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Manifest your dreams into reality with a vision board , a simple yet powerful visualization tool that activates the universal law of attraction. An illustrated, personally created collage of images, pictures and affirmations you’ve torn from various magazines, a vision board brings clarity to your dreams and desires. When you surround yourself with images of who you want to become, what you want to have, where you want to live, or where you want to vacation, your life will change to match these images.
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Whether you are an advanced student or a new beginner, the practice of yoga offers itself to you each moment as a deeply transformative experience. I invite you to welcome each moment in your life as an asana ~ an opportunity to embrace transformation~ by breathing deeply, sitting or standing in a dignified manner, and dwelling in acceptance, gratitude and love. This “present moment pose”, as I have come to name it, welcomes each moment as a gift and an opportunity to bring excellence, fluidity, grace and tranquility to your yoga practice and to your life.
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1. The essence of your being is love.
2. Health is inner peace – balance, forgiveness and letting go of fear.
3. The present moment is the only one we have – use it for giving and loving.
4. Learn to let go of the past and the future.
5. Learn to love yourself by forgiving and not judging.
6. Become “love-finders” rather than “fault-finders,”
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There is so much to be grateful for, isn’t there? Yet how many of us limit what we appreciate to only “good” things? What about the parts of life we push aside, ignore or fail to accept? Is it possible to find gratitude in the darker moments, in the less than preferred situations…or people? This year, try something new: finding gratitude in unexpected places and receiving gifts that masquerade as problems and obstacles.
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Behavioral Medicine, along with recent published studies, strongly suggests thought patterns and emotions may play a powerful role in wellness as well as in disease. What we believe about our bodies may be more than important for healing. How we live our lives, what we think and what we do all influence our health in dramatic ways.
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“…don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth, without complicated explanation, so everyone will understand the passage: we have opened you.”
~Rumi
Having been obese during a phase of my life, I know the emotional pain of feeling large and unacceptable. Our culture has indoctrinated most of us, particularly women, to believe thinness
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This poem moves me because it speaks to that moment, that day, when we know – it is time – it is our time – to change – to transform. It speaks to that moment when we make the shift of living from heart and walking through an unseen wall into what our future is calling us to do.
“The whole house began to tremble”
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“Meditation is the most valuable activity you can do to change your health and well being.”
~Office of Alternative Medicine of the U.S. Government
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction is moment to moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is the art of conscious living. It is the decision and the act of paying attention to one’s life, on purpose, as it unfolds. There is no ultimate
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In our rapidly changing society, where technology, pace and expectations have risen to an alarming level, the very thought of calm ~of tranquility and serenity ~ is refreshing to body and soul. Yet the achievement of such a state seems more and more difficult, if not downright impossible. When can we find the time? How do we reduce stress? What does slowing down really mean?
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“There are some people who eat an orange but don’t really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past and future.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Do you find yourself eating mindlessly and then regretting it? Would you enjoy a more mindful, intentional relationship with food choices and eating behavior?
The key to changing the way you eat is not more willpower or discipline
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I had just been to visit my mother, sister and family in Spokane and was looking back on the visit, as it was my first voyage following an accident in December that nearly took my life. It had taken some work to be in my seat on the airplane: security details, loud alarms in response to the metal holding much of my body together and
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“You already have the precious mixture that will make you well, use it.
~Rumi
As a nation we spend over 40 billion dollars a year on weight loss programs. Yet over 65% of us are overweight if not obese. Information on fat grams, fitness and calories is abundant. If this is what we truly need “more information” wouldn’t we all be thin, fit
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Walking along the beach at sunset, under a brilliant sky of melon and pink, the gentle breeze cools my sun-drenched skin. As I walk along the surf, I hear the melodious sound of the doves and smell the scent of the lovely Plumeria from the nearby trees. I am experiencing my favorite indulgence: walking along the surf foam on the white sand beach as the
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More than 7 million Americans struggle with Binge Eating Disorder, according to a recent Harvard-based study, yet little is known about this condition. While the seriousness of the symptoms and the prediction for outcome are important to understand, the ‘bright side’ of Binge Eating Disorder is rarely revealed and seldom offered as a resource for the individual. First, let’s take a quick look at Binge
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Geneen Roth’s book Women, Food and God, is a loving guide, a companion in print, for anyone on the journey to a life well lived, regardless of how long or difficult the path has been. By facing our fears and welcoming obstacles as opportunities, we grow, we heal, and we reconnect with the aliveness and the beauty of who we truly are.
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“No change too small; no vision too large; no moment too soon.”
~Lorrie Jones
If our brains are plastic, if our genes are influenced by our thoughts, beliefs, and environment, if such behaviors as compassion and kindness reduce stress and boost our immune systems, then the notion that we are directly involved in our own evolution begins to look less
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Healing asks for a daily commitment ~ sometimes an hourly, even a moment to moment commitment ~ to a way of being, of abiding with oneself and life as it is. The ancient medicine of yoga offers itself as such a practice. The effectiveness of yoga is its simplicity ~ developing balance, calm and wholeness. Rather than being overcome by anxiety, yoga instills an ability to listen to the body and to focus on ‘being’ rather than ‘doing’.
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If a disorder were to be viewed as an art form, then mastery of this art form is a reasonable goal and an achievement to explore and understand. What might happen if a person chose to “master” healing and walked the path of true masters? What is this path? Do we recognize it and begin the journey? Or do we – as the poet Antonio Machado says – “make the path by walking”?
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The subject is compassion – to be more specific: being compassionate. The question is: are we able to train ourselves, through the practice of meditation, to become more compassionate? Dr. Richard Davidson, professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) and world renowned expert on the effects of meditation on the brain, says “Yes!”
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Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are And listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing, the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you’d like to be, Not the saint you’re striving to become, But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you
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