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- ***A lesson in grief - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2012 from Adele McDowellThis summer, I had the opportunity to visit sunny, palm-treed southern California, where it kisses the blue, blue of the Pacific Ocean. It is a beautiful part of the world. I had the great honor and privilege of presenting my new work -- and still in-process book – Making Peace with Suicide at ...
Views: 2751(1 vote) - When You Can’t Stop Crying - by Submitted on Sep 25, 2012 from Kristie BlankenshipWhen You Can’t Stop Crying! Friend, let me be there for you! I may not know you, but I know how it feels when you can’t stop crying. Pain and the accompanying broken heart and anguish and despair sometimes overwhelm us to the point that all we can do is cry. Sometimes just the littlest ...
Views: 4330 - ***Are you or someone you love going through health hell? - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2012 from Adele McDowellBad diagnosis? Very bad diagnosis and you are trying to keep it together for family and friends. There are days you are so freakin’ tired and scared out of your socks. You beg and plead with God, “Please let me see my daughter make it through high school.” You hold on to every slimmer of ...
Views: 2232(1 vote) - What You Don't Know About Computers Can Hurt You - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2012 from patricia gainesWith the recent hacking of social sites, and the traumatic experiences that are in my book about identity theft and identity fraud, gives me even more reason to pause. Our privacy has been compromised for years. Yet, no one actually takes the time to really listen to what is “really” being ...
Views: 1295 - Spiritual Meaning, Science, and Personal Growth - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2012 from Andrew CortYears ago, I realized that the primary cause of all our world’s problems and difficulties is the loss of any real sense of life’s meaning and significance. We live in a scientific and commercial age, an age of rationality and utility. This is the culmination of the great humanitarian agenda of ...
Views: 1285 - What to do while we wait for God’s answer. - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2012 from Janet Perez Eckles“How did they get to Paris without me?” my friend said when she got the news from the airline. Has that happened to you? You reach your destination and your luggage ends up in another part of the world. Frustrating. But not as much as missing your connecting flight because the previous ...
Views: 2150 - Learning Chinese food culture - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2012 from james tomaLearning Chinese should be established on the basis of in-depth understanding of Chinese culture. China has 5,000 years of history, the formation of extremely rich and deep cultural traditions. To Learn Chinese culture is a very effective way to learn Chinese. In traditional Chinese culture, ...
Views: 2661 - The Road Less Travelled – tides of affairs in your life! - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2012 from Susan (Teacher Su) McKenzieSHAKESPEAREAN WISDOM IN THE RIVER THAMES The Blessings in every situation – be blessed always. PRIVATE START Life started for me in a private road a stone’s throw away from the tidal wash of the great River Thames. PRIVATE ROADS IN ENGLAND Private roads usually have gates that are ...
Views: 1671 - The Power of Possibility - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2012 from Amy Iverson AdamsFor 10 years I read about and watched compulsive eaters become free from overeating and I continued to be discouraged as I binged and obsessed about food. I would identify with people who felt, thought, and ate the way I did, and when they said they were free I believed them. I knew it must be ...
Views: 2387(1 vote) - The Truth is Known - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2012 from Tracing ABC Tracing ABCOur conscious intelligence is as much of Life as we understand. We have stopped looking for the Spirit, because we have found It; It is what you are and It is what I am; we could not be anything else if we tried. The thing that we look with is the thing that we have been looking for. That is why ...
Views: 2208(1 vote) - I Wish I Didn't Know - by Submitted on Jun 08, 2012 from Womens Recreation, Inc.I wish I didn’t know what a broken heart felt like. I wish there was no illness. I wish I never knew what homeless meant. I wish there was no such thing as war. I wish I never heard or said an angry word. I wish my heart didn’t know what it was like to ache for someone not with us anymore. ...
Views: 2798(1 vote) - Do It On a Wing and a Prayer - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2012 from Devaa Haley MitchellIt was a warm summer evening in June. I was a senior in high school, and everyone in our class had been invited to offer a performance piece as our “Senior Farewell Event” for friends and family. I decided that I’d sing Oh Very Young by Cat Stephens. It’s a song that is a bit challenging ...
Views: 1448 - ***Are you going through health challenges hell? - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2012 from Adele McDowellBad diagnosis? Very bad diagnosis? Are you trying to keep it together for family and friends? There are days when you are so freakin’ tired and scared out of your socks. You beg and plead with God, “Please let me see my daughter make it through high school.” You hold on to every slimmer of ...
Views: 2115(2 votes) - Faith Quotes - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2012 from Tracing ABC Tracing ABCThese quotations will strengthen your faith. Smith Wigglesworth - “I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am moved only by what I believe.” Kenneth E. Hagin Sr. – “Faith begins where the will of God is known.” Joni Erickson Tada - “Faith isn’t the ability to ...
Views: 3491(2 votes) - Hope Quotes - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2012 from Tracing ABC Tracing ABCThese quotations will give you hope and build your faith. Hope is the road, Faith is the victory. Martin Luther – “Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” Unknown – Don’t worry, the fog will lift. Me – “Hope is the raw material from which faith builds the ...
Views: 2503(2 votes) - Gender - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2012 from Tracing ABC Tracing ABCThe masculine sees from above to below - the feminine from below to above. When God created the world, He did so with two minds, two states of consciousness. One mind sees from Above to Below - and so, all is insignificant before it. From Above to Below, there is no world, only One. From ...
Views: 1945(1 vote) - Creating heaven on earth together as one - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2012 from Bram JoostenWhen we look at our current world we see corruption, poverty, greed and separation. The only way to change all that is to create a new world with a system that supports all living beings equally. We need a system that unites all people! That helps people understand that we are all one. We ...
Views: 2294 - s Hairstyles - by Submitted on May 27, 2012 from Lucas LeverIf you think jewelry is in, consequently think again. This will likely just be some sort of 'recycled fashion idea' through the past. Quite a few fashion trends which have been seen at this time have their platform somewhere up to now. Many these fashions concepts, now have any refined glance as ...
Views: 1910 - When we don’t know how to pray. - by Submitted on May 18, 2012 from Janet Perez EcklesApologies in advance. Don’t want to brag. Last week I gave a silly grin of pride. Yes, shameless pride at my four-year-old granddaughter. In those delicate hands, she held her Mom’s cell phone. And in seconds, she managed on her own, to text a message to her other grandma. The message ...
Views: 1325 - As the Paradigm Shifts H is for Hope and Hogwash - by Submitted on May 07, 2012 from Rosie KuhnMany years ago, before I had any sense of spirituality, a friend of mine, a practicing Buddhist shared with me that most of us are constantly immersed in thoughts that are driven by hopes and fears. Think about that for a moment … My thoughts coalesce around either fear-based monologs or I’m ...
Views: 1421 - SON-LIGHT (HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL) - by Submitted on May 02, 2012 from Grant CysterDuring a vacation a few years ago, I was about to fly out of the Chicago airport. I remember that day well. The weather matched my mood perfectly. It was a gloomy day. The sky was heavy and overcast. It was quite a depressing scene. My mood, was melancholic to say the least. I remember feeling ...
Views: 1380(1 vote) - Don’t Worry Be Happy; Learn to Replace Worry with Curiosity - by Submitted on May 01, 2012 from JoAnne Ceccarelli-EganYears ago I was locked in a worry habit. Each morning I would wake up and my mind would begin to scan the landscape of my life, the way a hawk scans land for food. I was not looking for food; I was looking for something to worry about. The enormity of this habit became apparent one day when I ...
Views: 2164(1 vote) - Lukas Plays Around - Games from the World’s Smartest Horse - by Submitted on Apr 29, 2012 from Karen MurdockFollowing Lukas’ second bout of impaction colic (due to dehydration), I became nervous about his water intake. As strong and powerful as they look, horses’ digestive systems are surprisingly delicate. Unlike cattle who have several stomachs, horses have only one small stomach that functions best ...
Views: 1182 - The Courage to Hope - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2012 from Tina TessinaWe’ve heard a lot about hope recently, but one thing was not said. Hope is scary. Anyone who dares to hope runs the risk of disappointment and feelings of failure. With the overwhelming focus on success in our culture, the threat of failure and disappointment is blown out of proportion. In my ...
Views: 1887(1 vote) - ***Got hope? - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2012 from Adele McDowellHope … it’s a wonderful four-letter word. Hope offers possibilities; hope suggests that the good will prevail. It makes us happy. It fills us with expansiveness and can make our tight, constricted worlds crack open with a little wiggle room for the good stuff to find its way. Hope has us ...
Views: 2116 - THE EYES OF LOVE - by Submitted on Apr 18, 2012 from Sandy Brewer, PhD“Love is already here Can’t you feel Its Presence? It’s already here…” I’ve more than doubled my age since I first sat in a New Thought Church singing this little ditty. I was still a wounded thirty-something – still struggling to find a way to live with an inner pain from which I had no ...
Views: 1811 - The Hundred Monkey Theory and Collective Change - by Submitted on Apr 17, 2012 from Alan MesherCritical Mass The Hundred Monkey Theory provides hope for collective change in humanity. The notion that a critical mass of consciousness can change the collective consciousness is not a new one. The Hundred Monkey Theory emerged in the nineteen seventies when researchers in the wilds of ...
Views: 1892 - How Lukas Rolls On the Road with the World’s Smartest Horse - by Submitted on Apr 17, 2012 from Karen MurdockEarly on, we were fortunate to find an excellent horse transportation company. Chuck Erb, the owner-operator, is just what Lukas likes: steady, friendly and fastidious. Chuck’s massive truck pulls a trailer that can accommodate eight horses plus equipment. Chuck always makes sure, though, that ...
Views: 1310 - Lukas Voices His Opinion World’s Smartest Horse and Touching - by Submitted on Apr 17, 2012 from Karen MurdockTouching is an essential part of our day together. In the wild, horses live in herds and stay close to each other for survival. Very social creatures, they tend to pick certain friends and engage in mutual grooming and games with them. Often forming life-long attachments, they’ve been known to ...
Views: 1265(1 vote) - Forgiveness Is of a Higher Standard - by Submitted on Mar 22, 2012 from Natacha CannAt the homeless shelter where I volunteer, there is a strong emphasis on forgiveness and personal accountability. The residents must learn to recite, by memory, several recovery principles. One of the principles is called “Restitution” and it reads as follows: “A forgiving heart is necessary ...
Views: 1430 - ***How can you be happy if you are never enough? - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2012 from Adele McDowellThis is what I call my riff on happiness and self-acceptance. It came out of a maddening conversation with a client who has struggled with finding happiness and feeling as if he is never enough. How can you be happy if it’s never enough, not ok enough, good enough, successful enough, famous ...
Views: 2327(2 votes) - ***Where can you go when you run from the madness of overwhelm? - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2012 from Adele McDowellIt’s too much. It’s way too much. You just can’t take one more something to remedy, re-organize, or create anew. You have been chugging right along, working to keep pace with everything that has come your way. There have been moments when you have been breathless. Yet, you have persevered. ...
Views: 2492(2 votes) - ***Don’t ever give up hope - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2012 from Morty LefkoeFor most of my life I didn’t want to be me. In fact, I was so unhappy being me that I wanted to be someone else. When I was in my twenties I wanted to be Fred Astaire, because I liked the light and joyful sense of life he projected when dancing on screen. Later in life I didn’t care who else ...
Views: 1917 - When Hope is Nothing More Than Hype - by Submitted on Feb 23, 2012 from Cathy EckAccording to Google, every day around 13,600,000 people search for hope on the web. People are desperate for hope. They think hope is somewhere out there, and they need to acquire it to get what they want from life. People spend hard-earned money on get-rich-quick schemes that promise ...
Views: 1738 - HOPE & RESILIENCE When the possible feels impossible - by Submitted on Feb 20, 2012 from Elizabeth McNallyHope, being the flickering light that gleams and brightens the dimmest paths, permitting to grasp at dreams, wholeheartedly, even when circumstances seem to alienate all positive outcome probabilities. You’ve known, I’m sure, people who have made it beyond their dreams. What makes them ...
Views: 2061 - ***Ernest Hemingway, Oprah, and my new spiritual discipline - by Submitted on Jan 30, 2012 from Adele McDowell“For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.” That’s how it started. Those six words, we are told, are the shortest of Hemingway’s short stories. And those provocative words inspired Smith Magazine writer and editor, Larry Smith to challenge his Smith Magazine web readers to describe their lives in a ...
Views: 3989(2 votes) - ***Packing your cosmic backpack for the Big Shift - by Submitted on Jan 05, 2012 from Adele McDowellThe world is changing at break-neck speed as we inch ourselves closer and closer to the planetary shifts of consciousness and being. And, as with any new birth, there will be some pain, contractions, doubt, fear and maybe, even, a bit of panic as we work to bring forth a bouncing new world that ...
Views: 2598(1 vote) - ***Crazed by the holidays? Six steps to avoid overwhelm - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2011 from Adele McDowellOMG! The holidays are here. Are you ready? Good God, I’m not -- even though I swore up and down that I would be all wrapped and carded by Thanksgiving. Well, such is the way of my good intentions when life does life. I am guessing you can relate. It’s not too late to find help. Here are six ...
Views: 2847(3 votes) - ***Mental health needs a booster shot - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2011 from Adele McDowellThe majority of mental health practices are deeply rooted in the medical model, knee-deep in the latest edition of the DSM to provide diagnostic labels and entrenched with pharmaceutical solutions. And much of this is aided and abetted by the insurance companies who look to quantify and contain ...
Views: 2795(1 vote) - ***HOPE - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2011 from James RobinsonI was contemplating my navel the other day and realized how much we have going for us in this universe. The truth is that no matter what your circumstances, this is a kind universe and everyone in it has the primary motivation to work in favor of a peaceful, bountiful life. The only obstacles ...
Views: 2894(2 votes) - ***Five ways to deal with today’s chaotic energies - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2011 from Adele McDowellCan you feel the energies bumping up against you? One minute, you feel pushed; the next minute, pulled. One minute, you’re ok, and the next minute, you’re not. It’s chaotic out there. Our world is in flux; nothing feels normal anymore. Disasters are becoming way too familiar, and terra ...
Views: 3552(2 votes) - ***A psychologist’s suicide - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2011 from Adele McDowellThe word came last week that a friend and colleague, a clinical psychologist, had committed suicide. She had suffered a hammering of profound losses and fell into a deep hole of depression. She had placed herself in good professional hands, was hospitalized for two weeks, and released with ...
Views: 5446(1 vote) - ***The skinny on mindless eating research - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2011 from Adele McDowellAccording to Brian Wansink, Ph.D.’s research, we typically make 200+ food choices a day. Wansink, a professor of marketing at Cornell University and author of Why We Eat More Than We Think: Mindless Eating, has devoted his career to researching why we eat and make the food choices we do. He is ...
Views: 2347(1 vote) - ***Five ways to be happier, steadier, and more balanced in today’s upside-down world - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2011 from Adele McDowellCan you remember when you last felt happy, really happy? Would you like to feel steadier in a healthy, mind-body way that does not involve pharmaceuticals? Is straddling a teeter-totter the last time you consciously considered balance in your life? Today’s topsy-turvy world has us all ...
Views: 3980(3 votes) - ***Showered with blessings? - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2011 from Adele McDowellRob Brezny's book Pronia is the Paranoia: How the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings "an extensive array of experiments, games, rituals, and meditations you can use to boost your levels of ingenious happiness." His work is fun, outrageous, provocative, earthy, and will up ...
Views: 2585(1 vote) - ***Psychic swamps and camp guru - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2011 from Adele McDowellI’m in a strange place these days, nothing feels right. My skin is itchy; my allergies have run amok. On top of that, I am irritable and sensitive and there is not enough chocolate in the contiguous united of states to keep me satisfied. I am cranky. And why, you might ask? I have no real ...
Views: 2370(1 vote) - ***This year, I choose surrender - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2011 from Adele McDowellMy dear pal, Debbie, passed along this birthday ritual. On your birthday, you choose one word to be your focus for the coming year. Once, I chose the word “sparkle” – just the thought of it made me happy. This year, my word arrived unbidden with cat-like stealth and sure-footed certainty. It ...
Views: 2657(2 votes) - ***Redemption in Joplin - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2011 from Adele McDowellHome again, home again, jiggedy jig. I am back in Connecticut after three weeks of Red Cross deployment in Joplin, MO. I arrived in Joplin eight days after the tornado. Everything was still chaotic -- and my repeated response to viewing what was termed “the footprint,” the 6 x 1 mile area of ...
Views: 2352(1 vote) - Hope is everything - by Submitted on Jun 30, 2011 from Julie SimonThe Random House College Dictionary defines hope as "the feeling that what is desired is also possible or that events may turn out for the best." It's certainly easy to have hope when everything is going your way--you just landed a great job, met the man/woman of your dreams, lost a lot of ...
Views: 2049(3 votes) - ***Overworked? Seven strategies to help you cope - by Submitted on May 06, 2011 from Adele McDowellAre you screaming unmentionables in your head all day long? Do you feel like the character in the movie, Network, bellowing out the window for all the world to hear, “I’m mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore?” Do you fantasize about walking away from your job when you are within ...
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