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Positivity Quest: The Spirals in Relating

Positivity Quest: The Spirals in Relating

by Wendy Strgar

“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend of mine gave me this quote framed more than twenty years ago [...]

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 Dreams of Fall

Dreams of Fall

by Kimberly Wilson

Fall is right around the corner. I can feel it. Smell it. Taste it. Fall is truly my favorite time of the year.
Yes, I know it is still a month away, but I’m feeling the anticipation already. Maybe it’s my love for tall boots, hats, apple cider, falling leaves, and lots of layers. [...]

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Fear Less

Fear Less

by Marc Lesser

A mind that has any form of fear cannot, obviously, have the quality of love, sympathy, tenderness. Fear is the destructive energy in man.  – J. Krishnamurti
Fear can be a useful ally. It can focus us, keep us safe — even alive — at times. Fear of illness or injury can motivate us [...]

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Choose Love Not Stress!

Choose Love Not Stress!

by Deepak Chopra

The body at peace is stronger than the body at war. When you can free yourself of the random, uncontrollable stress that is always present, your body will start to be at peace.
Modern medicine has already discovered that love increases the human immune response. An experimenter who showed random subjects a movie of [...]

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What Your Sleep Position Says About You

What Your Sleep Position Says About You

by Melissa Breyer

Starfish? Soldier? Yearner? How do you sleep? I fall firmly into the Fetus category of sleeping positions–curled up on my side–which, according to researchers at the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service, suggests that I am a tough cookie with a sensitive heart. (And yes, it’s true…underneath it all I am a big mush.)
Sleep [...]

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The Pleasure Principle

The Pleasure Principle

by Lisa Turner

Our cat Stella has it all figured out. She wakes up in the morning and stretches languidly. She ambles slowly downstairs to her food bowl, mews out her demands to be fed, eats languidly. When we rub her tummy, she purrs with full-throated delight. She is clearly a creature built for pleasure.
As I [...]

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How to Seek Forgiveness

How to Seek Forgiveness

by Deepak Chopra

The great Vedic scholar Eknath Easwawan tells a poignant story. At the end of a lifetime, a person’s soul goes to a plane of existence where each life is reviewed. The soul enters a theater in which a movie of the recent life is playing. The soul begins watching the movie but often [...]

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Your Emotional Debt

Your Emotional Debt

by Deepak Chopra

On the surface, everyday life has become much more comfortable than ever before. Yet people still lead lives of quiet desperation. The source of this desperation is repression, a sense that you cannot be what you want to be, cannot feel what you want to feel, cannot do what you want to do.
A [...]

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How Do You See The World? The Practice of Right View

How Do You See The World? The Practice of Right View

by Marc Lesser

Right view is an ancient practice, first prescribed 2,500 years ago by the historical Buddha. It is the practice of going beyond ideas to the heart of things — to the heart of your life and to the heart of your work. It is paying attention to what is most important at this [...]

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Be Flexible and Live a Long Life

Be Flexible and Live a Long Life

by Deepak Chopra

The essence of flexibility is the willingness to let go. Surveys of centenarians (people who have lived at least 100 years) often ask, “What do you believe are the reasons that account for your long and healthy life? Is it your diet? Have you been exercising your whole life? Have you avoided tobacco? [...]

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