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It’s truly remarkable that so many people in different cultures at different times in history had the same insight: it was possible for them to transcend their normal state of being, which was limited and constricted, and cultivate a more expansive and intensive state…
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Do you have trouble completing tasks? Do you lack organization and drive? Have you just lost the motivation to get things done? In this column, you will learn simple but powerful tips on how to get motivated when you don’t feel like it from a wide range of experts…
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If we don’t own our stuff, we will never see our disempowered pattern nor will we grow and experience a better future. As Buddha says, “Enlightenment comes from awareness.” In order for us to grow, we must first become aware. I remember clearly the day I took radical personal responsibility for my life…
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Fear can be a catalyst for growth only when it is acknowledged and accepted, then shown the door. When it becomes a festering guest it begins swallowing up your reserves of health, happiness, and sanity, sticking you in a “what-if” paralysis. The oftentimes-false illusions that give birth to fear (e.g., a misconception that your body doesn’t know how to build and birth a baby) are frequently left unchecked in the vulnerable heart, mind, and body of the pregnant mama…
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“Accept yourself. Love yourself as you are. Your finest work, your best movements, your joy, peace, and healing comes when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self-love. Roll in it. Bask in it as you would sunshine.” ~ Melodie Beattie
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“It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting right here right now… with its aches and it pleasures… is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.” ~ Pema Chodron
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“Anger is like flowing water; there’s nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.” ~ C. JoyBell C.
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Imagine life as a stream. When you are heading toward thriving, you are flowing with the stream, and things happen with ease. When you are resisting, you are heading upstream, and everything feels difficult. You are not thriving. You want to become sensitive to the ease that comes from flowing with the stream of well-being, so that when you find yourself in a state of resistance, you can turn around.
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There is a difference between fearful thoughts and your body’s fight-or-flight response to a genuinely dangerous situation. When you feel fear in a truly dangerous circumstance, your brain releases adrenaline and you also feel the sensation of opening, which signals that you need to take action.
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Possibly the trickiest part of getting what you want in life is just figuring out what you really want! And yet it is certainly the most important part of all. In my own life I have found that once I have a clear, strong intention to create something, it often happens quickly and easily. I experience this as a kind of “click” in my consciousness, when I suddenly get a very strong experience of …
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