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- Should You Go to Work if You're Feeling Sick? - by Submitted on May 25, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn regular times, many argue they can’t “afford” to get sick. More so in a recession, many will rather go to work sick than miss their pay even if this means that they may get sicker at the job or that they may get other people sick at work. Sometimes, parents send their sick children to ...
Views: 569 - The Heart Knows, The Heart Heals - by Submitted on Jul 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe heart is your great communicator. It communicates with all the parts of your body, and with your brain. It communicates with the outside environment, picking up signals through its electromagnetic field, especially emotional responses. Your senses—sight, sound, smell, taste and feel—tell ...
Views: 569 - Three Mother's Day Celebrations - by Submitted on May 19, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOn this morning's walk, we (three dogs and I) were joined by my daughter who walked alongside us with her bicycle. She was heading to work. I was carrying a box of compostable materials down to the recycle bin at the bottom of the hill. The dogs were sniffing new spring wildflowers and marking ...
Views: 569 - Change Begins with Parenting - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDo you feel the energetic vibration pulsating across the country? It’s called change. Our nation as we know it is about to undergo a massive alteration. Our new leader, President Barack Obama, is calling for us to transform our ways. The president is asking congressional leaders to join ...
Views: 568(1 vote) - Insights on Healing: A Deeper Understanding of Unity Consciousness - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYour body is not a structure, it is a process. Your body, the ecosystem, and the universe are all one process. When we look deeply within any structure it becomes obvious that structures are perceptual artifacts. Even a rock is made up of minerals, which are molecules, which are in turn composed ...
Views: 568(1 vote) - What's Your Favorite Breakfast Food? - by Submitted on Jul 23, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHave an interesting question you would like to pose to the Intent community? Write up a question, add a brief description, and don't forget tag your blog post QOD. It just might be featured for a future Question of the Day! Though I love my sleep, I love my rare mornings when I wake up ...
Views: 568(1 vote) - Do you have a story to share? - by Submitted on Jul 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMy main intent and maybe even raison d’etre is to help you discover your most authentic, happy, and compassionate self. Toward that end, I’m seeking stories of people who’ve become under- or unemployed since the economy avalanched. I want to hear what they (you/us) want others who remain ...
Views: 567(2 votes) - Speed of Eating and Fullness: The Waiting Game Solution - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhile the disappearance of hunger is almost instantaneous after you start eating, the arrival of pleasant fullness takes some time. The less you eat during the time that it takes the stomach to notify your brain that it is full, the less you will overeat. The solution is obvious: slow ...
Views: 567 - Spring Renewal: Today is the Day! - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsToday is the day when any thoughts you might have for Spring renewal are especially powerful, because today is also a new moon. The new moon is always an auspicious day for new beginnings. So, today is the first new moon of Spring--what a great day for starting something new! According to ...
Views: 566 - The Power of Less to Get More Done - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSuccess breeds complexity. {Do you really think Tim Ferris, author of the bestseller, The 4 Hour Work Week works only 4 hours a week?} Simplicity and traditional success are a tricky combo. The masters of it are exceptions. They are also chilled, prosperous and rarely in a rush. Leo Babauta ...
Views: 566(2 votes) - How Do We Feed Vegetarian Kids? - by Submitted on Aug 19, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsFor different reasons, significant numbers of kids are choosing a vegetarian diet. As I recently discussed on Good Morning America and GMA Health (watch them here), a vegetarian diet can be an extremely healthy nutrition plan for a child as well as an adult. I wanted to follow-up those pieces ...
Views: 565(1 vote) - One More Message on Wellness: Share Your Opinion With Others! - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAs our theme on Intent.com this week is defining the meaning of wellness, I cannot emphasize enough how important it is for each and every one of us to articulate our own personal definition of what wellness means to us. This is the first important step in changing ourselves for the better. This ...
Views: 565(1 vote) - Six Tips for Keeping School-Day Mornings Calm and Cheery - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI had a major insight about the challenge of keeping our school-day mornings moving along smoothly and peacefully. Here’s the insight: I was focused on chivvying my children along. Wrong! I needed to worry about ME. When I work on my own habits, mornings are much easier. Here are some tips ...
Views: 565(1 vote) - Smaller Can Most Definitely Be Better - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI’m just back from a delicious, envigorating, visit to Bay Path College in Longmeadow, Mass. Suzanne Strempek Shea (whom some of you may know from her exquisite writing in Sundays in America and Shelf Life, amongst other things) had arranged for me to give a talk on the six archetypes, and to ...
Views: 565 - The Importance of Focus - by Submitted on Sep 08, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThere are many distractions in the world. This would be a good day for you to focus. Focus on your needs, as well as, the needs of others. Keep the needs of yourself and the needs of the self in balance. You will notice that you and others have this need to keep life in balance. There is a ...
Views: 565(2 votes) - The Silent Chef Speaks - by Submitted on Aug 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAnyone who has worked in the food service industry knows what a hectic, fast paced life it entails. Those who have started their own restaurant know that it can be an all consuming process that requires 24/7 attention. Recipes and menus need to be created, systems developed, staff trained, walls ...
Views: 565(1 vote) - When It Comes to Being in the Flow, I Think I am a Barnacle. - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI realized lately that I am a barnacle. I find things I like, such as people, activities, ideas and possessions, grab on and settle in. On one level, I know I should be flowing with my energy and interests, or being in the flow of my life. The act and art of being Human is reflected in the verb: ...
Views: 565(3 votes) - Be Like Water - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThere is a theme that runs throughout the Tao Te Ching and it is to Be Like Water. This is a potent metaphor that I have been reflecting on recently. There are many incredible attributes of water, but there are two in particular that I want to highlight for helping you live a peaceful and joyous ...
Views: 564 - Dealing with the Past Can Only Happen NOW - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI had just taken a book I was packing for a trip OUT of my suitcase, feeling that I needed a break from anything "heavy" and needed to just have some pure R&R. The book is called "Unattended Sorrow." I came back to my desk, intending to post on Intent about the subject of sleep, something I am ...
Views: 564 - Leap Before You Look - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn our American culture it has been taught for a long time that the important things are outside of us…that we are meant to compete, achieve and bring home more goodies than our neighbor. This outlook on living has been going on for so long that it has actually become considered a bold and ...
Views: 564 - Spring, and how we see it - by Submitted on Jul 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe trees are looking a bit more promising these days. The twigs that looked so bare and naked in January have now, even at a distance, gained substance; and close inspection reveals that buds are waiting to make themselves known. Each year Nature does this and each year we think it’s doing ...
Views: 564(2 votes) - Things or Experiences: Which Do You REALLY Want? - by Submitted on Aug 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsBy Noah St. John, Author of The Secret Code of Success The new car, the big house, a million dollars. Once you have all those things, then you’ll be happy. Right? You sure? Remember that last possession you just “had” to have? It’s probably sitting in your home or garage somewhere. ...
Views: 564(2 votes) - This Week on Intent: Tell Us How to Eat Healthier - by Submitted on Sep 30, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThis week on Intent, we want to hear your tips, tricks and advice on eating healthier. Should we plan ahead our meals? Is it a matter of preparing ourselves emotionally when the munchies strike? Whether you keep a food journal or you simply want to share some healthy snack recipes, we want to ...
Views: 564(1 vote) - To Hold Hope In My Heart - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMy intent this week: To hold hope in my heart! Every week I write a prediction- based on the energy of the coming week- and include a message, like a poem to stimulate meditation . This week’s prediction was rather long- so I’ve left out the meditation- you can find it all at my blog on ...
Views: 564 - Breastfeeding Part II: Sexual or Spiritual? - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhen I read a passage in Ina May Gaskin’s book that suggested that breastfeeding can be a sexual experience I nearly fell out of bed. Sexual? Was she kidding? I felt as though nursing was one of the least sexual experiences. I had heard women say that breastfeeding was physically pleasureful. ...
Views: 563(1 vote) - Living Like Water (Part II) - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsContinuing along with the theme of flowing like water, I wanted to share the following excerpt from the book "I AM THAT" by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. In the book, a questioner is asking Maharaj (an enlightened master) how to achieve freedom or liberation. Maharaj says "Inertia and ...
Views: 563(1 vote) - Moving a Single Muscle - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI have no particular aversion to exercise. As a matter of fact, I rather enjoy it! The obvious problem is once you stop exercising for any period of time it is difficult to jump-start the process again. You know you have let your wellness level suffer. You know you will have to work very hard ...
Views: 563(1 vote) - Expanding Their Vision: Nine Ways To Help Others Awaken to Consciousness - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2009 from Intent.com Authors1. Living by your values allows you to become a positive source of inspiration for others. Don't hide; express yourself and embrace life without reservation. By simply being yourself, you can help the people in your life see how one person can make a difference by being a living example of ...
Views: 562(1 vote) - It Takes Two Healthy Joyful Whole People to Make One Healthy Joyful Whole Relationship - by Submitted on Sep 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThere is an American myth that two halves can come together in a loving relationship and become whole. However, contrary to cultural myths, close intimate relationships are not additive, where one half plus one half equals one. Close relationships are actually multiplicative. It is the whole ...
Views: 562(4 votes) - It's All About You! - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsConscious parenting means taking better care of ourselves, so we can take better care of our children. I had three unplanned hours to myself the other day. It was rather strange. A family friend had just pulled out of the driveway with boys in tow, on their way to a baseball game. I ...
Views: 562(1 vote) - No More Bedwetting: Secrets of Success with Imagery for Kids - by Submitted on May 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWet bed again! How many mornings have you reached your child's bedroom hoping for a dry bed. Just this once. And instead, the sheets are soaked. You expected this at 3 or 4 or 5 years old, but not at 7 or 8 or 12 or 13, or even older. And how embarrassing for your child after all this time. ...
Views: 562(1 vote) - Stop Fighting - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI hadn't realized, but I was fighting things most of my life. It still happens, but I'm learning now that life can flow easily if we stop fighting. That's where peace is found. What do we fight? We fight what happens to us, what other people say about us, we fight our own thoughts or ...
Views: 562(1 vote) - The Mirroring World: We Are Like Nature - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsNature is a mirror, inspiring and teaching us, deepening our sense of belonging in the world. Wherever you look, you can see that our patterns and the patterns of the natural world are the same. You can find this resonance in every form, from molecules to plants and animals and to planets. We ...
Views: 562 - Spiritually Lonely: Transforming Your Internal Landscape - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: I have changed my life and every day I am learning and growing spiritually, I have notice that the friends I have do not interest me anymore, even my family seems to be taking second place and this makes me feel so alone I feel like I have no one, my spiritual life comes first before ...
Views: 561 - Swine Flu Survival: The Science of a Single Sneeze (and Three Simple Ways to Protect Yourself) - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA single sneeze propels 100,000 droplets into the air at around 90 mph, landing on door knobs, ATM keypads, elevator buttons, escalator railings, and grocery cart handles. In a subway station at rush hour, according to British researchers, as many as 10 percent of all commuters can come in ...
Views: 561 - The Distraction of “God” - by Submitted on Aug 16, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: I have read a number of your books, including "How to know God". Let me say, I had a conventional Protestant upbringing, but I soon rejected the "prison of social conditioning", as you call it, and became an evolutionist and agnostic. Whenever I hear the word God, I see the old ...
Views: 561(1 vote) - What Do You Want to Launch from Within You? - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThere is no Wikipedia page for these words. I had to laugh. Launch codes have been the two-word threat of my generation. They’re primarily Cold War-based, and hooked to the use of nuclear weaponry. Really, they imply the ability to set off world-altering events with the flick of a switch. ...
Views: 561 - Dreaming Your Inner Light Into Reality - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHoovert was a child who, due to reject, fell right down into the bowels of the earth; down there where drugs like ‘bazuco’ and crack cocaine are kings of the darkness because they are the only foundations able to support the torture of being forced to live in a sewer. And as if such conditions ...
Views: 560 - Everything Depends on Us: The Disillusion of Giving with Expectation - by Submitted on Jun 08, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsGiving in the hope of receiving isn’t giving, it’s lending; and when you lend you’re at great risk of not being paid back. More than 25 years ago I had a painful and frustrating experience which made me understand that only when you give to others unconditionally and without expectations do ...
Views: 560 - Obama Pledges Summer Jobs: 600,000 of 'Em - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThis morning thousands of Americans who otherwise envisioned themselves pounding the pavement and collecting unemployment checks this summer received some good news: With the aid of Vice President Biden, President Obama unveiled the Roadmap to Recovery, an aggressive extension of the Recovery ...
Views: 560 - The Tree of Knowledge - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: I have another question. Tree of Knowledge in Christianity: So Adam and Eve symbolically eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge and then they saw they were naked. Since I was a young girl I have been searching for Truth. I equate truth with knowledge. Then this new thought ...
Views: 560 - Thinking and Speaking with Love - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhen we think positively and speak lovingly, everything changes. If we understand that everything is simple and tell our loved ones how much we care for them in time, it follows that our relationships will be truly harmonious and full of love. But unfortunately, much of the time, it is only when ...
Views: 560(3 votes) - Why do we wander? to escape, to get lost, to be found, or to discover? - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhy do we wander? What triggers hearts, minds, feet to roam? Do we go away to find fresh satisfaction in the return? Or do we stray to escape, to get lost, to be found, or to discover? I do a fair amount of roving myself. My ostensible reason is usually a bone-deep hunger for warm rushing ...
Views: 560(2 votes) - A Step in the Right Direction - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYogi Berra is one of the most popular and beloved baseball players of all time. In addition to winning ten World Series rings and being inducted into the Hall of Fame, Yogi Berra is well known for his poignant, yet often confusing sayings. “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over”, “When you come to a ...
Views: 559 - Future Chimp - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA report in the latest issue of the journal Current Biology chronicles the adventures of a Santino, a chimp at Sweden's Furuvik Zoo. Apparently the 30-year-old chimp began evidencing some aggressive behavior eleven years ago when he was 19--about the time chimps, in their maturity, seek to ...
Views: 559 - Leverage More Coping Out of Emotional Eating: Make It More Mindful - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYou have two options in regard to emotional eating: you can try to eliminate it altogether or you can try to make better use of it by making emotional eating more conscious. The latter would be consistent with the goals of harm reduction, a humanistic form of psychotherapy that offers a ...
Views: 559 - The Quarter - by Submitted on May 26, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt had been 3 ½ years since he last stood in this very spot. He didn’t remember the light reflecting so uncomfortably in his eyes back then. He shifted back to his left. It was 3 ½ years ago that Jack had stood in front of the giant Zoltar-like machine, looking a thousand time more confident ...
Views: 558 - Effort and Understanding: Having It Easy - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOur lives are an exercise in facing challenges. We dream the grandest of dreams as youngsters only to discover that we must cultivate copious inner strength and determination in order to meet our goals. Our hard work does not always yield the results we expect. And it is when we find ourselves ...
Views: 557(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 - Mississippi Shining: Good News for All - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe election of James A. Young as the democratic candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, Mississippi, is the living proof of the Taoist adage, "Furthering through Perseverance." In 1964, in Philadelphia, three civil rights workers who were in Mississippi to register black voters were murdered. ...
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