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- My Turmeric Milk Ritual - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOne of my favorite Ayurvedic remedies is turmeric milk. Hot milk cooked with turmeric powder and then a pinch of sugar and a little bit of ghee. Warm, two cups, it’s my favorite remedy for colds, flus, for those run-down days for calming the windy airy dry energy of the vata dosha while ...
Views: 1258(2 votes) - Neutrality of the Mantra - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: In your reply about accessing the higher self you wrote: " If you use a mantra in meditation, the mantra allows the mind to be undirected and neutral. This state permits the inherent attraction of the one’s inner nature of silence, joy and knowledge to draw the mind to the higher ...
Views: 658(3 votes) - Nine Tips for Feeling Happier -- in the Next HOUR. - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhat do you do if you're feeling blue because of the financial crisis? Or if you're just having an extremely lousy day? Here are nine strategies that can boost your mood right now in a happiness emergency. In the next thirty minutes, check off as many of the following items as possible. Each one ...
Views: 583(1 vote) - No-Cost Stress Relievers for Getting Through Tough Times - by Submitted on Sep 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSome days, it seems like bad news just keeps coming. Unemployment is up. The stock market is down. Gas prices are up, down, and up again. You may not be able to control these things, but you can control your reactions to them—and you can do it without spending a dime. Try these quick, easy—and ...
Views: 837(4 votes) - Noah benShea’s Ten Commandments for Tough Times - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsNoah benShea’s Ten Commandments for Tough Times 1. Being broke is not the same as being broken, losing money is not the same as being lost, and finding your balance is not something you can do on a balance sheet. 2. Don’t confuse having less with being less, having more with being ...
Views: 1300(2 votes) - Nude Cleansing Facial Oil review - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI was first introduced to this product last summer during a facial I received at Barney's Beverly Hills. Previously, due to my tendency toward oily skin, I was a bit leery of a straight oil facial cleanser. Not anymore! Product: Nude Cleansing Facial Oil, 200 ml/6.76 oz, $52 INGREDIENTS: ...
Views: 1421(1 vote) - O Be Joyful - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYears ago, I spent several summers solo camping in Colorado’s high country. The destination? A high altitude campsite in a valley called “O Be Joyful.” For a few short days, the circle of mountain peaks and pine scented air was my universe. To me, everything about it was joyful. Today, with ...
Views: 854(2 votes) - Obama at Notre Dame: A study in Grace - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMay 17th turned out to be a gray and wet Sunday afternoon as I sat working on the new issue of my e-magazine. Buzzing in the background for the past few days, had been the incessant cacophony of voices discussing the feasibility conferring upon a President, who was pro stem cell research and ...
Views: 647(1 vote) - Objects of Power: Talismans - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsFor millennia, mankind has found peace and solace in objects of significance. When cleansed and consecrated through ritual, such objects - be they gems, amulets, herbs, or written words - become talismans. A talisman is any item imbued with a specific power by its bearer to serve a specific ...
Views: 655(1 vote) - On Moral Responsibility: I'm Sorry I Screen Your Calls - by Submitted on Jul 26, 2009 from Intent.com Authors"The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth. Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of ...
Views: 522(1 vote) - Organic Eats: “Seitan” an Alternative to Tofu - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThere is a lot of bad press these days on tofu and tofu containing products. I won’t elaborate here. My intent is to offer a great alternative for your space! Seitan is made from wheat but does not have a lot in common with flour or bread. Many know it as “wheat meat”, “wheat gluten” or ...
Views: 745(1 vote) - Our American Neighbors Could Teach Us A Few Things - Happy Canada Day - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMany people around the world both love and detest Americans. They would love to be able to live in the United States and perhaps realize their own "American Dream". And yet the U.S. has been criticized and reviled for its belligerent, patronizing "Father Knows Best" attitude about how the rest ...
Views: 700(3 votes) - Over And Over Again: Having The Same Experiences - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThere may be times in our lives when it seems like we keep having the same kinds of experiences. The situation or the people involved may be different each time, yet one experience may feel exactly like the last one and the one before that one. Perhaps we left a job where we were unhappy and we ...
Views: 547(1 vote) - Owning Disowned Aspects of our Being - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThere are certain voices that we have all disowned. The clue to discovering that a voice is disowned is when we can’t get in touch with it. We just have a difficult time. For example for me it was the voice of the Judge. I discovered that I had disowned this voice back in 1983-84, when I was ...
Views: 1339(1 vote) - Packing Pickles - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDoctors say there is enough salt in one pickle to give us all the sodium we need for a year. I’d like more years, and so I consume fewer pickles. But this is a story I still gnaw on over the years. It is a story my father’s mother told over and over. And over and over. When I was younger I ...
Views: 911(2 votes) - Pain, Drugs, Laws, and Compassion - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOn April 6, the Miami Herald printed a piece revealing that South Florida, Broward County in particular, has become the painkiller capital of the United States, a "notorious home to a cottage industry of storefront pain clinics selling alarming numbers of narcotics and feeding a brazen black ...
Views: 762(1 vote) - Palmistry Lines: Reading the Heart Line - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe key points to remember when looking at the lines on the palm are that lines shift and change, and that the quality of a line is one of the most important indicators of a line’s interpretation. Some authors say that they view the lines as energy power lines or as rivers as a way of ...
Views: 9930(4 votes) - Palmistry Question: What Does it Mean if I Have a Gazillion Lines? - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHi Margaret, I have a gazillion lines in my palm. Lots of boxes. Loops. You name it! A complex mix of lines, circles, squares, connections, energies running thru it. Do tell … what does an extraordinary amount of lines mean??? The first thing I say to someone who has a hand full of lines is ...
Views: 14739(3 votes) - Parent Your Own Children - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsBy Thomas Haller and Chick Moorman It takes more than a degree of motivation to call a radio talk show, wait on hold for several minutes, and then state your case with millions of listeners hearing your every word. So it was not surprising that a recent caller articulated his views with passion ...
Views: 650(1 vote) - Passionate Living - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWritten by Steve Goodier One man quipped: "It's not that I'm afraid of dying. It's just that I've been alive for as long as I can remember, and I'm kind of set in my ways." Some people ARE afraid of dying. Others are not concerned about their death ... but they worry about how they're going ...
Views: 708(1 vote) - Passive Aggressive Behavior: Claiming Our Feelings - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIf you've ever found yourself repressing your anger and behaving in other ways to get your point across, you may be someone who is adept at engaging in passive-aggressive behavior. Although passive-aggressive behavior is recognized as a psychological disorder, it also describes the behavior that ...
Views: 683(1 vote) - Peace Through Commerce® - by Submitted on Aug 16, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn the context of my work with FLOW and my collaboration with FLOW co-founder Michael Strong (author of Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems), for the past three years I have been deeply engaged in advancing the idea of Peace Through ...
Views: 693(1 vote) - Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Intent.com Authors"There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich." ~Charlie Brown Always oily, sticky and gloppy, creamy to extra chunky, pedigreed-and pricey or down-and dirty-cheap-o - who among us doesn't just completely dig the taste of peanut butter? ...
Views: 807(2 votes) - Permission to Feel: Pushing Away Emotion - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThroughout our lives, we may experience emotions that disturb or distress us. Often, our first reaction is to push our feelings away. We may say, "I don't want to think about that right now, I'll think about it later" and we bury our emotions, deny the validity of our feelings, or distract ...
Views: 841(1 vote) - Philip Arnold Honours Womanhood - by Submitted on Jul 16, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMarch 8 is International Women's Day 2009 and, once again, my theme on this very important day is the Stopping of Violence Against Women. People often ask me why I love, respect and admire women so, and why am I so interested in stopping violence against them. Frankly, I am amazed and ...
Views: 824(1 vote) - Planting Seeds and Creating Connection - by Submitted on Aug 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThis past week had me contemplating what it means to be of use. Listening to one NPR Morning Edition program, I began to tally all the problems on the Obama administration's plate: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Supreme Court Justice nomination, lack of US cyber security, the economy, the ...
Views: 883(4 votes) - Prayer, Gratitude & Acting as If - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn his book, Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer, Gregg Braden shares one of my favorite stories about accompanying a tribal shaman on a rain dance. He expected a big production of music, costumes and dance. However, he was quite surprised by what he saw. The Shaman walked alone to an area ...
Views: 915(2 votes) - Predicting The Future: Possible or Impossible? - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLike most things in life, the answer lives on a fine line, somewhere in between “possible” an “impossible.” Yes, there are premonitions that all of us have that come true. Yes, there are revelations people have had about the future, that have come true. But this does not mean that everything ...
Views: 610(1 vote) - Pregnancy Decisions - by Submitted on Aug 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: Seven years ago I met my current husband, I was a single mother with a daughter of 16 years old. When we were dating I did tell him that I don't want any more children, and he agreed to it even though he didn't have any kids. After we got married he changed his mind and said he ...
Views: 588(1 vote) - Preparing for Change - Emotional Stimulus Package Part IV - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsFactually speaking, we’re in the last days of winter. The spring equinox officially begins in the western hemisphere at 4:44 AM PDT Mar 20. However, when I listen to people in my private practice and community, I sense that spring is going to be delayed this year so I am continuing in this blog ...
Views: 739(1 vote) - President Obama Encourages Summer Of Service - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOriginally published on Huffington Post. This Summer, President Obama is calling on all Americans to volunteer in local community service projects across the country. This new community service initiative called "United we Serve," officially kicks off June 22nd and ends on September 11th, the ...
Views: 702(2 votes) - President Obama, Persistence, and Hope - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsPresident Obama said last night that he’s a “big believer in persistence.” Are you? I am. For good or not, tenacity, perseverance, and sometimes just plain stubbornness mark my character. Kenny Rogers sang, “You gotta know when to hold em’, know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away, know ...
Views: 771(1 vote) - Prevent Disease with Phytonutrient Power - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMost people know that we need adequate amounts of oxygen, water, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids, and good carbs for great health. What they don’t realize is that a group of micronutrients, also called phytonutrients, can help prevent disease and restore health and vitality. ...
Views: 910(3 votes) - Protecting Your Flow: How Fear Blocks Creativity - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsTo understand how fear blocks creativity, take a moment to imagine yourself telling a story. First, imagine telling the story to someone you love and who loves you. You probably feel warmth and energy as you fill in the details of your tale to your friend’s delight. Now, imagine telling the same ...
Views: 927(1 vote) - Psychics and Lost Pets - Some Thoughts - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMy friend Patty and I were talking this morning about the difficult issue of locating lost pets. Patty is a pet psychic (www.pattypetpsychic.net) and gets the desperate inquiries that come about this. I know I hate to do lost animals and so resist it. She has a different set of reasons for ...
Views: 928(1 vote) - Purposefully Lining Up With Happiness in Your Space! - by Submitted on Sep 08, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOur focus this week is How to be Happy! I know many of our family members at Intent are already happy and fruitful. For those who do have happiness challenges, I hope this information is helpful. Ever wondered why unhappiness creeps into your space? I use to wonder how some things manifested ...
Views: 640(1 vote) - Quiet Please! Taming Monkey Mind in Meditation - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt’s been called the monkey mind – the endless chattering in your head as you jump in your mind from thought to thought while you daydream, analyze your relationships, or worry over the future. Eventually, you start to feel like your thoughts are spinning in circles and you’re left totally ...
Views: 1151(1 vote) - Quieting a Chaotic Mind - by Submitted on May 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsRecently, I received the following pointed inquiry from a pal: I need some advice on how to relax a mind that over-thinks. Hmmm. Let's see . . . Have you thought about illegal substances? How about gratuitous sex with strangers? Perhaps you might try copious amounts of good, old-fashioned ...
Views: 3688(1 vote) - Quote: A description of my day :) - by Submitted on Sep 08, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHello Everyone, I'd like to share one of my favorite quotes with you. It just seems to fit today! “Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy” –Albert Einstein What quote describes the day you're ...
Views: 855(2 votes) - Raise The Energy in Your Home and Give Yourself a Boost! - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsReplacing negative or disturbed energy with positive, life-force energy is an important aspect of creating a harmonious environment. The Chinese call this energy chi, the Japanese Ki, the East Indians prana, and some Native American Indians mana. In virtually all cultures throughout history, the ...
Views: 781(1 vote) - Raise the Energy in Your Home with Smudging - by Submitted on Aug 12, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSmudging has traditionally been performed by Native Americans and is the ritual burning of herbs to create smoke to clear and purify a person or space. Ceremonies may begin and end with the burning of these sacred herbs. Herbs such as sage, sweetgrass and cedar are generally used. Try to ...
Views: 3376(1 vote) - Raw Foods Boost Energy, Speed Weight Loss and Fight Disease - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA raw foods craze has hit the nation! More and more people are recognizing the power of raw foods to boost energy, speed weight loss, and fight disease. What makes raw foods so great? Enzymes! Enzymes are a special type of protein that is necessary for every chemical reaction in your ...
Views: 571(1 vote) - Realistic Optimism and the Future of Our Planet with Rex Weyler: An Exclusive Interview - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2009 from Intent.com Authors"War is one of the biggest ecological disasters on the planet," Intent Voice Rex Weyler tells me. In our conversation, he describes to me how before "ecology" and "environment" were household terms that ordinary people cared about, radioactive material was appearing in the bone marrow of ...
Views: 768(1 vote) - Reject Disposable Cleaning Products and Save - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAs I walk down the cleaning isle of my supermarket, I'm overwhelmed by the domination of single-use, disposable products that have been created, presumably, to make our lives more convenient and sanitary. Disposable dusting, mopping and disinfecting sheets get premium placement on the cleanng ...
Views: 918(1 vote) - Renewing Yourself for Spring - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThough it may be a little hard to tell if you are living in Southern California like me, spring is definitely in the air. Longer days, kids spring break approaching, and more spring outfits (despite a cold spell!) are all signs of change. While there are many poetic notions of spring and ...
Views: 780(1 vote) - Research Reveals New Flower Power - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSpring brings Vitamin D energy and green growth into our lives. There is an easy, natural self-confidence about hidden potential percolating beneath the earth’s surface. When buds and bulbs emerge, there is no consciousness of the past, only fresh beginnings with a clean slate. One of the most ...
Views: 832(1 vote) - Resilience: Beating the Swine Flu - by Submitted on May 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsBad things happen all the time and bad viruses and toxins exist everywhere. Your body is made up of trillions of cells. There even exist some bad cells in there. The reason these bad cells don’t take over is because your good cells are strong and capable. The same goes for the ability of ...
Views: 543(1 vote) - Resolutions Revisited - by Submitted on Aug 12, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn 2009 I resolve to stop yelling at my kids. That is precisely the New Year’s pledge that Marion Budnick broke the first week of the new year. It wasn’t that she didn’t have positive intentions. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to end the yelling. It wasn’t even that she wasn’t sincere ...
Views: 593(1 vote) - Restoring Hope When All Hope is Lost - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt's a hard thing to observe in a person: the loss of hope when her doctor has informed her she has an "incurable" disease; yet on a surprisingly regular basis I see someone who has cured the incurable, who has held fast to hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Perhaps it's ...
Views: 1343(1 vote) - Right Brain Thinking is the Hottest New Fad! Fun Ways to Enhance Your Intuition - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI'm a professional psychic. And a professional academic. Sounds like right brain/left brain confusion at its finest, no? It has not been confusing though it currently requires me to switch between the two different ways of processing, depending upon the subject. I have enjoyed the best that both ...
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