sophisticated silver.” Your face is taking on the look of a “wise” woman. And your kids, friends, parents, neighbors – and mysteriously, your husband – all seem to be “changing” before your very eyes, (the ones with the latest contact lenses). No need to mention the daily battle with the bathroom scales; that goes without saying.
True friends are not dream-slashers.
A friendship poem:
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4 Super Reasons You'll Love "Easifying" Your Life -
Are you someone who wants a simpler life, but who associates simplifying with giving away everything you own, and going back to baking your own bread? Unfortunately, that attitude can scare you away from making the simple (pardon the pun) kind of changes that can make your life so much easier, better, and happier.
Deeply Shallow I May Be!
Here’s yet another myth we have subscribed to:-
Flow With The Present Moment
Flow With The Present Moment
Don’t Give Up!
Don’t let anyone kid you. The road to self improvement and personal growth is not a short, straight, well-marked, paved highway. Looking back on my journey, I see a road meandering over hills and through valleys, around sharp curves and over muddy trails, with occasional boulders blocking my way. I can remember taking detours that took me off the beaten path and on to cow paths that wandered seemingly forever through the puckerbrush. It’s been a long interesting journey.
Access Your Hopes to Improve Results
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Flood your Heart with Laughter and Happy Memories will follow.
Have you ever experienced how easy you can bend and twist after a good laugh? No? And you’re not a yogi? Nor a ballet-dancer? Then you should try the next exercise.
Floating In Mindfulness: Dealing With Disappointment
Feeling disappointed? It's time to float.
Deep Breathing To Improve Mood & Health!
It is relatively well known now that exercise releases endorphins that can help to pull you out of a bad mood and to aid in alleviating depression. However, mental fatigue and depression are hard moods to simply overcome. You may not wish to train for forty-five minutes to an hour. It might be too hard to even get down to the gym for this to occur!
God shall supply all your needs...
Life is really a game you know. Its not supposed to always be easy, or we wouldn’t learn anything. I’ve been playing the game the best I know how. I’ll bet you have too. Like any game there are rules. So what are the rules? Are they universal principles we’re all supposed to know by now? Things like “you get back what you put out, or as you sow so shall you reap?” Probably so, but sometimes its not that easy. You know that and I know that. I guess part of the secret of being a mentally healthy adult is accepting responsibility. Yeah 100% responsibility of everything!
Flights Of Fancy: An Air Of Gratitude
Feeling cranky about air travel? Get a grip.
4 KEYS to Developing Courage -
4 KEYS to Developing Your Courage
Are you always late?
“Fashionably late” is no longer in fashion. In today’s heavily scheduled world, it is the punctual who are respected and admired. Even though most of us know this, some people are always late, no matter how much time they have to get ready. You may be one of them. Do any of the following sound familiar?
30 Simple Ways to Celebrate Spring -
Throw open the curtains and spread good cheer. Spring has arrived!
God doesn't say "No"...YOU do.
There are a couple of things you've probably heard said over and over. The first is, "Why doesn't God answer my prayers?". What you'll generally hear next is the response which goes something like, "God DOES answer your prayers. Sometimes he just says 'No'".
3 Steps To True Happiness -
Let’s face it. We all want to be happy. And we all realize, sooner or later, that outer success does not produce lasting happiness. So what does? Loving ourselves and loving others. In fact, we can only love others authentically when we are loving ourselves. So why is it that some people seem to feel self love easily, while others spend their lives searching in relationships or career accomplishments to find it?
HIRING THE HEAVENS
TAPPING INTO EVERYDAY MIRACLES:
Five Ways to Stay Positive in a Negative World
In view of the increasing negative events happening around the world here are five things you can do to help you stay positive.
Everything is Relative
Everything is Relative.
3 Simple Strategies for Never Losing Out Again -
Life is full of ups and downs and sometimes has a few sideways thrown in too. When things go wrong or don’t go as planned, or when something happens to throw us off balance and doubt ourselves it can be tough to deal with. After all, we all want things to go well and to end up as ‘winners’. But life will always throw challenges at us, and we can’t control everything. Nor should we try. It’s not what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you that makes the difference. Here are three easy ways that you can always come out on top.
Goals Are Over-Rated
Goals Are Over-Rated:
3 Questions, 5 Minutes a Day: Make leaps towards greater balance in one single week with the Shicka Boom 5 Minute Morning Balance Ritual -
This article is dedicated to a woman that I've never met and probably never will. Tall with dark, dark hair, she was perfectly manicured in a tailored suit with high-heeled pumps. We shared a subway car in Manhattan two years ago. She was standing, holding onto the subway car strap and meticulously applying three coats of mascara as the train bumped and shifted. With my jaw dropped in reverence of her talent, I imagined this to be her morning routine because she was REALLY good at it. (I can barely put on clear lip gloss in a moving vehicle.)
3 Proven Ways To Build Self-Esteem -
When someone thinks of a person with self-esteem most people think of someone who has a positive attitude. While someone who generally has self-esteem could have a positive attitude, this is not what I am referring to.
About your success.
About Your Success. Copyright 2004 by Patric Chan
3 Keys to Boosting Your Inner Confidence -
I've been coaching for a few years now, and the biggest thing I've learnt - both for me and for my clients - is that inner confidence is the key to it all.
Doing What You Love?
Can I tell you, frankly, how sick I am of the story that because we do what we love, we should always be jubilant, light hearted, blissed out, can't-wait-to-get-out-of-bed every-bloody-morning happy and content? Have you ever fell into this belief?
Be Content Yet Never Satisfied
Many years ago a particular phrase came across my desk and caught my full attention. It was at first a bit confusing to me since the utterance seemed incongruent. The phrase was "Be Content Yet Never Satisfied!" Interestingly enough, as the years go by it becomes clearer to me that they are in fact truly different words with very different meanings. They are not as I first thought synonymous.
21 Actions to Ignite Your Success -
Taking action is the strongest way to create success in your life. The following are the 21 Actions that you can take right now, to ignite the success in your life, business, career, relationships, or family. Take one or two of the actions that you are better at and practice them. Then, start working on some of the other actions. You will be surprised at the success that you will have when you start to take action.
20 Ways to Find, Sustain and Share Happiness -
The Dalai Lama says that we all share one common aspiration: we all want to be happy; no one wants to suffer. This universal desire binds us together. At some point the realization dawns that no matter how big the paycheck is, no matter how many degrees we get, no matter how nice the house and the white picket fence is, none of it can assure happiness.
Go Beyond Fear
I used to work in the corporate arena, traveling around as a project management consultant. I went into companies at all levels of seniority and had to engage them in the right way to ensure that there was rapport, respect and trust. I haven’t been inside an office for around three years now, and now it feels strange to think about being in that environment. When an opportunity came up to talk to BBC Worldwide about coaching and career development part of me said ‘Go, Go, Go!’ while another part said, ‘Blimey Steve, you haven’t done anything like this in ages, what if you can’t do it anymore?’. I noticed that some fear was creeping in and that if I didn’t do something it could easily hold me back. I remembered Nancy’s simple exercise and asked myself the question, ‘What would I do if I wasn’t afraid?’ I wrote down some answers,
Basic Reiki
Basic Reiki
Giving Thanks... A Universal Gift
In the USA we celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday in November every year. However, I've come to understand that there is great, POSITIVE power in having an "attitude of gratitude" all year long, that can create measurable differences in your life.
Basic Organizing Principles
So you've decided to get organized, but you just don't know where to begin. Here are four basic organizing principles that will help you regain control over your schedule, your environment, and your life:
12 Things You Can Learn From A Two-Year Old -
I think if you asked any child about the adults around them, they'd probably say we're a little wacky and seem to be stressed out a lot of the time. Here are a few simple things they can teach us...
12 Reflections on Personal Responsibility -
Author: Steve Brunkhorst
Coaching is Like Gardening
"A garden in the early stage is not a pleasant or compelling place: it's a lot of arduous, messy, noisome work -- digging up the hard ground, putting in the fertilizer, along with the seeds and seedlings. So with beginning a story or novel." --Ted Solotaroff
7 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Vacations
This may seem like a very strange title for an article. After all, a vacation is supposed to be… a vacation. The title seems to imply that we should strive to make our vacation, somehow strategic or productive. In a way, that is what I am suggesting, but maybe not in the anal-retentive way you might have first guessed.
Giving Can Overcome Language Differences
I recently had to take a trip to Germany. It has been more than ten years since making my last international trip. I now have a renewed sympathy for non-English speaking visitors and residents in the United States.
Build a Storehouse of Energy and Resiliency
Author: Steve Brunkhorst
BANISHING WINTER BLAHS
For those who live in winter climates, February is a time when the winter blahs set in. When winter first begins, many appreciate the beauty of a snowy day and the exhilaration of breathing sharp cold air. But it is easy to grow weary of these winter pleasures as cabin fever begins to set in. No wonder many snowbirds take vacations to warm places in February and early March.
Five Major Ways to Save Money
There are two main roads to improving your personal finances: increasing income, and cutting costs.
Darkness is an Essential Part of Abundance
Today marks the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Winter begins on this day.
7 Unique Ways To Make Someone Smile
Do you want to put a smile on someone's face? Maybe make their day a little bit brighter? It doesn't have to take much time or money on your part. In fact, many things can be done as a part of your normal routine and cost little or nothing. You won't know how many people are encouraged by your kindness because smiles are contagious. Try out one or more of these 7 ways today to put smiles on their faces.
Any Experience Can Change Your Life
Any experience, even simply going to a restaurant, can create new beliefs about how you want to live your life.
Do you want to dance?
Do you want to dance?
10 Ways To Feel Good About Your Life
Feeling good about your life involves just 2 parts. Really! One is to learn to think about yourself in healthy ways. This is a learned skill, ladies and gentlemen, not something that a lucky few were born with.
Brighter Future? Sounds Good!
A branch of psychology called neurolinguistic programming has made an interesting and useful discovery: You can change the way you imagine or remember things without changing what you imagine, and it will change your feelings. For example, if a visual memory makes you sad whenever you think about it, you can make that mental picture smaller and dimmer, and when you do, the memory won't make you as sad. Since you haven't changed the content of the memory, you haven't lost any information. You've simply made it less painful.
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10 ways to reduce fear.
CLUTTER'S SIDE EFFECTS: How the State of Your Home Affects Your Life
Each area of your home has a symbolic meaning with which you resonate on a subconscious level. Clutter and untidiness within each of these areas causes constriction and inertia in the corresponding aspects of your life.
Dare to Be Great
When you look at your life, where do you see your greatness shining? Are you creating a new invention, solving an age-old problem, helping others in new ways?
A Spoonful of Chocolate
Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess who was on a diet. She really wanted a spoonful of Hershey's syrup from the can in the refrigerator. But no, that wasn't allowed. So she had some carrot sticks instead. Then some celery. But that didn't satisfy her desire. So she had some more carrots. And then a peanut butter sandwich. And another one. And then she ate the entire can of chocolate syrup.
Envisioning Your Ideal Self
Author: Kimberly Fulcher
A Spiritual Compass
Thirty-three years ago, while on a survival retreat in Keene, N.H. my camp leader fit a compass into my palm. The circular shape, held a needle inside it that shifted north, as I turned in different directions. I dispersed the compass to my survival “buddy,” who I then followed in the ever greened woods. As she led the way I concentrated on keeping from stumbling over tree roots and maneuvering over damp stones tumbled in a creek.
DO YOU SUFFER WITH THE WINTER BLUES?
Once again the winter season is near. Cool temperatures, shorter and darker days, and for some even snow. Along with the winter season often comes cold and flu season but also one other ailment that often goes undiagnosed or even unnoticed; the winter blues or seasonal affective disorder (SADS). Women are more likely to suffer from this depression-like disorder than men and it can be stress levels that contribute to this. Whether it is everyday stresses or the holiday season stresses it is important to remember that it is not the event itself that is stressful but ‘how’ we handle the event.
Getting Unstuck
“What kind of people come to see you?” skeptics sometimes ask, the tone of voice implying that I only consult with lunatics. “People from all walks of life, “I respond oh-so-patiently, “Male and female, young and old, rich and not-so-rich, powerful and famous come with all kinds of queries. But it’s not a matter of who comes but the issues they come with,” I add. “A common one for a lot of people is “feeling stuck,” not knowing which way to go in life.”
10 tips to Kick Start Your Self Esteem!
If you're tired of feeling "less than", afraid of making and achieving your desires and goals, feel that no matter what you do it is never "good enough", then your self esteem could do with a boost!
A Simple Strategy for Managing ADD
As an ADD Coach, I usually begin my conversations with new and potential clients by saying, “Tell me about yourself and why you’re looking for coaching.” Most people answer with a long list of their ADD challenges. Very few people answer that they are looking to discover, enhance, or utilize their strengths. This is a big part of coaching, and a part that many people need a lot of help with.
Help Me, I'm Falling!
Sometimes on our journey through life, there are bumps in the road, obstacles we must find ways around, and dead ends to which we must go back to the map and plan a route to a new destination. Sometimes? Heck, not a week goes by without some kind of snag. But it's important to understand life's difficulties and what they truly mean -- the bigger picture. Hard times help us to grow -- to better understand who we are, and to see what we're truly made of.
Clearing You Inner Landscape - Freeing Yourself from Emotional Deadwood
Do you suffer from emotional clutter? Is suffering even the right word? Maybe it is, maybe a better description is ‘living with’ emotional clutter. Emotional clutter is like an addiction. You carry your emotional baggage around thinking you can easily handle it, especially if you treat it like it doesn’t exist. Eventually it reaches a point when you feel its out of control, or even worse, you are out of control.
ANOTHER MISSION COMPLETED
Man should never forget the tragedy of our astronauts that just occurred. It should give us poise to think of how inconsequential our complaints are (i.e. our aches and pains, standing in line at the market, allowing the duevers it irritate us in their carelessness). These sorts of things are just small inconveniences, which we should be able to bear and thank God that they are no worse.
10 Things To Do This Summer
10 Things To Do This Summer (for a happier, healthier life)
Clearing and Balancing Your Chakra's
Every day I give myself a bath, well that too, but this is a colorful light bath that clears and balances my chakra's. I use it at the beginning of my day to protect myself and set my intentions. Here are steps on how you to can balance your chakra's.
Finding Your Place in the World
Most people find a place in the world by satisfying certain wants and needs -- of other people! If these wants and needs match your own you are among the lucky few. For the rest of us there is a difficult search necessary, which may not end successfully.
Energy Vampires
Beware of Energy Vampires
Curing the Blues: 14 "Feel-Good" Ways to Get Out of the Dumps
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Energy Therapy: Keys to Your Locked Door?
Everyone has issues with self esteem. It’s no wonder then that bookstores have entire sections devoted to it. Speakers and authors have made billions touting yet another seminar, book or DVD aimed at self esteem improvement.
Breaking News: The Answer May Not Be In The Infomercial Course
The other night, leg cramps kept me up at night so I found myself watching these various couples discuss their success over buying a Real Estate course in this infomercial, at 2AM.
A REASON FOR LIVING in a nutshell
In brief, my book A REASON FOR LIVING is the product of a sustained effort to answer in the most enlightening and inspiring way this single question: Why live? I started to ask myself that question about thirty years ago after my diving accident, which left the husky and lusty teenage athlete that I was a near quadriplegic. What had given meaning to my life until then had become largely impossible. As a result, my life seemed absurd.
Anger and your health
HOW YOUR OUTLOOK INFLUENCES HEALTH AND ABILITY TO CONTROL ANGER
Heart Matters
Heart Matters
Civilization's Cornerstone: Kindness
Copyright © 2005 Alistair McAlpine, Kate Dixey
A Quick Checklist for Improving Your Life
1. Learn About You
Finding the Spare Part in the Wrong Bin Get the Answers You Want in Life by Letting Go of the Need to Find Them
Years ago, during a Sedona Method course I was teaching, I suggested to my class that if they let go of wanting to figure out their problems, the answers and cures would come. I was explaining that wanting to understand or figure out why, or from where, problems arise, can be a major obstacle to healing. We unknowingly hold on to and exacerbate our problems by holding on to them so that we can figure them out.
How to reduce stress, harmonize body/mind /spirit and increase your creative flow
FEED YOUR BRAIN
Christmas in July
It's a hot July day, one of the hottest days of the year. I slip on some sandals to pad down the blistering driveway and retrieve the day’s mail. What do I find amidst the usual real estate solicitations and utility bills? The Neiman-Marcus Christmas catalog!
Understanding And Eliminating Hemorrhoids Naturally
Annoying, uncomfortable and many time embarrassing, hemorrhoids are a common and fortunately not serious health concern. A hemorrhoid is identified as any abnormally swollen veins in the anus or rectum. There are two different types of hemorrhoids: internal and external. Internal hemorrhoids don’t hurt or itch. They can’t be felt because they form deep inside the rectum. External hemorrhoids are the cause of the pain, itching and burning that you often hear about on TV.
Finding Balance In Real Life
Often I hear people say I want to live a good life. So this makes one stop and think . What makes a good life? Is it going to church every day; is it meditating for a certain length of time; is it helping others; is it spending time with our families; our friends and extended family; is it setting a good example to our peers, co-workers, children; is it serving meals to the homeless; is it volunteering in a hospice; is it pledging a certain amount of money to non-profit organizations; is it living without material goods; is being a vegetarian a part of spirituality; is it always turning the other cheek; or a great number of other things.
A Perfect Match
Chris Chrysler was a skilled and devoted violinist who had a lifelong dream to own a Stradivarius. For many years Chris worked hard to earn enough money to buy the coveted instrument. Finally he took his life savings to New York City’s music district and searched many stores. After numerous inquiries, he found a shop with a Stradivarius for sale. The shopkeeper went to the back of the store, removed the violin from under lock and key, and showed it to Chris.
Attracting Marital Fulfillment: It's Not Too Late To Start Now
As a personal and professional development coach, I have listened to scores of unhappy marital stories from clients. It is not my intention to pose as a marriage counselor nor therapist, as I am neither. However, via my previous experience as a crisis counselor, and as a partner in an intercultural marriage with its own unique characteristics, I have built up a store of helpful tips, some of which I share with you below.
Get Rid of the Splinter
At the start of a new year, everyone is focused on improving things. New Years resolutions abound, everything from vowing to wear more skirts to the office to committing to advanced education or maybe even trying for another baby! Everybody seems to enter the New Year with refreshed hope that all those wonderful things that we dream could happen will really come true this time.
Healing Properties of the Ocean and a Meditation
Healing Properties of the Ocean
Choose to CREATE not to COMPETE
It is our nature to be Creative.
Find Your Passion
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Choose to Be Happy
This world of ours has become fast-paced and moving increasingly faster each day. No longer do we have to wait for news from across the globe – it's almost instantaneously fed to us over the Internet and through our television sets. Our cities are bustling hubs of busy folks, many of whom feel the need to rush to each new appointment as if their lives depended on it.
AN EXTRAORDINARY PERSON
I am not going to tell you the story of an extraordinary person, who did remarkable things in life. Why should I?
A New Journey Begins: Anxious? Overwhelmed? Stressed? Don't Give Up!
A New Journey Begins: Anxious? Overwhelmed? Stressed? Don't Give Up!
Get Out Of Your Own Way
One of the biggest obstacles to our self growth and personal development is............ourselves!
A New Hope: Transformational Training:
A New Hope: Transformational Training:
Get Out of Jail Free: How to Identify Unconscious Beliefs
Know thyself.
An Easy Way to End the Year
As a healthy business owner or independent professional, how do you end your year? Well, I tell my clients to stop working. That's right, stop working. The kind of work I'm talking about is the work of getting new business. There is no new business in the dark days of winter, just the clean up of old business. If you have clients that must spend in order to deduct prior to years’ end, go to it. This is for those who have the time to take the time.
Creating the Life You Desire with Ten Daily Habits
Do you have a plan to get from where you are to where you want to be? Do you have all the skills you need to get that promotion or that raise you want? Do you make time for the people who are important to you? Are you excited about your future, or do you just want to "stop the world so you can get off"?
Creating Success - Understand The Tao of Success
One of the most important aspects of creating success involves a delicate balance between two somewhat opposing forces – REFLECTION and ACTION. This balance is very similar to the balance of Yin and Yang in the Tao philosophy.
Creating Special Moments
One of the greatest gifts provided to us by the Universe is the gift of creation. Unfortunately, for too many it is a gift that is often left unopened. We are creatures of habits and routines, and while I'll be the first to admit routines and habits do serve a worthwhile purpose in life they can, if overdone, stifle our creativity.
Book Love Regained
Copyright © 2005 Steve Leveen
An ADD Case Study: What Does it Mean to "Fail"?
Josh is a client of mine who is a junior in college. He's very smart. He's amazingly smart. Talk to Josh for an hour and you'll know how smart he is. But if you don't know Josh and you look at his grades from previous semesters, you would probably guess that he wasn't smart at all.
Do It Now!
Procrastination has to be the public enemy number one. It
Fighting Inertia
The human mind really is an incredible possession we have. I would like to discuss how to use the power of the mind to combat a phenomenon called 'inertia.'
Get Back in the Driver's Seat of Your Life
What would happen if you lived your life by design rather than by default?
Have you given up on yourself?
Have you given up on yourself? Have you decided to take the easy road and coast for the rest of your life? Have you come to the decision that you have done all you could possibly be expected to do in your life now it is someone else’s turn? As you get older you may not be able to run as fast, swim as far, hit the ball as hard or even concentrate as long as you used to but is that the reason to give up? Surely your aim should be to be the best you can at whatever age you are.
Have you been lucky in life?
Each moment in life, "lucky" or "unlucky", is to be savored, learned from, and appreciated. Easier said than done? Read this heartfelt story and see for yourself.
Am I emotionally Intelligent?
Am I emotionally Intelligent? There are so many different definitions, descriptions and interpretations of what emotional intelligence is - it would be difficult for me to answer this question. Whose definition are we using? Is that a personal, or a corporate definition of EQ? Which school of thought are we talking about here? Whose book on the subject are we currently reading?
Creating A Powerful And Intentional Year
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Alone In The Kitchen: Stirring Up Mindfulness
Put on your apron! It's time to stir up a batch of mindfulness.
DIVINE GUIDANCE
In this short essay, we'll stick close to the tradition of Religious Science and if what we say fails to address your own particular experience of divine guidance, bear in mind Jesus' words, "It is done unto you as you believe."
Creating a Meaningful Life: What are you living for?
I was watching Gladiator - you know the blockbuster where the Roman General Maximus goes through hell when he doesn't accept the position of Emporer of Rome. His family is murdered, he is sold as a slave and forced to be a gladiator. He becomes an unwilling paid assasin. Watching the sunset with a fellow gladiator, he speaks of his wife and son who have are waiting for him the afterlife. It is clear that his positive reason for living is gone. His only drive, and what keeps him alive, is his desire for revenge on Commodius, the man who betrayed him, ordered his family murdered and stole his position of power.
Chase that rainbow!
Have you ever watched a dog chase it's tail? Round and round and round.. not getting anywhere... or is he??
Gateway Six: Sharing Our Wisdom, Mentoring and Being Mentored
As women, we live in a golden age. We have more education than women have historically had access to. We live longer; we're healthier; we look better. Everything is really in our favor if we know how to absorb and share our wisdom and knowledge.
A Lesson to Myself
All around me people are forging ahead with life, working marrying, having children - their children marrying, having children ..........
Have a "Big Bang" Mindset
"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."
A Lesson of Life From A Friend
The following is a true story...
Gateway Four: Replenishment - Truly Coming Home to Our Enchanted Self
Replenishment, joy, pleasure and delight are all parts of truly coming home to our Enchanted Selves. If any gateway is the pivotal gateway for a woman, it is this gateway. This is the gateway that we must return to above all others, as frequently as possible. It is where we fuel up, where we energize. It is where we fill ourselves again so that we can meet the needs of others, be the caretakers of the world, bring up our children, spend time with the elderly, and do the hundreds of womanly tasks that we do, including having a full time job and running a home.
A Lesson of Life From A Friend
The following is a true story...
A Kernel of Truth about Relationships: 5 steps to improvement
Summary: Relationships are more than just meaningful interactions with people. When we “relate” or interact with something we are, in fact, in relationship with it. So, what is our relationship to our work, ourselves, our environment, our health, our spirituality?
Create Time, Not Excuses
Create Time Not Excuses:
Create The Happiness Habit
What does it mean to be happy? What is this incessant
Fun Things to do Just Because it's Spring
Ah, spring!
Change Your Writing, Change Your Life
Do you want to make a change? You can, and very easily too.
DISCOVER YOUR POWER TO CHANGE YOUR WORLD!
"The way you think, not only affects your own life, but others around you - it affects your world. You have the power to change the world you live in." – White Star Quote
Happiness: A Prelude to Healing
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Happiness Trail
The Age Old Question………………
HAPPINESS or SADNESS
Picture Happiness [bliss, smiles, excitement, wonders, joy]; and then, conversely picture Sadness [grief, frowns, pity].
Are Your Goals Exciting?
This may sound like a strange question, but are you really excited about your goals? Of course, I'm making the assumption that you have already invested the time to think about what you want your life to be like and identified some of your goals in several areas. If not, please do this immediately. If you don't know where you're going, how will you know when you get there?
Happiness Must be In Sourced
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” Agnes Repplier
Discover Your Life Purpose
Everyone has a life purpose; a unique and special something each of us is supposed to do in LIFE. A life purpose is not a specific job or career, it is much deeper and much more fulfilling. Now, you can uncover your own life purpose. You can do it the easy, fast, modern way, using a modestly priced online program, or you can uncover your own life purpose using the more difficult (but free) old-fashioned do-it-yourself method. If you want to save a few bucks and try doing it yourself here's how ...
Could Things Have Been Different?
Happy people never concern themselves with past events, and never question whether they or anyone else could have done something other than what they did.
HAPPINESS IS; AN INSIDE JOB
There is a saying “Smile and the world smiles with you”. Since happiness is an inside job, you are the only one responsible for making it happen.
Affirmations to Improve Your Life
An affirmation is a positive assertion, a solemn declaration, a way to change your way of thinking. You can use affirmations to improve performance and results in all areas of your life. The "positive action" self-talk of specific affirmations is beneficial to achieving desired outcomes.
Could Things Have Been Different?
Happy people never concern themselves with past events, and never question whether they or anyone else could have done something other than what they did.
Could Things Have Been Different?
Happy people never concern themselves with past events, and never question whether they or anyone else could have done something other than what they did.
Happiness is a decision
Happiness is transpersonal divine joy and fulfillment in creating and connecting. It is the outbursting purity of the Universe. In happiness one is opening up to the fullest for life, her gifts, possibilities and challenges. This implies that happiness is not a goal, but a road to travel on, an attitude and an approach.
Affirmations for Mind Power
The effective use of Affirmations to increase your mind power.
Happiness and Work: Your Life Depends On It.
Early one morning, Robert awoke, made his wife of 41 years some banana bread, took out the garbage and called to cancel a doctors appointment scheduled for the next day. He wrote a note to remind his wife to pick up the dry cleaning. All things considered, it seemed like a normal day.
Affirmations for Compulsive Overeaters
1. My worth as a person is not diminished in ANY way by my body size or my eating patterns.
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Happiness and respectability
"All in all, humans are liable to experience a variety of afflictions, but they are commonly endowed with a capacity for happiness and respectability. There is no guarantee, however, that they will exercise this capacity at all times and to the maximum, whatever happens.
Freedom to Make Mistakes
The willingness to make mistakes is probably the single most freeing decision we can make. When you allow yourself to make mistakes, you free yourself from all constraints of seeking perfection and you open yourself up to all kinds of opportunities and possibilities.
Discover the Exciting Life you were Meant to Live
Have you ever wondered if there was something more to life? Would you like to find out how to live the life of your dreams? If you answered yes to these questions, this could be the most important thing you read.
Happiness and Expectations
"Sometimes, to create the life you want, you must become a detective and look for the underlying causes that could be holding you back. One area to examine is your expectations. Everyone has expectations. We use them to motivate as well as evaluate, and they are an integral part of life. Expectations range from the surface to the deeply buried, and it's these core expectations which have a significant effect on your life.
Cosmo-Pathy Life Science - Happiness - Life Purpose
Nothing happens without a purpose. This creation and the birth of each person is for the purpose of attaining total happiness in direct proportion to what each person is endowed with by the Lord God by way of body, mind, intelligence, and energy nucleus (soul).
Happiness = Purpose of Life
Harmony between Thoughts 8 Words 8 Action = Happiness ?If there is a gap (dis-harmony) between your thoughts, your words, and your action, then you might as well forget about happiness. Action speaks louder than words. Thoughts are seeds and the source of action. No activity is possible without first being conceived as a thought form.
Happiness
Happiness is a very popular theme these days and we guess it always has been. From the time we were children, we have been taught that it is better to be happy. Everyone knows it is better to be happy or joyous than sad or angry or upset or unsure of what to do with one's life. So people try, they try to be happy. In this country we pursue "The American Dream". We have been taught that acquiring certain possessions will bring satisfaction and so will landing the right job. And of course, many believe that finding that perfect someone, our soul mate, will bring bliss eternal. Obviously this isn't true.
A Contented Life
Do you have a contented life? For the most part, are you happy?
Happiness
What is happiness? If we mean by it a state of fulfillment, when everything is going our way, in terms of results as well as efforts (which requires a providential combination of pluck and luck), then it cannot simply be willed; it is partly, if not largely, a gift of fate.
Are you trying to lose?
Just 2 nights ago my partner and I were watching a cricket game from Zimbabwe on cable. The team that was currently batting was leading by a huge margin in the 1st innings but during the 2nd innings were dropping out like flies. They were struggling to maintain their score and beat their opponents.
Eating Disorder Recovery and Guided Imagery
Guided imagery and other methods that reach under the conscious thinking mind can be useful in helping people recover from eating disorders. People with eating disorders often have secrets from themselves. These are secrets about which they have little or no awareness.
A Car Accident…then came Success
Have you ever wondered how some of the worst things that happen in your life turn out to be some of the best experiences you’ve ever had?
Corporate Bounce!
Companies, like people, must Bounce back from challenging situations if they want to remain in business. It is imperative to rise and roar after falling or failing in order to soar with the eagles.
CELESTIAL GARDNER
Find harmony in the pleasure of giving time to yourself. A part of giving is cleansing yourself of any person, place or thing that does not contribute to your new state of serenity and replenishment. Sometimes we need to make room for the new by letting go of the old. Sometimes we need to say goodbye, to let go of our old ways, old friends, old habits, old life, old beliefs and old thoughts. It is not easy.
Big Wave Mindfulness: Surfing For A Connection
Surfing is mindfulness in action. Riding the biggest waves is an all-out, fully-present-or-die-trying proposition.
Different New-Year's Resolution - Pass-It-Forward
Every 12 months, as the New-Year rolls around, we all brag about our New-Year's Resolutions. With inflated chests and with all the authority we can muster, we announce to any and every available ear, that we're going to lose weight, stop drinking and smoking so much, as well as spend more time with our family, in addition to investing more time down at the gym.
A Bird's Eye View of THE ENCHANTED SELF and what it means to YOU!
The Rebbe Nachman of Breslow often said, “Always remember-Joy is not merely incidental to your spiritual quest. It is vital.”
Adrenaline Addict Assessment TEST
Do you find it difficult to sit still?
A Bellyful of Mindfulness
Taco Bell, a huge Mexican fast-food franchise, has a new ad campaign focusing on the slogan, "Get full." The commercials show people ecstatically announcing that they are full--thanks, of course, to the huge value meals now available at Taco Bell.
Four Ways to Replenish your Creative Spirit
WHAT WERE YOU JUST THINKING?
Four Proven Strategies for Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions
'Tis the season for making – and breaking – New Year's
Dial M For Mindfulness: Using the Golden Arches
Looking for mindfulness? Who ya gonna call?
Guilt By Association & Wealth By It Too!
"Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art." - Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) Spanish novelist.
9 Fantastic Formulas for a Stress Free Holiday!
The holidays are officially here. And so the season for giving begins. Warm loving intentions, thoughtful giving and stocking stuffing take over.
Forward-Living Legend
This FORWARD-LIVING Legend has taken his abilities and energy and focused them in such a way that enabled him to overcome many obstacles throughout his life. His childhood was one of poverty, slavery and some of the most debilitating work known to man. He was born in 1856.
Conversational Negative Self-talk
Most people don't even know they're doing it. Throughout the course of normal conversation, they bombard themselves with negative self-talk. Even people who are aware of the power of their words seem to miss some of the most commonly used derogatory comments that are made towards ourselves in the course of normal conversation. While plotting out goals and dreams we remember to stop ourselves from saying statements like "I can't," "I'm not good enough," or "I'll never be able to pull this off." However, it's the subtle little things that we say while on conversational autopilot that eats away at our self-confidence.
Are You Rich?
Stop. Think about that question for a moment, and answer it honestly. Let it wind down through your head, past your heart and into your soul. Put it into first person.
8 Ways to Get Your Healthy Groove On
If we are lucky we will see more than 27,000 days. We spend a good portion of these days caring for, considering and supporting our physical body… getting enough sleep, eating right, staying active, drinking water, scheduling regular medical check ups, brushing & flossing, taking vitamins and caring for our skin, hair and nails. But, what have you done to care for your mind today? You’ve heard the saying, “You are what you eat.” I say…
Growing Up Is Hazardous to Your Health
Did you ever wonder why we went from the kid who couldn’t sit still, to the adult who can’t get moving?
Forgiveness -- Good for the Body and Soul
Perhaps the strongest poison to the human spirit and body is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. When I say “forgive” I mean letting go, releasing your anger, bitterness, fear and hurt. Forgiveness is different than saying “I lose” or “I was wrong” and it does not mean that you will ever allow or condone the behavior or injustice to occur again; however, forgiveness is letting go of your own suffering and your own pain and it is an ongoing process.
DUH!
You’ve done it, I know you have. Is there anyone, at one time or other, who hasn’t opened their hand, popped their forehead and said, or thought, “DUH!”
Forgiveness
Many people believe that they can leave the past behind simply by not thinking about it. The past, the present and the future are all interconnected and one part cannot exist without the others. When we push the past away we begin to stuff our feelings. We become disconnected and fragmented. We no longer give our feelings any validity and stop trusting our feelings. We insulate and isolate unable to deal with emotional situations that happen in our personal lives. We try to use logic to resolve emotional situations and usually fail miserably in this endeavor.
Growing Optimistically
Spring is here at last! The season brings with it an opportunity for continued personal growth, stimulated by a sense of life renewing itself around us. We see growth of every kind reflected in our environment in the spring. Tiny seeds and bulbs blossom into colorful arrays of yellow, purple, and pink flowers and plants and the grass becomes green. Suddenly one day we look at the trees and see soft green leaves. Children seem to leap ahead in growth, outgrowing clothing and changing shoe sizes. One day in the supermarket there are blueberries from central New Jersey, not flown in from California.
Exquisite & Working: A Recipe for Life
What if everything in your life was exquisite and working? What if you didn't tolerate anything that wasn't-- you fixed it, replaced it, or got rid of it. What if you only had around you things that pleased you? Everything else gets tossed, returned, or given away.
Forget Resolutions. Craft a Life Theme that Works.
How many people do you know who, in January, enthusiastically name their resolution for the year yet somehow neglect to follow through with it a few weeks or months later? Forget making New Year's resolutions. They rarely work because they are often based on "shoulds" versus the bigger picture of your life. What I've found does work is creating a life theme for the year ahead.
Driving Together
This is a story of a man and a woman who lived side by side and each day the two would drive to work in the man’s car. It is a story that tells of the importance of setting personal boundaries. What intrigued me is the creative way the man handled his problem…particularly since the woman was his neighbor.
EXPLANATIONS? . . . OR EXCUSES?EXPLANATIONS? . . . OR EXCUSES?
It's pretty obvious that the above "explanations" are basically excuses for avoiding responsibility. Your “inner brat” uses such excuses to justify overeating, underachievement and saying hurtful things.
EXPLANATIONS? . . . OR EXCUSES?EXPLANATIONS? . . . OR EXCUSES?
It's pretty obvious that the above "explanations" are basically excuses for avoiding responsibility. Your “inner brat” uses such excuses to justify overeating, underachievement and saying hurtful things.
EXPLANATIONS? . . . OR EXCUSES?EXPLANATIONS? . . . OR EXCUSES?
It's pretty obvious that the above "explanations" are basically excuses for avoiding responsibility. Your “inner brat” uses such excuses to justify overeating, underachievement and saying hurtful things.
Being Present: what Samurai teach us about Multitasking!
Yesterday, my husband and I saw the movie ‘The Last Samurai’. Usually I don’t watch movies with a lot of violence, because it makes me uncomfortable. But my interest was piqued when I saw an interview with Tom Cruise, who was curiously unable to express the personal effect this movie had on his own life. It had clearly been an experience that had deeply effected him. To see him, usually so articulate, stumble for words made me want to go see the movie.
Being Present: what Samurai teach us about Multitasking!
Yesterday, my husband and I saw the movie ‘The Last Samurai’. Usually I don’t watch movies with a lot of violence, because it makes me uncomfortable. But my interest was piqued when I saw an interview with Tom Cruise, who was curiously unable to express the personal effect this movie had on his own life. It had clearly been an experience that had deeply effected him. To see him, usually so articulate, stumble for words made me want to go see the movie.
Being Present: what Samurai teach us about Multitasking!
Yesterday, my husband and I saw the movie ‘The Last Samurai’. Usually I don’t watch movies with a lot of violence, because it makes me uncomfortable. But my interest was piqued when I saw an interview with Tom Cruise, who was curiously unable to express the personal effect this movie had on his own life. It had clearly been an experience that had deeply effected him. To see him, usually so articulate, stumble for words made me want to go see the movie.
Conquering Your Clutter
The dictionary defines clutter as a state of disorder. To litter, heap or pile in a confused manner, to fill with unwanted things, disorderly accumulation.
Being Inspired From Within
Most of us spend our lives searching for that one spark that will ignite and motivate, then propel us to succeed. We buy any number of books, inspirational “self help” tapes, and attend seminars and workshops believing that somewhere in the mist of all these activities will evolve that magical motivation tool we can use to reach higher heights. Little did we know that what we search for was within us all the time.
Activate Your Life
As a sport scientist, personal trainer and performance coach, I have been working for many years with clients who come to me for advice about how they can improve the performance and quality of their bodies. Some want help to lose weight and tone up, others need to reduce their blood pressure, some want to put on muscle and everyone wants to look and feel better.
BEING HAPPY with Your RELATIONSHIP With MONEY!
Question: You have such a refreshing set of attitudes about the subject of money. How did you develop your attitudes?
Desire vs. Happiness, from "Why Freedom"
Freedom entails responsibility; not just the responsibility of the consequences of our actions, but also the responsibility to use that freedom wisely. Fleeting and comfortable happiness is a seductive temptress that tries to get us to take the easy way toward deriving value from our time, but we have seen that much more can be derived from breadth and depth of experience. As much as we all want to be happy and as much emphasis as society puts on happiness, it is a losing proposition. As Csikszentmihalyi notes, the human ego naturally tends toward a general state of misery, focusing on negative probabilities for the sake of contingency planning, and focusing on negative traits for the sake of betterment. As animals we are better suited for survival if we semi-neurotically focus on what things are wrong and what might go wrong. We basically live with an “itch,” as Schopenhauer coined it, to better our environment and ourselves. Our neurosis creates that by first focusing on the negatives, and then creating the impression.
10 Causes of Needless Heartaches
Our lives are meant to be bright, noble, and ever ascending. This promise of our True Potential is made good in us by the fulfillment of our possibilities, and not through the interminable struggle of trying to do what is impossible. Most of our sorrows are the offspring of trying to be something we have no real need to be, in trying to do what cannot - and need not - be done.
Can You Make a Torpedo?Out of Personal Junk? How to Optimize What You Have
Junkyard Wars, a TV series showed two teams of experts contending for a title. The aim of the competition was for teams to construct a torpedo that can hit a target. But the challenge was more than just the process of construction. The challenge was creating a torpedo out of a junk.
Being Committed
A number of years ago at my first personal growth seminar, the wise group leader asked if I had problems with commitment. I clearly remember my thought processes. "Commitment? I'm not sure I understand what that means. Oh well, it's probably not important."
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Being
Everything is loved unconditionally, unequivocally, eternally. Because I love unconditionally there can never be mistakes. I do not care what you have done or what you are about to do. You are loved regardless of any action, any thought or any emotion, no matter how bad you imagine them to be. You cannot escape from my love try though you might. Allow yourself to bathe in the radiant light that is “I” for that is all existence.
Being
Everything is loved unconditionally, unequivocally, eternally. Because I love unconditionally there can never be mistakes. I do not care what you have done or what you are about to do. You are loved regardless of any action, any thought or any emotion, no matter how bad you imagine them to be. You cannot escape from my love try though you might. Allow yourself to bathe in the radiant light that is “I” for that is all existence.
Dragons, Frogs and Poison Apples in Your Journal.
Battling dragons at work? Kissed too many frogs? A bit of poison apple stuck in your throat? I am now giving you permission to live in a fantasy world. As a matter of fact, I highly recommend it if you are to get the most out of real life. The way to do this is through Mythic Journaling, writing about your life as if it were a myth of fairytale.
Dragons, Frogs and Poison Apples in Your Journal.
Battling dragons at work? Kissed too many frogs? A bit of poison apple stuck in your throat? I am now giving you permission to live in a fantasy world. As a matter of fact, I highly recommend it if you are to get the most out of real life. The way to do this is through Mythic Journaling, writing about your life as if it were a myth of fairytale.
Are You Hypnotized & Don't Even Know It?
When I was at university, an astonishing thing happened one evening. There was a hypnosis show on campus. It was several hours later that night, long after the show had ended. One girl, who had been hypnotized, was found in considerable distress in her room. Nobody knew what the matter was, but the hypnotist was called on the telephone. It seems that the girl was still in a hypnotic trance! Anyway, he said a few words to her over the phone, and all was well.
Are You Hypnotized & Don't Even Know It?
When I was at university, an astonishing thing happened one evening. There was a hypnosis show on campus. It was several hours later that night, long after the show had ended. One girl, who had been hypnotized, was found in considerable distress in her room. Nobody knew what the matter was, but the hypnotist was called on the telephone. It seems that the girl was still in a hypnotic trance! Anyway, he said a few words to her over the phone, and all was well.
Are You Hypnotized & Don't Even Know It?
When I was at university, an astonishing thing happened one evening. There was a hypnosis show on campus. It was several hours later that night, long after the show had ended. One girl, who had been hypnotized, was found in considerable distress in her room. Nobody knew what the matter was, but the hypnotist was called on the telephone. It seems that the girl was still in a hypnotic trance! Anyway, he said a few words to her over the phone, and all was well.
Are You Hiding?
I am naturally timid; I always have been, and part of me always will be. Like much of the world, I've spent significant chunks of my life listening to an inner calling to express myself, then doing anything -- anything -- not to answer it.
Are You Hiding?
I am naturally timid; I always have been, and part of me always will be. Like much of the world, I've spent significant chunks of my life listening to an inner calling to express myself, then doing anything -- anything -- not to answer it.
Do-Sa-Do For Mindfulness
When I was 12, one of my best friends was a square dancer. Twice a week, her family would pile into the Country Squire station wagon and head to the Grange Hall, where they'd gather with their square dancing club for an evening of music, friendship and do-sa-do.
Do-Sa-Do For Mindfulness
When I was 12, one of my best friends was a square dancer. Twice a week, her family would pile into the Country Squire station wagon and head to the Grange Hall, where they'd gather with their square dancing club for an evening of music, friendship and do-sa-do.
Do-Sa-Do For Mindfulness
When I was 12, one of my best friends was a square dancer. Twice a week, her family would pile into the Country Squire station wagon and head to the Grange Hall, where they'd gather with their square dancing club for an evening of music, friendship and do-sa-do.
Do-Sa-Do For Mindfulness
When I was 12, one of my best friends was a square dancer. Twice a week, her family would pile into the Country Squire station wagon and head to the Grange Hall, where they'd gather with their square dancing club for an evening of music, friendship and do-sa-do.
Can Exercise Directly Help Advance the Goals of Your Life?
So far, the evolution of our exercise and fitness techniques has done wonders to improve our muscular strength, balance and flexibility, increase our cardiovascular efficiency and reduce our body fat.
Are You Heart Smart?
You don’t have to be Albert Einsten to be smart, although having a high IQ has been associated with being intelligent. Having a high IQ means that you are “head smart.” If you have a high IQ, you are good with book knowledge, including theories, facts, figures, etc. There is another way to be smart though, and that is called Emotional Intelligence. There is a perfect balance between your head and heart because thought generates emotion which leads to motion (action). A truly smart person has learned how to edit their thoughts (replacing negative thoughts with positive ones) and how to manage his or her emotions. When our thoughts are positive, our feelings are high, and our actions follow suit.
Are You Heart Smart?
You don’t have to be Albert Einsten to be smart, although having a high IQ has been associated with being intelligent. Having a high IQ means that you are “head smart.” If you have a high IQ, you are good with book knowledge, including theories, facts, figures, etc. There is another way to be smart though, and that is called Emotional Intelligence. There is a perfect balance between your head and heart because thought generates emotion which leads to motion (action). A truly smart person has learned how to edit their thoughts (replacing negative thoughts with positive ones) and how to manage his or her emotions. When our thoughts are positive, our feelings are high, and our actions follow suit.
Achievement and Happiness the 80/20 Way
If there was ever a principle that was responsible for the most happiness and achievement in the world, it would be the 80/20 Principle.
Conditions of Happiness: Happy vs. Unhapy - Do We Have a Choice?
Everyone is in the process of seeking greater happiness. We are each involved in the search for feeling good inside our bodies. What may come as a surprise is in the midst of a binge, anorexia, bulimia, or other addiction process, happiness is essentially at the core of what is being sought. The individual is experiencing some feeling of unease in their emotional state and physical body and is attempting to seek an alternative state of feeling better.
Are You Happy? Really?
"Listen with your heart… for it houses the secret whispers of your Soul." What is happiness? It’s a feeling, as Webster describes it “…a feeling of pleasure, contentment or joy; feeling satisfied that something is right or has been done right.”
Achieve Your Dreams- Step by Step (#1)
Abraham Lincoln once said, “A person is just about as happy as he/she makes up his/her mind to be.” Too often, people want to achieve something because they think the achievement will make them happy, or others will finally respect them, or they can finally say “I’m OK after all because I did this.” The exact opposite is true. While there are a variety of blocks that may keep people from achieving their dreams, the primary one is looking to something “out there” to validate you as a person and make you happy. Happiness comes from the inside. So the first step to achieving your dreams isn’t an action step at all- it’s a “being” step. You are a human being, and your most important task is to be happy right here, right now.
Achieve Your Dreams Step #2
Letting go of limitiations. So now you’re an adult, and you want to follow and achieve your dreams. But all the old limiting experiences still exist inside, telling you all the reasons why you can’t do what you want. You may also have other limitations, like being too aware of other’s opinions, not trusting yourself and Spirit for guidance, or being more concerned with security in life than passion in living. Most of you have probably discovered that “instant transformation” in a week-end doesn’t often happen. The process of understanding and working with those apparent limitations takes time and patience. Imagine that you are weeding the inner garden of yourself, lovingly and patiently releasing the old to plant the new seeds. Step by step, you CAN recognize the beliefs that limit you and change them.
Achieve Your Dreams Step #2
Letting go of limitiations. So now you’re an adult, and you want to follow and achieve your dreams. But all the old limiting experiences still exist inside, telling you all the reasons why you can’t do what you want. You may also have other limitations, like being too aware of other’s opinions, not trusting yourself and Spirit for guidance, or being more concerned with security in life than passion in living. Most of you have probably discovered that “instant transformation” in a week-end doesn’t often happen. The process of understanding and working with those apparent limitations takes time and patience. Imagine that you are weeding the inner garden of yourself, lovingly and patiently releasing the old to plant the new seeds. Step by step, you CAN recognize the beliefs that limit you and change them.
Don't Take Advice From Successful People
Do you know what the problem is with asking successful people for advice? They don't always know why they are successful - but they'll give you all the reasons you want. I once watched an 100-year-old man explain that smoking every day was the secret to his longevity. It would be great to know why he lived so long, but I'm pretty sure we won't learn by asking him.
Don't Speed on the Learning Curve
Life is full of lessons, and those lessons take time to "get." Sometimes we're so distracted by everything else that we don't get it for quite some time. It's not really a problem, as long as we understand that. Unfortunately, it often comes with a lack of patience too. We've become such a Now Generation that we don't even enjoy learning; we just want to know it NOW.
Complete Your Past
Sue was totally in love with Jim. The couple met in high school and dated for eight years. Everyone who knew them expected them to get married and live happily ever after together. Then Jim met Karen. Before anyone knew what was happening - including Sue - Jim had eloped with Karen, putting an end to all of Sue's dreams and expectations.
Becoming an Excellent Human: Five Great Ideas From Aristotle
It was Socrates who said that the purpose of philosophy is to help each of us become “an excellent human”. That seems like a respectable and reasonable big-picture goal for every person on the planet.
Becoming an Excellent Human: Five Great Ideas From Aristotle
It was Socrates who said that the purpose of philosophy is to help each of us become “an excellent human”. That seems like a respectable and reasonable big-picture goal for every person on the planet.
Focus On The JOY!
It’s the Holiday Season --A new year is upon us! I’ll bet you’re already thinking about how you’d like next year to be a little different than the last, right? (yes, I see hands raising!)
Focus On The JOY!
It’s the Holiday Season --A new year is upon us! I’ll bet you’re already thinking about how you’d like next year to be a little different than the last, right? (yes, I see hands raising!)
Don’t Let the Boogeyman Steal Your Dreams
The boogeyman lurking in the closet scares the bejesus out of little kids. “Big people” know the imaginary monster from their childhood isn’t real. Yet, adults freeze in their tracks when the same monster pops up on their path in life.
Don’t Let the Boogeyman Steal Your Dreams
The boogeyman lurking in the closet scares the bejesus out of little kids. “Big people” know the imaginary monster from their childhood isn’t real. Yet, adults freeze in their tracks when the same monster pops up on their path in life.
Good Way to Start Your Day
Starting our day right is very important in our life as a whole. We always have a choice in everything including our attitude towards the day that lies ahead. Here is a list that will help you start your day right. Practice them everyday until it becomes a part of your life. Your day starts the moment you wake up from a night sleep - whether a good or a not so good one.
Good Vibes/ Bad Vibes
Have you ever walked into a store or business and felt uncomfortable there for no apparent reason? Have you ever walked into a store all happy and left quite frustrated? Have you ever wished your house could feel happier? The process called energetic clearing can make a significant improvement to any location.
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