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There is such beauty and potential that surrounds us every moment. We can take notice of our rhythmic breathing and how this simple process nourishes every cell, gaze up at the sun and realize how it too is supporting our existence, or we can go within into our imagination and appreciate the ... Views: 1201
We are at a wonderful crossroads of potential right now on our precious planet. For the first time in our collective history, we are capable and prepared to dream a different possibility for earth and all her many life forms. We have within us the balance of love, wisdom and power to bring ... Views: 1067
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts.
We are eternal optimists – make no mistake about that! With us, glasses are always half full, not half empty. The sun is always shining where we live! We are eternally hopeful that tomorrow will be a brighter day – and it usually is! We love life ... Views: 5065
? Aren’t we all grateful today we have social media where we can all connect like never before in our human history. Isn’t it exciting that from the comfort of your home you can make a friend or find your true romance and love?
? We are living today in remarkable times, and I wake up every ... Views: 1644
When you live in the Love Response, you live a life filled with more balance, love and joy.
Why?
When you experience fear, anger, worries, anxiety, physical
illness or anything else that is unpleasant, the physiology of your
mind and body shifts into negative.
What do I mean by ... Views: 588
How many of you are unattached, single or just plain feeling you are in a loveless relationship? Do you feel your life is empty? Are you seeking love?
Authors, poets, songwriters, and the like from every age, have written more about love than any other emotion. Why do you suppose? Could it be ... Views: 2756
If you have been married for any length of time you know full well the amount of work that has already taken place. Yet, there is still more work looming.
Wouldn’t it be nice if there were some short cuts to experiencing more blessings in a marriage?
While there are no easy tricks or short ... Views: 601
The Encarta World English Dictionary defines "confidence" as "a belief or self-assurance in your ability to succeed."We all know people who appear to be very confident professionally, yet when it comes to personal relationships, appear to be very insecure.Personal confidence ... Views: 4589
We have a program in our dorm where we spotlight three residents and basically bombard them with questions for an hour. What happens is three people sit on a couch, each give a one to two minute summary of the basics in their lives (family, hometown, major, etc.) and then the rest of the hour is ... Views: 1129
“It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.” Simone Weil
Something snapped in me tonight. I didn’t see it coming, although the fog of exhaustion and the kink in my ... Views: 627
One of the most universal desires we have as human beings is to find love.
Most of us want to find romantic love. To find a soul mate, someone with whom we can share our innermost thoughts and feelings. Someone to share the joys and sorrows of our daily lives and to walk beside us in this ... Views: 1298
As a staff support officer I am seeing an increasing number of people who are sadly splitting up having been together, in a lot of cases, for many years. They say that the magic has gone and they have grown apart, and perhaps they have taken each other for granted over several years. Each has ... Views: 1315
You deserve a sense of self-worth and a comfortable relationship with Love and Money. Whether or not you're making this happen, is indicated by Venus in your birth horoscope. Like all the other planets, your Venus is in one of twelve signs. Since the orbit of Venus is close to the Sun, it may be ... Views: 1189
If your life is like mine, your family, friends and coworkers are in various states of fear about the economy. One of the ways to face down the fear is to show up in a big way. I’ve listened deeply to several people talk themselves out of the tree in the past couple of weeks.
Humans are social ... Views: 747
Arielle Ford, author of The Soulmate Secret: Manifest The Love of Your Life With The Law of Attraction and her husband Brian Hilliard, a business consultant, answer your questions about life, love and relationships. They believe that whether you are eighteen or eighty years old finding Big ... Views: 1026
From the moment Michael Jackson stepped into the limelight, we all knew he was something special. Now that he is dead at age 50, everyone is recounting what great talent he possessed, and specifically, his top-notch singing and dancing. He was the proclaimed King of Pop and a legendary ... Views: 2271
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts.
Let’s face it – the economy of the USA is in turmoil. And the truth is, the unemployment rate is approaching 10%, and will probably exceed that rate in the coming months. The times are tough in America today.
Not good news, for sure. Tough ... Views: 4040
I am writing this article while flying over some spectacular snow-covered mountains in Northern British Columbia, Canada. In fact, I just read that these mountains have been featured in Hollywood movies as substitutes for the Himalayas.The view is of large peaks and deep valleys. At the bottom ... Views: 1250
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(From Germany) Your inspiring thoughts are my companions over the last 16 years, thanks a lot!
The last two years I was going on earth wishing to meet a deep, caressing love. No wonder it happened. I meet her. I feel absolutely deep in love.
My question is deeply serious, ... Views: 935
Dear Lisa,
Why is it that when two people start dating for the first four to six months the relationship is fine, and then it falls apart? In the beginning, you’re calling each other all the time, emailing, spending time together, and then things start to go downhill and the man stops calling ... Views: 2571
1) “We Need to Talk.”
Nothing puts up a guy’s defenses faster than those four little words. Why? No woman ever says , “We need to talk — I’ve been thinking you should play golf more often.” or “We need to talk — my hot supermodel friend is going to spend bikini season in our spare bedroom.” ... Views: 1820
The need to touch and be touched is established early in our lives, as we develop and grow in the omnipresent embrace of our mother’s womb. Once we are born, separated from that sanctuary of connectivity, we begin to crave the physical embrace of our parents. As we age, we become more ... Views: 939
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***"I Feel Empty" - by Margaret Paul, Ph.D., The Official Guide to Love
If you feel empty, you are not alone in feeling this way.Many people feel empty inside, and most people who feel empty have some deep false beliefs regarding why they feel empty. Below are some of these false beliefs.I feel empty because:• My partner is not giving me ... Views: 10163
There's an old Chinese blessing and curse that goes something like this... "May you live in interesting times."
Well, for better or worse we certainly are living in interesting times right now. Lately, you can't watch the news or read the paper (oh, come on, you remember the paper don't ... Views: 4600
Have you ever felt ugly or unattractive? Sometimes people can feel that way if they put on a few pounds, if someone rejects them or after they acted out in anger.
No matter what society determines as being attractive, I believe everyone is beautiful in their own way. They key is that you must ... Views: 3109
There is a point in every single woman’s life when she pauses and asks herself, “Why is everyone else finding a match but me?” She gets advice from her coupled girlfriends and is assured that she is desirable and there must be something wrong with them. Or, perhaps they have an intervention ... Views: 3251
Love should come naturally, right? We should not have to rely on experts to give us dating tips, be more attractive or make better dating decisions. Isn’t that what our girlfriends are for? Unfortunately, most of the dating advice you get from others is incorrect or, worse, damaging to your love ... Views: 3176
The Law of Attraction is based on very sound principles of self-development and self-care. Whenever you become what you want, you also get everything that comes from the space of being that person.
The Law of Attraction is constantly responding to the degree of self-worth that you have for ... Views: 1532
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts.
Here is an undeniable truth about life – actions speak louder than words! We know, you’ve heard this all before! But the truth is, you can, and must, judge a man by his actions and not by his words!
Words are cheap. Actions mean everything! The ... Views: 10775
Beginning the journey of unconditional love... Are you ready?
How do we begin this journey when we were brought up in a dysfunctional family? Since 99% of us were brought up in a dysfunctional family how are we going to recover from the lack of unconditional love. Rejection ... Views: 1524
What’s a fairytale without a prince charming, a princess in distress and true love? It’ll probably be just another old story that will somehow fade into obscurity as time goes by. But, the element of true love is what made fairy tales into all-time blockbusters. Yes, everybody wants it so bad, ... Views: 998
"Man's greatest motivating force is his desire to please woman" so writes Napoleon Hill in his iconic book, THINK & GROW RICH.
According to Hill, men who accumulate large fortunes, gain power and fame do so to satisfy their desire to please women. If this is so, you have to consider: If a ... Views: 1675
Balance Work in Life with LOVE
The recession has now grown its spreading roots. Those who didn’t think it was going to hit them have sadly come to terms: the recession is here to stay. Thousands of people have been laid off and thousands wonder if their current job will still exist. Either ... Views: 707
Lisa,
I believe that a large part of my problem is that I am what you referred to as a “nightmare girl.” I don’t know how to be one of those “dream girls.” I can hold it together for anywhere from a few days to a few months, but I get sooooo incredibly insecure that I end up losing it. I ... Views: 2780
Dear Lisa,
I just got jacked around pretty good by a gal. I’m too nice, as people say, I just don’t want to play games. I haven’t done anything yet that can be construed as being a jerk about it. (Just an email venting a little, but nothing mean.)
I have never been able to play the game ... Views: 1657
If you’ve ever said something you considered to be completely innocent, only to have your wife or girlfriend flip out, you may have stumbled on to one of these taboo topics:
1) “Relax”
You may think you’re being helpful, but to us, it feels like you’re being dismissive of how we’re feeling — ... Views: 2139
Dear Lisa,
I’ve been with my boyfriend for three years. I moved back with my parents temporarily because we were fighting a lot. While I was home, he was seeing this girl he works with. I was really upset about everything even though she said she never slept with him. She assured me that she ... Views: 4659
What is Emotional Dependency?Lydia consulted with me because her relationship with her husband, Andrew, was falling apart. Andrew had moved out, stating that he could no longer tolerate Lydia's neediness and constant pull on him to make her feel loved and secure. Now that they were separated, ... Views: 7508
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts.
Oh, the times, they are a-changing! This refrain is from a very famous Peter, Paul, and Mary song. And the truth is, people are finding love in different ways than they did is year’s past. Online dating is a reality today.
According to recent ... Views: 7983
While Kathlyn is in Honolulu to teach one of our 3-Day conscious loving seminars, I'm happily immersed in the run-up to the publication on April 21 of my new book, The Big Leap. It's all about what we've named the Upper Limit Problem. Between now and when the book comes out, I'd like to share ... Views: 1001
Who's The Driver? is an innovative communication method for solving power struggles for couples. Near and Far define two opposite styles of "driving" decisions in your marriage by using or NOT using your personal power and authority. Once understood, either person in the relationship can ... Views: 1994
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(From Italy) These last two years I tried to know myself, love myself and hoping to understand that if I don't love myself nobody can do. I tried to practice the path of love and truth and understanding. Everything was ok until I fell in love. After the first part, romance, paradise ... Views: 1049
Question:
Your book on Love makes many references to the love relationships of male/female couples. I am half way through the book and I have yet to see the principles of the book applied to same gender couples. Is there a difference? Or perhaps it is your belief that same gender couples ... Views: 991
Years ago, when on a book tour for our book, "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By You?", my ex-husband and I had dinner with a couple on the East Coast with whom he had become friends. I connected with Allison (not her real name) immediately. Warm and open, I could see that she was ... Views: 5514
I think Dear Abby said this a long, long time ago. I've always remembered it and I use it frequently in therapy. "We teach people how to treat us." How do we do this?
By the way we treat ourselves. If we treat ourselves with respect we will be treated with respect. Likewise, if we ... Views: 2894
Okay, let’s get past the fact that in our greatest moments of weakness or weirdness most of us may have inadvertently looked through our guy’s bedside table (for hand lotion!) while he was otherwise occupied, or casually inventoried the dry cleaning receipts, straw wrappers and lint in his ... Views: 2496
We’ve all done it. We’re smack in the middle of a ho-hum, so-so, not going anywhere relationship. But, we don’t break up.
We stay. We go out for linguini and clams every Friday night, have a sleepover every Saturday night, and continue on as though we might actually want to be with this ... Views: 1873
After a few years of marriage, a lot of people find they don’t have anything to talk about but who left their toenails under the couch, and what happened on Grey’s Anatomy. If you’re in a long-term relationship that’s lost its sizzle, now’s the time to figure out how to get that sizzle ... Views: 1839
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts.
Make no mistake about it – great marriages require unencumbered time!
You have read our musings about the fundamental predisposition of every human being to have time alone – to have time only to their private thoughts. In our book, Golden ... Views: 3989
Perhaps we're still answering Cain’s question to God [Genesis, 4:9] and in a vital way for each one of us. To me, we are to be our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers and to do what we can to assist one another. That’s when we experience our human connection and divinity. So I choose to answer, ... Views: 1055