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- It’s a Beautiful Day. Don’t Miss It! - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSpring inspires creativity and thinking outside the box. For gardeners, Mother’s Day heralds the planting season symbolizing the cycle of life and new possibilities. It is a bittersweet time as some things have died in the garden; similarly some people have died in our lives. But even at the ...
Views: 520 - Beautiful Voices - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: First of all, I am sorry my English is no so good but I hope you will understand me. I am 25 years old, a few month ago, I made a therapy with regression and during one session appeared a voice so sweet , that I called the Source and starts to give me advices and answer my questions ...
Views: 503 - An Introduction to "30 Days to a Greener You" - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsPerhaps the biggest misconception about living green is that it requires for us to sacrifice our pleasures for a more meager, less fun existence. After all, for all the research that has been done on the environmentally damaging effects of plastic water bottles, eating beef, and driving our ...
Views: 697 - Disinterested Procrastination - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDo you like your life? Is there anything you'd change? If you were to die tomorrow, could you honestly say you have no regrets? Do you get caught up in procrastinating about things you have no real interest in and then end up ignoring what you're passionate about too? Today I'm going to ...
Views: 1032 - 5 Tips - Stretch Your Recession Dollar Like a Rubber Band - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLong gone are the passive money-making opportunities. Even the Suzi Orman financial experts are touting saving money as the new key to financial success. Security is not locking in a year CD at 2.8%, The new ticket is frugality, watching your spending, “count your pennies”, as my Grandma would ...
Views: 911 - 6 Steps to a Greener Diet - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhen did eating become so complicated? How do we sort our way through hundred mile diets and the dilemmas of omnivores? Should I feel terrible for eating California lemons in Canada? Everyone needs to eat but the act has evolved from necessity to complexity. Humans have developed an ...
Views: 709 - 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 - When it Comes to Beauty -- It Ain't Easy Being Green - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsKermit’s words have never been truer than they are today. It ain't easy being green, especially when it comes to your personal care regimen. With all the efforts being made to green our cars, homes and even our government, we can sometimes get overwhelmed and give up at the thought of spending ...
Views: 770(1 vote) - 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 - Female Sexuality: The Bermuda Triangle of Mothers and Daughters - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsGrown daughters yearn to know how their mothers’ sexuality informed them as women when they were at the most important crossroads of their lives. They want to know these things because they want to understand their mothers as women, and let that understanding flow over how they see themselves in ...
Views: 1254 - Earth Day Recipes: To Die for Delicious - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsEARTH DAY RECIPES: EAT GREEN What better way to celebrate Earth Day than to eat environmentally friendly, healthy and green! Our Lady of Weight Loss's Earth Day recipes feature seasonal fruit, veggies and heaps of good energy! Not your usual salads! These ARE exciting! Woo Hoo! Salacious ...
Views: 807 - Earth Day: Love this Planet - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsEarth Day, which started in 1970, was originally much more emphatic than anything we’re likely to see these days. For example, thirty-nine years ago demonstrators poured oil over the sidewalk at the Department of the Interior, in Washington, to protest oil spills. Then the focus was pollution. ...
Views: 594 - The Most Important Thing for Mental Health - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhen considering the most important elements for mental health, a really basic one is often overlooked. It's not stress reduction, a healthy diet, exercise, healthy relationships, or taking your medications. What is it? When I worked at the state hospital, patients would be brought in by the ...
Views: 515 - A Trashy But Powerful Film - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsEighteen years ago, I made a very trashy documentary. About the garbage crisis, the film took me trekking through a massive landfill with chairs, plastic wrap, clothing, you name it, rearing their ugly heads and legs through a stinky disgusting morass of trash. So, I got it. “Trashing the ...
Views: 629 - 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 - Fighting the Good Fight for Mother Earth with Simran Sethi - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsFor our first podcast interview of our exclusive “30 Days to a Greener You” series, I have the honor and privilege of introducing to all of you award-winning green journalist and Intent Voice blogger Simran Sethi—who also happens to be a close and long-time friend. Simran’s environmental ...
Views: 674 - World Malaria Day 2009 - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOne year after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a call to provide all malaria endemic countries with universal coverage of malaria control tools by the end of 2010, an unprecedented effort to combat malaria is under way. Impressive gains have recently been realized, as 40 percent of the ...
Views: 570 - Winning Freedom from Religion - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHow would you respond to radical Muslim clerics in northwest Pakistan -- now under Islamic law -- who are calling for expansion of Islamic law across the entire federal republic of Pakistan? Should any nation be governed by religious rules? Although it may not often be realized, freedom from ...
Views: 889 - People Powered Planet - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsEarth Day was never intended to be just a day. Does "Every Day Is Earth Day" ring any bells? Seems to me that April 22 is -- dare I say it? -- a symbol of the wake-up call that we've been collectively shallow enough to write off as an idealistic hippie movement until now. We know, for real, ...
Views: 762 - Pattern of Pain: Withholding - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe most common form of withholding is what we commonly call "the silent treatment," but withholding encompasses any unwillingness to express your true feelings. It also includes an unwillingness to give support, praise, or positive attention to the people you love. We have all known someone who ...
Views: 6473 - Giving: Rx for Better Health - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com Authors“You have got to be out of your mind” was a sentence Isabella was getting used to hearing. Friend after friend rolled her eyes as she told them of her plans. Isabella was 80 years old, for God’s sake, and no amount of eye rolling was going to dissuade her. Even if her friends were moving into ...
Views: 876(1 vote) - What is Karma Really? - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHow does it work? Traditionally, it is taught that karma is simply the law of cause and effect, the fruits of past actions and little more is said about its mechanism and workings than that. Subsequently, much misunderstanding and vagueness has arisen and continues to be perpetuated. It seems ...
Views: 528 - 14 Sleep Tips: Overcoming Insomnia - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDo you stay awake all night and sleep all day? Do you lie around all the time but never get rested? Do you have trouble getting to sleep? Are you able to get to sleep, but wake up frequently throughout the night? Do you believe you are sleeping long enough, but you still wake up tired? We ...
Views: 6314(1 vote) - 10 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMother Earth is smiling, gurgling, and burping on Earth Day. She’s barely a teenager, as planets go. How great we are celebrating our precious Blue Planet. She is on loan to us. As caretakers for future humanoids - Challenge #1: Honor our Earth, EVERYDAY with mindful acts of kindness. Here ...
Views: 587 - Kids' Emotional Intelligence: What is it, Who Has it, and How to Get It - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYour nine year old is teased at school for being the new kid in class, or being too fat, or answering correctly one too many times, and tells you he wants to run away or kill himself. Your six year old feels humiliated at soccer practice cause she can't kick the ball as well as the other girls ...
Views: 1646(1 vote) - Biophysical Economics: In the Future, Economists Will Return to Earth - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe year 2009 will witness a tsunami of economic appeals to fix, as disgraced Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan put it, the “flaw” in their thinking. Most will get it wrong. The proposals for bailouts, regulations, and government spending sprees all share one tragic flaw: They assume no ...
Views: 923 - Michael Beckwith's Life Visioning - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsRev. Dr. Michael Beckwith is the beautiful spirit who founded The Agape International Spiritual Center, a Science of Mind church in Los Angeles. I recently listened to and heard his CD set on the life visioning process. His clarity took my breath away. Here, for your contemplation, are my ...
Views: 5716(1 vote) - A Chopra in a Yoga Class - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAre you intimidated by doing yoga. I am! I realized today that it has been over 3 years since I took a yoga class. I blogged about my last yoga class on October 4, 2005! The original blog is below... Undoubtedly, yoga is good for us on so many levels. But the performance anxiety gets me ...
Views: 809(1 vote) - Tweet Breach: 140 Characters of Sheer Destruction - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLike a wounded, cornered Doberman, I was irrational and reactive. My blog was down, non-existent. When you earn your keep by communicating ideas, like I do as a professional speaker, any threat to the distribution of those ideas raises the peach fuzz on the back of your neck. After days of ...
Views: 974 - Teach Your Kids How to Un-Plug for Earth Day! - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWe are not the greenest family on the block. We aren’t terrible either, I hope. Our house is stocked with Energy Star appliances and our lighting costs are somewhat limited simply because I am always too busy to replace a lightbulb. We purchase natural cleaning products and I found a ...
Views: 592(1 vote) - This World is Yours & Mine - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHope you all had a wonderful Earth Day, however you celebrated it. I was originally going to write a blog on 5 films to watch in honor of Earth Day but never got around to it (though if there is one you must watch it is BBC's Planet Earth series -- I have never seen anything more fascinating and ...
Views: 814 - Three Ways to Understand Dream Symbols - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA reader asked: “Can you tell me what a burning tree signifies in a dream?” Dream interpretation can be interesting, tricky, multidimensional, revealing and difficult. When trying to interpret a dream, the most important thing to remember is that dream symbols can mean many things, all at the ...
Views: 2797(2 votes) - Meaning-Centered Eating - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMost eaters, when eating, search for either nutrition or comfort or leisure or health. Some, while eating, search for meaning. Mindfulness and meaningfulness go hand in hand: what is meaningful is typically approached with heightened attention, concentration and, therefore, with mindfulness. ...
Views: 611 - Somali Pirates in a Compassionate World - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDoes the young Somali pirate brought to trial in the U.S. create the perfect moment for the world community to take a deeper look at its own conscious? If reports from Somalia are true that its coastal waters have been used as a dumping ground for toxic and nuclear wastes, and its fisheries ...
Views: 981 - Nature-Deficit Disorder - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYesterday was Earth Day. My email Inbox was packed with announcements, newsletters and events all in honor of this day. I didn’t attend any particular event, but I did go out for my daily walk in my Santa Monica neighborhood and soaked in the beauty of the flowers, the warm breeze and the ...
Views: 623 - Being There: A Covenant - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsRecently someone posted a comment, or rather a plea, on CarePages' emotional health discussion forum, and it both broke my heart and inspired great hope. Here’s an excerpt of what the poster wrote: “i have so many medical problems an have been so hurt recently an asked friends to support me an ...
Views: 778 - Four Symptoms of Wonderful Relationships - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThis week, I met with a wonderful young man who wanted to talk about falling in love one day. It was a tough subject for him. He was brought up in very typical circumstances and had therefore developed a belief that relationships are difficult, imperfect, full of compromises and require a bit of ...
Views: 587 - Do You Get Drained By Other People's Energy? - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsGrowing up, my girlfriends couldn't wait to hit the shopping malls and go to parties, the bigger the better--but I didn't share their excitement. I always felt overwhelmed, exhausted around large groups of people, though I was clueless why. "What's the matter with you?" friends would say, ...
Views: 889 - Changing Our Relationship to Our Skin: Sexual Anorexia and Overeating - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLast week on Oprah’s show they explored how to talk to your children about sex and Dr. Laura Berman said something that provoked a huge response in the audience: that parents should give their daughters permission to masturbate. She went so far as to say that at 15 or 16, introduce a vibrator. ...
Views: 2154 - 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 - Kindness: Spreading Love Effortlessly - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn the quest to create a gentler, more loving world, kindness is the easiest tool we can use. Though it is easy to overlook opportunities to be kind, our lives are replete with situations in which we can be helpful, considerate, thoughtful, and friendly to loved ones and associates, as well as ...
Views: 655 - The Best Year of Your Life! The Best Minute of Your Life! - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThis one liner is so popular at the beginning of each year. It is usually followed by popular triggers: Lose Weight! Increase your Wealth!! Achieve your Dreams! Overcome Obstacles! Find your Perfect Mate! Get Healthy! Articles and seminars used this one liner so much; I wondered if it would be ...
Views: 801 - Do Animals Have Souls? - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOne day when yoga instructor Kari Harendorf was practicing backbends, her dog Charlie padded over and started stretching out beneath her on the hardwood floor. In a flash of insight that may or may not recall some ancient yogic pioneer’s moment of inspiration for Downward and Upward Dog, the ...
Views: 1296 - The Healing Dreams of Grandma - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: I have been reading your book on synchrodestiny, and I started to meditate using the so hum mantra. For my archetypes I picked my grandmother who was very close to me and brought me up until I was about nine, she passed away many years ago. For the first week and up to now I have ...
Views: 1226(2 votes) - A Story of Inspiration: Persistence and Patience Through Pancakes - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSome years ago, after finishing a conference I’d given in the Colombian consulate in Miami to celebrate Colombian Independence Day (the 20th of July), I was approached by a character who always comes vividly to mind when I think of imagination, creativity and persistence. The 55-year-old man ...
Views: 553 - Networking for the Newly Unemployed - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsNow that layoffs are increasing, a new type of networking is emerging that echoes the pink slip parties held during the dot.com bust -- though now unemployment has been hitting just about every type of industry. Besides pink slip parties, there are unemployed groups forming all over, where ...
Views: 703 - Healing By Reconnecting - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA few years ago my husband, Curtis, and I attended a powerful workshop by renowned healer, Eric Pearl in Denver. While we were both already familiar with the concept that energy underlies all things, energy coming from Eric's hands was electric. Having studied Reiki, Chinese Medicine, and ...
Views: 1086 - Nasal Neti Pots and Your Health - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAre you one of the 37 million adults with chronic sinusitis?1 Or perhaps you are one of the 50 million people in the United States routinely affected by allergies?2 If your upper respiratory health is important to you, then a not-so-new technique can be one of your front lines of defense this ...
Views: 1053 - Remember the Sun: The Sun is Always Shining - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThere are times when gloom or darkness causes us to momentarily lose sight of the light. Although it is at these times when the thought of the sun can help us. Its warm, glowing rays brighten even our thoughts, and it's good to remember that despite appearances the sun is shining right now. We ...
Views: 743 - Could the Man I Met Online Be Married? - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: Several weeks ago I met a man through an online dating site. We have a great time together but something about him doesn’t feel right and I cannot put my finger on it. I know that many people who are married or otherwise committed use the Internet to cheat on their partners. How can I ...
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