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How Can We Find Rest, Renewal and Delight in Our Busy Lives?

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Written by: Wayne Muller

How Can We Find Rest, Renewal and Delight in Our Busy Lives?

Our culture invariably supposes that action and accomplishment are better than rest, that doing something -- anything -- is better than doing nothing. Poisoned by this hypnotic belief that good things come only through unceasing determination and tireless effort, we can never truly rest.

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Learning to Process Emotions Safely and Successfully

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Written by: Gary Reiss, LCSW

Learning to Process Emotions Safely and Successfully

One of the biggest problems that people bring to therapy is not knowing what to do with a wide range of feelings, including sadness, anger, ecstasy, fear, and depression. Many visits to medical doctors are attempts to deal with feelings unable to be expressed or released. Such feeling problems are quite common.

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Open to Possibilities: Flowing with Life, Motion and Change

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Written by: Jean Walters

Open to Possibilities: Flowing with Life, Motion and Change

It is true that change is the only constant. You cannot stop it or interfere with it. It is ongoing and occurring every minute all the time. What you can do is learn to deal with it appropriately so that you are not creating anxiety around change. You can learn to flow with it.

 

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Taking the Plunge: A Rite of Passage

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Written by: Irene O'Garden

Taking the Plunge: A Rite of Passage

Near our little house in the woods runs a lovely rushy stream, Clove Creek. While it’s often brisk and prosperous, it takes a huge spring thunderstorm to understand how such a modest flow could carve out the dramatic and beautiful area known locally as The Gorge.

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Conflicting Desires: Can You Have Whatever You Want?

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Written by: MSI (Maharishi Sadashiva Isham)

Conflicting Desires: Can You Have Whatever You Want?

If you have contradictory desire streams -- desires for two opposing things at the same time -- it becomes much more difficult for Nature to fulfill your desires. For example, you might think that you desire an ideal relationship, but if part of your brain is thinking, "Hah, you don't deserve that. It's never worked before.."

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Understanding Personal Desires for Peace and Happiness

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Written by: Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com

A depiction of things people usually want in life.

Exploring the fundamental question of 'What do you want?' reveals the need for self-reflection and action in pursuit of happiness and peace. By identifying personal desires, individuals can take meaningful steps toward creating a fulfilling life, both internally and externally, and contribute to a more harmonious world.

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Are Your Beliefs Working For You or Against You?

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Written by: Rich Rahn

Are Your Beliefs Working For You or Against You?

What are beliefs really? Beliefs are opinions, assumptions, prejudices, judgments, ideas, and attitudes through which everything you experience in life is filtered. They are the lenses through which we see the world.

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Anything That You Say Or Think Is An Affirmation. Really!

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Written by: Louise Hay

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Affirmations are really anything that we say or think. We say, "I don't want this in my life" or "I don't want to be sick anymore" or "I hate my job".

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Harnessing Attention for a Higher Consciousness

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Written by: Alan Cohen

Which Movie Are You Watching?

In a multi-dimensional universe, the reality one experiences is shaped by where attention is focused. By choosing to cultivate a higher consciousness, individuals can transform mundane experiences into opportunities for gratitude and growth. This article explores how perspective and vision can influence personal and collective realities.

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Want To See A Therapist But Don't Know Where To Start?

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Written by: Louise Stone

Want To See A Therapist But Don't Know Where To Start?

In such a stressful time, many people are experiencing poorer mental health, and some need additional support.

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Discovering Your Own Gateway To The Soul

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Written by: Serge Beddington-Behrens

Discovering Your Own Gateway To The Soul

I was extremely fortunate in that very soon after leaving university, a gateway came stalking me. (Yes, we need to know that what we are looking for is also seeking us out.)  It took the form of my bumping into a friend who happened to tell me about a mysterious spiritual community in Scotland...

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How To Stay Calm In An Emergency or Under Stress: A Primer

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Written by: Hersch Wilson

How To Stay Calm In An Emergency or Under Stress: A Primer
The singular and most important idea that will help us stay calm in an emergency — or at any other time — is that we have a choice. It often doesn’t feel like we have a choice. Something happens, we get rear-ended on the highway, and we are quick to anger.

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What Do I Do If I Sense Trouble?

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Written by: Maggie Craddock

What Do I Do If I Sense Trouble?

One reason the story of the Titanic disaster has such enduring appeal is that it is an object lesson in the need to question perceived reality, trust our gut, and when necessary, act on our own personal authority to save others and ourselves.

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Are You A Cultural Creative? You Are Likely To Be A Cultural Creative If You...

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Written by: Paul H. Ray Ph.D. & Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D.

Are You A Cultural Creative? You Are Likely To Be A Cultural Creative If You...

Since the 1960s, 26 percent of the adults in the United States -- 50 million people -- have made a comprehensive shift in their worldview, values, and way of life -- their culture, in short. These creative, optimistic millions are at the leading edge of several kinds of cultural change, deeply affecting...

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Rising Up with the Potent Force of Aloha

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Written by: Jonathan Hammond

Rising Up with the Potent Force of Aloha

In every given moment, each of us has a glorious opportunity to release our self-limiting stories, learn to live from our true nature, and become the highest and brightest expression of ourselves. And I know of no better, more practical, or more effective system to guide you there than Huna, the esoteric knowledge and philosophy of Hawaii.

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Are You Soul Conscious...or in Trance?

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Written by: Ed Rubenstein

Are You Soul Conscious...or in Trance?

Any moment in which we are unaware and out of balance and harmony, then we are in trance. When we are feeling superior and feel justified in our judgments, we are in trance. When we feel inferior or unworthy, we are in trance. Streams of past, future, or worrisome thoughts that surface...

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Meditation On Creating Your Ideal Life and Living Your Life Purpose

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Written by: Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer (Orin and DaBen)

Meditation On Creating Your Ideal Life and Living Your Life Purpose

With each breath in I affirm I have a life purpose. With each breath out I send my purpose out to the world, where it may manifest in my life. This continues automatically as I breathe in and out.

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The Second Half of Life: Confusion and Mayhem or Transformation and Metamorphosis?

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Written by: Mark Gerzon

The Second Half of Life: Confusion and Mayhem or Transformation and Metamorphosis

I had accepted our culture's stale and simplistic view of adulthood -- that the person you are at midlife is the person you will always be. At precisely the time when I thought my development was coming to an end, I found myself embarking on a totally unexpected journey of growth and change... the "second half of life".

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Entering the Quantum – A No-Comfort-Zone Area

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Written by: Emma Mardlin, Ph.D.

Entering the Quantum – A No-Comfort-Zone Area

Quantum reality is a place that exists beyond time and space as we know it; it’s where the metaphysical (the intangible such as thoughts, beliefs and emotions) meets with the material realm to decide on a future outcome. The material world that we sense through our five senses only makes up a very small percentage of the whole structure of reality.

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All The World's A Stage and You Get To Choose Your Part

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Written by: Lora Cheadle

All The World's A Stage and You Get To Choose Your Part

If, as Shakespeare so aptly pointed out, all the world’s a stage and each of us are merely players, playing our parts until we fade away into oblivion, the question inevitably becomes “Who is choreographing your life?”

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Your Life Purpose Is As Unique As Your Fingerprint

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Written by: Meriflor Toneatto

 Your Life Purpose Is As Unique As Your Fingerprint

Your life’s purpose is unique to you, as singular as your fingerprint. Some refer to their life’s purpose as their call­ing or even their destiny. Essentially, your life’s purpose is the reason you are here.

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