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- A trip around the world to be inspired by women of peace - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA trip around the world to be inspired by women of peace This article by Hadeel al Shalchi appeared in The National. Guatemala is very far away if you live in Egypt. So far, that one probably would never think of traveling there - until, perhaps, one is invited to a conference as I ...
Views: 855 - Clear Skin At Any Age - by Submitted on Sep 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHigh school is a memory. You have a career, or you're raising a family. Bad skin, you assume, is a thing of the past. But just when you think that you're out of the woods, acne hits you right in the face. Dermatologists regularly hear the lament, "Acne, at my age?!", expressed by women who ...
Views: 855(3 votes) - Crazy Giving - by Submitted on May 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: I've always wanted to live a life based around helping others and developing the world around me. For some reason unknown to me ; and I'm not trying to blow my own trumpet here - I innately can't resist helping people. When my friends ask me for favours I jump at the chance. When ...
Views: 855 - Create Recess in Your Life - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDuring a workshop I was faced with someone throwing the gauntlet: “Okay sunshine girl what cheery bit of advice do you have about the recession?” I replied, “You know what they say what doesn’t kill you can make you stronger!” Here is the gist of the rest of the session: The recession can help ...
Views: 855(2 votes) - Focus - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2009 from Intent.com Authors“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.” ~ Brian Tracy I tend to pay attention when things show up in patterns or repeating themes. Last Friday, my friend, social media marketing maven, George Kao made a comment on one of my posts by ...
Views: 855(1 vote) - Inner Peace Activist: What's Your Cause? - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDo you read the ezine Greater Good? The issue that arrived in my inbox last week had two titles that intrigued me: “Why is there Peace?” and “You talkin’ to me?” Of course, I eagerly clicked on things till the first article came up. My reading slowed as I understood the topic. Same for the ...
Views: 855 - 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) - 9 Green Date Ideas - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDating today is a lot different, from an eco-friendly perspective, than it was 25 years ago when I first met my wife. In 1984 we would hit the McDonald’s on the way to the beach and order bags of fast food placed in Styrofoam containers. After we had our fill of the sun, we would jump ...
Views: 854 - How Do You Express Your Self-Worth? - by Submitted on Aug 12, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHow do you express your self-worth? Are you going after your passions? Are you achieving your goals? How would you make your life better? These are some of the questions I have been pondering during the past couple of years as I wrote my latest book. I gathered insightful comments from women ...
Views: 854(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) - Talking to Your Own Guides, Your Angels, Your Coaching Staff - by Submitted on Sep 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSome people call them angels; some call them your guides. I call them your committee. Who are they? They are individual personality energies, some you have met in this life and some you have not, that comprise your personal coaching team and cheerleader squad. You cannot be a physical human ...
Views: 854(5 votes) - A Life Of Service: For Love, Money or Both? - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe recession may not only be changing household budgets and habits, but also challenging longstanding gender roles. The New York Times reported that 82 percent of the job losses in the recent months have befallen men. For many households this means that women who once were full-time ...
Views: 853(2 votes) - The Wisdom of Sharing - Stone Soup - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThere are many variations on the story of stone soup, but they all involve a traveler coming into a town beset by famine. The inhabitants try to discourage the traveler from staying, fearing he wants them to give him food. They tell him in no uncertain terms that there’s no food anywhere to be ...
Views: 853(4 votes) - "I'm so glad we have a smoker in the White House!" Oh, really??? - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2009 from Intent.com Authors“I’m so glad we’ll have a smoker in the White House!” That’s what a nurse exclaimed in my presence at a dinner party last December, a month before President Obama’s inauguration. I kid you not. A nurse. And obviously a cigarette addict. It’s a good thing I hadn’t had a glass of wine, or ...
Views: 852 - Hope is Gardening in the Rain - by Submitted on Jul 23, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI just Googled, “We make plans, God laughs,” because it’s one of my friend Sheila’s most beloved sayings and I was curious about its origin. The other night we were discussing expressions that keep our hope and faith alive during torrential storms, and I shared one of my favorites, “Maximum ...
Views: 852(1 vote) - How to Create Your Best Ever Home Workout - by Submitted on Jul 23, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhether it is a newborn baby or a 24/7-hour work day/work week schedule, sometimes making it to the gym is out of the question. The idea of working out in your living room sounds ideal. No commute, no waiting for machines, no fighting for blow dryers in the locker room, and you can be in the ...
Views: 852 - Introducing the Importance of Self -Worth - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhat is your personal currency? What do you feel you have to offer to the world at large, and is that offering given the value, validity and respect it deserves? Are you happy to be a girl? When you judge yourself as we all do, how do you measure up? Are you an equally treasured part of society? ...
Views: 852 - Lessons from the Drive-Thru Window - The Power of Asking - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI have an admission to make. I just polished off every molecule of a McDonalds Big N Tasty Meal. (That’s a #6 for you Mickey D’s wanna be’s.) Ahh, I loved each bite of burger and salty, soggy fry. Every mouthful was so refreshing after months of my “mostly veggies” regime. As I sat in my car ...
Views: 852(1 vote) - Sexuality and Spirituality...Is There a Difference? - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMy daughter asked me to help her to explain the birds and the bee's to an 18 year old who lost her mother at a young age, and who had a father who was unable to broach the subject with her. This comes at a time that I am studying the Kabbalah in an online course. The technical side of Kabbalah ...
Views: 852(1 vote) - Thomas Jefferson’s B-day - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2009 from Intent.com Authors“Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.” ~Buddha Archaeologist, architect, author, horticulturist, inventor, paleontologist, and statesman – the one-man Renaissance that was Thomas Jefferson was born into a well-healed family in 1743 in Albemarle County, ...
Views: 851 - Got Acid Reflux? Is your medication breaking your bones? - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsBy Ashley Koff RD and Gerard E. Mullin MD http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/2009/05/29/got-heartburn-a-caution-about-your-proton-pump-inhibitor.html This article raised concerns among patients about a link between proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), a common treatment for acid reflux ...
Views: 850 - HELP! I've Been Working Out, Eating Right and STILL Can't Lose Weight: A Do-Now, 4-Step Guide to Kick Starting Summer - by Submitted on Aug 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsFew things in this life are as frustrating as working hard to look better, firm up or slim down and, after a few weeks -- or a few months -- of eating right and exercising STILL having nothing to show for it! But take heart; often it's just the few, simple things we do to "kick start" our ...
Views: 850(2 votes) - Turn Stress Into Strength - by Submitted on Feb 20, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe economy is in a downward spiral. Perhaps, someone you know is laid off from work or maybe it’s you. Your home might be filled with clutter, possessions you don’t use or even know you have, and the bills are piling up on your desk. It’s time for some plastic surgery – cutting a few credit ...
Views: 849 - Can Partying Transform the World? - by Submitted on Sep 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe following is too delicious to resist. In Rapid Evolution, I wrote about the importance of finding your community. This takes community one step further. So, with credit to NYC’s Neal Goldsmith, I am posting his email with very little editing: Intentional-but-temporary communities, such as ...
Views: 848(1 vote) - 3 Mistakes Nutrition Counselors Make When Building Their Practice And How To Avoid Them - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSo I’m a Holistic Nutritionist. When I graduated from school, I came out a-blazin’, ready to create a rockin’ six-figure practice. Little did I know that there was soooo much more to running a successful nutrition practice than I ever imagined…pretty soon after graduating, I was working my butt ...
Views: 847(1 vote) - Integrating Our Many Selves - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHuman beings are multidimensional creatures. Our identity is made up of the sum total of our many traits and values and our character. Each of us possesses within us many different selves. There is the adult part of ourselves and the childlike spirit that resides in each one of us. There is our ...
Views: 847 - Why Intuition Is More Than Just Psychobabble - by Submitted on Aug 19, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI'm embarrassed to say I read Louise Hay's "You can heal your life" at times when I have a stiff neck, lower back pain, or sinus flare-up. Her book is full of body to emotion relationships with positive affirmations offered as a means to counter what she considers the underlying cause of many ...
Views: 847(2 votes) - Morning Motivation: Bernie Siegel and Healing - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsRetired surgeon Dr. Bernie Siegel was one of my idols when I was studying the mind-body connection as an undergraduate at UMASS. For decades, he has focused on treating cancer patients as full human beings, helping them to heal mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, as well as physically. ...
Views: 846(1 vote) - Waves of Healing: Ocean Meditation - by Submitted on Sep 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLike us, the sea is ever-changing. And, like us, the earth’s vast oceans appear at a distance to be stable and homogenous. But beneath the mask of solidity that both we and the sea wear, there lies unpredictability, sensitivity, and power. There is much we can learn from the ocean, ...
Views: 846(2 votes) - Going Platinum - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLast night I caught a couple minutes of a show I’ve never seen on a channel I don’t remember - a sort of musical biography of Kid Rock. My first memory of this guy was how hard he made my best friend Greg laugh to the words of I Got One For Ya. Very irreverent (both of them). Although I ...
Views: 845 - Heart Meditation: Afraid of Opening Your Heart - by Submitted on Aug 12, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt is not easy to have an open heart in a world that offers us a full plate of experiences. This life gives us much joy, love, and light, but it also shows us a fair amount of pain, sadness, and suffering. When our hearts are open, we take everything into ourselves, and we are deeply affected by ...
Views: 845(1 vote) - The Doctors' Prescription: Oz, Weil, Ornish, and Hyman Talk Turkey to Senatorial Leaders - by Submitted on Jul 23, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsNot every health problem is an emergency. Unless you wait around and do nothing until it becomes one. And that's what we've done ---as individuals and as a nation, now in the throes of a health care system in crisis with ballooning waistlines and ballooning costs. Supplying coverage to the 47 ...
Views: 845 - Walking the Walk: Giving and Living with Integrity and Compassion - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsEvery morning I wake up bright and early and read the news. This has long been my routine - my quiet time, when the house is still, and the sun is spreading liquid gold all over the world around me. I have grown used to sitting in a favorite chair, sipping cappuccino, and learning what ...
Views: 845(2 votes) - Why To Do Lists Don't Work - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLast week, we looked at Stress Free Ways To Get More Done. Evidently, that idea resonated with quite a few people. Part of the problem has to do with having multiple, competing priorities that all seem to be screaming at you for attention. In February, I offered a few thoughts about how to ...
Views: 845 - About Boys, and the Mothers Who Love Them - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAs a single mother raising two boys, there is still much about parenting that is a mystery to me. My father calls my children, “The Destroyers.” Observed from a certain perspective, he would be correct. But maybe not. Raising sons – or at least, raising my sons – has given me a new ...
Views: 844(1 vote) - Eco-Beauty - by Submitted on May 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsEco-beauty…it conjures up images of ecologically-friendly beauty products, doesn’t it? Well, valuable as those may be, I have something else in mind. Specifically, what is your beauty ecology? This means how do you look at yourself versus how do you look at the world around you. Sometimes ...
Views: 844(1 vote) - Health Coaches for America - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt is no surprise that Americans need to change their health habits. Even though there has been an increase in sales in organic foods and natural food stores have received more business, there are still millions of Americans who consume large amounts of chemicalized, artificial junk foods. ...
Views: 844(2 votes) - Paying Attention to Yourself and Your Environment Can Help Your Sleep! - by Submitted on Aug 19, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsPutting attention on ourselves and our environment can help to resolve some of our personal challenges, especially sleep issues. Here are some tips and questions for you to place your attention on so you can get a good night sleep! 1. Are you waking up periodically during the night to adjust ...
Views: 844(2 votes) - Have You Used These 5 Powerful Phrases with Your Child Today? - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMy son was recently complaining, “Mom, you think you know everything.” As it happens, I do. Still, he got me thinking. In our zeal to establish authority, provide guidance and just plain survive parenthood, do we sometimes go a bit overboard? While we might (think we) know the right ...
Views: 843(2 votes) - Spring Cleaning is Healthy! - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIf you are like most of us, we all have that one area in our house that is cluttered. That place that is full of unsorted papers, old mismatched socks, abandoned furniture stored in the basement and all of those "just in case" items that clog up our closets, drawers, basements and garages. Did ...
Views: 843 - Are You Paying Twice for Bottled Tap Water? - by Submitted on May 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn the United States, we pay for our tap water (either through a direct bill or taxes), and then we pay again when we buy bottled water - forty percent of which comes from municipal sources, which means it's still essentially tap water. Why are we paying for it twice? We pay more for water than ...
Views: 842 - Overwhelmed with where to begin spiritually - by Submitted on Jul 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: I am so overwhelmed with spiritual growing. I have no formal religious background. Where do I start? I believe in a spiritual entity. And that we are all connected. I believe there was a man named Jesus that walked the face of the earth and was given information from god. I do not ...
Views: 842(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) - 9 Happy Weight Loss Tips from the Patron Saint of Permanent Fat Removal - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOur Lady of Weight Loss, the patron saint of permanent fat removal (she who guides me) takes a light approach to weight loss. It is her mission to make weight loss fun. She asked me to share the following with you. Tips that will up your energy, keep you focused and help you to happily melt the ...
Views: 839(1 vote) - Happy Surprises: Unclaimed Money Means You Might Be Rich - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe Dateline NBC show “You Might Be Rich” helps people find money they didn’t know they had, and you too can quickly search state databases to see if any of your money is lying unclaimed in a government coffer somewhere. How much unclaimed money are we talking about? Billions of dollars! To find ...
Views: 839 - Relationship Advice for Singles: Jerk Magnet Seeks Nice Guy! - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: Why have I been such a JERK magnet? How is it that such a warm, friendly, loving, giving woman has such a hard time finding a good man? I've been through my share of good and bad times. We all have. And according to my closest friends, mine haven't turned me into a bitch. I just ...
Views: 838(2 votes) - Enjoy Today Regardless, it’s Your Choice - by Submitted on Jul 16, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIf you knew you had one day left before going to prison for the rest of your life, what would you do on that last day of freedom? Perhaps those are the things we all should be doing right now. Things that really nurture us. Things that put us in touch with our Spirit. Whether we're ...
Views: 837(3 votes) - 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) - What You Should Know as a Meditation Beginner - by Submitted on Oct 01, 2009 from Intent.com Authors- Full lotus posture: This is the most difficult position to master. It involves sitting cross legged on the cushion with your right foot on your left thigh and your left foot on your right thigh. - Half lotus posture: In this position, you have one foot on the opposite thigh and ...
Views: 837(2 votes) - May Day! May Day! A Survival Guide for Your Spring Schedule - by Submitted on May 19, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMay Day traditionally marks the first day of May – a month celebrating the birth of spring, and events surrounding new beginnings; Mothers Day, first communion, and graduation. The whirlwind of events that accompany gift buying, parties, concerts, planning and buzzing through your “to do” list ...
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