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Mindfulness You're Soaking In It!

Looking for a bit more mindfulness in your daily life? Relax. You're soaking in it! Perhaps you remember Madge the Manicurist, a television commercial character who commiserates with her clients about their chapped hands. While she is filing the...

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YOUR “SUCCESS” INSTINCT

Do you know about the "success instinct"? A squirrel does nothave to be taught how to gather nuts. Nor does it need tolearn that it should store them for the winter. A squirrelborn in the spring has never even experienced a winter. Yet inthe fall of ...

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SPEAKING FROM THE HEART

SPEAKING FROM THE HEART(©Lee Wise 2002)I'm sitting in chapel listening to an older man speak.He's a seasoned pastor. The kind you would like tobe by your bedside shortly after the doctor has informed you that your time on earth is limi...

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10 Compelling Reasons to “Stop Singing the Blues” Part II

6. Cultivate your strengthsWhen you work to develop your inner strengths, you:· polish your diamond and stop singing the blues· will become more confident, optimistic and focused. The more developed your strengths, the more likely you are to aspire...

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How to Control Your Anger Retreat and Think Things over

Jim and Mary Jones loved each other deeply, but often went into horrific verbal battles over any number of issues. They would argue and yell for hours, often into the night, leaving both of them exhausted, emotionally disconnected, hurt and resentful...

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Words Have Power

How many times have you heard or read that words have power? Maybe it was in the context of working 'magic' or 'positive affirmations' or visualization techniques and you just dismissed it as more of that 'psychic hooha'...

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Affecting Positive Results Through Affirmations

Last time we talked about how to begin building the mind's powerful framework for success. The lesson we needed to learn was that self-talk has a powerful affect on the results we achieve. We learned that the mind will manifest whatever we dwell...

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Playing With Mindfulness Sneaking In The Back Door

I often meet people who say things like, "I've been working with mindfulness for over twenty years." My response is always this: "Oh, you poor thing! Have you tried playing with mindfulness? It's very effective, and much more fun!" They ten...

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How Much Time Do You Invest in Relationship Maintenance

When starting a new relationship, we usually adopt asubconscious idea as to how much maintenance thisconnection will need. Usually, if given some thought, wecan throw a microscope over this concept while it is in itsfledgling state. However, time, no...

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Compartments Of The Mind.

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? Do you remember that nursery rhyme? Well, how about we find out how our organic brain grows and develops.... Then we can gracefully nurture it, so that it blossoms and blooms as a radiant rose In...

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