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- Do You Know of the YES Program? - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDo you know of the Yes Program? Let me share this with you and how it came into my life. One of my dearest friends, Suz, used this as a lifestyle tool for herself as long as I had known and cherished her. Suz introduced this wonderful tool to me one time when I called her for a ...
Views: 667(2 votes) - Father's Day Gift Ideas: 5 Enthralling Nonfiction Audiobooks for Dad - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIf you are at a loss for what to get for your father this Father's Day, get him an audiobook. Why would your father want to listen to an audiobook? Well, first of all, they require less time and effort than actually reading a book. Your dad can listen to an audiobook in bits and chunks ...
Views: 964(1 vote) - Personal or Private? - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Intent.com Authors"The more I write about who I am, the more I share myself with others, the more present as who I am I become, more centered, more grounded" I told my friend yesterday. We talked about writing books about our own experience, writing of sensitive stuff, embarrassing stuff, private stuff. I ...
Views: 513(1 vote) - Body Odor 101 - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAll people smell when they don't bathe often enough. Sweat doesn't smell when it first reaches your skin. The odor comes only after bacteria or fungi on the skin's surface break down the fat in sweat to form chemicals that smell. Most sweat glands produce sweat that contains no fat, but the ...
Views: 923(1 vote) - Summer Sleep Tips for Kids - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsChildren need at least nine hours of sleep each night on a regular basis to be healthy, active, and able to perform their best in school, sports and other extracurricular activities. During the summer, it can be hard for parents and kids to keep a steady sleep schedule, resulting in lost ...
Views: 643(1 vote) - Such Great Heights: Epic and Everyday Tragedies - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe tragedy of a plane crash hits me hard. I imagine the free fall, the shock, the finality, the sadness. Returning to my senses, I follow the hunt for the “Black Box,” wanting answers. What happened? Human error, mechanical failure, a flock of birds, a simple twist of fate? We people need to ...
Views: 1373(1 vote) - Change Your Mood in 70 Seconds! - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLearn this quick exercise, and when your mood falls down, pick it up fast. This whimsical yet spiritual exercise really works! Whatever problems you have on your mind be they personal or world problems: they can be more easily solved when you are in a better mood. The HappyU Exercise Get ...
Views: 586(1 vote) - Neutrality of the Mantra - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: In your reply about accessing the higher self you wrote: " If you use a mantra in meditation, the mantra allows the mind to be undirected and neutral. This state permits the inherent attraction of the one’s inner nature of silence, joy and knowledge to draw the mind to the higher ...
Views: 652(3 votes) - Use What’s Falling On You - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI heard a great story the other day that goes to the heart of how we need to deal with the challenges of our lives. A farmer had a mule. One day, that mule fell into a deep well. He was swimming as fast as he could, but the farmer couldn’t get him out. He knew that not only would the mule die, ...
Views: 500(2 votes) - Tough Times and Saviors - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI am one of those people that believe everything happens for a reason. Obviously spirituality is my passion or I would not have spent so much of my life, three years at Emory getting an Masters of Divinity, and four years getting a doctorate in Spirituality. All of my education, training and ...
Views: 518(1 vote) - Welcome Back, 80's: Chemically Free Black Eyeliner and Pink Lipstick - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsForget everything you learned as an adult putting on makeup and think back to those teen and ’tween years when you lined your lids without smudging and sported traffic-stopping lipstick. Yes, ladies, the ’80s are back, according to Paige Padgett, the eco-makeup artist extraordinaire ...
Views: 3322(1 vote) - Father's Day is Coming Up! This Week on Intent, Share With Us Your Father-Related Advice - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAs all of you should know, Father's Day is this Sunday. In celebration of this special holiday, we want to ask all of you here on Intent.com what father-related advice and resources you have to share with the rest of the community. Do you have a list of special father-daughter bonding ...
Views: 584(1 vote) - Spiritual Renewal: Bring Flower Power to Your Home - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn these times, it may seem foolish to spend money on something as frivolous as fresh-cut flowers, but there are several reasons why doing so is what will lift your spirits. The next few posts will address why flowers are important, how to arrange them yourself, caring for them and more. In ...
Views: 624(2 votes) - Follow Your Compass, Fulfill Your Dreams - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSome people call it an internal guidance system, others a gut feeling or internal voice. But no matter how you refer to it, we all have a gauge within us that lets us know when we are on the right path, and when we may have veered into a possible dead end. But how many of us pay attention to ...
Views: 922(1 vote) - Reject Disposable Cleaning Products and Save - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAs I walk down the cleaning isle of my supermarket, I'm overwhelmed by the domination of single-use, disposable products that have been created, presumably, to make our lives more convenient and sanitary. Disposable dusting, mopping and disinfecting sheets get premium placement on the cleanng ...
Views: 917(1 vote) - Today's Astrological Forecast: Let Go! - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe Last Quarter Moon is a signal for us to let go and release anything old or in the way. That's easier for some than for others! But I guarantee that if you regularly get rid of something every month at the Third Quarter Moon, that in a year's time, you'll have a lot less clutter in your life. ...
Views: 643(2 votes) - Reclaiming Your Power: Insecurity - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThere is an innate awkwardness to being human. With each decision we make, there is the potential for self-doubt and it is this-self doubt that forms the root of insecurity--a complex emotion that is a mix of equal parts inadequacy, isolation, fear, and hopelessness. Yet these feelings of ...
Views: 510(1 vote) - 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: 655(1 vote) - Waiting for Good Object-O - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIs it possible to truly hate an appliance? If so, I HATE the vacuum I have been saddled with at our little creaky cabin in Maine. I bought it in a hurry. The old vacuum died, and the place was rapidly getting pretty filthy. There aren’t a lot of places to find vacuums near our cabin, so I ...
Views: 676(1 vote) - How to Find Peace - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI’ve had this experience a number of times now and I felt it might be a good idea to share it, possibly to see if anyone else knew the feeling. The feeling is like this: I am in a calm, empty sunlit room, and then I become that calm room, and the breeze blows gently, just flapping the ...
Views: 767(1 vote) - The Essential Role of Marketing in Working for Good - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI just completed this draft of an article at the request of my collaborator in marketing at Sounds True, Shelly Vickroy. Comments and questions welcome! Working for Good is an orientation towards business and work focused on serving the greater good, contributing to create a better world in ...
Views: 599(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: 837(1 vote) - Walking the road that comes to you....... - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsExcerpt from Cosmic Connection: Messages for a Better World ~ “Walk the road that comes to you. Do not choose it. Do not follow it. Do not find it. Simply walk it as it comes to you. It will curve. It will bend. At times it will disappear from under your feet. And you will fly instead of walk.” ...
Views: 490(2 votes) - Accessing the Higher Self - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: How do you access your higher self in meditation? Is there any particular technique that you use? How do you know that you are really in touch with the higher self? Answer: Meditation is an opportunity for the noise of the mind to subside and for the higher Self to reveal ...
Views: 1046(5 votes) - Give Back to Come Back - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsFor it is in giving we receive – Saint Francis of Assisi I know something to be true. My friend Jerry White, has built his organization, Survivor Corps, around this same fact -- if you want to fully return to your life after tough times, it is critical that you give back what you have ...
Views: 1176(1 vote) - 7 Principles for Everlasting Happiness: Reverse Psychology Happiness - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com Authors1. Decrease your exercise. As a matter of fact, do everything in your power to not exercise, ever. The shorter distance it requires to get from Point A to Point B, the greater imperative there is to avoid any physical exertion. Example: taking the escalator for one flight of stairs. 2. Eat ...
Views: 1010(1 vote) - You Are What You Eat: Food Inc. Brings Food to the Forefront - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe film Food Inc premieres on June 12th in LA, SF and NYC and brings dinner and the food industry to the center stage of a serious debate that is happening across the country. The adage "you are what you eat" has been around for a very long time. However, it seems that during the last 50 ...
Views: 800(1 vote) - Overshoot and Tech Dreams - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsGlobal warming is a symptom of human overshoot: the consumption and waste that exceeds the biophysical capacity of the Earth. If we attempt to reduce the fever, but ignore the disease, we will, at best, extend the suffering. Most species, when confronted with abundant food and no predators, ...
Views: 868(2 votes) - Soul for the Soul or to Save Money... - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAll week long I saved the leftovers for the Friday night soup we just ate and enjoyed. I saved money by keeping the two sausages we did not eat a couple days ago, the left over squash, and about ten mushrooms that had not been cooked yet. When I combined these all with the lentil soup I ...
Views: 732(2 votes) - “PASS OR FAIL” Strengthen Your Marriage with a Simple Daily Exercise - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI don’t know about you, but I’ve found that on many days it’s easier to smile at strangers than at the person at home. However, if you want a better marriage, then you need to practice every day with total strangers. Imagine that in the course of one day you come across fifty people. They might ...
Views: 642(3 votes) - A Case of Irreconcilable Differences - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: I'm a physicist. My girlfriend recently confessed that she believes devoutly in a number of new-age forms of pseudoscience, from astrology to the ability of thoughts to transform water crystals. As a scientist, I believe these things to be complete bunk. So my first reaction is that ...
Views: 596(3 votes) - Music for an Integral World - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAn Interview with Corrado Rustici. The following interview was originally published in Issue 38 of EnlightenNext magazine. As any anthropologist will tell you, every stage of cultural development is accompanied by its own distinctive forms of art. In the concert halls, the dawning of ...
Views: 735(1 vote) - Plagued by Negative Sensations? Be in Your Body First - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYou can't heal your body unless you're in it. Sounds reasonable, right? Then how come the instant most of us get sick we check out, the sooner the better? We feel pain or discomfort, we get scared, we withdraw. We're out of our bodies so fast, the last thing on our minds is to rally every iota ...
Views: 983(7 votes) - Gratitude is the Key to Happiness - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHappiness is not difficult. It's only when we let other things get in the way that it seems difficult to obtain. To me, the key to happiness is wanting what you have, rather than having what you want. What this means is that I am satisfied with what I have, what I do, who I associate with. ...
Views: 3364(8 votes) - Best of the INTENTernet: Happy Happy Happy! - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn case some of you didn't know, happiness is this week's theme on Intent.com. It also happens to be the unofficial theme of this week's edition of Best of the INTENTernet! First things first, here's a compelling new video from TED on the science of happiness by cognitive researcher Nancy ...
Views: 685(2 votes) - Gino, King of the Batting Cages - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt started with a metallic ding of the bat. Then another. Then a flurry of “dings” until finally I turned around to see just who was causing all the commotion. A giant muscular man was mashing the ball at the Van Nuys Batting Cage. And behind him stood a crowd of people watching. “Yeah Gino!” ...
Views: 1236(1 vote) - Want to be Happy? Let Go of Your Picture of Perfection! - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWe all strive to create more happiness, love and prosperity in our lives. We want good friends, secure meaningful jobs and healthy loving families AND we have an idea of what this "should" look like. It is positive and helpful to have goals and clarity about what we want in life, the problem ...
Views: 681(3 votes) - Does (Wallet) Size Matter? Why Women Are Spending Less and Living More - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn my moms group last week, I asked the question, “What are you all doing to save money?” What I meant was, “How are you saving cash around town?” The answers I got clued me in to a core shift in our experience: the economy is changing not just the way we spend, but the way we live—that is, the ...
Views: 795(2 votes) - Got Milk? Recyled Material Toys For Kids! - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsEver wonder what happens to all those plastic milk jugs you’re chucking in the recycling bin? Well, the luckiest among them are enjoying new life as totally cool, award-winning toys, thanks to Green Toys. The San Francisco-based company’s simple, imagination-friendly, beautifully designed toys ...
Views: 1360(1 vote) - Living and Working with Purpose - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsEverything that arises in your life is there for one purpose only -- to teach you to exercise an underutilized aspect of your life. Because work involves contact with other people, the underutilized aspects of your life can become more apparent as you compare and contrast yourself with others. ...
Views: 800(2 votes) - Boredom: Fanning the Creative Flames - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe human mind thrives on novelty. What was once a source of pleasure can become tedious after a time. Though our lives are full, boredom lurks around every corner because we innately long for new experiences. Yet boredom by its very nature is passive. In this idle state of mind, we may feel ...
Views: 1064(3 votes) - Investigating Infinite Realms of Existence - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI have always believed that there are many realms of existence and this physical realm is just one aspect of creation and life. Just because it looks like empty space from my chair to the couch could be an illusion. That “empty” space to me may be filled with untold things or beings, I just ...
Views: 1463(2 votes) - Objectified - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI took two of my sons to see the new documentary on industrial design: Objectified. (Yes, that would be a big night out for the Pieris.) It was created by Gary Hustwit, who also created a scintillating (I am dead serious) film on type design, called Helvetica. You don’t have to be design ...
Views: 635(4 votes) - Tips for Creating a Sacred Place - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt is important to create a sacred space in your home so that you can retreat from the outside world and connect with your inner resources – your soul-self. Setting up this special space in your home will give you refuge and a sanctuary to recover from the stress and tension of your daily life. ...
Views: 733(2 votes) - Is Balance Really Like Perfection? - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOver the last month or so, I've received questions submitted by readers and friends asking how I personally manage to find balance in my hectic schedule. The short answer: I'm not sure I ever have. In all honesty, I feel like true balance is much like true perfection: Never quite ...
Views: 999(3 votes) - You Are Entitled to Miracles - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsFarrah Fawcett mentioned in her recent documentary, “It is seriously time for a miracle.” Many of us have experienced at least one major personal problem that seemed unsolvable without a miracle. It might have been a serious business problem, or a major financial crisis, or a health crisis -- ...
Views: 1189(10 votes) - Happiness Now! - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHere is something to learn from our children: BE HAPPY NOW. You might have noticed that children don’t typically spend their days worrying about the past or dreading the future (barring the occasional upcoming algebra test.) Children, far more successfully than most adults, live in the ...
Views: 650(3 votes) - Tel Aviv Woman Mistakenly Trashes $1 Million Mattress -- Where Should You Put Your Money? - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsTalk about a case of regretting doing something nice for somebody. An Israeli woman in Tel Aviv, known simply as Anat (not her real name) only wanted to do something nice by buying her elderly mum a new mattress. Little did she know that her mum, after a bad experience with a bank, was saving ...
Views: 818(1 vote) - 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: 936(4 votes) - Before Creation - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: Having read your book "How to know God" i found it interesting the extract where Dame Julian(pg 5) asks God why he created the world and God says that he created it out of love- I understand that but I would like to know, God having created the world out of love where do you think ...
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