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Learning Chinese should be established on the basis of in-depth understanding of Chinese culture. China has 5,000 years of history, the formation of extremely rich and deep cultural traditions. To Learn Chinese culture is a very effective way to learn Chinese. In traditional Chinese culture, ... Views: 2503
SHAKESPEAREAN WISDOM IN THE RIVER THAMES
The Blessings in every situation – be blessed always.
PRIVATE START
Life started for me in a private road a stone’s throw away from the tidal wash of the great River Thames.
PRIVATE ROADS IN ENGLAND
Private roads usually have gates that are ... Views: 1535
For 10 years I read about and watched compulsive eaters become free from overeating and I continued to be discouraged as I binged and obsessed about food. I would identify with people who felt, thought, and ate the way I did, and when they said they were free I believed them. I knew it must be ... Views: 2246
Our conscious intelligence is as much of Life as we understand. We have stopped looking for the Spirit, because we have found It; It is what you are and It is what I am; we could not be anything else if we tried. The thing that we look with is the thing that we have been looking for. That is why ... Views: 2047
I wish I didn’t know what a broken heart felt like. I wish there was no illness. I wish I never knew what homeless meant. I wish there was no such thing as war. I wish I never heard or said an angry word. I wish my heart didn’t know what it was like to ache for someone not with us anymore. ... Views: 2618
It was a warm summer evening in June. I was a senior in high school, and everyone in our class had been invited to offer a performance piece as our “Senior Farewell Event” for friends and family. I decided that I’d sing Oh Very Young by Cat Stephens. It’s a song that is a bit challenging ... Views: 1350
Bad diagnosis? Very bad diagnosis? Are you trying to keep it together for family and friends?
There are days when you are so freakin’ tired and scared out of your socks. You beg and plead with God, “Please let me see my daughter make it through high school.” You hold on to every slimmer of ... Views: 1985
These quotations will strengthen your faith.
Smith Wigglesworth - “I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am moved only by what I believe.”
Kenneth E. Hagin Sr. – “Faith begins where the will of God is known.”
Joni Erickson Tada - “Faith isn’t the ability to ... Views: 3326
These quotations will give you hope and build your faith.
Hope is the road, Faith is the victory.
Martin Luther – “Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”
Unknown – Don’t worry, the fog will lift.
Me – “Hope is the raw material from which faith builds the ... Views: 2350
The masculine sees from above to below - the feminine from below to above.
When God created the world, He did so with two minds, two states of consciousness. One mind sees from Above to Below - and so, all is insignificant before it. From Above to Below, there is no world, only One.
From ... Views: 1792
When we look at our current world we see corruption, poverty, greed and separation. The only way to change all that is to create a new world with a system that supports all living beings equally.
We need a system that unites all people! That helps people understand that we are all one. We ... Views: 2131
If you think jewelry is in, consequently think again. This will likely just be some sort of 'recycled fashion idea' through the past. Quite a few fashion trends which have been seen at this time have their platform somewhere up to now. Many these fashions concepts, now have any refined glance as ... Views: 1790
Apologies in advance. Don’t want to brag. Last week I gave a silly grin of pride. Yes, shameless pride at my four-year-old granddaughter.
In those delicate hands, she held her Mom’s cell phone. And in seconds, she managed on her own, to text a message to her other grandma.
The message ... Views: 1174
Many years ago, before I had any sense of spirituality, a friend of mine, a practicing Buddhist shared with me that most of us are constantly immersed in thoughts that are driven by hopes and fears. Think about that for a moment … My thoughts coalesce around either fear-based monologs or I’m ... Views: 1292
During a vacation a few years ago, I was about to fly out of the Chicago airport. I remember that day well. The weather matched my mood perfectly. It was a gloomy day. The sky was heavy and overcast. It was quite a depressing scene. My mood, was melancholic to say the least. I remember feeling ... Views: 1251
Years ago I was locked in a worry habit. Each morning I would wake up and my mind would begin to scan the landscape of my life, the way a hawk scans land for food. I was not looking for food; I was looking for something to worry about. The enormity of this habit became apparent one day when I ... Views: 2040
Following Lukas’ second bout of impaction colic (due to dehydration), I became nervous about his water intake. As strong and powerful as they look, horses’ digestive systems are surprisingly delicate. Unlike cattle who have several stomachs, horses have only one small stomach that functions best ... Views: 1044
We’ve heard a lot about hope recently, but one thing was not said. Hope is scary. Anyone who dares to hope runs the risk of disappointment and feelings of failure. With the overwhelming focus on success in our culture, the threat of failure and disappointment is blown out of proportion. In my ... Views: 1767
Hope … it’s a wonderful four-letter word. Hope offers possibilities; hope suggests that the good will prevail. It makes us happy. It fills us with expansiveness and can make our tight, constricted worlds crack open with a little wiggle room for the good stuff to find its way. Hope has us ... Views: 1973
“Love is already here
Can’t you feel Its Presence?
It’s already here…”
I’ve more than doubled my age since I first sat in a New Thought Church singing this little ditty. I was still a wounded thirty-something – still struggling to find a way to live with an inner pain from which I had no ... Views: 1621
Critical Mass
The Hundred Monkey Theory provides hope for collective change in humanity. The notion that a critical mass of consciousness can change the collective consciousness is not a new one. The Hundred Monkey Theory emerged in the nineteen seventies when researchers in the wilds of ... Views: 1774
Early on, we were fortunate to find an excellent horse transportation company. Chuck Erb, the owner-operator, is just what Lukas likes: steady, friendly and fastidious. Chuck’s massive truck pulls a trailer that can accommodate eight horses plus equipment. Chuck always makes sure, though, that ... Views: 1155
Touching is an essential part of our day together. In the wild, horses live in herds and stay close to each other for survival. Very social creatures, they tend to pick certain friends and engage in mutual grooming and games with them. Often forming life-long attachments, they’ve been known to ... Views: 1118
At the homeless shelter where I volunteer, there is a strong emphasis on forgiveness and personal accountability. The residents must learn to recite, by memory, several recovery principles. One of the principles is called “Restitution” and it reads as follows: “A forgiving heart is necessary ... Views: 1303
This is what I call my riff on happiness and self-acceptance. It came out of a maddening conversation with a client who has struggled with finding happiness and feeling as if he is never enough.
How can you be happy if it’s never enough, not ok enough, good enough, successful enough, famous ... Views: 2199
It’s too much. It’s way too much. You just can’t take one more something to remedy, re-organize, or create anew. You have been chugging right along, working to keep pace with everything that has come your way.
There have been moments when you have been breathless. Yet, you have persevered. ... Views: 2359
For most of my life I didn’t want to be me. In fact, I was so unhappy being me that I wanted to be someone else. When I was in my twenties I wanted to be Fred Astaire, because I liked the light and joyful sense of life he projected when dancing on screen. Later in life I didn’t care who else ... Views: 1753
According to Google, every day around 13,600,000 people search for hope on the web. People are desperate for hope. They think hope is somewhere out there, and they need to acquire it to get what they want from life.
People spend hard-earned money on get-rich-quick schemes that promise ... Views: 1571
Hope, being the flickering light that gleams and brightens the dimmest paths, permitting to grasp at dreams, wholeheartedly, even when circumstances seem to alienate all positive outcome probabilities.
You’ve known, I’m sure, people who have made it beyond their dreams. What makes them ... Views: 1902
“For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.” That’s how it started. Those six words, we are told, are the shortest of Hemingway’s short stories. And those provocative words inspired Smith Magazine writer and editor, Larry Smith to challenge his Smith Magazine web readers to describe their lives in a ... Views: 3849
The world is changing at break-neck speed as we inch ourselves closer and closer to the planetary shifts of consciousness and being. And, as with any new birth, there will be some pain, contractions, doubt, fear and maybe, even, a bit of panic as we work to bring forth a bouncing new world that ... Views: 2470
OMG! The holidays are here. Are you ready? Good God, I’m not -- even though I swore up and down that I would be all wrapped and carded by Thanksgiving. Well, such is the way of my good intentions when life does life. I am guessing you can relate.
It’s not too late to find help. Here are six ... Views: 2725
The majority of mental health practices are deeply rooted in the medical model, knee-deep in the latest edition of the DSM to provide diagnostic labels and entrenched with pharmaceutical solutions. And much of this is aided and abetted by the insurance companies who look to quantify and contain ... Views: 2663
I was contemplating my navel the other day and realized how much we have going for us in this universe. The truth is that no matter what your circumstances, this is a kind universe and everyone in it has the primary motivation to work in favor of a peaceful, bountiful life. The only obstacles ... Views: 2741
Can you feel the energies bumping up against you? One minute, you feel pushed; the next minute, pulled. One minute, you’re ok, and the next minute, you’re not. It’s chaotic out there.
Our world is in flux; nothing feels normal anymore. Disasters are becoming way too familiar, and terra ... Views: 3431
The word came last week that a friend and colleague, a clinical psychologist, had committed suicide. She had suffered a hammering of profound losses and fell into a deep hole of depression. She had placed herself in good professional hands, was hospitalized for two weeks, and released with ... Views: 5313
According to Brian Wansink, Ph.D.’s research, we typically make 200+ food choices a day. Wansink, a professor of marketing at Cornell University and author of Why We Eat More Than We Think: Mindless Eating, has devoted his career to researching why we eat and make the food choices we do. He is ... Views: 2200
Can you remember when you last felt happy, really happy? Would you like to feel steadier in a healthy, mind-body way that does not involve pharmaceuticals? Is straddling a teeter-totter the last time you consciously considered balance in your life?
Today’s topsy-turvy world has us all ... Views: 3866
Rob Brezny's book Pronia is the Paranoia: How the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings "an extensive array of experiments, games, rituals, and meditations you can use to boost your levels of ingenious happiness." His work is fun, outrageous, provocative, earthy, and will up ... Views: 2444
I’m in a strange place these days, nothing feels right. My skin is itchy; my allergies have run amok. On top of that, I am irritable and sensitive and there is not enough chocolate in the contiguous united of states to keep me satisfied. I am cranky. And why, you might ask? I have no real ... Views: 2240
My dear pal, Debbie, passed along this birthday ritual. On your birthday, you choose one word to be your focus for the coming year. Once, I chose the word “sparkle” – just the thought of it made me happy. This year, my word arrived unbidden with cat-like stealth and sure-footed certainty. It ... Views: 2519
Home again, home again, jiggedy jig.
I am back in Connecticut after three weeks of Red Cross deployment in Joplin, MO. I arrived in Joplin eight days after the tornado. Everything was still chaotic -- and my repeated response to viewing what was termed “the footprint,” the 6 x 1 mile area of ... Views: 2224
The Random House College Dictionary defines hope as "the feeling that what is desired is also possible or that events may turn out for the best."
It's certainly easy to have hope when everything is going your way--you just landed a great job, met the man/woman of your dreams, lost a lot of ... Views: 1882
Are you screaming unmentionables in your head all day long? Do you feel like the character in the movie, Network, bellowing out the window for all the world to hear, “I’m mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore?” Do you fantasize about walking away from your job when you are within ... Views: 5046
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Pay It Forward - by Adele McDowellAdele Ryan McDowell, Ph.D.
Someone wise once said, “If you have much, give your wealth; if you have little, give your heart.” And here is the perfect occasion: Thursday, April 28 is international Pay It Forward Day.
Based on the 2000 movie of the same name, Pay It Forward is the concept of doing a good deed for ... Views: 3878
Those trusty researchers at Harvard University -- and elsewhere -- have been busily exploring what makes us happy. It is called the neurobiology of happiness and speaks to what lights up our brains. The researchers are also examining the plasticity of our brains – how we can re-pattern our ... Views: 3431
My inner child has run amok. She wants nothing to do with restriction, rules and can’t-have’s. She wants chocolate and French fries and a loaf of toast. She is acting out big-time.
On the outside I still look like the grown-up I am, doing my daily adult thing, but on the inside, ... Views: 2565
It was 7:10 AM. The clock radio filled my bedroom with the sounds of Morning Edition from National Public Radio. I was roused from my sleep. As I lay in bed and listened, I learned of the events that continued to unfold in Japan following the earthquakes and tsunami.
A reporter interviewed ... Views: 1554
Every have one of those seemingly endless stretches of time, when it feels as if all your get-up-and-go has got-up-and-went? You are not sick, per se. You just don’t give a damn anymore. Nothing matters much.
After all of your full-speed-ahead decisions, choices and actions, you feel ... Views: 3538
Every have one of those seemingly endless stretches of time, when it feels as if all your get-up-and-go has got-up-and-went? You are not sick, per se. You just don’t give a damn anymore. Nothing matters much.
After all of your full-speed-ahead decisions, choices and actions, you feel ... Views: 3538
Or, maybe, Julius Caesar or William Shakespeare or Marie Antoinette? Discussions of past lives are often met with a bit of a smirk. Do you really believe? And the answer is, “Yes, I do.”
I look at past life information in a number of different ways. It serves as a teacher; it explains ... Views: 3715