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- 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 - How to Find and Impress the "Perfect" Man - by Submitted on May 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsStatistics say men lie five times more often than women. (Now ask yourself, is that true, or did I just make it up?) And despite human progress and enlightened times, we're still slaves to our genes. Males are hardwired to impress women. Watch the elaborate dances some birds go through to win ...
Views: 834 - How to find Happiness - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHappiness, like sadness and anxiety, is very often a learned condition. We learn how to be gloomy from those around us, and parents specifically can be effective instructors. Yet if we want to we can also train ourselves to see happiness, respond to joy, to experience delight - and it doesn’t ...
Views: 759 - How To Get More Energy From Your Body: The Power Of Focus... - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDo you want to know how to get an incredible amount of energy from your body? The secret is in your “focus”. Try this 30 second experiment: Start by focusing on surface of your body. Focus on your arms, legs, chest, neck, back etc. Do your best to “tune in” to the sensations…your clothes ...
Views: 1224 - How to Get Over the Post Break-Up Guilts - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: I have just recently ended a three year relationship, yet I am receiving a lot of guilt from my ex-boyfriend and his family. How do I avoid taking on this guilt and how do I feel confident about who I am again? Sherri's Answer: In order to regain your self-confidence, you need to ...
Views: 1661 - How to Get Through the Recession with Less Depression - by Submitted on May 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsRecession Depression Quiz Does your stomach churn when you read the latest news? Did you have trouble sleeping last night? Are you obsessively checking your news sources throughout the day? Are you angrier or more fearful than normal? * If your answer is yes to any of these questions, you ...
Views: 904 - How to Go Green Between Your Ears - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMuch of the news about the ecology of our planet focuses on grim statistics and the crisis state in which we have found ourselves. In my new book, The LifeQuake Phenomenon: Your Definitive Roadmap Through Seismic Change™, I talk about how this crisis is really just a symptom of an awakening ...
Views: 720 - How to Go Vegan for Earth Day and a Shepherd’s Pie Recipe - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWe mentioned in our last article how important it is for those who care about our environment to look at the impact their food choices have on the Earth’s limited resources. Here are five suggestions for those wishing to include more plant-based foods in their diet as a way to go green. 1. ...
Views: 819 - How to Help the Helpless - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt is very important and yet difficult to help those who are not able to help themselves. First of all, we need to understand in the specific case of a helpless person, what is the best kind of help to be given. If there are a group of people who are starving, then the answer may be to give ...
Views: 7049 - How to Keep Your Energy Up and Your Optimism High - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI am always asked how I keep my energy up, how I maintain great energy and how I stay optimistic even though circumstances would appear otherwise. Here are my suggestions: 7 Tips to Keep Your Energy Up! Remember: Mood and energy follow blood sugar so ~ stay away from the sweets. Candy ...
Views: 535 - How To Lessen Your Addiction To Animal Based Foods - by Submitted on Sep 08, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI'm not the ideal candidate for a cleanse. When not on deadline, (which is practically always), I'm rushing around from one health seminar to the next. Meetings, interviews, causes, trainings, policy sessions, (and the occasional retreat) fill my days. Unless you can do a cleanse on the run, ...
Views: 542 - How to Make a Difference Today - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWe may not solve every problem we encounter or always find the right words to say in a challenging situation, but we do have the ability to make a difference today. When our focus is how we can make a positive impact, just one helpful action today, then we really can change the world - one day ...
Views: 612 - How to Pick a Breakfast Cereal - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe most healthful breakfast is whole grain cereal. If you're trying to lose weight, control cholesterol or diabetes, or just need a lot of energy, your best bet is a hot cooked cereal of whole grains, such as oatmeal; or barley, brown rice or wheat berries cooked and served like oatmeal. Flavor ...
Views: 1042 - How To Say No Nicely - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSaying no to others can be a daunting experience. Intellectually, you tell yourself that you can say no calmly and assertively – that it means saying yes to the self. However, when it comes time to actually use the two-letter word, many feel anxious and stressed as a more rapid, shallower ...
Views: 953 - How to Shake Off a Bad Mood - by Submitted on Jul 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLately, getting stuck in a bad mood is pretty easy. Just tune into the dreary news, or pick up a magazine telling you how bad it’s going to get. Your senses are assaulted with a relentless anxiety-laden negativity based on “objective” reporting of the sorry state of the economy, but also laced ...
Views: 542 - How to Stand in Your Power - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI’ve been thinking about the word power lately and what it really means. This word can overwhelm us when we think of how power is used in a negative way to control and manipulate others and situations. I want to talk about power plays because they can wreck havoc on our emotions. Power plays ...
Views: 3006 - How to Stop Difficult People from Zapping Your Energy and Happiness - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhat zaps your energy and happiness more powerfully and rapidly than anything else is your reaction to difficult people. Notice I didn't say difficult people are responsible for zapping your energy and happiness. Only you are in control of you. You do have a choice in how you respond. With ...
Views: 894 - How to Thrive in Today's Tough Times - by Submitted on May 26, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsToday, as the financial upheaval ripples through the economy, more and more employees are affected, and for those still on the job, there is increasing stress. Employees and managers alike are asking themselves if they'll be the next to go, just as company owners are asking the same question ...
Views: 796 - How to Want What You Have - by Submitted on Jul 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe 45-minute drive home last Wednesday night from Leavenworth to Overland Park, Kansas gave me some time to think. I just dropped off my younger son, Andrew, for a five-day personal development seminar, and I welcomed the chance to remember a similar night six years ago. Andrew, I concluded, ...
Views: 534 - How to Win Pakistan's Culture War - by Submitted on Jul 23, 2009 from Intent.com Authorsby Deepak Chopra and Salman Ahmad Pakistan is a war zone, but its battle is far more cultural than military. The whole country realizes this fact and is holding its breath, hoping that President Obama will come to the same realization. As long as the United States pursues the futile military ...
Views: 982 - Hug the Monster: 4 Secrets of Surviving the Recession - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn the remote forests of Washington state near the Canadian border, where the air force teaches its aviators to survive in hostile environments, the instructors hate the sunshine. They like it cold, wet and miserable. Rough weather, they say, makes the best pilots and survivors. Adversity is the ...
Views: 719 - Humanity at Work - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOne of my principal interests and intentions relates to the issue of how we can cultivate and express our humanity in and though our work. By humanity, I refer to the essential human attributes of love, compassion, forgiveness, empathy, and other qualities that foster flow, connection, and ...
Views: 917 - Humanity of Motive Behind the Inhumanity of Action (movie review) - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsKudos to Bodrov! What a movie: piercing and breathtaking as an invasion of mongols itself! Having grown up as a Russian, furthermore, in Moscow in the Arbat neighborhood literally a two lane street from Mongol Embassy (on what used to be called Voevodin Lane, across school #69), I have always ...
Views: 1205 - Hydration Cocktails for All - by Submitted on Sep 09, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSummer is upon us, and while we know we need to hydrate, sometimes our water needs an upgrade. True hydration means that the water doesn’t just go into our body, but into our cells (we need the right mineral balance, sufficient potassium, to bring the water INTO our cells). Summer heat is not ...
Views: 551 - I May Be A Complete Idiot But I've Never Lost $645 Million Every Day For An Entire Quarter - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI have bought low and sold lower. I have bought high and sold low. I never have bought low and sold high and frankly, if I did the shock would probably kill me. I have built businesses, blown up businesses, learned from failure and still hope to learn from success. However, one thing I've ...
Views: 498 - I Would Go With the Flow... If I Could Only Find It - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIf this is the Law of Attraction, it doesn’t feel so good. I wish I could say it feels good to be home, but some days, re-entry is a b#&*h. When we left Florida yesterday afternoon, it was a balmy 75 degrees. When we got out of bed at home this morning, it was four. That’s right, 4 ...
Views: 586 - I'll Be Happy When I'm Thin - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMost of us are aware of the studies that indicate women would rather be 10 pounds thinner than almost anything else. As an eating disorder therapist, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the refrain, “I’ll be happy when I’m thin.” This can take different forms as people will focus on an ...
Views: 679 - Ideas Are Tools - by Submitted on May 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSo often people will ask me after I've shared a leadership concept with them: "Great. Now can you give me some tools to apply that idea?" I'll most certainly agree that tactics that create results are ever so important. But may I equally suggest that sometimes, the very idea is the tool. A ...
Views: 578 - Identifying the Elusive Influencer: Building Programs to Best Leverage Your Most Influential Customers - by Submitted on May 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMost companies internally assign a value to their customers that predicts how much money the customer will spend in the future, otherwise known as 'Total Customer Value' (TCV). Conventionally, the best way to determine a customer's TCV is to look at how much they have spent in the past: United ...
Views: 768 - If I Could Have a “Do Over” - by Submitted on May 26, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYumi's blog this week (When We Help Ourselves, We Help the Helpless) brought me back to 16 years ago when my best friend decided to hang herself from a swing set in her back yard. I was too young like Yumi to know how to deal with any of it, and truth be told was trying to figure out where I fit ...
Views: 712 - Important and surprising news about carrots! - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI usually write about the psychosocial aspects of cancer - what helps, hurts, and heals the psyche, heart, and spirit. But I just read something about nutrition and cancer that I'm excited to share with you. A new study about cancer-fighting properties in carrots shows that boiling them ...
Views: 670 - In response to Ken Dychtwald's Huffington Post column on How to Fix U.S. Health Care - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDr. Ken Dychtwald stated in his June 17th Huffington Post column: "Make disease prevention and self-care a national priority. Let's be honest....we've become a nation of gluttons. We eat too much, exercise too little and then get angry at the healthcare system when we're sick. This lack of ...
Views: 730 - In San Francisco? Join Clary Sage Organics & EDUN March 26th for "Fairtrade in the Spring" - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsClary Sage Organics and EDUN have collaborated to bring about “Fairtrade in the Spring” -- a 2-week pop-up shop of EDUN and Nude’s Spring/Summer 2009 collection at Clary Sage Organics in San Francisco from March 26th to April 9th. On March 26th, the “Fairtrade in Spring” cocktail party will ...
Views: 691 - In Whose Name, for God's Sake? - by Submitted on Aug 12, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe despicable, abhorrent and loathsome attack on young girls in a pub has outraged the entire nation. The incident defeats all reasoning and has left everyone in a state of shock. What is even more appalling is the fact that the reprehensible assault on young women was done in the name of ...
Views: 731 - Incense Meditation: Journey of the Senses - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhen we focus on incense sticks during meditation, we move into a mystical space that is both physical and spiritual at once. Like us, the incense stick is earthbound with an ember that burns for only a finite time, but the diaphanous spirit it releases is unbound by time or space. Rather than ...
Views: 783 - Indulge Your Sweet Tooth with Easy Chocolate Tofu Pie - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsShhh . . . Om Gal has a serious addiction. Until now, I've spared you the harrowing details of the rehabilitation program that I recently completed to address my dependency issues. I opted for a time-tested, no frills approach, foregoing the fancier treatment programs of stars like Lindsay Lohan ...
Views: 648 - 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 - Inner Peace Has No Opposite - by Submitted on May 26, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHas it ever happened for you that you’ve picked up a book, usually a highly recommended one, read it and disliked it? It’s rare for me. Such was my first response to Eckhart Tolle’s original offering, The Power of Now. More than five years have elapsed since then and since I loved his second ...
Views: 1326 - Inside/Outside Jobs - by Submitted on Sep 09, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOne of my biggest adjustments to “real life” (as an industrial designer) post-college was having to be indoors all day. In fact, I’ve never gotten used to it. I am happiest when I am outside. The fact is, most careers are indeed lived and developed within the confines of a building. So, I ...
Views: 574 - Insider Secrets: How To Get A Job -- Get Prepared Inside and Out (Part 1) - by Submitted on May 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsGet Prepared, Inside and Out "Help! I need to get a job." Are you a professional finding your career in freefall, or know someone who is? You might want to follow this series of four posts. My intention is to help you get there faster. I have asked one of the nation's top Fortune 500 ...
Views: 765 - 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 - Integrative Medicine: Dean Ornish Speaks Out - by Submitted on Jul 23, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLast week I attended the Institute of Medicine’s Summit on Integrative Medicine, sponsored by The Bravewell Collaborative. While I found many speakers at the conference extremely exciting, it was marrying science and practice to focus on PREVENTION, in the powerful keynote address of Dr. Dean ...
Views: 1067 - Intend the Return of Laura Ling and Euna Lee - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn light of the recent sentencing of US journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee in North Korea, and the ongoing stalemate in US and North Korean relations, it is vital that we all hold in our hearts and minds the space within which a resolution can be reached so >these women can be quickly returned ...
Views: 814 - Intent and the World - by Submitted on Aug 03, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIntent is a powerful word. It lets us know what we want to put our energy towards. To some extent it also focuses us, since until we formulate an intent we can't crystalize what it is we see as needing to happen, let alone how to get there. The moment we formulate a specific intent such as "I ...
Views: 545 - Intention, Consciousness and the New Science - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSpecial thanks to Rajesh Hariharan for sending me the clip that enabled me to delve more into this. When temples were constructed a certain ceremony was followed. Yantras with Mantras and adequate, appropriate as well as concentrated meditation and recitation of shlokas was a very important ...
Views: 1502 - Intents Come in All Sizes - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIntent is an interesting word - it always seems to be linked to something rather grand. 'I intend to find my purpose in life' might be an example. And it's an important intent. But what about those lesser intents? I intend to tidy the kitchen, for instance? It might not look like much, but ...
Views: 804 - 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 - Intuitive Scanning for Health; An Interview with Medical Intuitives - by Submitted on Jul 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIntuitive body scanning is a technique that can be used to determine medical or health blockages in people and also animals. Medical intuitives, professionals who seek to complement traditional medical procedures with this technique, locate parts of a body that are blocked or in turmoil in ...
Views: 639 - Investing in Our Human Infrastructure: The Real Wealth of Our Nation Is Its People - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOver half a million people lost their jobs last month. There's no question we need a job-creation plan. The real question is what kind of plan will most quickly stimulate the economy and at the same time provide the best long-term investment for our nation. Let's urge President Obama and ...
Views: 1046 - iPod Loss - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn the continuing computer saga that has made up my last week or so, the piece-de-resistance came at the end of the week. It turns out there is no way to sync a computer to an iPod without downloading a special extracting program. My IT wizard did that and then, somehow, picked the wrong button ...
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