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- Bringing Romance Back - by Romance dies, that’s a fact, right? When you find the love of your life, you'll both settle into a daily routine of financial, household, and child responsibilities, forgetting you are a couple, right? Romance will only last through the initial crush of the relationship. After that you and your ...
Views: 670 - Compassion, Part 1 - by "Before we can feel compassion for anyone else, we must learn to feel compassion for ourselves."
~Unknown
Webster's Dictionary defines compassion as the sympathetic consciousness of other's distress. But the first step toward having compassion for others is having compassion for yourself. It ...
Views: 670 - Everyday Spirituality - by In this world where technology has eclipsed our humanity, many of us are looking for a way to operate in our lives that fulfills our spiritual nature. People have tried different religions or disciplines with varying degrees of success or failure. They have taken motivational workshops to try to ...
Views: 670 - Love At Home - by It's Valentine's Day. This day focused on expressions of love can be wonderful. Unexpected flowers arrive. Gold embossed boxes of delicious chocolates are given. Cute stuffed animals proclaiming love are exchanged. Great start! A good beginning. The important question, though, is: "Do you ...
Views: 670 - False Advertising or the Benefit of Being All of You - by Imagine that you go to a car dealership and buy a sports car. You take it home, park it in your garage and turn in for the night. The next morning you open up your garage and find a luxury coupe. The sports car is nowhere in sight. Read on to find out what happened with your sports car.
In the ...
Views: 668 - Meeting the Enemy--and It's You! - by How often have you started a fitness program, decided to learn a new skill, promised yourself to paint your living room or finish a landscaping project, only to encounter seemingly endless resistance? Sometimes the resistance is generated internally; sometimes it comes from external sources such ...
Views: 668 - Relationships - by One of the things that strikes me about relationships is that this is an area of great challenge for very many people, and that we are currently having to look at our thinking about relationships in a way that people of our parents' generation didn't have to.
Last weekend, I completed the ...
Views: 668 - Ten Ways to Blow It in a Relationship - by What do you do when you've attracted a lovely person into your life and now you're terrified you're going to blow it? Or, terrified it's going to end?
Arm yourself with the following strategies, and you're sure to blow it in a relationship right from the start.
1. Assume the person is your ...
Views: 668 - The Vacuum Law of Prosperity - by The universe cannot put good into your hand, until you let go ofwhat you are holding in it.
If you walk down the beach, you leave footprints in the sand.But give the wind and the waves a few minutes, and those trackswill be filled in. Just as vegetation will cover a field and anagenda expands ...
Views: 668 - WHY GO AGAINST THE VERY THING THAT MADE YOU SUCCESSFUL? - by Hey Doc,
I'm a freelance designer in my thirties who has been working for a company off and on for about six months. At this company, there is one girl in particular that I've grown very fond of.
Lately, I've been a little flirtier with her and she's responded with smiles. I haven't ...
Views: 668 - Fear or Confidence: Which Are You Choosing? - by Fear can be the greatest motivator, but it is also the number one cause of stress,
which leads to effort, struggle, suffering, accidents, pain and disease. Fear wears
many masks, some of which include:
¡¤ Fear of rejection
¡¤ Fear of failure
¡¤ Fear of losing ...
Views: 667 - How to Relax - by Talk your way out of a stressful situation
"I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!" - Anon
Poor communication causes huge amounts of stress - families are miserable, marriages break up, doctors and ...
Views: 667 - Our Closet Memory - by He was my first born. He was my baby. He was so incredibly bright, sweet and unique. He was 19 years old.
There's nothing that could have prepared me for this day or kept it from hurting. I just wasn't ready. But he was. So I helped him move.
After 19 years of knowing where he was all ...
Views: 667 - Prioritizing: Getting Somewhere - by A very helpful way to thinking about stress is that it often results from our failure to live up to our own standards and goals. Psychotherapists hear over and over again from patients that they are never satisfied with themselves. Often the patient is excessively perfectionistic; sometimes the ...
Views: 666 - The Single Experience - It's in the Starts - by Some more baying at the moon from.....
The Single Experience
It's in the Stars
Well, I thought that being single already had enough hurtles to bound, but I have found yet another. Along with all the other impossibilities involved in ‘second time around’ relationships, it now seems that on top ...
Views: 666 - Magnetic Fields as a Form of Energy Medicine - by Just imagine, reaching into the body and healing an imbalance without touching anything. This is what medical magnetic fields do. This is the essence of energy medicine. These magnetic “waves” are the future medicine. Magnetic field devices becoming available to the public deliver fields to ...
Views: 665 - Sam, My Border Collie's Internet Marketing Advice! No 14 - by You have permission to publish this article electronically or in print, FREE of charge, as long as the bylines are included and you only mail to a 100% opt-in list.
Sam (that's my 12 year old Border Collie) and I were walking again through the Bush (Australian countryside). Sam as usual was ...
Views: 665 - What You Focus Your Attention on Is What You Get! - by Cheryl Richardson, a favorite author and fellow coach, has written a new book called "Stand Up for Your Life". In this book she talks about how our society tends to "bond over stress instead of success". I see this in action every day in my own life and in the lives of my clients.
We tend to ...
Views: 665 - How to Choose a Partner - by There are many single people looking for a relationship, but not necessarily finding the one. I hear it all the time in my practice. Single clients and friends tell me they have tried personal ads, dating services and the Internet. Some get their friends to set them up on blind dates. Many go to ...
Views: 664 - Love it or Lose it - by A lot of people have lost their jobs due to offshore outsourcing. There is a deeper spiritual issue at play here. Many people who worked in these “Level 1” support positions took the job because it was there. Were they really happy about the work they were doing? Sure, it paid the bills, but did ...
Views: 664(1 vote) - Making Miracles - The Chewy Surprise Inside - by In the Bible, there are many recorded instances of miracles occurring. In the Old Testament, Moses is said to have brought plagues of frogs and locusts upon the Egyptians, parted the Red Sea, and rained "manna" from the sky. Likewise, in the New Testament, Jesus said is to have turned water ...
Views: 664 - Who Else Wants To Burn Fat? - by When you eat food, the food is broken down and suppliesenergy to different parts of the body. It's the ratethat this happens that's called metabolism.
How you eat and what you do, CAN make a difference on thespeed that your body burns calories. By using these 7 Super Techniques you'll have ...
Views: 664 - Ayurveda and Relationships - by Ask anyone and you’ll get the same answer: What’s the most important thing in life? Love! We want to be in love, and we want that love to last. So how do we go about finding that one person to share our lives with? And how do we live happily ever after with that person once we find him or her? ...
Views: 663 - Be Consistent to Be Successful - by When you take a moment to think about your self-esteem, what comes to mind? STOP READING NOW! Take that moment...what does come to mind?
Do you immediately tell yourself what you do well? Do you remember all the good that you do? Terrific! Many folks have a tendency to first notice the places ...
Views: 663 - Could Things Have Been Different? - by Happy people never concern themselves with past events, and never question whether they or anyone else could have done something other than what they did.
But unhappy people think that they or someone else could have done something differently, or could have spoken, or thought, or felt ...
Views: 663 - Is Acid Weighing you down? - by The body is naturally acidic. This is a true statement. However, the foods we eat add to this acidity and the fat in our body stores the additional acid, which results in overweight problems and an unhealthy body. There are specific foods that are alkaline and help to flush the acid and fat from ...
Views: 663 - Making Mistakes and Redefining Success - by One of the most common reasons we don't set and achieve goals is our fear that we might make a mistake. We want to be guaranteed that we will succeed before we step out and take any risks. Yet in waiting for this elusive guarantee we overlook a basic truth: mistakes are the way we ...
Views: 663 - Top Ten Ways to Attract Prosperity - by "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." - William James
1. Be Clear About What You Want
What would your life look like if you had all that you wanted? Sometimes in the midst ...
Views: 662 - I Wonder Where the Wonder Went - by I was a fifth grader the first time I flew on a commercial flight. I remember being amazed that I could get all the soft drinks I wanted for free. I remember the wonder of looking out at the clouds and the topography far below. I remember watching us land. The entire thing was a great adventure ...
Views: 661 - Self-Sabotaged by Research - by A woman in my MasterMind group posed a question today: why did she spend all her time doing research and never actually go on with "doing" the thing she was researching? She loved looking up information, finding resources, interviewing people, gathering facts. But taking these facts and applying ...
Views: 661 - Where Can I Buy Endurance? - by When I joined the network marketing business, I didn't realize that I had signed up to run a marathon, did you?! And now I'm realizing that this marathon will probably take a few years to finish! Huh? Say what?
I'm in a big hurry to cross that finish line and claim my prizes, aren't you? I'm ...
Views: 661 - Whose Thought Is It Anyway - by Winter is finally yielding to spring in the New England town I live in. I woke up this morning excited to go outside for a walk to feel the warming air and sunshine on my face. As I walked briskly throughout my neighborhood I was grateful for my life and all my blessings.
As I was breathing in ...
Views: 661 - NeW Things :) - by As you sit there reading the words that are on your screen, you have thoughts and feelings in response to what it is that you are reading. And as you continue reading this you might be surprised to find that your curiousity begins to grow as you continue reading this again and again. You’ve came ...
Views: 660 - Stress and your weight - by "I'm putting myself on a strict diet. I'm not going to eat between snacks"
"Lose 30 pounds in ten minutes!!" scream the banners and book titles. "The miracle way to guaranteed weight loss!! The bad news? There are no quick fixes for being overweight - or for the stresses of modern life. ...
Views: 660 - Know No Fear!! - by The Greatest Wonders of the World we'll never know for they were destroyed before they were even built by the great enemy of man - Fear!
That's my take on Fear but here's some notable and famous quotes:
"Our deepest Fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest Fear is that we are powerful ...
Views: 659 - Living From Trust - by What I didn't realize was that I was literally draining my energy from the present out into the future. I remember saying to myself things like, "I'll have more tomorrow if only this would change" or "If I only had more intuition...I wish I had more wisdom...maybe tomorrow..." Without realizing ...
Views: 659 - The Light of Love - by THE LIGHT OF LOVE: Creating a powerful spiritual experience--an attunement adapted by Ron Scolastico, taught by the Guides:
In my many years of teaching individuals how to have a profound spiritual experience, I have found that the greatest obstacle for most people is the distraction of the ...
Views: 659 - The Power of One Day - by As I speak to different groups I hear what makes a difference in people's lives--how one conversation, one sentence, one meeting, one phone call, one radio program can put an idea in someone’s head that sticks there and won’t leave until action is taken and things become different.
There is ...
Views: 659 - Five Ways You Can Help - by In light of what happened on September 11, we all have been struggling with ways to cope with this tragedy. The Expanding Light would like to offer the support we (Ananda Sanga) have been given from our community, to you, our larger spiritual community. These are some tools to deal with this ...
Views: 658 - Choose Like Einstein - by Albert Einstein gave us a truthful, if playful, formula. He said, "If A = success, the formula is A = X + Y with X being work, Y being play and Z, keeping your mouth shut.”
I cannot imagine there is anyone who, at some point, has not kicked themselves for saying something when that something ...
Views: 657 - Escaping the Two-Income Trap - by "The Two-Income Trap -- Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers are Going Broke," by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi, describes an escalating condition in American family finances:
“…the people who consistently rank in the worst financial trouble are united by one surprising ...
Views: 657(2 votes) - Escaping the Two-Income Trap - by "The Two-Income Trap -- Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers are Going Broke," by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi, describes an escalating condition in American family finances:
“…the people who consistently rank in the worst financial trouble are united by one surprising ...
Views: 657(1 vote) - The Curious George Factor: The Fuel For Personal Manifesting - by In my book, "The Manifesting Mindset", I listed and elaborated on 12 key manifesting principles & strategies.
Since then, I've gotten to know many mentors who privately teach others, practically 'behind closed doors', the personal art of deliberate attraction (also known as conscious ...
Views: 657 - The Uncertainty Principle - by Two sailors ran into each other in a pub. Over a few beers, one of the men told the other about his last voyage: "After a month at sea," he said, "we discovered our masts had been eaten through by termites! Almost nothing left of them."
"That's terrible," said the second sailor.
"That's what I ...
Views: 657 - Turn A Difficult Customer Into Your Ally - by Having spent many years consulting Information Technology (IT) type companies and supervising IT projects I have learned one thing? IT people are very analytical. In fact, they can be down right difficult to communicate with.
I must admit, working with these people is not always easy and many ...
Views: 657 - Mirroring - by What if events and conversations in your daily life are a direct reflection of where you are in your inner life?
Recently I had a conversation with my mother. As she was speaking, I thought, "She's not acknowledging me." It really bothered me, and my feelings were hurt. The next day as I was ...
Views: 656 - What is coaching? - by Simply put, people want more out of life. A quality of life, if you will. They are turning to external sources namely coaches, to assist them in achieving their personal goals and outcomes. Coaches have ventured beyond the boardroom when selling their services. Individuals at all levels and ...
Views: 656 - 5 Keys to Fulfilling Work - by Can you have fulfilling work? You bet! Here¡¦s 5 steps to get you started.
1. Define what fulfillment means to you. Only you know from your deepest core what a fulfilled life looks like. When you hear the word fulfillment, what do you imagine? A huge bank account, a luxurious home, a loving ...
Views: 655 - Maybe it's Good - by I'd done a lot of walking in the last two days and my feet hurt. Of course, I didn't like it. It's obviously a sign I'm getting old. It's a bad thing. "But maybe it's good," I said to myself, "in fact, maybe it's perfect. Maybe it's strengthening the bones in my feet and when I'm old I'll be ...
Views: 655 - Open Up the Flow to a Fulfilled Life - by I had a really neat experience this morning. I was having a conversation with a friend when he suddenly asked me to chat with his wife and briefly explain what "life coaching" was about. Although I was a bit surprised by his sudden request, I happily agreed.
Within seconds, I heard his wife ...
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