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Is Opening Your Heart Simplistic, Naïve, And Disconnected From Reality?

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Written by: Alan Seale

Is Opening Your Heart Simplistic, Naïve, And Disconnected From Reality?To just say, “You have to open your heart!” can be perceived by many people as overly simplistic, naïve, and disconnected from reality. It can be interpreted as a feel-good-warm-and-fuzzy approach that has no substance. And it can give the impression that you are in denial of the magnitude of what is happening.

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Happiness Doesn’t Follow Success: It’s The Other Way Round

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Written by: Lisa C Walsh, Julia K Boehm & Sonja Lyubomirsky

Happiness Doesn’t Follow Success: It’s The Other Way Round

Work hard, become successful, then you’ll be happy. At least, that’s what many of us were taught by our parents, teachers and peers.

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Time for a Reality Check: What Are The Reasons We Resist Change?

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Written by: Charles Frost

Have You Developed A Resistance to Change?As long as we choose to see certain events as the measuring stick for our lives, we have no real chance of changing. As long as we view it this way, we will be trapped by our perceptions of the past, and our lives will endlessly repeat the same types of things over and over again until...

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Set Yourself Free By Letting Go Of Your Past

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Written by: Louise Hay

How To Let Go Of Your Past and Set Yourself FreeMany people say they cannot enjoy today because of something that happened in the past. By holding on to the past, no matter what it was or how awful it was, we are only hurting ourselves by refusing to live in this moment to the fullest...

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Everyday Life Wisdom: Spiritual Laws, Laws of Fate, and Spiritual Knowledge

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Written by: Barbel Mohr

Why You Should Listen To Everyday Life WisdomFollowing is a list of tips, bits of advice, and wise sayings or excerpts, including fragments of spiritual knowledge, spiritual laws, and laws of fate.

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Not According To Plan? What To Do When Plans and Expectations Fail

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Written by: Mariana Caplan

According To Plan? Not!When is the last time your life worked out the way you planned and expected it to? And if by chance a segment of it did happen to go as planned, did you feel how you expected you would? And if you did feel how you expected to, did it last forever?

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The Best That Can Happen

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Written by: Alan Cohen

The Best That Can HappenWhen I ask clients who face a difficult situation, “What’s the worst thing that could happen?” they usually have a well-prepared list of possible dark outcomes. When I ask, “What’s the best thing that could happen?” they usually take a while to think of an answer. They are so practiced in pessimism that optimism hasn’t crossed their mind.

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Shouldn’t We Live As Simply As Possible?

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Written by: Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart discusses spiritual awakening as it relates to two aspects of life: the acquisition of things, and the activities we engage in.

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Why We Need To Stop and Smell the Flowers

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Written by: Marie T. Russell

Why You Need To Stop and Smell the FlowersOne hears a lot about nurturing... nurturing one's self, nurturing loved ones, children, etc. I have been advised many times in my life to pay more attention to myself, and to nurture myself. Not feeling  too clear at one time about what that meant (since I had never learned how to nurture myself), I asked...

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Daring To Take Action and Stepping Into The Unknown

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Written by: Eileen Campbell

Daring To Take Action and Stepping Into The UnknownRealistic hope enables us to believe that we can cope with what lies ahead and gives us the courage to step into the unknown. Without being prepared to take a risk, we don’t make new discoveries about ourselves or what it means to be a human being, nor can we find the fulfillment and happiness we long for.

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Is This The Way It’s Supposed To Be?

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Written by: Stephen Nachmanovitch

Is This The Way It’s Supposed To Be?

What’s wrong with reality? A friend is disappointed in love. He tells me, “It didn’t turn out like the picture in my head.” The power lines alongside the tree-dotted highway slide against the sky like an empty bar of sheet music. “Love,” he says, “isn’t what I thought it was.”

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The Age of Separation: The Story of the People

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Written by: Charles Eisenstein

04 27 the age of separation the story of the peopleMy childhood perceptions were part of a narrative I call the Story of the People, in which humanity was destined to create a perfect world through science, reason, and technology: to conquer nature, transcend our animal origins, and engineer a rational society.

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Creating The Life You Want, One Image At A Time

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Written by: Rita Milios

Creating The Life You Want, One Picture At A TimeWould you like to experience your personal best? To feel confident, secure, competent, poised and self-assured? Would you perhaps like to work at a fulfilling job? Would you like to control your own future? Most of us would answer a resounding "Yes!" to at least some of the above questions.

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Reverse The Aging Process And Regenerate Your Body By ReprogrammingYour Brain

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Written by: Gene Basin

Methods Of Reprograming Your BrainThe physical body is a biological robot. This biological robot is under the control of the Computer Brain. There is absolutely nothing that is outside of our actions and our thoughts that is outside the relationship between the biological computer and your body. Your body does everything your brain commands it to do.

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How Your Smartphone Can Encourage Active Living

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Written by: Tarun Katapally

How Your Smartphone Can Encourage Active Living

Physical inactivity is the fourth leading risk factor for death globally and has reached the status of a global pandemic — a definition that is usually associated with infectious diseases like influenza.

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Cheers! How The Physics Of Fizz Contributes To Human Happiness

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Written by: Roberto Zenit & Javier Rodríguez Rodríguez

Cheers! How The Physics Of Fizz Contributes To Human Happiness

Think of the last time you had something to celebrate. If you toasted the happy occasion, your drink was probably alcoholic – and bubbly.

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More Workers Take Antidepressants If Performance Governs Pay

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Written by: Chuck Finder

More Workers Take Antidepressants If Performance Governs Pay

Companies moving to a pay-for-performance process may lead to an increase the number of employees taking anxiety and depression medication, according to a new study.

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New To College? Why You Should Spend Some Time Alone

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Written by: Sandra Knispel

New To College? Why You Should Spend Some Time Alone

Seeking solitude—for the right reasons—can be good for first-year college students, research suggests.

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Embracing Uncertainty on The Long and Winding Road to Happiness

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Written by: Brian Sheen

The Long and Winding Road to HappinessTwo dormant chemicals in the same container can co-exist uneventfully, then when a third property is added, this third chemical acts as a catalyst for creating a reaction when shaken or stirred. So it goes with self-improvement...

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How You Can Choose To Forget A Memory

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Written by: Rachel Griess

How You Can Choose To Forget A Memory

Choosing to forget something might take more mental effort than trying to remember it, according to new research.

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Reaching for the Joy is a Powerful Antidote to Fear and Anxiety

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Written by: Janette Hillis-Jaffe

Reaching for the Joy is a Powerful Antidote to Fear and AnxietyA powerful antidote to the fear and anxiety sometimes stirred up by a health condition is joy. And sometimes joy can feel in short supply when dealing with health challenges. If we want joy, we have to actively reach for it. We’ll explore some ways to do that.

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