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- 10 Possible Answers to the Question “Why is God Laughing?” - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2009 from Intent.com Authors(Author’s note: for a more legitimate, useful answer to this question, please read “Why is God Laughing if there is So Much Suffering?” by Deepak Chopra and order the book on Amazon here) Just read the “25 things” Facebook meme from the ghost of Oscar Wilde Wasn't paying attention; turned ...
Views: 651 - Make the Food-Mood Connection - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMac and cheese. Chocolate chip cookies. A bite of Ben and Jerry’s. Some call it “comfort food”; others say it’s “food as friend.” However you phrase it, turning to food to soothe the soul has been a short-term defense for coping with unwelcome feelings for decades. And now science is verifying ...
Views: 676 - 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) - The Secrets of the Super Goji Berry - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHave you had your goji berries today? Personally, I love adding 1-2 tablespoons of dried goji berries to power up my morning smoothies. Natively grown in central China, this reddish-orange fruit commonly referred to as the goji berry is actually the wolfberry, Lycium barbarum. Packed with ...
Views: 594(1 vote) - Calcium -- The Best Ways to Get it in Your Diet - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsCalcium is a tricky beast: -- If you get over 250% of your recommended daily allowance, your body can OD on it. -- If you don't get enough, your bones, teeth and muscles will suffer. -- You can only absorb up to 60% of your recommended daily allowance at a time -- You need Vitamin D to ...
Views: 585(1 vote) - Consumerism vs. Materialism - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDespite the failing economy, or perhaps because of it, much is being made these days about the perils and pitfalls of our consumer society. We rue what we can’t have or what we’ve lost when things go sour; when everything’s rosy, it’s easy to ignore our bad habits. There is a bit of the flavor ...
Views: 2534(1 vote) - The Power of Positive Images - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsImages are all around us. We see them in the media, in nature, and in our own minds. The images in our “head” correlate to an emotion and can rule what we say, how we behave, and our thoughts. Some images connote the negative; others the positive. Each image plays a significant role in our ...
Views: 993(1 vote) - Spirituality is not About Being a Good Person - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe idea of being a “good person” is just another false sense of self that we can buy into. Being a good person is not the point of spirituality, interestingly enough. It is not the goal. It’s not about being some superloving and compassionate saint. It’s about realizing who you really are. With ...
Views: 1010(2 votes) - Where to Scout for Free Stuff - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAs we celebrate the first week of spring, many of us are taking time to renew our resolutions, relationships, appearance, routines and spirits. The idea of recycling (as in reusing) goods is the original cultural practice and dominate norm until roughly the last century when societal affluence ...
Views: 863(2 votes) - Let's call it the "C-word" again - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe word “cancer” makes most people shrink in terror and run for cover, and may crush even the most compassionate person’s impulse to provide comfort. Although more than half of us punched by the disease go on to live long lives, the fear - and stigma – remain, like fog shrouding a ...
Views: 550 - Wanting to be in love - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: My question is about love. I have been in a relationship for five years, he is my first boyfriend. It’s not been an easy relationship, my partner at times has been cold and ignored me. I've resisted him and been unhappy. I now realise I am scared at the thought of falling in love, I ...
Views: 742(1 vote) - How to Make an AFFIRMATION CONTAINER (and change your life)! - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAn affirmation is a form of auto-suggestion a.k.a. self-hypnosis, in which a statement is made about the future in the present tense, as if it had already happened in the past. Yes, that's right. Repeat, please ... An affirmation is a statement about the future, made in the present, as if it ...
Views: 640(2 votes) - Put the "BA" Back to Where It Belongs - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhether we sit alone or sit together, we sit in the ba. “Ba” is Japanese for a circumstance of a shared space: “what I feel now is not in me, but in the ba” (1). Life is movement. There is no movement without friction. This friction you feel when you sit (meditatively) alone is the feel of the ...
Views: 596 - Not Entirely Happy With Your Life? Well Answer This One Key Question - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMom. Dad. Your spouse. Clergy. An ex. Your big brother. Who is in your head? And do you allow them there? Carefully watch the choices you make. Carefully watch the actions that you take. Are you certain you are living your own life? If you feel anything less than very happy with ...
Views: 627(1 vote) - Don't be afraid to ask for what you need - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWe all have needs – physical, mental, spiritual, and social needs. It is important to be able to identify what your needs are in each of these areas so that you can effectively communicate your needs to others. You can’t expect others to know what you need – especially when you aren’t even ...
Views: 572(1 vote) - Quick Organizing Tips - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOrganized people save time: Being disorganized just wastes time, as you are constantly searching for stuff. If you do a good job at organizing a project, it stays organized, so maintenance is a breeze. Motivate yourself to stay organized by making it look pretty and ...
Views: 896 - Feel Lighter and More Full of Energy - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsBonnie Grubbauer, Culver City, California: “The bottom line is that I feel lighter and more full of energy…” I’d been happily vegetarian for two years and never missed meat. I was, however, a confirmed cheese lover. Or at least I thought so. On a trip to Central and South America I stopped ...
Views: 1007(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) - Lazy Altruism: 6 Super-Easy Ways to Do Good and Help Others - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsColor me cheesy, but President Obama’s call for action for more Americans volunteering their time inspired me to take volunteering more seriously. This is to me is hardly a matter of party loyalty, but simply a matter of principle: sitting back and riding on the coattails of other ordinary ...
Views: 732 - Live in the Moment with Alzheimer's: Tips for Caregivers - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsRecently I met an acquaintance, Maria, in the gym. She looked distracted and tense. Also, she had lost a few pounds, unintentionally. After the usual chit chat, I directly said, “There is something different about you. I can’t put my finger on it. Are you feeling well?” With that Maria said as ...
Views: 550 - A Great Teacher: Living Like Water - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe journey of water as it flows upon the earth can be a mirror of our own paths through life. Water begins its residence on earth as it falls from the sky or melts from ice and streams down a mountain into a tributary or stream. In the same way, we come into the world and begin our lives on ...
Views: 733(1 vote) - Colon Therapy: The Essentials on This Cleansing Therapy that Even Doctors are Recommending - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI have been a long been proponent of colon therapy (also called colonics and colon hydrotherapy). After all, it’s often said that health begins in your colon, and along with your healthy Body Ecology diet, colon cleansing is one of the best ways to keep your intestines (and the rest of your ...
Views: 642(1 vote) - Spring Into Shape - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHappy spring, om guys and gals! Tis the season of possibility and promise (and baseball!). Flowers bloom; the days are longer and brighter; winter hats and scarves go into hibernation, and people in the northeast come out of theirs. While training for the marathon and picking up snowboarding ...
Views: 633(1 vote) - Are you a Rogi, a Bogi or a Yogi? - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMany years ago, when Ed was training in India, his yoga master suddenly turned to him and asked, "Are you a rogi, a bogi or a yogi?" Ed was stunned and confused, what is he saying? Isn't yoga all about love and goodness and happiness? Aren't yogi's people who never say or do anything wrong? ...
Views: 1423(1 vote) - Don’t Work in a Goat’s Stomach - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhen I was working in the nine-to-five world, there was a gentleman down the hall whose office inevitably looked like it had been stirred up with a stick: a desk loaded with piles of paper, dirty cups, takeout containers, a magic 8 ball, and a keyboard that looked like you’d be better offer ...
Views: 875(1 vote) - Saturday Night Lights: Celebrating Earth Hour - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSure, it's only Tuesday. But, really, is it ever too early to start making weekend plans? This week, as you're thinking about what to do on Saturday night, remember that Earth Hour is observed on March 28 at 8:30 p.m. Taking part in this global event is easy: wherever you are at 8:30 -- ...
Views: 766 - How to Make Your Child Feel at Home in the Universe - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com Authors“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children: One of these is roots, the other, wings.” – Hodding Carter I worry sometimes that I am not giving my children strong roots. Somewhere deep inside, I have this image of a family living on the same street for ...
Views: 858(1 vote) - When The Shift Hits The Fan - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsShift Happens! Change, it turns out, is not a tidy process. Anyone who's ever been through a divorce or quit their job or perhaps more commonly now, lost their job, knows that endings are often very messy and starting over can be even more difficult. Or as Marilyn Ferguson, author of The ...
Views: 722(1 vote) - 20 Meditation Tips For Beginners - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAlthough a good number of people try meditation at some point in their lives, only a small percentage actually persist with it. This is unfortunate, as the benefits are enormous. One possible reason is that many beginners do not start with an appropriate mindset to make the practice ...
Views: 978(3 votes) - How to Lose Weight Doing Yoga by Enlightening Your Physical, Spiritual, and Mental Load - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYoga has long been known to increase flexibility and reduce stress while uniting your body, mind, and spirit. But does all that “OM”-ing and bending have a significant impact on weight loss? Losing weight is simple in theory, but much more challenging in practice. To lose weight, a person ...
Views: 1538(5 votes) - To Thine Own Self Be True - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAs life proceeds, so to do our intentions change. My wish for you is that your dreams and goals change in favour of your deepening access to your true self. I have set many goals and many intentions in my life. I've had many desires, some have been fulfilled, some have not. Sometimes ...
Views: 762 - Steroids for meditation: 3 secrets to soothing a crazy mind - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMeditation. You might be one of the few who can actually sit quietly, close your eyes, and find the zone. But for most people, like me, meditation is impossible. The above video shares a story of my going to meditation camp several years ago. As you’ll see, back in the day, I was pretty ...
Views: 865 - World TB Day 2009 - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsToday is World Tubercuberculosis Day. It is a day not as widely known and a cause not as widely supported, yet one that affects so many everywhere. So to honor and raise awareness for this day, I wanted to shed a spotlight on the disease, the cause and what is being done around the ...
Views: 581 - The Science of Distant Healing - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThere is much written about how our good intentions help others. But can your good intentions really reach someone who is not physically present, and how do we know this? In this column, I will present the current evidence that discusses this phenomenon and provide some explanations as to why ...
Views: 710 - Yoga Tip of the Week #3: Balancing Your Opposites - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsImagine your body and mind like the string of a cello. An energetic pull on that string from it's base to its scrolling top, will make lovely music. Same with you! If you have energetic balance in your yoga, someone could run a bow along you, and your sound would be rich and full. If you are ...
Views: 1077(3 votes) - Sacred Mountain: Protecting the Homes of Tribal People - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI am always in awe when I hear about documentary filmmakers who bravely dedicate their limited time and resources to raise awareness on an unknown cause or give voice to those who are silenced. Below are the words from an individual who worked directly with the film production team of the ...
Views: 673 - Are you Vitamin D deficient? - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLiving in Los Angeles, I have always assumed that I am vitamin D abundant. Turns out, that may not be the case. Last week, when I visited my doctor for my annual check-up, she had me tested for vitamin D. (Apparently Los Angelenos are often more vitamin D deficient than New Yorkers – because ...
Views: 618(1 vote) - Looking for a New Christianity - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion for Deepak: I am 43, female American, Hispanic, raised in a Catholic family. Since early childhood, I've had doubts in the teachings of the Church. At 10, I felt that the Sister teaching catechism class was "lying" to me, expecting the children to believe the bible stories she taught ...
Views: 488(1 vote) - Waiting for the Spring - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe goal of making a relationship sustainable should not just be to stay, but rather, to find and cultivate the places in the relationship that are worth staying for. Re-imagining your commitment into a healthy curiosity about the mystery of the other person and allowing for the ebb and flow of ...
Views: 585(1 vote) - Watch Your Language! - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe other day I was supposed to be meeting a friend for lunch and she called to tell me she was running late and probably wouldn’t be able to make it after all. Not really a big deal, but the problem is she does this all the time. And this time I noticed that I started saying to myself, ...
Views: 496 - The Little Boy Lost - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLet me to tell you a story:...Once upon a time in a big city a little boy was born. His parents belonged to different faiths and both had their own families that they could not or did not want to leave. They both also had a little boy each from marriages they had not really wanted. They met, ...
Views: 899 - A Message of Love for Caregivers of the Ill - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLife sometimes gives us unexpected knocks and confronts us with the suffering and pain of loved ones, whether caused by an illness, an accident or simply by old age. When this happens, there are always two different positions: that of the sick person, and that of the people surrounding them, ...
Views: 726 - Springtime Renewal - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSpring time is here all over the country... at different degrees depending on where we are. But the feeling is the same: fresh, green, alive, growth, possibility, and new committments. I have been thinking about what I do for renewing myself... The trees do it, flowers do it, animals do it, ...
Views: 656 - How Can I Stop Thinking (and Dreaming!) About the Ex? Find Your Inner Sumo Wrestler - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI just read your article “Hoping You Will Get Back Together after the Breakup?” I love your theory; I think all the advice you have to give is wonderful. So as someone who has recently gotten her heart crushed, I find the part I struggle with the most is the continuing thinking of the ex and ...
Views: 655 - All You Need Is Love - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWe are continually awakening ourselves in other people's hearts and allowing them to awaken themselves in our hearts and thereby knowing more of God consciousness. - John-Roger (From: Living Love from the Spiritual Heart, p. 53) It’s been said that we all stand on the shoulders of others. ...
Views: 622 - Law of Karma - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsFew months ago we developed an interactive online program based on Deepak Chopra’s Best seller – Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. Our aim was to help people implement the method in their lives. I think that it is very important to start your day with 15 to 30 minutes practice of the Seven ...
Views: 655(2 votes) - The Thin Ice of Presence - Meaningful Meaninglessness of Now - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMeaning is an association of what is now with what once was... Take a look at any object in your immediate environment: say, you are looking at a "so-called" (I'll explain the "so-called" parenthetical in a few moments) cup. Say, I picked it up from your desk and asked: "What is this?" You'd ...
Views: 704 - Bad Publicity? - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThat notorious Broadway producer, David Merrick, was famous for many of his pithy sayings—a sort of Broadway Yogi Berra. My favorite is, “Darling, there’s no such thing as bad publicity except no publicity.” It may surprise you, but it was actually an interchange between the government of South ...
Views: 820 - A Fun SPRING Ritual, Space Clearing - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSo in preparation for the Aries new moon (this thursday), which symbolizes the astrological new year, I highly recommend doing a space clearing in your home. If you can do one in your work space (on a small scale if you share an office) I recommend that too. Why our work spaces? Remember we ...
Views: 949 - Sound Can Rearrange Matter? - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe harmonics, which I am found of using and sharing, are an aspect of sound which bridges the different dimensions. I believe that these vocal harmonics also represent the new mantras of the 2lst Century and that these sounds will be a form of non-verbal communication we are in the process of ...
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