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- Living In Wholeness - by A warm breeze blows across an open field. The tall blades of green grass and brightly colored wildflowers that fill this open space bow their heads gingerly, allowing the heated air to rush by. Then as if orchestrated, these precious gems one by one return to their original position, standing ...
Views: 872 - Living Life on Life's Terms - by Hello! My name is Denise Cooney for those of you who do not know me, I am blessed with the gifts that include being a medical intuitive and reader. I write books, teach classes but more importantly I live life.
Part of what we all miss on this great journey in life is that we only live in the ...
Views: 1138 - Living on Purpose: Achieving Balance Between Work And the Rest of Your Life - by Many of us get so caught up in day-to-day pressures that we often find ourselves reacting to external demands rather than designing lives that really fulfill us. While in today’s economic environment we face many stresses in our jobs, it is still possible to create balance between our work and ...
Views: 931 - Living One Day at a Time: The Challenge of Coping with Infertility - by The process of infertility treatment can bring with it a lack of energy, hopelessness, and depression.
This issue of our newsletter will focus on ways to use cognitive restructuring to gain a positive approach.
***Moments are Magic Choices***
Every moment of time offers us a choice. We can ...
Views: 849 - Living Purposefully: Making thoughts and actions count - by What does it mean to live purposefully? Simply put, it means that we live each day as though it may be our last chance to make difference in the lives of others or in our own lives. It means that we decide to make our living meaningful and focus our energies on accomplishing our goals. Living ...
Views: 782 - Living Well with Mitral Valve Prolaspe Syndrome - by Mitral Valve Prolaspe (MVP), is present in 10% of the population. It is said to be the most common cardiac variation and women have it more than men. Of that 10% - 25% have mild to severe symptoms.
The mitral valve and the autonomic nervous system are formed at the same time in the ...
Views: 8509 - Living what you Know: Applying Strategies to your life - by Let's face it. We’ve all been through a powerful seminar or an enlightening personal development group of tapes and we emerge with a lightbulb above our heads and happy thoughts such as ‘what a great concept! I am going to have to use that in my life. Flash forward a couple days or weeks later ...
Views: 923 - Living With Intention - by There's an interesting thing that happens in our lives when we decide on goals. We feel crisper and sharper. Our sense are honed. We begin to measure the world by a different barometer.
Most of us are accustomed to mundane goals and how to measure them: Lose weight; get on a scale. Save for a ...
Views: 772 - Living With Spina Bifida - by I grew up with a birth defect known as spina bifida, a disability that affects my sense of balance, causing me to walk with a limp. Not only does it affect the function of the legs, but it also has an impact on the kidneys, causing them to deteriorate.
The disability has had its ups and downs. ...
Views: 1029 - LIVING WITHIN YOUR BOUNDARIES - by When you are mowing your back lawn, where do you stop? At the boundary line. You don’t usually mow your neighbours back lawn as well. People need to learn boundaries in their own lives too. When not to take on other people’s anger, their problems and responsibilities.
In their book, ...
Views: 1435 - Living Without Regrets - by When you approach my front door you can't help but notice the bright white awning with green lettering that reads "No Regrets Apartments". An energetic, friendly and eccentric woman owns my building, it is the theme by which she lives her life. She has lived in the same neighborhood all her ...
Views: 816 - Living Your Life Mission - by In last week's newsletter
(http://www.whatittakes.com/Archive/Newsletter30to39/newsletter__36.shtml), I asserted that defining and living your life mission can in fact make it easier to attract your ideal relationship. That's because simply living your life mission automatically attracts your ...
Views: 730 - Look At Your Success Picture 1000 Times A Day - by When a person looks at something a thousand times -- OK, maybe not 1000 times a day but at least several times an hour all day -- don’t you think it would be implanted in his brain? Don’t you think he/she would always have that as a reference? And I mean ALWAYS.
What if you wanted to be a ...
Views: 1069 - Look Into My Eyes - by An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing orkicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance forjoy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets ofthe heart. - ...
Views: 1689 - Look Into The Looking Glass - by We are taught from a early age what is good and what is bad. We define ourselves on on actions good and bad. People tend to focus on the bad and that is how they feel This leaves us twisted. We must define for ourself what is good and bad no one has the right to judge oneself, yet they do and we ...
Views: 550 - Looking Back Helps Us Move Forward - by I find the end of a year to be a time of reflection. For me it is important to formally "complete" the year that is closing so that I can set my intentions for the year that is before me.
I like to sit in the quiet of my living room, a candle lit, some quiet music in the background, a pad of ...
Views: 852 - Looking Back.at Your Relationships In The Past - by A few days ago Otto was having a conversation with someone that he couldn't get out of his mind. In this conversation Otto was telling this person about some challenges he was having in his life. This person told him that a wise person once counseled him that when things in your life aren't ...
Views: 906 - Looking For Better Possibilities During Challenging Times - by Almost everyone I've talked with has suffered considerable
financial losses, many people have been laid off (and those that remain have to do the work of 2 or 3 people), business-owners have seen their sales drop off, and most people are scrambling to hang on to what they have without losing ...
Views: 1966 - Looking for Happiness in "All the Wrong Places" - by I was 41 years old, stretched out on a lounge chair by my pool and reflecting on my life. I had achieved all that I thought I needed to be happy.
You see when I was a child, I imagined there were five main things that ensured a happy life: a successful career that helped people, a loving ...
Views: 4906 - Looking For Peace - by The world wants hope and I can only speak from my own experiences.
It's difficult to focus on goals, dreams and life aspirations when, due to current events, it seems that people have permanently lost their fragile grasp on serenity.
If I want to make my life better, I must define what that ...
Views: 797 - Looking into Yourself: the power of Introspection - by Have you ever wondered what part you might have played in a quarrel? In a communication breakdown? In a misunderstanding? Don't feel bad or be surprised if you answered "no".
Why? Why is it easier to say that the problem is the "other guy" and not us? It seems to be inherently easier to say ...
Views: 11372 - Looks Can Be Deceiving! - by Are things black, white or gray, or do our perceptions color them? You see something on a trail in the twilight and immediately think it to be a snake. It is only when you further investigate that you find it is only a harmless piece of rope.
You observe a person wearing outrageous clothing or ...
Views: 3912 - Loosen Up Your Mind With Gratitude - by Did you know that our brains are full of cow paths? Robert Fritz begins his book _The Path of Least Resistance_ by explaining how the streets of Boston were laid out; they do not seem to be the result of any planning.
Long, long ago in Boston, grazing and wandering cows walked the easiest ...
Views: 1247 - LORETTA CLAIBORNE - by Earlier this year, there was a wonderful Movie of the week telling the story of Loretta Claiborne, a young African-American woman who has mild mental retardation. Claiborne, born partially blind, unable to walk and talk until age 4, was raised by a no-nonsense and loving single-parent mother, ...
Views: 2493 - Lose Weight This Weekend - by If you want to lose weight this weekend, where do you start?
One answer is to eat by using all 5 senses. Mindful eating is eating with all 5 senses-even the one that historically gets us in trouble--sight.
You've heard the expression-your eyes are bigger than your stomach.
No problem. ...
Views: 929 - Lose Your Career and Find a New Life - by I hear from many people who feel trapped in a career after fifteen or twenty happy, productive years. It's been a good ride, they say, but now it's time to jump off the train. They want to fulfill a creative dream, recover from burnout or just try something new. The old challenge is now a "been ...
Views: 608 - Losing Weight without Starvation - by When people talk about losing weight, the 1st thing out of their mouths is usually, “I have to go on a diet”. Of course you do….but….that’s not the only thing….and…..you don’t have to diet to the extreme you think. Dieting is only part of the “losing weight” equation. It is so important to look ...
Views: 1604 - Losing your biggest customer - by Q: I was moving to my dream with my own business when -- wham! I lost my largest customer. I'm hurting, both emotionally and financially. What now?
A. I'm convinced that every dream includes a certain amount of nightmare. Owning a business gives you freedom but you have to spend time ...
Views: 1576 - Loss - An Ayurvedic Perspective - by Distraught with grief over the loss of her grandson and only remaining family, a 70-year old Indian lady and devotee of Lord Buddha, sought the audience of Lord Buddha to bring her grandson back to life. The grandson had been young, healthy, and deeply loved by the old woman, yet in one instant ...
Views: 1177 - Love & EQ--The "Geek" we all, eh, love... - by You know one...you might have one working for you... you may even be in love with one...or, maybe you is one...
Affectionately, we call them geeks, nerds or techies. Yet, any of us can fall into this category when we're stressed, spending too much time in our heads and particularly in the left ...
Views: 1117 - Love At Home - by It's Valentine's Day. This day focused on expressions of love can be wonderful. Unexpected flowers arrive. Gold embossed boxes of delicious chocolates are given. Cute stuffed animals proclaiming love are exchanged. Great start! A good beginning. The important question, though, is: "Do you ...
Views: 751 - Love Builds a (Gingerbread) House - by It has been our tradition these last few years to create a gingerbread house for Thanksgiving.
The first year I got a bit carried away and decided to create a gingerbread mansion. It was a couple of stories high and had wings and high pitched roofs. I designed it from scratch and made ...
Views: 1043 - Love Can Be Fierce - by Truth: As you grow spiritually, first you become neutralized and then you bloom sexually.
When you first start to grow spiritually, you seek balance and wholeness. So one of your initial motivations is to balance your inner masculine and feminine. As a woman, you may strengthen you inner ...
Views: 3017 - Love Makes The World Go Round - by I must admit to being a whole half of one of those really soppy, wonderful marriages you see on rose tinted TV.
It never really rings true with me when people say , 'I'm one half of a whole'
One of the wonderful things in our relationship is the fact that we are two 'wholes' that make up a ...
Views: 745 - Love Meets Marketing: Attract Your Ideal Prospect - by I believe the world of business is in a state of transformation. Radical transformation. In my opinion, traditional business practices have operated from a place of fear and a model of competition. Strategies of war are taught to MBA students. Marketing courses focus on identifying target ...
Views: 1009 - Love your Debt - Insanity or the Path to Financial Freedom? - by Have you heard that new age maxim “If you want to be free of something you must first learn to love it”?
That sounded like pure insanity when I first heard of it – It was an Oprah Winfrey show – and I remember her response -“You mean I have to LOVE these hips? (Something like that – and I ...
Views: 1382 - Love: The Killer App - by "Love is the act of intelligently and sensibly sharing your knowledge, networks, and compassion with your business partners."
--Tim Sanders, Chief Solutions Officer, Yahoo
Yahoo senior executive, Tim Sanders, published a book on Valentine's Day titled Love Is the Killer App: How to Win ...
Views: 832 - Loving Our Soul - by Love is the most powerful emotion in existence. With it, one can capture the world. Without it, one can conquer the world. People who made history through their evil deeds have been known to have had a lack of love in their childhood. The truth is that without knowing how to love ourselves, we ...
Views: 1469 - Loving the work that you do - by I must complete this article.
I've been pre-occupied with it for a couple of weeks now and tonight, is the deadline.
I have to make it.
My stress level is rising, and I have become impatient, irritated and angry.
A while ago I chose to add this monthly writing task to my job description.
At ...
Views: 660 - Loving the work that you do - by A while ago I chose to add this monthly writing task to my job description. At that time, it was exciting, challenging and fun. Yet, all of a sudden it became stressful, demanding and burdensome.
We can all relate to similar situations. When this is an occasional occurrence, we can somehow ...
Views: 914 - Lycopene in the News - by Once again the phytonutrient lycopene has found its way in the newspapers the world over as a new study confirms the link between this potent nutrient and various forms of cancer. A study done recently at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, MI found that men who suffered from prostate ...
Views: 1029 - M.B.A. - The 3 Factors of Success - by You will often hear it said that things come in 3’s. My Grandma used to say, “Good news, bad news, and blind mice all come in 3’s.” Well, she was right, and, over the years, I have discovered the 3 most important things needed to be successful.
I’ve found that Motivation, Belief, and Action ...
Views: 1349 - Macular Degeneration: There is Hope - by Today, macular degeneration is the leading cause of irreversible blindness and by the year 2020, an estimated 7.5 million Americans will suffer significant vision loss due to macular degeneration. Although there is no effective treatment yet, natural remedies can go a long way in preventing the ...
Views: 1365 - Magnetic Fields as a Form of Energy Medicine - by Just imagine, reaching into the body and healing an imbalance without touching anything. This is what medical magnetic fields do. This is the essence of energy medicine. These magnetic “waves” are the future medicine. Magnetic field devices becoming available to the public deliver fields to ...
Views: 669 - Magnetic Fields as a Form of Energy Medicine - by Just imagine, reaching into the body and healing an imbalance without touching anything. This is what medical magnetic fields do. This is the essence of energy medicine. These magnetic “waves” are the future medicine. Magnetic field devices becoming available to the public deliver fields to ...
Views: 722 - Magnetic Fields as a Form of Energy Medicine - by Just imagine, reaching into the body and healing an imbalance without touching anything. This is what medical magnetic fields do. This is the essence of energy medicine. These magnetic “waves” are the future medicine. Magnetic field devices becoming available to the public deliver fields to ...
Views: 736 - Magnetic Fields as a Form of Energy Medicine - by Just imagine, reaching into the body and healing an imbalance without touching anything. This is what medical magnetic fields do. This is the essence of energy medicine. These magnetic “waves” are the future medicine. Magnetic field devices becoming available to the public deliver fields to ...
Views: 1028 - MAGNETIC INSOLES For Circulation Problems - by One of the most popular magnetic products are Magnetic Insoles. These are now used by millions of people worldwide for improving circulation problems in the feet and legs. In a Clinical Test done by Michael I. Weintrub. M.D. FACP who is a Clinical Professor of Neurology at New York Medical ...
Views: 2811 - Make 2002 Your Best Year Ever - by How will you make 2002 magical? Start by reviewing this passing year. Honor and celebrate all you have accomplished. Put behind you the things that did not work by looking for blessings in them. Reaffirm the flow of love between you and those important to you.
Below are some questions to help ...
Views: 937 - Make a Place for Your Illness and Put It in Its Place - by "A place for everything, and everything in its place."
That may be a fine idea if you're eyeing the clutter on the living room floor, or a pile or two of old magazines and catalogues collecting dust in a corner. But what has it got to do with coping with illness? Plenty.
Illness is never a ...
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