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- Love The Reflection In The Mirror - by Submitted on Sep 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDo not look in the mirror every morning and see just your defects; on the contrary, look for your greatest qualities and attributes. List out loud your positive features and be thankful for everything that you are. Love and accept yourself as you are. Love and respect others as you would like ...
Views: 666(1 vote) - Love Your Mother - Earth That Is! - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHappy Earth Day 2009. Twenty nine years ago, in 1970 amidst the Vietnam War and the last of the real hippies, the first Earth Day was celebrated. I don’t think I took much notice back then and for the next two decades. I was too caught up in my own world of abundance and working for a large ...
Views: 666 - The Real You - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAs soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Above is one of many thoughtful quotes included throughout the book I just read by Julia Cameron, author of "Finding Water, The Art of Perserverance." If you are blocked in any way from doing what is ...
Views: 666 - Change Happens - It's Okay (It's Only FaceBook) - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn the last two hours, my Facebook home page has changed. The change isn't too dramatic since the only interface that actually changed was the home page - everything else is still the same. And now Facebook sort of looks like Twitter. Or maybe Twitter looks like Facebook. Anyways... In ...
Views: 665 - Making the Most of the Recession - by Submitted on May 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLike many young couples do these days, my husband and I are planning a backpacking trip around the world. Saving up our money for two years has been a long and tedious process and really we’re still not done yet. Our original timeframe would have been to leave between December of 2009 and March ...
Views: 665 - Take Command of Your Blood Pressure - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYour blood pressure is the measure of the force of your blood against the artery walls, and it is described using two numbers: systolic and diastolic. Systolic pressure is the pressure exerted as your heart beats; diastolic pressure is the pressure exerted as your heart relaxes between beats. A ...
Views: 665 - Today's Astrological Forecast: Refresh Your Life - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe Sun, now in late Gemini, is making some spectacular aspects today. One thing I love about the Sun is that it brings illumination and awareness to issues that are sometimes hidden. Right now, inspiration and creativity are dramatically increased by the Sun's activity. Don't let this pass you ...
Views: 665(2 votes) - What Are Life Force Silver Foods? - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLast week you eliminated or greatly reduced many harmful substances in your diet. That allowed your body to improve its ability to detoxify substances that interfere with or impede natural enzyme and other bodily processes. It was critical to tackle this step first to eliminate obstacles that ...
Views: 665(1 vote) - 'Are You a Bookie?' The Path to Deeper Wisdom... - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA bookie, in this case, means anyone who loves books and book-clubs - not the kind of bookie who takes bets at a racetrack. I imagine one can be both, so we’ll exclude no one, especially as the event is designed to encourage those who have book clubs or are thinking of starting one to talk about ...
Views: 664 - Connecting Children - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2009 from Intent.com Authors"Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them." ~ Richard L. Evans In three days, I am returning to the Dominican Republic and am super excited!! Partly because the Canadian winter is harsh and I am ready to thaw but ...
Views: 664(1 vote) - How Much Wellness Do You Need Right Now? A Fake Online Quiz - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAs you may or may not know, this week we will be exploring the idea of 'wellness' on Intent.com. Take this short online quiz to figure out how much wellness you need in your life right now! Choose the answer that best describes your current situation. Take out a pen and paper, allow yourself ...
Views: 664(2 votes) - My Path to Green: Episode 7 - Become A Green Pet Owner - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHello friends, So with this last episode, my path to green officially comes to an end. In the past few weeks I have learned a tremendous amount and have taken so many small steps to become a greener me, thanks to '30 Days to a Greener You'. My very last step is becoming a Grene pet owner. My ...
Views: 664(3 votes) - Just Sitting or Is There More to It? - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsBuddhism, as a healing art rather than a religion, in its therapeutic mandate of healing human suffering, takes the path of getting rid, not of the Suffering, but of the Sufferer... Let me clarify... Buddhism, in its strategic (long-term) rather than tactical (short-term) mandate, is not a ...
Views: 663 - Meditating to Awaken - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLast week, I had the pleasure of meeting meditation teacher, David Harshada Wagner at East West Books in New York City to celebrate the release of his new meditation CD called “Meditation for Everyone.” Although his name was new to me, something drew me to the invitation in my e-mail inbox, ...
Views: 663(1 vote) - Morning Motivation: You Are Divinely Loved - by Submitted on Aug 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe next time you’re having a really bad day (or a rough Monday morning,) remember the spiritual Teachings’ reassurance that each of us is deeply, completely, divinely loved. Think about the intense and protective love that a mother has for her child. One of The Sayings of Muhammad is, ...
Views: 663(3 votes) - Susan Boyle Reveals Our Misassumptions - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe first time I saw the YouTube video of Susan Boyle, I was pretty much blown away by her voice and the energy she invoked from the audience. But what sticks with me is the reaction of the very attractive judges—first of mockery when she stood before them, then once they heard Susan’s voice, ...
Views: 663 - The Swine Flu Scare: Reject Negative Thinking and Avoid Panic - by Submitted on May 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsNo one can have failed to notice the extensive reporting on the Swine Flu issue. It is presently being given the sort of emphasis rightly reserved for something far more sinister, and our TV reporters are only too happy to whip up the fear. So, let’s have a little perspective. A child has died ...
Views: 663(1 vote) - Gym Story: Smiling Woman with Physical Challenges Changes My Day - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI feel sorry for myself sometimes. When I arrive at the Boston Sports Club in Newton, I am mentally beating up on myself because I am not in as good shape as I would like to be. Somehow I am never enough: not strong enough, not thin enough, not pretty enough. It goes on and on like a negative ...
Views: 662 - I Love You, Mom - by Submitted on May 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAccording to family legend, my relationship with my mother did not start well. Just after I was born, I developed a bad case of eczema. It was determined that I was allergic to my mother’s breast milk, along with most of the baby formulas on the market back then. While my mother was ...
Views: 662(2 votes) - 10 Ways To Improve Your Marriage While It’s Raining - by Submitted on Aug 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYour environment has a dramatic impact on your mood. You wake up in the morning and glance outside, the sun is up without a cloud in the sky, you get in the sunny day mood. Perhaps you feel a bit more energy, You want to get outside and enjoy the weather. On cold blustery days you long to sit by ...
Views: 661(1 vote) - How Can We Can Avoid Home Foreclosures - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI believe that in the current housing and economic environment (with declining home values nationwide) it never makes economic sense for a Bank/Servicer to foreclosure on an owner occupied home. As a result, I believe we can successfully and rightfully place a temporary nationwide foreclosure ...
Views: 661 - Ladies' Men: Celebrating International Women's Day - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSince 1911, women have been uniting to celebrate their advances in civil liberties and empowerment. The International Conference of Working Women got together in Copenhagen in 1910 and decided to make their dream of an International Women's Day a reality. In the past century, the movement has ...
Views: 661(1 vote) - Morning Motivation: The Impossible Is Achieved Every Day - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWe are often told that an intent or goal is impossible, so we shouldn’t even try to achieve it. But every day, people are achieving the “impossible.” Someone is meeting an impossible deadline. Someone is celebrating a positive pregnancy result after doctors said it would be impossible. Someone ...
Views: 661(2 votes) - Not In Our Stars But In Ourselves - PRIDE Weekend and Our Potentials - by Submitted on Sep 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA few months ago I was on the phone with a friend who was visiting family in her old home town. She’d just challenged her parent’s boast about the diversity of their church, by asking where the gays were seated amongst all the recently-immigrated Africans and Asians in the pews. I’d just come ...
Views: 661 - The Best of Times; the Worst of Times - by Submitted on May 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIs human civilization, with its cities, laws, technology, and endless forward momentum, a plague on Mother Earth moving us further and further from our indigenous, natural, Eden-like past with every progressive step? Or is it the most recent expression of an extraordinary process of evolution ...
Views: 661 - The Secret to Having Everything You Want - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsEveryone wonders whether or not there is one great secret for truly successful living. There is. And it is not a secret. It has been quietly, steadily telling itself right in front of us all along. We just couldn't hear it over the clatter and chatter of our own secret demands. Listen quietly ...
Views: 661(2 votes) - Yes We Can! - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYes, we can! But what exactly can we do? We all start out with great intention; however, it is the commitment which fades away. President Obama infuses us with new hope; he is a symbol of change. Are you secretly hoping he will inspire you with his gift of oratory to improve your life ...
Views: 661 - 8 Steps to a Positive Life - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com Authors“Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot ...
Views: 660(1 vote) - All "Heated Up" About Global Warming - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2009 from Intent.com Authors“Is there really Global Warming or are you just wearing too many layers?” — Steven Colbert, Comedian This quote from the host of the television show “The Colbert Report,” makes me laugh out loud, although the Global Warming controversy is no laughing matter. In his insightful way, Colbert ...
Views: 660 - Birds of a Feather...? - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI was painting the deck the other day when I noticed a certain amount of activity in the wisteria that rampages around one end of it. Robins were dashing to and fro. I continued to paint, aware that this was not a good place for a nest as this door is heavily used. The Robins were building a ...
Views: 660(2 votes) - Changing "Helpless" to Hopeful: Can a Simple Change of Mind Change a Life? - by Submitted on May 26, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOn a quiet side street, I slowed my car to a stop as I waited for a mother and child - a mother squirrel and her youngster - to cross the street. The mother would run a few paces then stop. The young squirrel would race to catch up, then jump up on her back for a free ride. She wouldn't move ...
Views: 660 - Glimpsing Enlightenment - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: I have recently, Nov 15-08 to be exact, had enlightenment bestowed on me. It was an explosive experience, I felt timelessness, shapelessness, my DNA activate, pure love, peace and joy - An incredible experience that brought me to my knees in tears. I truly had no idea of what it's ...
Views: 660(2 votes) - The Current of Life - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWe’ve all paid our dues–at some point–for the sake of our kids, muscling through the parental prerequisite ninety minutes of yet another disengaging children’s movie. Think “Lilo and Stitch” or “Curly Sue”… On the other hand, we‘ve also experienced the moment, sitting in those same theater ...
Views: 660(3 votes) - The Sky is Falling: Will I Die on My Next Flight? - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsFive commercial airliners have crashed or crash-landed in just 10 weeks. It began on December 20th when Continental 1404 slid off a snowy runway in Denver. Now, Turkish Airlines 1951 has gone down while landing in Amsterdam, with nine lives lost and 50 seriously injured. It's enough to make you ...
Views: 660 - Thinking the Unthinkable: Six (Uncomfortable) Questions about the Swine Flu Outbreak - by Submitted on May 27, 2009 from Intent.com Authors1. Is History Repeating Itself? The word pandemic comes from Greek roots meaning "all the people." Not surprisingly, the first known medical reporter to file a story about a flu epidemic was Hippocrates around 412 BC. For centuries, flu disasters have struck just as naturally and inevitably as ...
Views: 660(1 vote) - All the Riches You Haven’t Recognized or Claimed in the Past Are Still Available to You - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAt lunch the other day, Lisa, a client of mine, was complaining that she’d had a brilliant idea for an e-book, but someone else “stole” it and created an e-book on the same topic that wasn’t as good as hers would have been. This other author had tremendous success with his project, and Lisa felt ...
Views: 659 - Free Seed Starters - Reuse Every Day Items - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDid you know that reduce, reuse, recycle is mentioned in a particular order for a reason? Recycling is always the LAST resort. Think of it this way: Reduce what you buy and bring into the house (edibles excluded). If you HAVE to buy it, reuse it for something else when its original ...
Views: 659(1 vote) - Save the Planet or Eat Toro? - by Submitted on May 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsEarlier this year, I decided to eliminate seafood from my diet. I had already stopped eating meat from farm animals for the last two years, and giving up fish seemed to be the next logical progression. My parents were perplexed when I told them. "Fish aren't really animals," my mother scoffed ...
Views: 659 - What Does "Conscious Parenting" Mean, Anyway? - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWelcome to my little corner of the world! Here is some of my story -- on why I've made "conscious parenting" the primary focus of my parenting practice. This piece was originally published as, "What is Your Parenting Style," at www.BodyEcology.com . When I was approached by Body Ecology to ...
Views: 659(1 vote) - Happiness Now! - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHere is something to learn from our children: BE HAPPY NOW. You might have noticed that children don’t typically spend their days worrying about the past or dreading the future (barring the occasional upcoming algebra test.) Children, far more successfully than most adults, live in the ...
Views: 658(3 votes) - Is Something Missing? Are You Searching For More Meaning? - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIs something missing? Are you searching for more meaning? Does this sound like you? At the end of the day, you sink into the couch mindlessly exhausted by the day's activities, you think, "Certainly there has to be more than this but my goodness, I am too tired to think!" You work so ...
Views: 658(1 vote) - Is the Subconscious Divine or Destructive? - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: I've read/heard that our sub-conscious is a place where doubts, fears and limitations exist from our experiences and past. These doubts/fears drive the way we are, and even to the point where deep-seated fears affect the Law of Attraction. If we have a deep limited thought that we ...
Views: 658 - Kinhin, Not Teleportation - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2009 from Intent.com Authors“Desire is contradiction,” claims J. Krishnamurti. And a self-contradiction at that! When I want (anything), I want to change from the state that I am in to a state that I am not. The problem is that I am the state that I am in and to want (anything) is to desire to not be (in the state that I ...
Views: 658(1 vote) - Know Yourself - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsApril is Stress Awareness Month! Do you really think anyone out there that is not aware of stress? Stress is literally killing us, our families and our planet. STRESS is THE EPIDEMIC OF THE 21ST CENTURY. Our only hope for treating this disease is recognizing and managing it in our daily lives. ...
Views: 658 - Manu: Destined to Remind Us of Who We Are - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe power of intent is enormous. Call it prayer, deliberate creation or healing, directing one's energy with a clear intention is what shifts manifested reality with ease and elegance. This universal law is most easily accessed when the intent arises as a natural gesture from our Being, with ...
Views: 658 - My Path to Green: Step 5 - Green Dating Tips - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHello everyone, This week using Alex Blackwell's blog 9 Green Date Ideas, I planned a nice green date for my boyfriend using 3 of his tips: Exchance cards or notes made of recycled paper Go to a zoo Have a green picnic Walk instead of taking the car One thing to ...
Views: 658(1 vote) - 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) - Obama: Our Plumber-in-Chief - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAlthough the Presidency is about issues, challenges, and complex negotiations, there's another side. With every new President we get the pleasure of watching a human being adapt to the office. Very quickly an image emerges. Barack Obama entered the White House at a time of crisis, amid frayed ...
Views: 658 - Close Your Ears & Dream On! - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2009 from Intent.com Authors“Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.” ~ Wallace D. Wattles from The Science of Being Great Did you know the guy who invented the radio (Marconi) was thrown into an insane asylum when he told his “friends” that he could ...
Views: 657 - Making Relationships Work - by Submitted on Sep 23, 2009 from Intent.com Authors“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.” ...
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