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- Good Loving for Healthy Living - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDid you know that love not only gives meaning to your life, it brings health benefits? Human touch, long recognized as a powerful technique, increases the production of endorphins, growth hormone, and DHEA, all of which lengthen your life span and lower the negative impact of stress. Studies ...
Views: 667(1 vote) - Swaying During Meditation - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: I have been wanting to ask this for a long time but didn't want to bother you until had exhausted other sources. Anyhow, for the past year and half have been experiencing something that I haven't been able to find an explanation for. When sitting in meditation (i was doing ...
Views: 6814(1 vote) - Octuplets: An Infertility Doctor's Perspective on the Impact for Fertility Patients - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOne must consider the media frenzy that surrounded the Octuplet case as the previous day, there was tragedy at Kaiser Permanente, the medical system that provided the care for the Octuplets. A working family was fired under circumstances that led to a murder/suicide of this entire family with ...
Views: 750 - Mindfully Exercise Right Through Stress - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsNo matter what the challenges are that you are facing in your life, regular exercise moves you through stressful times with greater clarity, increased energy and a more positive outlook. And to benefit even more from exercise - get mindful. Exercise can be a form of meditation. And if you ...
Views: 514 - Love is the Ultimate Superfood - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHave you ever thought of love as an essential nutrient in your life? That's right. It takes more than just food to keep us healthy. I call all the parts of life that feed us, primary food. Relationships, spirituality, career and physical activity all fall into that category. Think about it. ...
Views: 630(2 votes) - Sweetening A Sour Apple: When A Bad Apple Spoils the Bunch - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsBecause life requires that we interact with different personalities, it is not uncommon for us to encounter a situation where there is one person whose behavior may negatively impact the experiences of others. Someone who is loud and crass can interrupt the serenity of those who come together to ...
Views: 670 - Green Your Home Tips - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSeemingly innocuous objects—from toys, to plastic containers, to cookware—in your home or workplace may be hazardous to your health. For example, plastics used in common household objects can disrupt the sexual development of baby boys. The culprits are chemicals called phthalates, found in ...
Views: 580 - Woman Up: Recognize The Beauty In You - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsEditors note: The Woman Up series is written by my wife Pam. Enjoy! Most of us recognize beauty when we see it. God created a universe full of beauty for our eyes to behold – oceans, mountains, flowers, skies,…human bodies. Some people were just blessed with fabulous figures. I see some of ...
Views: 820(2 votes) - How to Avoid Family Drama - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsEven therapists have issues. We are raised in families who have issues just like everyone else. We are at the mercy of those family patterns unless we turn around and face them, just like everyone else. Personally, I come from a family with a lot of drama queens. So one of my challenges has ...
Views: 5241(2 votes) - The Sunset Diet - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI don't own a scale. I never have. I have been lucky in life in that I haven't had to deal with weight issues, until recently. Last year, due to stress and anxiety, I began to lose weight without trying and people close to me grew worried that I was becoming anorexic or bulemic. I laughed at ...
Views: 978 - Enzyme Shows Promise in Preventing Breast Cancer - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAccording to new research published in Nature Cell Biology, scientists in Japan have identified an enzyme that appears to suppress breast cancer. They indicate that the enzyme CHIP, as they called it, can stunt cancer growth by degrading a number of cancer-causing proteins. The enzyme occurs ...
Views: 573 - Teen Spirituality - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: I have a question about how to introduce spirituality to teens. I was a single teenage mom and now I have a teen age boy 17 and girl 15. My son is very charismatic and very "what can I get out of the world", my daughter is very compassionate, old soul and "what can I give to the ...
Views: 1777 - The Art of Extreme Self-Care - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMany of us probably agree with the adage that before you take care of others, you must take care of yourself. But why do so many of us endanger our health to work overtime at our jobs, or choose to silently seethe in anger instead of confronting the people who hurt us? If you are like most ...
Views: 599 - More Than Good Enough - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThere’s an old adage that states that a mother is only as happy as her least happy child. I can attest to that. I have felt every scrape of the knee, disappointment, illness, and heartache my children have endured, and if one of them is sad, hurt or unhappy, at some level, so am I. Parenthood ...
Views: 511(1 vote) - How to Ease Conflict - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA monk asked Shigui, "What is the first principle?" Shigui said, "What you just asked is the second principle." -- from Zen’s Chinese Heritage A few weeks ago, I was trying to pass along some information to a friend that I hoped would help resolve a conflict with which she was ...
Views: 1063(1 vote) - Counting Experiential Calories - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsPut aside this annoying business of counting nutritional calories for a moment and ask yourself: what else am I getting out of this eating moment? How is my Mind being enriched? A Nutritional Calorie is a unit of energy. The job of a Nutritional Calorie is to fuel your Body. An Experiential ...
Views: 581(2 votes) - How to Prevent and Heal Heart Disease & Other Diseases (and Boost Your Mood!) - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsEven the best of us can sometimes feel too overwhelmed, too tired, or too tempted to do the things that put our health first.: Eat smart. Don’t drink. Avoid sugar. Exercise. Laugh. Wait a minute. Laugh? Hey, since when is laughter work? It’s not, but we forget that it’s essential to good ...
Views: 733(1 vote) - Let Nature Guide You - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLiving in the Dominican Republic, I have learned to get used to all of the the little visitors that often come in the night. I try to avoid thinking about them but I regularly see evidence of their visits the morning after and regularly, I cringe. I am a little (okay a lot) addicted to the ...
Views: 593(1 vote) - Learning From the Big Picture: Cycle of Life - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAs we walk through the world, the people we encounter appear so different from one another. We see babies, old men, pregnant women, and teenaged boys. We know couples on the verge of marriage and lonely widows. We interact with toddlers and the terminally ill. As different as each person seems, ...
Views: 591(1 vote) - No One’s Perfect (not even you! :) - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThere are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, ...
Views: 717 - How Women Undermine Themselves and Their Girls - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMy daughter believes in the Tooth Fairy. At 45, I believe in The Cornstarch Fairy, who visits me once a week and adds a teaspoon of her thickening agent to my body while I’m sleeping. I’ll come back to the pertinence of these age appropriate fantasies in a minute. As a psychoanalyst who works ...
Views: 819(1 vote) - Tai Chi for the New Year - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThis morning I got a phone call from a student to reschedule his private tai chi lesson. He’s done a lot of that lately, and when I said so he replied that it was a bit hard for him to afford the lessons just now. This particular student is well employed and earning strongly, in fact just the ...
Views: 505(1 vote) - Look Into the (Energy Efficient) Light - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsPeople give you this whole rap about how easy saving the planet is. Change a light bulb and save the world. Yes and no. How about we consider it a start rather than an end destination? Lighting accounts for about 20% of our electric bill. Traditional bulbs burn heat rather than light, so are ...
Views: 595(1 vote) - Tales from the Bumpy Road to Consciousness - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsFrom the Ridiculous to the Sublime and Back Again Warning: The following article contains descriptions of specific bodily functions that may be too explicit for some readers. Or maybe not. I am trying to grow, really I am. Each day, new learning opportunities present themselves. It ...
Views: 797(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 ...
Views: 1050(1 vote) - Looking for Life Purpose - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: I am newly starting my spiritual journey and I have to say it has been quite a ride! As I read books and search the net for food to appease my spiritual appetite, I have suddenly become over whelmed with which steps to take rather than jumping all over the place. Right now I’m ...
Views: 631(1 vote) - God Psychology - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsBrooks Greene-Barton once told me that the original purpose of psychology was to describe Human’s relationship to God. At the beginning psychology was organized to answer the question of who we are, what is the human existence about, what does it mean to be a human being. Over some hundreds ...
Views: 496(1 vote) - Gifts of Cancer: Hope, Healing, and Renewal - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA heaviness in my chest…a wheezing when I breathe in deeply…a heart that seems to bounce around in a space left empty by the removal of part of a lung… Were those imagined sounds, feelings, and images I experienced during the last few days while worrying about my imminent CT scan? Were they ...
Views: 628 - Life’s Scales: Balance - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLike pieces of a puzzle, the many different aspects of your being come together to form the person that you are. You work and play, rest and expend energy, commune with your body and soul, exalt in joy, and feel sorrow. Balance is the state that you achieve when all of the aspects of your life ...
Views: 572 - The Lazy Marriage’s Budget - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI married a CPA. At the risk of offending the CPA society, your brains are just wired differently than the rest of us. That is definitely the case with my wife. I consider myself to be fairly good with numbers, and I did well in Math back in school, but I’m not in the league of the CPA. ...
Views: 655(1 vote) - The Numbers Tell the Story - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOver 1.5 million angioplasties and coronary bypass surgeries are done annually in the U.S., which makes heart surgery among the most commonly performed surgical procedures for men and women. This would be fine if these procedures worked. Although heart surgery can be lifesaving, truth is that ...
Views: 750(1 vote) - The Right Place: The Four Phases of Networking - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt can be so important to be in the right place at the right time. Networking can happen anywhere. It happens in four phases: Mingling, Mating, Meeting, and Matching. Let's explore each phase together! Phase 1: Mingling ---> Phase 2: Mating ---> Phase 3: Meeting ---> Phase 4: Matching ...
Views: 732(3 votes) - That Special Love Relationship - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAre you looking for love? Do you think that the universe has forgotten about you? Maybe that special someone just doesn’t exist. Don’t give up. You are both destined to meet when the time is right. I believe this to be true. Here is my story. He walked into the room when I was teaching a ...
Views: 598(1 vote) - Green Tips for Your Home - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWith few exceptions—one being particle-board furniture—if your existing eco-unfriendly floors, walls and furniture are in good condition, do not be concerned about replacing them; simply keep them clean. For example, if the paint on your walls contained VOC’s, any damage from outgassing would ...
Views: 605 - "We All Speak Arabic" Memorial — Cultural Healing for Iraq - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAs of this writing, it looks like the war in Iraq is winding down. So as we prepare to leave, I feel strongly that for all we have destroyed, and for all we have tried to build back up in the way of security and infrastructure, we also need to try to reconstruct some cultural interiors in ...
Views: 935 - The Dalai Lama Is Not Following Me - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI've had an ongoing fascination with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama since college. I've studied his life, read his books, and watched Kundun, the breathtaking Martin Scorsese flick about the man whom many consider to be the living reincarnation of Buddha, countless times. I've quizzed my ...
Views: 879(1 vote) - Know Thyself - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com Authors“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.” - Lao Tzu I love this quote! Lao Tzu (Chinese Taoist Philosopher and author of the Tao Te Ching) recognized that self-awareness is a key to success. Unfortunately, our culture does not often support or encourage self-awareness. ...
Views: 729 - How My Soul Found Its Mate - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI can’t remember the exact age that the visions started, but even as a little girl, I regularly saw visions of a single, dark-colored wolf. Figuring that people would think me crazy and haul me away in a straight jacket, I kept this secret entirely to myself for close to two decades. In my ...
Views: 604(2 votes) - Loving Voices - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: A couple of years ago (11.07) after an accident I started hearing voices they were pure loving voices. Teaching me about life, death the soul, the universe and its power. I have pages and pages of things written (the voices told me to record) I started journalizing. I was ...
Views: 557 - Can Color Improve Your Performance? - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDid you know that color has a quick and powerful impact on the choices you make every day? According to six different research studies in the Journal of Science the color red makes you more detail-oriented while the color blue inspires you to be more creative. Color therapy is used in ...
Views: 612(1 vote) - Have a Heart - Everyday - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA woman approached me recently with the idea of purchasing hearts for an entire school that helps support her autistic son. I was so taken by the gesture, first of all, and geared up to get those hearts to them by Valentine's Day. She politely told me that it did NOT need to happen by ...
Views: 505 - Own the Power of Your Self-Love! - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThere is nothing more beautiful and powerful than a woman who truly loves herself. Most people would totally agree that this is true, and most of us can think of a woman like this, and nod our heads and say “Yes, she is both beautiful and powerful.” So if self-love gives you true beauty and ...
Views: 514 - Find Your Personal Year Number for 2009 Using Numerology - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe beginning of the year finds many of us looking at the changing numbers that denote the passing of calendar and clock time in our lives. We count down the days until the holiday season. We watch one calendar close and a new one open on the tick of midnight on the last day of the year. As ...
Views: 2590(5 votes) - Growing by Connecting - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: I have taken quite a few Chopra Center retreats in the past year, I am wondering if it is necessary to stay in touch with like-minded others in order to stay in touch with the consciousness that we share? Is a higher state of consciousness something that we need to spend effort in ...
Views: 456 - Staying Grounded in a Big City or Busy World - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com Authors1. Live simply and live deliberately. By choosing not to get caught up in the details of this fast-paced world, you are doing your part to slow down the . You will also discover that you have more time to enjoy being alive. 2. Stay in touch with yourself. Soul searching, meditation, and ...
Views: 510 - Living Your Own Dharma - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsPublished in the International Black Belt Academy Newsletter Dharma, as believed in Hinduism and Buddhism, is a belief—a way of living or ethical system—largely found within oneself through contemplation, rather than in the external world. There are times in our lives when we realize we ...
Views: 574 - Relationship Lessons from Gorillas - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMy daughter recently returned from a two week trip to Rwanda and Uganda. She attended a wedding of friends who celebrated in the tradition of their countries. While in Africa, she visited the natural habitats of the native gorillas on a guided tour through mountains and deep forests. The family ...
Views: 614 - How to Buy Furniture the Green Way - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsPrior to the Industrial Revolution, replacing furniture to keep up with trends, or because one was bored with some item, was unthinkable. Since the rise of the Industrial Revolution, however, Americans have been coached to regularly replace old items with new. Advertisements lure us with ...
Views: 731 - Recipe: Love Burgers - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOne of our top 50 recipes from The Most Remarkable Vegan Recipe Contest, 12 Burgers 75 minutes prep 3 cups Raw Pumpkin Seeds (soaked dehydrated & ground) 5 lbs of Carrots juiced (pulp for burgers reserve juice) 1 cup Celery chopped fine 1/3 cup Red Bell chopped fine 1/3 cup Fresh ...
Views: 1071 - Soul On Fire - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsCNN recently ran a story about the devastating wildfires raging across southern Australia, a natural disaster that may have involved climate change, normal weather patterns, and even arson. 200 people have died so far and the loss of homes and property is stunning. The story included an ...
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