A Terrible Thing To Waste

The better you are prepared for getting a good night's sleep, the better your sleep quality will be in the morning. When you trust the false ego to protect you, it's like wearing armor that you thought was made of steel but is actually made of paper. Jesse was a …

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Grounded In Gratitude

The plan you're about to learn is designed to help you do just that. In the first year, we had selected fifty male and fifty female volunteers. There are many reasons why our neck muscles can get tense, but as you read earlier, one of these reasons is adrenaline. Once …

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Paradigm Is Important

This is also a great way to be able to search past notearticles without having to thumb through every article looking for a single idea. Betty: With a small group of good friends that I've known for some time, I don't have that feeling, but in a classroom or with …

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Childhood Fears

We're likely to feel more confident about our appearance, strength and resilience; What service would you be providing to the people you interact with and to the universe? Every generation has suspected it would be the last one -always with good reason. Parents are afraid their kids aren't getting enough …

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The Summer Of 1965

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), 1997; She tried to start it moving, but Felicia planted her feet. It consists of pure observation, only watching the variety of mental, emotional, and physical stimuli without judging or justifying, and over time the dust settles and wakefulness increases. Staying aware, we …

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My Love Language And My Mom

It could be, for example, that a piece of music was playing during a traumatic argument with an ex-partner. She decides to review the PowerPoint presentation for a half hour but first calls her assistant and asks her to scan emails for anything urgent. The music that reaches us from …

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Repair Your Conventionality

Often, people living with dementia are unable to tell us what their basic needs are. Therefore, older women, postmenopausal women, and women of color cannot be certain that their diagnosis, and potential treatments such as prescription drugs, are justified. Backlash against this campaign by some nursing advocates has led to …

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Stand Firm: Resisting The Self-Improvement Craze

After traveling across several time zones, you may experience insomnia, irritability, dehydration, a loss of coordination, and a general lack of energy, collectively known as jet lag, which throws off your regular body clock. Those of us born with rights and freedoms millions only dream of have an even greater …

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To Solve The Mystery

Meditation and mindfulness can make us more compassionate toward others, more resilient when confronted with stressful situations, and less likely to ruminate. What usually happens is that the partners have all of these expectations as to what marriage is going to do. 75 percent of all Americans prayed at least …

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Peace Is Within

A month into eating raw, and leaner than I'd ever been, I felt cold just thinking about snow. It is not possible to be someone's everything all of the time. Whether or not a messy desk really helps inspire creativity, you risk alienating those who don't feel productive in a …

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The Summer Of 1995

I'll be real with you, though: You may need an extreme amount of patience to navigate government networks, but it can be worth it. I know what it's like to be on both ends of this: to be the person who lets a relationship go, and to be the person …

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Make Time For Approval Today

For all but the most disciplined mindfulness practitioners, the relative lack of sense distractions (beeping car horns, billboards, the smells of a food court) can make for a vastly more successful effort at mindfulness. For one, it allows you time to resolve or at least stowaway thoughts that would otherwise …

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Is Adjustment Worth The Effort?

All the worrying we do in the conscious cortex results in symptoms, but the strength of these is usually limited. Like a phone operator who patches a wire over to the wrong line, open up the box to your brain's senses. Mandy's cramps disappeared, she no longer had any hot …

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