7,912 articles on "self_improvement"

Breaking Through Resistance

king Through Resistance by: Selena Richardson Why is it that every time you start something new, a million and one things get in the way? You make a goal to lose weight and all of a sudden every time you go to the store you seem to notice the ch...

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Life In The Comic Zone

Loosen Up, Lighten Up, or LULU, for short. Let’s look at theremarkable, extraordinary, amazing LULU.Loose Mind: Ticket To DreamsA person in the Comic Zone has a fresh, loosened mind.Themind of the person in the Drama Zone is inflexible,fixed, and r...

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Martial Arts

Martial Arts by: John GibbMartial arts are currently studied worldwide from a variety of cultures. Martial arts can improve your fitness levels and muscular condition immensely. Depending on the martial art you choose to do, you may even learn s...

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The Merits of Stereotypes

"The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so."Henry Wheeler ShawDo stereotypes usefully represent real knowledge or merely reflect counter-productive prejudice?Stereotypes invariably refer in...

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Ethical Relativism and Absolute Taboos - Part II

IV. RaceSocial Darwinism, sociobiology, and, nowadays, evolutionary psychology are all derided and disparaged because they try to prove that nature - more specifically, our genes - determine our traits, our accomplishments, our behavior patterns, our...

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The Blame Game - To Play Is To Lose

The Blame Game - To Play Is To Lose by: Steve Gillman What do you win when you play the blame game? If you could convince others that your parents are to blame for the way you are, what good would it do? If your business failure could be blamed ...

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Put To The Sword

To The Sword by: Wayne and Tamara Direct Answers - Column for the week of December 23, 2002 My girlfriend has an aggressive sense of humor. She teases and likes to parry put-downs. She says it is all in fun, and it is very important that she can...

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Magical You

I snooted up my nose at it.My inner snob said, "Surely, anything that popular must be trash."But finally, my son dragged me to the movie, and I fell in love with Harry Potter.I've had a lot of time to think about the phenomenal success of storie...

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CHANGES IN PERCEPTION FOLLOWING YOGA PRACTICE

Perception is sensation with added complexity due to factors such as memories and emotions. Yoga practice influences perception in three ways: (1) by increasing perceptual sensitivity, (2) by selectively `shutting out’ undesirable stimuli, and (3) ...

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The Dismal Mind - Economics as a Pretension to Science - Part III

4. Homo EconomicusThe economic actor is assumed to be constantly engaged in the rational pursuit of self interest. This is not a realistic model - merely a (useful) approximation. People don't repeat their mistakes systematically (rationality in...

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