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- Facts About Cold Sores - by Submitted on May 20, 2007 from Denny BodohCold sores are unsightly, contagious and very painful sores, normally occurring on the edge of the lip or nose. Cold sores are created by the replication process of the herpes simplex virus type 1 or type 2. Current studies show that about 77% of cold sores are caused by the herpes simplex ...
Views: 6364 - Gender Bias in Diagnosing Personality Disorders - by Submitted on May 20, 2007 from Sam VakninEver since Freud, more women than men sought therapy. Consequently, terms like "hysteria' are intimately connected to female physiology and alleged female psychology. The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the bible of the psychiatric profession) expressly professes gender bias: personality ...
Views: 1688(1 vote) - Do You Need a Dog? - by Submitted on May 20, 2007 from Jim ParkerOnce in the street you have seen it. Alternatively, you were on a visit at friends and saw it. The colleague has brought photos and you saw it. In general, it is not important where and under what circumstances it has happened. It is not important, what dog you saw. Important is, that you had ...
Views: 1330 - How to Have a Great Relationship - by Submitted on May 20, 2007 from Leo RyanThis is being written to put forward an understanding of relationships that can enable us to have the relationship we all want. It is also being written after having worked as a counsellor for over twenty years and dealing with numerous relationships during that time. I believe I have arrived at ...
Views: 763 - Happiness is a decision - by 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 ...
Views: 1228 - Peace - by Peace is inner stillness, it is the tranquility of the soul in which all motions subside and each thought and desire loses its importance. Peace is fulfillment in Nothingness, your home in eternity. It means resting in the womb of the Void and riding the clouds of the gods. It does not mean that ...
Views: 805 - On the heaviness of weight - by Mother goddesses of ancient cultures often are voluptuous figures with pronounced breasts and thighs. A successful nowadays paintress fills her canvasses with sensuous, joyful and overweight ladies, and everyone I’ve showed her pictures becomes happy and starts smiling. To this paintress big ...
Views: 1712 - The Goddess - by Although often depicted as a woman, she is none, and she is all of them. "I am every woman!" And every woman is the Goddess. She is the mystery of the life-giving and life-taking rhythm of nature, the great void and well of endless possibilities. She is the infinite bubbling up of inspiration, ...
Views: 806 - The holy Oak - by The majesty of the Oak has been recognized by many cultures. The Celts, the Germanic and Nordic tribes, and the ancient Greeks all attributed this tree to their main god. To them the Oak represented power, protection and durability. The fiery Oak has strong masculine qualities; it is a symbol of ...
Views: 2845 - Buddha and Reiki - by The Buddha and Reiki are in a beautiful way related in my life. Perhaps not so amazing, since the man who discovered reiki, Mikao Usui, was a Japanese buddhist.
About three years ago I bought a bronze with gold plated buddha statue in Ladakh. It sits on my altar on a heavy marble socle, ...
Views: 1298 - Analze and Drive Your Organizational Enterprise - by What is a "Revenue Critical" Employee?
There has been such a focus on cost reduction in recent years that many organizations take the employees who bring in revenue for granted. A Sales Person is Revenue Critical because if sales force production slows, then cash flow is negatively impacted. But ...
Views: 769 - Claiming YOUR More than 15 Minutes of Fame! - by You are a small business owner, alternative health care professional/doctor, and/or selling health-care related products. GETTING AND KEEPING THE WORD OUT that you exist IS and should be your Number One Top Priority. As part of your total marketing plan, you probably advertise in various places, ...
Views: 852 - Are You Ready for True Love? - by Have you ever thought 'This is THE one for me' and discovered sometime later you couldn't bear the thought of staying with him or her a moment longer? Has this happened more than once? Do you want to stop the heartbreak cycle? Do you want to meet your soulmate and enjoy a lifetime of lasting ...
Views: 854 - Top Ten Steps to Focus on Achieving What You Really Want - by 1. Write a list of everything you want in all 8 areas of your life. Physical environment, Health, Friends/Family, Work/Business, Partner/Relationship, Fun/Recreation, Personal Development, Finances. When you can clearly see everything you want, your choice of focus is more balanced.
2. List ...
Views: 827 - I Don't Have Enough Time - by How often do you hear yourself saying you don't have enough time? Even if you're not saying it out loud, I bet you think it. "I wish I had more time" or "There's never enough hours in a day" are statements voiced every day by most people. It's a fact of life that there just isn't enough time. ...
Views: 954 - Don’t Set New Year’s Resolutions - Take Action in The New Year - by It’s that time of year again when we start talking and thinking about New Year's Resolutions even though they’re old hat and we instinctively know they don’t work. Because your friends, family and colleagues may chat about what Resolutions they’re going to make, do you find yourself wondering ...
Views: 877 - What is Tachyon Energy? - by An important difference between other subtle energy devices and the energy that they use and Tachyon energy is that Tachyon cannot be influenced in any way whatsoever by any other form of energy. All other forms of subtle energies that are used in energetic medicine can be influenced, for ...
Views: 1024 - Introduction to the Symbolic Language of Astrology - by Astrology is a symbolic language.
Astrology is the study of the motions and relative positions of the planets, Sun and Moon, interpreted in terms of human characteristics and activities.
Astrology attempts to reduce life experience into a series of ordered cycles.
The Earth as Symbol of the ...
Views: 1401 - How Honest Are You In Relationships? - by I had always thought myself to be a fairly honest person, and by society's standards I was. But what society considers honest and what true honesty really is, are two separate things. We've been systematically taught in our culture to make lying a part of our lives. We do it so often that we ...
Views: 905 - What Is Love? - by For some reason, throughout the history of mankind, we as a world culture have made love out to be mysterious, complex, difficult, and un-definable. It’s the subject of endless poems and literary works. There is an enormous amount of material available out there about love, allot of it ...
Views: 1245 - Is Love Painful? - by Who hasn't experienced the pain of love? Or is it the pain of love or the pain of rejection? This is where we start getting into all the “add-ons?of love. The love baggage, we might call it. For some reason, many people assume negative emotions are a PART or element of love. Love is not painful. ...
Views: 1066 - Be Selfish In Love - by Who comes first, you or your relationship? Although answering “the relationship?may sound honorable and based on a deep level of love and commitment, its an unhealthy and destructive way to live. It is only when you can honor and love yourself first, that the relationship can be a truly loving ...
Views: 1122 - Your Happiness Is Critical To This World - by I have a theory. No, it’s more like a dream, a hope, a strong desire. It’s not a unique dream. Many have dreamt it. It’s the desire for the all those on this planet to be loving towards each other. For peace and tranquility among mankind. For a song, which if heard by distant planets, would sing ...
Views: 865 - KIDS IN CYBERSPACE A Guide for Parents and Teachers - by Introduction
The Internet is a wonderful tool for communications, education or leisure. It is a library with an incredible 100 million books on every topic known, easily accessible for research and study . It gives you the ability to chat in real time to anyone, anywhere across the world. Its ...
Views: 1743 - Teens Tweens or Children? Talking Effectively with your Kids about the Internet - by Talking effectively about the internet with your kids, and setting rules that will stick, requires an appreciation of their age and maturity. You of course know your kids best, and may already have had effective discussions with them about family rules for using the internet, but here are some ...
Views: 1266 - Parent-Child Internet Agreement - by The Kid's Agreement
I, ________________________________________ agree to the following rules for using the internet:
1) I will not hide things that I am doing online from my parents.
2) I will never give out my full name, my home address or telephone number, or my school name, to anyone ...
Views: 1034 - What To Do If Your Child Is Being Sexually Exploited On The Internet - by Discovering that your child is being sexually exploited through the internet is a highly traumatic experience for both parent and child. Your child may be panicking, frightened that they have done wrong and will be punished, so much so that it may be hard to get any information from them. ...
Views: 1870 - Crush Sites - Something else to prepare your teens for - by "Someone has a crush on you"
Have you or your teens ever received an email that begins like that? Hugely popular with teens, these emails are from websites that are known as "Crush sites".
Presenting themselves as websites about dating, Crush sites are basically services that collect email ...
Views: 7788(1 vote) - Are You in an Abusive Situation? - by An abusive relationship is a non-consensual relationship where you are forced against your will to comply with another's demands and expectations, to the detriment of your health, happiness, confidence and well-being. You may comply because you are afraid of the consequences of refusing to ...
Views: 1544 - Water Safety Tips - by The Summer vacation is a great time for swimming for kids. Keep it fun by considering the following water safety advice from SafetyEd International
SWIMMING POOLS
Never allow children to be alone around swimming pools. This also means you should not be chatting on the phone or reading a book ...
Views: 973 - It's Official!- Internet Addiction is Real - by Recently psychologists in America concluded that it is indeed possible for your child to become psychologically addicted to the Internet. The addiction has been named Internet Addiction Disorder, or IAD. To be diagnosed as a "Dependent Internet User" with IAD, a child must meet at least four or ...
Views: 1429 - Do You Have Faith in What You Are Doing? - by Starting out on any venture whether it's a new business or a trip to the local supermarket requires faith.
We live by faith or we do not live at all. Either we venture or we vegetate. If we venture, we do so by faith, simply because we cannot know the end of anything at its beginning. ...
Views: 864 - New Pelvic Toner for Women Helps Prevent Urinary Incontinence and Enhances Sexuality - by Venice, FL-Dec.16--Urinary incontinence is one of the major problems today for millions of women. The condition is embarrassing enough to drive women to try secret, even dangerous, remedies that may or may not help. Childbirth, obesity, menopause, hysterectomy and a number of medical conditions ...
Views: 1228 - Are You Trustworthy? - by Trust is a very difficult thing to establish or maintain. Our senses are daily bombarded with all kinds of messages and stimulations that would have us believe that we should accept everything we see or hear.
Most of us know better than to take at face value some of the advertising that we are ...
Views: 790 - How To Successfully Sabotage That Great Idea Of Yours - by I'm sure that you can recall many times when you have had a brainwave, a bolt from the sky, a sudden idea or an intrusion that you never brought to fruition for any number of reasons.
Maybe you initially thought the idea was so brilliant that it seemed to be the answer you have been looking ...
Views: 968 - Dying to Fit In- Learning to Love our Bodies and Ourselves - by Today in America you can be whatever you want to be - any dream can be accomplished as long as you pursue it. We have economic security and we live in a peaceful and prosperous nation! We live in the land of opportunity, rich with culture and diversity, the land of the free! The question I pose ...
Views: 1139 - Dying to Fit In - Literally! - by Today in America you can be whatever you want to be - any dream can be accomplished as long as you pursue it. We have economic security and we live in a peaceful and prosperous nation! We live in the land of opportunity, rich with culture and diversity, the land of the free! The question I pose ...
Views: 1408 - Finding Resources for Eating Disorder Treatment - by If you or someone you care about is affected by an eating disorder, it is important to seek help!
Admitting you have an eating, exercise, or body image problem that requires treatment is difficult. We understand that taking those first steps to seeking help are filled with fear, anxiety, but ...
Views: 1016 - How to Find and Evaluate a Therapist - by Eating disorders are extremely complex disorders that can be life threatening. It is important to seek the help of a qualified professional to assist you in the recovery process. Having a good support system of friends and loved ones is extremely helpful, but it is vital to have a professional ...
Views: 2536 - We are called to a path of spiritual evolution - by These days bring a certain amount of uncertainty and chaos. As we are forced to evolve, our resistance to change threatens our very progress as individuals, cultures, nations, and as a species. We somehow thought (because we are a thinking species) that we were exempt from the natural ...
Views: 863 - What to do when you realize you've been going in the wrong direction - by With age comes wisdom and so as we mature and begin to look back on our lives, we see that every juncture was an opportunity to choose an outcome. The choices that we made culminate into the life we are presently living. For better or worse, with intention, or not we were at the helm when the ...
Views: 961 - Life be design; not by default - by Imagine that right now, right here, today… there is within your grasp not one but several opportunities to redesign specific aspects of your life so that the sum total is a life you absolutely love. Then imagine that the only thing standing between you and your opportunities is a closed mind, ...
Views: 973 - The Innersense Game' for Life Guidance - by Based on The Enlightenment Pack by Chuck Spezzano, and the work of Psychology of Vision, "The Innersense Game" is designed to help people unblock their lives, solve their problems and live in a happier more fulfilled way, in a psychology-based ‘reading’ format.
To play 'Innersense' is simple. ...
Views: 1448(1 vote) - Meditation is Simple - by As meditation became popular in the West, beginning in the late 1960s and 1970s, and many different meditation approaches were introduced to the West, a lot of misinformation was spread. At Centerpointe, we talk to a lot of people everyday interested in meditation -- some of whom have been ...
Views: 1093 - Sinus tips for relief - by "Sinusitis, commonly called a sinus health disease, is an inflammation of the air passages connected to the membranes of the nose.
A cool mist vaporizer or humidifier running day and night in your bedroom will release moisture in the atmosphere for reducing mucous drainage and promoting nasal ...
Views: 1053 - Coughing tips for relief - by Coughing is an interference of the breathing responses to airflow. A natural air effect common to a respiratory condition, coughing is the airway to breathing congestion and sensitivities.
There are many different kinds of treatments prescribed for coughing. My prescription includes (a) ...
Views: 2768 - How to be Efficient and Effective - by Do you feel your life is in chaos, that everything you try to do takes so much effort? You want to be organised, but you haven't got the time to clear up the mess so that you can be.
Do you wish that you could be more efficient and effective in your daily life and have free time to enjoy what ...
Views: 5764 - Global Love Feast Day - 22nd November 2001 - by Here is a date for your diary for THE event of the year :
GLOBAL LOVE FEAST DAY - 22nd November 2001
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THIS IS A DAY dedicated to LOVE -- be love, give love, share love, make love!
THIS IS THE DAY to tell your family that you love them - go on, blow ...
Views: 1131 - Destination : The Stars - by Who am I?
What am I?
Where am I going?
Three important questions, which people have been trying to find answers to for the past few millennia.In a physical sense, science has answered these questions to a large extent. We know a great deal about the miracle of the human body, it's conception, ...
Views: 820 - What Is Applied Faith? - by One of the principles of success is Applied Faith. What does that mean to you? The American Heritage Dictionary defines Faith as "1. Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, an idea, or a thing. 2. Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence. The ...
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