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Lightening Up: Laughing at the Absurdities in Our Life

Lightening Up: Laughing at the Absurdities in Our Lifeby Stephanie Bennett Vogt. Self-care includes a healthy dose of humor. If you’re not laughing every day, it’s time to start. Laughter creates powerful chemicals in the brain that act quickly to reduce stress and tension and lower blood pressure...

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Focusing on Differences Creates Disharmony or Joy?

Focusing on Differences Creates Disharmony Instead of Joyby Dr. Eric Pearl and Frederick Ponzlov. This penchant for human beings to discover how unalike they are, how distinct they are - it all has to do with ego. Where we need to put the energy now is in how...

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What Are Yabbits? Are They Running Your Life?

What Is a Yabbit? Is It Running Your Life?by AlixSandra Parness. You already know the Yabbits; they are the voices inside your head, the doubts and the put-downs in your mind. Yabbits are the voices that argue against you. Our Yabbits were originally designed to keep us safe by keeping us in line. Yah that looks like fun, but...

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You've Got The Power

You've Got The Power by Marie T. Russellby Marie T. Russell. Many times we seem to experience life as if we have no power to make changes -- no power to make a difference. If you don't feel powerful, or if you feel that power is unavailable to you, take a look at where, in your daily life (and in your past), you have relinquished your power.

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Rediscovering What Causes You Joy

Rediscovering What Causes You Joy by Mary Anne Radmacherby Mary Anne Radmacher. I knew the joys were there but I'd opted out of readily seeing them. For a period of six months every time I was aware of something drawing a literal YAY out of me, I wrote down whatever it was that caused it...

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Freeing Ourselves by Forgiving Others

Freeing Ourselves by Forgiving Others by Julia Cameronby Julia Cameron. There are few emotions as uncomfortable as resentment. An old say­ing sums it up well: "We drink the poison and then wait for the other person to die." Resenting others, we do poison ourselves. When our energy is spent on...

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The Glad Game: Focusing on What's Right in Your World Today

The Glad Game: Focusing on What's Right in Your World Todayby BJ Gallagher. In her wonderful book, The Wealthy Spirit, Chellie Campbell describes how, when she was a girl, her mother taught her to play “The Glad Game.” “The Glad Game” is another name for a Gratitude List and helps you focus on what’s right in your world today, instead of what’s wrong...

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Be Loving: It's Easy to Say, But Harder to Live By

Be Loving: Easy to Say, Harder to Live Byby Bruce Weinstein, PhD. It’s easy to be kind or loving to someone you like. The challenge is to do so when you have to deal with someone you can’t stand. Why should you bother to be loving toward the contemptuous, the hateful, the miserable, or people who are simply annoying?

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The Shift of the Ages: Letting Go of the Past

The Shift of the Ages: Letting Go of the Pastby David Ian Cowan. I think this is as good an explanation for the Shift of Ages as any. As the 1960s poster said: “What if they gave a war and nobody came?” Bringing this reasoning back to the personal sphere, doesn’t it make sense to...

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Why Can't I Heal? How To Heal Yourself

healing eyes100by Caroline Myss, Ph.D. Often in my readings I was simply validating the suspicions, insights, or intuitions that they already had about themselves and the changes they needed to make in their lives. Sometimes these readings ignited an inner physical and spiritual healing process.

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Painful Memory? Let Go & Be Happy

Painful Memory: Let It Go & Be Happyby Jonathan Parker. People set themselves up for difficulties through their memories of pain. For instance, in the past, you or someone you know may have lost money, a job, a house, or a relationship. These issues, rife with fear and other negative emotions, establish a deep pattern in memory and...

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The Nest of Peace

Joyce & Barry Vissell, authors of the article: The Nest of Peace

by Joyce and Barry Vissell.

Finding peace in your lives and relationships, especially if you feel stressed with financial, health, or relationship challenges, can sometimes seem almost impossible. And yet finding that peace is essential. There is a story of a king who offered a prize to the artist who could paint the best picture of peace...

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The Freeing Power of Honesty

Susan Ann Darley, author of the article: The Freeing Power of Honesty

by Susan Ann Darley.

Each of us longs to express who we are, what we think and how we feel. But how often do we? From my perch I see more being repressed than expressed. Considering that repression can lead to depression, illness and even violence, what is stopping us from being true to ourselves and...

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How to Say Good-Bye to Rejection

How to Say Good-Bye to Rejection, article by Bruce Doyleby Bruce Doyle III, Ph.D. At some point in our lives we all come face to face with feelings of rejection. These feelings can be brought about by many situations. Let’s examine the circumstances related to feeling rejected. First...

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It's Clean Up Time!

It's Clean Up Time graphic: heart in handby Marie T. Russell.

I have been reading a small (yet immense) book entitled The Door of Everything. When I first saw it in a bookstore, I immediately bought it. It sat at home for a few weeks, until one morning, as I was headed out to the beach, I heard "Take the small book." I looked around and wondered...

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Under the Influence of Others

Susan Ann Darley, author of the article: Under The Influence

by Susan Ann Darley.

Are you ready to come out from under the influence of others and learn how to listen to your inner wisdom? You can discover your truth and find the confidence to express it through your creativity, relationships – wherever the adventure of life takes you.

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Religious Tolerance in America

Carol B. Green, author of the article: Religious Tolerance In America

by Carol B. Green.

A recent study determined that America is the most tolerant nation among developed nations. At the workplace, in school, at the community center, at play, and while participating in communal projects, we are continually exposed to people of different races, ethnicities and religions. In fact, due to a significant increase in religious and racial inter-marriage...

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Practicing Equanimity

Marie T. Russell, author of the article: Equanimity

by Marie T. Russell.

As I was washing the dishes this morning, I remembered how I used to "hate" washing the dishes. To me, it was always equated with a task that I "have to do", not one that I "choose" to do. As I reflected upon this, the message I heard is that I had now learned to wash the dishes with equanimity. This led me to reflect on other such situations in...

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Can This Be Love? Am I Really Loving Myself?

can this be loveby Marie T. Russell. If we are to love humanity as a whole, we must first love humanity in a unit of one -- our own self.  I started looking at what loving someone really meant, and...

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Staying in the Positive: Why Is It Important?

Staying in the Positive: Why Is It Important?by Marie T. Russell. "We are what we eat" they say. I would add that we are what we think and what we listen to. Everything that we are exposed to registers in our brain and adds to our complex programming. It all registers...

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