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- Trauma, Loss, & Bereavement - by Loss, disappointment, failure, and grief are normal and natural accompaniments of the human experience. Bereavement, the response we have to grief and loss, is also familiar to most of us. Little has changed in terms of the emotional response to the pain of loss across the centuries. There are ...
Views: 4370 - Leaving the Comfort Zone - by We all have a safe haven, or a place inside of us with a voice that tells us everything is okay. We set boundaries or parameters on how close people can get to us. We know instinctively just what activities we can do with little or no effort. We have rituals which we perform in our daily lives ...
Views: 4363 - ASPARTAME - A BITTER SWEETENER? - by Aspartame, known to the public as NutraSweet, Equal and Spoonful, has been the subject of controversy since it first became an ingredient in food products in 1981. In 1985, Americans used 800 million pounds of Aspartame, with an average intake of 5.8 pounds per person. They consumed more than 20 ...
Views: 4352 - Enthusiasm - The Fire Within! - by In our daily lives we will often come across people of unquestionable ability and intelligence who waste their talents just jogging along, going through the motions, doing mediocre jobs. They never rise above their lowly positions, nor do they give the impression that they wish to. Theirs seems ...
Views: 4345 - PRAYERS FOR DAILY LIVING - by HEALING:
Dear God, I admit that of myself, I am powerless over this condition; but with your healing love, and through the works demonstrated by Jesus to strengthen me, I can do all things. I open myself up to the healing energy that is always available to me and I accept the complete ...
Views: 4318 - What is Qigong? - by QIGONG
THE MOST PROFOUND MEDICINE
Is strenuous exercise necessary for health?
No. Good physical condition is required for competing athletes and does not insure good health. A trained athlete can have cancer and die from a heart attack. Arnold Schwarzenegger needs to have a heart valve ...
Views: 4296(1 vote) - Getting Started In Your Twenties - by In the years following college graduation, I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do.
I knew I had to take action (I had bills to pay; my parents were poking their heads in my bedroom door, “politely” asking when I was going to get a job; and more than anything, I wanted to figure out my plan, ...
Views: 4284(2 votes) - Mentor??? Who Needs A Mentor? - by Who needs a mentor. . .everyone who is truly serious about achieving more of their true potential, personally and financially. In fact, Richard Brooke says:
"If you're someone who wants to break out and do something extraordinary that you would not do on your own initiative, you better have a ...
Views: 4281(1 vote) - Why Most People Will Never Reach Their Goals! - by Customer service is the foundation on which businesses are created. Unless you understand your customers and treat them with respect, you will go out of business. That is a well-known fact. However, too often leaders fail to see that creating high quality products, or delivering excellent ...
Views: 4276(1 vote) - Solution-focused Anger Management for Men: Using Sports to Learn New Skills - by "Football is like life. It requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. - Vince Lombardi, former NFL Coach
These words from immortal football legend Vince Lombardi are ingredients for successful living. Some individuals have lived for sports ...
Views: 4268 - Spiritual Laws to Attracting Prosperity - by Antonia Martinez needed money quickly. She had only a few days to come up with back rent or risk eviction. Martinez decided to put her holistic studies to the test. "I had been training back then with a spiritual teacher. We had been working on a technique for focusing and harnessing power to ...
Views: 4266 - Developing self-belief - The 10 step process - Part 4 - by In this last part of a 4 part series, I will take a look the last 4 steps in the process, and review some case studies of people's experience of using it.
7) The steps on your plan must not contradict any other beliefs or values you have
Imagine the steps you will have to take to achieve ...
Views: 4255 - A Modern Day Vision Quest - Is It for You? - by “This moss is cool and soft to the touch, as I rest upon
it. The voice of the wind ruffles my hair, while the nearby stream
serenades me. If I understood their words, what would they be saying?
Cloud gazing?. there’s a dragon ?no, a buffalo?
Haven’t done this since I was a kid……?
Where did ...
Views: 4240 - Optimal Thinking for the Tough Times - by OPTIMAL THINKING FOR THE TOUGH TIMES
By Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D.
http://www.optimalthinking.com
1. Respect and embrace your feelings. You are human.
2. Accept reality. What is, is. What’s done is done.
3. Ask yourself:
Why do I feel this way?
What am I afraid of?
What hurts?
What have I ...
Views: 4234(4 votes) - Why is Coach Bobby Knight Explosive? - by Bobby Knight is presently the head basketball coach at Texas Tech. Prior to being hired by them Bobby Knight spent twenty-nine years coaching basketball at Indiana University. In those twenty-nine years he coached many successful basketball teams and in fact, brought three NCAA basketball ...
Views: 4216 - The Park - A short story about self-image - by The other day I was reflecting on life’s journey. In my youth I had looked at life as a straight path. My goal was always clear in my mind as to my spiritual direction. Then, as the saying goes, “life happened? Now, in my forties, I sense that life is more like a maze than a straight path. ...
Views: 4207 - EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUES LOWERS ELEVATED CHOLESTEROL: Blood Test Results Show Significant Improvement in Cholesterol Levels - by Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) has supplied striking evidence of its ability to significantly alter blood chemistry related to cholesterol levels. Traditional treatments for lowering cholesterol are diet, exercise and losing weight if needed. If lifestyle changes do not lower cholesterol ...
Views: 4205 - LIVING FOOD: TASTES GREAT, LESS FILLING! - by in their best-selling book, Fit For Life, reveal some very interesting facts about the effects of diet on health and longevity. They report that the Los Angeles Times and Weekly World News printed articles about a man living in China named Wu Yunqing. Mr. Yunqing was 142 years old in 1980. The ...
Views: 4202 - Questioning Skills for Salespeople - by Communication skills are the defining attribute of a top sales person. There are five parts to great communication skills. Listening, Questioning, Body Language, Speaking, and Interpreting. In the next few issues of the Executive Sales Tips Newsletter, we will explore each of these topics. This ...
Views: 4184 - Passion: The Fuel for Movers and Shakers! - by The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. --Nadia Boulanger
A new lesson in the importance of passion as a powerful, inner source of energy was revealed in my life recently. I am grateful to have had the opportunity for the past several years to pursue a ...
Views: 4183(4 votes) - New Chakra Healing - by The bio-energy field of a human consists of subtle bodies with their energetic potentials, and which give strength and power to the biological field. Energetic potential depends on the conditions of physical and psychic health, and, perhaps, astrological factors. For example, experienced ...
Views: 4179 - Shhh! Listen, Don’t Just Hear - by Once when my oldest son wasn’t paying attention to an assignment in elementary school, his teacher asked him if he had trouble hearing. "No ma’am," he answered, "I have trouble listening."
My son was only 7 years old, and he didn’t realize he had zeroed in on one of the business world’s biggest ...
Views: 4170 - Gym Ettiquitte Crimes That Should Serve As Eye Openers! - by So ladies, you've been training for some time now at the same gym. You're feeling good and making progress. You actually enjoy every workout now and you even have the girl at the front counter feeding you compliments with each visit. In a sense, you feel like you got a little bit of poll going ...
Views: 4133(1 vote) - Strategies for Passing the Urine Drug Test - by Strategies for Passing the Drug Urine Test
Dr. Beverly Potter
Strategy: Abstaining
Abstinence is a legal strategy in which all prescriptions*, over-the-counter medicines, and recreational drugs are avoided prior to testing. The duration of abstinence--called the "detection time"--depends ...
Views: 4130 - Aim for the Future ... but don't get ulcers waiting for it to happen! - by It is always good to aim for a vision, to pursue a goal, and make your dreams come true. However, there's a difference between chasing your dreams and anticipating the outcome of the dreams. The main idea behind dreaming and pursuing your goals is to provide a sense of direction with positive ...
Views: 4113 - AVOID BECOMING THE SURROGATE BOYFRIEND - by Hey Doc,
I have had a platonic relationship with a girl for four years. We have done almost everything together, even vacations. Things have gone very well - until about a month ago, shortly after she met her current boyfriend.
When she first told me about the new man in her life, I told her ...
Views: 4107 - *** Snapshot Management: Leaders under the Spotlight Use Emotional Intelligence - by Emotional Intelligence has been found to be the critical success factor for leaders when compared with their Intelligence (IQ) and technical expertise. The further a leader goes up in an organization the more they need Emotional Intelligence. Emotionally Intelligent leaders know and manage ...
Views: 4068(7 votes) - Let stress work for you - Learn to worry well and benefit from stress - by Stress is a health risk. It can raise your blood pressure, cause you to suffer sleepless nights and affect your digestion, your immunity ?even your sex life. But stress isn’t all bad –the ability to stress, to worry about possible dangers and prepare for them, has been a crucial factor in the ...
Views: 4045 - Practical Ways to Avoid Burnout and Put Fun Back Into Your Life! - by Amazingly, the National Institute of Mental Health in the United States reports that more than 20 million Americans suffer from chronic nervousness, panic attacks and phobias. With the fast pace of modern day society, people seem to have less time and more frustrations – even with all the ...
Views: 4038 - Heightened Perception - by I walked into a warmly lit room in the company headquarters. The space was long and rectangular. In the center of the room was a very expensive timber and glass coffee table. The whole place had the scent of prestige, money and power. If this room had a name, it would have been known as "The ...
Views: 4028 - Why Personal Development Is So Important!!! - by ___________________________________________________________
WHY PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT IS SO IMPORTANT!!!
Written By: Darren Roberts
Copyright ?1999, All Rights Reserved
___________________________________________________________
This week I am adopting a slightly different format. Instead of ...
Views: 3995 - BEYOND MECHANICAL SEX - by It seems that the magazines and bookstores are filled with advice on how to be fantastic in bed. There are books on the G Spot, multiple orgasms for men, and hour long marathons in every conceivable position. Sure, some of this is fun to read and might briefly perk our stale repetoire of erotic ...
Views: 3991 - *** The Four "Insider" Keys to Accelerated Learning Success - by When you read the words “accelerated learning,” what comes to mind? A bespectacled “brainiac”? A teenager receiving a Ph.D.? The fact is you don’t have to be a prodigy to experience the benefits of rapid learning.
The purpose of this brief article is to give you a ...
Views: 3980(2 votes) - What Women HATE Most About Single Guys - by If you listen to a group of attractive, single women talking alone over dinner or drinks, the topic will always turn to MEN.
And in most cases, it will eventually turn into a RANT session about how hard it is to find good men to date...
Which will lead to a FULL-ON RAG SESSION about ...
Views: 3980 - The Amazing Amla Berry - by Of all the rasayanas -- ayurvedic formulations revered for their positive influence on the overall physiology -- Amalaki is considered one of the most potent and nourishing. The Charaka Samhita says, "Amalaki is the best among rejuvenative herbs."
The Amalaki is a moderate-size deciduous tree ...
Views: 3973 - Are You A Spiritual Martyr? - by A spiritual martyr is someone who dies for their beliefs. Although we do not have martyrs in our society, in the biblical sense, we do have martyrs, in the spiritual sense, who are dying on the inside. They are dying from mental, emotional and spiritual poverty, hanging onto erroneous and ...
Views: 3967 - JOURNALING BECOMING POPULAR FORM OF SELF-THERAPY - by In a world where Prozac is a household word, people are searching for alternative ways to combat depression and anxiety. Many are finding that journaling is a successful form of “therapy” and often as cathartic as talking to a professional.
As recently as April 26, 1999, Newsweek ran an ...
Views: 3948 - Eliminate Anxiety and Feel Safe Without Drugs - by Can you be still for 15 minutes, not talking, reading, or watching televsion, without jumping up to "DO" something? If not, anxiety is keeping you from relaxing and feeling peace and calm. Everyone has some degree of anxiety in his or her body.
The good news is we do not have to live with ...
Views: 3937 - What Can the Gigolo Teach Nice Guys about Romancing Women? - by Hey Doc Love,
I have this friend who has the ability to talk women into buying him things. He does not buy them anything or tell them he loves them but they still give him stuff. Recently, a woman bought him a pair of shoes that cost 300 dollars!
How can I get girls to buy me things too? I ...
Views: 3933 - *** Facialbuilding ... The Last Word In Facial Exercise - by How did you get started in Facialbuilding?
I began teaching Facial Exercise in 1976. At that time, Isometrics were the only form of facial training known to the public. A year later, still teaching Facial Isometrics, I became interested in weightlifting and soon after stepped into competitive ...
Views: 3927(1 vote) - HYPERFORIN- A NATURAL PRODUCT WITH ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY - by INTRODUCTION
Hyperforin is a structurally novel anti-depressant isolated from Hypericum perforatum commonly known as St.John’s Wort.Hyperforin belong to group of compound known as acylphloroglucinols. The peculiarity of Hyperforin is that it is chemically unrelated to synthetic antidepressants. ...
Views: 3913 - The Mechanism of Manifestation - by So much for Part One of the Process of Personal Creation, what I have called the I am. God is the formless form. God is life, the fundamental and basic and essential energy, the first and only element, in undifferentiated form. Now for Part Two: what I have called the You Are. This is the ...
Views: 3906 - Transformation - it is all about questions - by Have you ever noticed that the older you get, the fewer friends you have, the fewer new things you experience, and the fewer risks you take? The result? Less ecstasy! In actuality, it doesn't make sense. Instead of expanding as you grow, you shrink. When you can relate to this scenario, it is ...
Views: 3899 - A SIMPLIFIED SPEED READING COURSE FOR 8-12 YEAR OLD KIDS - by I used to teach speed reading courses to adults. I remember being excited when one lady got to where she could read 3,000 words per minute. She was the fastest student that I had ever seen. It took her 6 weeks to get that good.
Then I got invited to teach some children to speed read at a ...
Views: 3897(3 votes) - FAQs on Self Image/Self Concept - by Just what is my self-image? Is it different than my self-concept?
Self-concept or self image is that internal picture we hold of ourselves - it's who WE think WE are. The amazing thing is that often others hold different pictures of us that don't agree with who we think we are. Each of us ...
Views: 3890(1 vote) - Eye Of The Tiger - by Have you ever felt the magic of ¡°eye of the tiger¡± focus and concentration? When you feel this intense experience, others see and feel this state energizing you. They see the determination in your eyes, hear the self-assured way in which you speak, and feel confidence and success radiating ...
Views: 3883 - Tai Chi Chuan Discussion - by a. History
When I arrived in America last year, I saw that many Americans wished to learn Tai Chi Chuan. It is a good sign that the ancient Chinese culture is gradually being accepted by western society. If you say Tai Chi Chuan, many Americans are aware of its health benefits. Although Tai Chi ...
Views: 3883(1 vote) - Forgiveness is the Ultimate Weight Loss - by While some people share their favorite sayings with car bumper stickers there is a horse farmer in North East Florida who shares his own profound quotes by posting signs for thousands of drivers to see on the way to and from work. This past week he posted a sign that said, "Forgiveness is the ...
Views: 3876(1 vote) - What Does Food Mean To You? - by Do you remember the movie: "Back the Future"? The special DeLorian which ran on bananas and all kinds of other garbage was science fiction. If you were to fill your car's tank with garbage it would probably never start again. There is a chance that you would need a whole new engine.
What a lot ...
Views: 3872(1 vote) - The Power of Breath / Practice now and feel better! - by The act of breathing is the body's most vital and basic function, yet many of us pay little attention to our breath. We have never learned how to breathe correctly!
Learning to breathe properly can greatly improve your health and reduce the impact of stress on your body.
You've probably ...
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