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By Gia CilentoRecently published1 topic

8 Ways To Relieve Stress, Unwind and Renew

Everyone has stress. It’s a natural part of life and happens everyday. There’s no escaping it. What you can escape, however, are the harmful side effects of prolonged, extreme, and/or chronic stress. First, let’s take a look at stress, what it is, how it impacts you, how to recognize it and then we’ll dive into ways to manage and alleviate it. What is stress? Wikipedia gives us a definition that points to the biology of stress:

Primary topic: Life Balance

2,087 views

By Gia CilentoRecently published1 topic

6 Steps To Use Visualization And End Your Need For Immediate Gratification

If you’ve ever struggled to attain your goals, don’t beat yourself up, don’t give up. It may just be that all you need is a change in your focus. You may just be giving in to your desire for immediate gratification. If you’re like most people today, you’ve probably let yourself fulfill this desire more often than not and now you’ve created a habit.

Primary topic: Life Balance

1,572 views

By Gia CilentoRecently published1 topic

Inner Peace Is A Choice - 12 Steps To Get There

On any given day and at any given moment there are as many reasons to feel peaceful, to choose inner peace and to pass it on as there are to feel annoyed, threatened, angry, frustrated and to pass that on. It is a choice. Pass on the peace or pass on the crap. Feel the peace within or roll around in all your angst. It is a choice. If you think that inner peace is something worth going after then make it a point to get in touch with who you are. Turn your attention inward and start to create your own Inner Sanctum, your sacred place of inner peace.r

Primary topic: Life Balance

1,563 views

By Gia CilentoRecently published1 topic

6 Steps To Use Visualization And End Your Need For Immediate Gratification

If you’ve ever struggled to attain your goals, don’t beat yourself up, don’t give up. It may just be that all you need is a change in your focus. You may just be giving in to your desire for immediate gratification. If you’re like most people today, you’ve probably let yourself fulfill this desire more often than not and now you’ve created a habit.

Primary topic: Life Balance

1,532 views

By Gia CilentoRecently published1 topic

3 Easy Ways To Make The Best Choice

The Best Choice - Gia Cilento - The Peace Doctor, Life Coach, Author, Speaker, Reiki Master, Healerr Making the best choice can sometimes be difficult. Sometimes there seems to be far too many things to choose from, such as breakfast cereal, and sometimes there are far too few, such as choosing betwee Republican and Democrat. Still other times, your choices may seem to be between a rock and a hard place and you feel that you have to choose the lesser of two evils.

Primary topic: Life Balance

1,505 views

By Gia CilentoRecently published1 topic

Access Your Inner Peace To Create Your New Year’s Resolutions

Your Inner Peace is crucial to setting New Year’s resolutions and goals that work, are achievable and that align with who you truly are.

Primary topic: Life Balance

1,446 views

By Gia CilentoRecently published1 topic

6 Ways To Handle Holiday Stress

Holiday stress can put pressure on our entire lives and wreak havoc on our ability to maintain our inner peace. These weeks leading up to the holidays can be extremely stressful as we try to juggle our regular schedules and add in all the extra food to cook, shopping to do, family to invite (or not), and more. It can be frustrating, overwhelming, anxiety producing and stressful.

Primary topic: Life Balance

1,408 views

By Gia CilentoRecently published1 topic

7 Ways To Prevent A Superwoman Meltdown

If you’re anything like me, you sometimes feel like you’re being pulled in a hundred different directions at the same time. Yes, you manage to fulfill just about everything on your “to do” list, but you can end up feeling drained, empty and exhausted or even totally overwhelmed. When you’re feeling like this, you know you've hit a wall and your inner well, or Inner Sanctum, need attention and nurturing.

Primary topic: Life Balance

1,396 views

By Gia CilentoRecently published1 topic

Has Your Fear Of Death Made You Stop Living?

Have you heard the song, “Live Like You Were Dying” by Tim McGraw? If you haven’t, click on the link and head over there after you’ve finished reading. It really makes you sit up and take notice of how you’re living your life. That’s what it did for me, anyway, when my coach at the time had me listen to it. It gave me chills because it made me realize that I wasn’t really living but avoiding life. I had numbed out. I’d let my fears take over and stop me from following my dreams and living life the way I’d always wanted.

Primary topic: Life Balance

1,391 views

By Gia CilentoRecently published1 topic

The Beatings Will Continue … 5 Ways To Tackle Negative Self-Talk

Who’s really beating up on you the most? It’s probably you. Don’t believe me? Stop and notice the way you talk to yourself. One of the biggest obstacles to Inner Peace and developing your Inner Sanctum is the presence of negative self-talk and the way we beat ourselves up. For the most part, this self-talk is running in the background and you’re so used to it, you don’t always notice.

Primary topic: Life Balance

1,368 views

By Gia CilentoRecently published1 topic

Gia’s Inner Peace Workout – A Meditation

When you hear the words, inner peace, what do you think? Maybe the term conjures up images of a monk sitting in a cave at the top of a lonely mountain, or a group of people sitting in meditation for hours and hours a day. What’s it really mean, though. What is this elusive thing called “inner peace?” According to Wikipedia: “Inner peace (or peace of mind) refers to a state of being mentally and spiritually at peace, with enough knowledge and understanding to keep oneself strong in the face of discord or stress.”¹

Primary topic: Life Balance

1,325 views

By Gia CilentoRecently published1 topic

Keep Your Boundaries – 4 Steps To Keeping Solid Boundaries

Boundaries can be considered our personal rules of engagement. They’re the limits or guidelines we use to indicate how we interact with others and how we will allow them to interact with us. Some of us have multiple layers of boundaries and some have a simple set. Still others have different boundaries depending on the type of relationship they have with someone. They might have very formal, strict boundaries with strangers while having more relaxed and informal boundaries with close friends and family.

Primary topic: Life Balance

1,296 views

By Gia CilentoRecently published1 topic

The Seasons Don’t Really Change

Growing up in South Florida, I heard this a lot from the northern transplants, the unhappy ones, at least.

Primary topic: Life Balance

1,273 views

By Gia CilentoRecently published1 topic

Living A Constipated Life Or, How This SuperWoman Got Her Groove Back

Being a SuperWoman isn’t always easy. In fact, it can be downright tough. So many expectations, especially from yourself. Sometimes it feels like you’re being pulled in a thousand directions. And, sometimes, when you don’t live up to those expectations, things unravel, fall apart and you have to rethink and re-evaluate what you’re doing, why you’re doing it and where you’re going. Sometimes, you actually need to evaluate who you are, deep down, and what you really want your life to be like.

Primary topic: Life Balance

1,246 views

By Gia CilentoRecently published1 topic

Bread & Butter

Early this week, my sister, Abby, told me about something called, simply, “The Plan.” It’s a system developed by Lyn-Genet Recitas for figuring out which foods really work best with your body and which may be causing inflammation that causes weight gain.r

Primary topic: Life Balance

1,234 views

By Gia CilentoRecently published1 topic

Even Super-Women Need Down Time

Yes, I said it. I know you might have thought that the idea of Super-Women went out in the 80’s or 90’s but don’t fool yourself. There are probably more pressures on us as women today than there were back then. We thought we had a lot to take care of before and now we've added in social networking, cell phones, 24 hour news stations and more. Now, we’re on call and in touch almost 24/7.

Primary topic: Life Balance

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