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Once upon a time the earth was flat – so people thought. It was just taken as fact – pre-supposed as true and without need of question. Then, once upon another time, the earth was the center of the universe and the sun revolved around it – another presupposition that nobody questioned.

Being clutter-free is more than getting rid of things you don’t need or use. It’s more than cleaning off a counter, emptying the garage or paring down your collections. Being clutter-free also means a change in life-style—for the better. How will you benefit by getting rid of clutter? You will gain more time for yourself because you won’t be maintaining your property. You will have more money because you won’t be paying for extra storage, and because your buying habits will change once you realize the benefits of having a clutter-free home.

At a recent meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous, a young woman brought up the topic of anger to be discussed. She wanted to know how to get over her feelings of resentment over being an alcoholic. New to sobriety, the woman expressed her dismay over other “normal” people’s ability to handle liquor and not end up with severe negative consequences. The discussion began. One old-timer provided an intellectual perspective – relating how alcoholism is a disease, similar to dia

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With the very best of intentions three men leave treatment honestly believing that relapse is not possible after all that they have seen and learned. n The first man returned to his upper middle class home, to his wife and lucrative career. On top of the world the man dismisses any need of ...

New medical findings suggest that expression of the cystic fibrosis CFTR mutation gene is modulated, in a dose-dependent manner, by oxygen content in body cells. Reduced oxygen levels cause abnormalities in mucus composition leading to production of abnormally viscous and sticky mucus in various body organs. Medical studies also suggest that hyperventilation is the likely cause of cell hypoxia.

Much has been written about the Ascended Masters. They are consider to be spirits that have inca ated on Earth, like all of us, but have learned the lessons of the Earth plane, transmuted all fear, and ascended into spirit. They have removed themselves out of the karmic cycles that keep most of us here. They have gone through the struggles of Earth and transmuted it into heaven. Many of these masters are well known such as Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Saint Germain, Moses, and many more. They are the prophets and saints of their times.

12 Palms Recovery Center believes that the foundation for any quality treatment plan should revolve around the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, working in conjunction with other successful options. 12 Palms Recovery Center believes that the foundation for any quality treatment plan should revolve around the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, working in conjunction with other successful options. For anyone who has ever experienced the devastation caused by the disease of alcoh

Autonomy is a fundamental ethical right that allows mental health and substance abuse clients to make informed decisions about the course of their treatment. Legally speaking, autonomy is a liberty interest that is protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. Ethically speaking, autonomy underscores a number of important client rights, such as informed consent, the right to refuse treatment and the right to confidentiality. Practically speaking, autonomy defines professional bounda

In the last decade, a lot has changed in the world of love addiction. Not that love addiction itself has changed. It is pretty much the same insidious disorder it always has been. What has changed is how the world looks at it. Twenty years ago, our understanding of love addiction was still ...In the last decade, a lot has changed in the world of love addiction. Not that love addiction itself has changed. It is pretty much the same insidious disorder it always has been. What has changed is how the world looks at it.

Many firms have established relationship marketing programs (sometimes called loyalty programs) to fostet usage loyalty and a commitment to their company'sproducts and services. Relationship marketing is exceedingly logical when we realize credit card research has shown that "75 Percent of college students keep their first card for 15 years, and 60 percent keep that card for life.

It is likely there are a few things you’d like to accomplish in your sobriety. The reality is that the machinery that helps your goals manifest is the same no matter the subject, time-line, or importance. I would like to posit that in order to reach your goals there are specific ways of thinking about them that can help. I would like to outline a few ideas and then show you to a system of goal-setting that I have found to be very helpful. Motivation – I would like to introd

We all want and need to have hope. Hope gets us up in the morning and drives us to achieve what we otherwise would just dream about. Hope allows us to keep going when circumstances are dire and there doesn’t appear to be any opportunity of turning the tide. Hope is the expectation of something in the absence of empirical data. Hope is everything to the recovering addict.

Drug Rehabilitation, it’s a medical treatment available across the world to treat the people who are abused by drug and alcohol. Generally, drug abuse can be said as people tend to take alcohol, prescription drugs and dangerous drugs like Cocaine, Heroin and other dangerous drugs etc., in order to avoid their psychological, physical, social, financial, legal problems. Mainly people like college students, Homeless, farmers and teenagers, professionals get addicted to drugs e

Practical Magic-How I Let the Law of Attraction Work for Me “Keep ever in mind that each living person in all God’s Universe is a radiating center of the same perfect One, some radiating more and some less, according to the awakened consciousness of the individual” (Dr. H. Emilie Cady, Lessons in Truth) What does that mean in practical terms? How do you awaken your consciousness? How do you radiate (vibrate) at a higher level. And why do you want to do that?

Why, not be want you want to be? This is part of the BE, DO, HAVE series…. This is to help you find your happiness, your purpose, your dream. Find what motivates you to do what you truly love doing. Tools you will require Note book and pen. Get yourself a note book to answer the following questions and you will start to see a pattern emerge. This is a very powerful tool that I believe should be used by everyone. I have used it myself, I have used all of my motivational material and that is why I can write about them with such passion because I know that they work.

You probably have heard about ideas to breathe more and expel more CO2. Such ideas are promoted by many people, including current day yoga teachers who suggest ideas that are completely different from the original yoga used for centuries and even from yoga that had been used some fifty-seventy years back. For instance, anyone can prove that previously yoga coaches could efficiently teach methods to deal with medical problems.

Many people when drinking turn into someone else. Some become more flirty, others laugh a lot, or fall asleep (That would be me), but quite a few become angry. Growing up in France, wine was the drink of choice. My next door neighbor was an angry drunk. He used to come home from the bar, and trash furniture while shouting obscenities. He did hit his wife as well, unfortunately. His daughter was terrified of him and until she was 12, was loosing bladder control at night. She was a bed wetter.

Webster's New World Dictionary of the American language defines ENCOURAGEMENT as meaning: to give courage, hope, confidence to, hearten, to help, give support to, be favorable to, and foster. Now, one good word leads us to another if we seek it out. Right? So, I looked up FOSTER to find out why Mr. Webster had the insight to add it right at the end of his words to describe encouragement. Here is what the word foster means: to bring up, rear, to help to develop, promote, to ch

The Tenth Step of AA is not about taking inventory once a day. It's about our inventory taking us throughout the day. The tenth step is about constantly seeking deeper experiences in the moment. The tenth step is about constantly seeking deeper experiences in the moment. The tenth step is vitally important to the continuing awareness that is needed to help the addict grow find center and balance in their life. As we practice this, we begin to see ourselves as if from above,

Everything that has happened to me in September symbolises life and death. A part of me died, so a new part could come to life. The closest this symbol came to reality was on the 15th in 2014. That day, I laid on a hospital bed and was under the knife for over four hours. After the surgery, as I was coming out of a deep sleep from anaesthesia, I could hear the nurses talking and asking me if I could move my feet. As hard as I tried I couldn’t move. I couldn’t even open my eyes to tell them that I understood what they were asking.

There are many great things about starting an aerobics program for your body. One of the greatest things about aerobics is that you can use it to burn fat in ways that are easier on your body than dieting. It is very simple to burn fat using aerobics as exercise, because there are many ways that you can train your body to do the work that it is supposed to in order to really get the most out of the aerobics that you are doing. While you are building up a sweat and working on your heart rate, all of your muscles are also getting great things out of the aerobics work that you are doing.

My favorite recovery author is John Bradshaw. He is the one who introduced me to the idea of the inner child. And he also helped me understand that alcoholism is never a primary illness, but rather it is a secondary disease. Bradshaw believes that the primary illness is co-dependency or as he ...

20 quick and practical methods to increase your confidence. Here we go: 1. Think about someone who is confident and act, talk and walk like him or her. Model their mannerisms and behaviour. It works for them; it will work for you. 2. Smile a lot more. That doesn’t mean putting a silly grin on your face! But smile when you walk down the street, when you meet people and generally be happier even if you’re not feeling that way. 3. Learn from the past; don’t beat yourself up about it. It’s gone; it’s never coming back. Instead learn from it for next time.

IS AN ADDICT EVER CURED?rn~ by Joe Herzanek In today’s world in which more and more information is readily available, there seems to be more and more confusion regarding the topic of an “Addiction Cure.” Is there a cure for addiction? Some people would argue quite convincingly that there is. I will point out that “even quitting use completely, for many years—does not mean that someone is cured.”

Does Alcoholics Anonymous WorknnAlcoholics Anonymous is probably one of the oldest forms of dealing with an alcohol addiction, and anyone who has annalcohol addiction has likely to have heard of Alcoholics Anonymous also simply known as AA.nnI have been to a few of there meetings and spoke to a number of people who have also attended there classes and most people seem to be giving me maixed feelings "It's a bunch of unserious people that have no effective means of dealing the

Six tips to start taking positive action. Your thoughts are things. Do you realize that the things that you think about the most always seem to come to you? Isn’t that strange, and what’s more strange is that we always seem to remember the bad or negative things. Saying things like, I knew that was going to happen, and didn’t I say that was going to happen. Just think about it for a moment. If you think it, and your believe it, you will get it. Your thoughts become action and your action become things.

ONLY THE RISK TAKERS ARE FREE 1,650 words We can never get anywhere in life if we do not become risk takers. There is simply no way around it. We've all heard the axiom 'nothing ventured, nothing gained. This is another way of saying that we must become risk takers if we want to journey the path of success. One of my favorite books says that 'to get to the fruit you have to go out on a limb.' That about sums up the need to become a risk taker, and a daring one at that, let me add. The good news is that we are in good company.

The drug or alcohol addict storms through the world, convinced that everyone has wronged them, convinced that everyone owes them, and convinced that they are somehow entitled to have intruded on the lives of others. In their wake, they manage to leave a great deal of destruction in our wake. In Step 8, it's time for the addict to take inventory of those who we have wronged and begin to understand the magnitude of what he or she has done. In this list, include all that we ha

While returning to the trailhead after an exhilarating hike and stimulating conversation with a good friend, I realized that it was later in the day tha I had thought. As I had plans for the evening, I stepped up my pace considerably and started downhill in a faster clip than felt comfortable. ...

In this article, I would like to share with you my “10 Steps for Achieving Success”. It is your attitude and your willingness to do these things that will determine whether you succeed or fail. Goals are important because they will help keep track of your progress, and they will allow you to ...

As the years begin to pass me by, it is hard not to reflect on my life. Lost friendships, lost loves… just so much lost. Don’t get me wrong, I am very happy with how my life has turned out, yet I can’t help and look back at the destruction of my life.

Rage in a child as displayed by aggressive behavior, hitting, and tantrums, is always an issue deserving of serious attention. While parents may fear mental disorders such as ADD or bipolar disorder and seek the help of a therapist, consider that much of the solution lies in developing your ...

Virtually any person who experienced insomnia can testify that it comes together with other symptoms. Why does advance of chronic health problems aggravate problems with sleep? Official medical science cannot provide explanations related to this effect, but this mecianism is easy to understand. Use your observations

I have read and heard so many times that that there is so much power in the spoken word and our feelings. I am reminded of a story I heard many years about a little old lady who had contracted cancer. When the doctor told her the news she simply looked out the window and stared into the distance with a dreamy look and grin on her face. He stood quietly a few moments, letting her assimilate the sad news he had just been obligated to reveal to her.

By Dr. Artour Rakhimov (www.NormalBreathing.com) Normal oxygen delivery to cells is crucial for good health. Furthermore, oxygen level in body cells is always low for virtually all chronic diseases. With progression of diseases, many people require oxygen supplementation.

Maintaining proper circulation is important for everyone, but especially so for those who are older or suffer from diseases like diabetes. In humans, the circulatory system is responsible for maintaining the movement of blood throughout the body. Humans need air to breath and we use the oxygen ...

So, you just finished creating and uploading some nice content on your blog. Now, you’re wondering the next step that you’re going to take. Well, the best next thing that you need to do is to promote your website in the online arena to promote awareness and later on, attract as much traffic as possible. And there’s no better way to do that than writing articles. Writing articles will allow you to share your in-depth knowledge to your readers and that’s exactly what th

Many people know that metastasized breast cancers can be often deadly. Up to 20-25% of women expire during following 5 years as a consequence of spread of cancerous cells to additional parts of the human body. All over the world hundreds of teams of doctors looks into solutions to improve the treatments as well as lower mortality. While it is currently proven that low cell oxygenation is the main factor that causes spread of tumors, there are no official methods to drive oxygen into cells. Currently there are actually no effective therapies that can significantly enhance the outcomes.

I have this little saying taped on the book shelf near my computer that says "Every adversity has an equal or greater benefit." I have incorporated it into my belief system and constantly quote it to my clients, friends and family. At first upon hearing this statement one might be inclined to ask for further clarification. For it would seem that adversity is anything but our teacher or liberator.

When life becomes one crisis after another, when emotional pain and endless drama become “the norm” what am I supposed to do? Over the past few decades I’ve received this question a lot. Recently it has become the #1 question. Why is that? What do I suggest to families who have arrived at this place? How about this: My suggestion is to do NOTHING! Stop “doing.” Quit “doing.” No longer “DO” anything. Let’s talk about letting go and what that looks like (sometimes referred to as detachment). So there—I’ve said it; The “D” word, The Ultimatum, The Nuclear Option. When to use it

Many years before I found my way into a group room or sat in a chair before a client, I listened to a recording of Dr. King and his "I Have a Dream" speech. Having listened to his speech I knew I wanted to help people in some way and I knew I wanted to affect change, I just didn't know how. I had a dream of supporting clients to find a way to exit addiction. I suspect I must have found a way to reach my goal as more tha 28 years later I continue to support people to find a wa

Manifest your desire and reach your goals with your mind using self hypnosis. Lets begin by taking a moment to bring something into your mind that you may be thinking you would like to change, but really aren't sure you're really motivated or have the energy to make the changes. Pick something ...

~ by Joe Herzanek I’m often asked, especially by many in the Christian Community, if the AA 12-step program conflicts with Biblical Christianity. Some feel that the two just don’t go together. Personally, after three decades of studying and being part of both groups, I have to disagree.

Our inner power is the Source of all the love, peace, joy, and abundance there is. It is amazing how simple and complex this concept can be. Simple because if we would like to have more love in our lives all we have to do is be more loving and share our love with others. At the same time it is ...

It is estimated that 10% of office employees work in a sedentary environment which does not provide opportunity to the employees to move around and do exercise. Moreover, it is alarming to take note that 46% of employees also eat poor and high-fat diets while 21% employees also smoke as their means to de-stress themselves. With these unhealthy scenarios at work, it is no longer shocking to hear that more and more employees fall behind their work due to diseases and stress. Th

Cancer. A word that no one wants to hear or say. A word which even in this modern time conjures up thoughts of death. The surgeries, the chemo, the radiation, at times, you wonder will it ever stop. And at times, you wonder, how much fight the both of you have. But, somehow, by the Grace of God, you work your way through it all, and as a couple, you become stronger. Along the way, you learn some valuable lessons. There are some "do's" and "don'ts" which should be practiced, as a family with cancer, or as friends of a family with cancer.

The 12 Steps and 12 Step recovery programme were founded by a group of approximately 100 people in Akron and New York in the United States of America and led by Bill Wilson (Bill W) and Dr. Robert Smith (Dr Bob), both recovering alcoholics and responsible for the world famous Alcoholics Anonymous Programme. Their names are abbreviated to uphold the 12th tradition of the 12 Steps concerning the anonymity of members. The 12 Steps are used in many different fellowships today, al

As almost anything begins to age, it is inevitable that some things will stop working like they used to. This is especially true of the human body. One common condition that is found in people over fifty years of age is arthritis. Arthritis is a, often painful, condition that involves reduced ...