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Driving down Pacific Coast Highway the other day, I was surprised to see that the large light-board sign plunked in the median strip near a major cross-street read, “Don’t text and drive.” For the past many years, that sign read, “Don’t drink and drive.” Apparently texting has replaced drinking ... Views: 1340
Meditation is increasingly being used nowadays to help relieve stress and combat anxiety. The big question most people ask is: does meditation actually work? The answer to this question is not always consistent. However, meditation still remains to be one of the more popular treatment strategies ... Views: 1340
Most people would like to lead happier and healthier lives, but life itself can often get in the way. People are becoming increasingly busy, meaning they often have less time to think about how happy and healthy they are.
The good news is that if you work on your happiness levels, you’re ... Views: 1339
Did you ever wonder why we went from the kid who couldn’t sit still, to the adult who can’t get moving?
I asked myself this when I recently took my 3-year-old daughter to the playground at a fast food restaurant. She loves to play on those things and I love nothing better than to watch her. ... Views: 1339
Valentine's Day is usually a day in which people convey their love to one another by presenting gifts, such as cards, candy, flowers and other symbols of love or fondness. There is a celebration on the valentine day so that all lovers and couples can take pleasure in and express their feelings ... Views: 1339
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller
Tuning in to our intuition or inner wisdom helps us develop a more spiritually conscious and integrated relationship with ourselves. We all have sensitivities that ... Views: 1339
Have you ever considered that your past, no matter how difficult, may actually be the platform to your exciting future? I thought I had a fairy tale life, and then suddenly, I didn’t.
The loss of my child, and subsequently the loss of my marriage and my husband, changed every chapter of my ... Views: 1338
There’s A Monster in the Bathroom
Does it seem like high-tech gadgets are taking over our lives?
Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate the benefits of technology as much as anyone else. But it’s a constant challenge keeping up with the latest gadgets, computer programs, ... Views: 1338
F E A R
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood”
- Marie Curie
Baby steps allow me to stay on target, to move forward slowly but surely towards my goal.
Baby steps also allow me to break down my fear into smaller segments that are more easily manageable.
The ... Views: 1338
It has recently come to my attention that my bucket list needs a revision. Unlike my never-ending to-do list, I find that I scratch off completed items as I explore the world, but I have never sat down with my bucket list to really think outside the box to add to it.
I have a long list that ... Views: 1338
Eight years ago I started teaching English in private lessons for kids. It was a desperate attempt to earn my living and escape from my financial tragedy, as it was a trend for bosses not to pay, back then in Greece.
I had been working in bad conditions for about four years since I was a ... Views: 1338
Many of us are a bit wistful during the Thanksgiving holiday. Perhaps, it is because we are bullied into feeling grateful and happy. Perhaps, some of us feel alone and do not quite fit into the picture-perfect mold consisting of cherubic children and warm, loving family members seated around a ... Views: 1338
The beginning of knowledge is asking why,
The beginning of wisdom in understanding how—Kendall Ronin
Much of our life consists of working. Most of us spend at least forty hours a week working for someone else. Many of us spend more time than that either working for ourselves or perhaps ... Views: 1338
Excessive sweating can be stopped if you abide by some tips. If you find that you are sweating profusely even when the weather is cool, that may be a health condition called hyperhidrosis. It's a health condition whereby the sweat glands are functioning more than the normal state. As ... Views: 1337
Have you noticed that recently the luxury car companies are focusing a lot more on fun than luxury?
As a former advertising executive (it actually feels like another lifetime!) I pay attention to advertising. And I've noticed a shift in the television commercials for several luxury car ... Views: 1337
It is a fact that a lot of men find that it's rather uncomfortable to be at the same time well put together. Properly they worry about to be rubber stamped as useless or women however to avoid being in dress good without looking overly preened. Andf the other of the best ways in order to ... Views: 1337
Yogasth bhava. Reiki, the healing energy, it usually said and it is a general belief among the people that the Reiki healing energy is faith energy before I say something about Reiki I would like to mention, I would like to describe this energy because energy is all that is. Reiki is wisdom ... Views: 1337
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Choosing Happiness - by Adam Benedetto and Zoe Young from Answers in Writing
During life, we may sometimes find ourselves in a slump, experiencing sadness, emptiness, or withdrawal at times when we know our lives should be making us happy. This can be confusing. Why, if all seems as it should be, are we not happy? What is in our way or stopping us from experiencing the ... Views: 1336
IS WORKING GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH?
Nina Ham, LCSW, CPCC
It’s fall in the mid-west, and the crisp chill in the air means it’s time for a taffy-pulling party. For the uninitiated, here’s what happens. Groups of kids wait impatiently while a parent stirs a pan of sugar, butter and ... Views: 1336
The Dussehra fever has gripped the nation, and all are anticipating the festival with joy and fervor.
The Dussehra fever has gripped the nation, and all are anticipating the festival with joy and fervor. The entire nation is a delight to look at during the festive holidays of Dussehra and ... Views: 1336
Yesterday, my wife Lisa and I went to the Audubon Society here in Central Florida. It was a very touching experience, seeing the magnificent birds of prey and the people who have gone to great lengths to take care of the injured and sick ones. Eagles, falcons, owls of multiple variety and other ... Views: 1336
As different as we may all be from each other, we are all connected. There are an infinite number of ways in which we are all the same, but the most obvious of all is often the most overlooked. We all want to be happy.
The fact that we are all trying to be happy in our lives is such an ... Views: 1336
Reasonably priced Chanel sunglasses for female and artist sunglasses simply by Ray-Ban are the most well liked on the market. Ray-Ban plus Chanel are a pair of the most popular companies. The shades are of the highest quality.
Chanel solar shades have been a favorite brand for ladies many ... Views: 1335
In .28 seconds I found 18,900,000 results on Bing, and 61,500,000 results in 0.46 seconds—honestly—on Google on how to “survive the holidays.” MILLIONS of tips on how to “survive” the holidays! What in the world has happened to us? Have we gone mad? C’mon now. We need more than these many ... Views: 1335
Australian features on quite a few bucket lists but most of us never actually get around to actually visiting it. For starters, it just happens to be on the other side of the world, and there is time period when a Venice or Paris simply gets the better of us. A third cause may also be that a ... Views: 1335
Knowing Why You Came From: Choose where you’re going!
I have seen this picture posted around a lot over the past couple of years:
The picture States:("Everything you do is based on the decisions you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather ... Views: 1335
We all seek for many things. Some of us seek for money. Some of us seek for fame. Some of us seek for love. Some of us seek for health. But I believe, at its core, what we are ultimately seeking for is happiness. “I’ll be happy if I find the love of my life… if I have enough money, I’ll be ... Views: 1335
With quotes and positive messages dressing the walls of our homes, info-graphics filling the internet and Kindness revolutions popping up everywhere around the globe I wonder; Is it just me or has the world gone feel-good crazy!
Break out the champagne! Finally, we have come to the ... Views: 1335
A major challenge for woman is in learning and implementing ways to care for themselves whilst caring for the people around them.
It requires a delicate balance of understanding that if you don’t care for yourself then you will not be able to care for others.
I began learning in my late teens ... Views: 1335
I don’t know what else you’d call it. “Sneaky” is the only word I can think of that best describes the actions of the frequently devious little part of our mind that is commonly referred to as our “subconscious”. “Sneaky”. Just plain, out and out sneaky.
Oh, that’s not to say that our ... Views: 1334
A lifetime of love begins with a single step, a journey of a thousand miles. A new experience offers a thrill and an adventure. A tiny, precious hand to hold is all grown up now. A smile when you hear those special words make your heart skip a beat.
A day at the office, a night on the town, ... Views: 1333
As each season moves into its fullness we can access that momentum in our own lives. We can seize and ride the energies of the earth’s progression and access those qualities for ourselves.
Summer brings the richness and abundance of nature’s flow. The trees swell with leaves and begin to ... Views: 1333
It’s starting in only a couple of weeks. You’ve starved yourself to fit into the outrageous Halloween costume you’ve chosen this year, your Thanksgiving plans are set, the talk in your office is already about plans for the end of the year celebration, and before you know it, it’ll be time once ... Views: 1333
Some days it seems that everything and everyone is against you. You start off by spilling coffee down your clean shirt, then you can't find your keys, every traffic light is red, everyone around you is in a bad mood and you're glad when the day is over.
On other days, though, it seems that ... Views: 1333
Yes, it's true, bad things happen to good people. But it's also true that...
GOOD things happen to BAD people.
And, BAD things happen to BAD people.
And yes, even GOOD things happen to GOOD people.
It's called life, folks.
I'm tired of hearing all the Law of Attraction "experts" ... Views: 1333
On your Costa Blanca holidays there is a little Spanish village that you have just got to visit, it exudes everything that is Spanish and let’s face it that is the main reason most people take a Costa Blanca holidays. This little village is of course San Miguel, the place you have been looking ... Views: 1332
"The creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.” - Orison Swett Marden
I want to share with you the magical art of positive journaling.
“Truth is stranger than fiction,” and the strange truth about journaling is that it brings unexpected and profound ... Views: 1332
and have the power and the Heart to DARE to change the scenery, the dialogue and the venue that the play occurs with, from and on so that the world can be a place that works for all with no one and nothing left out!!!!!
"YOU AND I POSSESS WITHIN OURSELVES, AT EVERY MOMENT, UNDER ALL ... Views: 1332
Let’s face it. Many people do not succeed as they set out to follow their purpose and build a business based in their passion. There are two primary reasons for this:
The first is that too many people rely solely on themselves to figure out the HOW. They try to go it alone, thinking that ... Views: 1331
What is it that makes one man go where others don't daretread? And that keeps him going even when the odds seem soinsurmountable? When others around him expect the worst, andobstacle upon obstacle, cause him to wonder if perhaps, justperhaps, everybody might be right and he may be crazy?
That ... Views: 1331
ANDALUCIA VILLAS are very popular. The region is located in southern Spain near the Costa del Sol. It is among the most widely known areas of Spain: it hosts the planet famous Alhambra and also the beautiful cities of Seville, Granada and Cordoba to name only a couple of. If you’re able to spare ... Views: 1331
It’s that time of year again and with Thanksgiving just around the corner, this is the perfect time to take inventory of our lives and the perfect time to focus on the amazing and magical effects of thankfulness, appreciation and gratitude.
If you want to be the magnetic force in your own ... Views: 1331
How powerful are healing words? What impact do they have on our immune systems? Emile Coue' had an answer and, though few know his name today, his success with restoring his ill clients back to health was nothing less than astonishing.
How did he obtain such remarkable results? The power of ... Views: 1331
Do you feel that your life is abundant or are you feeling deprived and unfulfilled? Do look forward to what your day will bring or are you dreading getting out of bed in the morning? Have you experienced what a truly abundant life is?
Many people today have been living in a space of ... Views: 1331
Occasionally we all get those moments when we feel a little sorry for ourselves or that the world is not always quite so fair. Happens to all of us, certainly has done to me and I am sure it is the same for you as well. Having the odd moments of Thoughts Leading to Nought are part and parcel of ... Views: 1331
Okay, Okay, I admit it - sometimes life just isn't happy! Even the happiest of us experience times when life just plain sux.
Jobs can be lost, relationships can crumble, dreams can collapse, finances can be challenging, crap can happen.
But when any or all of the above (God forbid) happen, ... Views: 1330
"A love without reproof is no love."
---Rabbi Yosi ben Chanina
Reproof is defined as rebuke or criticism. You may feel safer by seething silently when irked by a potential or actual marriage partner's behavior. But sometimes speaking up, with kindness and respect, at a time when both ... Views: 1330
One of the first things most of us remember hearing when learning to drive an automobile was "Keep your hands on the wheel." Then there were other precautions like, "Keep your eyes on the road, drive defensively, buckle up for safety, and watch the road signs!"
These basic precautions would ... Views: 1330
There are plenty of decoration tips to make your wedding party memorable together with increase its own visual charm. While planning the wedding arrangements, make sure that the marriage decor come in accordance when using the wedding motif. You can use designed specifically wedding room ... Views: 1330
Many parents notice only their child's negative behaviors and begin keeping account of them as a score record of wrongdoing or bad behavior. This process could actually encourage more of the same behavior instead of their intended opposite. When a child enters this world and their spirit enters ... Views: 1330