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- Sexuality and Spirituality - Strange Bedfellows Or Natural Partners? - by Sex. Possibly the most loaded word in any language, and with good reason. Sex reaches deep down into who we are at our core, and tells truths about us that are undeniable. Freud tapped into this over a century ago, and his insights still reverberate across the decades, and did a lot to break ...
Views: 980 - Overcome Performance Anxiety, Stage Fright & Self-Conciousness Through Singing - by Art Nefsky, internationally acclaimed performance coach, vocal instructor and performance anxiety specialist has been said to be to the Conservatory of Music what Patch Adams is to the medical world.
If you are someone who, by desire or necessity, has to make a public presentation of any kind, ...
Views: 2175 - Grief Relief: Looking for Laughter in Loss - by Submitted on May 12, 2007 from Allen KleinSometimes a laugh is the only weapon we have. —Roger Rabbit While I was writing my book, The Courage to Laugh: Humor, Hope and Healing in the Face of Death and Dying, my dad died. New Year's Eve 1996, he was taken to the hospital. Nine days later, just hours after my mom called to tell me ...
Views: 6301(1 vote) - Your Delightful Self - by Submitted on May 12, 2007 from Michelle MorovatyDear Loved Ones, Welcome to Spirituality Inside and Out. Wishing you a Prosperous day in every way. I love you. I love you. I love you. FOR WE ARE ALL ONE. Please take a few moments to bring your attention to your lovely self and give yourself a Gentle and Loving Hug. Believe in yourself for ...
Views: 790 - Juicer To The Rescue - How Do I Get 5-9 Portions Of Fresh Veggies Into My Kids? - by Submitted on May 11, 2007 from Rika Susan Juicing Coach at Best-Juicing.comJuicers are coming to the rescue of parents exhausted by daily broccoli battles and other vexing vegetable skirmishes. With a vegetable juicer such as a Breville Juicer in the kitchen, crunching through countless carrots becomes an object of lesser importance. Into its place steps a ravenous ...
Views: 2043 - Dispel Anger in 2 Simple Steps - by Submitted on May 11, 2007 from Margrit Harris"It really works!" "Well, I'll be…!" BJ like so many others in the workshop was astounded that a technique so simple could produce such an amazing result. You must try it. Next time your partner flares up in anger do this. In a very non-threatening calm and sincere tone of voice ...
Views: 2526 - Tips for Handling Extreme Religious Differences - by Submitted on May 11, 2007 from Margrit HarrisAre you a modern day Romeo and Juliet? Are you dealing with as much pain and struggle making your impossible relationship decisions as your fanciful predecessors? Recently this heart wrenching question was submitted to our online relationship advice column: "What do I do, my boy friend is an ...
Views: 1798 - THE LAWS OF LIFE: Twenty Universal Laws and Spiritual Truths" (from Inspirational Books - Updated) - by Submitted on May 11, 2007 from Craig Lock"We share what we know, so that we all may grow." * THE LAWS OF LIFE: Twenty Universal Laws and Spiritual Truths" (from Inspirational Books) "Our minds can shape the way a thing will be, because we act according to our expectations ...and that's why it shapes our ...
Views: 18607(3 votes) - How Much Life Assurance Should You Have (Updated)? - by Submitted on May 11, 2007 from Craig LockPublishing Guidelines: This is an extract from one of my "money manuscripts", which I thought I'd share. We hope that the following article (an formatted to 65 characters) may be informative and helpful to your e-zine readers, or on your web site. If it helps others "out there" in any way, ...
Views: 1163 - Ten Top Ways To Get Unstuck And Reach Your Goals - by 1. Write down 2 or 3 ways you can immediately start moving toward your goal. Select one and GET STARTED!
2. Imagine what life will be like in 5 years if you don’t begin moving toward your goal. 3. Make sure your goals are measurable. Having a definite target to shoot at gives you a much better ...
Views: 753 - Eye Of The Tiger - by Have you ever felt the magic of ¡°eye of the tiger¡± focus and concentration? When you feel this intense experience, others see and feel this state energizing you. They see the determination in your eyes, hear the self-assured way in which you speak, and feel confidence and success radiating ...
Views: 3914 - The Bike - by I bought the bike to get more exercise. In my mind, I imagined losing a few extra pounds, and feeling healthier. But, my experiences with the bike proved to be far more fascinating and multidimensional than I could ever imagine. I went to the bike shop and picked out a sleek looking, black, ...
Views: 765 - Putting Lipstick On A Pig - by Technology can help tremendously with time management, and many examples of this are seen everyday: It can make changing calendar appointments effortless. Also, with the click of a button, many people can be emailed an announcement of a meeting change. Potential uses are enormous. But, time and ...
Views: 805 - Putting Lipstick On A Pig - by Technology can help tremendously with time management, and many examples of this are seen everyday: It can make changing calendar appointments effortless. Also, with the click of a button, many people can be emailed an announcement of a meeting change. Potential uses are enormous. But, time and ...
Views: 839 - Becoming A Life Archeologist - by Our lives are a montage of events. A flurry of activity. Running here and running there. Details. Details. A blur. Lots of movement, but how much accomplishment? Of all the activity we engage in, how much of our energy do we direct toward fulfilling our central mission in life? How much of our ...
Views: 874 - Your Masterpiece - by Coach John Wooden was one of the most successful athletic coaches the world has ever seen. As the head basketball coach at one of the United States top universities, UCLA, Wooden compiled a record of 620 wins to 147 losses. Even more incredibly, Wooden¡¯s teams won the US national championship ...
Views: 857 - Strategies To Achieve Long-Term Peak Performance - by 1. Have a Peak Performance Partner
It’s easier to achieve a goal, if we have a friend who can help motivate us. It’s also easier for a friend to achieve a goal, if we are there to help motivate them.
2. Have a Very Strong Compelling Goal
Visualizing the beautiful details of a ...
Views: 854 - Mindfulness: More Important Today than Ever - by Remember, counsels Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, that this moment is the only time over which you have dominion. The most important thing in your life, therefore, is the thing you are doing at the moment. The most important person in your life is the person you are with at the moment.
And if ...
Views: 886 - Mindfulness: More Important Today than Ever - by Remember, counsels Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, that this moment is the only time over which you have dominion. The most important thing in your life, therefore, is the thing you are doing at the moment. The most important person in your life is the person you are with at the moment.
And if ...
Views: 580 - ONE WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR AUTHENTICITY - by Cynthia Meier describes her second marriage, which ended when she was 32, as “four years of wedded bliss, one year of severe struggling.?And for three years after the divorce she “hung on like a pit bull,?says the 45-year-old operating room nurse, trying to retrieve the relationship with her ...
Views: 930 - SEX AND THE SOLITARY PERSON: Alternatives for Those Alone - by I feel like Ken Kesey's Nurse Ratched each time I say it, but my dog Buddy is much easier to live with since his operation, the one that makes men cross their legs in painful commiseration. He’s still ninety pounds of rough-and-tumble Australian Shepherd, but the primordial drive to become Alpha ...
Views: 1759(1 vote) - THE NEW HERMITS: Into Deserts of Their Own Making - by In the spring of 1996, Sarah Holbrook moved to a place as basic as the life she wants to live.
A forty-four-year-old entrepreneur who had parlayed her intelligence, charm and wit into an annual income approaching six figures, she sold her house and flourishing business in a major city to ...
Views: 826 - HOW TO DISCOVER SIGNS OF SUCCESS IN YOUR PERSONALITY - by The requirements for success are often listed in business manuals and magazines. How many of those enviable qualities do you have ? Or to put it differently, if you had them would you be able to recognize them? Would you be sufficiently objective to be able to assess yourself with complete ...
Views: 816 - A doctor's script - by Have you ever wondered why doctors have such notoriously bad handwritings? It often seems as if the words in their prescriptions have to be guessed at rather than read.
One explanation is that doctors tend to write quickly - a tendency that is undoubtedly increased by years of note-taking at ...
Views: 963 - Life's Toughest Challenge: Living Well Enough Alone - by It scares us more than anything except death.
Being alone.
For some it is a little death. Our fear of solitude is so ingrained that given the choice of being by ourselves or being with others, we opt for safety in numbers, even at the expense of lingering in painful, boring or totally ...
Views: 4800 - Touching Silence--A Meditation - by Allow me to lead you through a meditation that will allow you to directly explore the silence within you. Whether you are beginning to listen into yourself consciously for the first time or you have been doing this stuff for years, you can know this silence directly and profoundly through a ...
Views: 2258 - Banish low self-confidence immediately! - by There is proof of your self-worth in your handwriting. To develop a positive new self-image discover your personality strengths! Find reasons for greater self-esteem from actual evidence in your handwriting.
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Do you suffer from low self-esteem? The symptoms are unmistakable – and you will ...
Views: 1181 - Finding Yourself Is An Inside Job - by Discovering your own truth is brutal at times, because it means being totally honest, and not making excuses for what seemingly ends up being your blurred vision of self. I'm sure rose-colored glasses have their place, but not in the journey to self which requires a wide screen and consistently ...
Views: 733 - The Beat Of Your Own Drum - by Society has dictated our behaviors since day one. Look at how the electronic and print media influence what we think, and the choices we make. The majority of attitudes and behaviors we carry through life are "learned," because we aren't born with them. We "learn" the differences in skin color, ...
Views: 896 - The Beat Of Your Own Drum - by Society has dictated our behaviors since day one. Look at how the electronic and print media influence what we think, and the choices we make. The majority of attitudes and behaviors we carry through life are "learned," because we aren't born with them. We "learn" the differences in skin color, ...
Views: 560 - Is Your Life On Purpose? - by Life Coach Dave Ellis asks us to imagine a person who walks up to a counter at the airport to buy a plane ticket for his next vacation.
"Just give me a ticket," he says to the reservation agent, "anywhere will do."
The agent stares back at him incredulously."I'm sorry, sir," he ...
Views: 1045 - New Choices That Dismiss Dark Conditions - by The only thing most of us know to do when life takes an unwanted turn, bringing us what we don't want, is to take a turn for the negative ourselves. And when the circumstance in question really makes a wreck of things, not only do we summarily reject the event seen "at cause," but for good ...
Views: 941 - The Secret to Heal the Suffering of the World - by Have you ever noticed that whenever a secret is circulating among your close friends you will do almost anything to learn its undisclosed nature? Or, if you think someone knows something that you don’t, you won’t rest until you too are "in the know"? All of this is to say we seem to love ...
Views: 1103 - 10 Steps to Detect and Stop Secret Self-Sabotage - by It's a little known - yet much denied fact - that people treat you the way you secretly ask to be treated. Your unspoken request that determines how others behave toward you is extended to -and received by - everyone you meet.
What is your invisible inner life? It's the way you actually feel - ...
Views: 3850(1 vote) - 4 Ways to Win the Timeless Life - by From within our depths there arises a kind of constant pulse in the form of a longing to know beyond the shadow of any doubt that I am. We cannot help this wanting to be. It is a celestial drive sown into the center of one’s very soul, and it is this nascent need that sends us out looking for ...
Views: 939 - 4 Signs of Spiritually Sick People (and how to keep them from infecting you!) - by Those with whom we assemble we will soon resemble, so the simple old saying goes. Yet it tells of a deep Truth. It says that who we are the stuff of our soul at present is being transformed continuously by the nature of the company we keep; so that, in (our) essence we are always moving and ...
Views: 11488(1 vote) - How to Stop Being a Captive of Your Own Unawakened Consciousness - by Whenever you discuss matters of a spiritual nature with people you will invariably run into two distinct groups. There are those who claim to know the Truth, but who express their great certainty by attacking anyone who doesn’t see God as they do. And then there is the other group that comprises ...
Views: 1801 - Five Steps to Success without Stress - by You can beat stress simply by noticing some early warning signs - and it's easier than you think, say the experts. "It works," says Dr. Joseph D. Cusumano, Ph.D. psychologist of best-selling author Guy Finley's "Five Steps to Complete Freedom from Stress."
Finley, mentor to celebrities Suzanne ...
Views: 913 - The "Secret of Letting Go" - by Question: Can you help shed some light on why we are here in this life?
GF - All of our deeper personal experiences eventually come to reveal some lesson that we needed to learn. This process of events that leads us to the discovery of their cause proves both the existence of order and ...
Views: 2415 - The Secret of Perfect Relationships - by The less we learn to long for -- or depend upon --
Special understanding from others,
The less we will suffer for not receiving this.
The less we suffer over what others
Seem incapable of giving to us,
The less unhappy will we find ourselves
In these unanswered moments of our lives
Spent ...
Views: 895 - The Key to Remembering God - by We should do the Work of making the right inner effort to remember ourselves and our God always. Our universe is created for just this purpose, and we for it.
With this in mind, allow me to anticipate what you may be thinking, for when reminded in this fashion we often say, “but I do remember ...
Views: 1192 - The Lion Doesn't Sleep Tonight - A Very Roman Holiday - by © 2001 Laura Fink / All Rights Reserved
Episode One - The Lion Doesn't Sleep Tonight
The sculpted bushes and phosphorous fountains of Shiver Tower Gardens began to fade, and Tock felt a strange buzzing in his head. He saw his hand reach in slow motion for his mouse, but before he could touch ...
Views: 1248 - Citizens of The Land of Opportunity - by "-The Declaration of Independence"
In a crowded, airless room in the city of Philadelphia 223 years ago this week, a group of men solemnly stepped forward, one by one, and affixed their names to a single sheet of paper -- each man knowing that if they faltered in their collective vision, ...
Views: 748 - Sugar Cravings and Cancer - by Submitted on May 11, 2007 from Caroline SutherlandDespite the decade-long war on cancer – the fundraisers, the walk-a-thons, the lapel ribbons – there are more people diagnosed with cancer today than ever before. In my opinion, the war on cancer will not be won with some miracle drug or millions spent on research, but with a few simple ...
Views: 5570 - But I Don't Have Any Experience - by So often we hold off living God’s purpose for our life. We know exactly what we should be doing with our life but feel we are not qualified to do it because we do not have any experience.
After graduating from high school or college, or after we start to learn about ourselves and discover our ...
Views: 947 - I Can Do All Things Through Christ, Who Strengthens Me - by It is so hard to change old habits.
Year after year, you find yourself stuck in a job which you pretty much hate.
You are barely making enough money to make ends meet.
You often feel quite disappointed in yourself. To put it bluntly, you simply are not happy with what you do to make a ...
Views: 1572 - How to Discover Your Life's Purpose So You May Live the Life God Intended You to Live - by "Beep, beep, beep, beep…"
Cassandra slowing opened her eyes and removed the blankets off her head. “It's cold. I don't feel like getting up”, she thought as she stuck her arm out from under the blankets to hit the snooze button on the alarm clock.
"Beep, beep, beep, beep…"
“It could not ...
Views: 1323 - Connecting Panic, Fear and Rectal Bleeding - by Submitted on May 11, 2007 from Caroline SutherlandPicture a 56 year old woman who recently suffered from a financial setback. Her ex-husband who supported her and two children is now out of work and suddenly she is thrust into a state of panic. Over the years she has suffered from constipation and now because of the stress she is experiencing, ...
Views: 1051 - Use Communication To Release Another Person’s Upset - by When someone is upset at you, the most important thing you can do is to get their upset communicated. Get it said. Get it out in the open.
As long as an upset is kept inside, it does damage. The person creates distance and destroys love. The moment an upset is communicated, the upset loses ...
Views: 3524 - Is There More Than One Type Of Kissing? - by Submitted on May 11, 2007 from dale mazurekKissing has to be one of the best ways in the world to show good emotions. At this very moment I can’t think about a negative impact of kissing. Oh sure we have heard about bad kissers but even bad kissers don’t hurt any one. There are a number of different ways to kiss. There are ...
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