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How to Not Be So Emotional by Using Hemispheric Shift Exercise

Do you cry easily, lose control during disagreements, or feel too emotional during confrontations? Try this exercise to switch hemispheres of the brain. At first, this exercise must be practiced for a minute or two each day or several times a week. After a while, you can test to see if it is working. It is so simple, and yet it works because the opposite sides of the brain process information in different ways.

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Improving Memory with Kinesthetic Learning Strategies

Kinesthetic learning (touch) is important to learning and memory. Many teachers use kinesthetic learning to help students who have trouble listening or watching lessons. However, kinesthetic learning is important for everyone. Kinesthetic—tactile stimulation—reveals information about temperature, vibration, shape, size, texture, rhythm, and even creates neural pathways that attach emotional feelings.

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Understanding Narcissistic Behaviour – A Narcissist Hates Others Happiness and Joy

An individual with narcissistic personality disorder has pathological envy towards other people who experience joy and happiness. The reason is the narcissist can never feel genuine happiness, which can only be achieved via a genuine self. The narcissistic personality can only ever gain non-genuine happiness through his or her ego (false self). The difference between genuine happiness and non-genuine happiness is‘inner’ and ‘outer’. Genuine happiness is a connection t

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Replenish Your Soul: 7 Fun Ways to Get Your Brain Unstuck

One morning last week my brain got stuck. Seriously stuck. I was working on a grant application and suddenly I was just staring at the computer and no words were coming. Every thought stream quickly dried up. The last words I had written didn’t make any sense. I’m guessing that sometimes your brain gets stuck, as well.

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Are Emotions and Hip Pain Related?

Having suffered from hip pain myself, I know how frustrating and painful it can be, but did you know that your diagnosis might be incorrect and that it may be possible for you to heal yourself? Chronic hip pain is typically diagnosed as one of three possible syndromes: bursitis, tendonalgia (also known as tendonitis,) or arthritis, all of which may be misdiagnoses for the real cause of your pain. Arthritis - arthritis can be either rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis.

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Learn From Your Past Experiences and Then Let Them Go

“I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.” –Tony Robbins “Study the past, if you would divine the future.” –Confucius I encourage you to take a look at your own life. What has the past taught you? What mistakes were turning points in your life? Finally, what lessons do you think YOU still have to learn? Our pasts (if we let them)

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Various Causes for Buttocks Pain

There are many causes of buttocks or butt pain, depending on the location in your body. Pain in the Buttock/Butt muscle - Do you have pain in the big muscle of your butt while sitting, standing, walking, or during sex or other physical exercise? If you push on the center of your butt muscle does it hurt intensely? How about during bodywork when they rub you hard in that area - do you just about scream out in pain? Does the pain radiate down to your knees? Is it sharp, dull, burning, or aching, there all the time? Does it keep you from sleeping? Is it crampy?

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Did you know your muscles have memories?

It’s probably not a surprise to you that any repeated physical movements we do in our lifetime affects our muscles. For example, if you sit at a computer 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, your shoulders, neck, or low back may began to hold a Chronic Stress Pattern. However, physical stress is not the only danger to our muscles. We also hold Chronic Stress Patterns due to emotional tension or pain from our life experiences. Here’s an exercise I want you to try. Think of a memory that worries, upsets, or stresses you out in any way.

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I Feel Sad When Bad Things Happen to Other People

Terrible things happen every second on this planet. People and animals are harmed, or even killed. Plants are going extinct. Property is destroyed. Natural disasters wreak havoc. People lose their loved ones, become permanently disabled, or become homeless. The list of dreadful things that can happen is never-ending. Seeing or hearing news about things that seem bad can be very stressful. It can cause feelings of panic, anxiety, sadness, powerlessness, anger, and fear.

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How to Lose Weight (Reduce Fat) by Giving up Soft Drinks (Sweetened and Artificially Sweetened)

For your health, get off sweetened and artificially sweetened drinks now! These drinks are made to be very addictive, and cold drinks are extremely unhealthy to our systems. High fructose corn syrup is like a poison to our bodies. (Actually in studying research and using myself as a guinea pig, the artificial sugar substitutes act on the brain to cause you to gain even more fat). Do the research and get off now. 1. Get some green tea (organic is nice), or organic black tea. Bigelow brand has a wonderful organic green tea and an Organic Ceylon Black Tea that is out of this world.

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***FOOD IS OUR BEST MEDICINE

Hippocrates, the “father of medicine,” said, “Let food be your medicine.” Throughout history, health care trends and fads have risen and receded. Today there is a vast array of food fads and it is little wonder that the average consumer finds themselves lost in variety that is available. However, one truth continues to emerge is the wisdom of Hippocrates in connecting good health to nutrition.

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Your Feet – The Root Cause of Your Back Pain?

When you see some cracks in the walls you immediately check if the house lacks foundation. If your car is difficult to handle, especially after you hit a large pothole or the curb, you immediately check the alignment settings in your car. In both cases you make sure that there is a proper structural foundation. Why is it that doctors rarely check the foundation - the feet - when someone is dealing with back or hip pain? When it comes to the ‘structure’ of our bodies we seem to forget that it needs to have a proper foundation as well.

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The Meaning of The Horse in Dreams – Scientific Dream Interpretation

All dream images have a symbolic meaning. All dream images contain hidden messages. The accurate translation of the symbolic meaning of the dream images is possible only thanks to the brilliant method of dream interpretation discovered by Carl Jung. Nobody else could discover the real meaning of dreams and understand the unconscious guidance. Jung’s method is very complicated and obscure, but I managed to simplify and clarify it for you.

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Natural Treatment Can Safely Cure Agoraphobia

Agoraphobia has, for a long time, been a condition that's been widely misunderstood. The literal definition of this disorder is a fear of open spaces, however this view can be very misleading. Individuals who suffer from agoraphobia panic disorder are afraid of the feelings of anxiety and panic that happen when in certain places. For some, the feelings of panic can happen at home, whilst out shopping or even in church. This disorder comes about when an individual begins to av

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***Mind Over Body – Use Your Mind To Heal Your Body

I guess it has happened to all of us that we were supposed to attend an event, go and visit someone, or even go to work or school and absolutely didn‘t want to go? Like when we knew that we weren’t prepared enough for an English or math test in school and felt that we’d rather stayed at home the next morning, but had no idea how to avoid it. And then, very suddenly and conveniently, we got sick ove ight, came down with a cold or some other sickness that made it impossible for us to go to school and sit through the test.

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THIS WORLD HAS NO COLOR

One will gasp in disbelief when one is told that various colors seen in this world of objects are actually non-existent. Every object is basically colorless but when it is exposed to solar rays these objects absorb certain colors from the rays and reject others. It is only on this basis that we see ‘colored’ objects. That color not absorbed by an object is sent back i.e. reflected. This reflected light enters our eye and thus we think that object to be of the reflected so

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Learn Face Reading

Give me 5 minutes with anyone and I can tell you more about their character than a 10-page résumé. I have “read” thousands of people who tell me I know more about them in a few minutes than their spouse, family or friends ever have. Am I the only one who has access to this ancient secret? No, anyone can do what I do by simply learning the Art of Face Reading.

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Stress is a choice

One weekend I was doing chair massage at an event in the Georgia World Congress Center, and a woman and her 10 year old daughter came over. As they sat down to wait for their massages, they were arguing over who deserved the massage more. The daughter insisted she was more “stressed out” than her mother. And the mother replied that the daughter “didn’t even know what stress was.” Finally they asked me to determine who won the “I’m more stressed” contest for the day based on who had the tightest muscles.

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Carl Jung’s Victory – New Discoveries Completely Change Old Conceptions About The Meaning of Dreams

Carl Jung’s method of dream interpretation based on scientific analysis it the only correct method of dream interpretation. New discoveries confirm that his theories were not mere suppositions but real truths. These discoveries completely change old conceptions about the meaning of dreams. The old impression that dreams are disorganized images without any importance gives place to the comprehension that dreams are very important and must be analyzed according to the scientific method.

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How to Lose Weight (Reduce Fat) by Changing Your Mind

So many people are conce ed with weight loss (fat reduction)—and yet, feel totally helpless with the idea of losing weight (reducing fat). Deep inside the subconscious, an endless, frustrating cycle has taken hold. However, there is a different way to understand what is happening within the mind’s inner vocabulary. Simply change the words “fat loss” or “lose weight” to “fat reduction for healthy living,” and/or even, “healthy living!” Make that decision to never say or think, "weight loss"—ever again—ever, ever, ever!

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Stop Drinking and Save Your Marriage Now!

Life takes on a feverish ‘spin’ when alcoholism becomes the root of unwanted behavioral problems in family life and the scenario becomes worst if there are kids in the family. Showing signs of being too dependent on alcohol is the first sign of trouble and if prolonged, and still denied by the alcoholic, will lead to a situation where the spouse can no longer cope and discussions of divorce or the very least separation will come to the fore. When this starts, it’s time to tak

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Sacred Breath & Healing

Sacred Breath is a process that increases your ability to feel and resolve the effects of your karma. The act of sacred processing will help you cleanse and release stored negative energy in your body. Sacred touch activates your Sacred Breath like a match or lighter, igniting ones Kundalini. The sacredness of being touched from the heart, creates the space for transformation. Your own karmic awareness will determine the depth of your experience. Healing is like peeling the

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What is the Cause of the HSP Trait?

What causes the HSP trait? In the 1980's the findings of an important medical study were released. The study laid a biological and scientific basis for understanding the highly sensitive trait. Dr. Norman Geschwind, a neurologist at Harvard Medical School, conducted a study of 3000 people with Dr. Peter Behan, a neurologist at the University of Glasgow. He was attempting to discover the correlation between left handedness, learning disorders and genetic diseases. The report, titled "Cerebral Dominance" revealed his findings.

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Establishing a Normal Relationship with Food

How does one establish a normal relationship with food? Most of us have dieted and are aware of healthy choices that we should make in order to succeed. We just need help figuring out what stands in the way between us and actually carrying through with those choices. The key to success is to focus on WHY you are using food to cope instead of focusing on what you are eating. This is part of the healing process for eating disorders. Learning to eat naturally is the act of doi

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Dealing With "Emotional Eating"

For people dealing with excess weight issues, the connection between food and emotions is very familiar. The thin and good looking woman sitting in her room consoling herself with ice-cream after having gone through significant emotional upset has become a symbol that demonstrates how we substitute dealing with emotions for food. "Emotional eating" is eating that is intended to blur or compensate for unpleasant emotions. It is not related to physiological hunger. It is a manipulation that seeks to satisfy emotional needs by substituting emotional gratification with food.

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5 Simple Ways To Increase Your Intelligence

How can you enhance your IQ, so that you can achieve more in life and business? The truth is that every human being is looking for opportunities for increase. But if you truly want to impact others and make this world a better place to live in, then you FIRST need to work on your intelligence quotient. In this article, I want to show you the seven simple ways to actually boost your thoughts. This is vital because you’re “what you think at every point in time.” 1. Drink

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***CLEANSING IS A PATH TO YOUTH AND HEALTH

In all mammals we can observe the behavior of cleansing the inner as well as the outer body. Generally, animals will stop eating when they are diseased and turn instead to either complete abstinence from food and drink, or to drinking water only. And this behavior may continue until the animal is healed or dies. We, the human animal, however, often go against this natural wisdom and although our bodies may be quite toxic and already in a state of overload, we continue to add more “stuff” to a body that is struggling to regain its balance.r

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PSORIASIS IS AN ANGRY MAN’S GAME

For nearly 10 years I’ve been using hypnotherapy to help clients with Psoriasis. I have noticed three particular personality traits that seem common to most clients I see. But more of that later… When I first started working with clients who had Psoriasis, I conducted a study into the effectiveness of hypnotherapy on the condition. Initially I didn’t expect too much, however the results were staggering. Before I started I spoke at length with a psychiatrist and a psychologis

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Why Should I Bother With the Whole Subconscious Mind Thing?

“Your mind is your instrument. Learn to be its master and not its slave. Meditation is the gateway, through which you arrive to the world of freedom.” rn-Remez Sasson You may be wondering why the subconscious mind is so important, after all we're mainly talking about body transformation here. This is valid point, so I would like to briefly discuss WHY from a bodybuilding or physique transformation view point now. When you understand the WHY’s you’re more likely to tak

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***Understanding CAM - Part 1

UNDERSTANDING CAM by René David Alkalay After discovering that I am a board certified naturopathic doctor, I am often asked “what is that?” and soon after this, when explaining that my field of health care is alte ative, complementary, integrative, and mind-body medicine, the inevitable question, “what does that mean.?

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Self Hypnosis Script - How to Define Your Goal

When you set out to write a self hypnosis script, you probably already have a goal in mind, but exactly how you define your goal has more impact on your success than many people realize. The more carefully you define your goal, the more effective you can be in preparing your subconscious mind to focus on what you really want and boost your chances of creating the result you want. Here are four power questions to ask yourself when defining your goal for a self hypnosis script.

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Some Ways to Get Rid of Your Stress

Stress is a normal part of our lives. Whether we react to our environment, a particular situation, or a particular person, we are all designed to feel and experience stress. It is our body's natural response to the internal and exte al surroundings. However, too much of stress can result to a number of health problems such as headaches, backaches, blood sugar disorder, etc. It can also lead to emotional and psychological unrest. Thus, to avoid the negative effects of it, you

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Dream Interpretation – The Snake in Dreams and Your Mental Health

Carl Jung managed to discover the real meaning of the symbolic dream language. However, you won’t be able to completely understand the meaning of dreams based on his vague, obscure, and complex method of dream interpretation. My simplification is necessary if you want to immediately understand the dream language. I had to discover the meaning of many dream symbols translating numerous dreams for many different people for two decades before I could clarify and simplify Jung’s complex method.

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Depression Treatment through Dream Interpretation - The Meaning of Your Clothes in Dreams

The depression treatment based on dream interpretation is in fact the only one that you can absolutely trust. Jung discovered that our dreams are not produced by our own ignorant minds. All dreams are produced by the wise unconscious mind, which has a mysterious origin. Jung concluded that the unconscious mind was God’s mind. However, as a scientist who used to think based on the knowledge of his historical time, he couldn’t have a religious attitude. He was also afraid of the unconscious mind because he ignored many things that I had to discover in order to complete his mission.

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The similarities betwee Aikido and NLP

This article was written with my dual perspective as an Aikido instructor, and as a certified trainer in NLP. Aikido is a martial art that can help a person achieve a greater sense of relaxation and well-being, grace, balance, compassion, and overall awareness. The principles of Aikido can ...This article was written with my dual perspective as an Aikido instructor, and as a certified trainer in NLP. Aikido is a martial art that can help a person achieve a greater sense of relaxation and well-being, grace, balance, compassion, and overall awareness.

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Emotional Breakdown - Depression and Bipolar Disorder

What is emotional breakdown? Diverse life difficulties lead to changes in behavior and mood of people. It is important not to confuse changes in behavior caused by such difficulties, and signs of more serious problems. Changes in behavior and mood are causes for serious conce when they are lasting, radical and hinder coping with everyday life. Emotional breakdown (disorders) is too strong emotional states that a person cannot control and that lead to problems in school, wor

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Shake Away Your Stress And Tension!

Shaking is a fabulous way to release stress from your muscles, lubricate your joints and get your circulation going. Shaking relieves anxiety, reduces tension, lets your thinking mind take a break and releases holding patterns so your natural, healthy energy can move freely. For several years I taught stress management to employees in a large hospital system. Shaking was one of the simplest and most effective stress relieving strategies of all.

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Simple Ways to Beat Stress Without Medication!

Stress is often a natural reaction to situations that life throws at us when we're not expecting it. However, just because the situation is stressful does not mean we have to actually get stressed. We know that stress can cause physical as well as psychological problems and can sometimes escalate to severe anxiety attacks if the challenges are not dealt with in a calm way, so having tools already in place alleviates the need to go into full blown stress when challenging situ

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Inspiring Thoughts

A compendium of some of my favorite quotes and quips from an inspiring collection of interesting people whose influential thoughts I've woven into the following essay: In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. Every time you embrace something new, you bring into yourself a sense of aliveness. Your heart expands, and you literally begin revitalizing yourself and rejuvenating your body. Life always seeks growth, expansion and evolution.

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Body Language: Pain as a Messenger

I’ve written before about pain as a vital messenger, letting us know what needs to be addressed in our mind-body system. Symptoms and pain certainly wake us up to the need to take an internal peek at ourselves, mentally, emotionally, and also physically. I’ve written a lot about the mental and emotional aspect of healing, but it’s important not to forget the physical aspect, too.

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No Thinking, No Suffering

There is a story told by the Zen master Seung Sahn. Many years ago there was a young man living in Korea, and the young man felt that his life was quite empty. So he shaved his head and went up into the mountains to live the life of a monk. He studied diligently for a number of years, but still ...There is a story told by the Zen master Seung Sahn. Many years ago there was a young man living in Korea, and the young man felt that his life was quite empty. So he shaved his head and went up into the mountains to live the life of a monk.

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Pornography and Infidelity in a Marriage

This is a very interesting subject in a marriage. When you have not engaged in a physical act of sex with a third person, have you cheated on your partner? Should pornography be considered infidelity in a marriage? Pornography is a big in our culture and growing like a weed. Growing in this culture, young boys grow up with an impression that women are sexy when they look a certain way. And, young girls grow up with an impression that they are perceived as sexy by men if they look, dress, or act a certain way.

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***An Old Wisdom for a New Time

My jou ey into mind-body medicine began in 1964 and has progressed through many winding and often torturous roads. That year I was free for the summer break from my university program and traveled to Bulgaria where I had heard of interesting work being done by a man name Georgi Lozonov. I had contacted his office and arranged to spend one month with his staff as a volunteer. The experience changed the course of my life and strengthened my resolve to explore more deeply the connections between mind and body.r

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Bipolar I Disorder and Bipolar II Disorder – Eliminating Mood Swings

Bipolar disorder or manic depression is characterized by an alte ation of mood and reactions in individuals who are gradually losing their conscience. They have feelings of grandiosity. They are possessed by an exaggerated energy that leads them to intense activity. After a certain period of time, they are immersed in profound depression. This condition was given the clinical name bipolar because the state of euphoria and depression are at the polar ends of the human range of emotions.

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Let All Your Senses Speak - As You Heal

Your senses support your well being. Listen to the Wisdom of Your Body As humans, we experience the world through our five senses. Although each sense responds to stimuli in its own way, the brain is the common factor which organizes and interprets the sensations we experience. People born without one of the senses who later develop that sensual capacity may have great difficulty interpreting what they perceive. For example, people born blind and later able to see will have

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Manic Depression or Bipolar Disorder – Safe Treatment through Dream Translation

Manic depression or bipolar disorder is a mental disorder characterized by the abrupt change of mood. On one hand, it generates exaggerated feelings and reactions (euphoria). Bipolar individuals feel so positive they believe they can do even what is beyond human capacity. On the other hand, it generates depression. Depending on the case, this disorder can have the characteristics of a psychosis.

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5 Beliefs That Can Sabotage Even The Best Healing Method

Scientific research demonstrates that belief in a treatment method has a direct affect on the probability for its success. These findings apply to all types of healing methods and approaches. Given the immense power of belief, following are 5 of the more common beliefs that can sabotage even the most effective and promising healing protocol. 1.Healing is Impossibler

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Anything is Possible: 3 Inspiring Examples of the Amazing, Shapeshifting Ability of Our Bodies

Einstein said, “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” Quantum physics maintains that nothing is solid; everything is energy in motion, giving the appearance of solidity. It’s the combined power of our intention, feeling, and imagination that shapes and reshapes our bodies and our lives. I love that reality is so play doughy and malleable; it reassures me that anything is possible, including healing cancer. I’ve been on a cancer journey for over

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What Are Superstitions? Dream Interpretation and Scientific Translations

Superstitions are beliefs that lack scientific proof. They are merely assumptions based on personal opinions, which may become popular, even though they are not the result of real discoveries. A superstition is the belief that one event causes another without any physical process linking both events. It is the assumption that certain phenomena are caused by supe atural forces, for reasons that cannot be scientifically proved or speculated. In a few words, a superstition is merely an invention. It is not based on facts that can be confirmed.

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*** Seven Keys to Change: A Mind Body Approach to Creating Permanent Good Health

There are many ways to move toward positive health experience even if you have persistent pain or are suffering from health problems or posttraumatic stress. The first step is to identify portals, or starting places, into your body experience. This portal will serve to maximize your attempts at regulating of upsetting or painful experience. An example is Marina, a young woman who has just recently lost both of her parents.

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How to Prevent Accidents

I wanted to be able to prevent accidents because I suffered from a tragic car accident when I was 15-years-old, losing the friend who was next to me in the car. However, this was not a simple matter. I had to work very hard until I could finally understand what generates accidents and how they can be prevented. I’m going to show you how I could find a sure way to prevent all accidents and how you can use this knowledge in order to protect yourself and your family.

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Be Your Own Visionary

"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision." Helen Keller When most of us think about visionaries we think of those who are the true leaders of our time. Ghandi, Einstein, Mozart, Michelangelo, Tolstoy, and the list can go on indefinitely. Yes, it's true that these people through their work on earth caused us to change the way we perceive life. The one thing that all of the great visionary had in common were that they were ordinary human beings who brought to life ext

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All Your Issues Are in Your Tissues

Have you ever asked your self “Why am I in the shape I’m in”? Aren’t we all made of the same matter; bones, flesh and blood? So why do our packages all look so different from one another? I believe the answers are in the intangible spiritual, mental and emotional energies that manifest in the tangible physical body. Our bodies are the densest form of our spirit or energy life source. Our minds (conscious or unconscious) are the gatekeeper of actions and reactions to our life experiences that create imbalances in the flow of our emotions.

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Scientists Prove Learning To Play Music Is Good For Your Brain

Learning to play a musical instrument may not just be good fun and entertaining, but it can actually change your brain. A recent paper published by Nature Reviews Neuroscience, is a compilation of research findings from scientists all over the world who used all kinds of research methods to show that musical training has a profound impact on your ability to learn other skills such as speech and language, memory and attention and even your ability to express your emotions voc

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Ten Guaranteed Ways to Stop Pain from Stopping You

In spite of all our efforts to get out of pain, when it persists, with it comes with feelings of despair, helplessness and hopelessness. Why try anymore when nothing seems to work? But there is hope. These ten proven ways can stop pain before it stops you. Those who have used these skills, in combination with support, have had astounding success. Permanent relief from pain was reported by more than 85% of those using these methods. 1. Breathing – Conscious Regular Breathing Will Help

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Panic Attacks and What Can Cause Them

Sufferers of panic attacks and medical professionals are still trying to achieve the goal of determining the causes of this condition. In piecemeal fashion, the exact mechanism(s) and processes are being put together. There is a large accumulation of existing knowledge regarding symptoms of panic attack as well as documented causes. It can be misleading to use the term "causes" though, as it does not tell the whole story. Conditions exist that actually cause the misunderstood

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Meditation as an Effective Way to Treat an Anxiety Disorder

Every day, we typically encounter things that stress us out. Either it is an issue at work, family problems, or just a simple traffic, we might regard this as a challenge or threat to our well-being. Such things are expected as we go on with our daily routines. However, if we don't take care of them, they can become a full-blown anxiety. You may be suffering from an anxiety disorder if your worries, fears, or anxiety seem overwhelming and are already interfering with your dai

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How to Heal Back Pain by Healing Emotions

Low back pain is an epidemic in the U.S. and more than 80% of people worldwide will suffer from low back pain at some point in their lives. Widespread suffering from back pain is a new phenomenon; never before in history has there been mention of millions of people suffering from the same pain syndrome. Western medicine would have us all believing that our discs are the problem, but there is no proof. Our bodies are designed to heal without lingering pain, and our backs are no exception.

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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: 6 RELIEF Strategies for Stress

Are you a grandparent raising grandchildren? If you are, or know someone who fits this description, then you are aware of the stress associated with change and being a second-time-around parent. It is not the grandchildren who are causing the stress, because you know what a blessing it is to have them around. Stress comes from changes in your financial status, changes in the family structure and schedules, and the reason you needed to take in your grandchildren. Any time you experience sudden or drastic change in your life, you experience stress.

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Do Yoda Proud: Meditation 101

Meditation refers to a state where your body and mind are consciously relaxed and focused. Practitioners of this art report increased awareness, focus, and concentration, as well as a more positive outlook in life. Meditation is most commonly associated with monks, mystics and other spiritual disciplines. However, you don’t have to be a monk or mystic to enjoy its benefits. And you don’t even have to be in a special place to practice it. You could even try it in your own

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***5 STEPS TO MOVING FORWARD, YOU ARE NEVER STUCK!

We all want to feel good. NO! We all want to feel great! Happy with our path, happy with our partner, happy with our family, happy with our career. In order to be truly happy, we have to achieve contentment in all aspects of our life, don’t we? When one part of our life is effected in a negative way - it effects every part of our life. Its rare when life is perfect “all at one time” - its a journey that is always changing. There is nothing wrong with change, it can be great! Its about how we embrace it, how we honor it.

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Replenish Your Soul: Shake Away Your Stress and Tension!

Shaking is a fabulous way to release stress from your muscles, lubricate your joints and get your circulation going. Shaking relieves anxiety, reduces tension, lets your thinking mind take a break and releases holding patterns so your natural, healthy energy can move freely. For several years I taught stress management to employees in a large hospital system. Shaking was one of the simplest and most effective stress relieving strategies of all.

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The Meaning of Blood in Dreams

Most dreams are warnings because we make too many mistakes in life. We are constantly influenced by our wild conscience, while our human conscience is one-sided and under-developed. Our wild and primitive conscience (anti-conscience) is still active inside us. The anti-conscience is our animal, cruel, and totally absurd personality. It generates mental illnesses within our human conscience in order to control our behavior.

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Psychology Today – Finding Sound Mental Health and Wisdom through Dream Therapy

I already give you many lessons about the meaning of dreams and their psychological importance. I basically show you that you are in fact a primate because the biggest part of your brain belongs to the anti-conscience; your wild conscience. You have only a tiny human conscience, which is under-developed. This is why you need the guidance of the unconscious mind.

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FAQs About Mindfulness

Is mindfulness the same as meditation? Mindfulness meditation is one way to practice mindfulness, but since being mindful simply involves paying attention to the present moment, mindfulness can be brought to anything you do. Becoming more mindful takes practice, and mindfulness meditation is good tool to learn to be more mindful. However, you can become more mindful without meditation, and even if you do practice mindfulness meditation, the benefits of mindfulness are greates

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Learn Why Dream Images Are Not Just Dreams

Many times you may wonder if all dreams are important. Some dreams seem to be so insignificant that you cannot believe that there is anything important in its images. Other times you feel that the dream you just had contained a meaningful message that you must understand. Everything depends on your impressions. There are dreams that you tend to tell everyone around you because they are too vivid. These dreams are the most important ones because they contain basic future predictions.

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Stop Drinking & Save Your Marriage Now!

Life takes on a feverish ‘spin’ when alcoholism becomes the root of unwanted behavioral problems in family life and the scenario becomes worst if there are kids in the family. Showing signs of being too dependent on alcohol is the first sign of trouble and if prolonged, and still denied by the alcoholic, will lead to a situation where the spouse can no longer cope and discussions of divorce or the very least separation will come to the fore. When this starts, it’s time to tak

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T'ai-Chi Ch'uan for Health and Fitness

T’ai Chi Ch’uan To Promote Good Health Copyright Harvey Kurland, M.Sc., MFS, CSCS, 2003 www.myspace.com/hkurland The latest research shows stress reduction helps to prevent angina in Heart Patients during stressful events. Recently low intensity exercise has been shown to prevent heart attacks and increase life span. A daily regime of t’ai-chi fit the Rx, act a stress reducer and as a low intensity aerobic exercise.

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Self Discovery and Healing

Most of us start the self-discovery journey that is mind-body healing because we’re in pain. Maybe we’re struggling with vulvodynia, interstitial cystitis, irritable bowel syndrome, or pelvic floor dysfunction. Maybe we have chronic back pain. Maybe we’ve been dealing with depression or anxiety. We come to self-discovery through the back door of suffering, but before we know it, self-discovery in itself becomes the focus.

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How to Stop Having Recurrent Dreams About Traumatic Experiences

Many people believe that our dreams are produced by our imagination. Other people believe that dreams have a certain psychological importance, but there is no way we can accurately translate the meaning of dreams. The truth is that our dreams are produced by the wise unconscious mind that proves God’s existence. Dreams have a specific meaning and can be accurately translated through the scientific method of dream interpretation discovered by Carl Jung.

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Frequently Asked Questions On Hypnosis

Here are some common worries and questions that people have on clinical hypnotherapy: - \ Can I be hypnotized? \ Most people can go into a hypnotic trance. The only types of people that cannot be hypnotised are … \ 1. Those suffering from psychosis or a thought disorder \ 2. A person with a low IQ \ 3. A p

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Mindfulness Based Psychotherapy

There are many ways in which mindfulness complements traditional approaches to counselling and therapy. Counselling and therapy involve cultivating awareness and insight into your life and the issues you're facing, exploring your patterns of thinking, and your feelings and emotions, how these are affecting you, and learning to handle difficult thoughts and emotions. Mindfulness helps facilitate these processes by slowing down your mind, and using this calmer, clearer mind to

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Living Calmness

Living Calmness In Seishindo we believe..... Each person is very much like a snowflake. Unique, Never to be duplicated, And with a life that’s over all too quickly. One of our key tasks in life is learning how to appreciate our uniqueness rather than comparing our self to others, or lamenting about what we are not. We are all born perfect, just as we are. Which does not mean there’s no room for improvement! We are perfectly imperfect.

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Making Healthy Choices

Making decisions is one of the most important aspects of our life journey and has a profound influence on the roads we take and what we encounter along the way. We can walk the roads of our life in elegance or pain. Decisions and choices direct us along the path of life and to a great extent determine if we enjoy the ride or suffer through it.

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journal to Dialog with Healing

In the process of healing from disease, we usually attend most keenly to the physical body, urging it with therapies, drugs, and other interventions to return to wholeness. But it’s important to attend as well to our mental, emotional, and spiritual selves with just as much focus and care. Serious illness of any kind is terrifying. The mental repercussions of contracting a serious disease or suffering a debilitating accident can render the individual utterly helpless and dep

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