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- Waiting for Manifestation - by Submitted on Sep 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: How will you know when your intended desire has been asked of the universe? What should you do while waiting for your desires to manifest? I am having trouble letting go, I feel like there has to be something for me to do in the mean time. Answer: Once you have put your ...
Views: 2173(4 votes) - What do you choose? Memoirs from Celebrate Your Life, Chicago - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt has been three days since I left the amazing Celebrate Your Life Event http://www.celebrateyourlife.org in Chicago. As I departed I left an old piece of me there and brought with me a new amazing spirit, a spirit more full of love, joy and light than ever before. I am changed and now choose ...
Views: 940(4 votes) - Palm Lines and Their Meanings: Locate and Interpret the Head Line - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe key points to remember when looking at the lines on the palm are that lines shift and change, and that the quality of a line is one of the most important indicators of a line’s interpretation. Some authors say that they view the lines as energy power lines or as rivers as a way of ...
Views: 8573(5 votes) - Reduce Leadership Friction - by Submitted on Sep 23, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe only thing standing between you and the leadership greatness you want to achieve is friction. Friction is any obstacle or block standing between where you now are and where you've always wanted to be. Outer friction could be relationships at work that are not impeccable, projects that ...
Views: 1124(5 votes) - Diabolical Science Has to End - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt's amazing how far science has gone to destroy life without being blamed. We live in the scientific age, and science's prestige has permitted it to spread far beyond the good it can do. The first shock was the atom bomb in 1945. Only people of that generation recall the deep horror that came ...
Views: 1268(13 votes) - "I Feel Your Pain" Fact or Fiction? - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsBill Clinton famously told Americans, "I feel your pain." Was the Prez speaking truthfully or was he, as his detractors claimed, just an oily politician currying favor from suffering citizens? In the past few years, neuroscientists have discovered that individuals may indeed feel the pain of ...
Views: 803(1 vote) - "Sleep,Thou that Knittest Up the Ravel'd Sleeve of Care...' - by Submitted on Aug 18, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsShakespeare got it right. Sleep, which Macbeth famously says he has murdered, is 'the death of each day's life, sore labor's balm'. It repairs, and knits up again that frayed sleeve of our minds that has been worn through during the labors of the day. But it's also much more than this. I've ...
Views: 2864(1 vote) - "That Didn't Happen": The Importance of Validating Children's Experiences - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI was raised by Cleopatra, the Queen of Denial. Now I love this woman dearly and she has a myriad of good qualities. But dealing with reality is not one of them. But then reality is not always easy to deal with, especially when children are involved. There's a very fine balance between not ...
Views: 608(1 vote) - "Tomorrow, Though, is Another Day" - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI have decided to write this post in regard to our current "economic situation" that our world seems to be suffering from today. On my health and vitality blog, with my personal clients, and in my home with my family I have tried to steer clear of this subject as a whole as it is my sincere ...
Views: 937(1 vote) - 'Enough Already!': The Seduction of Stuff, The Liberation of Gratitude - by Submitted on Aug 12, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHello!! This is my first Intent blog, and I am so honoured and delighted to be joining this community of intention, inspiration and true innovation. As an artist, humanitarian, mother and praise singer, I feel called to sing a song of joy, love and compassion in these magnificent and challenging ...
Views: 798(1 vote) - 10 Small Ways Intent Has Changed My Life: A List - by Submitted on Jul 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHere at Intent.com, we are bombarded with tons of great advice from great people. How many of them actually stick in your head and become a permanent part of your everyday life? Here are ten small things I started doing from being a part of the Intent community. I hope they also inspire you ...
Views: 584(1 vote) - 10 Things You Need to Know About Premonitions - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com Authors1. Premonitions are extremely common. They probably arose early in our evolutionary history because they provided our ancestors with a greater likelihood of survival and procreation. They were thus likely to have been incorporated into their genes and passed down through succeeding generations. ...
Views: 13373(2 votes) - 10 Things You Should Never Do To Volunteers - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsVolunteers make many organizations possible. Volunteers donate their time, effort and often professional expertise in order to help organizations they care about. Yet many organizations don't have a clue how to treat volunteers. In my many years of volunteering at various organizations, I have ...
Views: 2091(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) - 13 Ways to Improve Your Luck - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLuck is thought to happen by chance; it's not thought to be something you can plan for or obtain by intention. Some say luck is decided by our fates, or believe that some fortunate souls are mysteriously born under a lucky star. At quick glance, it might look like there is truth to that. ...
Views: 1925(2 votes) - 20 Rainy Day Activities for Conscious Families - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsBeen raining much in your neighborhood? Kids going crazy from lack of exercise? Parents going crazy from the relentless grayness of it all?? Help. I just sent the boys outside in what has been a constant drizzle since daybreak. I don’t care how wet, muddy or shrunken they ...
Views: 1131(2 votes) - 2009 – Part III – Your Sign and Your Assignments in the Year Ahead - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYour sign is your spiritual tribe. It is the archetype to which you decided to be born in this lifetime. Below you will find a description of the challenging as well as harmonious aspects each tribe will encounter this year. Remember, these do not describe your future but rather the territories ...
Views: 489(1 vote) - 3 Green, Money Saving Workout Tips - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWe all agree that we all need to do a better job conserving our planet’s limited resources, but where do you begin when it comes to making your workout green without busting your budget? Here are 3 simple solutions that will easily help you get green into your workout routine without much ...
Views: 793(1 vote) - 3 Things We Can Learn From Recent Celebrity Passings - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIf you're like many people, you may be scratching your head, wondering how to make sense of the untimely deaths of three high profile people within the span of a few days. For anyone who has ever carried a Michael Jackson lunchbox to school or taped a Farrah Fawcett poster to your dorm room ...
Views: 1078(2 votes) - 4 Links Between Self Awareness and Authentic Relationships - by Submitted on Aug 18, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOne of the crucial steps in maintaining genuine personal connections with others is possessing acute self awareness. Self awareness is the ability to perceive what is going on with you at all times and, this is important, on all your various levels of self. Because this skill is not taught to us ...
Views: 1237(1 vote) - 7 Favorite Vegetarian Recipes from the Internet: A List - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI love being a vegetarian. I never have to worry about undercooking my food, and choosing a dish from a restaurant menu is always ridiculously easy (and sometimes annoying—when all I have for my choices are Salad #1 and Salad #2). This, of course, does not always automatically mean that I am ...
Views: 917(1 vote) - 7 Ways to Live Longer and Healthier - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMy boyfriend went to the dentist yesterday. The one thing amiss? He doesn’t floss enough. Got me thinking – what are all the things you SHOULD be doing for your health, but aren’t? 1.) Flossing daily -- for your heart health. 2.) Sleeping 7+ hours a night (So many pros to sleeping ...
Views: 820(1 vote) - 8 Signs That You Are Avoiding "YOU"... - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHere are 8 signs that you're in reaction...you're moving away from a feeling or experience rather than moving toward wholeness in that moment: 1. You’re suffering. Your motivation is to get away from the pain or discomfort - whether it is physical or emotional - not because you’ve ...
Views: 783(4 votes) - 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) - A Big Blow - by Submitted on Aug 23, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI should be jumping with joy. All our class XII students have passed their examinations and this for the 8th year running. But before I could get down and savour the good news a mail dropped in my inbox informing me that one of our main donors would not be able to meet their monthly commitment ...
Views: 1165(2 votes) - A Bowl of Cherries - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsPublished in The Broomfield Enterprise, 3/2/08 It’s hard to tell which is the culprit–the dark, indoor days of winter, the long work hours of her husband’s busy season, or the hormonal shifts of her third pregnancy. Cherries These feelings of isolation are ones my girlfriend is ...
Views: 599(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) - 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) - A Huge Miracle - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsManu is back in class and he is back with his long lost smile. For all of us at pwhy it is a huge miracle. For many months we feared for his life though we kept a brave face. His body had almost given up as he suffered multi organ failure: his liver and kidneys had almost packed up with the ...
Views: 1091(4 votes) - A Life Of Service: For Love, Money or Both? - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe recession may not only be changing household budgets and habits, but also challenging longstanding gender roles. The New York Times reported that 82 percent of the job losses in the recent months have befallen men. For many households this means that women who once were full-time ...
Views: 853(2 votes) - A Lover's Touch - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhen you think of touch, you might think of touching with your hands, but one of the best ways to improve the quality of touch is by using the body itself. Try this – embrace your partner in a hug. Continue to hug for a bit longer than you might normally. Allow yourselves to really feel each ...
Views: 733(1 vote) - A Loving Connection with Nature - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAccording to some environmental psychologists, children are happiest when they have access to nature—even if it is as slight as a view looking outside. Research proves that children with disabilities show an improvement in self-image and behavior when they are able to play in nature. In the ...
Views: 671(1 vote) - A Message of Light - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2009 from Intent.com Authors"Light! More light!" howled Goethe before he died. Dear Loved Ones, You have been called to be who you are -- the whole luminous light. No one can dim your light when you are fully present to the depth and breadth of it. No one can say no to a light so bright. No one can deny who you are ...
Views: 791(1 vote) - A Military Solution to a War on Terrorism is Doomed - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt's a sore temptation to hunt down Osama bin Laden - one of the most consistent campaign promises made by President Obama - and yet there are strong arguments against it. U.S. forces would have to penetrate deep into provincial Pakistan and perhaps even conduct house-to-house searches. Such ...
Views: 905(1 vote) - A Reader's Question: There is Chemistry, and She is Ready, But He Won’t Keep His Dates - by Submitted on Aug 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHi Margaret Ruth, I feel really confused. I just recently broke up with a long term boyfriend (one that I knew would not be one I was going to keep). Two weekends ago though I was out and I looked over at the bartender and realized I knew him from years ago. We used to work together. So I ...
Views: 546(2 votes) - A Second Defense of Nadya Suleman, Mother of Octuplets - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn my first post about the octomom, I received almost nothing but criticism. People commented on my blog and also sent personal emails letting me know that they disagreed with me and did so fiercely. In the days since that post, even more tidbits about Nadya Sulemon have been released, and the ...
Views: 611(1 vote) - A Sign of the Times: Homeless Veterans - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWe’ve all seen a homeless man on a street corner holding a cardboard sign that read something like, “Homeless Veteran…Can You Help?” We might have asked ourselves, “Could that sign be true?” The answer is YES! How many homeless veterans are there? Who are these homeless veterans? How ...
Views: 858(1 vote) - A Story For You About My Bad CARma - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAs you know from my letter last week, I've got a really amazing FREE call coming up this Thursday about how to take your years of experience in personal growth, consciousness, and wellness and translate it into an aligned and authentic business that genuinely helps people and creates great ...
Views: 858(1 vote) - About Boys, and the Mothers Who Love Them - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAs a single mother raising two boys, there is still much about parenting that is a mystery to me. My father calls my children, “The Destroyers.” Observed from a certain perspective, he would be correct. But maybe not. Raising sons – or at least, raising my sons – has given me a new ...
Views: 844(1 vote) - Accountability and Sunshine in the Stimulus Process - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDebunking the “Prioritization Failure” Myth in the Economic Stimulus The new perceived “crisis” in the stimulus initiative is the claim that there is no way to prioritize projects to get the greatest value from taxpayer dollars. It’s true that not every “shovel ready” project merits ...
Views: 690(1 vote) - Addicted to Spending? Try the Yogic Way of Greedless-ness - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe cover headline of AM New York newspaper reads today, “Need for Greed”. The article that follows discusses about the bonuses given to AIG executives, Citigroup’s multimillion office renovations, and how greed plays itself out in these big companies, for these big people. But what about ...
Views: 1042(1 vote) - Addiction to the Self - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: Addiction is defined as “the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, such as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma.” What makes so many of us prone to addiction in its various ...
Views: 793(2 votes) - Adopt To Save the Planet - by Submitted on Aug 19, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOne of the best things we can do is adopt. No, I am not referring to the adoption of a child, but to a different kind of adopting. I am talking about a much easier and simpler form of adoption, and that is adopting your environment. There are so many organizations that let you adopt your ...
Views: 646(1 vote) - All About Stevia - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhat could we possibly have in common with the ancient Guarani people of Paraguay? The Guarani are responsible for one of the best nutritional discoveries of recent centuries because just like us, they appreciated sweet tasting foods and drinks! As many as 1500 years ago, the Guarani ...
Views: 981(1 vote) - Anything's Possible When There's No Unfinished Business - by Submitted on Aug 16, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsFor nine years, I have been leading Shadow Process workshops and training programs around the world with amazing people. I've met thousands of people who picked up one of my books, came to one of my workshops, or enrolled in one of my training programs because there was some area of their lives ...
Views: 614(1 vote) - Are You (your body) Tripping? Where Does and Doesn’t Acidity Benefit Us and How Can We Alkalinize? - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSick all the time, worried about bone density, battling frequent skin blemishes and / or digestive complaints? An overly acidic system could be the (part of) culprit. Why? Bad bacteria (skin, immunity, digestions issues) and viruses (immunity) thrive in an acidic environment, the body removes ...
Views: 783(1 vote) - Are You Feeling Exasperated by the World Economic Affairs? - by Submitted on Jul 16, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDing Dong the Wild Rich is banging his head... Rattling & Rolling with his bed sheets flying and bed bugs crying. His head begins to feel like lead He states, "How do we survive the world climate this date?" Wild Rich has been led astray, recoiling further into his head. But wait...it ...
Views: 734(1 vote) - Are You Suffering from the Impostor Syndrome? - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDo you live with a chronic case of self-doubt? Do you feel like you don’t deserve your success? You might have the impostor syndrome which is a real, psychological disorder. While men can have this syndrome, it affects mostly women. The impostor syndrome involves feeling unworthy, like a fake; ...
Views: 580(1 vote) - 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) - Awakening our Children - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsCan you think of a greater gift for our children than the possibility of allowing them to grow up in a world full of conscious development and potential? You can do this, even if these wonderful options were not available to you as a child.As parents, we can give our children the gift of an ...
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