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- The Stimulus Plan - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2009 from Intent.com Authors“I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one’s self on the earth is not a hardship but a pastime- if we live simply and wisely.” Henry David Thoreau Franklin D. Roosevelt is most famous for his statement “there is nothing to fear but fear itself.” He uttered these ...
Views: 558(1 vote) - Unlocking The Diary, Letting the Light Pour In - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI am about to invite you into my life in a way I have never done before. I am unlocking my diary and posting excerpts every few days in succession. Warning: This post is direct as it came from my actual diary…. it is even often extremely challenging for me to re-read. I share it because my ...
Views: 558 - The Most Important Thing for Mental Health - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhen considering the most important elements for mental health, a really basic one is often overlooked. It's not stress reduction, a healthy diet, exercise, healthy relationships, or taking your medications. What is it? When I worked at the state hospital, patients would be brought in by the ...
Views: 557 - What I Learned From My Wedding: Part 1 - by Submitted on Aug 19, 2009 from Intent.com Authors1. You can’t control anything, or how I learned to love the rain We had chosen the venue for the view. We were to be married in a state park up in the Berkeley hills with a gorgeous view of the mountains in front of which we would be performing the ceremony. The week before we started ...
Views: 557(1 vote) - Are You in the Right Conversation? - by Submitted on Aug 19, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI woke up this morning with an extremely profound realization that I would like to share with you because if you "get it", there's a distinct possibility that this little piece of knowledge could completely and totally change your life forever. OK.....are you ready? Because in order for ...
Views: 556(1 vote) - Avoid Slipping into the Negativity of Others— Uplift Them with Your Own Positivity - by Submitted on Aug 19, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsNot long ago I happened to meet a lovely woman who, like me, was selling her house. We started to have a nice chat, and she told me that she was selling the place because she was getting divorced. It was her second marriage, and naturally she was feeling deeply sad about the breakup. She went on ...
Views: 556(2 votes) - A Spiritual Defense of Nadya Suleman: Mother of Octuplets - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt’s almost like witnessing a stoning in Afghanistan. When news hit that a single mother was giving birth to Octuplets, the first rocks were tossed. Then, with each subsequent revelation about Nadya’s life, the stones came fast and furious. Some are disgraced with the fact that she’s not ...
Views: 555(1 vote) - 3 Simple Questions And 1 Powerful Phrase That Can Save You Thousands Of Your Hard-Earned Dollars! - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMost of our purchases, whether it’s a nice dinner out, a new pair of shoes, or a flat-screen TV, aren’t made because we actually need the stuff... We buy the majority of stuff, simply because we want to feel better. You might shop for clothes to fill the void when you’re sad, buy the ...
Views: 554 - Drink Yourself Beautiful! - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsRadiance can emerge from each and every one of us. In order to allow it to do so, we must first provide a sanctuary from modern day assaults. Providing a much-needed sanctuary is actually inexpensive and result-oriented, a fact that is sometimes shocking to even the most impatient and monetarily ...
Views: 554(4 votes) - Recession of the Thousand Days - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI watched "Anne of the Thousand Days" yesterday, the story of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII. I actually listened to it more than watched it, I was preparing dinner, TV was on at the other end of the living room. Anne just gave birth to a girl and the terrible drama resulted. I thought: this ...
Views: 554 - We all have Two Minutes a Day to.... - by Submitted on Jul 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHi Everybody, Today is Hump Day...interesting! Growing up I really never understood why I heard adults always saying this on Wednesday, but now I do. I catch myself saying it to my kids. I guess Wednesday for most is finally the day where you are back in the swing of the week. You have ...
Views: 554 - Trying to Follow - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: I am trying to find my footing and go with the flow. I am very much in love with a man who came to me 2 1/2 years ago. He's been spending most of the work week by me, then flies home for the end of the week and weekend. Initially, he told me he was separated, but in a very short ...
Views: 553(1 vote) - What 75 outrageous things are you willing to do by March of next year? - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsGloria Steinem, iconic feminist and author of Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, turned 75 yesterday. At a recent celebration of this landmark birthday, she asked people to do 75 outrageous things in the cause of justice and on behalf of others this coming year. What 75 outrageous things ...
Views: 553 - Bodymind: Love Your Immune System - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSpring is a time when we can easily catch a cold. Your immune system is one of the most complex and important systems in your body as it recognizes foreign substances, such as viruses or bacteria, and prevents them from doing you any harm. But it is also highly subject to being influenced by ...
Views: 552 - How To Expand During The Current Contraction: Complete Your To-Do List - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOriginally published on The Huffington Post. Last week, we examined a way to expand during the current economic contraction. The tip had to do with taking stock of all the "stuff" you have at home, and giving some of it away to someone who could make good use of it. Did any of you try this? ...
Views: 552(1 vote) - Mindfully Exercise Right Through Stress - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsNo matter what the challenges are that you are facing in your life, regular exercise moves you through stressful times with greater clarity, increased energy and a more positive outlook. And to benefit even more from exercise - get mindful. Exercise can be a form of meditation. And if you ...
Views: 552 - Own the Power of Your Self-Love! - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThere is nothing more beautiful and powerful than a woman who truly loves herself. Most people would totally agree that this is true, and most of us can think of a woman like this, and nod our heads and say “Yes, she is both beautiful and powerful.” So if self-love gives you true beauty and ...
Views: 552 - Personal or Private? - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Intent.com Authors"The more I write about who I am, the more I share myself with others, the more present as who I am I become, more centered, more grounded" I told my friend yesterday. We talked about writing books about our own experience, writing of sensitive stuff, embarrassing stuff, private stuff. I ...
Views: 552(1 vote) - The Bottom Line - by Submitted on Aug 12, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMy father passed the following words to me when I was in my early teen years. These words have been, in many ways, the basic guiding principles in my life. I just wanted to share them with you. THE BOTTOM LIINE FACE IT. Nobody owes you a living. What you achieve or fail to achieve in ...
Views: 552 - Do You Have Metabolic Syndrome? - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMetabolic syndrome, also called insulin resistance syndrome, is a dangerous thing to have. It is a combination of symptoms including: Abdominal obesity (excessive fat tissue in and around the abdomen). Blood fat disorders like high triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol and high LDL ...
Views: 551(1 vote) - Beautiful Voices - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: First of all, I am sorry my English is no so good but I hope you will understand me. I am 25 years old, a few month ago, I made a therapy with regression and during one session appeared a voice so sweet , that I called the Source and starts to give me advices and answer my questions ...
Views: 550 - More Than Good Enough - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThere’s an old adage that states that a mother is only as happy as her least happy child. I can attest to that. I have felt every scrape of the knee, disappointment, illness, and heartache my children have endured, and if one of them is sad, hurt or unhappy, at some level, so am I. Parenthood ...
Views: 550(1 vote) - Turn Stress Into Strength - by Submitted on Jul 30, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe economy is in a downward spiral. Perhaps, someone you know is laid off from work or maybe it’s you. Your home might be filled with clutter, possessions you don’t use or even know you have, and the bills are piling up on your desk. It’s time for some plastic surgery – cutting a few credit ...
Views: 550 - Beyond Sustainability - by Submitted on Aug 03, 2009 from Intent.com Authors"Sustainability, in a broad sense, is the capacity to maintain a certain process or state. It is now most frequently used in connection with biological and human systems. In an ecological context, sustainability can be defined as the ability of an ecosystem to maintain ecological processes, ...
Views: 549 - Have a Heart - Everyday - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA woman approached me recently with the idea of purchasing hearts for an entire school that helps support her autistic son. I was so taken by the gesture, first of all, and geared up to get those hearts to them by Valentine's Day. She politely told me that it did NOT need to happen by ...
Views: 548 - Conference With Your Spirit: A Great Way to Recharge Your Batteries - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYou were born with an incredible gift – one that is so beautiful, so profound, so magnificent that words can only barely begin to describe it. This gift is the spark of infinite wisdom that lives within you. It is that part of you that is eternal. It is the core of who you are, and yet it is ...
Views: 547 - On Moral Responsibility: I'm Sorry I Screen Your Calls - by Submitted on Jul 26, 2009 from Intent.com Authors"The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth. Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of ...
Views: 547(1 vote) - Spiritualizing The Planet - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWe are one with the cosmos whether we realize it or not. Realizing it, though, quickens our spiritual energy and allows us access to higher realms. In those higher realms lies the awareness that we are more than just finite physical beings living one life in one place at one point in time. ...
Views: 547(1 vote) - Do It Yourself (And Then Share How You Did It) – How Women Are Changing Personal Finance - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDo It Yourself (And Then Share How You Did It) – How Women Are Changing Personal Finance There’s a voice coming out at the forefront of personal finance that is newly communal. Economic news and forecasts have us talking: strangers or friends, when we get together we start asking, “How are you ...
Views: 545(2 votes) - Staying Grounded in a Big City or Busy World - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com Authors1. Live simply and live deliberately. By choosing not to get caught up in the details of this fast-paced world, you are doing your part to slow down the . You will also discover that you have more time to enjoy being alive. 2. Stay in touch with yourself. Soul searching, meditation, and ...
Views: 544 - An Unwavering Connection to the Infinite - by Submitted on Aug 23, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThough much of who and what we are changes as we journey through life, our inherent worth remains constant. While the term self-worth is often used interchangeably with self-esteem, the two qualities are inherently different. Self-esteem is the measure of how you feel about yourself at a given ...
Views: 543(1 vote) - Stock Piles of Guilt Free Yummy Foods for Your Organic Space! - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYou have to have them. Face it; we all munch from time to time on unhealthy snacks. If we don't have guilt free yummy snacks on hand we resort to eating unhealthy and end up feeling guilty. Plan ahead and create a good organic space for your family! Guilt Free Snacks to Store (all organic of ...
Views: 543 - The Benefits of Tea - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe health benefits of green tea have been trumpeted in the media recently. Even though the claims may be exaggerated, if you're going to drink much of any beverage other than water, tea is probably your best choice. Tea is water plus phytochemicals including caffeine, and very little else ...
Views: 543 - From Self Care to Self Destruction to Self Care at Last - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsBy now, with all the self help books, classes you have taken, TV shows you have watched, specialists you have seen, information you have gathered, and diets that you have been on, you know what constitutes “self care”: a balanced diet, healthy lifestyle, exercise, adequate sleep, meditating, ...
Views: 542 - Search Tirelessly For Your Mission - by Submitted on Aug 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDo not let the opportunity to value the small and simple things in life pass you by, because tomorrow it might be too late to understand that those small, simple things were the greatest, and that you may have lost them. To limit oneself to merely existing is to deny oneself the opportunity ...
Views: 542(1 vote) - Losing My Religion - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: I need some clarity on a sensitive matter. I am 35 years old with 2 beautiful children and my own successful business. Since childhood I strongly believed (or led to believe) that going to church every day to the organised church activities is the path to salvation. After reading 5 ...
Views: 541(2 votes) - The Secret of Happiness - by Submitted on Jul 28, 2009 from Intent.com Authors“Alright, the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.” ~ Robin Sharma from The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari We’ll get right to the point here: WHAT DO YOU TRULY LOVE?!? And what % of your energy are you putting ...
Views: 541(2 votes) - Everything is possible in nature - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI love being with nature, with trees, because of the way they relate. There is no "noise" in relationship with trees. There is no "little voice in my head", there are no stories, no "right way" to be, to talk, no "right thing to do". There is only space to be. There is no talking. I realized ...
Views: 540 - God Psychology - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsBrooks Greene-Barton once told me that the original purpose of psychology was to describe Human’s relationship to God. At the beginning psychology was organized to answer the question of who we are, what is the human existence about, what does it mean to be a human being. Over some hundreds ...
Views: 540(1 vote) - Walking the road that comes to you....... - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsExcerpt from Cosmic Connection: Messages for a Better World ~ “Walk the road that comes to you. Do not choose it. Do not follow it. Do not find it. Simply walk it as it comes to you. It will curve. It will bend. At times it will disappear from under your feet. And you will fly instead of walk.” ...
Views: 540(2 votes) - Should Women Avoid Men to Lower their Risk of Heart Disease? - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAn unhappy marriage predisposes women to metabolic syndrome (the risk for obesity, diabetes, heart disease and stroke) according to a study by University of Utah psychologists (American Psychosomatic Society); by the way the unhappily married men in the study are just fine. Apparently, when ...
Views: 539 - Fill Up on Mealtime Gratitude - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYesterday, I woke up to a typical morning: a walk on the beach at sunrise, brisk swim in the sparkling ocean, sliced a bowl full of fresh, organic strawberries and bananas. And then the untypical... As I sat down to eat, spoon in hand, I checked the label on the box of strawberries—which I’d ...
Views: 538 - Who's Responsible for this Mess? - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOriginally published on The Huffington Post. "I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast." -- Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning Now there's a thought! A statue of Responsibility - perhaps our new President should consider ...
Views: 537 - Older People Need More Sunshine - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA study from the University of Warwick in England shows that more time in the sun can help older people avoid diabetes and heart attacks (Diabetes Care, July 2009). They evaluated 3,262 people aged 50-70 years old in Beijing and Shanghai, China, and found that 94 percent were low in vitamin D ...
Views: 536(2 votes) - Power in Numbers: Sending Our Collective Light to the World - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLike tiny ripples that merge to form great waves, combined human intent is worth more than the sum of its parts. A single individual can initiate worldwide improvement by emitting conscious frequencies of love, beauty, goodness, and wisdom. A group of people focusing their energy on sending out ...
Views: 536 - What is Vitality and How Do We Build it? - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsBefore I get into a description of what vitality is, and then how we can improve and build this in our lives, I want to pique your interest first: To achieve any goal in your life - weight loss, improved health, lowered blood pressure, ideal cholesterol (ANY-goal) - you must have abundant ...
Views: 536 - 10 Signs You Need A Detox From Wellness: A List - by Submitted on Jul 26, 2009 from Intent.com Authors1. You don't remember the last time you actually read through an entire book that is completely devoid of bullet points or chapter summaries. 2. You have lost the ability to understand advice from friends unless it incorporates at least one nature-themed metaphor. 3. You were already on ...
Views: 535 - Our biggest "toxic asset": ideology - by Submitted on Jul 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe government is trying to solve the problem of toxic assets that have infected America's biggest banks. But apparently it hasn't disinfected its own toxic asset — political ideology. It was ideology that made House Republicans vote against the first bailout in September, a bailout proposed by ...
Views: 535 - Appreciating Everyday - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHere's the thing to know about love, sometimes it feels great, like a sunny day in the Northwest after 26 days of rain, but sometimes it feels like the early stages of flu- unsettled, achy, loss of appetite. Ok, well maybe not as bad as the flu, but love lives can be irritating, like an insect ...
Views: 534 - The Only Single in the Group - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: Within my circle of friends, all but one of us has a boyfriend. When we go out it's all the couples...and me. I love being with everyone but sometimes I feel so alone within the group. It's as if a spotlight is on me screaming "I'm the only one that doesn't have someone." What's the ...
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