As you take a moment to ponder these words, notice what feelings, thoughts and/or body sensations might be occurring for you. What can you learn from this experience?
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Mindful Minute, 1jan
As you take a moment to ponder these words, notice what feelings, thoughts and/or body sensations might be occurring for you. What can you learn from this experience?
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Ten Healing Thoughts for the New Year
As I think about the New Year approaching, ten tips for healthy thinking and living come to mind. Please feel free to add your own to this list in the comments! And may merriment and delight – and peace in the New Year – be your companions and your experience. Create inner peace with acceptance, compassion and forgiveness Treat obstacles as opportunities
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Try a Little Tenderness
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These are your greatest treasures. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world." ~ Lao-Tzu Bound for home. After greeting my seating companion for the flight, I turned on my computer to catch up on work. Upon opening "Documents" - there it was: my digital diary -
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Seize the Season! 10 Tips for Surviving the Holiday Festivities
"Variety, moderation and awareness are the keys..." The key to a guilt-free holiday is to set realistic goals with awareness. Implement these 10 survival tips to navigate the holidays - and enjoy plenty of happiness and cheer along the way. And remember, if you do overindulge, allow guilt feelings to pass on by. Guilt only weakens your resolve to maintain
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Five Tips to Help You Embrace Extreme Change
GUEST POST BY ANONYMOUS “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance” ~Alan Watts My obsession at an early age became to follow my heart—a life’s search for meaning, adventure, and enlightenment. This search has been remarkable, a journey that has brought me to fascinating places for extended stays (Japan,
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Protecting Eating Disorders Recovery During the Holiday Season
Author: Kenneth L. Weiner, M.D., FAED, CEDS The holiday season can be a particularly challenging time of year for individuals struggling with eating disorders. The food-centric festivities surrounding most holidays can feel overwhelming to patients, regardless of their stage in the recovery process. In response to the anxiety that can accompany heightened
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Book Review: The Book of Awakening
As the holidays are here once again, I am thinking of gratitude and of the many people who inspire me and, through their love and their work in the world, encourage me to live my life from a place of deep appreciation and thankfulness. One of these people is Mark Nepo, poet, philosopher, author and speaker. He is also a man who has been through two cancers
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If I had wings…
GUEST POST BY MICHAEL LOCKMAN, WEDESIGN, INC. I had my wings tuned up recently. First time ever. In fact, it was only this year that I realized I had wings. We all do. I began to suspect this was the case as I found myself yearning for just such a mechanism of escape. I wanted to fly far away. Life was not unfolding according to my script and I was at a
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Too Much to Do
“We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it's all about.” ~Joseph Campbell After the long road to recovery following a near-fatal car accident, I thought I would never again feel frustrated or overwhelmed. After all, I had my life - so
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