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How To Tell When Someone Is Lying

To know how to tell when someone is lying, it helps to first look at the three basic types of lies. These are lies of omission, commission, and embellishment. What follows is a short description/definition of each, and some ways to detect each kind of lying. Lying By Omissio A lie of omission ...

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Wealth Creation Means What?

When we hear about wealth creation it is usually presented as gaining money and other valuable assets. Make money, then invest it to grow your net worth - a common formula. Those who look a little deeper see that assets alone don't necessarily pay the bills, stress making your money and assets work for you to produce streams of income. In any case the basic idea as understood by most people is that wealth creation is a matter of accumulation. There is a difference between creation and transference, though.

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Creativity: Why Bother? 10 Benefits of Expressing Your Creativity

As a child, you may have yearned to play the piano professionally, to act on Broadway, to write a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Perhaps you mentioned your aspirations to someone and were met with laughter or the assurance that there was no money in it. You swallowed your creative dreams and satisfied yourself with listening to music on the radio, to reading books or watching movies. How often have our creative selves been swept to the sidelines, to being the observer? We inte

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The Top Five Things New Musicians Struggle With

As people enter the world of music, there are certain things every musician struggles with. Some people are able to overcome these struggles more easily that others, but everyone faces these struggles. Knowing what these struggles are can help you prepare for them and overcome them more easily and quickly. So, what are these struggles?...nn 1. Not Knowing How To Practice nPractice makes perfect, right? No. Perfect practice makes perfect. If you practice something incorrectly,

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Our Self Development Journey

Our Personal Development Journey Self Realization Journey is a most amazing Journey we will ever embark on. It never ends and it is always successful because an invisible driver (our soul) directs the Journey. Our commitment to grow as spiritual beings is always beautifully rewarded.

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Role of Dance in our lives

“Dance is the most immediate and accessible of the arts because it involves your own body. When you learn to move your body on a note of music, it's exciting. You have taken control over your body, and by learning to do that, you discover that you can take charge of your own life." An expression by Jacques D' Amboise that is so poignant, that it sets you thinking. How true the above passage depicts the expression – dance. When one rejoices a happy moment or mou s some loss, the body shows it all.

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Ancient Europe's Mindfulness

An Honest Look into a Mindfulness Journey from Ancient Europe's Perspective "Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use." Carlos Castaneda

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Can love be trained?

Can love be trained? How to open this amazing door to Happiness? True love, Personal Development and Happiness Now, maybe this will sound strange for some very young lovers, but the essence of this wonderful feeling, this joyful state of being is that Love can and must be trained. Happiness as a Way of Life

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Divergent Thinking

Divergent Thinking: Essence of Creativity Divergent thinking is essential for creativity. It is the ability to see lots of possible ways to interpret a question and lots of possible answers to it.

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Dealing with perfectionism

Perfectionism can be a virtue in the pursuit of excellence and mastery, but it may also have a dark side, with unhealthy obsessions or chronic dissatisfaction getting in the way of creative imagination, healthy relationships and life satisfaction. Filmmaker Jerry Bruckheimer has been called "a relentless perfectionist who never allows a single detail to go by without notice." Martha Stewart calls herself "a maniacal perfectionist," and says "If I weren't, I wouldn't have this company. It's the best rap!" Psychologist Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D.

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The Mysticism and Ecstasy of Creativity - Channeling Your Creative Energy and Inspiration

As we become more developed in our knowledge about channeling creative energy, we discover that creativity flows from two chakras in the body. One chakra from which creativity flows is the "Throat Chakra," but creativity also flows from the "Sacral Chakra"--the same chakra from which our sensuality flows. With this evidence, it is apparent that creativity is not only a mystical experience but also an experience that brings great ecstasy. Now to say that the flow of creativity and inspiration is a mystical and ecstatic experience may seem salacious; it seems salacious because it is.

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Imagine! You can Enhance Your Child's Creativity and Reduce Your Guilt-Load!

Oh Momma -the guilt of it all! You've been inundated with parenting advice meant to nourish the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual growth of your child. And within that information is a fabulous array of advice for supporting your child's play, imagination and creativity. After all, play is the child's work. Not only is it their way to process and make sense of the world, it is their way to discover, explore, and develop their passions and gifts.

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***Curiosity - Part 3

There is a saying most of us have heard, “curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought him back.” Curiosity is one of the most valuable states of mind we can have. If we are curious we can be open to what is in the present moment. It’s when we get caught up in the past or the future that our emotions get hold of us and we ignore the present and therefore anything it may have to tell us.

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***The Long View

When I was growing up everyone around me gave me suggestions for “what to do when…” I grew up. My friends and I wrote on our notebooks and in our jou als what we wanted, to do, to be, to have and to hold. We girls tried different names on with our “first” names, we got “married,” wore “big” clothes, generally did everything we could to avoid being who we were; little girls growing up.

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***The soul always knows what to do to heal itself

We live in a science-driven world of charts and statistics, we listen to the hum of experts telling us the data from their fields of expertise. I grew up in the last half of the last century when those in the "know" were convinced we would be eating pills of compressed food balanced nutritionally with all our needs by now. We would be flying around in individual tubes controlled by power sources soon to be discovered. It was a heady time. We thought we could "cure" everything.

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Making Friends with Fear

Making Friends with Fear When I was in drama school the great American actress Annette Bening came to speak to my class. A student asked her how she “overcame” her stage fright. She laughed, and said she hadn’t. Instead she described a mindful awareness and acceptance of the anxiety she experiences before a scene. She said she would have a peaceful conversation with herself, something like: “Oh my, my hands are shaking, my heart is pounding, and I am really nervous right now. Interesting. Good to know. Alright nervous Annette, lets go to work!”

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Games for Thinkers

Thinkers relish the challenge and stimulation of brilliant games. They enjoy games for the pure thrill of exercising their minds and judgements in pursuit of victory. You can take pleasure in any number of great games. Here is a selection of recommended pastimes. Add them to your Christmas ...

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Tapping the Brain's Magic

Mind Power and Motivation Some Interesting Brain Facts The human brain is truly extraordinary. A healthy brain has some 200 billion neurons. The conscious mind controls our brain for only five per cent of the day, whereas the subconscious mind has control of our thoughts 95 per cent of the time.

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Hitting “The Wall” and How to Get Over It!

Taking on a new project, learning a new skill or trying something you’ve never done before often comes with it’s own set of obstacles, which are addressed in the book, 101 Reasons to be Yourself, as well as in the online course, No Regrets 101. What happens when you actually begin something, then ‘hit the wall’ before you finish? Hitting the wall can be a painful and deflating process that leaves dreams in the dust.

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Personal Transformation in Three Easy Steps by Kristin Mackey

Personal Transformation in 3 Easy Steps By Kristin Mackey When you decide to make changes, pulling yourself together is an essential step in personal transformation. When you think and feel in a new way, you begin to behave in a new way. These new behaviors aligned with your vision create the habits that make things happen. So you don’t feel congruent (pulled together)? There’s a reason and this article can help. STEPS 1. Understand your personal “software” 2. Organize your environment and belongings 3. Change your everyday world

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7 ways to Tend and Tame the Inner Critic

7 Ways to Tend and Tame Your Inner Critic You are on a first date and in your head a nasty narrative plays: “She’s too good for me. Why did I tell that joke, I’m so awkward. I’m going to be single forever.” You are about to give a presentation and all you can hear is that same sneering soundtrack: “I’m not prepared; I will never be prepared enough because I am a fraud.”

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FACE-BLINDNESS & TRAUMA

Dr. Niama Leslie Williamsr March 20, 2012 It was not until I watched the 60 Minutes story this past Sunday, March 18th, 2012, that I realized I had written about a type of face-blindness in my first novel, a senior project completed for my undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature at Occidental College. I remember quite clearly creating a character who grew up to become a villain because throughout his life, in the small, rural village in a fictional Latin American country in which he grew up, no one ever remembered his face.

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Vision Board and Health

Have you ever turned on your computer and -- nothing! nada! Zero. Panic, because I make my living on the computer. So I call my computer expert and he appears at 10:00 a.m. Many calls to his supervisors throughout the day, with no solution. He promises to stay until the situation is resolved. I feel that anxious buzz in my stomach. My conscious mind warns me that negative stress is one of the major factors that influences my health and accelerates the march to fatal disease. I am determined to turn this into positive stress – the kind that promotes action and creative problem solving.

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Rupture and Repair: What I learned about Healing from my Broken Leg

Three months ago, in a freak accident involving a puppy, a feral cat, and a nasty curb, I broke my leg in two places. After emergency surgery I awoke from my anesthesia haze and faced my most grueling physical teaching yet. Painful and frustrating as it was, this injury offered an incredible first hand view of the healing process. I observed the parallels between physical recovery, and emotional, psychological, and spiritual repair. Here is what I learned about healing from my very broken leg:

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Wisdom Quotes Point - Arguments Just Explain

"What does it profit a man to have gained the whole world, and to have lost his soul?" - Jesus Christ You don't need to be Christian to see wisdom in the words of Jesus. Simple quotes from men and women around the world, from present day or milleniums past, inspire and instruct us, regardless ...

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Developing Strategic Thinkers

Strategic thinking is regarded as an essential core competency for leadership positions. In fact, many organizations already use this competency, among others, to appraise and evaluate the performance of their executives and leaders. Thus, a competency gap in strategic thinking is considered serious, and organizations will attempt to eliminate this gap. This brief article explores the most effective means to develop strategic thinkers. Let us begin by listing some of the skil

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Don't Worry, Be Happy. Mostly.

The lyrics of Bobby McFerrin's song include: "Don't worry. It will soon pass, whatever it is In your life expect some trouble But when you worry You make it double Don't worry, be happy" Being happy and positive in general is a preferable stance toward life, better for our health, creativity ...

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Love and Technology: Inspired or Lost withi Technology Matrix

We live surrounded by an increasingly complex matrix of impulses allowing strangers of all sorts (TV, media, Internet) interfere in our mental, emotional and spiritual development. Understanding this intricate network and how does the human brain interacts with it is becoming our door to happiness and health. <img src="https://www.artof4elements.com/images/2016-01/technology-matrix-lonely-path-to-happiness-alchemy-of-love-mindfulness-training-by-nuit.jpg" width="500" alt="Mindful Being Course by Nataša PantoviÄ technology matrix lonely path to happiness">

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Four Tent Camping Tips

The following tent camping tips are meant primarily for those who are backpacking, although some will apply to a stay in a campground as well. Also, the tips here will be most useful for those who like to travel light when in the wilde ess. 1. Test it in the Yard You don’t want to find out that the roof leaks when you are two days away from the nearest road and a freezing rain is falling. Set it up in the yard and inspect it if you haven’t used the tent yet, or if has been stored for a long time. Turn on the hose and test it for leaks. 2.

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Vegetarian Backpacking Recipes

Ready to hit the trails but without the beef jerky? Here are a few vegetarian backpacking recipes you can try, along with some simple snack foods. Olive Oil Noodles This is a simple recipe that you don't need to write down. Bring a small bag of spices (whatever kinds you like), some dried vegetables, pasta and olive oil. Soak the dried vegetables while you are setting up camp. Then cook them along with the pasta.

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Mindful Being Course Interview with Nataša PantoviÄ Buzzfeed

Wellness and Nutrition Author of 9 consciousness research books Nataša PantoviÄ has told Buzzfeed that her latest personal development book called: Mindful Being towards Mindful Living Course, is about how ‘consciousness transforms into its golden possibilities’. <img src="https://artof4elements.com/images/2016-06/create-reality-of-your-dreams-mindfulness-training.jpg" width="500" alt="create reality of your dreams Mindful Being Course by Nataša PantoviÄ"/>

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Hurry Up and Relax!

Hurry Up and Relax! Hurry up and relax! I saw this on my Mary Engelbreit's calendar and had a good chuckle. Every day this week, I think I am going to get everything done and then go sit and relax by the pool. Well that didn't work so then I just forced myself to go sit outside but even though my eyes were closed, my mind was racing about what I could be doing instead. Or even worse, what I would do once I got up from this chair. Sigh. Sound familiar? Here it is July and how many of us are hurrying up the "to-do" list so we can relax? Isn't summer supposed to be more laid back?

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Bad Luck - The Mistakes That Cause It

There are two ways to improve the good luck / bad luck ratio in your life. One is to take steps to do those things that lead to more good luck. The other is to stop doing the things that cause bad luck. This lesson is about the latter. It is an examination of the actions, habits and thinking of ...

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Miracle and its embodiment

Introduction In the question of “realization” let us remain one in opinion regarding flexibility of mind and power of reasoning. Since we are to find out truth and attain perfection, we shouldn’t be at all biased by any religion, nor should we be orthodox and prejudiced. Now, the first query is, as human beings are we expected to submit to any doctrine and give up everything, living within narrow confine? No, never.

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Why do we stop having sex?

Sexuality and Spirituality through Ages The likes of Nikola Tesla, St. Teresa of Avila or Sri Aurobindo would tell you that they have deliberately avoided sex and relationships to preserve energy and to safeguard it for the fulfillment of their mission – their mental work or their spiritual growth. The most major religions will wholeheartedly support this decision because in their viewpoint sexual energy belongs to our animal nature, is used for reproduction, and should be left sleeping within the realms of our sub-conscious. Taoist about Sexuality

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Empowered Vulnerability

As a Los Angeles based psychotherapist and yoga teacher I travel in many spiritual circles which espouse and sometimes proselytize the importance of positive thinking and its power to create our reality and manifest the future. Works like The Secret boldly profess that you are in complete control of your life, and by choosing your thoughts wisely, and visualizing your hearts desire, you are in command of fate, fortune, and all that is coming your way.

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Creative Ways To Make Money

I collect examples of creative ways to make money for my websites, and I recently found a fun one in a great little story I read. It was written by a man who had certain survival talents and decided to demonstrate them by being dumped in the middle of a large city with no money. By that evening he had a nice hotel room and some money in his pocket.

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Using Group Brainstorming Techniques To Generate New Ideas

More often, the most effective and the best way in discovering a new and great idea is via group discussion. Such group discussions are called brainstorming. So in order to garner the best and practical results from this, you have to make use of some group brainstorming strategies and techniques. Utilizing some group brainstorming techniques such as keeping an open mind and starting with a subject are great ways to start the ball rolling. 1. Keep an open mind—the creative p

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Enlightenment Is An Inside Job

"For me, the most attractive woman is the person who is at peace with herself." Javier Bardem, Actor There is so much pressure from the media, peers and ourselves to look slim, cleverly dressed in up-to-date fashions, have the perfect relationship, the most admired career and the list goes on. We are encouraged to seek validation of our self worth from outside stimuli on a regular basis. It is a constant distraction. After awhile, it becomes weary to "show up" in a certain way.

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Conscious Parenting

Conscious Parenting or Entering a Spiritual Parenting Journey Parenting IS the most difficult job in the world. The Journey of Personal Development magically enfolds in front of the Parents that are at all times asked to increase their capacity to Love, and Understand this complex matrix of impulses we call Life. The world belongs to our children and we are their soil, their water, their air and if we are full of love, understanding, and wisdom our children will grow into free and inspired adults.

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Are You Mistaking Arrogance For Humility?

From a personal experience I can tell you that whenever I’m feeling creatively congested, AKA ‘blocked,’ I’ve had, somewhere along the way, applied a mental-emotional break to the creative flow that’s awaiting its expression. I believe that creativity is NOT of our own making and our free will does not give us a right to determine WHAT will come through us into this visible, 3-Dimensional reality as defined by our five senses.

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You Can Increase Your IQ Right Now

You can increase your IQ (intelligence quotient) in the next ten minutes. On my website www.IncreaseBrainPower.com, there are many brain power exercises and techniques designed to help you long-term, but what if you need a quick brain fix right now? What if there is an important meeting coming ...

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What is Your Life’s Purpose? by Kristin Mackey

By Kristin Mackey …A pause follows with an attempt to grasp for further clarity, “Do you mean what I do for a living?” the participant eagerly asks… “No, your life’s purpose”, I reiterate. Confused, she expands her question, “With family, friends or work? Then I prepare for the longest silence in the seminar when I clarify, “Why were you born?”

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Clipping Path Services Gained Soaring Popularity over the World in Most Excellent Photo Editing Conce

For better results of removing background from various kinds of images there is no alte ative way without the functional activities of clipping path. Clipping technology is involved with many working fields such as Fashion Design Industry, Model, Advertisement, Jewelry Models, Ornaments, Sports, Traditional Businesses, Commercial Sectors and more images are perfectly retained with excellent quality for no lost the real pixel accuracy. The use of Clipping Path can be the best attempt in both cases one is soft edges and another is sharp edges.

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Breast Cancer: How My Fear Became My Inspiration

When I was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in June, 2008, I focused on the high chances of recovery. I imagined myself a warrior in a dark adventure, full of unknown challenges that would force me to find solutions to help all of us that face this journey. As both a patient and a doctor, maybe I would even discover a natural cure. As the days of chemotherapy and radiation closed in, I didn't feel so adventurous. Above all, I became obsessed with how to deal with losi

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A successful life if you seek how to progress?

Unless life happens to be successful, has this birth any meaning? Where lays our superiority in course of the development of humanity? Now the question arises whether the two—successful life and highest life are distinguishable. Yes, there’s a slight distinction. While talking about the successful life, there shouldn’t be in that any flaw in judgment. Regarding the highest life—it’s in a word flawless judgment. Further there are added to it a flawless mind with a detached and unruffled state of it.

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Choose Ananda as a way of life

Consciousness and Spiritual Growth The purpose of life is the evolution of consciousness. Spiritual awakening offers life in the state of joy (Bliss / Ananda). If we learn to listen to our souls we can consciously choose to be joyful or sad, peaceful or loving, alert or relaxed. There is a Buddhist saying: 'Before enlightenment he gathered wood and carried water; after enlightenment he gathered wood and carried water.'

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How to care for your jewelry

...or perhaps a better title would be, how to keep your jewelry clean. After twenty-five years in the jewelry business I have come to the conclusion that everyone needs to make an annual trip to their favorite jewelers to have their jewelry professionally cleaned. I recommend sometime in September, you know, when the kids are back to school and you could use a mid-day glass of red wine while someone does something for you.

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Looking for lost belongings; hurry up, get it, dear friend!

Life is really very short. To make it more and more meaningful we try in very many ways. Even believe in Rebirth. Faith may help to overcome frustration; without reason what’s the gain! Leave it. Unfortunately, we fail to come out successful in every endeavor. The main problem is we don’t have any guidance right from our childhood. Again, if we have at all, often we ignore what we are desired to follow. Normally, disobedience is our very nature.r

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How To Increase The Power Of The Mind

There are many techniques for increasing the power of the mind. Even simple habits like asking a few crucial questions anytime you consider something can make for more productive thinking. But there is one approach that can probably do more than all the other techniques to boost your mind power. It is being ready to be mistaken at all times. Be Ready To Be Wrong We like to be right. It's very satisfying on a certain level of consciousness. So much so that we feel better having argued our point well than having learned something new from another person.

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Ways To Save Money Grocery Shopping

Of all the ways to save money grocery shopping, the one that comes to mind first for most people is probably using manufacturers' coupons. Unfortunately, this is not only time consuming, but it rarely saves you much money. That's because even with the coupon a given product is usually more than a perfectly adequate alte ative. Unless you really want the particular brand represented by the coupon, there are better ways to cut your costs. Here are a few examples. Bring a calculator and cash. If you need to budget for groceries, then bring only what your budget allows.

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Affordable Housing Solutions

There are many ways to find affordable housing. There are even ways to make the home you have more affordable. Here are some of the best. Move to a cheaper location. This is often not considered by people, but the difference in housing costs between two cities within an hour of each other can be dramatic. This can be true whether you are renting or buying. If the new location isn't too far away, you can commute to your job.

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True Inspiration by Kristin Mackey

True Inspiration By Kristin Mackey Where do we truly find inspiration? The kind of inspiration that makes us step back and evaluate the track we are on. What kind of moments, observations and epiphanies really inspire us to look deeper at our choices, lives and habits? Is it in the book we just read or the movie that moved us? Perhaps. Or are the most profound moments of inspiration less obvious, less direct?

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Writing And The Cosmic Shopping Mall

This thought recently occurred to me: writing from the creative unconscious -- whether if be fiction, poetry, journaling, memoir or doodling -- is like walking into a cosmic shopping mall where each shop offers a different persona for us to try on, actually a different way of being in relationship to ourselves and the world. The only means of exchange in this cosmic mall is exuberance, fearlessness and a desire to share and be shared. Oh, and there's a key to the mall, too. We all have it in our pocket when we arrive, even if we don't know it's there.

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*** Creativity as Mediator Between the Worlds or Wild Dog's Kingdom

Creativity is a mysterious journey that connects us to the unseen worlds. There was a time when all people had access to the unseen worlds, although it was shaman, story tellers and healers who mediated between the worlds as they journeyed into the Mystery and interpreted the images found there. Today we have our contemporary journeyers into the cosmic unseen worlds--many creative people are such journeyers--but as a culture we have lost the connection to our instinctual nature.

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Do You Have Insurance For Life's Journey?

In order to be successful in Living by Design you must let yourself know what you REALLY want. This is can be daunting for some folks. There are many reasons you might struggle with declaring goals and dreams. Perhaps you are afraid that once you get it, you will find you really don’t want it. Or perhaps your life will be so changed that you will lose touch with those you love. Or some other form of harm may come to you or to others.

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10 Ways to Overcome Creative Blocks

The words aren’t coming. The music feels flat. The canvass stays blank. Panic starts to set in. Every creative person has had the experience of “hitting the wall” on a project. It can feel like torture and it can feel like forever. Here are 10 ways to breakthrough creative blocks.

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An Attempt At Destroying My Creative Writing

Copyright © 2009 John Diamond M.D. My writing creativity was destroyed when I was eleven years old. My father had enrolled me at the same small grammar school where he had been a pupil, and where he became a "dux," which is a top honors student. The headmaster and teacher was the same man who had taught my father, but who was now, of course, quite elderly. He was highly respected for the outstanding academic achievement of his students. Every year, from his small school, mor

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Nagging versus Musing

People can be so hard on themselves. Check this out. These are real emails that real people send to themselves on a regular schedule from 'Hassle Me'. www.hassleme.co.uk. The site's tagline is: Because sometimes in life, you just need to be nagged. It's a popular site – who among us haven't had similar thoughts? The responses, though, are just me imagining what I'd like to say. Because sometimes in life, you just need to be mused. "You're fat."(sent to theirself every day) You know how when you tell someone they're cranky, they get cranky even if they weren't cranky to begin with?

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There's Nothing Wrong With You. Nothing. Isn't That a Relief?

There's Nothing Wrong With You. Nothing. Isn't That a Relief? I hear ya. Don’t think those thoughts that the title triggered are going unnoticed: “She doesn’t know me very well, does she?” “I can’t complete a single thing I set out to, that’s what’s wrong with me.” “I need to lose weight/ gain weight, get fit, get a haircut, and my shoes are ugly.” “I hate my job.” “I ‘m terrible at finances. I never shop around for best prices.”r

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Economic Depression Survival Tips

The following economic depression survival tips are all about preparation. With a bit of street smarts and a willingness to do what's needed you can survive losing everything. But it is better to prevent that from happening in the first place by being prepared for some worst case scenarios. Depression Survival Tips - Keep That Income Keep your job or other income and tough times aren't so tough. In fact, if you are still making the same money when prices are dropping, homes cost less and stocks are on sale, a depression can be an opportunity.

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Lilies and Roses in the House of the Dark Moon

I was in the garden, taking in its early August glory as I went about aimlessly pinching off the dead daylilies. Although I love all flowers, daylilies hold my heart. I have perhaps thirty different colors, sizes and shapes. I wait for their blooming each year and wander most mornings to see which beauty is offering herself to me this day. Sometimes I gasp in joy at the subtleness of colors as tender petals open and curl backwards, showing me their hearts. I talk to them. I admit I do. “Oh, you are so beautiful,” I tell them. “And you and you!

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Drawing On Creativity: How To Trick Your Brain

Can you draw? nnnnYour answer to that question reveals a surprising namount about your brain and the way you integrate nyour right and left hemispheres. (In this article, the nleft side will be referred to as the dominant one, which nis by far the most likely scenario.)nnnnYou see, the left side of the brain excels at verbal, nanalytical, rational and logical tasks. It's the dominant nhalf. It takes over most of the time, using words to ndescribe and define, figuring things o

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The Doctor-Poet

He is the true and only doctor.rn— Emerson, The Poet Looking at all those who have come to me for help, I long ago came to the conclusion that there was only one word to describe their real problem. And I arrived at this not by just looking at them, but by looking into them – deeply. And empathizing with them, feeling what they were feeling, and meditating on them. Over many years. Whatever their presenting symptoms, their particular complaints, may have been, there was a

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What Does Creativity Bring To Your Life?

In my 2004 e-book, the Creativity Interviews , I asked 7 questions about the creative process to 19 creative artists from a variety of disciplines. nnOne of these questions was "what does creativity bring to your life?"nnAs I'm looking through the answers with new eyes, themes start to pop up in front of me. As you read through these broad themes, and the actual phrases spoken by the artists in the book, consider which ones you identify with most.nn Creativity brings adventur

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Seven Great Questions to ask at a Job Interview

If you are going for an interview as a prospective employee then you should do some research. Read the job description and requirements carefully. Browse the web site to see how the organization presents itself. Search for news items and comments about the company on news sites and blogs. For the interview itself you should dress smartly and appropriately. It is important to have some questions prepared and here are a few that could really help: 1. What exactly would my day-to-day responsibilities be?

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9 Ways to Stimulate Your Creativity

I love creativity - seeing things differently, finding new ways to do old things, discovering new ideas or new approaches to challenges and opportunities. Creativity is one of the hallmarks of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, and one of the great benefits of engaging in the process of Working for Good - cultivating embodied awareness, engaging in dialogue and collaboration, and fostering integration – as it unquestionably contributes to creativity. My colleague Julie van

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Unleashing Your Creative Muse

The heart of creativity is an experience of mystical union; the heart of mystical union is an experience of creativity. --Julia Cameron Julia’s statement above certainly rings true for me. I remember sitting on the banks of the Ganges River in India, while visiting the town of Rishikesh high in the Himalayas. Each day, I would spend time sitting on my meditation cushion, seeking to quiet my mind and merge into that sublime space of spiritual opening. And day after day, my m

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Romancing the Bedroom

A vision and some easy steps to creating your haven nnYour bedroom is, in my opinion, one of the most important spaces in your home. Your bedroom is the first place you see in the morning, it's where you spend time getting ready for the day, it's where romance happens, and it's the last place you see at night. It is a very important space! nnI think of my bedroom as my own private retreat. A place that is beautiful to me, peaceful, inspiring, and nurturing to my being. When I

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Pricing Digital Painting Art

As much fun as I’m having learning Corel Painter X, there is a small mercenary voice that keeps asking, “So how do you approach making money with this product?” I’ve found I’m not the only photographer knee deep it wet pixels asking this. So a side trip of the art ...

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Adaptability - Do You Use it for Positive Change or Settling for Less?

As we all know, adaptability is a valuable character trait. Whether you choose to cultivate your adaptability or not can have a drastic impact on your attitude and happiness. When a major shift happens, good or bad, things go much easier when we can roll with the changes as opposed to putting up huge, “Do not force change!” signs. Take for example, the current economic state of affairs.

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