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  • 01-Feb-2012

    Monitor Yourself

    Zapping Computer Stress

    These days, many of us are affected by computer stress. In addition to the assault on your electromagnetic...

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  • 18-Jan-2012

    Business as Unusual

    Blending Purpose with Profit

    Commerce is an exchange of energy, trading your activity for a product or service through the medium of...

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  • 04-Jan-2012

    Assess to Progress

    The Art of Acknowledgement

    To acknowledge is to “admit to be real or true; recognize the existence, truth or fact of.” How often do you...

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  • 08-Dec-2011

    Use Mental Floss

    Lighten Your Load

    You’re watching the scale, keeping off the extra pounds by eating right and exercising. Have you...

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  • 24-Nov-2011

    Manifest Destiny

    The Laws of Attraction

    If economic woes are weighing you down, consider the power of positive thinking. There is a sound...

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  • 13-Nov-2011

    Un-Know It All

    Letting Go of Certainty

    Certainty is a huge part of keeping your world safe and organized. But trying to control every minute...

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  • 30-Oct-2011

    What Luck!

    Creating Good Fortune

    It’s been said that “luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

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  • 16-Oct-2011

    Road Not Taken

    Let Your Path Diverge

    Poet Robert Frost said taking the road less traveled “made all the difference.” Taking the same old habitual path may...

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  • 02-Oct-2011

    Wise Up

    Access Your Inner Guide

    Many spiritual paths exalt the development of wisdom as a quality far greater than book knowledge.

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  • 18-Sep-2011

    Shift Down a Gear

    The Art of Patience

    You’re standing in line at the bank, the grocery store, or on hold on the phone—your feet start to tap...

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  • 01-Sep-2011

    On the Other Hand

    Non-Dominant Journaling

    “Dear Diary”...even with online blogs and social networking, you might still keep a handwritten journal or diary. Journaling helps...

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  • 18-Aug-2011

    Car-Ma Yoga

    Wash Your Mental Windshield

    As you travel life’s road, dealing with stress, emotional challenges, anger and fear can be like bugs or mud hitting your “mental” windshield.

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  • 04-Aug-2011

    A Mindful Manner

    Your Values on Display

    Manners are more than knowing which fork to use at a fancy restaurant or how to address a VIP. Manners are a way of behaving...

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  • 24-Jul-2011

    Cinema Verite

    Your Life as a Movie

    You’ve heard this before…you create your own reality. Whatever is happening to you is not an accident...

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  • 14-Jul-2011

    No Cowardly Lion

    Exercising Courage

    Aristotle taught that courage is the first of human virtues, because it makes the other virtues possible.

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  • 30-Jun-2011

    Color Your World

    Green Waves of Light

    Color yourself green—not with envy but with the healing properties of color therapy. Colors are a form of visible light known to...

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  • 19-Jun-2011

    Make it a Habit

    40 Days to Change

    Good or bad, you are your habits. If you’re in the groove of exercising every day, you’ll increase your chances of...

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  • 05-Jun-2011

    True Good-Byes

    The Art of Letting Go

    It is said that life is nothing but practicing for death—the ultimate letting go. Every day presents an opportunity...

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  • 22-May-2011

    Who Ya Gonna Call?

    Form A Circle of Support

    Need a piece of heavy furniture moved? Advice on your taxes? A massage after an intense workout?

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  • 05-May-2011

    Pants on Fire

    Anatomy of a Lie

    We’ve all done it—whether it’s the little “white” ones or the “whoppers” – lied, that is. Telling lies has lost lives, saved them and even shifted the course of history (remember Watergate?).

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  • 21-Apr-2011

    Dare to Suck

    Learn from Mistakes

    If you never try anything, you will never accomplish anything. Failure is a vital part of success, whether you’re...

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  • 07-Apr-2011

    Love Thy Enemy

    Dissolve the Anger

    Love your enemy? Dealing with difficult people can be a blessing in disguise. How? For one thing, it can help you to realize...

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  • 13-Mar-2011

    Zero It Out

    Quiet the Monkey Mind

    Sometimes nothing is…Something! In physics, the law is “Nature abhors a vacuum.” An empty space will be filled.

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  • 27-Feb-2011

    Roots and Wings

    Guiding Children with Love

    In nature, as well as child-rearing, the fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree. So how can you ensure that your child...

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  • 20-Feb-2011

    The Winner Is

    Award Your Life

    In this season of film awards, it might be fun to remember that we are all “starring” in the movie of our own lives.

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  • 06-Feb-2011

    Live Long and Prosper

    Overcoming Your Heredity

    Many current studies confirm that you do not have to suffer from the same illnesses as your parents and grandparents.

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  • 27-Jan-2011

    First Steps to Love

    Learning to Forgive

    The practice of forgiveness—letting go of past hurts and pain—is promoted by all spiritual paths. It sounds simple, just forgive...

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  • 16-Jan-2011

    Play by the Numbers

    Awaken to Life's Cycles

    We all mark progress in life by how many cycles we take around the sun. Birthdays, anniversaries and those key points—

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  • 26-Dec-2010

    Ties that Heal

    Socializing for Good

    A hundred years ago, the majority of our interactions were social. Trends are changing and social isolation is...

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  • 19-Dec-2010

    A Winter's Tale

    Time for Reflection

    The coldest of the seasons offers a time for reflection. As you watch the outer world change, consider how Mother Nature’s “winter tale”...

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  • 05-Dec-2010

    Pedal Power

    Enjoy Life's Ride

    You hear from many paths and teachers to give up the struggle for control. It seems there is always something to be fighting or...

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  • 21-Nov-2010

    Mind Matters

    Free Your Thoughts

    Years ago, motivational teacher Zig Zigler opened his seminars with the statement, “Give yourself a checkup from the neck up...

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  • 07-Nov-2010

    Back to the Future

    Catch a Child's Vision

    When you look at your daily routine, the usual stresses add up to a single question: What’s it all for?

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  • 24-Oct-2010

    The Marvel of Mantra

    Sprinkle on Some Sound

    The word mantra literally translates to “mind-wave.” Repeating a mantra is an age-old technology of controlling. . .

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  • 10-Oct-2010

    Surf Life's Seasons

    Cultivate Non-Attachment

    Mother Nature reminds us that everything has its season. The ocean waves illustrate the ebb and flow of life.

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  • 26-Sep-2010

    Open Your Mind

    Get Ready for Serendipity

    In a fairy tale, three Sri Lankan princes travel the Middle East making amazing discoveries. The Arabic word for their homeland – Serendip –

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  • 12-Sep-2010

    Goal Mining

    Make Your Dreams Reality

    When you set a goal, you project your thoughts into the future. In reality, a goal finds fulfillment through actions. . .

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  • 29-Aug-2010

    The Shadow Knows

    Face the Darkness

    Much has been written about “the shadow”—that part of the mind that harbors secret plans and motives.

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  • 15-Aug-2010

    Peel to Reveal

    Layers of the Mind

    Besides the delicious taste and the numerous health benefits of onions, these root vegetables also . . .

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  • 05-Aug-2010

    Elementary My Dear

    Tattwas and Mental Projection

    Thinking about thinking is a perilous prospect. The line between philosopher and madman . . .

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  • 22-Jul-2010

    Pass the Popcorn

    Intermission from Stress

    Sometimes you just wanna scream! Life is full of responsibilities, needs, worries, demands on your time . . .

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  • 04-Jul-2010

    Delete the Files

    Eleven Minute Lullaby

    When you lie down for your nightly sleep, what gets in the way? Usually, it comes down to excess mental activity.

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  • 24-Jun-2010

    My Three Minds

    Positive, Negative, Neutral

    Yogis understand that a human has not one, but three functional minds. They work in a specific order . . .

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  • 06-Jun-2010

    Above the Fray

    Go Tell it on a Mountain

    Summer’s coming up and for many that means a trip to the beach. But another option, one that cools you just as well, but has added yogic benefits. . .

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  • 23-May-2010

    Watch Your Mouth

    What You Say Happens

    In Physics and Cognitive Science, there are innumerable examples that show how the subjectivity. . .

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  • 02-May-2010

    Contain Yourself

    Making Sattva Last

    There’s nothing like that feeling: you’ve given your all and, completely spent, you wake from the post-effort nap totally refreshed.

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  • 18-Apr-2010

    Let Your Lotus Blossom

    Seeing the Third Eye

    Many of the esoteric traditions refer to “the third eye” as the seat of all knowledge.

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  • 08-Apr-2010

    Lead with the Heart

    Aligning Anahat

    In every yoga pose, when there is a bend at the hips, the instruction is to “lead with the heart.”

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  • 25-Mar-2010

    Boredom Cure

    Work as Worship

    Time is elastic. It contorts itself to perceptions. Sometimes it flies by; sometimes it will never get to 5 o’clock.

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  • 11-Mar-2010

    Let's Make a Deal

    A Contract With Your Heart

    “To err is human/ to forgive divine.” You know it is best to overlook the shortcomings of others.

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  • 21-Feb-2010

    Confront It

    Put Fear Under the Microscope

    The mind does what it does, it’s pretty much always going. By cultivating a relationship with it, through meditation, you begin to notice patterns.

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  • 11-Feb-2010

    Be the Lesson

    Experience is the Best Teacher

    You have a trove of experiences to draw from, which automatically means you have wisdom to share.

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  • 24-Jan-2010

    Investigate Your Thinking

    Is It True?

    These days more and more people understand the simple fact that “Truth” is almost always relative.

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  • 14-Jan-2010

    Pattern Interrupt

    Shake Things Up

    Here we go again! The rat race, the hamster wheel, the not-so-merry-go-round - over and over again.

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  • 20-Dec-2009

    The Best Present

    Make a Gratitude List

    So many problems, worries, and challenges, it piles up fast! That overwhelmed feeling is a signal...

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  • 13-Dec-2009

    Bedtime Stories

    Program Yourself for Peace

    You don’t have to be a psychiatrist to know that when you’re tired, you’re more susceptible to influence.

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  • 03-Dec-2009

    Panic Prescription

    One-Minute Breath

    Yogic texts and Chinese medicine teach that every person is particularly sensitive to their fears along the meridians of the diaphragm.

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  • 12-Nov-2009

    Seek and Ye Shall Find

    The Promise of an Examined Life

    This simple phrase, which seems to hold out a promise to all who read or hear it, hides a profound knowledge...

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  • 28-Oct-2009

    Your Inner King Kong

    Let Music Tame the Monkey Mind

    Sometimes it’s tough to chill out. Stress comes at you from work, from family and from yourself...

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  • 15-Oct-2009

    Be Specific

    Clarify for Contentment

    The Buddha’s second teaching is that the root of suffering is desire. In other words, it’s perfectly natural to want things...

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  • 24-Sep-2009

    Feel It First

    Then Give Thanks

    One of the most powerful success strategies, borrowed from the Bible, science of mind and popular motivational speakers is...

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  • 17-Sep-2009

    Smile

    Fortune Will Return the Favor

    You’ve probably heard about how the act of smiling affects your mood (endorphins, serotonin… these things immediately kick in).

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  • 10-Sep-2009

    White Knights to the Rescue

    Visualization for Immune Support

    These days your immune system is busy. This is partly because of the pollutants in the air, water and food...

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  • 23-Aug-2009

    Brain Cleanse

    Go on a News Fast

    While the benefits of this super-connected global village are plentiful, there is a down-side, too. As the information age moves faster and faster...

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  • 02-Aug-2009

    Take it to the Top

    Use Your Head to De-Stress

    The scalp contains thousands of nerve endings. These nerves are in close proximity to the sense organs...

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