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Seven Ways & Seven Days To Renew Your Life NEW!
by Carole Lynne


To renew and reinvent our lives, WE NEED A PLAN! Here it is: a seven-day process to work with over and over. This plan incorporates physical, mental and spiritual work. Use the whole seven-day process, or choose any one of the days to work with as you create the life you want.

DAY 1: RE-CHARGE A Day of Commitment

Focus on changing your mind-set: This is the day to change the thought patterns playing in your mind. Get rid of phrases such as "I can't." "Why does this happen to me?" "Things always seem to go wrong." "After three bad things happen, life will change for the better." Insert thoughts such as "I can do it." "There are creative solutions to any problem."

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A New Approach To Igniting And Sustaining Creativity
by Anne Paris, PhD


Mary squirmed in her chair as she continued, “I just don’t know what is wrong with me. Why can’t I just do it? I feel stressed all the time when I’m not writing. ‘I should be writing’, I say to myself, but I don’t. I think, if I just get the laundry done, then I’ll be free to sit down and write the next chapter. But then I don’t. Maybe I need to exercise first, and I go for a run. I get back home, fully intending to sit down at the computer. But I don’t. And all the while I’m feeling bad and stressed about not writing. What is wrong with me? Maybe I’m just lazy. Or maybe unconsciously I don’t really want to write. Or maybe it just means that I’m not really cut out to be a writer. ‘Writers write’, I tell myself.

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Beyond Self-Image
by Christopher R. Edgar

A few years ago, I was fixated on overcoming what I saw as my “negative self-image.” Basically, the problem was that I wanted to do certain things I thought would be enjoyable and fulfilling, but I was afraid of doing them. I wanted to start my own business, make more of an effort to meet people, take up more “extreme” sports, and so forth, but I would feel anxiety when I’d contemplate doing those things, and would find myself holding back.

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Changing the Focal Point of Our Lives to the Present Moment
by Alice Gardner

Something totally unprecedented is happening right nowspiritually, culturally and technologically. Oprah Winfrey has offered her massive media presence to the movement of spiritual awakening in our world and has created a huge ten-week online web-cast classroom with Eckhart Tolle. Together they are teaching Eckhart’s new book, A New Earth, point-by-point, chapter-by-chapter. 

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You Can Do What You Love
by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer
 

You are a special, unique person, and you have a meaningful contribution to make to the world. Every person is born with a purpose. There is a reason you are here; you have a role to play that no one else on the planet could fill. The special contribution you came to make is your life’s work. When you are doing that work, you are following your higher path, and your life will be filled with increasing joy, abundance, and well-being. Finding your life’s work allows you to create abundance and money easily. The job or activities that are meant to be your life’s work involve doing what you love with your time and energy. When you love what you do, you feel alive, happy, and fulfilled. You radiate joy and draw many good things to you. You can make money doing work that you don’t like, but it will take more effort. Not liking what you do with your time and energy diminishes your flow of abundance; loving what you do brings abundance more easily and effortlessly.

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The Path of Unconditional Happiness
by Michael A. Singer

The highest spiritual path is life itself. If you know how to live daily life, it all becomes a liberating experience. But first you have to approach life properly, or it can be very confusing. To begin with, you have to realize that you really only have one choice in this life, and it's not about your career, whom you want to marry, or whether you want to seek God. People tend to burden themselves with so many choices. But, in the end, you can throw it all away and just make one basic, underlying decision: Do you want to be happy, or do you not want to be happy? It's really that simple. Once you make that choice, your path through life becomes totally clear.

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Take the Path of Self-Construction
by Marlene Buffa

stru-, struct-, -structure, -struction, -structive (Latin: build, construct, place together, arrange).

So much judgment transfers via the media and our social interaction into our subconscious minds. We hear things such as someone is "on a path of self-destruction" or acts as "his own worst enemy." Rarely do we hear accolades of emotional rebirth or those rising from adversity or overcoming obstacles. We need to turn our attention and focus to different routes of growth, different methods of self-evolution and I invite you to consider the use of words both actual and coined for the exploration of this phenomenon we call spiritual growth.

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Why Being Authentic is So Difficult
by Peter G. Vajda, Ph.D, C.P.C. 

Why do we find ourselves struggling so often to be who we really are? Why is it so challenging to show up authentically? Why do we wear masks, and assume personalities of actors that hide our True and Real Self? What brings us to be fake and phony so much of the time?  The kicker is that everyone is born authentic. What happens is that, beginning with childhood and moving through adolescence and into adulthood, we spend countless minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years separating from our innate, authentic, natural and spontaneous self. And, along the road, we become confused. “Who am I, really?” becomes the operative question. 

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Love it or Lose -- Passions and the Quest for Meaning
by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery and Mark Thompson

Much is said today about the importance of loving what you do, but most people simply don't buy it. Sure, it would be nice to do what you love, but as a practical matter, most people don't feel they can afford such a luxury. For many, doing something that really matters to them would be a sentimental fantasy based on wishful thinking.

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Overcoming Worry: The Calming Power of Exercise
by Bob Livingstone LCSW

There are a lot of us that spend too much time worrying. According to The National Institute on Mental Health, approximately 40 million American adults ages 18 and older, or about 18.1 percent of people in this age group in a given year, have an anxiety disorder. Anxiety prevents us from being happy, can cause physical ailments, and keeps us from taking healthy risks that may improve the quality of our lives.

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The Magic of Appreciation
by Lynn Grabhorn

There are only three states of being we run around in all day long. If we could be even a little more aware of which one we're wearing during each moment of the day, we'd have a big leg up to changing our vibrations. 

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Authenticity
by Brené Brown, Ph.D., L.M.S.W.

What is authenticity? We may not know how to define it, but we certainly know it when we see it. In fact, when we are in the presence of an authentic person, many of us can even feel it in our bones. We gravitate toward people whom we perceive as honest, real and sincere. We love women who radiate warmth and that "down to earth" feeling. We gather around the people who can "tell it like it is" and laugh at themselves in the process.

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Life Organizing: A Completely New Way to Flow with Time by Jennifer Louden

Do you feel a pull to be present, to match your pace to the fluid and complex world ours has become? If so, the more traditional approaches to managing your life and structuring your days can hog-tie you, forcing you to relinquish the skills most needed in today’s world – like intuition, emotional intelligence, creativity, and big-picture thinking.

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The Eight Choices to Reducing Fear and Finding Contentment as You Age
by Dr. Stephen Ruppenthal 


We live in a world that is obsessed with looking beautiful and young, and maintaining perfect health well into our older years. But youth is short. As we gradually age, panic can set in as the increasingly inescapable loss of our physical beauty fills us with fear. Once we pass our early thirties, most of us aren't as attractive as we may have once been and our vitality begins to slip away. We realize how much less frequently people notice us and smile at us on the streets—and when they do look, it isn’t with admiration or appreciation but with something else.  As the inevitable truth sets in and we are faced with this loss of youth, all of us a profound fear that we will be left behind.

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Dare To (Not) Compare: One Secret To Aligning With Your Highest Potential
by Jeffrey Brownstein

I was talking with a friend today. We were having this nice, empowering conversation, sharing ideas - and then we started analyzing another mutual acquaintance (already sound familiar?). Nothing terrible, but my friend astutely pointed out when our focus started slipping more toward the other person's shortcomings, and suggested we shift the discussion back to our own affairs. I, of course, being a (sometimes defensive!) Law of Attraction coach tried to validate the merits of our digression, saying there was no malice in our words - that we were just using the other person's behavior as a vehicle for learning. Thankfully, my friend wasn't completely buying in.

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Find Your Center and Reach Your Goals for 2007
by Stephen Ruppenthal

The New Year is a time to wipe the slate clean. With heartfelt zeal, we can earnestly make a new start. As the great Zen master Suzuki-roshi used to say, we contact what is called the beginner’s mind, a real hope for keeping new resolutions about ourselves. Of course it’s great to post such resolutions in your office or on the refrigerator, keeping them right before you as you strive for personal change. But if you really want to stop being late or to cease yelling at your husband,  your willpower will flow more constantly if you find your inner center and practice the new pattern of behavior from your heart. Since change is so hard, particularly in areas where we have shown considerable weakness, here are five helpful ways to find our center within ourselves and hold fast to the new behavior we want in the New Year: 

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Making Resolutions That Stick
by M.J. Ryan

"This year, I’m going to stop worrying so much."

"I will get in shape, once and for all."

"I’ll stop spending beyond my means."

"I’ll get along better with my family."

"I’ll start that business I’ve always dreamed about."

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Ask Psychic Medium Laura Scott (Issue #18)
by Laura Scott

 

Hi Laura,

I was born to a teenage mother and heroine addicted father who later abandoned us. My mother was so shamed that she was pregnant with me that she refused to name me. I was told that a nun/nurse working in the Labor and delivery room named me.

My life has been a ton of struggles since day one, but I still feel so optimistic and blessed. I have some many talents and understandings that always shock and amaze me, but I still feel scattered with it, and feeling like I am grasping at straws in living my purpose. But I do believe before I leave earth, I am going to affect many people in a positive way. Question, am I correct about the belief, and which direction should I take from here on end?

Many Blessings, Keesha M.

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Perfectionism: The Dangerous Trap
by Allie Ochs

Just when I have something figured out, along comes another how-to-article telling me how to be or do something better or even change my entire life. No matter where I turn, I am constantly reminded that I am not good enough in more ways than one. I am not smart enough, not rich enough, not slim enough, not efficient enough, not pretty enough, not powerful enough, not “with it” enough and probably “out of it” altogether. 

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9 Guidelines for Spiritual Coaching: A Foundation for True and Lasting Transformation
by Peter Vajda, Ph.D.

Spirituality coaching is more than creating goals and holding someone accountable. Spirituality coaching takes into account the whole person, that is, mind, body and spirit. Spirituality coaching focuses on one's essential well being that can only be accessed from one's Inner Core, one's essence. 

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Are You Living An Authentic Life? Questions To Ask About Your Vocation And Your Life!
by Craig Nathanson-The Vocational Coach™

Have you ever asked yourself if you are living the life you were meant to live? Have you ever asked yourself, as you pondered your life, is this all there is? These are great questions to ask when you reach forty and beyond.

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10 Ways to Remove Stress From Your Life
by Natasha Munson

1. Speak and honor your truth. One of the biggest problems, especially for women, is knowing when and how to say no. Many women are born with the need to please and deal with societal pressures to be superwoman. We must learn to say no when we mean no and yes when we truly mean yes. Our truth is a gift that we must honor. We all know when we are not honoring our truth because we feel it in our spirit. Live your life so that everything is a reflection of your truth.

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Glorious Living! Guidelines For Mastering The Art Of Contentment
by Steve Morris

We live in a consumer driven society. Studies show consumerism is up and it is not likely it will slow. Bigger, better, faster. We aim to buy the latest model plasma TV, the fastest designer car, the biggest house, latest phone, computer or MP3 player and almost instantly the model we have strived so hard to possess gets superceded and the process repeats itself. 

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Finding Fulfillment at Midlife: The Second Chance Career
by Diane Randall

For more than twenty-years, Carla’s primary focus was working her way up the corporate ladder in the Human Resources department of a large publicly traded company. Day after day she worked hard to meet the demands of her superiors and colleagues, until one morning she woke up with a sickened, sinking feeling in her stomach. 

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Break Through Self-Doubt and Fear
by Simma Lieberman

Self-doubt and fear interfere with our ability to achieve or set goals. Self-doubt and fear are the voices in our head telling us, "You'll never succeed, so why try?" and "Who do you think you are?" Self-doubt and fear are also what make us listen to those voices and decide to give up before we get started. 

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Wheel Of Life Cycles
by Kay Snow-Davis

Would you like a "second chance" at life? The life you have lived since you were born influences everything you do today. There are many experiences that got recorded into your cellular memory, your unconsciousness, and they continue to silently play out in your daily life undetected and undirected by your conscious mind until you put in a new program. Wheel of Life Cycles helps fill in some of the missing pieces of your childhood by giving you a conscious review, through the eyes of your soul, allowing you to recognize the "life movie" you have been starring in up to now. 

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Why Did This Happen to Me Again?
by Janette Freeman

Do you wonder why your efforts at personal transformation don’t seem to last? 

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The Invisible Realm And The Art Of Manifestation
by Alex Nguyen

Walk into any bookstore. Chances are you’ll most likely find a large section of shelves dedicated to self-help literature. While most books deal with techniques and methods on how to deal with “problems” on a physical level, few deal with inner techniques of manifestation as a way to improve one’s life or attain goals. 

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Keep Your Cool with This Stress Reduction Tool
by Tracy Togliatti

It isn’t easy keeping your sense of peace when everyone and everything around you is going crazy. Short of completely isolating yourself from the whole world, within a perfectly peaceful environment, what do you do? This article is going to explore quite a few tools that will help you formulate your very own Stress Reduction Plan. This plan will help you keep your cool even when those around you are losing theirs, and quite possibly blaming it on you!

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Top Ten Benefits of Play
by Marianne St. Clair

Play is extremely important for humans from birth to death. Play is not meant to be just for children. It is a form of release and connection that can tap the creativity and can allow you the chance to connect with your inner child and the inner child of others. Play is a state of mind, but it is also a state of body, emotion, and spirit. Yes, it is something you do (playing games, swinging, playing "tag", playing with dolls), but it is also something you watch others do, and gain pleasure from simply watching. It is often described as a time when we feel most alive, yet it is something we take for granted and may forget to do. It can be entirely positive, or can be dramatic (such as acting out a thrilling or suspenseful activity). Play can be used in many ways to not only stimulate creativity but as a way to transform negative emotions. We are hardwired as adults to engage in play, and it is crucial to our vitality to spend time with play each day.

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Saying "No" When It's Not That Simple
by Sabrina Schleicher, Ph.D.

As a psychologist and life coach, I often find myself discussing the importance of saying "no" with busy, stressed-out professionals. Everyone likes the idea of saying "no" more often, at least in theory. But, when it comes to actually doing it, I hear a lot of "Yes, buts." In other words, "Yes, I could say no to that, but then who would do it?" or "Yes, I could say no to that, but then my boss would be upset with me and I might not get a promotion." Why is it so hard to say "no" to others? 

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Moving Beyond the Fear of Success
by Karen Johnson

Success has been a motivator since the beginning and man has been on an ongoing quest ever since. Most of us want to be successful. Do you? So what’s stopping you? Why is one person successful and another not? We all want IT but somehow for some of us it keeps eluding our grasp. Some long for a better present but spend their time living only in the future…existing mainly on the promise of tomorrow.

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Ten Roadblocks to Creative Success
by Jan Marie Dore

To stay competitive in the world of work today, you must use your imagination and creativity. These innate gifts have the potential to give us an edge in business and in life, yet we are often blocked and fail to accomplish the projects we intend to. 

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Soul Healing for Changing Times
by Katharina Wehrli


Western philosophy and modern religions embrace an image of the Source as perfect, while human beings are seen as separate from this Source. On the leading edge of soul healing, human nature and this cultural conditioning require closer examination. Many people are now moving rapidly toward spiritual perception and consciousness expansion. Light and love are manifesting more easily, while an array of preconceived notions and false beliefs are in need of purging.

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Living A More Magical Life
by Dr. Trish Whynot


We are all on a spiritual journey. Some will consciously pursue it, others may be in denial of it, and some may use it as an excuse to appear superior by judging others as inferior or pathetic. The course we have laid out for ourselves and then forgotten at birth is shown to us with every experience we encounter. Our spiritual journey is our journey toward coming to know the powerful loving being we truly are.

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4 Steps to Creating Any Result You Want in Life
by Lisa Diane

You can have absolutely anything you want in life. You simply need to understand HOW to produce desired results.

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Consulting Your Soul 
by Dr. Wayne Dyer

Recently I approached a traffic light where a man stood in shabby clothes with a three-legged dog by his side. As I waited for the light to change I looked at this scene with compassion and felt an urge to contribute something. The sign he was carrying indicated that he was homeless. The people in my car commented that he was a strong young man, there were plenty of employment opportunities, and why should anyone give to people who are capable of working. They indicated a kind of mild contempt for this man soliciting funds whom they felt "should" be working. My thoughts were on him and the fact that he cared for and fed this crippled dog. I rolled down the window and gave him several dollars for which he expressed enormous gratitude.

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Expectations vs. Reality: A New Perspective
by Laura Scott

One of the most common themes that I see my fellow path walkers struggling with these days is expectations vs. reality. You know, as in having your expectations being completely out of wack with what you are actually living? While it’s a year-round task to keep the expectation demons under control, it’s an even greater challenge as the holiday season approaches.

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We've Been Living in a Dream World
by Jean-Claude Koven


"Most people are other people," Oscar Wilde once remarked. "Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." As he so wryly observed, the vast majority of us are not who we've been pretending to be, and the lives we've been living until now are molded according to rules and values that are not our own. Most of humanity is stuck in someone else's discarded chewing gum and has yet to break free.

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Building Healthy Self-Esteem
by Karen Ann Dahlman

Our family of origin teaches us our self-esteem. It is based upon an evaluation of ourselves we form about our personal competence and self-worth. The bad news: low self-esteem becomes a habitual, self-defeating way of reacting in the world. You forgo a level of personal responsibility and follow a path of passivity. Events happen to you instead of you making events happen. Successes are discounted and failures are noticed. Anything “good” that happens is viewed as luck, chance, fortitude or a fluke! When mishaps occur, you identity your core being with the failures instead of viewing the failures as temporary events. On the other hand, the good news is since self esteem is a learned behavior, you can unlearn, relearn and change it.

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To Our Politicians From a Spiritual Working Stiff 
by Dr. Wayne Dyer

I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat. Frankly, I still have difficulty with the labels, conservative and liberal. Those who know me have never been able to pigeonhole me. I relate to Kierkegaard's observation: "Once you label me, you negate me." In truth, I am a working stiff.

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The Lessons of "Living Treasures"
by Marilyn Ferguson

Japanese society has an admirable habit of honoring its outstanding contributors as if they were national resources. Individuals who have developed their abilities to a high level or who have given generously of themselves are designated "living treasures."

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Finding Balance - In A Stressful World!
by Karen Ann Dahlman

Is it possible to live a balanced life?

Living a balanced life may conjure up images of balanced scales, being a “superhuman”, feeling even-keeled and in control. We perceive it to mean symmetrical, composed, stable and poised.  The collective belief is that if you equally attend to all facets of your life, and if you maintain your composure while doing so, you will find the nirvana of balance within your life. This is a great myth, yet a perceived road map to many for finding balance. 

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“Financial” Matters
by Dr. Trish Whynot

Money issues are encountered by many on their journey toward self-discovery. Be it financial lack or difficulty enjoying the money you have, money struggles are most often not the “real” issue. Money is an energy and a financial issue is a messenger … it is an indicator … it is a symptom. Financial lack can indicate a depleted state—an imbalance with your giving and receiving. It manifests as more money going out than is coming in. Financial lack can also be indicating issues with value, self-worth or image. Financial struggles can be presenting a message that you have placed too much weight on money. If you place your safety and security on how much money you have in the bank, you have given it too much weight and spending money could be frightening, even if you have an abundance of it. These are but a few messages that your financial matters could be attempting to bring you.

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Grow a Balanced, Empowered Self
by Charlene M. Proctor, Ph.D.


Generating woman-power to overcome inevitable everyday problems, or perhaps deeper issues of self-love, acceptance, or forgiveness, is about knowing the spirit-power within at an intimate level. The word empowerment means power put into action. When you reach the point of empowerment, you operate from an unfathomable sense of spiritual balance, a profound knowingness that you are composed of the All and are able to use it in the real world. It's impossible to generate self-love or put any spiritual principle to work until you fully embrace all aspects of who you are. Loving self is about loving spirit. Your power to effect change and cope is your inherent spirit-power put into action.

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A New Conversation About Dreams: Who’s Directing Your Life? 
by Marcia Wieder

While aspects of you encourage, “Go for your dreams,” simultaneously other parts threaten, “Don’t you dare.” A cast of characters lives inside of you and at different times you may receive conflicting or contradictory messages. If you are want to be happy, successful, and fulfilled, consider putting your “dreamer” in the director’s chair.

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How to Stop Being Judgmental
by Carole Tyler

"If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion, peace." -- Eckert Tolle

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Get Drama and Trauma Out of Your Karma
by Keith Varnum

You finally make a friend, or get a hot date, with someone you're attracted to, then blow it by acting aloof or not being yourself.

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Discovering What You Really Want
by Shifra Hendrie


YOU CAN NEVER GET ENOUGH OF WHAT YOU DON’T REALLY WANT 

Life keeps getting faster and faster. More and more, we spend our time trying to make things happen, fitting more into each minute than ever before. But somehow, we are neither satisfied nor fulfilled. Why? Because the things we’re running after so fervently are in most cases not the things we really want. 

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Joy Is the Juice
by Keith Varnum

“If you work for money, you are no better than a slave. If you do anything you don’t enjoy in life, you are no better than a slave!”

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Finding Your Divine Purpose
by Edwene Gaines

At one time or another you've probably asked yourself, "What is the purpose of my life? What is its meaning? Why am I here on Earth, and what am I supposed to be doing?" Chances are, you work hard, whether you take care of a household or have a job outside of the home. Your days are filled with seemingly endless chores and tasks like getting the oil changed in your car and going to the grocery store. Perhaps sometimes, when you get tired or stressed out, life can seem like just one long and meaningless "to do" list with a bland retirement and a gold-plated watch at the end of it.

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How To Turn Every Movie You Watch Into A Spiritual Experience
by Bob Kish

There are two things you can do to transform every movie you watch into an opportunity for spiritual growth and learning. What are they?

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Relationship Coaching: Is It Everything It's Cracked Up To Be?
by Allie Ochs

Personal or business coaching has helped thousands change their lives and achieve their goals. Yet, for the skeptics it still is a fuzzy concept with little recognition for its benefits. Think of Celine Dion, who with a voice coach claimed world fame. Her coach unleashed what is known today as one of the most mesmerizing voices in the world. 

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Can People Really Change?  
by Shifra Hendrie

MOST PEOPLE NEVER REALLY CHANGE

Sad, but true.

Some people never even try.

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Parenting as a Spiritual Path
by Gloria Deckro 


The step into parenthood is an initiation in the truest sense of the word — a huge leap into the unknown. We suddenly find ourselves with 24-hour a day responsibility for another human being who is totally dependent on us. As the task unfolds we discover that we are called upon to be teacher, provider, disciplinarian, healer, spiritual guide and friend. Our children test us, they call on us to face unhealed baggage from our own childhood, and they inspire us to dig deep for resources that we never knew we had. Ultimately our mission is to support and guide them to the point where they can leave us and move on. As Kahil Gibran says to parents in his book The Prophet, "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself…You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth." 

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The Healing Power of Laughter
by Margaret McCathie

Laughter is healthy, needed even by the wealthy, and is definitely wise. 

It is well known that a good laugh does you good, because every time you laugh you exercise seventeen different muscles in your face, it increases oxygen levels in the body and releases endorphins (feel good hormones) around your body. It brings a sense of freshness into your home or workplace, costs nothing and is one of the best stress relievers known. In medical terms it is called “eustress” because it has the opposite effects to stress.

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Do You Really Want to Know the Truth?
by Jean-Claude Koven 


Back in 1992, Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise co-starred in a movie entitled A Few Good Men. The high point of the film, in my view, was a classic, heated exchange between their characters, during which Kaffee (the military attorney played by Cruise) says: “I want the truth,” and Col. Jessup (Nicholson) responds: “You can’t handle the truth.”

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Healing the Fear of Success and Self Sabotage
by Darlene Montgomery

As an author, coach and publicist I have had the opportunity of working with hundreds if not thousands of individuals in the success process, both one on one and in large workshops. One of the most interesting and least understood conditions I’ve seen that holds individuals back from the realization of their dream is the need to self-sabotage and the fear of success.

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Increase Your Standards, Improve Your Life: 7 Steps To Better Health, Finances, Relationships And Mental Well-being!
by Kimberly Fulcher

The quality of your life is directly related to your standards. A standard is a personal rule or expectation about the level of excellence you require in something, and when you raise your standards you change your life.

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The Fog of Transition
by Mary Ann Bailey


Much of my coaching is spent helping people in transition make decisions regarding the next phase of their lives. Some of them are looking for their next professional path. Some are trying to figure out relationship issues, and others are wondering if they really could achieve a long-held dream. 

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Who Do You Think You Are?
by Laura Scott

"Who do you think you are?!" I was asked this provocative question recently, in an somewhat hostile way. People often lash out with words towards what they don't understand or feel threatened by. It's primal, more of a defense mechanism really. An attempted act at leveling a perceived playing field.

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The 3 Pillars of Personal Power: Passion, Clarity, and Self-Love
by Keith Varnum

What’s missing? I don’t get it! I chant and pray. I meditate, exercise and do yoga every day. I go to a godzillion workshops. Why don’t I feel better? Why don’t I have the love, money and health I want? Where is the direct connection with Spirit I crave?

Sound familiar? If so, help is on the way.

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Reduce Stress and Strengthen Your Immune System: 10 Natural Ways to Relax and Rejuvenate
by Monique N. Gilbert


Stress seems to have become a constant factor in today's fast-paced society.  If left unchecked, it can wreak havoc upon our health.  Learning how to effectively manage stress can mean the difference between being robust and full of life, or becoming susceptible to illness and disease.  Stress can weaken the immune system and accelerate the aging process.  The ability to relax and rejuvenate promotes wellness, vitality and longevity.
 
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Gratitude: The Secret Behind Creativity
by Nancy Marmolejo 

When you think of being more creative, what comes to mind? Most people think in terms of artistic skills, but creativity manifests itself in a number of ways beyond the obvious. Picture creativity like a jet stream that flows all around us: when we step up to the flow and dip our hands in, we easily grab wonderful ideas, refreshed insights and innovative actions.  At times, things get in our way and we lose our contact with the creative flow. We consider ourselves in a rut, not creative, unproductive, dull..  There is a simple practice that magically ignites the creative juices and brings joy to all parts of life. It takes practice, commitment, and an open mind.

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On Developing Resiliency 
by Asoka Selvarajah


Life is tough.

Of that, there is no doubt. Buddhism actually teaches that the essence of the unenlightened life IS suffering. This is the truth of it. Nobody has it easy. Neither pauper nor king, neither bacterium nor whale - all suffer to a greater or lesser extent, and all are subject to that ultimate suffering we call Death. Life feeds on life. People, it would seem, often feed on each other.

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Can't You See I'm Working?
by C. J. Hayden

For many working parents, telecommuting or a home business may seem like the answer to your prayers.  You want to have more time with your kids and greater flexibility, so you take the leap, install a second phone line, and set up a computer in the dining room.
 
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Creating Change: 2005 Resolutions
by Charles Lightwalker

Why do so many New Year's resolutions crash and burn? Because of our aversion to change. Creatures of habit, we cling to routine. The "same old, same old" is comforting, even if it's bad for us. Business as usual is far less scary than making a leap into the unknown, a new way of being or doing things. Change is so hard that the current trend in corporate America is "change management." When an employee faces major change, his productivity sharply declines, he misses work, becoming less effective and the company suffers. Every Fortune 500 company pumps hundreds of thousands of dollars per year into experts who help their employees deal with losing a loved one, accepting a management merger or even quitting smoking. 

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The Best Christmas Gift You Can Give Yourself or Anyone Else:  Simplicity
by Susan Dunn

 

“Many people are choosing to simplify their lives, eliminating the number of things coming into their homes.” – Judy Harrison, Ph.D.

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Life Beyond The River: Kabbalistic   Guidance for Our Times 
by Rabbi Michael Ozair

While there continues to be enough violence and insanity in our post election world right now to warrant the urgent need for any shift in consciousness that we can gather, there are no hints of this shift in consciousness in the newspapers or political front. 

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5 Simple Strategies for Keeping Your Life Stuck 
by Mary Ann Bailey


One of the most common statements I hear when I talk with potential clients is, "I feel stuck." People find themselves feeling stuck in different ways. They may be in a relationship that no longer is working, but they don't know how to leave. They may have a dream of starting their own business, but aren't exactly sure where to begin. Or they may just want to incorporate more fun in their lives, but aren't sure how to make that happen. 

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Recreating Yourself 
by Skye Thomas

So it's time for a change. You've taken that hard look in the mirror and you've decided that who you are is not who you want to be. Or perhaps you're standing at a fork in the road and where you'd like to go requires that you make some changes. Maybe you're just really bored with your life as you've been in that same old rut for so long that you just want to scream if you spend another day doing the same amazingly boring things all over again. The reasons for change are as varied as the people making the decision to do so. The only thing you have to remember is that the change must come from you, not from someone else. And it can't be a gift to someone else, it won't work. Ultimately, recreating ourselves is a very personal choice and a very personal decision that others really can't help us with.

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Rediscover Your Childhood: Possibilities 
by Phil Keoghan with Warren Berger

When it comes to childish possibilities, there are almost too many to choose from. If you're looking for some little starters -- things that are easy to do and will begin to get you in the right frame of mind -- flying a kite is an old standby. The same can be said of board games, particularly old favorites from childhood like Scrabble and Monopoly. Pictionary is great because it forces you to draw, often with hilarious results. To boost the "experience quotient" on game playing, take the games outdoors to a park and arrange an all-day high-stakes tournament; put kids in charge as referees. These are just warmups to more elaborate possibilities such as: 

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Break Through the Barrier Between You and True Peace 
by Guy Finley

If we wish to find peace we must understand something of its life. Here are a few such facts: Peace is the natural radiation of a living Now; it is one with that Light whose life is the eternal present itself, even as the emanations of light and warmth are one with the sun from which they radiate. If our intuition can perceive that the above ideas are based in truth, then we should be naturally moved to ask the  following question: If this peace we long for is inherent in this perfectly present moment we call the "Now," what is it that keeps us from knowing the fulfillment of its promise within us? Let's look.

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Ten Interpretations To A Happier Life
by Khushi


Stress affects all of us and can show its manifestations in various forms. We cannot avoid it altogether, but what we can do is follow some of these hints to reduce stress from our lives. Here is a list of ten quotations and how we can interpret these to experience a happier and stress free tomorrow.

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The Mid-Life Challenge: Make A Plan To Re-ignite Vocational Passion  
by Craig Nathanson

Nobody will stop you in the hallway at work to ask if your career provides meaning and personal fulfillment. Recognizing that something’s missing in your vocational life and taking the initiative to change must come from within.
 
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How to Get What You Want Every Time!
by Nelson D. Berry

You know that YOU are the creator of all that occurs in all of your life experience, right?

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Our Worst Enemy
by Michael Lee

Who do you consider as your worst enemy? The criminals roaming the dark streets? Your boss who's killing you mentally and emotionally with stress and harsh words? The people in office who are engaging in graft and corruption, instead of helping those in need?

 

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Illuminating The Workplace
by Rev. Omar Khayyam Yeldell

For every calling there is a purpose. Many times the purpose is befuddled by our own limitations and prejudices. A very thin line of perception, separates what is indeed objectively fair on one side, and having our own way. But once we consciously accept a role as Light worker, as healer to be more exact, the ever-loving Universal energies respond accordingly...
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Tools to Effectively Improve Your Child's Behavior: Creating Effective Household Rules
by Mark Strobel, LCSW


Though not many kids would admit that they enjoy following rules, they all appreciate the structure that rules provide. Rules provide structure that helps children feel safe and secure. In addition, rules provide the expectations needed to help them understand and practice acceptable behaviors. 

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11 Questions To Kickstart Your Dream
by Keith Varnum

What's your dream? Want to give your vision a jumpstart? Write down your goals and use these questions to speed up delivery of your dream.

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For The Love Of Mommy
by Jennifer Ottolino

For most of you being a mother is one of the most wonderful and rewarding experiences that you will have in your life. It can also be a time when you feel lost and out of touch with who you are outside of being a “mommy”. Maintaining an identity outside of your children is vitally important, not just for you, but for your family as well...

 

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Puzzled About Your Life? Put the Pieces Together By Uncovering Your Belief Systems
by Nancy Canning

There's a wonderful bumper sticker that explains life the way I see it: The universe rearranges itself to accommodate your picture of reality. I have been working with belief systems for the past 20 years and I'm grateful to have a bumper sticker that explains my life work! 

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The Hour Of Power
by Asoka Selvarajah, Ph.D

Aristotle said that if you gave him a lever big enough, he could move the world. The same principle of leverage applies in your life. In this case, we are talking about the use of a small amount of time each day to revolutionize the results you get from the rest of your day and your life.

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4 Ways to Find Answers to Life's Questions Using Intuition
by Lynn Robinson

My favorite definition of intuition came from a 15-year-old girl I know who said, "Intuition is where, like, you know something, but like, where did it come from?" I believe that intuition is a reliable inner resource for wisdom to guide our lives. Fortunately, everyone has it, and we are capable of developing it for practical use in everyday life as well as for discovering and achieving life goals. Learn to listen to your intuition and learn from it by tuning in to these four cues.

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Overcome Worry For A Healthier You
by Kathy Gates

Norman Vincent Peale said, “You are not what you think you are; but what you think, you are”.  If we follow this philosophy, then most of us are certifiable worry machines.

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The Art of Balancing an Unequal Life
by Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE

Over the past years, two books appeared repeatedly on the best seller list: Peter Lynch's "Beating the Street" and Thomas Moore's "Care of the Soul."  This juxtaposition captures the dilemma facing all of us in the business world.  How does one swim with the sharks, squeeze the margins of an angst-filled financial world, and still lead a life of wholeness in spirit, mind and body?

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Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self
by Sarah Ban Breathnach

Did you ever see the film National Velvet? Based on the heartwarming book written by Enid Bangoid, the film starred a teenage Elizabeth Taylor in her first leading role as Velvet Brown, a young English girl determined to transform an ordinary horse she'd won in a raffle into a racehorse...

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Get a Life!
by Nisandeh Neta

I work with people. After years of hiding behind computer screens and management room doors, I realized that I fear closeness to other people. Through contact comes the risk of disappointment, hurt, or abandonment. This made me realize that I'm actually afraid to be alive.

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Failure Is: Learning, Misspelled
by Laura Burkey

Failure Is: Learning, Misspelled. (In other words, "There is no such thing as failure")

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Want A Successful Life? Follow Your Intuition
by Lynn A. Robinson, Author Of Compass Of The Soul and Divine Intuition

Think of someone you know who leads a successful life. They exude an aura of calm and inner peace, yet you can almost see their “spirit.”  They crackle with infectious energy. They may have millions or they may not, but their success is obvious in their “presence.”  They enjoy life and they love to share that joy with others...

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Making A Difference, It Is Up To You!
by Nisandeh Neta  

"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Those powerful words are part of a speech given by Martin Luther King in August 1963. Those are the words of a man who was persecuted and then murdered for preaching non-violent civil disobedience whilst fighting for black peoples civil rights in the United States during the turbulent early sixties.

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Uncovering Soul in the Healthcare Setting
by Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE

The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported that “soul is in”. In a headline calling it “the buzzword of the millennium” a front-page story reported that some 322 citations for the word appear in the current edition of Books in Print. That’s nearly four times the number in 1990. 

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Find a Quiet Corner: A Simple Guide to Self-Peace  
Introduction
by Nancy O'Hara

I used to wish my life away. I lived my life thinking ahead to the next thing—the next day, when I had a date with so-and-so and wouldn't that be nice; the next job, because I hated my current one so much; the next year, when I was planning to take that great vacation which held the promise of changing my life; the next prince charming, who would rescue me from my life because the last one was really a frog and I was meant to be saved. 

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The Illustrated Discovery Journal: Creating a Visual Autobiography of Your Authentic Self
Authentic Style 
by Sarah Ban Breathnach

One of the truths I learned on my Simple Abundance journey is that you cannot begin the search for authenticity, you cannot embark on a spiritual path within, and not see it reflected on the outside. We're talking about style, fitness, and beauty. Girl talk. Sister stuff. Soul speak. Chick concerns. The eternal question: How do I look?

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The Thinker's Way: Create the Life You Want
by John Chaffee

You are an artist, creating your life portrait, and your paints and brushstrokes are the choices you make each day. How do you feel about the portrait you have created so far? Have you defined yourself as the person you always wanted to be, or are you a "work in progress"? Are you achieving your full potential as a human being, "actively exercising your soul's powers"—the ancient Greek definition of happiness (eudaemonia)? 

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Life On The Emotional Streets: The Feral Human
by Linda Marks

In April, one of my greatest mentors died. He had been my teacher and friend for seven years. His name was Angelo and he entered my life as a feral cat...

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Making Peace With Money
by Linda Marks, Steve Fahrer and Barry Goldwater

Do you know anyone that is totally comfortable with their relationship with money? Talking about money is a social taboo. And we often avoid looking at our financial issues when we are by ourselves. Money is our culture's most loaded concept. Many people are more comfortable talking about their sex lives than their financial issues. Wealthy, poor or making ends meet, rarely is anyone satisfied with their financial position. 

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From Fats And Grease To Inner Peace 
by Karen Anne Bentley 

At first glance, it may seem like a stretch to link inner peace and weight loss; but there’s a direct connection between your ability to change or manage your body weight and your peaceful state of mind...

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Getting Started With The
Alexander Technique The Hard Way 

by Jamee Culbertson, Dan Arsenault
and David Arsenault

The irony is not lost on me. When I got the phone call from my sister-in-law Laurie that my brother David had been in a bad car accident, I was just getting ready for an Alexander Technique lesson with my teacher, Jamee Culbertson. It was the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday, the start of a four-day weekend. I’m sure I was not an apt pupil at that lesson, but, on my way out, Jamee offered to see David as soon as he was well enough.

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I'd Rather Laugh: How to Be Happy Even When Life Has Other Plans for You 
You're Probably Wondering Why I Invited You Here
by Linda Richman

I'm not supposed to be writing this book.

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Let Go into the Mystery 
by M. Dennis Paul, Ph.D.


What we do not know about the mystery of life could challenge us for a lifetime and maybe then some. Many of us go through life wondering what our purpose is and just how we fit into the grand scheme of existence. For many of us, the answers are, seemingly, not easily found. We struggle through our days with doubts, fears, and frustrations. Life, we think, is more a hell than a heaven.

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The Soul At Work
by Jodie Foster

This is a journey of love. It is the path of the sacred rose. The journey is the destination.  It is the excitement and the adventure and the experience that fill us with joy now. It is our collective leap that is forthcoming. Forerunners exist as light-bearers to show us the way. It is their chosen path in this existence. This noble task has incredible value. For without these forerunners, where would the collective be?

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The Loss of Leisure in a Culture of Overwork
by Linda Marks

[An important message about balancing our work and leisure time. If you work a lot of hours, this article was written for you. ~ OfSpirit.com]

Having grown up in the 50's and 60's, I got the message from our culture that as we approached the 21st century, we could look forward to more leisure time and a better Iifestyle as the miracle of technology made work easier and shorter. The dull and mundane aspects of work would be replaced by machines, and the humans who formerly did the tasks could then be freed up to do more important and meaningful things with their time both in their personal lives and at work. 

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My Most Important Truths 
by Eeta Sachon

After reading hundreds of New Age and self-help books, going to countless workshops and lectures, and practicing with my new tools on a regular basis, I've decided to make a collection of the ideas and tools that have been the most profound for me.

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The Sounds Of Service
by Jodie Foster

Do you ever feel like some days you've just had it?  One more customer asking you for something, your spouse being unavailable, your kids yelling and demanding attention or the dog wants to be fed, when does it end?  Some days it seems more like we are in service rather than feeling like we are being of service. Being in service feels like servitude. How often do you feel like the rug has been pulled out from under you and the world is spinning and you can't tell which way is up?  Is your to-do list longer than you can handle and most of it isn't even for you? Maybe it's time to look at your relationship to service.

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Everyday Enlightenment: The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth 
Opening to Life
by Dan Millman

Aaron and Charlotte, brother and sister, are born into a two-parent, stable, middle-class household. Their parents are educated, hardworking, caring, have no alcohol problems, abusive habits, or guilty secrets. Aaron grows up successful--earns good grades, wins a junior chess championship, plays sports, and later earns a good income to support a family of his own. Charlotte does moderately well in school but chooses unsavory friends, starts using heroin and other drugs, turns to theft and prostitution to support her habit, which leads to jail time and the hell of withdrawal.

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Making a Life, Making a Living™: 
Reclaiming Your Purpose and Passion in Business and in Life 
by Mark Albion

A Personal Odyssey

The rainy morning of June 5, 1986, was the high point of my thirty-five-year-old life—or so it seemed at the time. I was full of anticipation, and no downpour could dampen my spirits. That afternoon I was scheduled to pick up a gleaming new black Jaguar, my first drop-dead trophy purchase. It said, "Okay, world, look at me. On top! In heaven!"

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Listen With Your Heart: Seeking the Sacred in Romantic Love
by Eileen Flanagan

We were browsing through Borders bookstore on a Saturday night as Jayne updated Nancy on the status of her new relationship. Wandering past the self-help section, a title caught my eye that I just couldn't resist: Searching for Courtship: The Smart Woman's Guide to Finding a Good Husband. The three of us, all heterosexual women in our early thirties, formed a giddy huddle in the aisle and began thumbing through the pages.

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Set Your Voice Free
by Roger Love and Donna Frazier

The very last thing I thought I'd ever need was a singing coach. After all, I've never been able to carry a tune. But several years ago, a string of events led me to Roger Love, and I will be forever grateful for the changes he's made in my voice.

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Creating a Life of Joy:
A Meditative Guide 
Preparing for Joy
by Salle Merrill Redfield

We are all capable of living lives characterized by great joy. Within each of us is an amazing human spirit that is strong enough to overcome pain and disappointment. And no matter what our current situation happens to be, or what beliefs we may currently harbor about ourselves, we can tap into that inner strength and wisdom and move forward to create more joy.

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The Good Girl's Guide to Negotiating: How to Get What You Want at the Bargaining Table
by Leslie Whitaker and Elizabeth Austin

I wrote a New York Times bestseller.
I got paid $12,400 for it.
Don't let this happen to you.

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Bolstering Beliefs 
by Louise Morganti Kaelin 

At some time in your life you have probably used affirmations or other positive self-talk to change an attitude, opinion or behavior. The more you have done this, the more you know that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

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Journal to the Self: 22 Paths to Personal Growth
THE 79¢ THERAPIST
by Kathleen Adams

For nearly 30 years I have had the same therapist. This therapist is available to me 24 hours a day and hasn't gone on vacation in almost three decades. I have called upon my therapist at three in the morning, on my wedding day, on my lunch break, on a cold and lonely Christmas, on a Bora Bora beach, and in the dentist's reception room.

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Working In The Subtle Realm Of Thought
by Asoka Selvarajah, Ph.D 

The spiritual realm is the world of Causes. The manifest material world, that is so familiar to us through our senses, is the world of Effects. Thought always precedes manifestation in the material world. All that is manifest in the material world, whether in nature or man-made, was first a thought; a grand design. 

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Manifesting: Create Your Own Reality 
by Nisandeh Neta (based on text by Richard Mark-Coates)

I've experimented with conscious manifesting techniques for 13 years now. For 5 years I have taught others the tools that I myself have learned in a course called 'Manifesting Results'. Some people come to the course with a preconception that I'm going to teach them how to manifest. The bad news is that I'm not going to do that.

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Doing the Work That You Love 
by Vered (Tanmayo) Neta

As a child, I remember my father, sitting in his room, surrounded by his books, writing. His work was his love. Later in his life, when most people have retired, he was up early in the morning, busy with his work. It gave him a meaning to life and kept him young.

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Acknowledgement: A Tool For Transformation  
by Nisandeh Neta

One Monday afternoon, whilst receiving a massage, I was laying on my back, listening to my masseuse. Acutely aware, despite her young age she stated: "Maybe you should look at what you have instead of what you don't have yet." I opened one eye, carefully, "what point am I missing here?" She continued: "you live in this beautiful house, in a quiet part of a magnificent city.

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Use the Law of Attraction to Build Your Practice
by Michael Losier

Bring to mind a time in your life when you can remember 'deciding' that you wanted something—a trip, a relationship, a job or even a change in your life. Now, can you remember how things started to appear in your life that were in alignment to what it was you said you wanted—perhaps you attracted a phone call, the perfect contact, a magazine or newspaper article?

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Between The Lines: Nine Principles To 
Live By

by Orel Hershiser and Robert Wolgemuth

Cars and trucks zoomed past me as I stood on the shoulder of the I–75 entrance ramp, less than a mile from the entrance to BG (Bowling Green State University). The wind whipped through my hair and tugged at my jacket. I squinted from the dust that kicked up in my face. Standing there with my thumb in the air, hoping for a ride, I had never felt this hopeless. Never.

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Characteristics To Help Find The Work Of Your Dreams
by Gloria Dunn

"Why am I not happy?" "Why is life a struggle?" "Why doesn't work, work?" We probe our soul with questions like these, but we will never hear the answers if we don't take time off in our hectic days to listen. Unless we slow down and take a deep breath, we cannot hear the subtle responses that come from within.

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7 Lies That Prevent Powerful Results
by Kathy Gates

Everyone has something in their life that they would like to change. Nobody's life circumstances and environment are perfect. But what do you tend to tell yourself about these circumstances? Often it's easy to fix blame on others...

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Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type
by Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger

It's important to find the right job. Despite the universal fantasies of winning the lottery, buying expensive cars and homes, and doing fascinating work with interesting people in exotic places, the sober reality is that most of us have to work, hard, for a long time. If you spend forty to fifty years—not an unlikely scenario—working at jobs you'd rather not be doing, you are in truth throwing away a large part of your life. This is unnecessary and sad, especially since a career you can love is within your reach.

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A Baked Potato Can Change Your Life
by Michael Pollock

It was 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and I was ready for lunch. A powerful craving for a hot, baked potato and a bowl of chili arose within me. Mmmmm. I could practically taste the mouth-watering, sour cream and chive flavoring of that soft, warm, baked potato. I had to have it.

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Maintaining Spiritual Consciousness
by Blanca Greenberg

Have you ever awaken feeling wonderfully inspired, totally rejuvenated and ready  to take on the world—when suddenly—an unexpected comment, an offbeat remark or someone's negative mood completely changes your demeanor?

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Lessons From The Animals
by Asoka Selvarajah, Ph.D.

According to religion and modern science, animals can be taken completely at face value. In essence, the modern notion is that they are little more than robots made of flesh, enslaved to their programming and instincts. Hence, is it any wonder that we are given dominion over them in the book of Genesis?

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Grassophobia
by David Leonhardt a.k.a. The Happy Guy

Each day my daughter, pushing one year old now, amazes me with the lessons she teaches me.  Yes, here I go again learning lessons from someone too young to speak.  (Hmm … maybe that's a lesson, too.)

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What's Hard To Find, But Always With You?
by Richard Blumenthal 

To create a wonderful life, you first need to make a choice: will you use your thinking to help yourself to the happy, fulfilling life you wish for, or will you allow the often haphazard, random ideas we gather over time to non-consciously run your life for you? What you think leads directly to feelings and actions...

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Instant Relaxation Anytime, Anywhere
by Peter Murphy

If there was a way of relaxing quickly and easily in any situation would you want to know what it is?

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Are You Living Your Career Dreams
by Charlene Rashkow

Inherent within the human spirit is the desire for fulfillment, a longing to carry out our creative aspirations by reaching new heights of accomplishment. Yet often the yearning can be suppressed by fear.  Perhaps we aren’t feeling good enough, smart enough or able enough to pursue and fulfill our dreams.

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The Ten Things I Learned About Life from Mister Rogers
by Susan Dunn

1. You can never go down, never go down, never go down the drain.

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Goal Manifestation Development
by Shaun Ajani

Goal manifestation, by the way of goal setting, itself is very simple.

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Handling Your Fears
by Alina Ruigrok

Fear is a feeling that too often runs our lives. Whether it is fear of commitment, rejection, failure, death, flying, or any other phobia, it tends to keep us from living our lives to the fullest. Fear can be handled rationally and can be controlled if you are willing to work on it and are motivated enough in controlling it, instead of it controlling you.

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Purpose: What's The Purpose?
by Bob Olson, OfSpirit.com Editor


Webster’s Dictionary says that purpose is “the reason for which something exists.” 

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How to Be A Good Guest
by Susan Dunn

Whether its a holiday or any other time of year, it pays to know how to be a good guest.

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Change - What's It Really About?
by Joanne Victoria

As you sit in your office wondering what other successful business owners are doing differently than you, have you ever asked yourself if you should change your methods?

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Begin Your Dream Project TODAY!
by Asoka Selvarajah, Ph.D

Have you ever dreamed of writing a book? Or starting your own business? Or enrolling in an Art course? Or whatever?..... 

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What Is A Life Purpose?
by Michelle Casto, M.Ed.


What is a Life Purpose? Who am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose in life? These are some of the oldest and most important questions posed by human beings throughout history. They become the most profound when an individual such as yourself begins to think and reflect on them...

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Conscious Love
by Trish Whynot, D.C.Ed.

What better time to reflect on how consciously you love than on the holiday that celebrates it. Many of us continue to love the way we learned to as children by default. Our parents were our role models for love and loving...

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Eight Simple Anger Management Tips
by David Leonhardt a.k.a. The Happy Guy

"The other night I ate at a real family restaurant. Every table had an argument going."
 
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Your Everyday Life Is Your Spiritual Life
by Marcia Sacks

Most of us are not monks or nuns, living a life of quiet contemplation. We are 'householders.' That means we are out in the world with our families, our work, and our communities. Therefore our spiritual path must incorporate all this.

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Power Your Affirmations With Feeling
by Linda Stewart

How are you feeling about your life? Are you affirming abundance, but believe you have to struggle to make ends meet? Do you affirm ease, but expect obstacles in your path? Do you want appreciation, but anticipate criticism? When you state an affirmation, it's the feeling behind it that counts.

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The Half-Finished Painting
(not just for artists)
by Robert Najemy

There is a spiritual truth which claims that everything which has occurred and which is occurring at this moment was and is perfect. The future we do not know. But once the future has become the present, then that too is perfect.

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The Tug of War: Withdrawing And Pushing In Relationships 
by Susie and Otto Collins

There’s a dynamic that occurs in almost every relationship that causes conflict and disconnection. This conflict and disconnection is created by a “tug of war” of pushing and withdrawing. In this article, we’ll offer some ways to help you let go of the pushing and withdrawing “dance” so that you can create a deeper love and connection.
 
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Surrendering To Yourself: You Are Your Own Soul Mate
by Iris Krasnow

Friends come and go, loved ones die, jobs shift, children leave home. The only person you can count on to go the distance is you. So, we all must develop immense soul power and self-love, so that when our worlds come unraveled, our selves will remain intact and strong. Because when all else fails, we still have ourselves, and selves that are grounded in truth and self-acceptance are spiritually indestructible.

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The Power of Personal Discipline
by Dr. Donald Schnell

How can you use the power of personal discipline to improve the quality of your life today?  What areas need your attention right now?

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How To Work With Your Inner Critic
by Phil Bilzon

"Sometimes I lay awake at nights and ask, 'Where did I go wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.”’ 
~ Charlie Brown, in Peanuts.

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Loads Of Goals But No Place To Go 
by Asoka Selvarajah, Ph.D
 

All the personal growth literature tells us we should have goals to work on, affirmations to repeat, and that we should be constantly visualizing our future each day. All well and good. So...

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Some Things Can Be Fixed; Others Must Heal
by Thom Rutledge

Are you a fixer? When someone tells you a problem they are having, do you immediately feel the need to offer advice? Is it difficult for you to just listen to someone who is in distress, to just be there for them without knowing precisely what to say or do? Are you uncomfortable with anything being in limbo? Are you addicted to certainties? Does your self-esteem depend on your ability to make things right for other people? If you're answering yes to some of these questions, you are probably a fixer.

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Get To Know Yourself
by Kimberly Fulcher

Eight Baby Steps To Knowing Your Self

Who are you?  What do you stand for?  What do you believe in?  What engages your passion?  What brings tears of gratitude and joy to your eyes?  Do you know, or have you lost yourself?  In my work as a professional coach, I’ve helped many people rediscover themselves.  The first step on the road to rediscovery involves spending time with you, which is why I liken the process to dating yourself.

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To Find Your Life’s Work, Go On A Treasure Hunt
by Michelle L. Casto

How many times have you thought to yourself: I want to make a career change, but I can’t because…? There are many ways to create meaning in your career, from changing your path entirely, changing environments, or changing how you feel about the work that you do.
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Declare Independence From Fear
by Thom Rutledge

The belief that we can think and act in such a way that fear will be banished from our lives is a dangerous fairy tale, a fiction that contaminates personal responsibility and leads to reckless reactivity or paralysis. As long as we cling to the need to send our fears into exile, as long as we insist that the goal is to be fear-free, as long we believe that there is such a thing as complete reassurance, we are in trouble.

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Release And Let Go
by Rev. Melissa Leath

All of us become angry and upset during the day. Certain situations almost lend themselves to hostility, resentment and emotional upset. Holding anger, fear and hatred can be a very dangerous thing to do.

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The Fairness Of Office Politics: Integrity And Political Motivation!
by Edward Toupin

I hear many complaints daily about the "unfairness" of politics in corporate America. Employees say that their managers "lie" or issue "personal attacks" against them. Indeed, based on the pure ideals that we are taught as a child, this might appear to be the case...
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Clean Slate
by Alan Seale


My morning meditations of late have been focused on an exercise I created for the first evening of the Soul Mission * Life Vision four-day intensive retreat: Clean Slate. Each morning Spirit seems to be reminding me to clear away everything within my thoughts and create a mental “clean slate.” 

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Stress, Anxiety, And Strong Black Women 
by Dr. Angela Neal-Barnett

Whether it is discrimination, prejudice, or another stressor, Black women appear to handle stress somewhat differently from men or white women. Men are more likely to do battle with whoever or whatever is causing stress, or they simply remove themselves from the situation. White women seem more likely to find stress relief by devoting time to their children or seeking support and friendship from others...

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Tracking Our Truth; Reconciling Perceptions
by Meredith Young-Sowers, D.Div.

We're always tracking our truth, asking “vision questions” without realizing that they come from our inner Vision Keeper, who pushes us to pay attention to where we’re going in life. Our answers to these vision questions help us understand what we love and where we find meaning in our lives.

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Choose Peace And Happiness
by Susyn Reeve

What if I told you that you can experience peace and happiness? That you can actually be peace and happiness? Without drugs, without spending money, without getting a particular degree, or job or balance in your bank account? Without losing weight or having your face lifted or your tummy tucked? Well, it's true. It is as simple as choosing peace and happiness and as challenging as having faith in the power of your choice and the awareness and discipline to act on it. 

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Your True Talent Will Set You Free
by Dave Czach

When you get home from work, do you feel enriched, fulfilled and empowered? Or does it seem like you just finished an uphill battle on a treadmill? Imagine being paid to do what you love. You could return home feeling as though time stood still. Being "in the zone" virtually all day. Coming home invigorated knowing you consistently live a natural high.

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Boxing it Up for Christmas
by Nancy Fenn

If there’s one thing your introverted child would like for Christmas more than anything else in the whole world, it’s a room with a door that closes.

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My Career Is In The Doldrums… Do I Need A Coach Or A Therapist?
by Nina Ham

Is Monday the worst day of your week? Can you hardly remember when you enjoyed going to work? Do friends ask why you seem so down? Maybe this has been going on awhile, and you’re realizing it’s time to do something...
 
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The Five Rules of Happiness
by Burt Goldman

Are You Happy When You’re Happy?

You know when you’re happy, and certainly no one has to tell you when you’re sad. But what is it that makes a person happy?

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The Art Of Receiving
by Sharon Warren


Receiving: verb (r-sving)
To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have capacity for; to be able to take in. To allow or to accept.

 
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Tips Guaranteed To Illuminate Your '04
by Trish Whynot


This article is intended to illuminate your experiences, expand your perspectives and bring up some questions as to what is really going on in your life. Do not accept what we (my higher self and I) say merely because we said it, accept what makes sense to you and tuck the other possibilities away for future contemplation.

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Ten Steps To A New Life In The New Year
by Lynn A. Robinson

"If only." Two of the most regret-laden words in the English language. "If only" I'd taken that job. "If only" I hadn't taken that trip. And right now, "if only" becomes especially poignant because the end of another year marks the beginning of yet another round of regrets that you still can't seem to get it right.

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Free Will To The Rescue
by Dave Czach

Today's society and your private world are the results of free will. We have arrived here today through intention, ignorance or abuse. Some people understand and use free will daily. Some people completely deny it. And other people simply mock it and complain it "doesn't work." 

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Learning How To Fall ... You Have To Learn To Fall Before You Can Ride With Confidence!
by Edward B. Toupin

About a month ago, I was hit by a car while riding my motorcycle.  The car side-swiped me and took off.  My bike bounced off the car, shot out from under me, and I rolled under the car...

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