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"It Starts With Ourselves"

Since I was a very young child, I was given the gift of deep compassion for other people’s pain. For some reason it was almost as if I could jump into other people’s bodies and see through their eyes and hear through their ears. I knew how they felt and it would literally break my heart.r

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"Live And Let Live"

Take a deep breath. Your trapped for an evening, at a dinner party, where the seats are assigned, and your sitting next to a couple of religious fanatics. They are proselytizing their doctrine, and there is no room for discussion. Arguing with a fanatic is like trying to wrestle with a grizzly bear. There is no room for debate and you will feel as your head has been ripped off.

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"Don't Wipe Your Dirty Feet On My Mind"

The monk just finished clearing and purifying his mind with meditation, and decided to have a glorious walk with one of his students. On the walk the student began to spew arrogance, pride, vulgarity, and vanity. The monk quietly said,”please don’t wipe your dirty feet on my mind.”r

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"Erase and Replace"

Has your mind ever been filled with doubts, fears, shame, guilt, and self deprecation. Imagine your mind is like your home. Are there cobwebs? Is there dust? Is the furniture old and tattered? Throw it out! But have a plan. If you just throw out the couch of “I can’t”, and the bed of “I should”, and the mirror of “ self hatred”, you need to replace it with your true desires. If you erase your need to replace, otherwise your mind will be empty and vacant. Here are a few examples of how to erase and replace:

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"Getting In Through The Cracks"

Looking, being, and acting perfect is not always what it is cracked up to be. It can occasionally be stemmed from perfectionism and shame based thinking, It is through the cracks that God can enter. The more cracks, hence more light. Vulnerability and humility can catapult us into opening up to seek something with a higher meaning or purpose.. We tend to question deeper meaning in desperate times to try to make sense of it all.r

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"Living A Purposeful Life"

When I pulled at my notebook computer from under my bed after a truly needed nap, I knew that my topic for my weekly blog was going to be on intention. Without further ado I went right to dictionary.com and typed in the word “intention”. The definition is as follows; an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result. rn. the end or object intended; purpose. rn. intention, a. purpose or attitude toward the effect of one’s actions or conduct..

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"Quit Taking Everyone's Emotional Temperature"

Growing up with nine siblings, all with big personalities, was quite a rich and deep experience. My role in such a large Irish Catholic family was “the peacemaker”. With everyone close in age there were always arguments over who got the prize at the bottom of the cereal box, or fighting over socks and Catholic school uniforms.r

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"Serenity No Matter What"

Your child gets suspended from school. The car breaks down on the highway. Oh no, a flunked final. A wife asks for a divorce. The doctor tells you that you have a terminal disease. We survive a natural disaster. Can we match calamity with serenity. No matter what comes down the pike, can you have grace under pressure. Let’s keep our cool, when there is utter mayhem around us. Can there be pure equanimity and peace in the eye of the storm.r

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"Come To Your Senses"

Usually when we hear the phrase “come to your senses”, we often think of using our mind and thoughts more correctly. Instead of using just the mind, how about dropping into the senses of the smells, colors, sounds, and feelings of this moment. By being fully present, it of course starts with the mind, but don’t stop there. Let your mind drip down into this “now” and into the six senses fully. Let every cell radiate consciousness of the pure deliciousness of this moment, right here, right now.

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"Go Where The Love Is"

I constantly go to the hardware store looking for apples! Why do I expect to get soothing support from those people that are unable to provide a compassionate ear, and instead I receive critical and judgmental verbal abuse. Because that may be an old unconscious pattern that doesn’t serve me well anymore.r

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Baby Steps...

During this challenging period of world wide changes, people I work with seem to be struggling more than ever. I see clients that are finding it difficult to find work, other’s who are going through horrible divorces, and many that are dealing with health crisis’s. The emotions that seem to be underlying all this, is an enormous amount of stress, anxiety, and a general sense of feeling overwhelmed. Well, since I just mentioned the problem, let’s not dwell there too long, and switch our attention right to the solution!r

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"Gossip Is Poison"

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.It pleases him who gives and receives and thus...is twice blessed. -ErastusWiman

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"Human Doing Or Human Being?"

“How are you Susan? “, asks my mother. I respond with “very busy Mom”. She quickly replies with,”busy is good”. I agree that busy is good if there is some balance with rest, relaxation, and rejuvenation. For some reason, it seems as if our culture is getting busier and busier and as if people don’t have time for things of the heart. I speak truly from my own experience and through observation! We rush from errand to meeting, to flight, to phone call, to email. It feels as if our culture is one big marathon! We should walk, not run.r

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"I Get To!"

Last summer I would go into Peet’s coffee and complain to my sweet friend Clare, and other local coffee drinker’s, about yet another sleepless night because of my son’s horrific nightly panic attacks. I would not sleep either because I had to take him to the emergency room, or talk him down from thinking he was having a heart attack. The panic attacks finally subsided after a few months, when the root of the cause was discovered.r

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"Imagine That!"

Do you feel stuck? Are you looping around and around the same issue and feel hopeless? Is it with your health? Is it financial? Is it with relationships? Do you need some answers on how to get off the cycle of doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results?r

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"Remain Teachable"

"Confined beliefs cannot create a spacious life."-Vernon Howard Have you ever been around someone who is smug, self righteous, and a full of themselves. They leave a bad taste in your mouth like spoiled milk. On the other hand, someone who remains teachable and childlike is like a breath of fresh air. They are approachable, easygoing, and there is simply a lightness of being when you are around them, rather than a heaviness.r

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"Where's My Stuff?"

Where is the relationship? Where is the money? Why do other’s have it so easy and I have it so hard? Life is not fair! These are some of the questions and ruminations I hear from my clients.r

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Finding Inner Peace

How to achieve inner peace. • Be aware, accept and love each part of yourself. • Know that each part has a positive intent, no matter how negative you think the part is. • Each part (that is troubling you) is an identity of a young child trying to survive a trauma and is stuck in that memory. When the part feels that you love and accept it, and it feels safe, then the part can detach from the memory and the part then unites with you and matures. The conflict, separation and fragmentation disappears.

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The Great Resistance to Healing

As I have stated many times, healing begins and occurs when a change in the pattern of a person’s life changes. This is a major shift in attitude, when the entire person decides to start anew. The person feels a shift, an epiphany and from that moment on, things are different. Working one on one with a person, this shift occurs easily and quickly and it occurs on the 2nd to 4th session.r

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Awareness the key to Enlightenment

Awareness is probably the most powerful tool that you have to progress in your quest for understanding. Awareness is primarily the tool of the unconscious and the universe, and the ego can also use this tool. Simply put, awareness is just being aware, that’s all. Too often we bypass awareness and presume, criticize, judge and apply meaning and when we do this, we create an artificial reality, an illusion. In fact most of our lives are illusions. Awareness is staying still in the moment and when we become aware of something. Stop and stay there. Stay in awareness.

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Can the mind Heal cancer?

Can you cure cancer using the mind? The answer is yes, but first we need to understand what cancer is. Cancer is a word or a label and when we use it, we recall our thoughts, beliefs and perceptions about cancer and what it is. It is easy to think when you are talking to another person about cancer, that we both know what cancer is and we both have the same perceptions. We can see that cancer is a disease and it can lead to death, now this statement is true but it leaves out much vital information and this information is necessary to heal cancer and be cancer free and healthy.

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Cancer – is change necessary?

When one has cancer, they may have as their greatest desire – to not have cancer, fight the cancer etc. This is interpreted by the unconscious mind as they want to lose the cancer and therefore lose what cancer means. That is, they want to lose the problems caused by cancer and be as they were, before they received the diagnosis. Can you see the problem with this?

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Celebrating Life Vs Avoiding Death

When one first gets a diagnosis of cancer, they enter a state of shock, for cancer literally means dying for most of us. More people die of heart disease than cancer but cancer has much more fear attached to it, thanks to the plethora of misinformation around. To many, cancer means a death sentence. So if you get shocked by a diagnosis of cancer, it means that you automatically presumed that you were going to die. Now we are all going to die but it is not death that actually scares us so much, it is the premature death that we fear, dying before our time.

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Creating health and curing cancer are not the same!

Hello and welcome, this is for those people who have discovered that they have cancer and have a determined desire to be cancer free and healthy. This will only appeal to a minority of cancer sufferers, those that want a deeper understanding and are willing to change. This article is related to ‘The 5 Step Cancer Healing Process’, this is the essential process that one needs to undergo, in order to be healthy and healed from cancer.

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Heal cancer instantaneously!

You have cancer, this is your present state of affairs, you are experiencing this moment now and this moment now is in perfect harmony with what is. There is nothing wrong with this moment now. You have cancer and you do not want cancer (I hope). Yet the cancer is in perfect harmony with the totality of you, there is nothing wrong, that is; the cancer is not an aberration, a result of your body malfunctioning. Your body is functioning perfectly. Your body is functioning perfectly according to the information it is supplied with.

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How to Heal Cancer?

When one asks how to heal cancer? This is a big question and healing cancer is not as difficult as many perceive, but there is a problem or dilemma. The problem is one of a lack of correct information and a plethora of misinformation. The view of the questioner who asks “How to heal cancer” is important. If they are in the majority then they probably see cancer as something foreign to them and then they want something to fight, kill and destroy the enemy (the cancer).

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I and me are different realities

Is there a difference between the Me and the I? Are they one and the same? Are they both just you? There is much written and discussed, in philosophical, enlightenment and spiritual circles, of the I (of I am fame). Much has been devoted to discovering the I. Whole philosophies have been centred on the I. Who am I? What am I? Ete al questions indeed. Important questions? - Important only to the I. What about the importance of Me, or the quest to Me. Me is naturally assumed to be the I. But is it? Please do this quick exercise. Say only “I can” or “I” you may need to repeat it.r

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Of Cancer and Healing

The human being is certainly a complex animal, all animals bodies are highly complex organisms, even a single cell is unfathomably complex and we each have 50 trillion of them. When we consider the mind and consciousness then we add more layers to the complexity. Yes it can be overwhelming to try and know about our complexity. I mean, we know very little about ourselves and if we exclude the physical workings of the body for a moment, though it can be recognised that we can investigate and measure the anatomy and physiology of the body, what do we know about why we behave the way we do?

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Rejection, go a different Direction.

As a baby we have one fear, we fear being separated. This is a survival mechanism, for if we are separated from our mother - we will perish. Though this is not necessarily so today, in our civilized world, this fear of separation is still inherited from our past. While we are attached to an outer object (mother) and while we are in the womb, we are protected and safe. When we enter the world and are free from our safe womb, we still need the attachment of this same outer object. For we have changed little from being in the womb, we can breathe air but we are even more vulnerable.

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Singularity and Duality

To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”rn-- Lao Tzu

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What is Reality?

What is reality, we may say that there are many different levels or dimensions of reality and whatever level of reality you are in that is okay. Actors in a TV series are displaying story lines of characters that script writers have written. They come together in a studio and play out their roles. As viewers what do we see, we see a TV screen, a rather small object, and we watch the unfolding drama. We laugh, we cry, we get angry and we can empathise and identify with the lives on that screen.

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Being Positive Helps Create Positive Children

Your mindset determines how you see the world. It determines your perception of the world, and this perception is like a filter. The great thing about filters is that they can be adjusted. Take a water filter. Maybe it is set to filter out only chlorine, but it also lets all the other yucky stuff through. What if it were adjusted to also filter out heavy metals and other harmful chemicals? That would be better, wouldn't it? Well, your perception can be adjusted too.

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Communicating With Your Autistic Child

Hi parents, Learning to communicate with anyone can be challenging at times and yet it is a skill that is crucial to life. Communicating with children, who don’t think in the same way that adults do, may be even harder. One of the primary distinguishing features of autism is that these children have severe trouble with communication and social interaction. This makes it even more important to learn good communication skills and to learn how to communicate in a way that will truly help the child.

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How to Coach Naughty Kids to Positive Behavior

Consider some things, good or bad, that people do. Putting a seatbelt on every time you get into a car is necessary for your safety, and that is why you started doing it, but it has also become a habit and now you don't even think of it when you get into a car. You just do it. Checking for people behind you when going through a store door is polite, but it has also become a habit. You check without even thinking. This may also be true of your child's negative behavior. Even though she wants to change it, it is difficult to even remember to do so because she is so used to doing it.

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How to Learn to Communicate As a Teenager Using Your Senses

Are you a person who says "I see" or a person who says "I hear you" or a person who says "I have a gut feeling?" You have probably by now determined your primary sense system, but now it is time to put that to work. You can use your primary sense system to help facilitate your learning so that you can better take in and retain what you need to know. Here is a simple exercise to practice this NLP technique. 1. Think about school and choose a class in which you are having difficulty understanding and/or retaining the material.r

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REFRAMING NEGATIVE BEHAVIOR IN YOUR NAUGHTY CHILD

The best thing to do when your child has a negative behavior that needs to be changed is: 1. Assume good intent. If you assume he meant to do something bad, then he might end up continuing on with the negative behavior and/or becoming defensive. It is better to assume positive intent and then lead them from there. 2. If the behavior needs a reframing of content, then you can find out what that positive intention is, and you can work with your child to find a different behavior that would meet the same need.

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The Powerful Use of Language and How It Impacts Autistic Children

When looking at the language we use with our autistic children it is useful to break it down into categories. There are four things on which to focus when you want to use appropriate language with your child. 1. Stay Away from Negatives

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Coach Your Child and Teen to Success with Neuro Linguistic Programming(NLP) Strategies

It is common to note that NLP for adults is one of the crucial personal development programs for those who would like to learn communication techniques and skills to know how to increase their sales and business/work performance. How can NLP Strategies help your child or teenager? From my own corporate and parenting experience, I know that NLP: • can help your child/teenager change how he/she does what he/she does. • can help your child/teen change how he/she handle certain emotions or situations.

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Pretty Close To Wonderful

“Welcome to Ross Stores, how are you?” I said. “Fine, How are you?” She replied. She was asking out of habit not because she cared about the random loss prevention guy. So I replied like I do with everyone. Pretty close to wonderful!

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An understanding towards Schizophrenia in Psychotherapy

Schizophrenia and Psychotherapy Harry Stack Sullivan, who wrote The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry, became famous for his ability to enter into healing relationships with those suffering from schizophrenic and psychotic experiences. One of his contemporaries, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, upon whose work the book and film I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, regarded Sullivan as her mentor.

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Anxiety - How Counselling and psychotherapy Can Help You?

Anxiety can be a healthy, natural response to situations, which can keep us alive and motivate us. As well as being part of the creative process in performing or doing the things we love to do before others or on our own - it can keep us "sharp."

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Yes Don't Mean a Thing, If You Can't Say NO

What does saying yes have to do with saying no? After all, they are opposite statements, meaning diametrically opposing things. We are “supposed” to say yes to friends, family, loved ones and especially...the Universe! Isn't that the secret behind the Secret? And we should say no to things like drugs, smoking and requests from our teenagers begging to go to wild parties. Why are most of us so wishy-washy when it comes to making commitments? Just look at the divorce rate as an example.

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Scared to Life (vs. Scared to Death)

It’s kind of a funny thing, that expression “It scared me to death.” [Recently discussed by Geoff at Debbie LaChusa's Money Success Happiness blog at www.moneysuccesshappiness.com] In my work with people, and in my own personal life, one of the biggest components of happiness, success, obstacles, or challenges always seems to boil down to one thing: FEAR. Now, you may think you know what fear means… you certainly know what it feels like… but let me paraphrase a definitio I like a lot: Forgetting Everything’s All Right.r

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Where Does Self Esteem Come From?

We all want an abundance of self esteem. And why not? Self esteem equates to confidence, being attractive (without having to fake it), and being a magnet for success, wealth, popularity, and a whole host of other goodies. The Law Of Attraction requires a genuine core of self esteem before it swings into action, bringing whatever we desire to us without our having to lift a finger. We don't have to earn what comes to us when we have lots of self esteem. It comes to us as a cosmic gift. But if we don't already have that core, can we generate it by positive thinking? Not really!

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Why You Can’t Go Back To The Future

It started before the election returns were even coming in, much less votes being cast. After months of being saturated with the incessant doom and gloom (great new Rolling Stones song about that, by the way) of all the political advertising, the media immediately pounced on the next thing for us all to be worried about within hours of the election being decided: the fiscal cliff.

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***Multidimensional Living

You are driven constantly to live an integrated multidimensional life that aligns all parts of yourself: mental, spiritual, emotional, and physical. These different components of yourself develop gradually over an important six-month period beginning three months before your birth and continuing ...

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Book Review of DO I HAFTA GROW UP?

Have you ever read a book that changed the way you look at every interaction and relationship in your life? I just did. The name of the book is “Do I Hafta Grow UP? The Adult Guide to Unfinished Business of Childhood,” written by Gary Robertson. As a master practitioner in the healing arts, I find this information invaluable in dealing with clients, their issues and situations.

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Grandpa, What's a Grownup?

“Grandpa, what's it like to be grown up?” “You want a big answer? Or a little one? “Little.” “Well, then. Being grownup is like having two arms and two legs. You need them before you can run around and do what you came here to do. Come here and sit on my lap. Now give me your legs. See, you have to have two legs in order to walk and run, right?” “I guess so.” “Well, you do. Now this leg,” Grandpa put his hand on Jimmy’s left knee. This one let’s call ‘enough.’ You have to have enough for this leg to grow long and strong.

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How Good is our Thinking about Thinking

With the current interest in secrets about the power of thought, it might be useful to take a look at some other factors. Certainly, thoughts are powerful as a locomotive. But emotions are the fuel to get the train out of the station and down the tracks. Another element that often gets overlooked is quality of thinking. True power within our thoughts derives directly from quality of our consciousness.

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Is It Really The Blues?

Any number of conditions are often lumped under generic labels like “having the blues,” or “depression.” Consequently, we have cures from every profession, whether it be medicines like antidepressants, herbal substitutes, or encouragement from coaches, parents and friends not to feel what we feel.

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Love Entanglements

If we were to diagram most adult relationships as stick figure art, we would have a confusion of interlocking lines. Even if different colors were used for each person, arms and leg lines would show a lot of confusion, struggle and oppositional positioning. That's because for the most part we continue to deal with adult love relations much as we did in our original families. And we have secondary lines of confusion with our children, larger families, close friends, and, of course, worst enemies.

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Most problems we face as adults are not adult problems

They are unfinished business from childhood. In several decades of working in the mental health field, I've learned that when people look for help, the most common areas are: relationships, career, and personal performance. Specifically, they are issues like self-esteem, fears of being abandoned, insecurities, dependencies, being controlled by others, and never getting to the point of deciding who we want to be when we grow up. What I've found most useful is to look at the groupings of client issues as related to specific challenges we all began facing in childhood.

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Right Use of Anger

Often we hear anger called a negative emotion. Like the creator made a mistake in the original design of humanity—the kind of mistake typical of humans. Maybe it was just a slip of the spoon when adding ingredients, or inadvertent reactiveness between two benign components (like barbiturates and alcohol). Before we blame the cosmos for anger issues, it might be useful to step back and take a look at what we label anger. For one thing, anger has very different flavors. The first kind we all experienced was infant anger about not being cared for adequately.

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Trust is a Bogus Issue

A primary conflict within relationships gets labeled “trust issues.” He needs to trust her to be there for him and she must trust him to remain interested only in her. We have a social convention that sexual fidelity tells us who is trustable and anyone cheating cannot be trusted.

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Why Motivation Doesn't Work (Sometimes)

It's like the story about the horse pulling a heavy cart with the proverbial carrot dangling in front and a whip at the ready behind. He turns to the driver and asks, “Tell me again. What's my motivation here?” How motivation usually works is like when we were kids and mom would tell us to clean our rooms. We had two options, for the most part—compliance or defiance. Either way, who had the motivation about our rooms being cleaned? Us or our moms? Fast forward to the present. How much has changed? Not much.

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Do You Swear To Tell The Truth, The Whole…?

Whether or not you’re currently in a relationship with a lover/partner/spouse, you know that relationships of ALL kinds are a crucial ingredient in what makes life worth living (at least that’s how I look at it). You probably also know that managing a relationship with anyone easily and quickly can turn into seriously tricky business at the drop of a hat.

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I’ll Take The Fifth, Your Honor!

Sometimes, less is more. If you apply that maxim to relationships, what kinds of questions or thoughts does that conjure up for you? Where do you imagine that would be true for you and your partner? Maybe it could apply to how much time you both spend distracting yourselves…maybe it’s about ways you complicate things that don’t need to be complicated!

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I’m Fine!…And You?

How many times have you heard this when you ask someone how they’re doing: “I’m FINE! And you?”…and, you simply KNEW that you were being fed a line of hooey? How often has that happened to you with men as opposed to women? Perhaps, in these times, it’s an even more important question to ask, “When you hear it, and you know it’s BS, what do you do (particularly when it’s a friend)?”

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Is It Time To Stop Sleeping In?

Three years ago, a young 22-year-old man my son knew was walking along a local overpass that is one of the busiest traffic corridors in the Boulder area. For some reasons that we’ll never really know, this young man – deeply loved by his family and his friends – made a decision; one that ignited ripples of impact across the lives of so many other people. He decided to follow through with a choice he must have made before even getting to the overpass. He went to the railing, hiked one leg and then the other over the railing, and made the last decision of his life when he jumped.

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It’s Not What You Think

Do you ever notice how much time you spend trying to “figure out what’s going on” in your life…and in your relationship, if you’re in one? If it ends up being a fair amount of time, how’s it working for you? When you do get some “answers,” what’s the most common result you get from having obtained that answer? Furthermore, where do those “answers” most frequently come from for you?…others?….your mind?….your heart?….or, from your intuition?

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I’ll Take Mine Well Done, Thanks

CAUTION: If you happen to be someone who doesn’t have ANY kind of Spiritual path/philosophy you care about (or don’t believe YOU have a Spirit that guides you in any way), please don’t read any further. Doing so will either confuse you and/or piss you off.

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Not Any Farther Than I Can Throw You!

Do you have trust issues with your partner (and/or someone you’re not romantically involved with)? If you don’t, you’re a rarity. With so many couples I work with, it looks like communication’s a major issue (which it is), but more often than not, the more fundamental issue you’re dealing with is what you trust and what you don’t with your partner. If you’re in this dilemma, odds are that your willingness to mend your heart, and get majorly re-connected with your partner has become inextricably linked with your mind demanding that the other person prove to you that they’re trustworthy.

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Pink Floyd As Relationship Experts?

Ok, if you’re not a Pink Floyd fan – and/or haven’t listened to the Dark Side Of The Moon album (it’s been pointed out to me recently, by the way, how badly I’m dating myself by even using the term “album”) – this article may take you a bit more time to get in the groove of. There’s a song on the Dark Side album called “Speak To Me/Breathe.” The first verse contains the following lyrics: Breathe, breathe in the airr Don’t be afraid to carer Leave but don’t leave mer Look around, choose your own groundr For long you live and high you flyr

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Who Is The Name You Give Yourself?

Traveling across the southweste states, I've visited a hundred archeological sites built by pueblo peoples. One curious fact has to do with names given to them. Toozigoot, a ruin near Sedona, Arizona, is a Comanche word meaning “crooked waters.” Nearby is Montezuma's Castle and Montezuma's Well, attributing Aztec origins to ruins that pueblo peoples constructed. In New Mexico, Santa Clara Pueblo is the name given by Spanish invaders and Coronado State Park is dedicated to the village that conquistador's expedition camped at for a winter, eating all their precious stores of grain.

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Barbie's For Boys....Why Not?

I can still recall fondly my childhood. Years spent playing with my assorted dolls and their accessories. Creating imaginary worlds of glamor and adventure. My dolls were an outlet-as for most little girls the opportunity to forage into the social realm with the proverbial security blanket. A 12 ” blonde- haired perfectly proportioned piece of perfection. Gaggles of girls would flock together with their representations of themselves in tow. These dolls provided the opportunity to socialize and play in a group setting.

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The Need To Move - The impact of sedentary technology use on children

The Need To Move – The impact of sedentary technology use on children

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Brain Training Can Nurture The Genius In All Of Us.

Brain training can nurture the genius in all of us as the idea that our Intelligence Quotient (IQ) is an inherited trait is fixed for life is a common but mistaken one. Decades of research have now shown that intelligence levels are relatively malleable. More importantly, research carried out by RaiseYourIQ at NUIM university have struck upon a set of basic building blocks of intellectual development. We have also devised a method for teaching these basic skills and have digitized this training online for use by individuals and schools via RaiseYourIQ.com.r

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How to improve your brain health

There are lots of ideas floating about on how to improve your brain health and to train your train to be smarter. What may surprise many people is that some of these have been tried, tested and proven. This article is about separating out the wheat from the chaff. These tips will help kids and adults reach their full intellectual potential and improve your brain health with each tip having at some respectable evidence in their favor. Have good quality relationshipsr

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What's Your Relationship with Food?

A relationship is when both parties participate into the communication. Well when you ‘feel’ you want to eat to go eat the food speaks to you by the triggers you already have installed in your body. These triggers fires up the times when you ‘feel’ you want to eat. Most of the times these triggers are in your sub-conscience and you simply re-act to them to satisfy your-self - eating. Do you know how much food do you need to satisfy your appetite? Do you have food compulsions?

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Income Ceiling

Preview: A Free Money Makeover Tidbit: Hello there. Income Ceiling: The income ceiling affects many people and keeps them from generating an abundance of money. We established our income ceiling when we were young. We observed our parents and based on how much money they earned and the life ...

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Perfect Parents

I USED TO BE A PERFECT PARENT......and then I had kids. I used to try to figure out which one of them stole from me in utero all that wonderful knowledge I had about raising the perfect kids and what magic could bring it back to me. Reality set in eventually and I realized I am not perfect, my ...

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Solving Our Financial Crisis!

Greetings from Glenn Smyly: I have been watching the proceedings unfolding in the financial crisis within our country and must say how dismayed I am. This problem facing us can not be solved by our Government nor can it be solved by Wall Street. The Politicians, Republicans, Democrats and ...

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The Parents Corner

I USED TO BE A PERFECT PARENT......and then I had kids. I used to try to figure out which one of them stole from me in utero all that wonderful knowledge I had about raising the perfect kids and what magic could bring it back to me. Reality set in eventually and I realized I am not perfect, my ...

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Aging: More Than the Passage of Time

There is a thought that aging has to do with the passage of time but this thought takes us in a direction that is misleading. This makes us think that we age because we gradually become less effective because we grow and age as time passes. In this view every year that passes brings us closer to ...

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Attaining Enlightenment (For Normal People)

It takes noticing the little things. It also takes: Gratitude. How often do you say thank you each day to other people? The bank teller, the waiter, the grocery store clerk, the mocha stand girl … How often do you say “you are welcome?” Not “thank you,” but “you are welcome?” I’m willing ...

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Life and Loss

Life and Loss A very dear friend of mine experienced the loss of a feline loved one and, as I was writing to console her, my own words made an impact of awareness and understanding in me. It never ceases to amaze me; how we learn our life lessons, and then live them without really stopping to ...

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Life’s Bittersweet Success

I admit, inspiration is hard to come by lately. And I am an advocate of positive thought and the power of intention, by the way. You’ve heard the adage “practice what you preach?” Well, it is but one of many conundrums that stuck solidly in my awareness at an early age. With it, I perceived ...

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Battling Self Doubt

Well, speaking from my own experience, at the center of my self doubts I always find ego and fear. My fear comes from my ego being the "expert" who says "do it like this..." then says, "I don't have to do it or prove it, it's been done before." To me, ego equates to excuses, yes, and action, ...

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Live By Example

Live by Example We’ve all heard the saying, “lead by example,” but not everyone embraces the theme anymore. Seems we’re crying out for change. Have you noticed how easy it is for some to tell but not do? And how the listening to those “tellers” seems to be going out the door? Maybe we lost ...

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Perspective Part 1: Awareness of Change

Perspective Part 1 | Awareness of Change What was in my life three years ago is still in my life, yet is not in my life. If I look at it from one perspective, my life is mostly the same. If I look at it from a different perspective, it has changed dramatically. If you want to look at surface ...

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Perspective Part 2: Change in the Moment

It's all in the perspective of the moment. What's your perception of that statement? There must be periods of time that are good and periods of time that are bad? But what's your perception of time? Mine says, when there is an instance of bad in my life, I can choose to focus on it and draw it ...

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Perspective Part 3: Looking for Answers

Why is it humans, the ultimate predators, feel safety in numbers? Is it because we are the only ones who intentionally hurt ourselves? Is it because we are the only ones who intentionally blind ourselves? Consider the statement, "ultimate predators." Yet, a resounding majority of us have poor ...

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Perspective Part 4: Perspectives of Change

There's always more than meets the eye. Have you noticed? Even when it comes to knowing your Self. It seems I'm always meeting a new perspective, side, or understanding of my Self and my life. I've always known that I am a unique individual. I admit, too, I've not always known just how and what ...

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Perspective Part 5: Expectation and the Path to Your Zen

How can a successful person brimming with self confidence be found speechless and uncomfortable? Expectation. The trap of human expectation can get the best of us at any time, place, or situation. When you perceive something or someone around you (that affects you) has changed, what do you do? ...

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Provoking Awareness

When was the last time you sat down and asked yourself some really deep questions, without answering right away? One surefire way to make the most out of your life is to let your mind open. Not open your mind. There is a difference. No, let your mind open. How do you let your mind open? ...

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The Winds of Change Sometimes Get Stuck

Life is about different things at different times. It is retaining and developing what you learn in each experience that gets you to the next step of your jou ey, the next rung on the ladder. If you don't retain the lesson you don't move forward, or up. You remain stuck on the same rung or ...

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Being Self Conscious

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Book Review: Get Your Self Straight

Book Review: Get Your Self Straight By Rebecca Halstead (a.k.a. J.D. Rhodes) The world was handing out navigational tools for me the year this set of matter-of-fact, quick read books wrote themselves. That was 2006, and they were the tools I needed to answer some pretty common questions in ...

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Old Energy

Thoughts & InsightsnIssue #11 November 9, 2008 -

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The Problem of Solving Problems

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The Secret Of Life

Thoughts & Insights Issue #7 October 1, 2008 - www.ThinkItOut.net Don't shake your head yet! Because, no, this isn't another pitch about the law of attraction, though I do believe in and utilize that as much as I'm humanly able. No, this is a thought process in awareness; one that identifies ...

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Are You Guilty Of Sin?

Are you Guilty of Sin?Ever feel guilty? I’m not talking crime. I’m talking everyday human interaction. Maybe it was someone’s thoughtless comment that you’re selfish or did something wrong. You know you weren’t being selfish. You didn’t do anything wrong. ...

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Going with the Flow ...

Going with the Flow... I don't know about you, but I'm running into more and more people who aren't satisfied with the general norm. They are looking for personal answers. There seems to be a quantum shift heading toward more responsibility, more honesty, more intuitiveness, less control. It ...

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The Power of Leadership

Raphael Louis - Leader, Prime Minister of Canada for 2020rnr

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