Mindful Practices For Peace

During this period, you can help troubleshoot when obstacles come up and work with her to reassess the costs and benefits of change as she goes. Today is devoted to thanking life for all its many gifts and learning how to live with an attitude of gratitude every day. In …

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Stay On The Move

What Solnit documented in her research is that communities don't collapse into violence after events of this nature--as we're often led to believe--but come together into relationship, often with a sense of purpose and resilience. For others, there is a thrill of joy and excitement. The example comes from Duke …

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Liberty Is Slow Fruit

Neuroscience has revealed that we are hardwired for lifelong learning, with research demonstrating that our brain remains plastic through its lifespan and can actually rewire itself when exposed to new and different activities. When choosing frames, opt for high-quality European plastic (zyl) in a tortoiseshell, color, or translucent over cold …

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Success Vs. Failure

I had included Fred in the group of elders because he was someone whose life had clearly taken a turn for the worse, an isolated old man with a bad heart and declining mobility. And even in Australia, when the Liberal (conservative) government repealed universal coverage, they were devastated at …

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On The Improve

Remember to embrace the JOMO we discussed in article 4? Axline's article (14) gives a thorough and persuasive picture of the work which has been done in this field, where verbal interchange is often at a minimum or even lacking entirely. Your thought process about losing weight has to change …

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Is It Big Or Is It Small?

My mom was over it, and she become voluntarily oblivious to every single request I made for a puppy. Studies based on blood kept in storage clearly indicate that actual rates of celiac disease have risen over recent decades, as much as four-fold in the past half a century. But …

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Expectations

As you make your way from Neiman Marcus to Sears across a vast expanse of gleaming commercial temptation, you see all kinds of things you want but don't necessarily need. Many people have hidden sensitivities to gluten (found in grains and baked goods), dairy products (especially those made with cow's …

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Of Taking Things Out On The Wrong People

As with many Einstein quotes, there is conjecture as to whether these were his actual words, although he spoke to this effect often in relation to the threat of nuclear war. Some say that courage sits near the midpoint on a continuum with recklessness at one end and cowardice at …

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Changes In Your Personal Situation

You do not realize it, but the advertisements change the market and shift the balance on product purchases. In the middle circles, identify your mid-level goals. If drug prices continue their current trajectory, then we will be on the path to making decisions about who will live and who will …

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Cultivate Responsiveness

Most patients who suffer from RRMS eventually transition to the secondary progressive form of the disease. The next morning, on awakening, I felt a great sense of peace and satisfaction, and in a few days' time I received a telegram asking me to take over an organization in the Midwest …

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Heal Your Emotional Past

It's the motion that carries you beyond the ribs you broke as you penetrated. When the relationship is exposed, as it almost always seems to be, decisions that the manager makes and has made in the past become strongly colored by the fact that the romantic relationship exists or existed …

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Make Time For Partiality Today

For example, you can try putting some greens into a smoothie or health shake, or substituting one of your meaty entrees at dinner times for a spinach-mushroom mix. Unless you are the pilot of the aircraft, your concern to avoid disasters does not affect the flight but makes you consume …

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