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You Are What You Eat - Only Half of the Equation
[Health-and-Fitness] When we look at the total picture of a healthy life, we think of eating organic foods, exercise, rest, sunshine, taking multivitamins, some people know that minerals need to be included. However, many people neglect working on the other half of the equation-elimination. If we have poor elimination our body stores toxins in cells, organs and glands.

Do You Over Commit Yourself?
[Self-Improvement] Do you over commit yourself? Do you drive yourself for perfection? Do you demand more of yourself than anyone you know? These traits, while you might see them as virtues, can leave you feeling tired and over whelmed. While you might start your journey at the beginning in an optimistic frame of mind and an energetic mood, the stress and strain of your many commitments can begin to weigh heavily on you.

Sexual Abuse Survivor Reveals Abuse to Help Others
[News-and-Society] Actress, Teri Hatcher of Desperate Housewives fame, revealed her sexual abuse by an uncle to help others. Hatcher's reason for writing about her sexual abuse is her sense of obligation to help other victims of sexual abuse to not feel alone. She wants to inspire other victims to realize that their lives do not have to be paralyzed by guilt and shame.

Today is a New Day - Start it Well
[Self-Improvement] You can begin your day over again, right now, wherever you are and no matter what time of day it is, start over now. Start it well and serenely with too high a spirit to be encumbered by any old nonsense. Enjoy the great day that is yours today. Tomorrow is a new day.

Pedophiles and Ephebophiles Extend Their Reach
[News-and-Society] Today pedophiles go online to seek tips for getting near children-at camps, through foster care, at community gatherings and at countless other events. They swap stories about day-to-day encounters with minors. And they make use of technology to help take their arguments to others, like sharing online a printable booklet to be distributed to children that extols the benefits of sex with adults-"Straight Talk for Boys."

Discover Your Past Lives - Who Were You Then and How is it Affecting You Today
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Belief in reincarnation has existed throughout history. It is a standard aspect of all forms of metaphysics and is found in virtually all religious systems. It is a part of the Kabalah, the mystical side of Judaism, and it was also a belief of early Christianity.

Change - Constant and Inevitable
[Self-Improvement] Change and choice is the greatest gift of life. You can choose how you will be with what is transpiring. You can choose at every moment. You have the choice to live your life on the wave of change, resist or ignore it. Choose to express your greatness every moment by choosing to benefit from the changes that are there for the taking.

Probiotics - Proof in the Pudding Confirmed
[Health-and-Fitness] One hundred years ago after Russian scientist, Eli Metchnikov, discovered the health benefits of probiotics (friendly bacteria), most doctors and other health professionals are still not recommending it to their patients. After ground-breaking clinical studies there is medical proof probiotics contain beneficial value.

Uterus Fibroid - Holistic Treatment
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] There are three types of fibroids: Serosal, Intra-Mural and Sub-Mucous. Approximately 80% of women by age 50 have uterine fibroids. 25-30% of Caucasians, and 50% of women of African background. When tiny fibroids are included, some studies suggest that by the menopause nearly every woman has them. If you are one of the 80% of women, this article provides you with a highly effective treatment protocol.

Living Life Medicine - Pharmaceutical Free - Part II
[Health-and-Fitness] Living Life Medicine-Pharmaceutical Free sounds like an oxymoron-doesn't it? To some it is-to others it will seem redundant, because millions of people throughout the world are living Medicine-Pharmaceutical Free. How can that be? Every one gets sick-you might say. Yes, occasionally, people need remedies because they are sick, however, there are a plethora of natural remedies.

School Starts Soon - Are Your Children Prepared?
[News-and-Society] As summer draws to a close you may be relieved to have all your children's school supplies and clothes ready, but have you done all you can to prepare child(ren) for everything they face at school? Now, on the heels of the Catholic Priest sexual abuse scandal comes another of historic proportions-one that has the potential to be much greater and far-reaching. According to a draft report commissioned by the U.

Have You Lived Before?
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Reincarnation-the spirit and soul's return to this earth plane in another body. Several religions, including Buddhism and Hinduism, believe that the human spirit returns to Earth in different bodies again and again as it strives for spiritual and emotional perfection. A 1997 Cosmopolitan Magazine survey revealed the following little-known facts about beliefs of Reincarnation (a.k.a. Past Lives).

Myths About Paddling-Corporal Punishment in Schools
[News-and-Society] MYTH - Teachers' right to resort to corporal punishment must be retained because certain students can't be controlled by any other means. FACT - Violent punishment causes far more bad behavior than it corrects, if it corrects at all. The more some children are subject to educator violence, the more misbehaved they become. The very act of physical punishment destroys trust and engenders hostility toward the institution that is supposed to be serving them. As for children who conform outwardly due to fear of punishment, they are receiving an education mainly in one subject area: the abuse of power. Some of them will put that lesson into practice at the earliest opportunity.

Success - Focus on Ways to Manifest It
[Self-Improvement] You can create a more fulfilling life and success by focusing on what you want and coming up with creative ways to manifest it. Focus is the main emphasis of concentrated effort or attention on a particular thing, an area of concern, responsibility or investigation.

Optimism - It is a Decision
[Self-Improvement] This moment is the first moment of the rest of your life. This moment is the moment you can decide to be consistently optimistic. There are two kinds of people. Those who continue to do what they are doing expecting different results and those who take action to resolve what is holding them back. Which one are you?

One Door Closes - Another Door Opens
[Self-Improvement] Being able to turn your attention away from the closed door that you considered the door to our desires is difficult. It is more difficult to not only notice that another door has opened, but to consider the possibilities that the open door holds.

Sadomasochism - Seeds Were Sown Long Ago
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] The by-product of corporal punishment is fear, anger, humiliation, emotional and physical pain, intended or not. Corporal punishment results in bruises, injuries and psychological harm. Like women's breasts, the buttocks are sexual or erogenous parts of the human anatomy, though not sex organs. The sexuality of the buttocks is significant not only to adults, but to children as well. Although, children are sexually immature and void of active sex drives, they are neurologically sexual beings, who can experience erotic sensation from birth.

Disposition - Determines Happiness
[Self-Improvement] When you accept that it isn't your position or the things that you have, but, your attitude you have that determines your happiness, you realize you are in control. This article outlines three easy steps to create an empowered disposition.

Acceptance - Self-Empowering
[Self-Improvement] Releasing your wish to control or change people or situations can be incredibly empowering, because you, then, realize that your inner peace does not depend on anything, but, your own state of being. When you release your inner struggles and focus on accepting what 'IS,' your frustration will melt away and inner peace with take its place.

Stop the World I Want to Get Off - Overcome Frustration
[Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] Many people reach the point of frustration and exclaim, 'Stop the world, I want to get off.' While you can't stop the world, you can utilize your 'pause button.' Yes, you can learn to pause in the midst of frustrating circumstance to give yourself greater control of your emotions and restore your serenity.

If You Think You Can Do a Thing or Think You Can't Do a Thing, You're Right
[Self-Improvement] As a parent of two children, I noticed that when they said, 'I can't' that influenced their ability to accomplish it more than their IQ. I have worked with adults in educational settings over the past thirty-three years, I discovered this phenomenon is consistent with adults too.

Enlightenment - Embrace it
[Self-Improvement] Although, Enlightenment principles have set down roots in a large part of the world there is much to be learned about its value and importance. Each person needs to embrace enlightenment as their personal life goal. Thus, approaching new experiences with an open mind allows you to engage more meaningfully in each moment.

Intuition - Improve Yours Four Ways
[Self-Improvement] Improving your intuitive ability will strengthen your interactions and create more peace of mind. Intuition is everywhere and communicates to you through symbols, dreams and experiences-positive, negative or neutral. Learn to look, listen and trust the messages.

Age is a Number, Not a Condition
[Self-Improvement] The Western medical model and insurance actuaries have instituted age related illness as a benchmark for what disease a person can expect. The top seven predicted age related diseases are: Type II Diabetes, Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis, Heart Disease, Macular Degeneration-glaucoma, cataracts, High Blood Pressure, and Cancer.

Celtic Wisdom
[Self-Improvement] Celtic spiritual tradition posits when one is open, appreciative, and trusting with another person, the two souls flow together. This deeply felt bond with another person means you have found an Anam Cara or 'soul friend.' Your anam cara beholds your light and beauty, and accepts you for who you truly are.

Physical Or Emotional Symptoms - Healing is Possible
[Self-Improvement] Are you experiencing physical or emotional symptoms that no one is able to explain or treat successfully? Have you taken prescriptions, antidepressants, etc to little or no avail? If so, you are suffering from trauma from an event you might have long ago forgotten.

Emotional Strength and Courage
[Self-Improvement] Our soul's sole purpose in life is to create emotional and spiritual growth. There are practical tools to help you stop struggling with your emotions and start engaging them in your relationships, family life, career, and inner development.

Meditate - In Nature
[Self-Improvement] Meditating outside will deepen your grounding to yourself and Mother Earth. Meditation in nature is based on the principles of t'ai chi, the graceful slow movement system predominantly practiced in China. When you move in the t'ai chi meditation method you become more aware of where you are holding tensions and blockages, and where your body has become disconnected and distracted. By slowing your body, you begin to bring calmness to your thoughts and emotions.

Happiness - Look in All the Right Places
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Over time, your heightened awareness of the happiness you create will allow you to live more consciously and create more fulfilling experiences. By engaging in your heightened awareness in a period of introspection each moment, you will develop a deeper sense of happiness and clarity to enhance every aspect of your life.

Common Sense - What it is and How to Use It
[Self-Improvement] When you are grounded with a strong focus on common sense you make more rational decisions, both in your business and personal affairs. Combining a common sense approach with an organized plan allows you to accomplish your goals efficiently and decisively. Practicality alone will help you make wiser decisions.

Outer Clarity - Comes From Within
[Self-Improvement] When you feel mentally scattered and you struggle to communicate your thoughts to others, you need to center yourself within. By understanding that your mental confusion is caused by a feeling of disconnection from your inner self, you will recognize that you can remedy the situation by spending quality time alone to center yourself.

Meditate - In the Moment
[Self-Improvement] Many people are bringing meditation or meditative principles into their relationships, parenting and work, and see a need for more meditative approaches in politics, business decisions and public conversations. Gone is the belief that meditation can only be practiced in specific precise poses with the right music and ambiance.

A Gift Only You Can Give Yourself
[Self-Improvement] You deserve to give yourself - love. When you make the commitment to love yourself more than you have ever loved anyone else, you will absolutely change your life.

Create the Change You Desire
[Self-Improvement] Once you have determined what you want changed, you can begin to focus on what steps you need to take to create the change you desire. Even though you are unhappy with your current situation, you can be grateful that you have discovered precisely what you can do.

Thoughts Shape Your Life
[Self-Improvement] Where your attention goes, the energy of life flows - this is a scientific fact. Scientists, long ago, determined that the attention of an observer affects the movements of quantum particles, including every cell in your body. Your thoughts, emotions and actions are energetic particles as well, and your attention draws the particles closer to you, resonating with what you focus on.

Whose Will Prevails - God's Or Free Will?
[Self-Improvement] Life can never be perfect - for anyone. There will be ups and downs. These ebbs and flows are mere challenges to compel us to grow as human and spiritual beings. The soul's sole purpose for being in body is to create emotional and spiritual growth. Everyone faces challenges of different degrees, but each challenge presents itself exactly as one needs them.

Love is Not a Feeling
[Relationships:Love] The more two persons get to know each other, the more comfortable they get the less sharp, bright and exciting the falling in love experience is. Some couples continue their relationships and get married; some fall apart. It's reasonable to say that more clothes in the closet and one more toothbrush in the bathroom is the end of the falling in love phase, but it also can be the beginning of genuine love. How does one make the transition from 'falling in love' to genuine love?

Vibrant Enthusiastic Mind - Key to Goal Achievement
[Self-Improvement] When you feel vivacious and enthusiastic you will notice you are energized to tackle any challenge. With a vibrant mind-set fueled with enthusiasm you will notice that you have the ability to focus more clearly and tune in to the vicissitudes of life with a greater sense of alertness. Your heightened awareness will assist you to refine your long-term goals and bring clarity to opportunities to expand your plans.

Open Your Heart
[Self-Improvement] When you share your feelings with loved ones, you create a deeper sense of intimacy for the relationship. You might feel somewhat reluctant to open your heart and share your feelings, especially if you are afraid of being hurt.

Nurture Your Loving Nature
[Self-Improvement] Only love is real. All else is fear and anger based. Love heals and nourishes; all else creates decay. In a third dimensional reality you are in a womb of consciousness and every seed you plant in your mind, including thoughts, feelings and emotions, will grow into something.

Humor - Serious Business
[Self-Improvement] A sense of humor can lighten or change the tone of the moment. There are many types of humor, however, suffice to say, the type of humor might work in some situations and not in others. Thus, it is incumbent upon the person who delivers the humor to know what will be appropriate and what could backfire.

NO - A Birthright
[Self-Improvement] Most children, especially girls are taught, indoctrinated and rewarded to believe saying, 'yes,' is right and saying, 'no,' is wrong. Children learn that acceding to demands allows them to avoid conflict and criticism, to please people, earn praise, and prove that they care for the significant people in their lives. The right to say, 'no,' is indelibly intertwined with the ability to make choices.

Cherish Loved Ones
[Self-Improvement] Cherishing family members and loved ones creates a stronger bond and strengthens your life. Expressing your deepest most heartfelt feelings to your family and friends might be difficult sometimes. Telling loved ones how you feel and how much value their support and the feelings of happiness you experience is a powerful way to improve your relationships.

Stay in the Moment - Three Tips
[Self-Improvement] While it is important to plan ahead or to save for a rainy day, it is also equally important to live and be in the present. There are situations when you know it is necessary to plan for the future in order to protect yourself or your desires. Planning is vital in order to be ready for any circumstance. However, unexpected situations that you are unprepared for will occur. Thus, no matter how much one plans ahead, there are unexpected situations that occur.

Abundance - Fulfill Your Desires
[Self-Improvement] Using the universe's bounty in healthy and meaningful ways can help you obtain things that add meaning to your life. You may only save your resources at certain times. Other times, you may become reckless and acquire things solely for the sake of filling a void within. It is critical to strike a balance. By using your resources in a way that is meaningful, you are conscientiously mindful of the need to conserve the universe's bounty.

Obstacles - Minimize Their Impact
[Self-Improvement] When you have been distracted or disrupted and are feeling frustrated because you are unable to stay focused on your work flow, remember that your attitude has the power to enhance or hinder you, thus you need to adopt a perspective that all distractions or disruptions are temporary. As each disruption or distraction arises, simply remind yourself that it poses only a temporary slow down in your work flow. You can shift your focus on how to deal with whatever has risen and find a course of action.

Validation - Find it Within
[Self-Improvement] Most people look for recognition from others, family, friends, colleagues, boss, community and even strangers. While it is wonderful to receive praise from those who care about you or those in authority, it is highly sporadic and less rewarding to receive praise from those you interact with even on a frequent basis.

All Time is Simultaneous - Past, Present and Future
[Self-Improvement] Your past thoughts and actions have created your present and what you do in the present will create the future - positive, negative or neutral. Therefore, it is incumbent upon you to be aware of what you are thinking, doing and, thus, creating.

Diversity - What and Why
[Self-Improvement] Humans have no preconceived ideas about people unless they are taught. During the invasion of the land now designated as the U.S. and the making of the colonies, children were taught to fear Native Americans. Albeit, Native Americans were only protecting their families and homeland, the invaders and media labeled them as savages.

Honor Your Unconventional Self
[Self-Improvement] Veering away from what is expected of you and focusing on what interests you will allow you to expand yourself. It is natural for many people to keep on the same well-worn path when it comes to beliefs and opinions. We are scripted, indoctrinated and rewarded to keep the family, cultural values and status quo. You can avoid the status quo syndrome and honor your unconventional self.

Value Your Gifts and Talents
[Self-Improvement] The value you have for your life is how you will treat yourself and allow others to treat you. No one will treat you better than you treat yourself; because you teach them how to treat you by how you value yourself.

Duality and Challenges
[Self-Improvement] As much as people say they want peace and quiet in life without struggle, the truth is that human beings have chosen to be in a world of dualities and challenges. These dualities and challenges are how we choose to approach those hurdles that determine if we sail over them, thus confirming our agility, or trip and end up face down in the dirt.

Enlightenment - Find it Anywhere
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] While traveling to distant places might be right for many people, it is by no means necessary to attain an enlightened consciousness. Enlightenment takes root anywhere on earth provided the seeker is open and ready for higher consciousness. All one needs is to focus his/her attention and have a willingness to do the work necessary to move forward on a path to enlightenment.

Power Struggles - How to Avoid Them
[Self-Improvement] Are you unwittingly engaging in multiple power struggles, both in your home and at work? These conflicts usually stem from an unconscious desire to retain control of your circumstances or the outcome in a situation. However, your strong will and defensive approach to problem solving will cause you to come up against even stronger resistance from others.

Spiritual Purpose
[Self-Improvement] The meaning of life can be perplexing, leading one to seek the answer quickly, rather than spending time in contemplation. You might find your inability to puzzle-out the significance in your life highly disconcerting, especially if you view this seeming lack of insight as an indication that you are 'stuck' or have stopped growing as a spiritual being. The soul's sole purpose for incarnating is for spiritual enlightenment, emotional healing and growth.

Change - Taking Right Action
[Self-Improvement] Most people dream up a host of possible, 'What if scenarios?' and/or ruminate about, 'What could have been, if only...' as they live their life. These scenarios are meant to compel one to take action toward achieving a goal or creating changes. However, 'What if...,' 'If only...' and Rumination are also a signal that some inner work needs to be done, so that one's desires can be realized.

Reality - Grounded in the Moment
[Self-Improvement] Practicing present moment awareness is the key to avoid creating anxiety that accompanies uncertainty. Though you might strive to predict or control the future, your power lies in the present. When you are apprehensive about the unknown, concentrating on what you can do immediately rather than what might occur can help you remain calm, strong and collected.

Courage - Bedrock to Success
[Self-Improvement] Courageous feelings are rooted in your innate power to step out of your comfort zone and embrace the excitement of the unknown. Fear of the unfamiliar holds you back from your desires. When you feel bold and daring, you begin to recognize opportunities you might have been too afraid to allow yourself to see before.

Giving, Receiving - Same Side of the Coin
[Self-Improvement] Giving is its own reward when done as an altruistic act. Yet, giving is less rewarding if one only gives and seldom allows oneself to receive. Giving and Receiving are the same side of the coin. An expansive mind-set and a willingness to look beyond reward is the benefit of giving and receiving.

Intuitive - Sixth Sense
[Self-Improvement] Everyone is born with sixth sense abilities - it is a birthright - a part of who you are. Unfortunately many children by age five or six learn that using their sixth sense is a unwelcome experience and their ability to use their sixth sense is buried.

Relationships - Mirror to See Oneself
[Relationships] It is a natural inevitability that you might feel conflicted and confused about your relationships from time to time. You may be uncertain whether you are experiencing feelings of love or friendship, and this might cause anxiety when you make decisions. You might discover you are indecisive about taking a friendship to a deeper level or questioning whether you want to end it.

Hyperactivity - Signals Stress
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Parents and children who are in a perpetual state of fight or flight due to their busy schedules can lead to children being misdiagnosed with learning and behavior disorders - ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) says, Charles Fay, PhD, president of the Golden Colorado based parenting organization, the Love and Logic Institute. Parents need to check their stress level as there can be a synergistic trickle down effect from parent to child.

Focus - Manage it Well
[Self-Improvement] When you are distracted it makes it difficult to focus on the things you need to get done. You might have many thoughts running through your mind, and you might want to pay attention to each one. Selecting only one or two things to concentrate on will help you manage your thoughts and make it easier for you to attend to your affairs. If you notice your mind wandering you can gently remind yourself of the things you need to accomplish by gently saying to yourself, 'Not now.'

Verbal Abuse - Ignored Or Hidden
[Relationships:Domestic-Violence] The common themes of verbal abuse are: Inequality; Competition; Manipulation; Hostility; Control and Negating. The abuser either overtly or covertly manipulates others to get what he/she wants-dominance and control. He/she negates his/her partner's perceptions, experiences, accomplishments and their hopes and dreams.

Spirituality and Spiritual - Definition
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Spirituality, often misunderstood as a concept, is easily defined as - working to be a true and strict God related spiritual being or development of spiritual being. The highest spiritual achievement ever is one who has developed his/her true divine being to the point that his/her spirit is equal to the holy spirit of God.

Achieve Your Desires - Little Known Secret
[Self-Improvement] Everybody knows they want to live a healthy, happy, stress free life with peace of mind. Everybody knows they want financial freedom. The irony is most people are unwilling to do the work to create the health, happiness, stress free life with peace of mind that they claim they desire. This article reveals the little known 'secret' to achieving your desires.

Reconciliation After a Rift
[Self-Improvement] Do you have a desire to reconnect and reconcile with someone whom you had a rift or have drifted away? Reconnecting with those whom you have not connected with in a while may be easier than you think. This article provides an easy step-by-step reconciliation strategy.

Goal Achievement - Physical and Mental Stamina
[Self-Improvement] Sometimes it might seem that physical stamina is the only way to achieve your goals. You can push things through to the end with sheer determination. Being able to endure the challenges you face might compel you to feel invigorated and more disciplined. However, physical stamina alone limits your ability to creatively bring your goals to fruition.

Economic Challenges - An Empowering Solution
[Self-Improvement] During economic challenges, many people feel anxious, especially about their stability and ability to find a solution. Some people might feel overwhelmed by expenses or struggle with a lack of security. While these concerns seem valid, choosing to focus on them causes you to feel burdened and unbalanced. It is more helpful to spend time reviewing your situation in detail so you can gain a clear understanding of the issues that need your attention. This will enable you to develop a plan to resolve issues.

Stress - Self-Generated
[Self-Improvement] When you sense your body is wound up from the pressure and tension you feel, you need to pay attention to them in order to understand their deeper cause. Tension can be signals that you need to change something in your life, be it the way in which you work or your thoughts about what you do and/or your relationships.

Self-Observer - Manage Life's Vicissitudes
[Self-Improvement] When you pay acute attention to all that is unfolding in your life and environment, you will be better prepared to manage the vicissitudes that will inevitably arise. There are highly visible clues that appear immediately before your circumstances are poised to change, and if you learn to recognize these, you can be ready for the transformation about to take place and manage it well.

Prosperity - Without Breaking the Budget
[Self-Improvement] A prosperity mind-set coupled with a positive attitude is paramount even in the worst of economic times. Prosperity and abundance is a Universal Law that is governed by your thoughts rather than what is transpiring in the world around you. Of course, it goes without saying you need to take care that you spend money appropriately rather than indulging in luxuries that are beyond your budget.

Life - It's in the Details
[Self-Improvement] To see, hear, sense and feel the world around you acutely is to live a life of heightened consciousness. Avoid letting anything that might enrich your life pass by, and be consistently on the lookout for opportunities to embody your values in more dynamic ways.

Wisdom - Infinite Possibilities
[Self-Improvement] Wisdom is an accumulation of knowledge or learning coupled with the ability to use one's experience and knowledge to make sensible decisions or judgments. The axiom, 'you don't need to reinvent the wheel,' applies in the majority of situations. This article discusses how to tap into one's infinite wisdom.

Good Fortune - Thank Your Universe
[Self-Improvement] Your accomplishments have no doubt given you a sense of not only being successful, but also fortunate and prosperous. You might believe the abundance that you have achieved is solely due to your being able to set and reach your goals. While your hard work is responsible for a large part of your success, you need to keep in mind that your gifts are an extension of the universe's love and energy working through you.

Limitless Mind - Limitless Life
[Self-Improvement] Your life is comprised of an infinite array of possibilities, even if your existence now is less than satisfying. You might wonder if you are wasting your time thinking about what is yet to come or dreaming grand dreams, but your musings are more practical in nature than you might realize.

Weigh the Need For Solitude
[Self-Improvement] When you sense there is a gulf growing between you and the people you care about, your first response might be to retreat into solitude so you can mull over this development. However, doing so may cause the rift to widen, because those you care about may interpret your withdrawing as neglectful.

Deliver the Message You Intend
[Self-Improvement] Are you perplexed when a good friend, colleague or significant other, states something about you that you would not have imagined about yourself? It might be a minor thing, however, it might niggle your senses about yourself. When you feel loving or affectionate toward someone close to you do you express your feelings, or if you are drawn to strengthen your bond with friends or a colleague do you make your intent known? This article defines how to deliver the message you intend.

Helping Or Enabling - A Fine Line
[Self-Improvement] An enabler is a person, who through his/her actions enables a person to achieve something without needing to do it for him/herself or aids a person in being self-destructive. Within the world of an alcoholic a spouse might provide his/her partner with alcohol or in the case of a drug abuser, making sure there is money for the user to purchase drugs. However, an enabler can be anyone who hampers the process of another person taking full responsibility for his/her life and travail.

Goal Achievement - Planning Required
[Self-Improvement] When you begin a new project your excitement might be palpable and you are filled with eagerness to take action to achieve your goal. You might rush into the process headlong without fully developing a plan to achieve it. While your eagerness can give you the motivation to push through any obstacles, you also need to manage your pace in an effort to create the most beneficial and effective plan.

Perspectives - Understand Their Impact
[Self-Improvement] When you examine your life, you examine it from a particular side or angle. You might tend to favor one side over the others. For example, you might tend to look at things from an emotional perspective, rather than a logical, or analytical perspective. You might think in terms of details rather than the big picture or a vision for the future or vice versa. Thus, you have formed a perspective regarding your life and the world around you.

Adventure Leads to Self-Confidence
[Self-Improvement] Do you have a desire to explore something new? Are you feeling daring and adventurous? What is holding you back? Going beyond your comfort zone might be a way to overcome the fears that have held you back. By being adventurous you will find a deeper part of yourself that you might not have known existed.

Climb Every Mountain - Find Your Pinnacle
[Self-Improvement] Mountains are venerated by many cultures, which worshipped great summits as gods and sacred beings. In their looming presence, humans have seen majestic power, steadfastness, and resolve. However, you need not live near a mountain to tap into its vast energy of commanding grandeur.

Timing is Everything
[Self-Improvement] Timing is everything is a common belief and is a major aspect of the Law of Attraction and Abundance. You might experience impatience or frustration because your projects are not moving as quickly as you would like, or you might believe your self-worth depends on your achievements. Or you might seek validation from others, especially if you do not have a strong belief in yourself and your abilities.

Are You Content With Yourself and Your Life?
[Self-Improvement] Are you content with yourself and your life? When you are content with yourself and your life, you feel a greater sense of security and empowerment. Being loved by family and friends strengthens your sense of well-being and being love, wanted and needed. The key to wholeness is to accept these feelings of contentment as a vital part of helping you retain your grounding when times seem difficult.

Treat Yourself Well
[Self-Improvement] When you feel extravagant it might mean that you are inclined to acquire things as a personal reward for the work you have done. While being self-indulgent occasionally is healthy, you might want to rethink the types of indulgences you give yourself. If you are likely to splurge on something unnecessary, you might consider giving yourself something that will contribute to your overall health and well-being.

Notice Unique Changes in Your Life
[Self-Improvement] Looking at your life from the most basic perspective will give you a more realistic point of view. At the most basic level no two seconds are the same in your life. Understanding this profound phenomenon will help you recognize how unique and exciting your life is.

Reflection - Integrate What Lies Within
[Self-Improvement] Life is a reflection of what lies within. The question is - What lies within? Few people look within to gain a greater sense of who they truly are. When you feel stressed by something outside of you, your reactions are a mirror of what has been triggered from within. It is no different with your relationships

Endless Possibilities - Cultivate Them
[Self-Improvement] Do you see the endless possibilities that await you each day? Do you excitedly venture forth to embrace them? Knowing the world is yours, if you ask and if you are willing to venture forth give you a more expansive view of the world.

Acknowledge Your Accomplishments
[Self-Improvement] Given enough time, your endeavors will bear fruit, and you can recognize yourself for realizing your goals, both personally and professionally. Developing conscientiousness is a boon to you while you pursue your purpose as you will gain a new sense of confidence from your understanding of the scope of your accomplishments.

Creative Ideas - Allow Them to Flow
[Self-Improvement] While working on a project, if you are feeling blocked and frustrated, it could be because you are holding yourself back. While the thought that you are holding yourself back might seem counter-intuitive, because you are seemingly pushing yourself to achieve your goal. However, there is a reason why you feel blocked or frustrated, thus, you need to stop to evaluate the situation. It is fruitless to continue pushing against the block or frustration.

What Does "Just Say No to Abuse" Mean?
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] "Just Say No to Abuse" can mean many things to each individual. But what does "Abuse" mean? Does "Abuse" mean we will stop hitting/spanking/paddling children as a form of discipline, because to the child being hit/spanked/paddled is abuse?

Nature - Connect to Its Healing Energy
[Self-Improvement] Spending time in nature is the ultimate method to restore mind, body and spirit. The more you surround yourself with pranic energy (life force), the more aligned your spirit will be with your true self. Being in the presence of trees, grass, water and blue sky, takes you away from a hectic pace, and reunites you with your true connection to the universe.

Desires - Align With Them
[Self-Improvement] Through the book, 'The Secret,' Western society has begun to accept the concept that thoughts create our reality in the context of the Law of Attraction and Abundance, however, it is more a popular buzz word than volitional. In order for one to truly affect a concept one needs to not only believe it, one needs to assimilate it into the depth of one's unconscious mind.

Gratitude - Beyond Counting Blessings
[Self-Improvement] "Count your blessings," is a common statement people make when they have bemoaned their latest woe, travail or as a ritual. While this cliche or ritual seems to be authentic, it is not. Thus, there is harm done, because, the universe works in authenticity and since a cliche statement is unauthentic the universe remains neutral waiting for authenticity to surface.

Reflecting on the Past Creates a Better Future
[Self-Improvement] Now is the best time to contemplate the ways you responded in the past and whether or not your actions were healthy. To reflect, you need to think back to an incident that impacted you. Look at this event as if you were an impartial observer. Through these realizations you gain from a new perspective.

Feeling Stuck - What to Do
[Self-Improvement:Success] Feeling stuck in any aspect of your life is as much a part of the process of progress as the progress itself. Feeling stuck is a 'wake up' call to take stock of what is going on and to find out if there is something that needs your attention.

Good Luck Charm - Your Mind Holds the Key
[Self-Improvement] If you look at the ways in which you are in the right place at the right time, you will notice that while you may see everything you have, if you thought about what you lacked, you would also come up with just as many things. Understanding that your mind holds the key to your good fortune will help you to extend your feelings of abundance in every aspect of your life.

New Day - Begin Now
[Self-Improvement] When your life is not going well, you might be tempted to focus on tomorrow as holding all the possibilities of newness. It is true that tomorrow is a new day, but you do not need to wait until tomorrow to start anew. You can start anew at any second, cleansing your energy field of any negativity and declaring this second the new beginning of this day.

Flow - Law of Vibrational Attainment
[Self-Improvement] Does it seem, as if your plans to reach a goal are difficult to implement? Does it seem as if you are swimming upstream or in mud up to your knees? Although, it may seem that your efforts are for naught, it is important to evaluate your progress albeit small. Review the steps you have taken, evaluating each one in the minutest detail.

Relaxation - Healing Remedy
[Self-Improvement] Having asthma as a child, I learned through intuition or trial and error that relaxation helped to lessen the severity of the attacks. It is difficult to relax while the inflammation in the bronchial tubes makes every breath a struggle. Yet, that is exactly what I needed to do in order to reduce the inflammation. The metaphysical cause of my asthma was 'feeling stifled and suppressed crying.' Thus, nurturing and soothing was the most effective antidote to reduce the stress and inflammation in my bronchial system.

Challenges - Discover Their Wonder and Beauty
[Self-Improvement] In the midst of all the challenges life brings you, whether it is the economy or a 'failed' marriage, there is magnificent wonder and beauty! With each client, I have the honor and privilege of working with, I witness how the challenges they have faced have been the perfect opportunities that have lead to their profound growth in their character and spiritual awakening. It is only a matter of perception and discovery.

Confidence - Stay Strong, Stay Focused to Achieve Goals
[Self-Improvement] The majority of Westerners are scripted and indoctrinated to believe the world owes them the best. While this is a universal law, there is a flaw in the Western equation. The majority of westerners, also, believe the best is owed to them without a long-term investment of time, commitment and perseverance.

Decisions - Made Consciously
[Self-Improvement] As humans we are here for the sole purpose of emotional and spiritual (soul) growth. As Einstein said, "Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results; is the definition of insanity." Live your life well on your own terms, the terms that meets your soul's highest purpose. Make all your decisions consciously with intent and purpose.

Chemical Imbalances Can Be Healed
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Western Medical Doctors frequently diagnose people with a chemical imbalance. This chemical imbalance they posit is caused by a genetic abnormality. However, this could not be further from the truth. Indeed, there is an imbalance, but it is not caused by a genetic abnormality. The imbalance starts with an imbalance in mind, body and spirit and the body becomes the messenger to telegraph that the person's mind, body, spirit system is out of sync - imbalanced.

Inspiration - Create It
[Self-Improvement] When you see the results of your inspired efforts, the door has been opened to more inspired ideas to come forward and so on until you have reached your goal. This process can be repeated with each subsequent endeavor.

Growing Pains - Adult Style
[Self-Improvement] It is the rough spots that teach you the most. Keeping that in mind will help you to feel less alone knowing that you are not the only one. There many energy forces and changes pulsing through the universe at every level, and, it goes without saying, we are all part of the growing process and the growing pains. When you remember that life is one phase after another and that each difficult time will inevitably give way to something new and different, the tight squeeze (rough spot) is less onerous. When you feel overwhelmed you can comfort yourself with the wise saying. "This too shall pass."

Mind, Body, Spirit - Be Your Own Manager
[Self-Improvement] When you take control of your mind, body and spirit, no force in the universe can sway you from the path your have chosen. You can mitigate your susceptibility to outside influences by making the conscious decision to abide by your personal principles, no matter what and no matter whom.

Empower Yourself
[Self-Improvement] Your feelings of insecurity that prevent you from fulfilling your potential by inducing you to abide by arbitrary self-limitations are nothing more than erroneous perceptions. You might feel un-confident and unsure of yourself because you judge yourself harshly. Healing the root cause of the insecurity is a simple matter when you access your subconscious mind and process the emotional aspects of what has prompted you to have these insecurities.

Intuition - Tune In
[Self-Improvement] Tuning into one's intuition is more challenging for some than others. Finding a way to tune into your intuition enables you to make choices that affect your life in highly positive ways. More often than not, the majority of people's minds are filled with logical arguments, stories, rationalizations and drama for or against things.

Perceptions - The More You Have, the Clearer the Picture
[Self-Improvement] Our perceptions about life and the world we live in are based on more than physical impressions. Being connected to this fact allows you to use all the resources available to you to gather information about everything-the seen and unseen.

Horizon - Expand It
[Self-Improvement] As you focus on expanding your horizons and exploring new ideas and creating new experiences, you will be able to engage more deeply in each moment. Your life will begin to feel magical and profound, if you honor your need for discovery by embracing new ideas and experiences. Your life will transform into an expression of sacredness.

Uncomfortable Situations - Navigate Them Well
[Self-Improvement] Everyone encounters uncomfortable situations, which prompts one to feel bare and exposed. When you become aware of this, you can transform your feeling of vulnerability into something positive - a sense of understanding of yourself in the situation and those with whom you are interacting.

Abundance - Connect to It
[Self-Improvement] Your soul's sole purpose is about growth and expansion of consciousness. When you are one with the universe, (The Source), you are one with all that is. All that is, is the abundance you seek. Connecting with your surroundings as you go about your business keeps you connected with The Source, thus keeping you connected with abundance.

Past, Present and Future Exist Simultaneously
[Self-Improvement] The Law of Attraction (a.k.a. The Secret) dictates that all time is simultaneous. All things and possibilities, past, present and future exist now. Reflecting upon your childhood will lead you to gain more self-awareness as you begin to uncover the ways in which your past is impacting your present.

Up a Creek Without a Paddle - What to Do
[Self-Improvement] It seems obvious that we are in the same boat - called Earth. We have different paddles, oars, skills and talents to get us where we want to go. Perhaps we are on different creeks, rivers, lakes, seas and oceans. However, we are all in human bodies. Yet, we forget that.

Self Improvement - On-Going, Life-Long Process
[Self-Improvement] Many people think that one 'magical' day they will arrive at the place called, 'I know all there is to know,' and they can rest on their laurels. Many people arbitrarily decide when they have 'arrived.' However, unbeknown to them, they are simply settling for a mediocre life.

Skills and Talents - Acknowledge Them
[Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] When you acknowledge your skills and talents you excel at, you will fully realize the potential that lurks beneath the surface in everyone. The majority of people are indoctrinated, scripted and rewarded to downplay their aptitudes so as to appear modest and sans bragging. You gain little from dampening the glow of your inner light and enthusiasm.

Past and Future Contemplation - Manage It
[Self-Improvement] Meditation can help you achieve your goals by giving you a platform from which you can examine the impact your choices have on the world and the way in which those consequences have manifested vis-a-vis your experiences. When you sense yourself turning inward, your dedication to the principles of meditation will help you to make the most of your introspective efforts.

Intentions - Be Aware What You Focus On
[Self-Improvement] How your life functions is a product of your intentions. Consciously or unconsciously you create your life by your thoughts and intentions. Accepting this truism is difficult, because the majority of people have been scripted, indoctrinated and rewarded to believe that other people and the vicissitudes of life create what they experience.

Certainty - Are You Grounded?
[Self-Improvement] Being grounded in ones certainty might seem like an impossible task. Yet, you notice that you often experience a strong sense of quiet confidence. What, then, prevents you from owning your full sense of certainty? An interesting question to be sure, and one that might be difficult to answer. However, it is important that you have a clear understanding of your self-confidence and certainty.

Shooting For the Stars
[Self-Improvement] Shooting for the stars will infuse your endeavors with inspiration and enthusiasm. It is easier to look toward the future with an eye for change than to remain in the same routine. Shooting for the stars allows you to apply your energy to be a catalyst for change in your personal or professional life.

Happiness - Make it a Habit
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] What is your mind-set about yourself and those close to you? Do you have a mind-set of happiness or a mind-set that happiness is in short supply? If you have a mind-set that happiness is in short supply that is what you will experience. Yes, the Law of Attraction and Abundance applies.

Potential - Challenge Yourself
[Self-Improvement] Your success in your past accomplishments, no doubt have given you a great deal of satisfaction. You might recognize there is more ground to cover in your overall development. Many people give in to the temptation to scale back their efforts after realizing a long sought after achievement, only to discover that they have unknowingly entered into a slump, rather than taking a respite.

Dependability - Manage it Well
[Self-Improvement] When your dependability is strong regardless of the challenging labor, you will clearly see that you have overcome your aversion to that which falls outside the range of your interests and preferences by employing your conscientious dedication. Thus, you will feel good knowing that you can depend on yourself and others will also know they can depend on you no matter what the circumstances at hand.

The Past Lives - Embracing the Wisdom and Healing Power of Your Soul
[Book-Reviews:Non-Fiction] "The Past Lives" is written for those who want to improve their lives on a deeper level and understand who they are as human and spiritual beings. Using the combination of intuitive knowing and down-to-Earth writing brings the reader into a practical mysticism that is intriguing, inspiring and fun. You will be inspired to examine your personal and spiritual transformation. The author provides a wealth of powerful tools - past-life therapy - to potentially unlock and heal your life.

Relationships - Secret to Maintaining Them
[Relationships] While it is important to tell those whom you love that you care deeply for them, they are aware of the depths of your feelings by your active role in their lives. This is not to say that you can rest on your laurels indefinitely. Rather, when you miss opportunities to share your love and affection, your awareness that you have a positive history, allows you to move forward without worrying about unrealized opportunities.

Evaluate the Impact Your Decisions Create
[Self-Improvement] The consideration you expend and the warmth of your attention will be evident in the choices you make when you endeavor to consider how your life path will impact the experiences of the people you care about. Since no one lives in a vacuum, everything you do will have some effect on the people close to you and vice versa.

Teacher Student Sex Scandals Investigated - This Could Be Your Child's School
[News-and-Society] Such terms as: 'relationship,' 'dating,' [a fifteen-year-old child "...was allegedly dating one of her teachers,"] and 'romantic,' implies the student and teacher have equal say in negotiating the terms of a 'relationship.' The opposite is true. Teacher sex offenders rely on their easy access to children and a trusting bond of authority to get what they want--sexual contact with children. Children are taught and rewarded for being respectful of teachers and authority.

Seven Powerful Steps to Increase Self-Confidence
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] We have an infinite amount of energy so let's apply it to creating extraordinary relationships, advancing our careers and meeting our goals INSTEAD of wasting that energy worrying. Take action on what you have control over and minimize risks for what you don't. Then invest your energy wisely.

Do You Know What You Want From Your Life?
[Self-Improvement] Do you know what you want from your life? You need to take the time to understand and identify what you want. If you are unable to decide what you want how will you be able to attract what you want? The universe only works with what is known. If you do not know what you want you will be unable to align yourself with the energy, which draws it to you.

Heart Health - Emotional and Spiritual Sustenance
[Self-Improvement] Your heart needs emotional and spiritual sustenance as much as your body needs food. Recently a man, age sixty came to me, because he was told that the fluid around his heart, which caused his heart to labor harder, would cause a heart attack.

Is Your Health Really Healthy?
[Self-Improvement] What is good health? Is good health based on one's age or genetics? We have been indoctrinated and scripted to believe that with age we can expect lesser and lesser quality of health. Yet, some people are healthier than someone half their age. So what is good health?

Health Springs From Within
[Self-Improvement] When you take proper care of your body, stay positive and make time to connect to your inner guidance, you will feel stronger and more empowered. Your empowered attitude will permeate all aspects of your life and you will be motivated to continue this cycle of self-improvement as the life-long process that it is. By taking steps to take care of your health and well-being now, you will not only feel better you will live a healthy life without all the preconceived maladies of old age.

Doing it My Way
[Self-Improvement] Like the song, you can allow your independent spirit to compel you to pursue avenues that allow you to work, play and think 'your way.' You may notice you are self-sufficient as you manage the entire burden of a difficult business project or resolve personal issues on your own. Even though you may feel a few pangs of weariness or aloneness you appreciate the freedom that your philosophy of independence affords you.

The Secret - Ancient Wisdom Revisited
[Self-Improvement] Australian TV producer, come author, Rhonda Byrne has deftly compiled the ancient wisdom of many great minds, into a book titled, The Secret." The principles are based on metaphysics and have been spoken of by the greatest thinkers, writers and leaders throughout time-Plato, Aristotle, Albert Einstein, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Dale Carnegie, The Power of Positive Thinking, Carl Jung; "What you resist persists." Buddha, "All that we are is a result of what we have thought."

Your Purpose in Life - Connect With It
[Self-Improvement] The majority of people search for the answers to their purpose in life, outside of themselves. The only path to deepening and enriching your purpose is to go within. The answer to one's questions lie inside you. All you need do is look, listen and trust. Going within requires one to contemplate or meditate on creating a deeper and more enriched life.

Do Nothing - Rejuvenate Mind, Body and Spirit
[Self-Improvement] When you feel tired and emotionally worn out, you might be tempted to push yourself to continue with your usual activities. Spending time resting and restoring your energy is far more productive in the end. With only fifteen or twenty minutes of rest, you can return to your activities refreshed and work more efficiently.

Life's Obstacles - Learn to Navigate Effectively
[Self-Improvement] Life has obstacles. You might be consistently distracted by disruptions and feel frustrated because you can not seem to get anything done. Many people when encountering an obstacle become disheartened or frustrated that such a thing would befall them, as if it is a 'dirty trick' bestowed upon them for a punishment. Remember that your attitude can empower or hinder your outcome, thus, you might want to adopt a perspective of acceptance regarding obstacles.

Indecision - A Powerful Way Out
[Self-Improvement] While your indecisiveness is understandable, you need to recognize that not acting is a decision. You can declare this indecision as, "I decide to do nothing," because that is in fact what indecision is, yet, one seldom makes this accurate declaration, therefore, allowing oneself to be in denial. The bottom line is being in denial about deciding to do nothing more often than not results in undesirable outcomes.

Use Your Imagination Effectively
[Self-Improvement] You might think your imagination will lead you in a reckless direction. Adele Brookman said it best, "Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life."

Charisma - Use it Effectively
[Self-Improvement] The power of your charm can help you to feel more captivating and liked. Using your appeal to achieve the things you want might make it seem as if you have control over others. However, your magnetism coupled with your ability to listen to and understand people could be the reason why you are able to effectively influence people.

Living For Oneself
[Self-Improvement] One of the common reasons you are tied into pleasing your parents or others is that no one properly attended to your needs when you were a child. You were not honored as an individual in your own right, with a will and a purpose of your own, to be determined as your psyche unfolded into its own. As a result you learned to look outside yourself for approval, support and direction rather than looking within.

Success Through Your Economy
[Self-Improvement] When you are resourceful in your endeavors you can look over the capital you have available to you in the many aspects of your life. You will recognize that your resources are limitless and you might feel the weight of abundance pressing you to make good use of them. When you are creative in the manner in which you manage your time, energy and money, your plans will be met with great success. Using your skills and talents with life's uncertainties inventively and frugally can help ensure that you increase the value of your economy.

Receiving Enhances Giving
[Self-Improvement] Accepting love, and gifts of attention, support and nurturing from the people in your life helps you to be more able to receive and not feel the need to give in return. For many the act of receiving is uncomfortable. You might feel beholden to someone and feel as if you need to return the favor.

Difficult Decisions - Made Easier
[Self-Improvement] When your decision is made others might question your decision therefore, be as cautious as possible when contemplating the choices so that the impact will be minimized for all concerned. With this thoughtfulness, you can rest assured that your friendships or family bonds will be remain strong. Your willingness to take time to consider the choices will reassure others that their needs are important to you and that you avoid making rash decisions.

Growth and Evolution - Levels of Challenge
[Self-Improvement] It is a natural law that as you walk your path, you will encounter a new level of awareness that beckons you to achieve more. The levels of growth and evolution are limitless. As you continue your journey you might need to learn new behaviors, create new skills or stop old defeating patterns.

Boost Self-Confidence - Seek Approval Within
[Self-Improvement] When you trust and acknowledge yourself, you will notice that your work is valued based on its merits and that words do not define who you are. It only defines what you have accomplished. Others will respect you for what you do more than when you push hard to gain their admiration. As you acknowledge your incremental accomplishments you will find that seeking approval from others loses its significance.

Attract Attention and Recognition of the Best Kind
[Self-Improvement] Everyone needs attention and recognition. If you have a desire to be in the spotlight, it could cause you to want to impress others. While striving for recognition might draw attention to you, it might also be self-defeating because you have greater pressure to keep up your efforts to keep the attention and recognition that you continually desire. There is a solution to draw attention and recognition and avoid self-defeating behaviors.

Time to Be Alone
[Self-Improvement] The time you spend apart from others to reconnect with yourself is usually not indicative of any deeper, unaddressed issues that might be considered dysfunctional. Rather, it is simply another gift you can give yourself in the pursuit of peace of mind, wholeness and wellness.

Have You Wondered Or Do You Know About Your Past Lives?
[Self-Improvement] Have you ever wondered or sensed that you were someone different before? Do you sometimes have a sense of having a valet or a lady in waiting? Have you visited a place you sensed you had been before, albeit is the first time you have been there in your current memory. Does it seem like you are in the role of a Cinderella this lifetime by mistake?

Embrace Change - Reap Positive Results
[Self-Improvement] When you feel conflict about your plans and goals, you might struggle with thoughts of indecision regarding changes you might need to make. It is helpful to first gain a clear picture of what you want to accomplish before making any definite decisions.

Higher Perspective - Rise Above the Details
[Self-Improvement] When you sense that you are entangled in unpleasant circumstances and feel confused about how to free yourself, instead of allowing frustration to engulf you, you need to engage in visualizing what you want to achieve to create a clearer perspective. Simply find a place to be alone and go into a relaxed state of mind. Imagine your situation as being lost in a field with tall grass around you.

Life Without Fear
[Self-Improvement] Your understanding of the world as you expand your awareness to include topics you heretofore ignored is essential to life without fear. With a curious state of mind, you will have a strong attraction to topics that are controversial or some would say, eccentric. When you approach such explorations with an open mind, your experience into these controversial and eccentric areas will be satisfying and compelling.

Achieving Goals - Harness the Best Resources
[Self-Improvement] Physical stamina is as important to achieve your goals as emotional and mental stamina. You might notice that when you are working diligently on a project, whether, it is an hour project or several weeks that your physical stamina sometimes drops. This drop in physical stamina is the outward indication that your emotional and/or mental stamina has faltered.

Self-Reliance - Begins at Home
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] The most precious gift you can give your children is true independence so that they learn to earn what they want and become empowered to create their own happiness. Allowing your children to experience life to the fullest on their terms-within safe boundaries and responsibility level is the greatest gift you can give your children. Allow your child to work and earn what they want.

Your Sixth Sense - Learn to Expand It
[Self-Improvement] Life is more expansive than what we see and what we feel. Life encompasses not only the here and now of our perceived reality, but is richer than beyond our most detailed imagination. What we are experiencing in our ego minds is a minute nanosecond, a tiny speck of dust in the great world of earthly material, a mere drop in all of the oceans, lakes, rivers and streams. That is the reason we sometimes feel so unimportant, so insecure, so vague to our purpose.

Attitude is Everything - What is Yours?
[Self-Improvement] Are you allowing an attitude of stubbornness to establish itself in your mind and heart? Has anyone said that you are stubborn? If you allow intolerance toward anyone or anything to thrive unchecked within you, you are allowing an attitude of stubbornness to thrive at your expense and peril.

Spotting and Preventing Professional Suicide
[Business] "This job is killing me!" That statement may seem to be an exaggeration, but in looking closely at the work environment, it has become apparent there is a serious malady affecting the productivity of organizations. This malady has been coined 'professional suicide,' by a company which was among the first to become aware of the problem.

Cycle of Health - Mind, Body and Spirit
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] The cycle of wholeness and health seeks to attune the person's mind, body and spirit to the needs and messages of the body, as well as, to the natural means the body uses to maintain health. Similar to the balancing cycles in nature, such as the sun and rain nourishing crops, Ayurveda tradition observes the natural cycles of detoxification and rejuvenation that are ever present in the human physiology.

Diligence - Key to Achieve Goals and Objectives
[Self-Improvement] When you have peace of mind, you will feel empowered to achieve your goals and objectives. The seeds of doubt are uprooted and wither away. Your enthusiasm and energy is heightened and you can focus 100% on the tasks at hand, without any interference from worries, doubts and what ifs.

Competitiveness - Healthy Success Drive
[Self-Improvement] Are you a competitive person striving to excel in everything you do? While your urge to be the best in all your activities is admiral, if done in excess and for the wrong reasons, it can interfere with your enjoyment of them. It is important to reflect upon your drives and the forces behind them.

Rational and Intuitive Decision Making
[Self-Improvement] The best decision making process is when one listens to the combined wisdom of ones rational and intuitive mind. Using your rational mind and intuition is your true intelligence at work. By trusting all your resources, you will make decisions that will have a positive and lasting impact in all your decisions and enhance your life.

Create Abundance During Rocky Economic Climate
[Self-Improvement] The endless reports of the current rocky economic climate, exacerbates fear in the majority of people. However, you can avoid getting caught up in the mass fear consciousness. This is a good time to consider spending money in a responsible fashion on things that are meaningful to you. In the past you might have spent your money with little thought, splurging or compulsively.

Doubt - Strike a Balance
[Self-Improvement] Doubt can both hurt and help, as the usefulness of uncertainty varies depending on the circumstances. When you doubt that your loved ones or colleagues have your best interest in mind, you may inadvertently reject their counsel or guidance. Needless to say, there are people who are not giving you the full picture and your caution can help you avoid making an ill informed choice as a result of their recommendation. Thus, you need to strike a balance between your suspicions and your desire to believe everyone has your best interest in mind.

Self-Praise Enhances Self-Confidence
[Self-Improvement] When you appreciate yourself and your abilities,you will be appreciated. Others are mirrors of you. You cannot appreciate something about another person unless it reflects something you appreciate about yourself. Building your self-confidence and ability to manage work and your relationships will empower you to give your best effort.

Buzzwords - Creation and Significance
[News-and-Society] A clever phrase to let chums know how thoroughly annoyed one is with the other party at any given moment. It is used most effectively, when cleverly hidden in an unexpected place in a seemingly unrelated sentence.

Soul Food - What is Your Favorite?
[Self-Improvement] Generally, when we hear the term, 'Soul Food,' we, think of our favorite food. 'Soul Food,' is different for different cultures. Although, we think food is food for the soul; it is in fact only food for the body and if we over indulge we add on excess weight. Food has become a substitute for real soul food. Real soul food is scheduling time to engage in spiritually fulfilling activities that replenishes our spiritual energy and emotions.

Healing With Sound
[Health-and-Fitness] When one lives in a state of wellness, the clear energetic vibrations which defines a person resonates with the universal energy. Sound healing is a vibrational energy which has the potential to heal us by treating imbalances and blockages in the body by creating an internal shift that restores perfect harmony. Sound allows your consciousness to commune with the divine and awaken the latent physical energy so that it can return to a harmonic precision state.

Hugs - Emotional Health Food
[Self-Improvement] The need to touch and be touched is established as the fetus develops and grows in the warmth of the mother's womb. Once the infant is born, which creates separation from the warmth of connectivity, the infant craves the physical warmth of human touch. As the infant matures, independence is established, however, touching and being touched is a primary necessity, especially during times of triumph or distress and during moments when one needs reassurance.

Self-Confidence - Tips to Maintain Balance
[Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] Sometimes it seems that everything is pulling you in different directions at once. Your sense of what you thought your life would be like and what you are experiencing might leave you feeling confused and off balance.

Avoid Shooting Yourself in the Foot
[Self-Improvement:Empowerment] Embracing uncertainty opens you to accept what will come your way. Fear and resistance will push it away. Knowing that anything could transpire to change the course of your life is exciting, and in that realm you can focus on the things that help you feel the most alive. This gives the universe more clarity to bring your heart's desires into your reality.

Love - Conditional Or Unconditional
[Relationships:Love] The concept of, "Love," is to some degree amorphous. Love is volitional and not a feeling. Love is in the act of doing versus the act of feeling. Love is as love does. Love is expressed as conditional or unconditional. Like it implies, conditional love requires the person to do things to 'earn' love from anyone, including family members. The majority of people received conditional love as children.

Universal Laws - Ultimate Trust
[Self-Improvement] Since the book and movie 'The Secret,' became a national phenomenon, many people are wondering how to trust the universe. The reason we have difficulty trusting the universe is because humankind has veered off from the source, a.k.a. the collective unconscious or universal knowledge. Humankind adopted a visible source of support-religion.

Success - In Spite of Uncertainty
[Self-Improvement] Change is constant. Uncertainty is constant. Uncertainty is constant. Change is constant. No, this is not a writing mistake - it is on purpose to reinforce this critical concept.

Soul Memory
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] The subconscious mind holds all experiences since our soul energy took form separate from the source. Although, the majority of people seldom remember having lived before, the experience we had living before have a hand in shaping who we are today.

Sexual Abuse of Students by Teachers Increasing
[News-and-Society] There are five critical techniques administrators and teachers can employ to identify the majority of sex offenders before the damage occurs. Once identified school administrators need to employ every technique possible to protect children from those who are considered suspect. One key technique, 'Appropriate Suspicion,' based on human behavior and probabilities, is a powerful tool to thwart would-be sex offenders. Appropriate Suspicion has five levels of suspicion and strategies for prevention.

Irritation - Positive Side
[Self-Improvement] People can seldom see their foibles or shortcomings unless something 'irritates' them to the degree they feel uncomfortable, frustrated or angry. Unfortunately, the majority of people work hard to avoid these irritants and the people who bring them. The Law of Attraction dictates - whether you believe in it or not - that the irritant will come back to you until what you need to address has been completed.

Ambition - Powerful Transformation
[Self-Improvement] Your ambition inspires you to reach for new heights of success and to look for the opportunity to meet every challenge. Ambition keeps your dreams burning brightly even when circumstances are challenging. The intensity of your ambition will compel you to persevere on your chosen path. Your determination to fulfill your ambitions will make attaining your goals more feasible.

Patience - Driven by Peaceful Thoughts
[Self-Improvement] When you manage your mind through meditation or repeating affirmations, you will notice that your thoughts take on a neutral stance versus a judgmental view. Furthermore, you will feel better about yourself and others when you are able to manage your feelings, thus, avoiding uncomfortable or irritating reactions to situations. Consciously slowing your mind will give you the peace of mind to evaluate each situation on its merits.

Possibilities - Are You Open?
[Self-Improvement] The majority of people believe they are open-minded and open to learning more, until a suggestion is made to do something different. Without asking a question, the rationalizations pour forth at rapid speed.

Change the Space You're in - Change Your Life
[Self-Improvement] We tend to feel more comfortable acquiring possessions than we feel comfortable letting go of things. This holds true with many aspects of our lives. The source from whence we came creates and continues to create for eternity. However, creating a more expansive universe is entirely different than creating more possessions.

Next Steps - Path to Self-Fulfillment and Growth
[Self-Improvement] Our lives consist of a complex network of roads and paths that we can take from one phase of our life to the next. For some, the path is wide, smooth and clearly marked. However, for many people the path seems narrow, bumpy and unclear. Therefore, it is difficult to figure out what to do next to achieve continued self-fulfillment and satisfaction.

Sixth Sense - Everyone Has It
[Self-Improvement] The truth is everyone has psychic ability. However, for the majority of people it is hidden, ignored, untested or distrusted. Therefore, it is common to hear people say that they are frustrated with lack of success at tapping into their intuition or sixth sense.

Herbalism - What is it and Why Do I Need to Know?
[News-and-Society] The first Chinese manual of herbalism, which laid the foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was compiled in approximately 206 B.C. It listed about 365 individual herbs and outlined principles of herbal combinations for maximum health. Humans and animals on all continents have used thousands of indigenous plants since the beginning of their existence. Anthropologists theorize that animals evolved a tendency to seek out bitter plant parts in response to illness.

Oprah 'Embarrassed' by Her Weight
[Self-Improvement] It is not your fault you have struggled with maintaining healthy body weight, albeit, you know the health risks and have a cadre of professionals to guide you in your quest. The reason it isn't your fault is this: Food is easy instant gratification. Food is a way to soothe oneself and to distract oneself or stuff down feelings. Unresolved emotional issues are at the core of anyone's inconsistent weight issues. Emotional, sexual and physical abuse (a.k.a. corporal punishment, spanking) are the most prominent wounds that causes childhood and/or adult erratic body weight.

Obesity - What Has Your Metabolism Got to Do With It?
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Obesity shows no economic bias. Food is the only culprit responsible for weight gain for both rich and poor. Is it enough to say, 'no,' to French fries or creme brulee or to multitask at higher heart rates? The surprising answer is a resounding, 'No,' if your metabolism is out of kilter.

Create Joy While Doing Boring Tasks
[Self-Improvement] There is something about doing chores and routine tasks that most people dread. Is it the repetitive actions-cleaning, laundry, cooking meals, gardening, etc.-that dulls our enthusiasm and imagination? This article will address how you can make routine chores and tasks more enjoyable or, if you allow yourself, to have joy in the process.

Overwhelm - Avoid It
[Self-Improvement:Techniques] Overwhelm can be the outcome for many reasons. You are bombarded by information vis-a-vis a multitude of sources-snail mail, overnight mail, fax, phone, IM, email, text messages, print advertising, commercials and someone talking over your cubicle wall. One can become dizzy by the range of choices available.

Natural Weight Release Plan - Best Kept Secret
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] This natural weight release plan is the best kept secret ever. Why is this the best kept secret--ever? The answer is not complicated-no one can believe something this simple can be a key to weight release. Although, you may have heard that eating slowly helps to keep down the calories, no one explained why and therefore, you might have passed it off as just another fad. The benefits of eating slowly has a scientific foundation. This article reveals this natural scientific foundation.

Beliefs - What Creates Them?
[Self-Improvement] It is preferable, indeed wise, to examine your beliefs by asking yourself how you came to believe what you believe. What reinforces them, and how do these opinions manifest themselves? You could discover that even though you think your opinions create being open and sensitive to the needs of others, by holding onto them you are unknowingly closing yourself off to a large segment of possible experiences.

Higher Self - Learn to Distinguish It
[Self-Improvement] When you practice connecting to the wisdom within regularly, you will learn to discern quickly which voice is advising you. When you notice it is the ego mind or an emotional aspect, you can stop it in mid-stream.

Today is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life
[Self-Improvement] The majority of people fail to remember that a new beginning starts every second one is breathing. With this awareness of inspiration and imagination filled with possibilities, you can feel positively buoyant. While you do not know what you will create the next second, you can examine all the potential opportunities that lay before you to determine what suits you best.

Alone Time - Spend it Wisely
[Self-Improvement] Truth be known, people need time alone. Even those who equate alone time with loneliness need it. Being alone is necessary for contemplation, reflection and to experience oneself as the unique being that one truly is. While many people will take time away from others to complete a project or meet a deadline, this type of alone time is focused on something other than oneself. Alone time to focus on oneself is necessary and beneficial.

What Has Age Got to Do With It?
[Self-Improvement] Are you telling yourself that you are "too old" for this, that or something? If you are you are creating your reality by those thoughts and spoken words. The fact is: There is little that is truly limited by a maximum age.

Happiness - Create it Continually
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Happiness for many people seems short-lived and/or elusive. Do humans have a preoccupation with seeking happiness? While this question might seem redundant if one is ambivalent regarding the concept of creating happiness for happiness sake, one is merely spinning one's wheels.

Economics - What Year is It?
[News-and-Society:Economics] The headlines and stories are the same year after year. Are you willing to continue to buy into the same old rhetoric or will you begin to create your life as you choose, not as determined by the media, politicians and pundits?

Arguments - Resolve Them
[Self-Improvement] Arguments are nothing more than two or more people failing to hear, understand and acknowledge the other's point of view. Wow! Is that all it is? Yes, that is the basis for an argument. One can discuss issues without 'an argument' if one is willing to truly hear, understand and acknowledge the other's perspective, feelings, beliefs, values and experiences.

Spirituality - What is It?
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Spirituality is the valuable state of consciousness that assists you in using your creative abilities to the fullest. Your spirituality is the foundation of your God connection to the Universe and more accurately, the Multi-verse.

Facing Oneself - Path to Peace of Mind
[Self-Improvement] Looking at your feelings in a constructive way helps you to avoid projecting your feelings onto others. Discovering the root cause of your need to cope by projecting is important. You are the only one you are fooling by masking your true feelings by projecting onto others. You will enhance your relationships by looking at yourself and improving on those issues that are hindering you from being yourself and allowing who you truly are to come through.

Alone in the Dark - Life's Greatest Paradox
[Self-Improvement] Have you sensed you are alone with your feelings, and that seemingly no one can understand how you feel? This is one of life's greatest paradoxes that you are the only one who feels as you do. Your feelings might compel you to want to run away from it all. These seemingly alien feelings are buried treasure full of opportunity and inspiration if you are willing to look, listen and trust that what is buried is what you need to look at in order to know yourself better and to become more of who you truly are.

Wow Your Listener & Audience
[Self-Improvement] Regardless of whether they agree with you, people will be impressed by your wisdom rather than by your zealousness. Present your ideas with conviction rather than zeal that might be misunderstood, and you will discover that people are more receptive to you.

Leadership Qualities
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] To be a good leader, you need to balance your needs with the needs of those you lead, as well as your manager. Although, at times you will find it necessary to take an authoritative stance and direct with uncertain command, there are more instances when you need to work with your team as a motivator and role model with the added responsibility of the bottom line.

Thoughts - How to Choose Them
[Self-Improvement] The book and movie, 'The Secret,' clearly explains that our thoughts create our experiences. If you are not convinced that your thoughts create what you experience then think about the fact that you can experience something at the same time as someone else and he or she has a different reaction to the experience than you did.

Change - Manage it Well
[Self-Improvement] "Change is inevitable. Change is constant." - Benjamin Disraeli. While this poignant statement is quite simple, it means different things to different people. Our lives are filled with constant change and growth. However, you need to remember to be gentle with yourself. Given that change is constant and inevitable, it can create a sense of unease as one pushes to keep up with change created by outside factors and the changes one creates.

Inner Security is an Inside Job
[Self-Improvement] When you rely on yourself for your innermost needs you become stronger, balanced, and whole. Thus, you are able to meet life on equal ground with others and together you can create a happy and strong relationship.

Flourish Where You Are - There is No Better Than Here
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] When I moved to Arizona at age twenty-one, I noticed that cacti grow out of small cracks in the rock hills with little soil and less water against blazing heat four months out of twelve. Amazing! I was in awe, because it was a reminder for me that if a plant could flourish in those conditions then I could flourish with all that I have, which is more than a little soil and water.

You Are More Powerful Than You Think
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] All too often people allow their cynicism and defensiveness towards authority or others to rule their lives. These reactions might be result of having grown up with parents who over powered them and simultaneously were out of control. No one can change the past, but, you can change how you manage the present.

Peace of Mind - Visualize It
[Self-Improvement:Techniques] Sometimes you might feel more sensitive to the opinions of others. This could cause you to take their comments or actions personally. Usually, when one takes comments or actions personally, there is an underlying current of unconscious unresolved emotional issues. When you notice you are taking things personally, you need to set aside time to sort out your feelings.

Collaboration Creates Harmony
[Self-Improvement] Sometimes unwittingly you might engage in a power struggle, both at home or at work. These conflicts often stem from an unconscious desire to retain control of your circumstances or surroundings. However, your strong-willed and defensive approach to solving issues, may cause you to come up against a stronger resistance from perceived adversaries.

Enthusiasm Renewed
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] While strong enthusiasm helps you move quickly toward the finalization of a project have you thought about maintaining it on a continual basis? Have you considered that you deserve to be enthusiastic about everything everyday versus working while feeling lackluster enthusiasm?

Beautiful From the Inside Out
[Self-Improvement] The cliche, 'Beauty is only skin deep,' has more poignant value than at first glance. Many people do not take the time to notice and acknowledge how beautiful they are as a human being. It is unfortunate that we were taught from a young age to not 'brag' or to not consider ourselves as beautiful humans inside and out, because it was considered vain to do so.

Enlightenment - Unending Process
[Self-Improvement] Evolution is an unending process. You need to allow yourself to evolve in your unique fashion. Thus, accepting the process as is, rather than to have enlightenment for enlightenment sake, you will have the pleasure of learning in the search for significance itself.

Enlightenment - Live it Anywhere
[Self-Improvement] If you have a compelling sense to travel in search of teachers and experiences, then, follow that compelling sense as it is part of your unique journey. However, if you can not afford such an expense, allow yourself to continue on your enlightenment journey wherever you go. You can spend your time in your home with your medication practice and all the other tools mentioned in this article.

Judging Or Giving an Opinion?
[Self-Improvement] Everyone knows that when someone judges another, or someone judges you, it is a negative emotional experience. As a result, you might naturally want to avoid being judgmental, but this gets confusing when you suppress thoughts that could be offering guidance or enhancing the quality of the conversation.

Jealousy Or Envy - Inspire Yourself to Greater Heights
[Self-Improvement] When you look at others as examples, you can see ways to visualize what you would like to create in your life. When you use others as examples you are reminding yourself that it can be done, and you know you can choose to create a similar experience in your life. You can choose to allow what feels like jealousy or envy to lead you to a place of visualizing what you want to create.

Prosper in Spite of the Economy
[News-and-Society:Economics] The majority of people are focusing on the gloom and doom of the economy. You can decide to rise above it, to even greater heights than before the 'so-called' economic downturn.

Courage Motivates
[Self-Improvement] Courage is often misunderstood. People think of courage only when someone has done something newsworthy-saving someone from a burning building, or snatching a child from an on-coming car. Courage is also the little things that one does in the course of reaching a goal or embarking on an adventure.

The Present Creates the Future
[Self-Improvement] Grounding yourself in the present is a matter of recognizing that your ability to influence all circumstances is limited to the actions you take in the immediate moment. Thus, focusing on the actions you can take right now will bring about the future events you want to create.

Power Brokers
[News-and-Society] The economy is controlled by Power Brokers - business people, who influence decisions in exchange for political or financial benefits. Power Brokers negotiate deals on a national and international scale to meet their aims. They can play both sides and influence decisions to the highest bidder. These brokers wield great influence over people who are uninformed as to the Power Brokers' intent and purpose. The uninformed believe that Power Brokers have the populaces' best interest in mind. Hence, Power Brokers maintain their influence by seemingly providing information as a 'heads-up' strategy.

Signs of Physical-Sexual Child Abuse in Adults
[Self-Improvement] All too often psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists and medical doctors miss the obvious signs of adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Furthermore, medical and psychiatric professionals treat symptoms and ignore the root cause of the problem. In order to heal it is imperative that the root cause is identified and healed. Healing the emotional wounds of physical or sexual abuse is possible. Talk therapy and/or antidepressents are inadequate to uncover the emotional pain, and heal the trauma trapped in muscles and tissue.

POM Alert System - Creates False Security
[News-and-Society] The promotional material for the Sex Offender locator system states, "Keeping your child safe and secure is a priority for all parents. We make it easy. We all want the Peace of Mind that comes from knowing we are well informed of our environment and who might be living amongst us nearby!"

Loving From the Heart
[Self-Improvement] True and honest love emanates from the heart chakra - a.k.a. heart center. The heart chakra is also where other virtuous emotions emanate, such as joy, happiness, honesty, respect, compassion, understanding, and generosity, and with loving oneself in a sincere, non-egotistic way.

Nature's Course
[Self-Improvement] You might see things about yourself, your relationships and your world that you want to change. Often, this desire leads you to take action toward your inner work that you need to do or toward some external goal. Sometimes, without a momentous shift, you become aware that you have made a change seemingly without any effort.

Truth - The Cornerstone of Healthy Relationships
[Relationships] 'Truth Will Set You Free," (John 8:31-32), a commonly used phrase, many people consider one of the great laws of life. It is ironic then that few people practice its doctrine totally. In order to be set free one needs to reveal one's truth. Unfortunately, many people perceive they are exposed, vulnerable and in a weakened state if they reveal their truth.

Life is a Journey - Not a Destination
[Self-Improvement] Life is a journey, not a destination is a phrase that has become popular. Have you pondered the true meaning of this statement? If you have, you no doubt, recognize that, life is a journey with many steps on your unique personal journey that takes you down a winding and sometimes bumpy road of constant evolution.

Healthy Emotional Patterns - Create Them
[Self-Improvement] You might notice that you are irritable albeit seemingly because someone did or said something that crossed an invisible line or ruffled your sensibilities. Thus, you have experienced the phenomenon of a former emotional pattern being triggered.

Beyond Indoctrinations and Adaptations
[Self-Improvement] If you look beyond what you have been taught by family, religion, education, society, culture, you can attain a broader perspective about, who you truly are. Looking beyond is a process of connecting to your feelings to stretch your horizons. This process is part of the hero's journey and is what you came here to do.

Self-Empowerment - Stay in the Moment
[Self-Improvement:Empowerment] Remember only this moment is real-all possible future moments is speculation. There are many factors over which you have little control. It is nearly impossible to determine what could transpire in any given situation, and the more you recognize this, the easier it becomes to accept the unknown and roll with the punches.

US Elects Multiracial President
[News-and-Society] During the recent U.S. presidential campaign, the 'talking heads' referred to Barack Obama as possibly the first black president. This puzzles and outrages me. Why? Because calling Barack Obama black is denouncing his Caucasian ancestry. This is racial discrimination of a different kind, but none-the-less racial discrimination.

Law of Attraction - Answers to Life's Questions Lie Within
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] When you realize you have access to the part of you that is part of the whole-the universal knowledge a.k.a collective unconscious-you will realize all you need to do is allow you inner compass to direct you. Then you can stop searching outside yourself for the answers you seek. If you listen from within, trust and embrace the wisdom that lives within you, you will be able to navigate your life confidently.

Perfectly Imperfect
[Self-Improvement] When you realize you are perfectly imperfect as everyone else, it will be easier for you to accept and feel comfortable in your own skin. That is not to say that self-improvement is unnecessary, quite the opposite. The soul's sole purpose for being on this earth plane is for emotional and spiritual growth.

Abundance - Create It - From the Inside Out
[Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] Humans seek to feel complete and whole-the crux of the matter is how. Accumulating more helps you feel full, complete or whole, but, it is only temporary. Once you recognize that it is only a temporary feeling you will become more aware that you have the power to make conscious and beneficial choices to enhance your life from the inside out.

Feelings - Expression Creates Better Communication
[Self-Improvement] When others know how you feel it gives them an opportunity to modify their behavior. Expressing your feelings also gives you a sense of control over your response to their comments. People say things in the style they have become accustomed, not realizing it could be offensive to anyone, unless, they are told in an open, honest, direct manner.

Respect - A Valuable Asset
[Self-Improvement] With your integrity in place you can be more open-minded in your professional or personal interactions. You might realize that by being respectful and accepting of differing ideas you can achieve more when working with others. Making a concerted effort to navigate between both sides of an issue and seeking mutual agreeable solutions to issues, you can be more effective in your interactions.

Breathe - Consciously
[Self-Improvement] While you might perceive your breath as only a means of providing your body with oxygen, there is another seldom acknowledged purpose. Your breath is also a powerful tool that can be used to become more cognizant (breathing consciously) of what you are doing.

Magic Mirror on the Wall--Who...?
[Self-Improvement] When things go awry as they sometimes will, you might point at someone or something and cry foul. Magic Mirror on the Wall-Who thwarted my efforts today?* Blaming someone or something else is an easy out-letting yourself off the hook, without needing to face the truth of the matter.

Accepting and Acknowledging Feelings - Key to Peace of Mind and Health
[Self-Improvement] Acknowledging and managing powerful feelings can be challenging, especially when you are going through a lot at once. Sometimes, it may seem like you have only two options to avoid being overwhelmed. Learn how to manage powerful feelings.

Is Experiencing Your Past Lives in Your Future?
[Self-Improvement] Past life regression is an excellent way to find the source of destructive patterns in your life and to transform those patterns. Past life regression also provides a deeper insight into yourself. If you do not believe in past lifetimes it does not mean that you did not bring fragments of past lives into the present.

Rest - Guilt Free
[Self-Improvement] Many people believe that if one needs to rest, it is wasting time, as they do not recognize the benefits of working in a relaxed, focused and high energy mode. Research reveals we reap great rewards when we devote some part of our day to activities that allow us to unwind and compose ourselves after periods of intense effort. We discover that when we enjoy resting with no guilt we can focus more intently on the objectives we have before us.

Intuition - Heed It
[Self-Improvement] If you listen to your intuition closely, you will notice that you do not need to pour over decisions in great detail in order to do what seems natural and unplanned. If you need to make a choice, take a few minutes to ask yourself the question: "Is this the right thing to do?"

Life's Purpose - Tune In
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] The need to delve more deeply into yourself and reflect on your life is important for your well-being and peace of mind. The time you spend focusing on yourself is vitally important. You need to carve out time to be alone to contemplate the purpose of your life's journey.

Sex Offenders Groom Their Victims
[News-and-Society] Sex offenders often 'groom' their victims prior to any sexual abuse for a period of weeks, months or even years. When the parent(s) is physically or emotionally absent it makes the child the most vulnerable to cunning sex offenders.

Is Honesty the Best Policy?
[Self-Improvement] Nearly everyone agrees, Honesty is the best policy. Yet, when push comes to shove, many people tell a little white lie to avoid hurting someone's feelings, or facing oneself. This article discusses the rationale of 'little white lies,' and if/when a 'white lie' is acceptable.

Ageless Life - Create It
[Self-Improvement] Your mind, body and spirit are all you truly have in your life that is of real value. Oh, yeah-you have a lot of stuff-car, house, boat, vacations, clothes, jewelry and the list goes on. But, without a healthy mind, body and spirit, what do you really have? Only you can answer that question.

Trust - Good Fortune is There For You
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Integrating the spiritual into your life allows you to be more capable in all aspects of your existence. The spiritual allows you to be aware of the far-reaching effects of the power of trust. When you use all your talents and spiritual awareness, your actions will have a lasting and positive impact on everyone and everything in your life.

Sex Offender Profile
[News-and-Society] According to Finkelhor (Finkelhor, 1984; Araji and Finkelhor, 1985) there are four components that contribute, in differing degrees and forms, to development of a child molester's behavior. To explain the diversity of behavior of sexual abusers, there are four factors in a complementary process. These four factors are sexual arousal, emotional congruence, blockage, and disinhibition:

Emotional Malnutrition-Warning Signs
[Self-Improvement] Humans need-physical, emotional and spiritual-nourishment to thrive. The majority of people need healing in all three. When humans are emotionally malnourished-a.k.a. unmet self-esteem needs, they do things to compensate. The majority of people have emotional malnutrition, but few are conscious of this seemingly innocuous deprivation.

Self-Esteem - Foundation For Self-Trust
[Self-Improvement] Creating self-esteem to push beyond ones comfort zone ensures that when you face demanding situations, you will have the courage, strength and determination to follow through. If you second-guess yourself you will erode your self-esteem without realizing what is taking place behind the scene.

Are You Avoiding Yourself?
[Self-Improvement] Your life is comprised of everything you do-showering, brushing your teeth and sleeping, with everything in between. However, there is often a plethora of busy work that distracts and keeps you from connecting with yourself. Experiencing your life from the inside takes time each day to be alone and quiet in the presence of your soul.

How Resourceful Are You?
[Self-Improvement] Some people seem to be very resourceful and clever. Being truly resourceful is as easy as understanding your blessings and using the gifts the universe gives you to use to the best of your ability. What!? The universe gives gifts?

What You Don't Know - Doesn't Mean it Doesn't Exist
[Self-Improvement] If you can not see something that does not mean it does not exist. This is the common belief in which people deny the existence of angels, spirit guides, and other unseen helpers. If you have encountered such unseen helpers, you know that they exist, albeit you can not 'prove it.'

Ask For Assistance - Others Will Learn Too
[Self-Improvement] Remember we are all here as teachers and likewise students. You can make it easier for yourself and others when you ask for assistance. When you ask someone for assistance, not only are you learning he/she is learning too.

Life is a Challenge
[Self-Improvement] "Life is difficult," were the first words in the first chapter of "The Road Less Traveled" by M. Scott Peck. I would have preferred Peck wrote "Life is a challenge," because the word, 'difficult,' sets up a mind-set that implies it could be insurmountable. However, the word, 'challenge,' stirs our motivation to a greater height and 'challenges' us to succeed.

Past Life Regression - The Benefits II
[Self-Improvement] The purpose of experiencing a past life is to learn what has prompted you to make the choices you have made and heal the emotional distress which creates havoc. The most powerful gift of experiencing a past life is healing past emotional traumas to help one to make good choices in the current life.

Determination and Perseverance - Keys to Success
[Self-Improvement] When you are intensely determined to reach your goals, regardless of the obstacles you encounter, you will muster the persistence and perseverance to carry you through. It is the lack of determination and persistence to succeed that creates lack of goal achievement. Your determination and ambition will give you a well from which to draw strength as you face challenges and obstacles that could derail your progress.

Let Your Light Shine
[Self-Improvement] See yourself as a lighthouse, whereby you continue to shine through the darkness, offering your light to help others find their way back to their own light. You can send a silent prayer of peace or a sympathetic smile. You may sense that reaching out to offer a comforting touch or hug can ease their tension and their clouds might lift.

Healing Emotional Hurts
[Self-Improvement] The very thought of processing old hurts might bring up feelings of resistance, especially if, on the surface, ones' life seems to otherwise be in order. What is wrong with me? You might ask yourself. Why can't I just get on with my life? The list of shame and blame is endless, which only serves to reinforce the feeling of hurt.

Leave Your Burdens Behind
[Self-Improvement] Imagination is a powerful human tool, and you can use it to take journeys to places without leaving your home. Because of this ability, you can lay your burdens down at the feet of a powerful being greater than yourself, Buddha or a mountain, whichever feels right for you. Thus, you can relieve yourself from everything that is weighing you down.

Authentic Life - Create It
[Self-Improvement] By living authentically, I mean living in one's truth. If a person has made the decision to live authentically and she/he is willing to engage in the requisite work, it is easy to coach people to get in touch with their authentic self and to live authentically.

Soul Searching
[Self-Improvement] Soul-searching is the act of facing one's inmost self with courage and determination to bring every unconscious thought, emotion, beliefs, motives and behavior patterns to light. Soul-searching is a process of introspection, self-contemplation, self-examination - the contemplation of thoughts and desires and conduct.

Confident Spirit - Create It
[Self-Improvement] Keeping a confident spirit will impel you to venture into new and uncharted territory in your personal and professional life. Making a change from the routine in your life will thrust you into the spirit of a pioneer, searching for ways to expand your horizons.

Seeing the Lighter Side of Life
[Self-Improvement] Seeing the lighter side of life allows you to delight in the joys of the world around you. While there may be many issues that concern you, it is important to think of life in positive and humorous ways.

Feeling Lost Or Stuck in Life - What to Do
[Self-Improvement] Do you sometimes feel a little lost and have the sense that your life is spinning in the same old channel? You might be feeling stuck in unsatisfactory circumstances or have trouble making progress on any changes you have worked on. Surprisingly, this is a good place to be.

Celebrity Reveals Sexual Child Abuse
[News-and-Society] In her autobiography, "Home: A Memoir of My Early Years," Julie Andrews reveals the all too often kept dark secret of sexual abuse. Andrews reveals that when she was fifteen, her stepfather, who was drunk lunged toward her saying, "I really must teach you how to kiss properly."

Coping Mechanisms - Help or Hindrance
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Many people have coping mechanisms that have been developed from a young age, that worked then, but as an adult are a hindrance to living life fully. In times of stress, these behaviors worked to get you through challenges with the least amount of pain and are the ones you continue to repeat, even when part of you knows they are no longer viable.

Nurture Your Expectations
[Self-Improvement] Do you nurture your expectations to ensure that your intentions and desires are broadcast to a benevolent universe? There are a plethora of ethereal forces that are poised to aid you as you seek to manifest success in your life, provided you solicit help and make your desires known. When your thoughts are optimistic and concerned with your eventual triumphs, you attract the aid and resources you need to achieve your goals.

The Rest Of Your Life Starts With The Present
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] Do you see each day as the 'First day of the rest of your life?' Seeing each day as the 'First day of the rest of your life,' is embodied in the Law of Attraction and Abundance. The past, present and future are all one, each day is the first day of the rest of your life. Your past is how you came into your present and your present is how you will create the future. What will you do with your present to create your future?

Forgiveness - Releasing Guilt
[Self-Improvement] Being able to accept what is or what you might perceive to be wrong can be a difficult task. We are taught to accept that it is normal to feel guilty or shame about our actions and that by doing so we will make everything seem right within ourselves.

Commitment - Profound Spiritual Journey
[Relationships:Commitment] A committed relationship is the most profound spiritual journey that you can undertake. By being able to love and care for someone with an open heart, you will find that you reach a greater level of personal transformation. You will evolve along your path and learn powerful lessons about yourself that you might not otherwise be able to do on your own. This article discusses the process of developing the depth and breadth of your spiritual journey with one another.

Desires - Realized One Step At A Time
[Self-Improvement] Your desire to evolve as an individual may be stirring within your soul. You may feel studious, and your concentration may be stronger than usual. Intellectual pursuits can excite and inspire you, leading you to delve more deeply into a topic or discipline. However, you may not know where to begin to bring your desire to fruition.

Intuitive Perception - Develop It
[Self-Improvement] Paying attention to yours or other's intentions and feelings allows you to live a more fulfilling life. When you are tuned into what you truly desire and need-and are not guided by yours or other's actions and words-you can create a life of substance based on who you truly are.

Guidance From The Universe - Law of Attraction
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] When you ask the universe for divine guidance it can be challenging to trust what comes to fruition. Divine guidance comes in many forms and sometimes what you desire comes in segments rather than the entire enchilada. This article focuses on how to accept the process of divine guidance unfolding.

How To Forgive Others' Mistakes
[Self-Improvement] When you forgive others' mistakes, you demonstrate your awareness and acceptance of human fragilities. It is easy to forget sometimes that people are imperfect, that they make errors in judgment, and are forever growing as people.

Ten Tips To Clear The Clutter In Your Mind
[Self-Improvement] Practice these ten tips for thirty days and you will notice a significant difference in your life. At the end of thirty days of practice, you will have created a new habit pattern to keep your mind cleared.

Being Who You Truly Are - Is Enough
[Self-Improvement] Many clients come to me to discover their purpose in life. "What is my purpose," has become the latest social buzz. You might wonder if you have missed understanding what you need to accomplish. You witness Oprah Winfrey's 'Big Give,' and you wonder what is my 'Big Give?" You might feel incomplete, or empty, as if your life does not make sense or count. You continually seek to find an idea for a major accomplishment.

Corporal Punishment - Low Self Control and Low Self-Esteem
[News-and-Society:Crime] Straus said his study is consistent with other studies, which show corporal punishment leads to low self control and self esteem, as well as aggressiveness, antisocial personalities and the understanding that violence is okay, which may lead to sexual coercion. He emphasized there are alternative ways to discipline children that work better and do not have side effects.

Corporal Punishment - Study Results
[News-and-Society] Corporal punishment, spanking, paddling or hitting a child is a heatedly debated social issue in many countries. Questions exist as to whether children are harmed by being hit for discipline, or whether it is an effective method of discipline.

Belief In Your Ability
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Having strong beliefs about your ability will fuel your confidence and you will feel comfortable while exploring unfamiliar territory. Situations that might otherwise give your pause will not be able to divert you from your chosen course when you have a strong belief about your ability. When you earnestly believe in yourself, you will boldly venture forth into new worlds of opportunity.

Antidepressants - Research Study
[Health-and-Fitness:Depression] Lead researcher, Professor Irving Kirsch from the Psychology department at the University of Hull, said, "The difference in improvement between patients taking placebos and patients taking antidepressants is not very great. This means that depressed people can improve without chemical treatments. Given these results, there seems little reason to prescribe antidepressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients, unless treatments have failed to provide a benefit. This study raises serious issues that need to be addressed surrounding drug licensing and how drug trial data is reported."

Are You Neglecting Your Emotional Needs?
[Self-Improvement] If you are feeling overwhelmed, stressed or out of sorts, maybe it is because you have neglected to spend full attention to connecting with your emotional needs. Consider how you can create time to have a balance between work and projects. Creating time to be with loved ones is easier than you might think. It is a matter of putting family and friends on your list of priorities.

Whose Fault - Or - Whose Responsibility?
[Self-Improvement] Fault and Responsibility are worlds apart and each creates a unique and powerful impact and outome in your life and the life of those around you. This article clearly and concisely defines the difference between fault and responsibility. In addition, this article identifies how anyone can change the outcome of any situation.

Natural Healing - Life Force Energy
[Health-and-Fitness] Life Force Energy (LFE) is described as Chi or Prana in Eastern cultures. This LFE is located in seven areas of the body, known as Chakras. The term Chakra originated from Sanskrit meaning "wheel," because of the circular shape to the spinning energy centers which exist in our subtle (etheric) body, which is the non-material counterpart of our physical one.

Intuitive Ability - Create It
[Self-Improvement] It seems at times our minds are more intellectually heightened with clarity than others. These heightened moments of intellectual clarity, helps us make wiser decisions. Since mental clarity and intuitive awareness work together, you might want to spend time strengthening your intuitive ability to solve dilemmas, overcome obstacles, or create a more rewarding fulfilling life.

Complaining Is Good - If
[Self-Improvement] Do you frequently complain or do you know someone who frequently complains about this, that and something else? Those who complain frequently have elevated the process to a highly honed art form. Sometimes it is funny, sometimes exhausting or frustrating. Sound familiar? This article defines the use of negative and positive complaining. Transforming/shifting complaining into a useful experience is a twofold process.

Natural Laws Of The Universe
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] The natural Laws of the Universe include: Perpetual Transmutation; Relativity; Vibration and Attraction; Polarity; Rhythm; Cause and Effect; and Gender. Each law is in constant motion regardless of whether one believes in their existence or not. This article defines these laws clearly and concisely.

Intuitive Wisdom
[Self-Improvement] We often think of empowerment as a quality that arises from a place of firm determination and a will to succeed no matter the cost. Although you might think being empowered is defined as such, what truly propels people's confidence is their capacity for listening to who they truly are and being able to call upon their intuitive wisdom in any situation that arises.

Stop The World - I Want Off (Temporarily)
[Self-Improvement] Have you ever wished you could stop the world while you take time to relax, regroup, resolve something and then return to your life in a renewed state? Making time to reflect and resolve issues can be a powerful process. Setting your intention to heal and learn more about, who you truly are, is a decision that only you can make.

That Which You Resist Persists
[Self-Improvement] Are you repeatedly struggling with the same issue, no matter how hard you have worked to ignore, avoid, run away from or change it? You may have noticed in the past that you could simply push something away and you seemed to be rid of it. Or were you really rid of it?

Empower Yourself - Achieve Your Goals
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] You need to engage in introspection to determine what limiting beliefs are beneath your conscious awareness. What are you telling yourself about your skills and talent? A strong belief in your ability to succeed gives you a sense of empowerment and determination to overcome any obstacle.

Perspective Creates Attitude
[Self-Improvement] Every day we face a myriad of chores, errands or responsibilities, which might seem insurmountable or that we dread doing. With a perspective of dread or being overwhelmed you have created an attitude of failure. It is at times like these that we allow our perspective to create a bad mood.

Creative Insight
[Self-Improvement] Creative insights allow you to work through the aspects of each challenge and discover unique ways to overcome them, and you can continue on your path with barely a pause. If you apply your creative insight to your challenges, you can find the endurance to move your plans forward in a highly effective way.

Spiritual Self - Who You Truly Are
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] When you listen from your spiritual self, the logical web of the ego tends to soften and melt, which enables you to perceive the interconnectedness beneath the division and categories you use to organize your world. When you understand that your spiritual self underlies the ego, you understand this interconnectedness underlies everything.

Are You Stuck and Can't Get Up?
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Like the commercial for an electronic device to call for help - Are You Stuck And Can't Get Up? Being stuck in old behavior patterns is as troublesome as falling down and not being able to get up. Through your many incarnations, your subconscious mind stores every thought, word and deed that you experienced. Some of these experiences were damaging to all levels of your consciousness and becomes a block that gets in the way of your spiritual growth and life success.

Winter Blues - How To Survive
[Self-Improvement] Many people experience the winter season as doom and gloom. They forget that the four seasons have a purpose for all living things. The tree leaves fall from the branches to give the tree an opportunity to go dormant and to rejuvenate for the coming spring when the tree will blossom and make seeds to create more trees.

Loneliness - Catalyst For Transformation
[Self-Improvement] Loneliness is an incomplete understanding of our existence. We can think of our belief about loneliness as a catalyst for exploring our ideas about reality. We can respond by testing the boundaries we believe separate us from the life within and around us. When we test, we will discover that the boundaries are not as solid as we perceive them to be and that we are not alone.

Creative Imagination - Manifest Your Desires
[Self-Improvement] Your fears and doubts about your ability to manifest what you desire can keep you from setting a goal. You may struggle to come up with creative ideas, as well as flounder about when to put an idea into motion. By reaching out to the universe for help and guidance on any project, you open the door to inspiration in the form of creative ideas, insights, and instruction. Manifesting grand projects can be a simple matter of listening closely to the guidance you receive and allowing your inspired outlook to carry you to the finish line.

Explore New Experiences - Eighteen Tips
[Self-Improvement] Are you feeling adventurous and want to seek new experiences to expand your consciousness? Choosing to expand your thoughts and experiences creates a sense of excitement and fulfillment. Your desire for adventure is usually a signal that you need more excitement in your life. This is especially true if you have followed the same routine for a long time. You might sense that your activities have become stagnant and mundane.

Poverty Mentality - Are You Carrying It?
[Self-Improvement] Many people have been indoctrinated to believe that in order to do well in the world, we are subjected to suffering and sacrifice. This indoctrination stems from a mind-set, passed down from generation to generation.

Goal Achievement - Tips To Make It Easier
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] By evaluating what you need to achieve and the steps you need to take to execute your plan, you can determine whether you are still on track or if adjustments need to be made. If you discover that your long-term goals have changed, then spend time to develop a new strategy.

Corporal Punishment - Ban Enacted
[News-and-Society] In the United States corporal punishment of children in school is legal in twenty-two states, and "reasonable" corporal punishment of children by their parents/caretakers is legal in every state except Minnesota (Bitensky, 1998). Prohibition of corporal punishment in family day care, group homes/institutions, child care centers, and family foster care varies according to state laws (EPOCH-USA, 1999b).

Inner Wisdom
[Self-Improvement] Events-the New Year, completing a project, finishing school or beginning something anew- often compels us to be introspective, with a desire for deeper insights about oneself. You might want to understand the origins of your desires, overcome limiting behaviors, or seek a better understanding of your motivations.

New Year - New Beginnings
[Self-Improvement] Each year people make New Year's resolutions as a declaration of commitment to themselves to make changes in their lives. Have you wondered how effective resolutions are? Do you achieve your New Year's resolutions? If you achieve your New Year's resolutions you are in the minority. Surveys suggest that less than one percent of New Year's resolutions are achieved. It is merely a ritual people have followed for decades. The question is, "Do you want to make changes in your life?" Making a resolution to accomplish something without a plan to achieve it is like putting gasoline into a car that doesn't have an engine.

Corporal Punishment Ban - Opponents' Fears
[News-and-Society] New Zealand passed legislation to prohibit corporal punishment by anyone, including in the home environment, May 2007. Opponents of the ban feared it would lead to a flood of prosecutions against good parents, who believed their parental rights were violated or a parent, who simply reverted to old habits.

Relationships - Enhance Mutual Well-Being
[Self-Improvement] Our everyday life is impacted by a variety of people-from neighbors, friends, family to the boss who pays our salary. Some people are a joy to interact with, and their presence adds comfort and/or joy to our lives. Others may drain our energy-thus leaving us tired and exhausted. Your well-being is easily influenced by those you interact with, and if you keep this in mind, you will have greater insights into the quality of your interactions and their energetic effect on you.

Wisdom - Lies Within
[Self-Improvement] Engaging in quiet periods of reflection can help you forge a stronger connection with our inner wisdom, thus, revealing the guidance you seek for your life. These periods of reflection can also be effected through formal or informal meditation.

Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Experience
[Self-Improvement] The mind is more powerful than the majority of people recognize. You might notice yourself thinking a certain way, knowing that your thoughts may be creating trouble for you, yet you find it difficult to stop.

Trust Yourself - Three Tips To Live By
[Self-Improvement] Having a trusting and grounded relationship with yourself allows you to open up to others. Most often apprehension in your relationships comes from a fear of being upset by someone-a concern that stems more from your internal uncertainty than from the other person.

Gifts - Claim Yours
[Self-Improvement] As human beings we have a tendency to ignore or fight against using our natural gifts. Natural gifts are as simple as intuition or artistic ability to psychic/medium. Many success stories start with an individual who is ignoring the call of his/her gifts. There are many possible reasons for this resistance - fear that the calling will be too difficult to a disbelief in the very work one is being asked to do is egotistical.

Corporal Punishment - Ban Passed
[News-and-Society] The new law: Article 32a. The right to good treatment. All children and young people have a right to be treated well. This right includes a non-violent education and upbringing, based on love, affection, mutual understanding and respect, and solidarity.

Corporal Punishment - Ban Considered
[News-and-Society] Research indicates that corporal punishment is harmful on many levels and it has harmful long-range consequences. 'Normal' corporal punishment during childhood is a risk factor for negative outcomes in adulthood, including substance abuse, depression suicidal thoughts and poverty. 'Normal,' corporal punishment and as the law calls it, 'reasonable' corporal punishment is spanking on the bottom with an open hand.

Success - Two Key Factors
[Self-Improvement] While you may be tempted to abort your plans and come up with new ones, you might want to work on building up your belief in yourself and your objectives. The more you believe in yourself and your ability to succeed against all odds, the less shaken you will be by challenges.

Empathy - Key To Compassion
[Self-Improvement] When you connect to the universality of humanity in everyone, you generate a greater ability to empathize with others. By connecting with the human details in others and visualizing their life as the same as yours helps you to understand that we are all one.

Confidence - Let Yourself Shine
[Self-Improvement] When you hold up a detailed mirror to your life and weigh yourself against your ideal image of yourself, you might not be able to see the things that make you truly unique. Giving yourself permission to appreciate all the universe has given you, however, will prompt you to feel more secure about yourself and more able to use your gifts and talents to their fullest.

Responsibilities - Pleasing Others or Obligation
[Self-Improvement] When you feel obligations to others simply to bolster your own desire to feel responsible, you may be inclined to neglect your own needs. It is important to remember that maturity comes from understanding your own needs first. By gaining insight into the true nature of your responsibilities, you will determine the obligations that are the most essential for you in the now.

Feelings - Acknowledge Them
[Self-Improvement] The complexity of your thoughts and feelings might prompt you to feel frustrated. It might seem like your thoughts and feelings are at odds with each other and that understanding them, may seem overwhelming or impossible. It is best then to focus on being at ease with and accepting everything that arises. As a feeling occurs, take a minute to verbally acknowledge it. When you name the feeling, take time to be with it.

Aha Moments - Scientific Evidence
[Self-Improvement] Being able to see challenging situations from a different perspective will open your mind to new possibilities and solutions. It is easy to become blinded by your situation when you are enmeshed in the struggle to figure it out. If you lift your focus higher and choose a different perspective, you can gain a greater sense of clarity about your circumstances.

Love - Choose It
[Relationships:Love] Every action we take is based in love or fear, not just those dealing with relationships. Decisions affecting business, industry, governments, religion, education, social agenda, economic goals, war, peace, attack, defense, aggression, submission, and the list goes on based on the only two possible mind-sets - love or fear.

Positive Attitude - Ten Tips
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Integrating a spirit of joy and enthusiasm (positive attitude) in your actions leads to creative power in your goal achievement. Negative energy weighs heavily, positive energy has the ability to energize and motivate. It is your mood and mind-set that makes the difference regarding the energy you emanate. Choosing to bring forth thoughts of joy and enthusiasm will compel you to feel lighter, and you become more inspired to give your best effort to your goals.

Corporal Punishment - Proposed Legislation
[News-and-Society] If this proposal does become law and parents are caught hitting their children who are under the age of 18, they could be charged with abuse or neglect. Hotly debated, lawmakers in Massachusetts are set to make a proposed ban legal on all corporal punishment of children, including in the home setting. State Rep. Jay Kaufman filed the spanking ban petition at the request of an Arlington, Mass., nurse who wants Massachusetts to become the first state in the country to stop corporal punishment, including in the home setting.

Corporal Punishment - Ban Proposed
[News-and-Society] U.S. laws and cultural values are unambiguous concerning adults who physically hit or verbally threaten adults. Such behavior is recognized as criminal, and we hold the perpetrators accountable. Why then when so much is at stake for society, do we accept the physical attack of children? The answer is not complicated.

Healthy Emotional Patterns
[Self-Improvement] If you notice you are sometimes irritable in your personal relationships, it no doubt has been triggered by an emotional pattern. To establish healthy emotional patterns you need to work on recognizing your emotions as they arise and understand what prompted them.

Coaching or Counseling - The Difference
[Self-Improvement] It seems that everyone either has a councelor or a coach. I wear the title of Life Coach/Hypnotherapist a.k.a Metaphysical Healer-Mind, Body and Spirit. I am often asked what the difference is between a coach and a counselor-how to know which is needed.

Expand Your Horizon
[Self-Improvement] In order to realize a dream, you need to open your mind and broaden your horizons, especially if you have been feeling unfulfilled with your current challenges and activities. By keeping an open mind and inviting new opportunities for growth, you expand your horizons and discover new aspects of who you truly are.

Good Parenting Means Good Role Modeling
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] The old adage, "Do as I say, Not as I do," has not worked in the past and certainly does not work today, when children are exposed to a plethora of ideas, styles and limitless options they can sample. The term role model was introduced by Robert K. Merton, a distinguished American sociologist best known for having coined the phrase "self-fulfilling prophecy."

Leadership - Fourteen Characteristics
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] Being a leader means more than telling others what to do. If you make an effort to cultivate and refine leadership qualities, others will listen to you, not because they have to, but because they want to. As you embody your leadership qualities, you give people-including yourself-a glimpse of what you are capable of doing.

Decision Making - Three Easy Steps
[Self-Improvement:Success] Often times, people think a decision needs to be made immediately, as if the house was on fire or an intruder is crawling through a window. The sense of urgency you feel is merely a limitation you place on yourself.

Independence - Creates Self Confidence
[Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] Independence and self-confidence will positively affect all aspects of your life. Your confident feelings will also prompt you to think about ways you can separate yourself from the ordinary; the mundane and thus express your individuality more.

Breathe Easier This Holiday Season - 12 Tips
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] A recent Mayo Clinic report reminds us that relaxation needs to be at the top of your 'to-do list,' along with other important items. Research suggests that you can start by not mulling over old issues, because hanging onto past events only increases mental and physical stress, which in turn causes frustration and anger. Purposefully turning your thoughts in another direction creates room in your mind, so that you can deal with an issue more effectively at a later time.

Creativity - Unleash Your Potential
[Self-Improvement:Creativity] Without creativity life is dull or has little joy. Your creativity fills the empty spaces and defies gravity in a dance on a stage. With your creativity you feed the void of emptiness in people's hearts and minds to help them ponder the great mysteries of the universe and to create their own creative potential.

Before 'What The Bleep Do We Know?' - Before 'The Secret'
[Self-Improvement] It is foolish to think that our understanding of the Universe was completed in 1938 when physicists Otto Han and Fritz Strassman split the atom in Germany - first generating fission-released energy. Likewise, it is foolish to think that the Universe is comprised of only that which we can see, touch, smell or quantify. Thus, 'The Secret,' was a viable concept since the beginning.

Create A Fantastic Day
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, it is easy to allow a bad mood to creep in, and that bad mood has a way of spiraling and affecting your life for several days. In the same way, if you feel bad about yourself, you tend to act in ways that have repercussions, again creating a negative vibe that can negatively influence several days.

Healing - Emotional, Physical and Spiritual - The Process
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] The answers that you seek are deep inside you. Your Higher Self - a.k.a. Spirit or Soul resides in the deepest part of your being. Allowing your Higher Self to come through and guide you is the most effective healing process. Through hypnosis you will identify the core issue by tracing the pain back to it's point of origin.

Doctor, Lawyer, Janitor, Teacher - Distinct Identity
[Self-Improvement] Dedicating yourself to your work/career gives you the sense of a distinct identity-doctor, lawyer, cashier, pilot, nurse, janitor, teacher, et al. Separating yourself from your work gives you a healthier perspective of who you truly are.

See Life Through A Child's Eyes
[Self-Improvement] Sometimes adults get caught up in what they think is necessary and important with all their responsibilities and tasks. In so doing, we sacrifice the joy and playfulness that is our birthright. Integrating a sense of play and fun, however, makes life seem fresh and new, which increases our spirit for living. Life becomes a pleasure once we realize the wonder of our playful spirit. Being full of fun and seeing the world through a child's eyes will add a greater dense of delight, thrill and humor to your life.

Weight Loss, Smoking and Habit Cessation - Can Hypnosis Help?
[Health-and-Fitness:Quit-Smoking] The subconscious mind is a tool most people unknowingly misunderstand or surpass. The subconscious mind holds every experience, every thought and feeling associated with those experiences and thoughts. In a conscious state, people use only 10 percent of the brain's ability. With hypnosis you can utilize 100% of your brain's ability.

Create A Healthy, Balanced And Fulfilling Life
[Self-Improvement] The majority of people, especially men, are indoctrinated and rewarded for holding back their emotions. However, this holding back is foolhardy, because, feelings are energy and will eventually break through the self-imposed barrier.

Acceptance - Empower Yourself
[Self-Improvement:Empowerment] Many people believe that busyness or restlessness is synonymous with being happy and productive. Busyness, restlessness or agitation can be a reflection of an internal impatience with one's life. Learning to accept things as they are can help calm one's mind and allow one to notice the aspects of life that are rewarding.

Intimacy - Create Emotional Fulfillment
[Self-Improvement] The fulfillment we experience in life comes through caring or loving deeply about someone or something-even if it is a job. Thus, being willing to care or love deeply opens the door to betrayal.

Holiday Family Gathering - Obligation Or Joyous Choice?
[Self-Improvement] Holidays bring family members together, who otherwise might not spend time visiting. You might feel you are choosing to come together for the holiday more from a sense of obligation than the joy of seeing them. When you are with people from your past, you might feel challenged by an identity warp. There is likely to be a gap between the person you know yourself to be and how you are seen by those who are locked into an old paradigm.

Corporal Punishment - Proposed Ban
[News-and-Society] The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has formed a working group to debate the question of protecting children against violence and corporal punishment in schools and evolve a policy. The panel, headed by Dipa Dixit, member, NCPCR, is expected to submit its final report on January 31, 2008. The committee held its first meeting on October 22 and formed subgroups to look at related topics such as existing rules, strategies for advocacy and the legal issues involved.

Thankful Contemplation and Thoughts Of Gratitude
[News-and-Society] Everyday is Thanksgiving, an opportunity to have a meaningful exchange with everyone you meet. Enjoy your days of thankful contemplation and thoughts of gratitude.

Courage Creates Strength
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Everyone has certain personality archetypes that we carry within. Eric Berne, M.D. described this as the inner child-adoptive, rebellious, free, nurturer or critical. These archetypes present themselves in varying degrees. You might have a lot of courage, others might be less courageous to the point they are unable to stand up for themselves, even when necessary. There are many reasons for this. Ones parents might have been overly critical and therefore, one learns to repress their courage. On the other hand if one's parents lacked courage, a child will grow up with little courage as well.

Self - Defining Characteristic
[Self-Improvement] When you have a spontaneous urge to find ways to nurture yourself, you pave the way for a healthier lifestyle. Your nurture-seeking impulses are often the result of filling an unmet need; or a reluctance to risk being rejected or having unmet needs. Give yourself a healthy treat today that connects you to your Divine self, and you will discover the true meaning of pleasure.

Compassion - Be The Change You Want To See
[Self-Improvement] Your efforts in showing compassion can help to educate and inspire others to be more open-minded. Whether you express compassion in small ways or volunteer your time to an organization, your efforts are well-worth your time and energy.

Equal Rights Amendment - Is It Worth The Down Side?
[News-and-Society] To date, twenty-one states have added the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to their state constitutions, and unlike the Federal Government, states must comply with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. All of these state-level amendments, like the proposed Federal ERA, prohibit discrimination based on gender.

Honor and Embrace Yourself
[Self-Improvement] When you trust yourself and your inner voice, you teach those around you to trust their inner voice. When you practice honoring and embracing all that you are, you are metaphorically clasping your hands with everyone who is walking through the journey of life. Furthermore, you allow all to see the self-respect you possess, while accepting their respect.

Law Of Attraction - Be Specific
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] Do you notice that sometimes your desires and expectations to achieve your goals seem to compel restlessness. Knowing what you desire in life, but not being sure how to get it creates internal conflict which compels you to feel on edge.

Compliments - A Gift
[Self-Improvement] How often have you given someone a compliment and the recipient brushed it off. "Oh I was just lucky." "That is no big deal." "I could have done better, but____." In other words the person did not accept your compliment. One could call this rude social behavior, however, there is a deeper and more profound reason.

Mind Games - How To Avoid Them
[Self-Improvement] Many people have been taught and indoctrinated to communicate deceptively-to play mind games or go on power trips in the service of their ego agenda. Those who use this style of communication are ineffective at best and destructive at worst. You may get caught up in thinking you have to play the same games in order to defend yourself, but that will only lead you deeper into confusion and conflict. The best way to relate to people is open, honest, direct and appropriate.

Healthier Relationships
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] More often than not when you become upset by the words or actions of another, your emotions reveal an issue within yourself that you are not willing to face. If you can see these situations as opportunities to resolve your fears or uncertainties, you can learn to explore your emotional responses and work through the issues they reveal. You can then use this new awareness to improve your relationships. Going inward and exploring your emotional responses will help you to understand your relationships and bring them into harmony.

Life-Long Student - The Spice of Life
[Self-Improvement] Since, at the present time, 66% of all men and women in the world are over 65 for the first time in the history of the world, perhaps one of the most important questions of our time may be how to foster this level of development in homes, schools, and communities. There are significant social, political, and economic issues at stake.

Experience - Share It
[Self-Improvement] The experiences you share could bring someone to a new level of understanding. Think about how you want to share your wisdom, especially if it pertains to life matters where you feel especially knowledgeable and grateful. Sharing your experiences can serve other people's growth as much as your own, and you contribute to the transformation of the human collective process every time you transform yourself. You also can see how far you have come, when you share with others.

Receptive - Be Open To Receive What You Desire
[Self-Improvement] Unknowingly, many people go through life with defenses they developed early in life in order to protect themselves. These defenses were, no doubt, appropriate then, to feel safe, but now they serve to shut out desired experiences, like intimacy or love. An essential part of being receptive to what you desire is to soften your barriers enough to let in what you desire when it shows up.

Past Life - The Past Is Still Present
[Self-Improvement] Your past effects you everyday in many ways, from the degree of your health to the lack of health; to the amount of money you have; the debt you owe; the relationships that create indescribable joy (or unexpected pain). Every belief that is creating your life today can be directly traced back to events in this or previous lives.

Flexibility-Create A Dynamic Experience
[Self-Improvement] Being flexible allows you to experience new and exiting ways to live life. Sometimes you want to play it safe and guard everything you do, which can leave you feeling limited and restricted. If you allow yourself to be open to change, however, you are more likely to uncover things that you might not have imagined. Instead of feeling constrained, you will realize limitless possibilities are waiting for you.

Grandest Desires - Achieve Them
[Self-Improvement] What prevents you from achieving your grandest desires? What prevents you from forging ahead? Do you feel stuck? Have you done all the workshops, read a plethora of self-help books and it still seems like there is something holding you back or preventing you from breaking all records of your desires?

Escape Your Routine
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Everyone longs to escape the usual routine occasionally. You might long to delve into the mysteries of life. Perhaps these yearnings are due to your desire to experience greater personal growth by going beyond your current comfort zone and entering into unexplored worlds. Seeking ways to challenge yourself further and stretch your limits might make your everyday life seem more exciting and fulfilling and could present opportunities for growth that you might not have imagined.

The Secret - How It Really Works
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] The Secret - a.k.a. The Law of Attraction has compelled many people to wonder if they are a failure as they work to grapple with what has been marketed and promoted as a 'quick fix' concept. The Law of Attraction is an irrefutable law-thus, it can not be transformed into a 'quick fix' remedy. However, that is how the majority of people are marketing the phenomenon, which has been in constant motion since the beginning of existence. Metaphysically-Like energy attracts like energy, that is the concept that is in play.

Teacher Sexual Abuse Of Students Increasing
[News-and-Society] Now on the heels of the priest sexual abuse scandal comes substantiated cases of teacher sexual abuse, which engenders incredulity, in that many of the teachers are free to continue to work as teachers. In state governments and Congress, lawmakers are loath to impose harsher punishments or any national policy in fear of harming the teaching profession. This astounding convoluted thinking leaves children to fend for themselves against cunning sex offenders.

Sweeping-Emotional Cleaning Metaphor
[Self-Improvement] In many cultures and religions, sweeping is considered an important cleansing ritual that prepares the ground for new energy to flow on every level-physical, emotional, mentally and spiritually.

Gratitude - Key To Receiving Your Desires
[Self-Improvement] Expressing gratitude tells the universe that you appreciate receiving all that you desire--albeit you may not have experienced it yet. When you take time to reflect upon the countless assists you receive, you may notice that the change in your level of awareness will change the quality of your life for the better.

Rejuvenate Your Body
[Self-Improvement] If you expended more energy than you intended, you need to rejuvenate yourself. Doing something special to take care of your body will give you the energy you need to get things done and could help you also feel a greater sense of well-being in your life. There are easy and inexpensive ways to take good care of your body.

Wholeness - Claim Yours
[Self-Improvement] You can create the power to align your life with the highest potential of your soul. It might be useful to ask yourself why you would put off something so beneficial to your peace of mind and general well-being. You might have fear that if you were to stop your frantic pace, your world might fall apart, and then you would have to face the undeniable reality of the results of the choices you have made.

Presence - A Generous Gift
[Self-Improvement] When you have confidence and security in who you are, your presence comes across as natural and genuine. When you have confidence and security you believe in yourself. When you believe in yourself, people listen and take in what you say, because when you are present, others pay attention.

Intuition - Use It Effectively
[Self-Improvement] Do you trust your intuition or sixth sense when communicating with others? Using your intuition to get a sense of what others are thinking is something you can use to strengthen your interactions.

Follow Your Bliss
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Follow your bliss, that phrase seems to be a directive, but how does one follow one's bliss? Don't ask so much what the world needs. Go out and do what makes you come alive, because what the world needs most are people who have come alive.

Offer Comfort and Solace - The Best Formula
[Self-Improvement] The more you are attuned to your loved ones feelings, the more you can truly give what is helpful for them in their time of need. Keeping the comfort and solace you offer simple helps you to remain involved with an open ear and an understanding heart without becoming a rescuer.

Curitiba, Brazil - Environmental Role Model
[News-and-Society:Environmental] The provincial capital of Curitiba, Brazil, a city of several million with a large needy population, against all odds, has become a self-sustaining world-class model of metropolitan management. First class examples include Curitiba's fast efficient bus system, pedestrian-only downtown streets, low income housing, network of parks and lakes, internet savvy libraries, accessible health clinics and schools with high standards.

Money - Does It Buy Happiness?
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] The cliche, Money doesn't buy happiness, has been debunked long ago, however, some still believe that maybe, just maybe money buys happiness. The hope that money does buy happiness is more prevalent than you might suspect. It is so prevalent that Deakin University completed a study in 2007 to prove or disprove-again-whether money buys happiness.

Skepticism - Avoid Over Reaction
[Self-Improvement] Healthy skepticism keeps one from plunging in a direction that is in the end unhealthy or dangerous. Even though caution is healthy, it is important to trust your intuition to create a healthy work and living experience. Trusting yourself helps you gain your trust in others. By tapping into the guidance of your intuition, you know when you need to open up to others and when you need to be more wary.

Emotional Blocks and Patterns
[Self-Improvement] Blocks are energies, things, patterns, and behaviors that get in the way and prevent you from fulfilling your true potential. A pattern is a blueprint that your mind uses over and over again-hourly, daily, yearly, thus unwittingly creating your life and your health. We spend years living within the prison of our patterns because it feels safe, familiar, and secure.

Alternative Medicine or CAM
[Health-and-Fitness] The concept of 'alternative medicine' is a misnomer at best and confusing at worst. The term, 'Alternative Medicine,' implies that Traditional Western Medicine a.k.a Conventional Medicine is the preferred choice for medical care, but there are alternatives to consider. The concept of combining Conventional and Alternative Medicine (CAM) adds to the confusion.

Apology - Empowered Forgiveness
[Self-Improvement:Empowerment] In life there are times when we are affected by the actions of another person. More often than not, when we bring the consequence of the other person's actions to light, we receive an apology. Most people, upon receiving an apology respond by saying, "It's alright," or "It's okay," and by saying this we are condoning, accepting and giving permission for the person to continue the same behavior.

Experiences - Create Enjoyable Ones
[Self-Improvement] Restlessness often points to any underlying dissatisfaction created by your thoughts. Since you spend a large portion of your time completing tasks, you may think that your problems in life arise solely from your obligations. In fact frustration is usually due to our beliefs about what we are doing, rather than the task or obligation.

Empowered Women
[Self-Improvement:Empowerment] As you cultivate your intuitive ability you can redefine the meaning of strength. By embracing your intuitive power as something that is strong in its own right, you can use it with true assurance and determination and draw upon what truly belongs to you.

Why Do I?
[Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] The truth of the matter is that if someone else is causing the problem, you do not need to do anything to fix it, but if you are unhappy and they are not, they undoubtedly see no reason to change anything and you are left feeling miserable or upset. If you want to change it you need to do something different.

Healing Energy
[Health-and-Fitness] When you create a space in which you can restore yourself and then visualize this shell is charged with healing energy that eventually unfolds into the universe you can restore yourself in ten minutes. You will notice it becomes easier to deal with the concerns of the outside world when you have restored your energy.

Trust Yourself
[Self-Improvement] Trusting oneself or another is a firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of oneself, another or thing. Are you trust worthy? Do you do what you tell yourself or others? Do you follow-through when you say you will? Are you willing to go the extra mile, because you made a commitment to yourself or another?

Inner Balance - Create It
[Self-Improvement] By making time to honor your own needs for solitude and relaxation, you can release your tension and regain a sense of inner balance again. You then will feel more optimistic and connected in your daily activities, and you can proceed with a strong, more focused mind-set. Choosing to spend time pursuing activities you love can renew your focus and ease your sensitivities.

Interpersonal Conflict - Manage It Well
[Self-Improvement] Interpersonal conflict can affect anyone, causing one to view the world from an overwhelmingly grim perspective. You will gain a greater degree of control over yourself and your experiences when you manage your feelings. You will be less apt to let your strong reactions to conflict color the whole of your day when you compartmentalize your emotions.

Change The World - One Moment At A Time
[Self-Improvement] We all are capable of creating world change, despite our fears, limitations and the uncertainty that holds us back. It is generally accepted that it is impossible to make a difference without unlimited funds or free time. However, healing, cleansing, spreading peace of mind and joy is accomplished in a matter of seconds-even a nanosecond.

Beliefs - Your Inner Wealth
[Self-Improvement] The stock market rises and falls in response to what people are willing to put into it, likewise we have inside ourselves an inner economy that falls in response to our beliefs about what is possible or impossible-positive, negative or neutral.

Change - Systematically Create It
[Self-Improvement] Adversity is an unavoidable aspect of human existence. We push against our inner struggles or outer world forces, and in many instances, we emerge on the opposite of struggle stronger and better equipped to manage the challenges yet to come. Sometimes, however, we occasionally encounter trials that seem utterly hopeless.

Compassion-Express Your Higher Self
[Self-Improvement] The practice of compassion becomes more difficult when we find ourselves unable to understand the actions of the person who offends us or causes us great harm. These are the moments that require us to look more deeply into ourselves-into the parts of our hearts that we may want to deny, parts that we have repressed because the majority of people have labeled them bad or wrong.

Reflections - Walking Your Talk
[Self-Improvement] When you follow this path, you can remind yourself that your relationships are mirrors that allow you to see yourself more clearly in the reflection. That is why it is easier for you to see solutions to other people's issues than to see answers to your own.

Prosperity - Claim Yours
[Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] You need to accept you can excel at everything you do everyday, whether your tasks involve professional responsibilities or domestic duties. Consequently, you will likely feel quite prosperous as well as sure of yourself and your abilities.

Gifts From The Heart
[Self-Improvement] The best gift of all can be your emotional support in a time of need. Although, you might wish you could give something more, your presence and your willingness to listen can mean more than money can buy. "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." - Leo Buscaglia

Loneliness - Change It!
[Self-Improvement] Thoughts of loneliness can convince you that you are alone in the world if you fail to dispel them. If you feel isolated or disconnected from your support network consider what prompts you to no longer believe they are a continuing presence in your life. The people who cared for you yesterday no doubt still care for you today, which means, that you have assumed they have deserted you.

Courage - Create It
[Self-Improvement] How courageous are you? Are you a risk taker? Do you look for innovative ways to accomplish your tasks and duties? Do you look for ways to do something better, even though, it is acceptable to you or those involved? If not, why not? Innovation is the key to leading a self-enhancing life.

Dreams - Create Them
[Self-Improvement] Have you dreamed about taking a leap of faith to make a drastic change in your life? A drastic change that your family and friends might think you have taken leave of your common sense. Have you considered changing jobs, moving across country, or going to another country?

Divine Timing - Rome Was Not Built In A Day
[Self-Improvement] We want everything now - new job, dream relationship, enlightenment, etc. However, we need to remember that there is divine timing involved. The hold up is you need to be ready. Ready! You might shriek, I am more than ready - I have done the affirmations, worked hard, I have done everything right. What more can I do?

Goal Achievement
[Self-Improvement] Like a climber it is not important how high you have reached, but will you continue to persevere in the direction of the summit even after temporary setbacks on slippery slopes? Like all mountaineers the vision of the glorious summit has its own allurement.

Healing Oneself
[Self-Improvement] Humans carry within themselves all aspects of healing. Your choices affect you more than you realize, and it is because of this that you tend to place responsibility for your wellness in the hands of others. As beneficial as regular visits to a healer can be, you have the power to heal yourself at will.

Look Within - Connect With Your Deeper Self
[Self-Improvement] It is important to spend time alone to give yourself the foundation you need to reconnect with who you truly are. It seems that there is seldom enough time to do what one needs to do. No matter what your obligations to others, you need to take time for yourself-to hear the quite inner voice that is an expression of your soul.

Opportunity-Create It
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] Ingenious creativity is behind every work of art or success story. Remember the 'pet rock,' hula hoop, or slinky. Have you ever thought, "Darn, why didn't I think of that?" And you could have, you were merely focused on something else-and that is the point.

Spirituality - Reclaim It
[Self-Improvement] Many cultures-Native American Tribes, Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism-are closely rooted to the earth and connected to their inherent spirituality. You will discover within yourself a yearning to be connected, to belong, be more grounded and to be more at home within yourself. This yearning will lead you back to your disavowed roots, which, of course, leads you back to the heart of the universe.

Priorities - What Are Yours?
[News-and-Society] While I realize this article will not change people's priorities, writing this article gives me the satisfaction-I am not only stating the obvious, I am stepping out of being part of the problem. "We are not only responsible for what we do, but also, for that what we don't do." - Voltaire "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." - Albert Einstein

Leisure Activities - Plan Ahead
[Self-Improvement] Do you feel a let-down - a sense of emptiness, uneasy or confused - when you have fulfilled a responsibility? If you have not prepared yourself to enjoy the periods of rest that will naturally follow task fulfillment you might feel a sense of emptiness, uneasiness or confused. Many people profess they look forward to leisure time, but then are at a loss as to how to use it constructively and enjoyably.

Energetic Shifts
[Self-Improvement] Energetically your life is constantly in motion, thus change is a constant element. As dynamic as your energy is, it is not random or haphazard in nature. The energy shifts that are constantly taking place are the result of your thoughts and choices.

Patience and Goodwill
[Self-Improvement] Recently as I took my morning walk-which for me is walking meditation-I received the message-"Have the patience of a saint. Patience gives you nothing, except peace of mind." While this concept gives me peace of mind, it also, gives me pause for thought. When is patience a virtue and when is it allowing unacceptable issues to be prolonged?

Commitment
[Self-Improvement] Your words are a vehicle for your commitments. The commitments once spoken are more than just words. When you make a commitment, a subtle, yet, powerful shift takes place in your soul where intentions are held.

Spiritual Being - On A Mission
[Self-Improvement] As spiritual beings, we have come here on a mission. We have come to change the course of humanity - to heal past emotional experiences. By healing the pain of our past, we ensure a future whereby that pain is no longer repeated. Whether you are aware of your mission or are stuck in the mud, you need to identify your mission and/or get yourself out of the mud.

Perceptions
[Self-Improvement] Being successful in life, including balanced argument, often requires being conscious of and to break away from our usual perceptions and ways of thinking, and to attend to things we seldom notice or consider. The challenge is to be more open-minded and broad in our thinking, to consider more than one perception.

Sexual Assault - Appropriate Suspicion - Your Most Powerful and Empowering Defense
[News-and-Society] There are a plethora of stories of women who were repeatedly sexually abused over a number of years, without ever reporting it. One such story involved one brave woman in a small mid-western community to report her experience for the community and authorities to discover that several women were experiencing the same fate as there was no other doctor.

Spirituality - In Corporate America
[Business] As spirituality becomes more wide-spread in the workplace, you will no longer need to deny your spiritual self while at work. Although working while walking the path of ascension can be extremely challenging, it is less challenging when you can express yourself freely. Your career can coexist peacefully with commitment to the development of the soul when you approach each with balance and determination.

Sex Offenders - School Children at Risk on Many Fronts
[News-and-Society] Children need to know that their body is theirs, and that no one has the right to touch them in a manner that is unwanted or uncomfortable. The 'good touch' and 'bad touch' is easily blurred by appropriate touch, which progresses to bad touch. The instant the 'bad touch' has occurred, the child has been violated. Thus, teaching a child 'good touch, bad touch' is counter productive, because a sex offender who knows the child never starts with 'bad touch. They start with 'good touch,' disarming the child's suspicions.

Connections - Manage Them Well
[Business:Small-Business] When you share your desires, dreams aspirations and goals with your friends, peers, colleagues, they may well have ideas and connections that will serve you for many years into the future. You can captivate people's interest by simply being honest with them about what you are hoping to achieve. It is likely they, too, have been in a position wherein they required the assistance of someone. They will undoubtedly be glad to have the opportunity to pay it forward.

ADD-ADHD-Reclaim Your True Self
[Health-and-Fitness] When we recognize that learning is a lifelong experience, we can then accept that occasional gaps or feelings of inadequacy may surface. These feelings of being "less than" or "not worthy" may begin with negative thoughts, such as "I'm stupid, I can't do it, No one likes me, I am inadequate, etc." These thoughts can quickly become deeply ingrained belief patterns. Negative thought patterns often lead to negative behavior patterns and negative behavior patterns will affect your life by surfacing in such areas as school or work performance, relationships, attitude, anger, inability to focus, concentrate or emotional outbursts, weight issues, stress, anxiety or panic attacks - and that is only some of the myriad aftereffects of negative indoctrination and adaptations.

Spiritual Being - Who You Truly Are
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Many people are reawakening to the truth of who they truly are. Emissaries of Light, such as: Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Neale Donald Walsch, Caroline Myss, Marianne Williamson, Louise Hay, James Redfield, Don Miguel, Don Jose Luis Ruiz, Eckhart Tolle, James Twyman, et al are creating large-scale changes in the world.

Sanctuary of Your Own
[Self-Improvement:Creativity] Have you ever wished for a place where you can feel at peace, but do not want to go where other people would likely be? Have you considered making your own peaceful place-a sanctuary? It is not difficult to create a sanctuary-it is important, however, to create your sanctuary that speaks to you.

Five Things You Can Do To Prevent Your Child From Using Drugs
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Drug peddlers have polished their sales presentation to a sophisticated science. Their highly scientific approach targets children with low self-esteem, the vulnerable child, the child without adequate nurturing and emotional support, a withdrawn, compliant child, those who are starved for attention and recognition. Parents can not ignore the sophistication of a drug peddler. The myth that peer pressure is the culprit has long been debunked. No amount of peer pressure will cause a child with high self-esteem and strong family ties to use drugs. No sophisticated sales pitch by a drug dealer will cause a child with high self-esteem and strong family ties to use drugs. These five tips will arm you and your child against drug peddlers.

Sexual Abuse Or Polygamist Rights?
[News-and-Society] Polygamy not withstanding, it is critical, as citizens and keepers of justice, that we familiarize ourselves with the spousal sexual assault laws. "We are not only responsible for what we do, but also, for that what we don't do." Voltaire.

Women Owned Businesses Increased Forty-Two Percent
[Business:Small-Business] Running a small business can sometimes feel like fighting a battle and you are not sure you are winning. Every day thousands of small business owners pour their heart and soul into making their business a success. It is exciting to see that women entrepreneurs have excelled.

Life - 101 - Succeeding In The School Of Life
[Self-Improvement] Succeeding in the school of life is challenging and exhilarating, if you have a positive mind set-a.k.a. attitude. The school of life is continually in session and is ready to teach you valuable opportunities and experiences. You can maximize your success as a 'learner' and increase your comprehension abilities if you utilize a few key strategies.

Today's Children-Tomorrow's Leaders
[News-and-Society] All children are uniquely gifted-mentally, physically and spiritually. Unfortunately, education is presented in a 'one size fits all' package. The best learning opportunity takes place in a setting where each child is well known and every child's individual process within a school year can be measured and celebrated. At its best, education inspires and fosters the child to learn at the speed of their personal potential. As part of the educational experience, real learning also demands that students be challenged to live up to their potentials as students, citizens and as leaders of the future.

Coaching or Consulting-The Difference
[Self-Improvement] It seems that everyone either has a consultant or a coach. I wear the title of Life Coach/Hypnotherapist a.k.a Metaphysical Healer-Mind, Body and Spirit. I am often asked what the difference is between a coach and a consultant-how to know which is needed. To answer this question we need to define the terms-Coach and Consultant.

Corporal Punishment-Documented Repercussions
[News-and-Society] The repercussions of corporal punishment are well documented. Why do the AMA and APA ignore these studies and other noted researchers' work-for example: Judith Herman, M.D? The answer lies within the denial theory-if we don't believe it, it can't hurt us. The irony is "Facts do no cease to exist because they are ignored," and the tragic results follow.

Passive-Aggression--Manage It Well
[Self-Improvement] More often then not children are taught from a young age to suppress their negative feelings-anger, resentment, fear and sadness. Subsequently, they express these emotions in passive-aggressive behaviors that provide them with a means of expressing their feelings-albeit convoluted. Tragically, then, the child carries this passive-aggressive behavior into adulthood.

Regret - Carrying the Past
[Self-Improvement] Holding onto regret is analogues to carrying a rock with you wherever you go. Depending how much regret you carry depends on how big the rock is. Carrying this extra weight drains your energy, leaving less available for your present endeavors.

Diabetes - "The Final Cure"
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] A combination of herbs researched at a Canadian University for over 20 years was hailed by the Asian Diabetic Association as "The Final Cure for Diabetes." Research shows that a natural diabetes remedy can regulate blood sugar and eliminate the need for painful injections.

U.S. Ranks 37th World Wide in Adequate Health Care Delivery
[News-and-Society] It is astonishing to realize the U.S. ranks 37th out of 191 countries on health care delivery. According to the World Health Organization thirty-six (36) other countries do a better job of allocating, disseminating and delivering health care. The U.S. spends two-and-a-half times more money per person than any other country.

Negative Experiences - Not All Bad
[Self-Improvement] Your future creates the present. What you think, feel and do today is based on what you want to accomplish in the future. You can change and improve the present by changing tomorrow. Your future is also filled with your past until you consciously create a new future.

Sex Offenders - In All Strata of Society
[News-and-Society] The unbelievable truth - Pedophiles/Ephebophiles conduct themselves as average and ordinary to the world. He or she may be a leader in the church, the community, business executive, doctor, lawyer, school teacher, bus driver, or janitor. Pedophiles/ephebophiles seldom fit a classic stereotype - education, socioeconomic status, career or culture.

Challenges - Manage Them Well
[Self-Improvement] Your ability to successfully manage challenges far outweigh your ability to feel nervous. Yet, sometimes in the hours, days or weeks leading up to a situation that you believe will test your limits, you might notice yourself being nervous. You are stronger and more capable than you believe yourself to be. Anxiety is not rational in nature, which means you cannot work through it using logic as your only tool.

Change - Embrace It
[Self-Improvement] To make change work for you, look positively at your situation and ask yourself how you can benefit from the change that has taken place. As disquieting as change can seem, it is a sign that your life has moved into a new stage.

Law of Attraction - In Operation At All Times
[Self-Improvement] We are more successful in our endeavors when we recognize that we attract everything we experience. We attract that which we focus on - whether we believe it or not - the Law of Attraction is real and is in operation at all times. If you have unconscious thoughts of "Self-doubt - Maybe I am not meant to be wealthy, successful, etc. etc." These unconscious thoughts trip the sabotage downward spiral. There is a cancellation policy in your contract. Cancel all programming, all fears, all messages of lack in your consciousness, in your cells, molecules and particles. Go forward with clear intentions of how you desire your life to be.

Law of Attraction - Create the Life You Desire
[Self-Improvement] There is only one infinite power of creation. Whether we believe it or not, we all work within that infinite power. We are all guided by exactly the same laws. The Law of Attraction. Whatever you can imagine you can create. Think about it! Whatever, you can imagine you can create. The Law of Attraction supports all the possibilities of your imagination.

Speak Your Truth
[Self-Improvement] Many people hide their true thoughts and feelings because they are afraid that their feelings, thoughts and ideas will alienate them from others or leave them vulnerable. Practicing effective communication skills will enhance the probability you will communicate effectively. There are four essential tools in effective communication.

Strength and Courage
[Self-Improvement] Everyone is faced with moments in their lives when everything seems beyond what we believe we can manage, and we begin thinking that we do not have the strength and courage to carry on. Sometimes before we can catch our breath after we have reached the other side of a major obstacle we find another one waiting for us.

Cause and Effect - Three-Fold Law-Law of Return
[Self-Improvement] Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galations. 6:7. "What goes around, comes around." "Whatever you send out returns three times," -Three-Fold Law/Law of Return. These statements express the Universal Law of cause and effect, action and reaction.

Energy In Your Home
[Health-and-Fitness] Have you ever walked into someone's home and sensed that you wanted to leave, although you had just arrived? Or have you walked into a home and you felt as comfortable as you do in your own home? If you have noticed this phenomenon, you might have pondered-What is this unexplained comfortable or uncomfortable sense? There is an explanation.

Sex Offenders Use Many Tricks To Lure A Child
[News-and-Society] The 12-year old girl's stepfather made a fatal mistake when he dropped his 12-year old step daughter off at Whitlow's home. It is astonishing that an adult would drop a child off at an unknown person's home for any reason. Although, Whitlow did not physically/sexually assault her, the emotional damage as a result of her feeling trapped and frightened is unknown and might not be known for several years. His statement, "...hardly keep my hands off you, you are very attractive; do not tell your parents..." is abuse. In addition, she feared for her life that is abuse.

Creativity
[Self-Improvement:Creativity] For many people creativity is catch-as-catch can or rare because most people keep a hectic pace and often deal with chronic stress. Stress compels us to be on guard, keeping our minds on overdrive and preoccupied with worry, regret or a long to-do list. In a hectic life people rarely give themselves the necessary quiet time to allow creativity to percolate with insights from our subconscious mind.

Holistic Health Care - Increased Use
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] There is an increasing acceptance that Holistic Health Care is more effective than Traditional Western Medicine. Humans are complex, multi-dimensional beings who respond to positive stimulus on all levels - mind, body and spirit - and that to leave one aspect out also denies the others. Wellness is more than physical. Healthy and fulfilled individuals make better contributions to themselves and the world.

Product Injures Children
[News-and-Society] Safety at school is on every parent's mind this time of year as children go back to school. The Consumer Product Safety Commission urges parents and school officials to help children avoid injuries at school - look for hidden hazards.

Hypnosis - Key To Profound Change
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] In a fast-changing world, people who seek a highly innovative life at a accelerated pace are the ones taking advantage of hypnotherapy. Ancient Egyptians used a form of hypnosis in their dream temples. Ancient Greeks used hypnosis in their Shrines of Healing. The Romans used hypnosis with regards to persons such as soothsayers, and also The Zulu's of Africa, who had witch doctors.

Benevolence
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] When you have cultivated inner peace within yourself and feel empowered, you will have emotional strength and energy reserves to manage the endeavors you wish to extend to others.

Sexual Abuse - Sibling, Peer or Cousin - Myths
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Myth - If a child is sexually touching a sibling, peer or cousin, it is not sexual abuse. Many parents/people believe most sexual activity with a sibling, peer or cousin is merely curiosity and not harmful.

Active Listening - Four Tips
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Your communication will be more effective if you watch for the cues that indicate you are communicating in the listener's style or interest. When your communication is imperative you will need to make sure your listener is engaged. This article discusses four tools to ensure your communication is effective.

Animal Wisdom
[Self-Improvement] Since the beginning of human existence humankind has recognized animals as teachers - wise beyond the conscious mind of humans. Ancient myths and stories tell of a magical time in which there were no boundaries between humans and animals. There was no delineation of wild and tame. The natural world and animals speak to us everyday by their behaviors, movements, characteristic patterns and appearances. When we know what to look for we can use them as omens and guides in our daily lives - not superstitious, but in development of true prophecy and higher perceptions.

Mind and Body Interconnected
[Self-Improvement] Your mind and body are interconnected, and the condition of one affects the condition of the other. This is precisely why meditation is a powerful tool for healing the body, as powerful as physical therapies.

Co-Dependency - What Is It?
[Self-Improvement] Can people learn to be a whole self-actualized individual? Absolutely! In fact, you need to become a whole self-actualized person, if you want to have healthy relationships. You need to be responsible for your actions and decisions in all areas of your life. Making the necessary changes can be challenging and generally require professional assistance.

Thoughts - Choose Wisely
[Self-Improvement] The first thought that comes into your mind may not be adequate to communicate what you want to convey. When you allow yourself the freedom of letting an unedited stream of consciousness come forth your message is most apt to be met with confusion. "Every choice we make, every thought and feeling we have, is an act of power that has biological, environmental, social, personal and global consequences."

Life Unfolds - Enjoy the Progression
[Self-Improvement] Enjoying and fully experiencing the journey of life is as important as achieving goals and reaching milestones.

Speak From Your Heart
[Self-Improvement] Sometimes words are inadequate to express what one needs to say. The limitations of words may prevent you from defining your thoughts and emotions in their entirety. You can overcome this limitation by being dynamic and honest-speaking from your heart-in your interactions with others so they can discern your sincerity even if the depth of meaning is somewhat unclear.

Meditation - Calm Your Soul - Ease Your Mind
[Self-Improvement] Meditation calms the soul and eases the mind. If you wish to learn more about, who you are and what you came here to accomplish, you need to pay attention to the insights you receive during your medication or while engaged in intense introspection.

Enthusiasm - A Habit
[Self-Improvement] Your enthusiasm can serve as an inspiration with whom you interact. Sometimes people are unsure as to how best to respond in a given situation. If you become aware of someone's tentative reaction, you can be instrumental in being a role model to ease the tension and set the tone.

Conflict - Manage It Well
[Self-Improvement] Many people are afraid to say what they think about certain topics for fear of conflict. It is a learned response from an early age that when they said the "wrong things" others made fun of them, criticized them for their perceptions or admonished them for saying something that 'hurt' someone's feelings. Fear of conflict is about fear of power of your own strength and courage. It is fear of doing irreparable damage, fear that the disagreement will escalate. Are you afraid of saying the 'wrong things?'

Past Life - Reasons We Do Not Remember
[Self-Improvement] Deja vu experiences are often times a past life floating into consciousness - unfortunately we pass them off as a novel experience or something amusing and slightly weird. Paradoxically, remembering allows us to address our issues, learn more about ourselves and expand our consciousness - a benefit that spans eternity.

Understanding Your Feelings
[Self-Improvement] There is nothing wrong with feelings. It is the negative feelings-sadness, anger, fear-which give us consternation. You might assume that brave people are fearless, but when the truth is known, they are willing to feel their fear and do it anyway, or face their fear by processing it, until the origin is understood. Once the origin is discovered your perception and reaction can be shifted.

Dependability - One Element of Building A Better Life
[Self-Improvement] Hard work is what you already know how to do, which makes it a simple matter. When you believe you have organized your life to ensure that you can fulfill every commitment, you need to consider new ways to challenge yourself.

Inspiring Change
[Self-Improvement] Your ability to inspire positive change in the world is heightened if you are willing to explore creative and unique solutions to the issues which desperately need to be tackled.

Sexual Abuse - Sibling
[News-and-Society] What is sibling sexual abuse? Like all forms of sexual abuse, sibling sexual abuse is an abuse of power. If a more powerful or stronger sibling, bribes or threatens a weaker sibling to engage in sexual activity-albeit the aggressor might be younger-it is sexual abuse. It is abuse because it does not take into consideration the needs or wishes of the victim; rather, it meets the needs of the other at the victim's expense.

Greatness - Acknowledge It
[Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] Do you recognize and acknowledge your greatness? Do you give yourself a pat on the back or a high-five? While most people believe that self-recognition is bragging, who better to recognize and acknowledge your greatness than you?

Make Your Home A Castle
[Self-Improvement] A home is the foundation from which you branch out into the world and, as such, your home deserves to occupy a place of honor in your heart and mind. When you adopt a conscious approach toward the maintenance of your personal space, you come to realize that your home offers you more than mere shelter.

Ease Out Tension
[Self-Improvement] In today's world of technology, we experience interconnectivity through cell phones, text messaging, television, instant messaging and e-mail, you can become overwhelmed, taxing our emotional system and create stress.

Create What You Desire - Want - Second Step
[Self-Improvement] The second important step in getting what you want/desire is knowing what thoughts/beliefs/feelings will create it. If people move away from being the source of their thoughts/beliefs/feelings, the past takes over.

Create What You Desire - Want - First Step
[Self-Improvement] You might believe that getting involved in exploring your deepest desires is wasted energy when it seems you want things beyond your grasp. This is a practical belief and has its benefits, but it can be safely balanced with a more imaginative and unlimited approach to the question - What do I want/desire?

Help-Assisting Versus Rescuing
[Self-Improvement] The act of support/assistance begins with a single act. Your actions will have an impact that is greater than you might otherwise imagine. The support/assistance you provide needs to become the inspiration that compels the person to adopt their own plan to manage their lives and create their success.

As You Think - You Shall Reap
[Self-Improvement] The universe's creative power is infinite. The consequences of single molecules are no less important than that of the largest supernova. Human potential is governed by this power, but because we have an ego, each of us chooses whether we will resist it or work in tandem with it. If we express our desires through meditation or elicit the help of spirit guides, we tap into the universe's creative power to achieve our desires. This creative power is the Law of Attraction - more recently referred to as 'The Secret.'

Your Experiences Shape Your Actions or Reactions
[Self-Improvement] Your view of the universe is predominantly determined by your experiences. It is when you are caught off guard by the spontaneity of existence that you are most apt to respond authentically, even when your feelings do not align with the majority.

Sex Offenders-How To Protect Your Child
[News-and-Society] The Phoenix, Arizona media reports several simultaneous child sexual abuse incidents. These child sexual molestation incidents could have been prevented, if people only knew what to do. There are seven compelling and powerful parent approved and child tested techniques to thwart would-be sex offenders.

You Truly Can Have Whatever You Desire
[Self-Improvement] The concept of Self help or Self-improvement has been ascribed the connotation that in order to consider the effort of self help or self improvement there has to be something wrong. We have made a presupposition that there is something wrong that needs fixing. This premise is not only wrong, but self-defeating and self-deprecating.

Denizen-Versatility
[Self-Improvement] When you see ducks or geese, I hope you will be inspired to examine your own ability to both float on the surface and to dive beneath it. Water symbolizes emotions-duck our heads into our emotions means we are able to surrender our minds to our hearts, to go into the watery realm of feeling and see what there is to see, often coming to the surface with nourishment and treasure.

Intimacy - Initiate It
[Self-Improvement] The deep level of intimacy you seek is within your reach. If you desire a stronger bond with family or friends, you need to divest yourself of the blocks preventing you from sharing your inner most self.

Children Need to Know Both Parents - No Matter the Circumstances
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Many parents struggle with child custody and visitation issues when one parent is an alcoholic or drug addict. It is a known fact that addicts behavior is detrimental to a child, but the non-addicted parent does not want to 'take their children away' from the addicted parent, thinking that it is good for children to know both of their parents.

Emotional Pain - Discover the Source
[Self-Improvement] Since the beginning of human existence, teachers/gurus have imparted great truths regarding the cause of the pain people experience in their lives. These truths point in the opposite direction than where most people look. Your enemy is not who you think it is. The adversary in your life, the proverbial thorn in your side - the source of anger that compels you to blame someone or something - is not what you believe it to be. It is not something 'out there.' It is something 'in here;' an inner enemy.

Feeling Feelings - Often Overlooked
[Self-Improvement] You have no doubt heard or used the expression breaking down. Breaking down, means to show one's feelings, usually sadness. It is inexplicably ironic that a natural emotion is given a negative euphemistic name. Thoughts and the subsequent feelings are energy and since energy is matter it is indestructible, thus the remedy is to change the energy. You can change your energy vibrations from negative to positive. Your negative feelings can be permanently resolved.

Routines - Create Efficiency
[Self-Improvement] A well-honed routine can be a boon whether you are managing many responsibilities or simply managing your usual workload. The rigors of modern life add to the richness of your life while also requiring great attention and energy. When your life is structured, the tasks you are responsible for can be laid out the day before, so that you seldom waste precious moments wondering what to tackle first.

Adversity-Manage It Well
[Self-Improvement] If your world seems to be falling apart around you, and you are not sure what to hold onto anymore, what do you do? Sometimes it might be a relationship which crumbles. Sometimes we can not put our finger on it, but we feel as if all the walls have fallen down around us and we are standing with nothing in which to take refuge-we feel exposed and vulnerable.

Common Illness - Prevention
[Health-and-Fitness] The most common use for Over-The-Counter Drugs (OTC) is for heartburn/acid reflux, constipation, allergies, colds/flu, and headaches. A study completed by P.E. Strang, W.H. Crown, R. Bizier, et al suggests preventative approaches are far more effective than is commonly believed. Preventative measures can eliminate the need for pharmaceuticals or surgery as well as pain/suffering, expensive procedures, lost wages and absenteeism. This articles discusses the preventative approaches to these common illnesses.

Nurture Your Spirit
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Nurturing your spirit is as important as healthy nutrition, exercising and sleep; for without the spirit life would be dull with little depth or breadth. Spirituality gives personal and cultural meaning to life-a belief or value system providing personal identity and capable of reducing conflict; thus, encouraging balance and harmony.

Corporal Punishment Prohibited
[News-and-Society] Australia has joined seventeen (17) countries in setting down guidelines to prohibit corporal punishment of any kind in the home as well as school and child care centers. "Physical punishment causes pain to stop the behavior. For example hitting a child with a hand or object," News Limited reports. ACF, also, emphasizes that physical punishment can have an adverse impact on children's emotional development and "teaches children that violence can be an acceptable way to solve problems". "Physical punishment can undermine a child's sense of love and security," the guidelines say. "They can often become anxious, fearful or rebellious."

Ambition - Be Fearless
[Self-Improvement] If you have a clear and specific picture of the challenges you might face in your goal-achievement journey, you can prepare yourself for the rigors that lie ahead so that fear and worry will not enter your mind. Worrying ahead can lead to stress and agitation if you mull over the twists and turns, which might appear in your path rather than the successes that are inevitable too.

Ambition - Expanded
[Self-Improvement] When you allow your imagination to shape your ambitions in the most expansive way possible-instead of ascribing arbitrary limitations on your dreams-your self-esteem and confidence will expand more rapidly. Consider momentarily that your goals as they existed in the past may have been restricted by arbitrary boundaries of your making. If you do away with them, your potential will expand immeasurably.

Emotions - Keep An Even Keel
[Self-Improvement] Seemingly innocuous events can trigger your ire sometimes, and the strong emotions you feel as a result can serve to cause further imbalances in your emotional state. Everyday experiences can affect you in unpredictable ways, leaving you uncertain as to how to respond to those that upset you. It is incredible how much power, ability and success you have access to when your emotions are on an even keel.

Spiritual Traditions
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] All major spiritual traditions serve to provide a roadmap to guide us on our individual journey of purpose and enlightenment. These maps are comprised of moral codes, parables, and some have traditions with detailed descriptions of mystical states.

Choices - Insights and Wisdom
[Self-Improvement] No matter what challenges you are facing, you can free yourself from suffering and struggle and allow yourself to experience life as a mysterious journey of insights, wonder, enchantment and awe. The experience of your insights and inner wisdom illuminates your path to becoming more of who you truly are and finding the inner peace, happiness and enlightenment that is your birthright.

Focus-Key to Making It
[Self-Improvement] For a long time people have weighed evidence, analyzed and taken measurements to answer the question, "What do I want?" It is now clear that this was the wrong question. The right question is, "What thoughts will create what I want?" Take charge of your thoughts, and you'll take charge of your life. Opportunity is present at all times-it is contained in The Law of Abundance and the Law of Attraction. What are your thoughts focused on? This article will discuss the process of staying focused.

Opportunity Knocks
[Self-Improvement] Does opportunity knock or are we receptive to the opportunities which have been there, but we did not consciously connect with them before. Opportunity is knocking every minute-What are you doing with yours? This article discusses how to stay connected to opportunities.

Fear - Eliminate It
[Self-Improvement] When you stay focused on your intent, dreams and goals you will see the true usefulness of your aptitudes. As a result, your pursuits that promise to further your success will. As you stay focused on tackling those tasks which have unnerved or stymied you before your determination will allow you to conquer them with little difficulty.

Improve Your Life
[Self-Improvement] It is obvious to many that change is the solution, but what to change is the question. It is difficult to know what to change. There are a plethora of self-help books from the Road Less Traveled to Conversations with God and Dr. Phil's books. This article discusses the critical aspects of change.

Sex Offenders - You Can Protect Your Children
[News-and-Society] The power of education is the best way to protect children from sex offenders. It is paramount to teach your children how to protect themselves, whether it is online, on a playground, the mall or at home. This article addresses the myths about Internet predators, and gives clear, concise tools to teach your child on self-protection.

Enlightenment - What is it?
[Self-Improvement] Have you considered that your beliefs and values were derived from your adaptations and indoctrinations when you were between two and ten-years old and some of those beliefs and values can no longer serve you? Yet you are still clinging to them as if they were golden. This article will discuss updating beliefs and values to reflect who you truly are.

Creative Spark-Manage It Well
[Self-Improvement] When it seems that your creative imagination is being blocked, you can rekindle the spark within yourself by stepping momentarily away from the task. A short break can refresh your mind, allowing you an opportunity to reflect on what is distracting you from your creativity.

Self-Doubt - Transformation
[Self-Improvement] Everyone has moments when self-doubts, worry about accomplishments, and rumination about self-worth or intrusive thoughts float through our mind when facing a demanding task. Although, you are highly focused, tenacious, and conscientious towards your goals these fleeting moments can hamper your goal achievement. This article discusses the process of avoiding self-defeating thoughts and reestablishing your focus.

Procrastination - Why Not Now?
[Self-Improvement] We hear the cliche that life is too short and that time passes too quickly. Ironically, then why do people tend to put off doing what they could do today or right now? How you utilize your time is consequently one of the most important decisions you make every minute. There are 1440 minutes in every day-What are you doing with yours?

Kinder - Gentler You
[Self-Improvement] When you make the effort to take others feelings, wants and needs into consideration before you speak or act, you can avoid hurt feelings or creating disagreements along the way. This is not to say, that you forsake your feelings, wants and needs in deference to others, what it does mean is that while you are pursuing your ambitions, wants, and needs you are mindful of others and have a heart-to-heart talk as you make your way along your journey.

Peace Within
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] You have heard it talked about in many circles - peace is within, but where you wonder? And just what is peace with? This article discusses what Peace Within is and how to create it.

Gratitude Attitude vs Entitlement
[Self-Improvement] Several readers have asked me if the hoopla about expressing gratitude-saying, thanks to everything in our life-is all what it is touted to be. It is important to question the latest buzz phrase or tagline. Many people, who followed the latest fad, discovered they were being duped. This article discusses the universal law governing gratitude.

Antidepressants Fail - Government Study Reveals
[Health-and-Fitness] The most frequently prescribed pharmaceutical drug is antidepressants. Did you know thirty-five million dollars of your taxes was spent to fund the largest trial of its kind on antidepressants? March 23, 2006, The Washington Post reported the results of this study. There is hope. The American Health Magazine reported these findings from a comparison study. Hypnosis: Creates a 93% recovery after 6 sessions.

Self-Sabotage-Truth Lies Behind the Scenes
[Health-and-Fitness] The majority of people desire a happy, healthy, fulfilling, sustainable lifestyle, while simultaneously engaging in behaviors or beliefs that sabotage their aim. What? Who would do such a thing? What would compel intelligent and conscientious people to do anything less than fulfilling their happiness and health?

Obesity - Cause and Remedy
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] The National Center for Health Statistics, 2007, set the obesity rate for Americans at 31 percent. This statistic is no doubt low, because many obese people do not appear in statistical data, because they seldom use medical services in order to be counted. This article address the conflicting messages about the cause and remedy for obesity.

Creativity - Intuitive or Learned
[Self-Improvement] Have you wondered why some people seem to have a lot of creativity? Some believe we are born with such gifts and others believe it is learned. It is probably a combination of both-creative expression is enhanced with the ability to be fully aware of and present in the moment one is in.

Intuitive Decision Making
[Self-Improvement] The majority of people only recognize decision-making as a powerful step when it is done for major important issues-where to go for vacation, spending money, changing a job/career, moving, etc. However, it is all the little decisions in your life that creates where you are today.

Being There - The Greatest Gift
[Self-Improvement] The greatest gift you can give someone is an act of 'just being there.' This concept is nearly unfathomable to many people. Whether your 'just being there' is related to a specific situation or is an ongoing commitment, you each benefit from the experience. To be there for some one is to 'be there' in challenging times as well as the good times.

Innocence
[Self-Improvement] We are born with complete innocence-free of guilt, sin, with purity of heart and blameless. As we assimilate a myriad of adaptations and indoctrinations from our family, culture, neighborhood, religion, education, etc., we lose our innocence. By reconnecting with our inner child, we can experience the world with the same wonder and joy we experienced as a child.

Intent
[Self-Improvement] Intent is the key to achieving your goals. Frequently we are doing one thing-thinking that we are creating another. We need to systematically focus on the intent of our actions at every step. There is nothing wrong with multitasking, which seems necessary with today's demands. However, balancing multitasking with intentional activity provides valuable insight into the benefits of doing one thing at a time, being totally present with the task of our intent.

Breathe Healthy Breaths
[Health-and-Fitness] We seldom pay attention to our breathing - since it is part of the autonomic system, breathing is considered an automatic function that works perfectly well (so we think) without any need to pay attention, along with reflexes and eye blinking. However, our breath control is a key component of emotional control and therefore performance control, as well as physical health.

Silliness - Good Medicine For The Soul
[Self-Improvement] One of my fondest memories of childhood is being the co-pilot with my older male cousin in our grandparent’s junked car sitting in the far corner of their yard - which was huge since it was on a cattle ranch. Occasionally, if I pleaded strongly, he would allow me to be the pilot.

Giving From Your Heart
[Self-Improvement] Giving back to your community is a powerful way to share your skills, talents and blessings with others. Even though you might not have anything of monetary value to give others, if your intention is to make another person's life more enjoyable simply by your kindheartedness and helping hand, you have given more than money can buy.

Listen From Your Heart
[Self-Improvement] Your heart is a powerful listening tool to capture the subtle nuances of the tone of voice, body language and choice of words. All too often people listen on the surface with their egos-hearing the words, but failing to notice the subtle nuances-as they patiently wait for their turn to speak.

Life Is Simpler Than We Think
[Self-Improvement] Life Is Simpler Than We Think—"Yeah Right! My responsibilities at work and home are huge and there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel anytime soon,” you lament. If you think life is difficult—then it is.

Enjoy New Concepts and Ideas
[Self-Improvement] In today's information age, it is easy to become overwhelmed with the influx of scientific studies, breaking news, and spiritual revelations that fill your email inbox, radio-TV programs, and bookshelves. No one can possibly keep up with all the information. This article discusses this dilemma, along with an easy and clearly defined resolution.

Peace Requires Compromise
[Self-Improvement] The concept of Compromise has long ago been perceived that if there is compromise - I give in and you get what you want. The first definition of com-pro-mise (k m pr -m z ) is n. 1. a. A settlement of differences in which each side makes concessions. How the concept of compromise took on the popular definition - I give in and you get what you want - is a mystery.

Leave Your Troubles Behind
[Self-Improvement] Contrary to the song popularized by Doc Walker, "Don't you think it's time to forget. Leave your troubles behind. Take that road up ahead" - it is difficult to simply, 'forget, and leave troubles behind.' One needs to be willing to face troubles head-on. Our 'troubles' are inherently created in our ego minds, contrary to popular songs, which became popular because people gravitate to what absolves them of any responsibility for their challenges.

Peace and Harmony-Your Natural State
[Self-Improvement] Your innate naturalness is revealed when you look beyond your beliefs, adaptations, indoctrinations, lifestyle choices, and attitudes long believed as; 'the way things are.' When these artificial concepts are stripped away, you will notice a mind and body that retained its relationship to the essence of the natural world from which consciousness evolved.

Intense Feelings - Neither Right or Wrong - Good or Bad
[Self-Improvement] Intense emotional reactions to your relationships with family or close friends, sometimes creates uneasiness or a full blown rift. When you fully understand your feelings you can decide how you will feel about it the next time it occurs.

Procrastination Has Many Faces
[Self-Improvement] The onset of procrastination is sometimes the perception of an over filled schedule that precipitates a feeling of being overwhelmed. This unfortunate misinterpretation of events, only leads to more of the same.

Shed Light On It
[Self-Improvement] Shed light - to make (a reason, subject etc.) clearer. The irony of this statement is that when it comes to "Shedding light on oneself," it becomes a horse of a different color. It is difficult to look at oneself; to look at the half-truths one tells oneself; the denial one espouses to oneself; or fantasies and illusions one creates to cope with life's travail.

You Live Up To Your Expectations
[Self-Improvement] Your expectations direct the outcome of your life. Many clients reveal to me that their parent said to them - "You will never amount to anything," or some variation of this theme. Not surprising they are sitting in my office seeking help on creating a successful life - while that indoctrination is still ringing in their ear. What are your expectations? Do you expect the best of yourself or are you expecting the least?

Resourceful - A Valuable Skill
[Self-Improvement] re•source•ful (r -sôrs f l, -s rs -, -zôrs -, -z rs -) adj. able to meet situations: capable of devising ways and means - a resourceful leader. Merriam Webster In a nutshell, resourcefulness is the unique ability to implement experience, intelligence, imagination, education/training and equipment in order to accomplish a goal. Your resourceful is using what you have to get the job done.

Revenge - How Sweet Is It?
[Self-Improvement] Have you been so angry with someone that you have thought of or acted out ways to even the score with revenge for the hurt they caused? Before you allow yourself to invest energy into seeking revenge - remember that the thoughts you have are energetic creations. What are you creating when you invest your energy in negative thoughts or actions of revenge?

Is Your Glass Half Empty or Half Full?
[Self-Improvement] It is often the negative side of a situation or experience that rivets our attention, compelling us to focus on the glass is half empty versus the glass is half full. We have been scripted and indoctrinated to pay close attention to things that are wrong. We learned well to be a critic, to find fault with everything or anything. You can also make an effort to see the successes even in adverse experiences.

Children Are Stressed Too-What To Do
[Health-and-Fitness] Unfortunately, we seldom think children can become, 'stressed out' too. We often see it as a 'behavior problem.' You might think children being 'stressed out' is an over reaction-after all they do not have all the responsibilities and demands of an adult. While this premise is true, we need to think about a child's reference points, their limited experiences and knowledge. Taking these three facts into consideration we need to rethink how we conceptualize, react and respond to children’s day-to-day experiences.

Choices - Choose Wisely
[Self-Improvement] The choices you have made in your life until now were the best choices you could make based on what you knew then. Those choices were a stepping stone for your continued journey with subsequent new and improved choices. You are exactly where you can be in each and every moment - albeit maybe not where your vision or goals lie. There is a way to get there from here - moving faster onto the next stepping stone. What is holding you back?

Demand For Smoke Cessation Takes Harder Line
[News-and-Society] "Smokers are to be denied operations on the Health Service unless they give up cigarettes for at least four weeks beforehand. Doctors will police the rule by ordering patients to take a blood test to prove they have not been smoking. The ruling, authorized by Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt, comes after medical research conclusively showed smokers take longer to recover from surgery. It is thought that 500,000 smokers a year will be affected. However patients' groups argue that the move is about the NHS saving money rather than improving patient care." About 12 million adults in Great Britain smoke cigarettes - 26% of men and 23% of women.

Create Happiness-Wherever You Are
[Self-Improvement] Your life is abundant with potential sources of happiness. Tragically many people continue the indoctrinations of negative thinking because they were conditioned to believe that focusing on all that has gone wrong will provide them with the impetus they need to face the challenges of life’s travail.

Give The Perfect Gift - Four Tips
[Self-Improvement] Have you ever wondered why some people have a special talent for giving the perfect gift for any occasion and conversely some people consistently give something off the mark? There is a reason for this phenomenon.

World Peace
[News-and-Society] It is nearly impossible to listen to TV-Radio news or read a newspaper without noticing the outside world is seemingly in a state of disorder and chaos. You might feel compelled to do something to remedy the situation and bring peace, yet you feel overwhelmed and unable to know what to do or where to start. One reason for this is that one cannot bring to the world what one does not have as a foundation from which to approach the situation.

Architect Of Your Life
[Self-Improvement:Creativity] Your experiences are a direct reflection of your vision and your intentions. When you use your experiences as a catalyst to create your life, you can simply shift your thoughts to create what you want to experience. Your life is a mosaic of the experiences you create, what is your life saying about you? Are you interested in how to turn your experiences into an intentional life? Are you interested in being the architect of your life?

Spare The Rod-Spoil The Child - Part II
[News-and-Society] Those who believe chastening is commended in the Bible, specifically the book of Proverbs have misinterpreted the Bible. There is a distinction between the practice in King Solomon's day of beating people on the back and the modern American habit of buttocks hitting, chastening/spanking of children.

Stop Dieting - Lose Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] No one wants to hear the word 'diet.' The word - diet - has taken on a negative connotation. A negative connotation has probably come about, because many people have been 'dieting' for weeks or months - as they watch the scale needle slowly drop down, only to have it all return when the 'dieting' period is over. This article outlines a strategy to lose weight long term without dieting.

Blame versus Taking Responsibility
[Self-Improvement] When you truly understand that the world outside of you is a reflection of the world inside of you, you may react with confusion about who is to blame for the problems in your life. If you had a tumultuous and difficult childhood, you may question the validity or soundness of taking responsibility for everything you have experienced. Furthermore, the same question arises for your current relationships.

Dynamic, Exciting and Awe-Inspiring Life
[Self-Improvement] As humans we have the potential to have a dynamic, exciting and awe-inspiring experience. Your life is yours to design-step-by-step. Your thoughts are powerful forces in the creation of your experiences in life.

Universal Principals
[Self-Improvement] The seven universal principles are based on metaphysics and have been spoken of by the greatest thinkers, writers and leaders throughout time - Plato, Aristotle, Albert Einstein, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Dale Carnegie, The Power of Positive Thinking, Carl Jung; "What you resist persists." Buddha, "All that we are is a result of what we have thought."

Carefree Spontaneity - Isn't Just For Children
[Self-Improvement] Many adults are unable to allow their carefree, spontaneous inner child to come forth. Maybe you have noticed a sudden childlike feeling waft through your mind and you quickly squelched it. You might have thoughts that adults need to stay focused on serious matters - that being carefree and spontaneous is only for children. Being an adult does not require you to focus on your responsibilities and challenges all the time.

Decisiveness - Proactive and Achievement Oriented
[Self-Improvement:Achievement] Your destinies are one of the greatest assets you possess, so you serve yourself well when you are careful to make decisions that are reflective of both the values you hold dear and the goals you hope to accomplish. You need to avoid letting your tentative approach to potentially life-altering decisions interfere with your enthusiasm for those paths that lie un-traveled.

Out Of The Mouths Of Babes
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Children can read adults like a book. They notice and thwart hidden agendas or subtle attempts to manipulate them. Children see hidden agendas even if you do not! They have innately strong determination to work things through and only want outside guidance if it is presented to them with respect and within a framework of choices. They prefer to work situations out for themselves.

Weight Maintenance - Relapse Prevention - Part II
[Health-and-Fitness] The American media and fashion industry promotes and reflects mainstream cultural standards for women's body shape and size. This is a culturally molded image dictating the importance of beauty being ultra thin and other symbols of love, prestige, happiness and success for women. The best way to determine your ideal weight range is to use a body mass index (BMI) calculator. It measures your body fat based on height and weight.

Boldness and Success Go Hand-In-Hand
[Self-Improvement:Success] Feelings of boldness can influence the choices you make. You may feel compelled to step out of your comfort zone, personally or professionally, so that you can explore all that the world has to offer.

Weight Maintenance - Relapse Prevention - Part I
[Health-and-Fitness] You began by having occasional lapses back to your old, worn out eating routine for comfort and distracting yourself from issues. Then as you noticed the pounds creeping on, of course, discouragement set in like a heavy fog. This article discusses the process of getting back on track.

Enrich Your Life - Learn A New Skill
[Self-Improvement] Consider learning something new. What do you want to do that you have postponed or ignored? Have you dreamed of learning to dance, sail, knit, sew, sculpt, paint, skydive, fly, snow/water ski, tennis, golf? Whatever you choose, your life will be enriched with fun, new friends and the pride of doing something new.

Task Completion-On-Time and Well-Done
[Self-Improvement:Success] Fifty percent of your time is spent processing information, and eighty percent of that information is of no value. The following tips will give you an advantage in completing tasks on-time and well-done.

Success - Savor the Flavor
[Self-Improvement:Success] When you believe in yourself fully after reminiscing because our recollections remind you that no matter how uncertain you might feel in the present, your innate drive, dedication and perseverance will help you overcome a variety of personal and professional challenges. You will feel truly accomplished when you look back on your life and realize how much adversity you have successfully overcome to achieve your goals.

Find Your Muse
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Ancient Greeks believed that all creation-artistic or scientific in nature-was motivated by goddesses who served as the literal embodiment of inspiration. These are the Muses-the giver of the creative spark. Nearly all creative possibilities are related to the muses that inspire us. If your muse eludes you, however, there are steps you can take to increase your chances accepting its inspired influence. If you surround yourself with people who support you, keep a pen and paper handy, immerse yourself in culture, and brainstorm frequently, you will soon reconnect with your muse.

Creating Fun--Wherever You Are
[Self-Improvement] As you immerse yourself in serious endeavors, do you notice you are having a great deal of fun? The key to having fun while pursuing serious endeavors is to remember all activities are a learning experience. Or do you have barriers to having fun wherever you are? This article will discuss the joy of having fun wherever you are.

Make The World A Better Place-One Act At A Time
[News-and-Society] Each of us has unique gifts, skills and talents we can use to make the world a better place. In order to accomplish this feat we need to first believe that we are capable of making a positive impact in the lives of others. The selfless time and energy you can offer may, however, do more than lift impoverished individuals into the light. Your kind heartedness and generosity can touch the souls of others and inspire them in a way no one else can. You may teach someone skills they could only learn from someone who has been where you have been and done what you have done-you are a teacher and role model from your experiences.

Mother Earth-Mutual Healing Energy
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] As you walk upon the earth, you are walking upon a living being more similar to yourself than you imagine. Like you, the earth has both a physical body and an energetic body, complete with a chakra system identified by ancient mystics and modern scientists. Human beings and Gaia [Mother Earth] are intertwined on every level, not just the physical, and an awareness of her chakras can help you to acknowledge, heal, and enable her on her path, just as she selflessly returns the favor to humans. As you consciously connect your energy system to her energy system, the true meaning of grounding reveals itself-it is a relationship with Gaia in which we acknowledge our calling as the caretakers of her soul.

Procrastination - An Easy Cure
[Self-Improvement] Do you question your resolve to complete your goals - especially when you find the going is challenging? Your lack of progress is less likely to be the result of outside forces coming between you and success and is more often a developing tendency to procrastinate. You are likely to feel tired and disinclined to apply yourself to the tasks when the goal has more challenges than you anticipated. This article discusses how to effectively and easily to cure procrastination.

Become A Role Model
[Self-Improvement] Have you envisioned a world where women support each other and help each other find their place in an ever-changing world? Women need to become the change they want to see. Jealousy, envy, criticism, and judgment are the foundation for the insecure. As you help others to become self-assured, you create a world in which all people help each other, regardless of their gender.

Sex Offenders Getting Younger, More Violent
[News-and-Society] It is estimated 40 to 80 percent of child-on-child sex offenders were molested themselves. And 42 percent have been exposed to hardcore pornography, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention said in a 2001 report. Child-on-child Sex offenders are sexual or physical abuse survivors and they are using sex with their peers/siblings as a way to cope, to numb or distract themselves from the emotional pain. Frequently, the sex offender is seeking a similar experience to the pain they endured or are enduring. Unbeknownst to them, they are creating the moth to the flame scenario. In other words, the offender might believe she-he will never offend again, but when the compulsion to relieve the internal pain becomes too great they will offend. It is a compulsion that she-he can not stop. This compulsion solves the internal pain if only for a brief period albeit at the peril of being found out or their victim reporting it. However, since the internal pain is beyond their ability to override its excruciating effects, they can not merely stop themselves.

Success Is A Choice - The Choice Is Yours
[Self-Improvement] You can declare the deepest level of understanding that you create your success by stating, "I AM. I AM Consciousness. I AM the creator of my world. Consciousness is the Creator of my world. The body, made of elements, is a vehicle to navigate this place called - The world. Consciousness IS. Consciousness is Cause. I identify myself as Cause/Consciousness." "I AM the sole creator of everything in my life. All thoughts are creative. I accept my Real Self. When I accept myself as Cause, I accept responsibility for the contents of my consciousness. I create the results."

Your Soul's Odyssey
[Self-Improvement] Your soul's odyssey is amazing as it moves in and out of physical lifetimes as a foundation for your life and future incarnations. Based on research with hundreds of clients, as well as my own experiences, there is much evidence that supports - How you choose your lifetimes, and how to improve your chances of getting the life that you truly desire. What happens when you die, and how to prepare for it. Navigating between-life experiences. Ways in which your past lives reveal your character, strengths, weaknesses, blocks which prevent you from achieving your heart’s desires, your purpose, and the opportunity to remember everything you need to create your dynamic life.

Gem Elixirs and Essentials Oils Create Energy Shift
[Self-Improvement] "In truth, all one needs to achieve Transfiguration of the physical body into the Ascended Realms is to raise their vibration and frequency." -Ascended Master Saint Germain

Soul Growth
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Sometimes your soul evolves more quickly than your circumstances. Your subconscious mind may be ready to move forward before you consciously recognize that you are seeking to embrace a new phase of your life. Moving from one point to another when you feel compelled to do so is a way of bringing your spiritual and earthly (ego) energies together. This process involves not only letting go, but also reconnecting.

Do You Feel Trapped In Your Marriage?
[Relationships:Marriage] Frequently a person, who comes to me for coaching reveals she-he is dissatisfied with his-her marriage and wants to leave. A woman generally believes she can not leave because financially her lifestyle plummets. Likewise a man wants to leave his marriage, but he believes he can not for financial reasons. He reasons that he will lose 50 per cent of the savings, possessions, the house, etc. A big sacrifice he laments. This article discusses the pros and cons of leaving an unhappy relationship, including whether to stay for the children's sake.

Thoughts-Create Your Reality
[Self-Improvement] Your thoughts are powerful forces in the creation of your experiences in life. Feelings follow thoughts. Thoughts precede feelings. "Every choice we make, every thought and feeling we have, is an act of power that has biological, environmental, social, personal and global consequences." –Caroline Myss

Resolving Angry Feelings and Resentment
[Self-Improvement] Anger is the most difficult and challenging feeling. Anger can propel us to pursue change, or energize us in the pursuit of change. However, too often our anger is allowed to run amuck as we create havoc in our lives vis-a-vis the unresolved angry feelings. This article discusses the process of resolving angry feelings and resentment.

Peace of Mind - Claim It
[Self-Improvement] Everyone wants to have that blissful sense of tranquility - peace of mind. You can promote a sense of blissfulness within by avoiding activities that cause you to feel drained or stressed. Even if you thrive on the presence of others, you need the benefit from occasionally spending time in solitude.

Relationships-Nourish the Soul
[Self-Improvement] All the relationship distress you have experienced since age five was created from that childlike perspective- with your immature understanding, inadequate and wounded perspective, within the limited environment of your family, school, church and neighborhood. Your programming and indoctrination is then locked in your conscious and unconscious mind. This article discusses the process to healing and living a healthy, happy empowered life.

Mind, Body, Spirit Health
[Self-Improvement] The first step in creating a healthy Mind, Body and Spirit is making a philosophical shift - creating a new paradigm regarding your relationship with your Mind, Body and Spirit. For some this shift will be something they have read about, thought about, but didn't know how to begin or follow through. For others it might be a revelation. This article discusses how to begin and follow through to create Mind, Body, Spirit Health.

Recipe For Happiness
[Self-Improvement] Over a lifetime we have thousands of different goals-albeit they are in one of four categories. Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs theory contended that as humans meet 'basic needs', they seek to satisfy successively 'higher needs' that occupy a set hierarchy. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs begins with the most basic of needs: Physiological-food, water, shelter, clothing and sex. Yes, sex-humans need to procreate to ensure the species continues, followed by increasingly more sophisticated needs, Safety, Love/Belonging, self-esteem and self-actualization.

What Is Stopping You From Achieving Your Goals?
[Self-Improvement] The Law of Attraction unfailingly brings to you that which you desire. The Law of Attraction is quite simple--anything you want to manifest is possible. It is through consistency, persistency, focus and understanding of your desire and connection to this thing that makes manifest that which you want to attract. What is stopping you from achieving your goalsdesires?

Do You Feel Stuck? - Little Known Reasons Why
[Self-Improvement] Have you ever wondered why, although you follow all the Law of Attraction concepts, you are still stuck? This article will discuss the little known reasons why people are stuck and the strategy to eliminate your negative blocks.

Bad Seed Child-Healing Is Possible
[Self-Improvement] Who is the 'Bad Seed Child?’ In the grim reality of-neglectful and/or abusive parents, overcrowded schools, familiar litany of public recrimination and no healthy role models-the 'Bad Seed Child' is a victim in many ways. We need to put our arms around the ostensibly 'Bad Seed Child' and love him/her. This article discusses the 'Bad Seed Child' label and a healing strategy.

Pursue Your Life Purpose
[Self-Improvement] Many people are handicapped with thousands of negative programs controlling their lives. These programs bog down your ability to focus and thwart your spiritual development, much like computer viruses and spyware tie up your computer. Removing these negative programs frees you to pursue your life purpose. This article discusses the negative programs and how to eliminate.

Eliminate Negative Ego Programming
[Self-Improvement] There are five aspects of Ego programming holding you back spiritually. Because the Ego is programmed at an early age and also has past life adaptations, it might seem impossible to eliminate everything entirely. This programming-albeit, seemingly unintentional-has the effect of controlling you from making progress in your spiritual development. This article discusses the process of eliminating these ego programs at the core.

Change Others By Example
[Self-Improvement] The secret to changing any situation is to change ones reaction to it. No one can stop you from changing yourself, and in so doing you are compelling the other person to change along with you, because, you are no longer reacting or acting the same, therefore, if the other person wants to interact with you she/he is compelled to shift his/her action or reaction.

Transform Your Life
[Self-Improvement] Your emotional and family issues can exacerbate your feelings and can also provide you with a window into your experiences. If you look back on your life, you may discover that you are still suffering in some subtle way from long-forgotten experiences, which creates the current pain. Your feelings may continue to challenge you, however your understanding of their underlying cause can help you resolve them. You do not need to be a victim to your feelings-instead-you have the ability to manage how you respond to them and what impact they ultimately have on your life. This article addresses how you can transform your life.

Fostering Random Acts of Kindness With Children
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Parents are often overwhelmed with the materialistic and competitive world while raising their children to be kind, empathic children. It is understandable that parents want their children to be competitive, popular and liked, but it does not need to be at the expense of kindness and empathy. This article discusses creating a life of random acts of kindness.

Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things
[News-and-Society] Like everyone, leaders are people living human lives, and part of that reality is learning through experience and working out our individual karmas. They will make missteps and there will be things they would do differently given a second chance. If we are to be fair, we need to grant our leaders the same forgiveness, compassion, and understanding that we grant our closest friends as they navigate the complex challenges of their human life.

Your Heritage and Experiences Shape Your Future
[Self-Improvement] Learning about the traditions that shaped your development as well as that of your relatives can be a wonderful way to expand your knowledge of yourself. While you may or may not feel compelled to adopt the conventions of your experiences and conditioning, you will likely feel a stronger connection to the people who shaped your growth.

Food Sources-What Are You Really Eating?
[Health-and-Fitness] Are you concerned about food sources? If you are not, you need to do more reading on the subject. You probably know about the tainted pet food and spinach E-coli scare, because it was diligently reported by all major news sources. Do you recognize these incidents as an isolated situation that once resolved will never occur again, or as a wake-up call? This is a wake-up call to American’s lackadaisical attitude toward demanding high standards for our food sources.

Imagine Being Able To Attract Whatever You Want!
[Self-Improvement] Are there areas of your life that you would like to improve? The possibilities are endless...

You Create The Quality and Content of Your Life
[Self-Improvement] "The more you make excuses for the way things are in your life, the shorter the amount of time between the events that compel you to devise them." - Anonymous. Whether you believe it or not; you create the quality and content of your life moment-to-moment-one thought and one action at a time.

Taming Difficult People
[Self-Improvement] It seems that in almost every situation, there is at least one 'difficult' person. His/her communication style tends to hinder the flow of communication and distracts you from your intended goal. Armed with a strategy to prevent your well-planned intent from going awry you will discover difficult people can be tamed. These six strategies will help you with even the most difficult people.

Bananas - Medicinal Uses
[Health-and-Fitness] Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes. But energy is not the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a numerous illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to your daily diet.

Paradigm Shift
[News-and-Society] Paradigm shift has become the latest buzz word. But what does it really mean? It is believed Paradigm shift was first used by Thomas Kuhn in his 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to describe a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science.

The Power Of The Unconscious Mind
[Health-and-Fitness] The power of the unconscious mind is tremendous, even in healing the most serious of diseases. Cancer—the word alone strikes fear into the hearts of many who have seen it ravaging the body and life of a loved one—can be healed. Sadly, the incredible power of the human mind to heal the body, is largely overlooked in research.

Giving Back to Society
[Self-Improvement] "Giving Back to Society" is becoming more recognized as a meaningful and powerful ingredient in the recipe for healthy lifestyle and sound wellbeing. This article discusses the process to choose a way to give back and the process to begin.

Manifesting - Your Divine Right
[Self-Improvement] The FOX News poll finds that more than nine in 10 Americans (91 percent) believe in God and almost as many believe in heaven (87 percent). In addition, 84 percent say they believe in miracles and 79 percent in angels. Almost three-quarters of Americans (74 percent) say they believe in hell and two-thirds in the devil (67 percent). This article dispels the myths on manifesting your desires.

I Wish I Were An Oscar Mayer Wiener
[Business:Careers-Employment] Have you observed someone doing their job and thought, "I want to do that job. I could probably do as good or better job." As a Life Coach I hear this quite often, so allow my experience as a coach to reassure you that wanting a different job-career is common. This article dispels common naysayer, self-limiting beliefs about changing job-career.

Corporal Punishment - Bill Proposes Ban
[News-and-Society] "The Bill is trying to provide children with the same protection that adults have against violence," said Sam Waterhouse, Advocacy Manager of Resources Aimed at the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. The amendment will now go back to the National Assembly for approval, before the Bill can be signed into law.

Expanding Consciousness
[Self-Improvement] What does expanding consciousness mean? Expanding consciousness is the act of consciously seeing reality in new ways. You see things that you could not conceive of before. Old philosophies and religions suddenly appear naive and give way to a far more profound understanding. Most religions and philosophies are stagnate precepts. Expanding consciousness promotes a profound transformation in our consciousness, in our way of understanding and interacting with reality.

Loving Spankings – Part III
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Those who come forward to share their stories of surviving abuse and how they have coped are to be commended for their strength and courage. Nicole asks, "How can "spanking" advocates not see what this violence does to people; how it trickles down through the generations and hurts us all?" This article answers Nicole's question.

An Open Heart
[Self-Improvement] Mother Teresa said, "If you judge people, you don’t have time to love them." Are you judging or loving? Thoughts you hope you do not possess can instigate your criticism when you see them in others because passing judgment distances you from those thoughts. This article discusses cultivating an 'Open Heart.'

I'd Rather Be Fishing
[Self-Improvement] Have you seen the bumper sticker, "I'd Rather Be Fishing?" Or fill in the blank with a plethora of things people would rather be doing. Have you ever wondered why people put those stickers on their car? This article will discuss the reason people use this type bumper sticker and how to create what you desire.

Experiencing Wonderment
[Self-Improvement] What is Wonderment? Wonderment: n. Astonishment, awe, or surprise. Something that produces wonder; a marvel. Puzzlement or curiosity. [answers.com] You can only experience wonder when you allow yourself the freedom to lose yourself in the beauty and grandeur of the world around you. This takes a heightened degree of open-mindedness on your part, particularly if you feel pressured by society and religions dictates to maintain a serious facade.

Boston City Council Proposes Resolution to Reduce Violence
[News-and-Society] Following in the foot steps of sixteen countries worldwide, which have prohibited all forms of corporal punishment of children, Boston is taking the lead in the United States.

What Is Growing In Your Garden?
[Health-and-Fitness] The popular definition for the word, 'weed,' is any plant that grows where it is not wanted. Weeds are defined by their tendency to flourish at the expense of the gardener's overall vision, and the battle is on. Instead of seeing a plant as an unwanted intruder, consider seeing it as a healer offering its leaves for a medicinal tea or its flowers for a colorful salad. No doubt if you look long enough, you will learn all plants are a messenger from Mother Earth, reminding you that, even in the most carefully controlled garden, Mother Nature cannot be completely ruled out.

A Man's Home Is His Castle - Eleven Ways To Have A Healthier Home
[Health-and-Fitness] The adage that a Man's Home Is His Castle is more than a mere adage. Our homes serve as sanctuaries from what is potentially harmful. Unfortunately, if we are not careful we can inadvertently surround ourselves with substances that are toxic to our bodies. This is precisely true because we rely on our private spaces to serve as refuges from the world that we need to exercise great care when choosing how we build, furnish, cleanse and decorate our homes. These eleven suggestions will set you not the right track to have a toxin free home.

Crying Is A Sign Of Weakness
[Self-Improvement] Myth: Crying is a sign of weakness. A client recently came to me as a referral by her ear, nose and throat specialist-ENT. She had constant nasal drip and a cough, which did not have any physical basis. After many treatments and much frustration on both their parts, she was came to me. This article dispels this myth and discusses healthy processing.

Breakthrough Technologies - Part II
[Self-Improvement] An amazing number of new products and breakthrough technologies in the world of self improvement and personal development are giving us opportunities heretofore considered merely science fiction. The following technology may be just what you need.

Breakthrough Technologies - Part I
[Self-Improvement] An amazing number of new products and breakthrough technologies in the world of self improvement and personal development are giving us opportunities heretofore considered merely science fiction. The following technology may be just what you need.

Breakthrough Technologies - Part VI
[Self-Improvement] An amazing number of new products and breakthrough technologies in the world of self improvement and personal development are giving us opportunities heretofore considered merely science fiction. The following technology may be just what you need.

Breakthrough Technologies - Part IV
[Self-Improvement] An amazing number of new products and breakthrough technologies in the world of self improvement and personal development are giving us opportunities heretofore considered merely science fiction. The following technology may be just what you need.

Breakthrough Technologies - Part III
[Self-Improvement] An amazing number of new products and breakthrough technologies in the world of self improvement and personal development are giving us opportunities heretofore considered merely science fiction. The following technology may be just what you need.

FEAR - Life Saboteur
[Self-Improvement] If you examine the word FEAR, you will realize that other words stick like velcro-'afraid,' 'anxious,' 'anxiety' and 'phobia.' There are two types of fear-real and imagined. Real fear includes-those things, which have potential danger such as: lightening, tornadoes, hail, snow storms, thin ice, being near wild animals, high risk activities, etc. Imagined fear includes things that are- imagined-and have little basis in fact. The sky is falling syndrome-"False Evidence Appearing Real." This article discusses the premise of 'fear' and what to do to eliminate it.

Are You As Good As Your Word?
[Self-Improvement] Since humans began speaking to one another, they have made promises. The fly in the ointment is-of course-not keeping them. Those who more often than not keep their promises are regarded as people with integrity, while those who seldom keep their promises are regarded as those who at best can not be taken seriously and at worst are not to be trusted.

Holistic Dental Health Care
[Health-and-Fitness:Dental-Care] The future of your total health can be compromised by the condition of your teeth, gum tissue and bones. Oral health is crucial to your well-being, yet it is easily neglected even with conscious effort to maintain good dental health.

Breast Health
[Health-and-Fitness] Focusing on Breast Health is superior to fighting against cancer after you have cancer. We are taught at the on-set of puberty that early detection will save women's lives against breast cancer or for a myriad of other cancers. Early detection is NOT prevention-it is fighting against the disease. This article provides detailed steps to create and maintain breast health.

Golf Stress - Self-Hypnosis Helps
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Golf Stress goes by many different names—'First Tee Jitters.' 'The Yips.' 'Choking When Ahead.' No matter the name, it is the same thing. It is fear—fear of failure or fear of success. What can you do to keep this fear from taking over? There are two important strategies: • Distract your Conscious Mind
• Educate your Subconscious Mind
This article discusses how to Distract your Conscious Mind and Educate your Subconscious Mind

Most Influential Group of Consumers
[Business] Recent marketing studies reveal that most marketing strategies directed toward women fail to live up to potential due to lack of appropriate market segmentation.
Businesses that are the most successful and consistently reach women with targeted marketing efforts take advantage of the different ways in which women collect information and make consumer decisions. As a business owner you can capture the female buying power through specifically targeted marketing strategies toward women versus the traditional marketing strategy.

Police To Step Up Curfew Enforcement
[News-and-Society] "Police To Step up Curfew Enforcement"-this headline appeared in my local newspaper last week. What baffles me about that headline is why the police need to enforce a curfew. Is that not the parent's responsibility? Of course, I realize my statement is redundant, because if all parents were managing their parental responsibility police would not need to do so. This article will discuss this common practice and how it can be remedied.

Empowerment - With Words
[Self-Improvement:Empowerment] Understanding the power of words and expressions is a powerful and empowering awareness. It is challenging to examine our habits in terms of the words and phrases we use, but it is also exciting.
This aricle examines common words and phrases that are detrimental to our well-being and offers empowering words and phrases.

Your Life Is A Choice-What Are You Choosing?
[Self-Improvement] Everything in life is a choice-are you choosing the best or are you choosing to see more negative in every situation or experience? There are many choices for every situation or issue. Some days it seems everything goes well, people help us, the details of events/projects fall into place, outcomes and rewards are visible. Albeit other days everything seems to be up hill or full of ebbs and under-currents. This article discusses the steps to being the creator of your experiences.

Confusion or Contemplation
[Self-Improvement] Sometimes a sense of deep-seated confusion overwhelms one's sensibilities and can make navigating the complex world quite tiresome and stressful. This articles discusses the solution to this reaction to life's travail.

Dancing Soothes and Heals
[Self-Improvement] Few people have retained or regained the ability to engage in dancing un-self-consciously. Many adults have stopped dancing altogether. You might have hang-ups about your body, or you may fear being judged that your body movement is not artistic enough or have the correct rhythm. You may have simply gotten out of the habit of dancing and then think you are too out of practice or too old to dance. Whatever the case, you can put aside those false fears or excuses and rediscover the healing/soothing pleasure of moving your body to music-alone, or as part of a couple, or in a group. Opportunities to formal or informal dance abound wherever there are people.

Everything Has Energy
[Self-Improvement] Everything has energy, including the Words you speak. The energy Words carry gives language its power and its potential to heal or hurt. You can probably remember a time when someone sent a word your way, and it struck a cord. It might have been the first time you received a truly accurate compliment, or a friend or sibling called you a name, either way it stuck.

Self-Care-Mind, Body, Spirit
[Health-and-Fitness] One of the most important life enhancing activities one needs to give oneself is usually considered self-indulgence-taking care of one's mind, body and spirit. The majority of people take better care of their cars and pets than they do themselves. This article dispels the self-indulgent myth and provides sound self-care strategies for mind, body and spirit

Make Words Work For You - Seven Tips
[Business:Workplace-Communication] Make Words Work For You, may seem redundant - however - there are many ways one can say the same thing. There are a few common writing techniques to get your words to work more effectively for selling you, your product/service or concepts. This article provides seven tips to make words work for you.

Caring For The Whole Self
[Health-and-Fitness] Have you stopped participating in activities you used to enjoy? Do you have trouble focusing your attention? When a person is tired, hurt or ill, she/he feels hopeless and worn out from the continual work to feel better. Pain and fear can take a huge toll on enjoying life. This phenomenon has been humorously referred to as, "Being sick and tired of being sick and tired." This innocent characterization unwittingly exacerbates the problem.

Permanent Weight Loss-Six Tips
[Health-and-Fitness] The symptomatic weight loss treatments typically recommended can lead to further health imbalance. For example, losing weight quickly can suppress the immune system and strain organs such as the liver and kidneys. Some weight-loss products focus on thermogenesis (the body's natural calorie burning process) These products contain ephedrine, which not only speeds up the body's metabolism, but also raises blood pressure and increases the heart rate. This can be dangerous for some people. This article presents Six highly effective methods for losing and maintaining weight loss.

Past Life Regression-The Benefits
[Self-Improvement] Many people when they learn I am a regression practitioner frequently ask, "What value does knowing about one's past life have?" Knowledge of a past life is nothing more than a curiosity unless you learn something and put it to use. It is believed by occultists that the reason for reincarnation is to re-remember about life and consciousness, and to allow our consciousness to evolve beyond the need for incarnation.

Post Traumatic Stress - Healing The Cause
[Health-and-Fitness] The most effective approach to PTSD treatment is Holistic Healing - a.k.a. healing emotional issues at the core. Holistic healing addresses the all-important relationship to one's true spiritual nature. Transforming the psychological conditional patterns and unconscious beliefs that arise from our personal histories and adaptations effectively transforms our mind, body and spirit.

Heredity or Learned - Are You Your Parent(s)?
[Self-Improvement] We are bombarded daily that heredity plays a role in almost all human development, whether physical, mental, or emotional. That if your parents, grandparents, great grandparents or great-great grandparents had this or that illness, temperament or propensity, you would surely at some point in time have the same malady, experience or bad luck. But did you know that some of the illness we have today were not active during the eighteen hundreds when your ancestors lived. How can those illnesses be hereditary? This article discusses the little-accepted aspect regarding the age-old debate—heredity or learned.

Ayurvedic Foot Reflexology
[Health-and-Fitness] In today's world the most important natural health and healing activity is virtually unviable-Natural Reflexology-walking barefoot on the beach/bare dirt or through grass. This article discusses a highly effective subsititute for natural reflexology.

Journey To Healing and Health
[Health-and-Fitness] We are taught from a young age to have an implicit co-dependent relationship with a medical doctor. A person sits with a physician and says, "Doc, here are my symptoms-give me something to fix it."

Learn To Achieve Success By Watching A Two-Year Old
[Self-Improvement] Wow! Did I say that—Learn To Achieve Success By Watching A Two-Year Old? Yes, I did and for good reason. Two-year old children have no fears and explore the world with total abandon. Why then, do adults have difficulty doing the same? It is in the parenting style that molds, teaches and rewards children to respect authority without question and even fear experiencing some life situations and activities. This article discusses the cause and effect with seven paradigm shifts.

Discover Your Purpose
[Self-Improvement] Many people ask to have a hypnosis session to find their purpose - la raison d' etre - the reason for being. Everyone's purpose for being here this time around is for "Emotional and Spiritual" healing and growth. What you need to achieve for your emotional and spiritual healing and growth is the mystery. However, this mystery is an illusion, because your soul knows its sole purpose for being in human form is for "Emotional and Spiritual" healing and growth and how to achieve it. Your ego is the fly in the ointment.

Health Care-A Misnomer
[Health-and-Fitness] Health care is a misnomer in the United States. Despite the fact that the U.S. leads the world in health care spending it ranks very low on a number of health measures including longevity and infant mortality. This article discusses sources for healthy health care.

Stress-The Truth About Cause and Effect
[Self-Improvement] The first step in understanding the role stress plays in your life is to remember, stress is a perception. When your stressors are channeled properly, it can help push you toward your best outcome. However, if not channeled properly, a stressor can create havoc. This article will address the oft misunderstood stress cause and effects and easy and highly effective remedies.

What Are You Attracting-The Good, The Bad or The Ugly?
[Self-Improvement] Do you have a long list of reasons why you are not doing what you love or your life seems all up hill? Do you objectively examine your reasons or explore your underlying fears? The truth is that there is a hidden fear behind every imagined limitation, including every sickness you have. As much as you may be tempted to blame other people or outside circumstances for your current situation in life, sooner or later you realize that you attract and create your limitations. While that is a startling reality, it is also an inspiring and empowering one.

Creating and Maintaining Ideal Weight-5 Mistakes
[Health-and-Fitness] There are a plethora of articles, products and services to help people lose weight. However, within these strategies, there are five flaws to create and maintaining one’s ideal weight.

Black Sheep Phenomenon-Find Peace of Mind
[Self-Improvement] Are you the lone black sheep in your family, at work or in your neighborhood? Do you feel alone in a vast sea of people who do not speak your language? This article discusses the 'black sheep' phenomenon and offers insight on finding peace of mind and connectedness.

Goal Achievement - Little Known Strategies
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Have you wondered why some people seem to achieve everything they set out to achieve? You look at them and say, they are not any smarter, or better looking, talented, clever, or creative—why then do they achieve everything they want to achieve? This pondering is common - I hear it from many of my clients. This article reveals the little known strategies to consistently achieve your goals.

Another Tragedy - NRA Blames Anti-Gun Advocates
[News-and-Society] After hearing the news of the Virginia Tech shootings gun advocates immediately began promoting their theory that since these students and teachers were not armed, it was the fault of the anti-gun advocates that people were killed. How convoluted is that thinking? Do you see a picture of an old-west shoot out on a college campus instead of the OK Corral?

Trust Your Inner Wisdom
[Self-Improvement] Do you feel confident that your inner wisdom will help you accomplish your goals? If others attempt to direct you in your choices, put rocks, obstacles in your path or the winds of fate blows, is your first impulse to go with your gut instinct? If not, you can learn to trust your inner wisdom.

Thoughts To Ponder - 124
[Self-Improvement] These quotes by well-known great minds bring a perspective worth contemplating--including, Deepak Chopra, Mother Teresa, Gandhi, Winafred Lucas, PhD, et al.

The Acorn Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree
[News-and-Society] "A mother who admitted she slapped her 10-year-old daughter about the face and body at least five times to discipline her for back-chatting has been given nine months' supervision." Alice Miller, PhD, one of the most articulate children's advocates writing today, states: "Every smack is a humiliation."

Stress Reliever - Thirty Seconds
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] The perception that in order to be accepted in society, we need to 'be somebody,' often involves the desire to create results from a combination of personal desires and external pressures from friends, family and society. Whenever we make choices for success that are influenced by external pressures and not from internal wisdom, personal conflict stress related symptoms can occur. This article sets forth a thirty-second stress reliever.

The Secret - Missing Link
[Self-Improvement] 'The Secret' is simply the metaphysics of 'The Law of Attraction.' However, there is a glitch in the current understanding of The Law of Attraction - a.k.a. The Secret - that can create havoc in your life. This article will discuss this glitch and how to overcome it.

Say No, Without Guilt-Four Tips
[Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] All too often you might say yes to something you wish you had said, No. Setting boundaries is an important aspect of managing your time, energy and peace of mind. You have a finite amount of time and energy, if you do not protect it, no one else will. This article presents four strategies to make saying no easier.

Doorway to Grace and Peace of Mind
[Self-Improvement] Do you wonder how to let go of past mistakes you have made? Some people dwell on memories of these errors in an effort to punish themselves enough to assuage their guilt. This paradigm substantiates an intellectual understanding that these thoughts are unhealthy, but it is difficult to change the intention and focus on self-forgiveness.

Thoughts To Ponder - #131
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes by Deepak Chopra are worth contemplating. Deepak Chopra, M.D. born and raised in New Delhi, India, is a medical doctor and writer extensively on spirituality and diverse topics in mind-body medicine. His main influences are two: the teachings of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita from his native India and quantum physics. Part VII - VII

Thoughts To Ponder - #130
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes by Deepak Chopra are worth contemplating. Deepak Chopra, M.D. born and raised in New Delhi, India, is a medical doctor and writer extensively on spirituality and diverse topics in mind-body medicine. His main influences are two: the teachings of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita from his native India and quantum physics. Part VI - VII

Thoughts To Ponder - #129
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes by Deepak Chopra are worth contemplating. Deepak Chopra, M.D. born and raised in New Delhi, India, is a medical doctor and writer extensively on spirituality and diverse topics in mind-body medicine. His main influences are two: the teachings of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita from his native India and quantum physics. Part V - VII

Thoughts To Ponder - #128
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes by Deepak Chopra are worth contemplating. Deepak Chopra, M.D. born and raised in New Delhi, India, is a medical doctor and writer extensively on spirituality and diverse topics in mind-body medicine. His main influences are two: the teachings of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita from his native India and quantum physics. Part IV - VII

Thoughts To Ponder - #127
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes by Deepak Chopra are worth contemplating. Deepak Chopra, M.D. born and raised in New Delhi, India, is a medical doctor and writer extensively on spirituality and diverse topics in mind-body medicine. His main influences are two: the teachings of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita from his native India and quantum physics. Part III - VII

Thoughts To Ponder - #126
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes by Deepak Chopra are worth contemplating. Deepak Chopra, M.D. born and raised in New Delhi, India, is a medical doctor and writer extensively on spirituality and diverse topics in mind-body medicine. His main influences are two: the teachings of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita from his native India and quantum physics. Part II - VII

Thoughts To Ponder - #125
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes by Deepak Chopra are worth contemplating. Deepak Chopra, M.D. born and raised in New Delhi, India, is a medical doctor and writer extensively on spirituality and diverse topics in mind-body medicine. His main influences are two: the teachings of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita from his native India and quantum physics. Part I - VII

Virginia Tech Shootings-Another Societal Wake-Up Call
[News-and-Society] Are you shocked, sickened and dismayed by the Virginia Tech shootings? I am not shocked, but I am significantly sickened and dismayed that society is in denial about what prompts anyone to become violent. This article reviews the reasons behind Cho-Seung Hui's violence toward others.

Thoughts To Ponder - #116
[Self-Improvement] Alice Miller was trained as a psychotherapist. In 1979, after twenty years of practicing psychoanalysis, she decided psychoanalysis was not the best way to help people. She came to believe that it would be more helpful to write about the parent-child relationship. She wanted people to see how parents and teachers unintentionally damage children, even when they believe they are acting in the best interests of the child. She wanted people to see how the belief that hurting children is good for them has been perpetuated from one generation to the next.

Thoughts To Ponder - #119
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes on forgiveness bring a perspective worth contemplating - including, Joanne Kathleen Rowling, Thomas Szasz, Claire London, Robert Muller, et al. Part II - VI

Thoughts To Ponder - #118
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes on forgiveness bring a perspective worth contemplating-including, George Bernard Shaw, Mahatma Gandhi, Gerald Jampolsky, Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, et al. Part I - Part VI

Thoughts To Ponder - #117
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes on forgiveness bring a perspective worth contemplating - including, Gandhi, Buddha, Alice Miller, Smedes, et al. Part I

Thoughts To Ponder - No. 123
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes on forgiveness bring a perspective worth contemplating—Dag Hammarskjold, Oscar Wilde, Alexander Pope, Ellen Goodman, et al. Part VI - VI

Thoughts To Ponder - No. 122
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes on forgiveness bring a perspective worth contemplating--including, Thomas Fuller, William Blake, Norman Cousins, Martha Kilpatrick, Mark Twain, et al. Part V - Part VI

Thoughts To Ponder - No. 121
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes on forgiveness bring a perspective worth contemplating--including, David McArthur & Bruce McArthur, Sara Paddison, Henry Ward Beecher, Mignon McLaughlin, et al. Part IV - VI

Thoughts To Ponder - No. 120
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes on forgiveness bring a perspective worth contemplating—including, Voltaire, Henry Ward Beecher, Josh Billings, Oscar Wilde, et al. Part III - VI

Thoughts To Ponder - #115
[Self-Improvement] Doreen Virtue, PhD., spiritual doctor of psychology and fourth generation metaphysician, who works with the angelic realm. She is the author of Angel Therapy, Divine Guidance, and Healing with the Angels, among other works. Doreen has appeared on Oprah, The View, CNN, Good Morning America, and other programs. She gives angel workshops each weekend around the world.

Thoughts To Ponder - #114
[Self-Improvement] James Twyman is one of the world's leaders in bringing peace to the earth. Twyman received his Bachelors degree from Loyola University in 1984, and a Doctorate in ministry from Agape Seminary in 1997. He has written five books, Emissary of Light", "Emissary of Love - The Psychic Children Speak to the World", "Proposing Tree: A Love Story", and "Prayer of St. Francis.” One role James has played since the beginning, the role he considers to be his central and most important character: The Peace Troubadour. Part III

Thoughts To Ponder - #113
[Self-Improvement] James Twyman is one of the world’s leaders in bringing peace to the earth. Twyman received his Bachelors degree from Loyola University in 1984, and a Doctorate in ministry from Agape Seminary in 1997. He has written five books, Emissary of Light", "Emissary of Love - The Psychic Children Speak to the World", "Proposing Tree: A Love Story", and "Prayer of St. Francis.” One role James has played since the beginning, the role he considers to be his central and most important character: The Peace Troubadour. Part II

Thoughts To Ponder - #112
[Self-Improvement] James Twyman is one of the world's leaders in bringing peace to the earth. Twyman received his Bachelors degree from Loyola University in 1984, and a Doctorate in ministry from Agape Seminary in 1997. He has written five books, "Emissary of Light", "Emissary of Love - The Psychic Children Speak to the World", "Proposing Tree: A Love Story", and "Prayer of St. Francis.” One role James has played since the beginning, the role he considers to be his central and most important character: The Peace Troubadour. Part I

Debunking the Age Myth - She is 10 Years Old, She Should Know How to Clean Her Room!
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Myth: Parents usually give a child's age as evidence that they should have a particular skill. They may say, "She's 15, she should be able to clean her room without being reminded," or "He's 5, he should be able to dress himself by now."

Evoke Favorable Responses - 9 Tips
[Business:Workplace-Communication] People respond to certain qualities in others, and to positive statements. When you need to evoke a favorable response from anyone - family, colleague, business transaction or acquaintance these tips will set the stage for each step of the process.

Thoughts To Ponder - #111
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes bring a perspective worth contemplating--including, Albert Einstein, Gandhi, Robert Kennedy, Thomas Edison, et al.

Thoughts To Ponder - #110
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes bring a perspective worth contemplating--including, Nelson Mandela, Lao Tzu, George Bernard Shaw, Stephen Covey, et al.

Thoughts To Ponder - #109
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes bring a perspective worth contemplating-including, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Wiliam Melvin Hicks and Eva Peron

Addiction Transfer - Society Duped by Bariatric By-Pass Surgery
[News-and-Society] Carney Wilson's 1999 mega publicized bariatric by-pass surgery for which she extolled the virtues of the procedure and Al Roker's subsequent surgery and weight loss has propelled this highly risky surgery into surgery du jour. Approximately 140,000 bariatric surgeries have been performed in the United States every year for the past six years.

Who Ruffles Your Feathers?
[Self-Improvement] Ruffled feathers, refers to being upset or annoyed. Being raised on a cattle ranch with chickens and birds galore, I know first hand - bird feathers do get ruffled when one bird annoys or upsets another bird in the flock. Ruffled bird feathers are unmistakable - the reason is more elusive. No doubt this is why the expression was applied to humans. When someone is annoyed or upset, it is unmistakable, but the reason may remain elusive, not only for the person who caused it, but for the person whose feathers were ruffled.

Thoughts To Ponder - #108
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes bring a perspective worth contemplating--including, Mark Victor Hansen, Victor Hugo, Wallace D. Wattles, Esther Hicks.

Thoughts To Ponder - #107
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes bring a perspective worth contemplating--including Dionne Warwick, Sir Winston Churchill, Mark Victor Hansen, Helen Hayes, et al.

Managing Time More Effectively - 5 Tips
[Self-Improvement] Time is a constant - it just is. There are one thousand four hundred and forty minutes in every day. The question is-What are you doing with yours? These five tips will help you use time effectively.

Thoughts To Ponder - #106
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes by Anthony J. D'Angelo bring a perspective worth contemplating.

Thoughts To Ponder - #105
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes by Anthony J. D'Angelo bring a perspective worth contemplating.

Thoughts To Ponder - #104
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes bring a perspective worth contemplating, including, Mark Vicotr Hansen, Voltaire, Kurt Vonnegut, Helen Hayes, Sir Winston Churchill, Aldous Huxley, Anthony J. D'Angelo

Thoughts To Ponder - #103
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes bring a perspective worth contemplating; including, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., General Geroge S. Patton, Chinese Proverb, Samuel Johnson, W. Earl Hall,

Living Life Medicine-Pharmaceutical Free - Part I
[Health-and-Fitness] Living Life Medicine-Pharmaceutical Free sounds like an oxymoron - doesn't it? To some it is - to others it will seem redundant, because millions of people throughout the world are living Medicine- Pharmaceutical Free...

Thoughts To Ponder - #102
[Self-Improvement] Eric Butterworth was Senior Minister of The Unity Center of New York City from 1961 to 2003. Eric was considered a legend and spiritual icon in the Unity Movement. We will never know the countless number of lives that have been changed by applying the Spiritual Principles taught by Eric Butterworth. The author of 16 best-selling books on metaphysical spirituality, a gifted theologian, philosopher, and lecturer, Eric was a highly respected pioneer and innovator of practical mysticism, whose life was dedicated to helping people to help themselves. Part XIII

Thoughts To Ponder - #101
[Self-Improvement] Eric Butterworth was Senior Minister of The Unity Center of New York City from 1961 to 2003. Eric was considered a legend and spiritual icon in the Unity Movement. We will never know the countless number of lives that have been changed by applying the Spiritual Principles taught by Eric Butterworth. The author of 16 best-selling books on metaphysical spirituality, a gifted theologian, philosopher, and lecturer, Eric was a highly respected pioneer and innovator of practical mysticism, whose life was dedicated to helping people to help themselves. Part XII

Thoughts To Ponder - #100
[Self-Improvement] Eric Butterworth was Senior Minister of The Unity Center of New York City from 1961 to 2003. Eric was considered a legend and spiritual icon in the Unity Movement. We will never know the countless number of lives that have been changed by applying the Spiritual Principles taught by Eric Butterworth. The author of 16 best-selling books on metaphysical spirituality, a gifted theologian, philosopher, and lecturer, Eric was a highly respected pioneer and innovator of practical mysticism, whose life was dedicated to helping people to help themselves. Part XI

Thoughts To Ponder - #99
[Self-Improvement] Eric Butterworth was Senior Minister of The Unity Center of New York City from 1961 to 2003. Eric was considered a legend and spiritual icon in the Unity Movement. We will never know the countless number of lives that have been changed by applying the Spiritual Principles taught by Eric Butterworth. The author of 16 best-selling books on metaphysical spirituality, a gifted theologian, philosopher, and lecturer, Eric was a highly respected pioneer and innovator of practical mysticism, whose life was dedicated to helping people to help themselves. Part X

Thoughts To Ponder - #98
[Self-Improvement] Eric Butterworth was Senior Minister of The Unity Center of New York City from 1961 to 2003. Eric was considered a legend and spiritual icon in the Unity Movement. We will never know the countless number of lives that have been changed by applying the Spiritual Principles taught by Eric Butterworth. The author of 16 best-selling books on metaphysical spirituality, a gifted theologian, philosopher, and lecturer, Eric was a highly respected pioneer and innovator of practical mysticism, whose life was dedicated to helping people to help themselves. Part VIV

Thoughts To Ponder - #97
[Self-Improvement] Eric Butterworth was Senior Minister of The Unity Center of New York City from 1961 to 2003. Eric was considered a legend and spiritual icon in the Unity Movement. We will never know the countless number of lives that have been changed by applying the Spiritual Principles taught by Eric Butterworth. The author of 16 best-selling books on metaphysical spirituality, a gifted theologian, philosopher, and lecturer, Eric was a highly respected pioneer and innovator of practical mysticism, whose life was dedicated to helping people to help themselves. Part VIII

Thoughts To Ponder - #96
[Self-Improvement] Eric Butterworth was Senior Minister of The Unity Center of New York City from 1961 to 2003. Eric was considered a legend and spiritual icon in the Unity Movement. We will never know the countless number of lives that have been changed by applying the Spiritual Principles taught by Eric Butterworth. The author of 16 best-selling books on metaphysical spirituality, a gifted theologian, philosopher, and lecturer, Eric was a highly respected pioneer and innovator of practical mysticism, whose life was dedicated to helping people to help themselves. Part VII

Thoughts To Ponder - #95
[Self-Improvement] Eric Butterworth was Senior Minister of The Unity Center of New York City from 1961 to 2003. Eric was considered a legend and spiritual icon in the Unity Movement. We will never know the countless number of lives that have been changed by applying the Spiritual Principles taught by Eric Butterworth. The author of 16 best-selling books on metaphysical spirituality, a gifted theologian, philosopher, and lecturer, Eric was a highly respected pioneer and innovator of practical mysticism, whose life was dedicated to helping people to help themselves. Part VI

Thoughts To Ponder - #94
[Self-Improvement] Eric Butterworth was Senior Minister of The Unity Center of New York City from 1961 to 2003. Eric was considered a legend and spiritual icon in the Unity Movement. We will never know the countless number of lives that have been changed by applying the Spiritual Principles taught by Eric Butterworth. The author of 16 best-selling books on metaphysical spirituality, a gifted theologian, philosopher, and lecturer, Eric was a highly respected pioneer and innovator of practical mysticism, whose life was dedicated to helping people to help themselves. Part V

Thoughts To Ponder - #93
[Self-Improvement] Eric Butterworth was Senior Minister of The Unity Center of New York City from 1961 to 2003. Eric was considered a legend and spiritual icon in the Unity Movement. We will never know the countless number of lives that have been changed by applying the Spiritual Principles taught by Eric Butterworth. The author of 16 best-selling books on metaphysical spirituality, a gifted theologian, philosopher, and lecturer, Eric was a highly respected pioneer and innovator of practical mysticism, whose life was dedicated to helping people to help themselves. Part IV

Thoughts To Ponder - #92
[Self-Improvement] Eric Butterworth was Senior Minister of The Unity Center of New York City from 1961 to 2003. Eric was considered a legend and spiritual icon in the Unity Movement. We will never know the countless number of lives that have been changed by applying the Spiritual Principles taught by Eric Butterworth. The author of 16 best-selling books on metaphysical spirituality, a gifted theologian, philosopher, and lecturer, Eric was a highly respected pioneer and innovator of practical mysticism, whose life was dedicated to helping people to help themselves. Part III

Thoughts To Ponder - #91
[Self-Improvement] Eric Butterworth was among the leading spokespersons in modern times on "practical mysticism." Eric was considered a legend and spiritual icon in the Unity movement. The author of 16 best-selling books on metaphysical spirituality, a gifted theologian, philosopher, and lecturer, and for over 50 years a teacher of "practical Christianity," helping thousands of people to help themselves to a more abundant life by the study and application of Truth. He possessed a unique ability to render the most complex metaphysical teachings in simple sound bytes of awareness. He mastered the art of the brief "essayette," of which he has written thousands and is often described as "The twentieth century Emerson." Part II

Thoughts To Ponder - #90
[Self-Improvement] Eric Butterworth was among the leading spokespersons in modern times on "practical mysticism." Eric was considered a legend and spiritual icon in the Unity movement. The author of 16 best-selling books on metaphysical spirituality, a gifted theologian, philosopher, and lecturer, and for over 50 years a teacher of "practical Christianity," helping thousands of people to help themselves to a more abundant life by the study and application of Truth. He possessed a unique ability to render the most complex metaphysical teachings in simple sound bytes of awareness. He mastered the art of the brief "essayette," of which he has written thousands and is often described as "The twentieth century Emerson." Part I

Success – 5 Common Saboteurs
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] This article focuses on the five most common ways people sabotage their success. We create the very things we fear. Instead of creating success, we create our own failure.

Goal-Setting -Four Steps
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] With a goal-setting plan you know what to do and when to do it and can ground yourself in the task before you without feeling pressured to move on quickly. Even when you are unable to cross off each item on your to do list, you can clearly see where you overspent your time and modify your plan to compensate in the future. You will have no difficulty keeping up with your obligations when you have a solid plan of action in place.

May - National Mental Health Month
[News-and-Society] The reality is that today's insurance policies are designed by accountants to discourage access to mental health services. The irony of this policy is mind boggling as the root cause of all physical dis-ease is mental/emotional distress. It is time to end the rampant discrimination against the millions of Americans with mental/emotional distress.

Thoughts To Ponder - #89
[Self-Improvement] Carl Jung's work is second only to Sigmund Freud's in the brief history of human psychoanalysis. He and Freud worked closely for several years, but eventually split on the role of sexuality in human neuroses. Jung developed his own theories, which he called 'analytical psychology.' Jung is also famous for his concept of the 'collective unconscious' shared by all human minds.

Sexual Child Abuse Prevention - To Catch A Predator
[News-and-Society] Do child predators bamboozle you? Is the headline from an email I received this morning from Yello Dyno. "We've been bamboozled long enough. The old saying 'out of sight, out of mind' has become the social norm, much to the delight of child predators."-The Yello Dyno email continues. This article identifies how we are bambozzled by sex offenders, the media, organizations who are promoting child sexual abuse prevention and what to do.

Choosing The Right Professional Coach - 6 Tips
[Business] You and your coach are a partnership focused on you and your success. Coaching isn't a magic wand; it is a lot of hard work. You need to be committed to the process. Change, especially the kind evoked through coaching does not take place overnight. You will make subtle and powerful shifts if you are willing and able to commit to your success. Coaching is about your being in the present and focused on the future.

There Is No Better Than Here
[Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] When your there becomes a here-you again believe there is better than here. "If you understand, things are just as they are... if you do not understand, things are just as they are". Zen proverb

There Is Nothing Wrong With You
[Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] When you read the title of this article were you skeptical that there was some sort of catch to it. A catch that would prompt you to feel embarrassed or ashamed that not only was there something wrong with you, but it is really worse than you feared. This article discusses the paradigm shift to healing.

Are You A YoYo Dieter - The Secret To Being Natually Slim
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Many people have tried one diet after another and after losing weight and gaining it back, they admonish themselves because, "Something is wrong with me, because I gained the weight back." As you have probably noticed some people are naturally slim. There is a secret. Learn the secret of being naturally slim.

Life Coach - Divorce Mediator
[Relationships:Divorce] When your marriage ends feeling grief is a natural part of the loss of the family structure and the significant relationship, whether the decision was mutual, or thrust upon you - both parties suffer. In my role as a Life Coach, I rely on both my professional knowledge and personal experience-proffering different options and alternatives for the resolution of issues- to help couples communicate and negotiate effectively-financial, emotional, dividing tangible possessions and co-parenting.

Celebrating Women - National Women's History Month
[Womens-Interests] The roots of National Women's History Month began March 8, 1857, when women from New York City factories staged a protest over working conditions. International Women's Day was first observed in 1909. Statistics included.

Working Parent Stress-Catalyst Study
[News-and-Society] According to a Catalyst study, about one-third of the U.S. labor force is less productive at work because they are concerned about what their children are doing after school. The study estimates these worries cost businesses between $50 billion and $300 billion a year in productivity. This article discusses viable solutions.

Communication At Work- Six Tips
[Business:Workplace-Communication] Men are acculturated from a young age to relate to one another vis-a-vis sports, thus they prefer structure in their communication style. They want to hear bottom line solutions and how to get from point A to point B without any machinations.

Exorcism Or Spirit Releasement
[Health-and-Fitness] Simply put a Spirit Attachment, (a.k.a. Entity Attachment or Possession) is the invasion of one's body by a discarnate being, or an entity, or by negative energies.

Intuitive Development
[Health-and-Fitness] As a Life Coach I receive calls everyday from people looking for answers to dilemmas in their lives-relationship issues, dissatisfaction with their careers, difficulty letting go of the past, etc. While it is my job to help people find the answers, I know they have the answers inside themselves, if only they would go within, listen and trust.

Migraine Headache - Heal With Hypnosis
[Health-and-Fitness:Headaches-Migraines] Migraine headaches are due to changes in the brain and surrounding blood vessels. These changes in the brain and surrounding blood vessels are caused by stress due to being overwhelmed; resisting the flow of life; or sexual dissatisfaction/fears.

Catnapping - A Healthy Lifestyle
[Health-and-Fitness] Researchers estimate that sleepy people are responsible for up to 90 percent of industrial accidents. Lack of sleep has been sited as a factor in the Exxon Valdez and Chernobyl disasters. In addition research reveals sleepy drivers cause nearly as many car crashes as drunk drivers. Studies have suggested a biological need for afternoon naps. The body is on a 24-hour body clock, which makes you wind down between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. and again in the three hours directly after lunch. Researchers found that subjects of the studies felt that it was easiest to fall asleep at night and in the afternoon.

Treat Yourself To A Healthier Life - Make Time For Fitness
[Health-and-Fitness] While most people understand the importance of taking responsibility for maintaining their health, there seems to be a lack of focus and enthusiasm for fitness. In 2005, only 4 states had obesity prevalence rates less than 20 percent, while 17 states had prevalence rates equal to or greater than 25 percent, with 3 of those having prevalence equal to or greater than 30 percent (Louisiana, Mississippi, and West Virginia).

Healing Body Aches And Pain
[Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] Pain is simply a message sent by the body to the brain, signaling the presence of disease, injury, stress or strain. Without pain, you would be unaware of many problems-torn ligaments to cancer. Pain is simply, Mother Nature's way of telling you something is awry.

Improve Your Body's Immune System With Hypnosis
[Health-and-Fitness] The main purpose of hypnosis is to help you understand and gain control over your emotions or to help you improve your body's functioning, including your immune system. When you are hypnotized, you are open to suggestions and this can be used to help improve mind, body, spirit and immune system.

Food Smarts For Children - Ten Tips
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Providing healthy food for your child is one of the most important steps you can take to ensure their health. Remember your children learn from what you do more than what you say.

Black Tea-Naturally Soothing
[Health-and-Fitness] A study by University College London (Oct. 2006) revealed that people who drank tea after stressful events were able to de-stress more quickly than those who did not drink tea. The researchers discovered that black tea lowers the levels of cortisol, a harmful stress hormone, by a significant average of 47 percent. No distinction was referenced between decafinated or regular tea.

Amusing Muse - Affirming Your Intentions
[Self-Improvement:Affirmations] We are a work in progress, and each one of us has gifts that we were born to share with one another. By letting your light shine and giving love to all, you send out a message of hope to others, feeding them what we each need most. Your inspiration will make a difference to people that you can not realize were affected.

Fall Asleep - Without Pills or Tossing And Turning - Natural Sleep Remedy
[Health-and-Fitness:Sleep-Snoring] No doubt you have heard of or used the practice of counting sheep as they jump over your headboard or through the air when you are unable to fall asleep. While this practice may work for some, there is another more empowering and worthwhile practice. Insomniacs are more likely to fall asleep by imagining a relaxing scene than by counting sheep, scientists have found.

Create Harmony and Well-Being in Your Home and Work Environment
[Health-and-Fitness] Whether you love or hate him, ubiquitous, Donald Trump, a major real estate developer, was persuaded to use a Feng Shui expert during the construction of the Riverside South Hong Kong New York real estate project, as well as Trump Towers. To do business with Hong Kong, Singapore,Taiwan, China—"No Feng Shui - no deal." These two projects surpassed all expectations during the initial leasing/buying phase. Mr. Trump readily acknowledges he uses a Feng Shui expert for all his real estate projects. As an astute businessman, Mr. Trump would not continue to use something that did not give quantifiable value. We can learn from Mr. Trump in that regard.

To Spank Or Not Spank - What The Experts Say
[News-and-Society] The debate to spank or no spank rages on and on-in spite of a plethora of experts who have studied and reported, as far back as ancient, Rome the overwhelming, profound and dire negative consequences. -Quintilian, circa 40-118 A.D., Institutes of Oratory, Ancient Rome

To Spank Or Not Spank—Debate Irony
[News-and-Society] The CALIFORNIA NO-SPANKING BILL: A Bid to end discrimination against children has raised a debate unlike any other. What seems like an obvious conclusion—"Let's…give our children the same right…we adults have been reserving for ourselves," Dr. Kerby Alvy, Exec. Dir of the Center of the Improvement of Child Caring in California—is not obvious to others. The following letters to editors and news reports clearly illuminate this fierce debate.

Thoughts To Ponder - #88
[Self-Improvement] Muriel James and Dorothy Jongeward, are most noted for their book, Born to Win: Transactional Analysis with Gestalt Experiments – an excellent practical guide to intimacy and authentic, spontaneous living.

Thoughts To Ponder - #87
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes from a variety of well-known philosophers, authors and professionals bring a perspective worth contemplating.

How Effective Are Annual Mammograms?
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Many doctors believe an annual mammogram is mandatory for women over thirty-five. However, an increasing number of doctors are refuting the claim that annual mammograms decrease women's risk of dying from breast cancer. Dr. Peter Gotzsche, a Danish research, was the first to make this claim in a study published in "The Lancet" in October 2006. Gotzsche re-analyzed the original studies done on the benefits of mammograms and found them unconvincing. This article will expand on Dr. Gotzsche's conclusion and discuss other forms of breast cancer detection.

Trustworthiness—A Characteristic of Great Value
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Trustworthiness is sometimes misunderstood as a personal value. The majority of people believe themselves to be trustworthy, yet, their behavior does not match their belief. Generally people believe trustworthiness is keeping your word, taking care of your belongings and returning that which you borrow from others. However, trustworthiness embodies much more.

Thoughts To Ponder - #86
[Self-Improvement] James Redfield, author, The Celestine Prophecy, described nine insights that were emerging in prominence among those who chose to be aware of them. The insights suggested that people had become more attuned to their intuitive self and the coincidences that filled their life. As a result of the attunement to these insights, a new vision of the transformation of human consciousness would emerge in the next century. The Tenth Insight explored the results of working with these insights. Part VIII

Thoughts To Ponder - #85
[Self-Improvement] James Redfield, author, The Celestine Prophecy, described nine insights that were emerging in prominence among those who chose to be aware of them. The insights suggested that people had become more attuned to their intuitive self and the coincidences that filled their life. As a result of the attunement to these insights, a new vision of the transformation of human consciousness would emerge in the next century. The Tenth Insight explored the results of working with these insights. Part VII

Thoughts To Ponder - #84
[Self-Improvement] James Redfield, author, The Celestine Prophecy, described nine insights that were emerging in prominence among those who chose to be aware of them. The insights suggested that people had become more attuned to their intuitive self and the coincidences that filled their life. As a result of the attunement to these insights, a new vision of the transformation of human consciousness would emerge in the next century. The Tenth Insight explored the results of working with these insights. Part VI

Thoughts To Ponder - #83
[Self-Improvement] James Redfield, author, The Celestine Prophecy, described nine insights that were emerging in prominence among those who chose to be aware of them. The insights suggested that people had become more attuned to their intuitive self and the coincidences that filled their life. As a result of the attunement to these insights, a new vision of the transformation of human consciousness would emerge in the next century. The Tenth Insight explored the results of working with these insights. Part V

Thoughts To Ponder - #82
[Self-Improvement] James Redfield, author, The Celestine Prophecy, described nine insights that were emerging in prominence among those who chose to be aware of them. The insights suggested that people had become more attuned to their intuitive self and the coincidences that filled their life. As a result of the attunement to these insights, a new vision of the transformation of human consciousness would emerge in the next century. The Tenth Insight explored the results of working with these insights. Part IV

Are You Jealous? Take The Quiz
[Self-Improvement] Jealousy is a toxic and debilitating emotion-one that causes harm to any relationship when the jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy leads to hurt, anger and other destructive behavior that ultimately hurts yourself and the relationships in your life. For example, you won't run over to your neighbor and scream at her for buying a new car, but you might pick a fight with your significant other, because your family budget does not allow you to purchase a new car. Take this quiz to evaluate your level of jealousy.

Thoughts To Ponder - #81
[Self-Improvement] James Redfield, author, The Celestine Prophecy, described nine insights that were emerging in prominence among those who chose to be aware of them. The insights suggested that people had become more attuned to their intuitive self and the coincidences that filled their life. As a result of the attunement to these insights, a new vision of the transformation of human consciousness would emerge in the next century. The Tenth Insight explored the results of working with these insights. Part III

Thoughts To Ponder - #80
[Self-Improvement] James Redfield, author, The Celestine Prophecy, described nine insights that were emerging in prominence among those who chose to be aware of them. The insights suggested that people had become more attuned to their intuitive self and the coincidences that filled their life. As a result of the attunement to these insights, a new vision of the transformation of human consciousness would emerge in the next century. The Tenth Insight explored the results of working with these insights. Part II

Thoughts To Ponder - #79
[Self-Improvement] James Redfield, author, The Celestine Prophecy, described nine insights that were emerging in prominence among those who chose to be aware of them. The insights suggested that people had become more attuned to their intuitive self and the coincidences that filled their life. As a result of the attunement to these insights, a new vision of the transformation of human consciousness would emerge in the next century. The Tenth Insight explored the results of working with these insights. Part I

Become Who You Truly Are Through the Power of Your Soul
[Self-Improvement] Your soul knows no boundaries, there are no limits as to where your soul can lead you in this lifetime. When you connect and use your soul's power, you will understand yourself on a soul level and become all that you want to be - your soul will resonate, shine, and most of all illuminate - as a beautiful extension of God.

Remembering Who You Truly Are
[Self-Improvement] We are all connected. "The Wisdom of Forgiveness-Intimate Conversations and Journeys" by The Dalai Lama and Victor Chan. The Wisdom of Forgiveness is a heart-to-heart conversation between the Dalai Lama and his dear friend.

Thoughts To Ponder - #78
[Self-Improvement] These little-known quotes from a variety of authors, philosophers and professionals are worth contemplating.

Thoughts To Ponder - #77
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes from a variety of authors, philosophers and professionals are worth contemplating.

Relationship Problems Created By Miscommunication
[Relationships:Communication] You will recognize this scenario—You have a misunderstanding with your spouse before leaving for work, you leave feeling bad, then you are distracted and unfocused at a meeting, with your boss, colleagues, employees or customers.

Thoughts To Ponder - #76
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes from a variety of well-known philosophers, authors and professionals bring a perspective worth contemplating.

Thoughts To Ponder - #75
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes from a variety of well-known philosophers, authors and professionals bring a perspective worth contemplating.

Thoughts To Ponder - #74
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes from a variety of well-known philosophers, authors and professionals bring a perspective worth contemplating.

Thoughts To Ponder - #73
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes from a variety of well-known philosophers, authors and professionals bring a perspective worth contemplating.

Thoughts To Ponder - #72
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes from a variety of well-known philosophers, authors and professionals bring a perspective worth contemplating.

Thoughts To Ponder - #71
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes from a variety of well-known philosophers, authors and professionals bring a perspective worth contemplating.

Thoughts To Ponder - #70
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes from a variety of well-known philosophers, authors and professionals bring a perspective worth contemplating.

Thoughts To Ponder - #69
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes from a variety of well-known philosophers, authors and professionals bring a perspective worth contemplating.

Thoughts To Ponder - # 68
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes from a variety of well-known philosophers, authors and professionals bring a perspective worth contemplating.

All About Love - #15
[Relationships:Love] The act of Love carries energy and energy facilitates transitions - transitions create healing. The energy generated by the act of love is astounding. When someone commits to the practice of a life of love and spiritual growth anything can heal. Healing is easy. The following well-known authors, motivational teachers and healers clearly and poignantly express the truth of love and healing.

All About Love - #14
[Relationships:Love] Barbara De Angelis Ph.D. is one of the most influential teachers in the field of personal transformation. For twenty-five years, she has reached tens of millions of people throughout the world with her positive messages about love, happiness and the search for meaning in our lives. Barbara has been a pioneer in the field of personal growth as one of the first people to popularize the idea of self-help in the 1980's, and as one of the first nationally recognized female motivational teachers on television. Part IV

Four Easy Steps To Change Thoughts-Feelings-Behavior
[Self-Improvement] Like many people, you have read a plethora of self-help books, yet, there seems to be something missing. The something that is missing is: How does one assimilate all the information one reads in a self-help book and integrate it into one’s life? In other words, how does one change from the old to the new? It is a process to be sure, but what is the process? This article sets forth an easy four-step process.

Is Alcohol Causing Difficulties in Your Life? - You Decide
[Self-Improvement:Addictions] If you have ever wondered or someone has stated your use of alcohol is causing difficulties, take this quiz and you decide.

Hypnosis - What Experts Say
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] "Hypnosis can help. A growing body of research supports the ancient practice as an effective tool in the treatment of a variety of problems, from anxiety to chronic pain." - Newsweek, September 2004

Health and Healing Versus Coping
[Health-and-Fitness] Coping with this illness, disease or the other is another national mantra. We are bombarded several times a day about illnesses and disease, if you do not have it now, you will soon have it. These powerful subliminal messages—vis-a-vis commercials to help you cope—generates trillions of dollars for pharmacies, pharmaceutical manufacturers and doctors.

All About Love - #13
[Relationships:Love] The act of Love carries energy and energy facilitates transitions—transitions create healing. The energy generated by the act of love is astounding. When someone commits to the practice of a life of love and spiritual growth anything can heal. Healing is easy. The following well-known authors, motivational teachers and healers clearly and poignantly express the truth of love and healing.

All About Love - #12
[Relationships:Love] The act of Love carries energy and energy facilitates transitions-transitions create healing. The energy generated by the act of love is astounding. When someone commits to the practice of a life of love and spiritual growth anything can heal. Healing is easy. The following well-known authors, motivational teachers and healers clearly and poignantly express the truth of love and healing.

All About Love - #11
[Relationships:Love] The act of Love carries energy and energy facilitates transitions—transitions create healing. The energy generated by the act of love is astounding. When someone commits to the practice of a life of love and spiritual growth anything can heal. Healing is easy. The following well-known authors, motivational teachers and healers clearly and poignantly express the truth of love and healing.

All About Love - #10
[Relationships:Love] The act of Love carries energy and energy facilitates transitions-transitions create healing. The energy generated by the act of love is astounding. When someone commits to the practice of a life of love and spiritual growth anything can heal. Healing is easy. The following well-known authors, motivational teachers and healers clearly and poignantly express the truth of healing.

All About Love - #9
[Relationships:Love] The act of Love carries energy and energy facilitates transitions—transitions create healing. The energy generated by the act of love is astounding. When someone commits to the practice of a life of love and spiritual growth anything can heal. Healing is easy. The following well-known authors, motivational teachers and healers clearly and poignantly express the truth of love and healing.

All About Love - #8
[Relationships:Love] The act of Love carries energy and energy facilitates transitions—transitions create healing. The energy generated by the act of love is astounding. When someone commits to the practice of a life of love and spiritual growth anything can heal. Healing is easy. The following well-known authors, motivational teachers and healers clearly and poignantly express the truth of love and healing. Part IX

All About Love - #7
[Relationships:Love] The act of Love carries energy and energy facilitates transitions—transitions create healing. The energy generated by the act of love is astounding. When someone commits to the practice of a life of love and spiritual growth anything can heal. Healing is easy. The following well-known authors, motivational teachers and healers clearly and poignantly express the truth of love and healing.

All About Love - #6
[Relationships:Love] The act of Love carries energy and energy facilitates transitions—transitions create healing. The energy generated by the act of love is astounding. When someone commits to the practice of a life of love and spiritual growth anything can heal. Healing is easy. The following well-known authors, motivational teachers and healers clearly and poignantly express the truth of love and healing.

All About Love - #5
[Relationships:Love] The act of Love carries energy and energy facilitates transitions—transitions create healing. The energy generated by the act of love is astounding. When someone commits to the practice of a life of love and spiritual growth anything can heal. Healing is easy. The following well-known authors, motivational teachers and healers clearly and poignantly express the truth of love and healing.

All About Love - #4
[Relationships:Love] The act of Love carries energy and energy facilitates transitions—transitions create healing. The energy generated by the act of love is astounding. When someone commits to the practice of a life of love and spiritual growth anything can heal. Healing is easy. The following well-known authors, motivational teachers and healers clearly and poignantly express the truth of love and healing.

All About Love - #3
[Relationships:Love] Barbara De Angelis Ph.D. is one of the most influential teachers in the field of personal transformation. For twenty-five years, she has reached tens of millions of people throughout the world with her positive messages about love, happiness and the search for meaning in our lives. Barbara is a pioneer in the field of personal growth as one of the first people to popularize the idea of self-help in the 1980's, and as one of the first nationally recognized female motivational teachers on television. Part III

All About Love-#2
[Relationships:Love] Barbara De Angelis Ph.D. is one of the most influential teachers in the field of personal transformation. For twenty-five years, she has reached tens of millions of people throughout the world with her positive messages about love, happiness and the search for meaning in our lives. Barbara is a pioneer in the field of personal growth as one of the first people to popularize the idea of self-help in the 1980's, and as one of the first nationally recognized female motivational teachers on television. Part II

All About Love-#1
[Relationships:Love] Barbara De Angelis Ph.D. is one of the most influential teachers in the field of personal transformation. For twenty-five years, she has reached tens of millions of people throughout the world with her positive messages about love, happiness and the search for meaning in our lives. Barbara is a pioneer in the field of personal growth as one of the first people to popularize the idea of self-help in the 1980's, and as one of the first nationally recognized female motivational teachers on television. Part I

Thoughts To Ponder-#67
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part XXVIII

Thoughts To Ponder-#66
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part XXVII

Thoughts To Ponder-#65
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part XXVI

Thoughts To Ponder-#64
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part XXII

Thoughts To Ponder-#63
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part XXI

Thoughts To Ponder-#62
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part XX

Reasonable Corporal Punishment
[News-and-Society] As responsible adults we need to question what 'reasonable' corporal punishment is. Ask a child if they think being hit is 'reasonable.' Having asked that question many times, without exception or hesitation the child has answered, "NO." You be the judge on these instances of "reasonable" corporal punishment of children.

Thoughts To Ponder-#61
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part XVIV

Thoughts To Ponder-#60
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part XVIII

Thoughts To Ponder - #58
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part XVI Despair is never justified, because it is never needed. We are here to learn, to experiment, and to make mistakes. We don't need to judge ourselves harshly; we just need to take life one step at a time, not worrying about other people's judgment of us...

Thoughts To Ponder - #59
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part XVII We are all shepherds to some degree. We are all compelled by the spirit to seek his truth and do his will, each in our own way, creating waves that overlap others and resonate within their souls, inviting them to do better, to look to God, to live life to the fullest with joy...

Thoughts To Ponder - #57
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part V Many faiths on earth do not include Christ but are loved and used by God nevertheless. Our Father never turns away a person who searches for him. He created our mortal conditions and knows perfectly what we face in sometimes godless circumstances. A person born to a home...

Thoughts To Ponder - #56
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part XIV We are born to this earth with our soul, the pure part of us we bring to earth from the spirit world. As we develop, we lose some contact with that spiritual part—our divine self—in a process of forgetting that is necessary for our development. But we can lose too much, and when we have lost all awareness of our divinity, we become spiritually disconnected and depressed. To feel whole again, each of us can and must reconnect with our spiritual self.

Thoughts To Ponder - #55
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part XIII Each person's life is multifaceted, and we should trust the power of God and his angels to give us every opportunity we need to succeed. Our part is to seek to improve ourselves and, above all, to love others more fully. By praying for guidance and letting love rule our hearts and minds each day, we will eventually accomplish our many purposes.

Thoughts To Ponder - #54
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part XII Once our prayers of desire have been released, we need to let go of them and trust in the power of God to answer them. He knows our needs at all times and is simply waiting for an invitation to help us. He has all power to answer prayers, but he is bound by his own law and by our wills. We must invite his will to become our own. We must trust him.

Thoughts To Ponder - #53
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part XI The spirit speaks a universal language, deeper and more powerful than voice. It communicates accurately and clearly, piercing through mankind's ignorance or false understandings and recognizing each person's true desires.

Thoughts To Ponder - #52
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part X

Thoughts To Ponder - #51
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part IX

Thoughts To Ponder - #50
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part VIII

Thoughts To Ponder - #49
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part VII

Thoughts To Ponder - #48
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part VI

Thoughts To Ponder - #47
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse into her experience. Part V

Thoughts To Ponder - #46
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse into her experience. Part IV

Thoughts To Ponder - #45
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse into her experience. Part III

Thoughts To Ponder - #44
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse what she experienced. Part II

Thoughts To Ponder - #43
[Self-Improvement] When Betty Eadie was 31, she died in a hospital after undergoing surgery. What happened next has been called by some, "the most profound near-death experience ever." Betty journeyed to a beautiful world beyond this life. She met Jesus there. Jesus gave her a message to give to others when she returned. These quotes from her books, Embraced By The Light, The Awakening Heart, and The Ripple Effect give a glimpse of her profound experience. Part I

Fifteen Most Important Issues To Discuss Before You Become Engaged Or Married
[Relationships:Wedding] In the past three decades, the proportion of those who had never married doubled for women ages 20 to 24, from 36 percent to 73 percent, and more than tripled for women ages 30 to 34, from 6 percent to 22 percent. It would seem that more mature women who are therefore marrying more mature men would ask the questions that would make for a solid long-term relationship. Relationship experts report that many couples fail to discuss critical issues before becoming engaged or married. The following topics/questions will ensure that your wedded bliss is off on the right foot.

Thoughts To Ponder - #42
[Self-Improvement] F-E-A-R is False Evidence Appearing Real. Anonymous It is the negative such as fear that grips our senses and undermines our confidence in ourselves. These quotes illuminate the fallacy of believing fear is real. Part IV

Thoughts To Ponder - #41
[Self-Improvement] F-E-A-R is False Evidence Appearing Real. Anonymous. It is the negative such as fear that grips our senses and undermines our confidence in ourselves. These quotes illuminate the fallacy of believing fear is real. Part III

Thoughts To Ponder-# 40
[Self-Improvement] F-E-A-R is False Evidence Appearing Real. Anonymous It is the negative such as fear that grips our senses and undermines our confidence in ourselves. These quotes illuminate the fallacy of believing fear is real. Part II

Thoughts To Ponder-#39
[Self-Improvement] F-E-A-R is False Evidence Appearing Real. Anonymous It is the negative such as fear that grips our senses and undermines our confidence in ourselves. These quotes illuminate the fallacy of believing fear is real. Part I

Thoughts To Ponder - #38
[Self-Improvement] Marianne Williamson is an internationally-renowned author and lecturer in the fields of spirituality and metaphysics.

Thoughts To Ponder - #37
[Self-Improvement] The world's greatest have left behind a legacy worth pondering. John F. Kennedy, Sir Winston Churchill, Tomas Edison, Helen Keller, Voltaire to name a few.

Thoughts To Ponder - #36
[Self-Improvement] Carolyn Myss is a medical intuitive, author, with degrees in theology, journalism, and a Ph.D. in Intuition and Energy Medicine. Caroline's work is about assisting you on your path to becoming a more conscious, powerful, energized and healthy person.

Thoughts To Ponder - #34
[Self-Improvement] Caroline Myss, has a B.A. in Journalism, an M.A. in Theology and her Ph.D. in Energy Medicine. Spiritual books by Caroline Myss include "Anatomy of the Spirit", "Why People Don't Heal and How They Can", "Spiritual Power, Spiritual Practice", and "Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential".

Thoughts To Ponder - #35
[Self-Improvement] Carolyn Myss is a medical intuitive, author, with degrees in theology, journalism, and a Ph.D. in Intuition and Energy Medicine. Caroline's work will assist you on your path to becoming a more conscious, powerful, energized and healthy person.

Thoughts To Ponder - #33
[Self-Improvement] Quotes On Love - Razi, Ken Keyes.

Thoughts To Ponder - #32
[Self-Improvement] Quotes on Love - Jeanne Moreau, Antoine de Saint Exupery, Benjamin Disraeli, Ovid, Henri Ameil, Deepak Chopra

Thoughts To Ponder - #31
[Self-Improvement] Quotes on Love - John Lennon, Denis Waitley, Stephen R. Covery, Lester Levenson, William Wordsworth, Viktor Frankl, Backer, Wayne Dyer, Yoko Ono, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Henry David Thoreau

Thoughts To Ponder - #30
[Self-Improvement] Quotes on Love - Deepak Chopra, Tom Robbins, Kahlil Gibran, Wallace Stegner, Walker Percy, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Francois de la Rochefoucauld, Brendan Francis, Mother Teresa, Lucille Ball, Karen Casey, Victor Hugo, Gerald Jampolsky

Thoughts To Ponder - #29
[Self-Improvement] Quotes on Love - Ken Keyes, Jr, William Shakespeare, Erich Fromm, Michael W. Smith, Jonathan Carroll, Russ Von Hoelscher

Thoughts To Ponder - #28
[Self-Improvement] Quotes - Ken Keyes, Jr. Ken Keyes, Jr. was a personal growth author and lecturer, and the creator of a self-help system named the Living Love method. Keyes authored fifteen books on person growth and social consciousness issues, representing about four million copies distributed overall.

Soul Evolution
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] By divesting yourself of everything that no longer serves you, such as unwarranted fear, worry, inability to feel empathy, or self-limiting thoughts, you have come here to face in this lifetime you will notice a sense of relief.

Thoughts To Ponder-#27
[Self-Improvement] Quotes - Gerald Jampolsky, Love Is Letting Go Of Fear.

Thoughts To Ponder-#26
[Self-Improvement] Quotes - Erice Berne, Games People Play. Berne's popular psychological study of human interactions had first been published in 1964. It reached the bestseller list three years later, largely through word of mouth, selling more than 2.5 million copies and remaining on the bestseller list longer than any other nonfiction book in the previous ten years.

Thoughts To Ponder - #25
[Self-Improvement] Quotes - Eric Berne - Games People Play. Berne's popular psychological study of human interactions was first published in 1964. It reached the bestseller list three years later, largely through word of mouth, selling more than 2.5 million copies and remaining on the bestseller list longer than any other nonfiction book in the previous ten years. A Canadian-born psychiatrist, Berne, was best known as the creator of transactional analysis. He published both technical and mass-market books on the subject Berne was a consultant to the surgeon general in psychology and a lecturer at the Stanford-Palo Alto Psychiatric Clinic.

Thoughts To Ponder - #24
[Self-Improvement] Quotes - Marianne Williamson, A Return To Love

Stages of Spousal Verbal Abuse
[News-and-Society] This article clearly identifies the pattern of spousal abuse.

Thoughts To Ponder - #23
[Self-Improvement] Quotes - Marianne Williamson, A Return To Love

Thoughts To Ponder - #22
[Self-Improvement] Quotes - Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations With God

Thoughts To Ponder - #21
[Self-Improvement] Quotes - Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations With God

Thoughts To Ponder - #20
[Self-Improvement] Quotes - Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations With God

Thoughts To Ponder - #19
[Self-Improvement] Quotes - Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations With God

Thoughts To Ponder - #18
[Self-Improvement] Quotes - Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations With God

Thoughts To Ponder - #17
[Self-Improvement] His Holiness The Dalai Lama is a living legend - and one of the most wise men on the planet.

Healthy Chocolate
[News-and-Society] Valentine's Day could qualify as a national holiday. Love is in the air and more than $1 billion in candy will fly off the shelves. You can give your 'love' healthy Chocolate every day. Yes, healthy Chocolate.

Thoughts To Ponder - #16
[Self-Improvement] Quotes - Focus on the mystic realm of knowing the essence of God, M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled.

Thoughts To Ponder - #15
[Self-Improvement] Quotes on Power - M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

Thoughts To Ponder - #14
[Self-Improvement] Quotes on Living Life with Grace-M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

Thoughts To Ponder - #13
[Self-Improvement] Quotes on Love - M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

Thoughts To Ponder - #12
[Self-Improvement] A collection of inspirational quotes by Deepak Chopra, a medical doctor and contemporary writer on spirituality, synchronicity, holistic integrative medicine and Ayurveda.

Thoughts To Ponder #11
[Self-Improvement] A collection of inspirational quotes by Deepak Chopra, a medical doctor and contemporary writer on spirituality, synchronicity, holistic integrative medicine and Ayurveda.

Thoughts To Ponder-#10
[Self-Improvement] A collection of inspirational quotes by Deepak Chopra, a medical doctor and contemporary writer on spirituality, synchronicity, holistic integrative medicine and Ayurveda.

Thoughts To Ponder - #9
[Self-Improvement] The Dalai Lama, Carl Jung, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and others speak of Universal Laws.

Thoughts To Ponder - #8
[Self-Improvement] Little known quotes of Universal Perspectives Worth Contemplating

Thoughts To Ponder - #7
[Self-Improvement] Quotes by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Mahatma Gandhi, Black Elk, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Scott Carpenter, Roberto Clemente, George Seaton, Allison Gappa Bottke, Pablo Picasso, Bernard M. Baruch, Billy Wilder and Albert Einstein on Universal knowledge.

Thoughts To Ponder #6
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes bring a perspective worth contemplating.

Thoughts To Ponder - #3
[Self-Improvement] These little known Ralph Marston quotes bring a perspective worth contemplating.

Thoughts To Ponder - #5
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes about 'Love' bring a perspective worth contemplating.

Thoughts To Ponder-#4
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes bring a perspective worth contemplating.

Thoughts To Ponder - #2
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes from a variety of well-known philosophers, authors and professionals bring a perspective worth contemplating.

Thoughts To Ponder - #1
[Self-Improvement] These little known quotes from a variety of well-known philosophers, authors and professionals bring a perspective worth contemplating.

Nurture Your Soul—Create A Happy, Healthy Life
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Nurturing the soul is as important as healthy nutrition, exercise and sleep. The soul's sole purpose is to create spiritual and emotional growth. The sense of well-being and happiness emanates from the soul to the psyche. If the soul is ignored or malnourished, the psyche, and ultimately the body, suffers. The most effective way to nurture the soul is through spirituality.

Loving Spankings - Part II
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Loving Spankings are considered the perogative of parents in every state, except Minnesota. Several adults who experienced loving spankings share their poignant memories. It is stories like these, which gives the most accurate and significant information to formulate an understanding of this common practice.

'Green-Eyed' Monster
[Self-Improvement] Shakespeare called jealousy the "green-eyed monster." The question is: How do you get a handle on jealous emotions and can you ever really eliminate them in every situation? The logical solution to avoid jealousy is to accept yourself for your imperfections, gifts and talents, and to involve yourself in healthy, solid and nurturing relationships.

To Spank Or Not Spank—One Woman's Perspective
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] A woman's experience of being hit as a child is eloquently and clearly articulated.

Most Often Forgotten Item On Everyone's To Do List
[Health-and-Fitness] More often than not people lament they do not have time to do what they need to do to take care of themselves. "I know," they say, I have too much to do. I ask, "Will you have time to be in the hospital when you have a heart attack, or chronic high blood pressure?" This article helps you to create time for relaxation and recuperation.

Legislating Vaccination of Eleven Year-Old Girls for HVP
[News-and-Society] The proposal to mandate vaccination in California, AB16, is giving young girls the wrong message, because HPV is transmitted only through sexual contact. Not all 11 and 12 year-old girls have sexual contact, yet they will be "forced" to be vaccinated and suffer the short and long-term side effects.

Oprah-Right To Privacy or Secrecy?
[News-and-Society] Privacy and Secrecy has merged into one definition if one is to believe what is propagated by the media. A news flash recently hyped Oprah Winfrey's 'secret' regarding her childhood.

Five Keys to Creating A Dynamic and Enjoyable Relationship
[Relationships] Jewelers would like to convince us that giving your partner diamonds or an expensive watch is the best way to give a message of love, but it is the little things that make a huge difference in keeping your relationship vibrant and enjoyable. Everyone wants to feel good about him/herself? Everyone wants attention and reassurance that they are loved. Everyday remember to include these in your relationship.

To Spank or Not Spank—Legislation Introduced to Ban Spanking at Home
[News-and-Society] "Where do you stop?" Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, "At what point are we going to say we should pass a bill that every parent has to read a minimum of 30 minutes every night to their child? This is right along those same lines."

Soul Whisperings
[Self-Improvement] The positive shift in your energy once you are in tune with your higher/intuitive self sends you in the right direction. Like a rush of water, this unseen energy goes ahead to clear debris from your path so that you can move forward. Your new attitude also attracts likeminded people. Sometimes even the most unlikely angels arrive to help you along your way with the information and support you need.

Enjoy Life With Renewed Gratitude
[Self-Improvement] Too often we forget to recognize the richness that defines our lives—all the abundance and joy we experience. Instead, we focus on what we do not have or what is wrong. This may be because we are bombarded with negative messages via the media and commercials or because we have forgotten to enjoy the little things—versus keeping up with the neighbors who seem to ‘have it all.’

To Spank or Not Spank—The Debate
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Is Spanking harmful or appropriate harmless discipline? This article cuts through the rhetoric and misconceptions, shedding new light onto this age-old debate.

It’s Not Only The Food—It’s Also What You Tell Yourself: Maintain Your Ideal Weight The Right Way
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Learn how cutting the cords to food through hypnosis will relieve you from these ties as well as release the weight. By tuning into yourself, you will discover why you eat and learn how to release your attachment to unhealthy foods.

Child Sexual Abuse Misconceptions Perpetuated
[News-and-Society:Crime] The article, "Understanding Child Sexual Abuse Education, Prevention, and Recovery," perpetuates child sexual abuse misconceptions. For example-the article states: "There is no universal definition of child sexual abuse." There is a universal definition of child sexual abuse set forth by E. Sue Blume in her book, Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and Its Aftereffects in Women, published 1991.

Past Lives - Scientific Evidence
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] In the past ten years, multiple independently researched reincarnation cases have emerged, which reveal that from lifetime to lifetime, people have the same facial features, personality traits, passions and even linguistic writing style. The most compelling cases involve those in which children have spontaneous memories of a past lifetime that can be factually verified. The case of James Leininger, aired on ABC Primetime in 2005, and the case of Anne Frank/Barbro Karlen, are examples.

Ten Principles to Success
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] The Ten Principles to Success comprises the personal inner sense of 'wholeness' derived from honesty and consistent impeccable character.

Self-Revitalizing Gift
[Health-and-Fitness] Taking time to step away from all the daily activities to revitalize, rejuvenate and renew your mind, body and spirit can do wonders to help channel stressors properly. Knowing that you can change your circumstances allows you a sense of empowerment. If your stress perception has reached the point of hopelessness or helplessness, you may need to seek professional help.

School District Bans Corporal Punishment
[News-and-Society] The United States professes to be the most humane country for its citizens, yet the barbaric practice of corporal punishment is practiced in the majority of homes and is still legal to administer corporal punishment in school in twenty-two states. The majority of industrialized countries worldwide have prohibited corporal punishment in school for more than a century.

Clergy Sexual Child Abuse Crisis—Fifth Anniversary
[News-and-Society] As many of you know the media and many Catholics will mark the five year anniversary of the clergy sexual child abuse crisis January 7th. The majority of people, who have followed this story, see the first major story on Fr. John Geoghan by the Boston Globe's Spotlight Team, January 6, 2002 as the 'beginning' of the scandal, at least in a national, public sense.

Stress - Four Steps To Freedom
[Self-Improvement] Most people are distracted and pressured by a plethora of concerns related to work, family, community and personal experiences, most of which they perceive they cannot control.

Seven Ways People Sabotage Their Health
[Health-and-Fitness] Are you groggy and tired when you wake up? Do you have a golden tan the year around? Do you battle a few extra pounds and never win? Do you smoke and can't quit? If you answered 'yes,' to one or more of these questions, the six tips in this article can put you on track to a healthier life.

Prevent Cancer - Naturally
[Health-and-Fitness] According to a recent study by the National Academy of Naturopathy, more people than ever before are falling prey to cancer due to increased stress, strain and unhealthy eating habits. Healing dietary remedies for human ailments have been known for centuries, and an increasing number of nutritional scientists have conducted studies that validate these traditional remedies.

Advertising for Smoke Cessation Products Hypnotize Smokers
[Health-and-Fitness:Quit-Smoking] As a hypnotherapist, I have helped hundreds of people stop smoking and remain non-smokers. However, I have noticed the challenge is growing more difficult and I wondered why.

Courage - Empowering Awareness
[Self-Improvement:Empowerment] Too often we forget that it takes courage to live a powerful life on purpose. Many people realize that everything in our lives comes to us via the universal law of attraction—i.e. you have attracted everything, all the people, every experience, your work and your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual challenges. What ARE you attracting in your life?

Are You Putting "Junk Food" Into Your Mind?
[Self-Improvement] Many people recite the Lord's Prayer—"Give us this day our daily bread"—to create spiritual sustenance and connectedness. Daily bread, not only refers to the daily intake of calories from our favorite foods—pizza, hamburgers, meat, potatoes, and too often junk food—it also includes the intake of heavy-duty negative conscious calories, the kind that makes us sick.

Clergy Sexual Child Abuse-Myths
[News-and-Society:Crime] Myths regarding Catholic Priests and sexual child abuse abound. The most damaging myth is that Catholic clergy sexual child abuse is more prevalent than in other religious sects. This myth perpetuates a sense of false safety for these families.

Senator Mark Foley's Sexual Predatory Behavior with Under-age Boys Categorized—Political Blunder
[News-and-Society:Crime] To categorize Foley's sexual solicitation of under-age boys as a political blunder is reckless, reprehensible, irresponsible and inexcusable. Although, Foley didn't violate any House Ethics rules, he committed a sexual capital crime against a minor. Foley's behavior was an egregious crime against a minor. The fact Mr. Foley has yet to be arrested is beyond comprehension.

Positive Self-Talk to Achieve Goals
[Self-Improvement] Given the tradition of viewing the New Year as a new beginning, what better time to put on a new hat and adopt a “glass-half-full” perspective, for good? Aside from clearly being more fun, having positive self-talk is good for your health, both physically and mentally.

Connecting To Who You Truly Are—The Process
[Self-Improvement] The most important principle is to realize that if you do not take complete control of your personal world, others will take control for you. Blaming others for taking control is silly, because no one can stop or force you to do anything—albeit many abdicate their responsibilities. You need to learn to take full responsibility for your life or you will resort to anger at your self (depression) and blame others for your repression.

Connecting To Who You Truly Are
[Self-Improvement] Connecting to who you truly are means being real, honest, authentic and present. It is having the ability to see things as they are and get on with life without needless strife or heartache.

Natural Healing
[Health-and-Fitness] Conditions on this planet are such that adequate nutritional food is rare, healthy water is rarer and clean air is nonexistent, unless you live in a rural area. Even in rural areas air quality is questionable, because acid rain travels many miles.

Begin Each Day With a Well-Honed To Do List
[Self-Improvement] Time flies faster and faster each day. Technology gives the impression that we can accomplish more in less time—yet, observation and studies reveal America is falling behind in the race as a productive force. To improve your rate of productivity—there are some easy and simple things you can do.

Soul Travel—Multidimensional Existence
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Soul Travel—a.k.a Astral projection (astral travel) is an interpretation of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and is one of the practices of Echanka, Religion of the Light and Sound of God. Eckankar is ancient wisdom for today. Its teachings, emphasize the value of personal experiences as the most natural way back to God.

Spirituality - Creating the Ultimate Connection
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Humans need—physical, emotional and spiritual—sustenance to thrive. The majority of people need healing in all three. The only way to create emotional/spiritual sustenance is through spirituality. Spirituality is God, One’s Creator, A Higher Power, Essence Greater than oneself—related science of developing and freeing this unseen innermost being—the core of us.

Hypnosis—Myths and Concerns
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] The majority of people have heard that hypnosis is an amazing tool to create dramatic changes. In spite of all the positive reports about hypnosis many people wonder if hypnosis is safe or if it works. Will I lose control? What if I get “stuck” and can’t come out? Will I remember? These are just a few of the questions people ask when they consider using hypnosis to make behavior, habit or lifestyle changes.

Freedom to Say, ‘No’
[Self-Improvement] Many of us are taught and rewarded, from early childhood, that saying, ‘Yes’ is right and saying, ‘No’ is wrong or generally has undesirable consequences. We learn that conceding to other’s demands allows us to avoid conflict and criticism, pleases people, earns praise, and proves that we care for the important people in our lives. Thus, many people come into adulthood as ‘self sacrificing-people pleasers’ with no concept of self-nurturing and self-importance.

Holistic Healing Practices - Defined - Jin Shin Jyutsu through Yoga
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Holistic approaches to health care-Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Naturopathy, Homeopathy, etc. are often referred to as New Age or Alternative Medicine. This depiction is not only misleading, it is a misconception at best. Traditional Chinese Medicine has been practiced more than 5,000 years; Shiatsu, an Oriental Therapy is a 5000 year-old tradition of healing arts. Yoga was first used in India during the Harappan civilization 1500 B.E.C.; Homeopathy since 1775, Naturopathy since 1799, Traditional Western Medicine-a.k.a. Modern Medicine since 1900. In the U.S. many people view 'Alternative Medicine' as a last resort treatment. In China Traditional Western Medicine is considered a last resort treatment.

Holistic Healing Practices—Defined—Acupressure through Iridology
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Naturopathy, Homeopathy, etc. is often referred to as New Age or Alternative Medicine. This depiction is not only misleading, it is a misconception at best. Traditional Chinese Medicine has been practiced more than 5,000 years; Homeopathy since 1775, Naturopathy since 1799, Traditional Western Medicine-a.k.a. Modern Medicine since 1900. In the U.S. many people view 'Alternative Medicine' as a last resort treatment. In China Traditional Western Medicine is considered a last resort treatment.

How to Stop Smoking—For Good—No Relapses
[Health-and-Fitness:Quit-Smoking] 440,000 people die each year in the US from tobacco use. Nearly one of every five deaths is related to smoking. Cigarettes kill more Americans than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide, and illegal drugs combined.

Metaphysics - The Nature of Reality
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Metaphysics is a philosophy that brings understanding to the fundamental nature of all reality, whether visible or invisible. It seeks a description basic, essentially simple, all-inclusive that it applies to everything, whether divine or human or anything else. It attempts to tell what anything is like in order to be at all.

Buddhism
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Buddhism is a dharmic, non-theistic religion, a philosophy, and a life-enhancing system of psychology. In Sanskrit or Pali, the main ancient languages of Buddhists, as Buddha Dharma or Dhamma, which means the teachings of the "Awakened One."

Transpersonal Psychology
[Self-Improvement] Transpersonal Psychology is a branch of psychology that is concerned with the study of those states and processes in which people experience more depth and breadth of who they are, or a greater sense of connectedness with others, nature, or the spiritual dimension.

Spirit-Archetype
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Spirit, like God, denotes an object of psychic experience which cannot be proved to exist in the external world and cannot be understood rationally. This is its meaning if we use the word "spirit" in its best sense.

Taoism-The Way
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Taoism started as a combination of psychology and philosophy but evolved into a religious faith in 440 CE when it was adopted as a state religion. Lao-Tse became popularly venerated as a deity. Taoism, along with Buddhism and Confucianism, became one of the three great religions of China.

Reincarnation—Fact or Fiction
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Half the world believes in Judeo-Christian-Muslim heaven-or-hell scenario, an afterlife containing a judgment followed by an eternal reward or punishment, while the other half believes in the Hindu-Buddhist-Taoist reincarnation scenario, in which people are continually reborn into new bodies, forever forgetting their past lives and identities.

Karma-Cause and Effect
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Karma (karmavada)-Sanskrit: from the root ki, "to do," meaning action or activity and its subsequent results (also called karma-phala, "the fruits of action"). Karma is commonly understood as a term to denote the entire cycle of cause and effect as described in the philosophies of a number of Dharmic Religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism.

Synchronicity or Coincidence--You Decide
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] "Meaningful coincidence"... Synchronicity - a term introduced by the depth of psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung’s work... Synchronicity was introduced into pop culture consciousness by the artist, Sting (an avid student of Jung) and the Police. And more recently - the best seller book entitled "The Celestine Prophecy, author, James Redfield, relies primarily on the experience of "synchronicity."

Traditional Chinese Medicine-Complete Medical System
[Health-and-Fitness] Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a complete medical system that has been used to diagnose, treat, and prevent illnesses for over 5,000 years.

Walk in Beauty
[Self-Improvement] "Walk in Beauty" is more than a feeling or emotion. It is a state of being that can best be described as grace. In this state of grace called beauty, we accept that everything is-neither good nor bad, and we live in a universe that exists on our behalf.

Others Are Mirrors For You
[Self-Improvement] As much as we hope to exist in harmony with the people we encounter, there will be some individuals we dislike—they rub us the wrong way or trigger negative feelings. Have you wondered why it seems that the same type person shows up in your life—the person who gives you the most angst, a.k.a. difficult people? This person could be your neighbor, boss, colleague, service provider, someone on a committee you are on, etc.

Magical Cures and Mystical Remedies
[Health-and-Fitness] Many people have tarot card, astrology readings, go to psychics or go to hypnotherapists for post-hypnotic suggestions for weight loss, smoke cessation, anxiety, panic attacks, obsessive compulsive behaviors and the list goes on. Magical cures and mystical remedies will give relief temporarily, but eventually the issue resurfaces, because the root cause that created the issue was not addressed. Finding the root cause takes you on a journey of self-discovery through your mind, body and spirit, whereby you can eliminate the need for magical cures, mystical remedies, band-aids, second opinions and ultimately empty promises.

Secondary Gain—Is It OK to Lose Weight?
[Health-and-Fitness] You can uncover the secondary gain you enjoy by keeping the weight on. These secondary gains can be recognized so that you can process the issues and resolve them once-and-for-all. Thus, you will feel safe in obtaining and maintaining your ideal weight.

Walking Barefoot on Glass—Myth or Achieveable?
[Self-Improvement] One seldom wakes up one morning thinking—“I am going to walk barefoot on some glass today to develop the mind/body connection.” It is something we are introduced to, taught how to accomplish and encouraged to achieve this unusual feat to expand our preconceived perceptions of what we can or cannot accomplish.

Corporal Punishment - Law Passed to Abolish
[News-and-Society] October 19, 2006, the Greek Parliament passed Law 3500/2006 on the Combating Intra-family Violence, under which corporal punishment of children within the family is prohibited. Article 4 of the law states:

Traditional Chinese Medicine In Your Daily Life
[Health-and-Fitness] Unbeknownst to Western culture - Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is as close as your nearest organic food store. The goal of TCM is to seek a permanent solution to health issues, rather than just treating the symptoms. That is why you won't hear a TCM practitioner say, "Just take this prescription for ten days and call for another appointment if you need a refill."

Perceptions of Reality
[Self-Improvement] The beliefs one holds, the ones one truly believes are what creates our perception of reality. Thus, reality is what we believe it to be! If you move away from being the source of your beliefs, your past or whatever dogma, rhetoric and media hype is playing takes over what you believe.

Living Your Authentic Life
[Self-Improvement] The most wonderful success anyone can have is a connection with the gift of living one’s life with gusto and using one’s unique talents and gifts. Nothing is better in life than living as the person you truly are.

Sexual Abuse - Covert (Subtle) Forms
[News-and-Society] Covert sexual abuse is more insidious than blatant sexual abuse. Thus, identifying it is more difficult because the sexual nature of the action is disguised. The sex offender acts as if she/he is doing something non-sexual, when in fact she/he is being sexual. The betrayal then becomes two-fold. The child is not only abused, but also tricked or deceived about the experience.

Hugs—A Health Food
[Self-Improvement] Hugging is healthy; it helps the body’s immune system; heals depression, reduces stress, induces sleep. It is rejuvenating. There are no unpleasant or dangerous side effects.

Make A Commitment To Your Real Self
[Self-Improvement] Have you ever been miserable? Maybe it is time to come to the realization to make a commitment to your real self.

Traditional Chinese Medicine - The Process
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] Traditional Chinese Medicine includes acupuncture, bodywork and herbal remedies. The Sheen Nona Ben Cao, one of the oldest Asian Medicine texts, describes the hierarchy of healing which mirrors the hierarchy of human needs as proposed by psychologist Abraham Maslow.

Momentous Changes in Consciousness
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] We are also experiencing internal changes, whether we recognize it or not. Old form is falling away as new form is being created. Metaphysically we are all undergoing momentous changes, a shift in consciousness, an expansion through which we are experiencing our world and our lives in a new way.

Asking for Help—Eight Empowering Tips
[Self-Improvement:Empowerment] Have you noticed that some people have others helping them, seemingly without needing to ask? If you are like most people, asking for help is not something you naturally do. So, why is it that some people are surrounded by people ready, willing and eager to help them?

What Are Your Money Beliefs
[Self-Improvement] How many of the following beliefs about money do you believe? How many of the following beliefs about money have you said or thought in jest? Whether you have any of these beliefs or merely stated them in jest-they are unconsciously driving your relationship with money.

Team Development-Key To Company Success
[Self-Improvement] Team Development’s purpose is to help a team engage in the process of self-examination to gain awareness of those conditions which are the sources of its strength and those conditions that keep it from functioning effectively. Through the team development process, the group learns how to make decisions and take those actions that will lead to better efficiency, productivity, product quality and quality of work life.

Meditation - The Benefits
[Self-Improvement] Meditation offers a plethora of benefits. Unfortunately many people do not meditate because they are fearful of the perceived demands. These perceived demands include-sitting in a perfect lotus position with fingers held in a mudra pose. This traditional Hindu or Buddhist posture is not required.

Commitments - Five Tips to Make and Keep Them
[Self-Improvement] It is astonishing that 90% of the world's problems result from people failing to keep their commitments. Heads of state, CEO's, family members and friends, every missed goal or uncompleted task can be traced back to someone not keeping their end of the bargain.

Peace From the Inside Out
[Self-Improvement] Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are. Hafsat Abiola

Thankfulness Creates Your Future and Fortune
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] Being appreciative and thankful heightens the joy of your experiences and attracts more of those experiences when you hold thankful thoughts in your consciousness. Living in a state of gratitude brings more things and experiences to be grateful for—the ultimate in creating what you want.

Insomnia--Remedies with No Side Effects
[Health-and-Fitness] According to a recent study, Americans aren't buying the commercials or the drugs - they're turning in increasing numbers to chiropractic and holistic remedies to get a better night's sleep. According to the study, an estimated 1.6 million Americans used holistic health care for insomnia symptoms in 2002. Survey participants were asked why they chose to use holistic health care instead of pharmaceutical drugs and other treatments. Sixty-seven (67) percent stated they wanted to use a remedy without side effects.

Journaling—A Powerful Tool
[Self-Improvement] Many people feel uncomfortable meditating in seated silence, journaling meditation is a powerful alternative as an active meditation. It allows us to trace our journey and see where we have grown and what issues we may be repeating. By employing a different part of the brain than or inspired thought, writing or typing a journal can create a greater sense of connection and union with our physical selves and the world around us.

Holistic Health Care Increasing in Popularity Worldwide
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Holistic, Metaphysical, Energy or Mind, Body, Spirit healing has existed since the beginning of time amid religious beliefs and practices, along with the mystery, superstition, fear, and misunderstanding. Holistic Healing is now becoming recognized regardless of what anyone chooses to believe or think.

Loving Spankings- Part I
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] When I was a little girl and my mother thought I required discipline, she would pull me face down across her lap and give me a series of stinging slaps of her hand on my bare buttocks while I cried. In fifteen seconds it was over. I was not "abused" as a child, just "spanked with love." She never left a bruise when she "lovingly spanked" me.

Horse-Man's Best Friend
[Recreation-and-Sports:Equestrian] Horses perceive us in a pure way, undistracted by words, appearance or social standing. The beauty of horse as a 'best friend' is that you can't fool them. Horses teach us to be in the moment. Since horses have no distractions they are tuned into every nuance a person makes, and give immediate feedback.

Amusing Muse
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] Since the beginning of history people have weighed evidence, analyzed and taken measurements in exhaustive complicated venues to explain the game of 'reality.' A simple approach to the 'Reality Game' is dealing with 'What is.' What is - is what we create.

Be A Great Listener—Four Tips
[Self-Improvement] Typically people hear less than 25% of a conversation. If you improved your listening skills what would you gain?

Shamanic Healing
[Health-and-Fitness] The essential perspective of the shaman is:
1. Everything is alive. Everything has spirit and awareness.
2. Energy and matter are the same. Everything is vibration. Everything that exists is an energy system within a greater energy system.
3. Everything that exists is connected to everything else in a web of energy or life.
4. Unseen/inner/spiritual reality affects visible reality.

The Law of Attraction
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] For a long time people have weighed evidence, analyzed and taken measurements to answer the question, “What do I want?” It is now clear that this was the wrong question. The right question is, “What thoughts will create what I want?" Take charge of your thoughts, and you’ll take charge of your life.

If I'd Only Known
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] After hanging up the phone, I felt more helpless than ever before. There was nothing I could do except console my friend, her daughter and advise her, "What to do after the damage was done." The disturbing thought that if this mother could not protect her child, then what mother could-she had done everything right-was seared in my mind. An overwhelming sense of frustration and rage came over me.

Saying "No" to "Touching My Private Parts" - Not Enough to Protect Your Child from Sex Offenders
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] The majority of parents do a good job teaching their children to beware of strangers. Yet most victims of child sexual abuse know the sex offender. We cannot ignore the sophistication of sex offenders' efforts to desensitize the child through the gradual development of a relationship with the child and progressing from non-sexual touch (touching a leg, back or head) to sexual touch. Given that 95-99 percent of sex offenders are people their victims know and trust - family members and other trusted adults—even children as young as two can be taught to know what to do to protect him/herself.

What to Do If You Suspect Your Child Is Secretly Doing Something Unacceptable
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] What is a parent to do if she/he suspects his/her child is secretly doing something unacceptable? The first reaction is to trust that your child is in conflict about something and needs your understanding and support to discuss and resolve the issue. Avoid the temptation to rifle through your child's personal belongings to uncover information.

What Are You Worth?
[Self-Improvement] It is true that some people get paid more money than others, but we all have talents in areas that show off our gifts in bringing something to the world that is worth our weight in gold. The moment we stop believing in our self worth and allow someone else to dictate it for us, is the moment that we give up the keys to our lives and let someone else take control.

Buddhism on the Rise in America
[News-and-Society:Religion] The American Religious Identity Survey reports a 170 percent rise in adherents among the various Buddhism schools from 1990 to 2000, and puts the 2004 total at 1.5 million adherents. Richard Seager, author of Buddhism in America, considers this 'a low reasonable number.' He believes Asian immigrants account for two-thirds of this total and converts about one-third. This makes Buddhism the country's fourth-largest religion after Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

Sugar Substitutes—False Promises and Danger
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] After forty years of fake chemical sweeteners, not a single study has shown an even mildly convincing association between sugar substitutes and weight loss. Researchers have discovered that artificial sweeteners—fake pleasure—may actually cause weight gain. As fate would have it, the artificial sweetener molecule is so crafty that it convinces the brain that it is real sugar, so the body releases insulin to help metabolize the artificial sugar. Since there is no real sugar present, the excess insulin, with nothing to do, performs its other evolutionary task, which is to signal the body to store fat.

Are My Choices Leading Me to Where I Want to Go
[Self-Improvement] Success in any aspect of life is difficult. Few attain success without the help of others. Oh, there is talk about self-made men and women, but no matter how much anyone does to contribute to their success—careful assessment of the situation will inevitably reveal that everyone somehow—directly and indirectly—had some help along the way from the expertise of others.

Are You Building Your Own Prison
[Self-Improvement] Ironically, people in every walk of life have built their own prison. They have strong steel bars to hold them, tighter than the prisons holding criminals. Millions of people hold themselves captive. They incarcerate themselves and make environments that are worse than the prisons holding criminals. These private prisons are created in their minds. The walls are just as strong as the steel and damp concrete walls of any prison.

Natural Remedies to Keep You Healthy
[Health-and-Fitness] Each year, nearly 50 million Americans contract the flu. The best defense against colds and flu is a strong immune system. There are a plethora of immune boosting foods and homeopathic natural remedies to keep you healthy. Building a healthy immune system is the first step in preventing illness. A healthy food plan, exercise and adequate rest are the building blocks to keep flu and colds at bay.

Police Officer Exercised Parental Responsibility--Beats Daughter with Broom Handle
[News-and-Society:Crime] Recently, a police officer was arrested for beating his 14-year-old daughter with a broom handle because she ran away for the third time. Ironically, she had reconsidered her transgression and returned home—to be met by an irate father and the beating ensued.

Rolfing—The Benefits
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Developed over 50 years ago by Dr. Ida Rolf, Ph.D., Rolfing structural integration works on the web-like complex of connective tissue (fascia) to release, realign and balance the whole body. It can resolve pain and discomfort from many different causes, including those related to the lingering effects of trauma, back pain, repetitive motion injury and aging. Rolfing is also an excellent foundation for and complement to yoga, pilates and other personal wellness practices.

Are Foods Labeled ‘Natural’ Really Natural?
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] The word ‘natural’ is purely a marketing term and in no way designates a product as being superior in any way to anything not using the term—i.e. foods can be labeled as ‘natural’ whether it is or not. Food manufacturers love these three major health hazards because they extend shelf life, trick people into thinking the food tastes good and have fewer calories—but at what price? Are you willing to sacrifice your liver, kidneys, heart and other vital organs to satisfy a ‘palate’ that food manufacturers created when you were fed baby food loaded with excitotoxins?

Outsmarting Holiday High Fat Meals
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] Researchers have found that physical activity after a high calorie meal not only reverses the arterial dysfunction caused by fatty foods, but actually improves the function of these arteries compared to before the meal.

Soda/Soft Drinks Do Not Hydrate Your Body
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Did you know that drinks high in phosphoric acid--soda and soft drinks--does a great job cleaning corroded battery terminals, or toilet bowels? What does it do to your body?

Stopping Global Warming is Easier Than You Think
[News-and-Society:Environmental] Living holistically includes replenishing not only our minds, body and spirit—it includes replenishing Mother Earth. Let us not forget Mother Earth is our home this time around—if we continue to chop holes in the Mother ship—it is safe to say, we will perish.

Redefine Your Core—Give Yourself Physical Control and Emotional Confidence
[Health-and-Fitness] Your physical core holds a lot of power, including three of the seven energy centers, known as chakras, that are delineated in Buddhist and Hindu thought: the root chakra at the base of the spine, associated with grounding and stability; the sacral chakra in the lower abdomen, linked to balance and emotional connection; and the solar plexus chakra below the sternum, correlated with personal strength, assertiveness and control.

Spiritual Response Therapy
[Health-and-Fitness] Everyone can benefit from a SRT healing. An SRT healing actually enhances the effects of all other healing modalities, both traditional and holistic. Many ailments we suffer with have their energies rooted in past life discordant issues. Those ailments (both physical and mental) are part of our cellular memory and re-manifest lifetime after lifetime.

Ayurvedic Medicine - Benefits
[Health-and-Fitness] Unlike Traditional Western Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine is non-invasive and focuses on the individual's needs and prevention versus treating symptoms as one-size-fits all. During the last century, Ayurveda Medicine has completed a rebirth and continues to evolve its holistic approach to health in accordance with modern needs and scientific advances of the day.

Control Panic Attacks, Anxiety Attacks, Anger—Ten Tips
[Health-and-Fitness:Anxiety] You have read the plethora of articles and seen or heard pharmaceutical advertisements touting the miracle of controlling every emotional distress with tips, strategies and prescriptions. If these miracle tips, strategies and prescriptions work so well—Why then are so many people using the same tips, strategies and prescriptions and still have the issue?

Forgiveness - Ordinary Acts
[Self-Improvement] Ordinary acts of forgiveness can be observed daily, however, it is the least reported news. ABC TV anchor, Charles Gibson interviewed several Amish families after a shooter killed five girls and critically wounded six others, October 3, 2006. Gibson commented, "It didn't take long for us to learn that the Amish families most affected by this tragedy have responded in a way that might seem foreign to most of us: They talk about Monday's school shooting only in terms of forgiveness." "We're just trying to support each other and trying to let it sink in," said 17-year-old Dorothy King."s

Forgiveness—Truths and Myths
[Self-Improvement] Deciding to forgive someone who has harmed you is probably the hardest choice you will ever make. Seemingly, some hurts and betrayals are too horrible to forgive. Our indoctrinations tell us to avenge the person who caused us pain, to demand contrition, apology, reparations, or promise of resolution for the debt he/she owes you. As Spiritual beings having a human experience, we need to connect with our purpose for being here. The soul’s soul purpose for being here is to create emotional and spiritual growth. (Ephesians 4:32). The ego holding anger, resentment or seeking revenge thwarts the soul’s quest for emotional and spiritual growth.

Forgiveness—Benefits
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] The body manufactures "high voltage" chemicals like adrenaline and cortisone when you hold anger and resentment—your mind remains in a constant state of flight or fight. These chemicals will result in tension-related ills such as: headaches and abdominal pains. Left unchecked, you will experience more serious problems such as ulcers, gastritis, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue and in the worst case scenario, cancer.

High Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity Foods Yield Anti-aging Properties
[Health-and-Fitness] First research reports suggest that eating high-ORAC fruits and vegetables—such as spinach and blueberries—may help slow the aging processes in both body and brain. ARS Administrator, Floyd P. Horn, states, “If these findings are borne out in further research, young and middle-aged people may be able to reduce risk of diseases of aging—including senility—simply by adding high-ORAC foods to their diets.”

Neuro Emotional Technqiue - More Effective than Traditional Talk Therapy
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Emotions are part of the natural, healthy response process we have to situations we encounter. The emotional response can be neutral, positive or negative. However, sometimes challenging emotional experiences and physical vulnerabilities create lingering stress in our mind-body-spiritual architecture. Such stress can contribute to physical manifestations, emotional distress/dis-ease, and difficulty with goal achievement. The Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) is a powerful intervention that can assess and alleviate the internal stressors that are creating barriers to health and success.

Probiotics—Health Benefits
[Health-and-Fitness] There is a landmark medical study conducted by experts on the front lines of hospital infection control. Hospital researchers recently made public a major study using a new, patented strain of friendly acidophilus bacterial called CL1285®. This probiotic sold in health food stores for nearly ten years is making waves in the medical community.

Holistic Health Care - Metaphysical Healing Mission
[Health-and-Fitness:Healing-Arts] In an ever increasing fast-paced society, many of us take the easy road of self neglect and procrastination and think we are doing fine because we feel fine. Fast-food commercials dance in our heads, as the solution to our ever demanding race to keep up. Only later we scramble for a practitioner in the time of need... Mildred Carter, one of the pioneers of reflexology, stated in her book, 'Body Reflexology,' "whenever we feel pain anywhere in the body, even the slightest twinge of a pain, it’s the body’s method of sending you a signal, and if palpated and rubbed out, may prevent future illness, although the actual dis-ease may be far removed from the original site of discomfort..."

Amalgam Fillings—Hidden Dangers
[Health-and-Fitness] Recent studies have concluded that the high mercury release levels of modern Amalgams and mercury poisoning may come from Amalgam fillings and is prevalent throughout the population. Common levels found in persons with Amalgam fillings are over ten times the Health Canada limit and more than according to the United States EPA health standards for mercury vapor.

Metaphysical Healing
[Health-and-Fitness] "We go to a medical doctor because of a symptom and often receive what we have asked for a way to get rid of the symptom. This type of 'healing' is superficial. The cause of the symptom is not gone, and it is only a matter of time before the symptoms reappear."

Your Body Is Designed to Heal Itself
[Health-and-Fitness] Holistic Healthcare practitioners are being utilized in greater numbers, specifically since the Human Genome Project results completed in 2003 completely undermined the long held concept of genetic determinism. Once thought to be in the domain of the genes, the control of health and behavior are now dynamically linked to the environment, and more importantly, our perception of the environment.

I.R.S. Tax Credit for Weight Loss and Smoke Cessation Programs
[Health-and-Fitness] Tax laws passed for 2003 onwards mean you can get a 100% tax credit for money paid for smoking cessation and weight loss programs.

Human Genome Project Results Supports Holistic Health Care Doctrines and Practices
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] The Human Genome Project (HGP) completed in 2003, was a 13-year project coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. During the early years of the HGP, the Wellcome Trust (U.K.) became a major partner; additional contributions came from Japan, France, Germany, China, and others. The results confirmed health and behavior are dynamically linked to the environment and as importantly, our perception of the environment.

Make This Your Best Holiday Season Ever
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] Make this your best holiday season ever - commit to focus on ‘giving’ instead of ‘getting.’

Universal Law—Don't Quit
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] It is a Universal Law that if you Don’t Quit, you will reach your goal, no matter where you plan to go. It has been said that Thomas Edison was asked how he felt about failing 100 times in his quest to invent the light bulb. Edison didn’t see his experiments as ‘failures’ he saw them as success—100 ways how not to make a light bulb.

We Experience What We Believe
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] “We experience what we believe. If we don’t believe that we experience what we believe, then we don’t, which still means the first statement is true. The real dilemma of existence is deciding what to believe. The majority of us are already deeply patterned and indoctrinated by the time we realize that deciding for ourselves is an option. Deciding is fundamental to creating! What we believe and how we believe determines our reality”—Harry Palmer

Are You Waiting Until the New Year to Look and Feel Good?
[Health-and-Fitness] Many people are prompted by a special event to be serious about losing weight and/or getting in shape—New Year's Resolution, wedding, anniversary, child's graduation, etc. The hidden message in waiting for a special event to do something as important as losing weight and/or getting in shape is a loud and clear message—"I'm not as important as looking good for the event." This is a sure set-up for self-sabotage in the long-term. You might lose the weight for the event, but put all the weight or more on afterwards. You have read or heard people's stories about yo-yo dieting.

Top Ten Ways To Have An Affair And Not Get Caught - Provides the Road Map to Affair Busting
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] An article on ezinearticles titled, "Top Ten Ways To Have An Affair And Not Get Caught" is also a list of ten ways to discern if your significant other, husband or lover is being unfaithful.

I Give Hugs
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] The world would be totally different if we all adopted the habit of giving free hugs to strangers. And yes, many people are a bit wary of someone wearing a, "I Give Hugs," button and then giving a hug without hesitation, no matter the person. However, my experiences of suspicion or negativity are miniscule compared to the overwhelming enthusiastic acceptance of a stranger giving a hug. I encourage everyone to consider giving free hugs to strangers. You can have a, "I Give Hugs," button made or you can carry a sign. The world can be changed one person at a time.

Perspectives Versus Perceptions
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Perception is the limited depth of consciousness of the Rebellious or Adaptive Child Ego state that sometimes takes over handling interactions. When you ‘take everything’ personally—vis-à-vis the Rebellious or Adaptive Child Ego state, it makes it difficult for your emotional body to discern what are the facts and what are the emotional hooks that block your clear vision of knowing the facts.

Sex Offenders Rationalize Their Behavior
[News-and-Society:Crime] Sex offenders rationalize and/or minimize their actions as well as the consequences to him or herself and to his or her victims. Sex offenders convince themselves the child won’t remember, or they justify to themselves that they are entitled because ________. They deny any responsibility to the child if the child does remember the abuse.

Sound Bite Solutions–Radio/TV Counseling
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Mental health care is about changing behavior and healing deep emotional and spiritual wounds. This cannot be done with 10 to 15 minutes of professional input, yet that is what these mental health professionals turned media personalities imply.

If It Can Happen to Him, It Can Happen to You — God Answers Your Questions
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Have you read the book, Conversations with God—Book I? If not, you have missed an incredibly emotion packed and awesome experience—one that will touch your heart in the deepest way possible. Although, there is a trilogy of books titled Conversations with God—Book I is closest to my own experience.

Changing the Energy in Your Environment Changes How Everyone Experiences the Space
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] You have heard the comment—“You could cut the tension with a knife.” That seemingly, off-hand comment is true. When conflict is ongoing the air becomes very heavy and dense. “How can that be?” You might ask.

More Evidence: Obfuscation Rules the World
[News-and-Society] Unless, and until everyone accepts sexual abuse for what it is and sexual child abuse is adjudicated on the merits of the standard child sexual abuse definition, sex offenders will abuse children under society's nose without fear of being arrested or found guilty.

Laws of Remembering - Emotional and Spiritual Growth
[Health-and-Fitness] The Rules for Being Human, author unknown, are posted on a plethora of web sites. While these rules are helpful, there is one fundamental flaw in its wording - that being that we are here to learn lessons. The concept of learning lessons is flawed in that it flies in the face of Carl Jung’s concept of 'The Collective Unconscious,' and the fundamental laws of human existence.

Domestic Violence-Warning Signs
[Relationships:Domestic-Violence] It is unfathomable to most people that the person they are dating or in love with could possibly harm them. More often than not it is friends or family who initially see something. They might tell you that something is "not right" in the relationship. It is estimated that more than 60% of relationships have some form of abuse.

Baby Boomers Demands for a Healthier Life Are Changing Health Care
[Home-and-Family:Baby-Boomer] As the baby boomers turn sixty over the next 18 years, how will they manage their health care compared to their parents? Ahead of them is a longer life expectancy than their parents, and with it, the time to do more. The key of course, is staying healthy to do what they want.

Forgiveness-A Misunderstood Concept
[Self-Improvement] Forgiveness is not for the other person, it is for oneself. We can find the truth of this in very meaning of the word 'resentment.' Resentment means to feel again. As long as we hold resentment we are feeling that hurt again and again and it keeps us from living, growing and understanding. It puts a damper on our lives. It saps our energy and clouds our perceptions.

Ten Healthy Habits To Being A Loving Friend/Partner/Husband/Wife
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Being a loving Friend, Partner, Husband or Wife takes work and practice, however, the good news is the payoff is huge—a lifetime of love and happiness.

Be Mindful of What You Put in Your Memory Bank
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] “Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw what you've put in. So, I deposited a lot of happiness in my bank account of memories! I thank everyone in my life for their part in filling my Memory bank. I am still depositing."

Obfuscation At Its Best
[News-and-Society] The Republican party along with the help of the media is spinning Mark Foley's sexual activity with a minor into a political issue. The responsible thing for the Republicans to do is to provide information on Foley for his admitted sexual behavior with a minor and allow the police to conduct an investigation to ensure the young men and women who have been abused are given justice and those who are continuing to serve in the congressional page program are protected.

We Are All Connected
[News-and-Society] The unexpectedness of the attack on the WTC and subsequent pre-emptive war in Iraq has left people feeling helpless and vulnerable. Other than donating money, many wonder what else they can do to help the victims. There is something you can do.

Humans Need to be Heard
[Self-Improvement] Humans, beginning at birth, need to be empathically ‘heard’ and have a ‘mirroring’ effect in order to develop a strong and healthy sense of self. Here are the guidelines for measuring empathic listening—communication.

Sex Offenders - Setting the Record Straight
[News-and-Society] To set the record straight, the fact, Representative Mark Foley (R-FL) is a sexual abuse survivor is no surprise. All sex offenders - Pedophile, Ephebophiles and rapists are sexual and/or physical abuse survivors. While this does not condone their behavior, it explains what prompts them to act out sexually.

The New Cancer Cure - Kinder, Gentler Chemotherapy
[Cancer] The new cancer 'cure' buzz is Kinder, Gentler chemotherapy - known as IPT - Insulin Potentiation Therapy a modality for the administration of low dose chemotherapy that has been in use since the mid 1930’s.

What Disease Are You Fighting Against?
[Health-and-Fitness] The headline article in Arizona Woman, October 2006 - "The Fight Against Breast Cancer Expands," prompted me to write this article.

Oprah Isn't Always Right!
[News-and-Society:Crime] I do not need to tell you, when Oprah speaks everyone listens and accepts her statements as gospel. Her rise to this level of credibility is legend and few question what she says. Thus, you might wonder what would compel me, a little known professional, to make such an outlandish statement - "Oprah Isn't Always Right!" The answer is simple ... please read my full article before you make a judgment.

Christmas Celebrations and Traditions
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] Few people know the history of Christmas Celebrations and Traditions. The idea to celebrate Christmas on December 25th dates back to the 4th century. The Catholic Church wanted to eclipse the festivities of a rival pagan religion that threatened Christianity’s existence.

Motherhood Changes The Body-Does It Change The Brain?
[Home-and-Family:Motherhood] Motherhood changes the body-but does it change the brain? Sleep deprived new mothers can argue that they seem too exhausted to think.

FEAR - Self Limiting Experiences
[Self-Improvement] FEAR has more power than any other word in any language. When we examine the word - Fear, there are other words that hitch on for a ride like velcro - Afraid, Anxiety, Panic, Phobia, Anxious, Nervous, Shaky, Fearful, etc.

Fear - Ultimate Jail Warden
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Fear can be as gripping as—The sky is falling—or as subtle as—It doesn't feel right. When an experience, which resulted in a fear reaction is left unresolved many subsequent situations are seen through a filter of fear.

Crystal and Indigo Children and Adults
[News-and-Society] Crystal and Indigo people thought they were like all humans and only recently did they feel, understand, act differently or become aware of their mission. So now they know their origins and purposes, for the most part, and many of them became Indigo parents. How many people are Indigo parents?

The Secret to Emotional Healing
[Health-and-Fitness:Emotional-Freedom-Technique] Well-being is our natural state, and the subconscious mind is continually seeking to return us to it. What hampers total well-being is not some outside agent—genetics, virus, mysterious germs—it is internal emotional resistance.

Why Wheat and Other Processed Foods Are Making You Fat
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] People are struggling with obesity because they have no idea how consuming processed foods including sugar and the holy grail favorite food staple--wheat flour--creates weight gain. The low-carb craze has done a great disservice. Contrary to popular belief, all carbohydrates are not bad. The issue is the type of carbohydrate. There are two natural forms of carbohydrates--simple and complex. Then there is the "refined" carbohydrate.

Symptoms of Allergies and Homeopathic Remedies
[Health-and-Fitness:Healing-Arts] Allergies signal a defective or depleted immune system and are considered in Homeopathic parlance—the body's communication that something is not right. Homeopathic doctrine believes that the allergen is just the trigger to the problem and not the underlying cause. Homeopathic remedies can remove the underlying cause for the allergic tendency and eliminate it completely.

Self-Care Measures to Minimize Everyday Toxic Contamination
[Health-and-Fitness] Are your eyes itching, nose running, sneezing and/or you are covered in hives? No doubt you have a well-known enemy--Allergies. The following list of tips will minimize everyday irritants that cause allergies.

Does Hypnosis Work? A Comparison Study
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] This study clearly points out--Hypnosis is more effective and works more quickly than traditional talk-therapy or psychoanalysis. In a hypnotic state, you are more receptive to new ideas and you can more effectively process the emotions linked to the experiences, which created pain, fear, sadness, anger, guilt, shame, humiliation and low self-esteem.

You Have Immeasurable Joy Within You-Claim Your Joy
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Have you ever felt an inner thirst for something? Maybe you don’t have a name for it, but you ‘just’ know that something is missing in your life, or that there has to be something more than what you are experiencing now. You might have had a dream about it. Perhaps you have a name for it and you feel that your thirst is for happiness, or love, or meaning, or inner peace, or fulfillment or joy.

Action Steps for Healthy Relationships
[Relationships] These action steps are clear, concise and easy to understand and implement. Unfortunately, in the hustle and bustle of life, we are on automatic and often forget the steps necessary to create and maintain healthy relationships.

Stress Free Relationships
[Relationships] Relationships can be stress producing as well as rewarding. Feelings can be a curse or a blessing. Only robots are left unaffected by emotions within the relationship dance. All relationships, no matter how healthy, require skill and management. Each person needs to commit to creating a healthy relationship for oneself and the other.

Three Steps to Take Charge of Your Life
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Most people recap the day’s events before going to sleep. This leads to insomnia for many people as they bemoan, analyze and judge every detail over and over. “What If…?” “If Only…,” “He/she said…” or “He/she did…” are the refrains. Or perhaps you did or said something to someone else that provided that person opportunity to respond with an unkind or critical response. You may be on either the giving or receiving end of the opportunity for distress.

The Path to Good Health
[Health-and-Fitness] The most effective and successful path to avoid pain and illness of any kind, is to make healthy lifestyle choices in Six Essential areas. Contrary to popular belief, your long-term good health depends on the choices you make; not how much money you have to buy the best health insurance and to pay for the best doctors.

Forgiveness—The Key to Peace of Mind
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] The concept of forgiveness has been around since the beginning of human existence. Most, if not all spiritual teachers and coaches have included forgiveness in their teachings--Mother Theresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Larry James, Desmond Tutu, A Course in Miracles.

Putting Your Best Face Forward
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] The key to having a 'perfect face' is looking in the mirror without judgment—look at your wonderful face that has faced the world; faced all the issues and travail head-on; has smiled under the burden of complex feelings; has taken it on the chin when life got tough and has faced every challenge with grace and dignity.

Healthy Self-Esteem in Thirty Days
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Healthy Self-Esteem is your best weapon on the journey of life. Self-Esteem is the cornerstone of your emotional well-being and success in life. Self-Esteem stems from the knowledge that you are a valuable person. It is the understanding that there is no one who is exactly like you. No one talks like you; No one walks like you; No one has the exact color eyes or hair as you. Even identical twins have subtle differences in personality and characteristics.

Survival Skills for Children with Coach/Teacher/Clergy/Scout Leader
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Your child needs specific skills to protect him/herself against sex offenders, who have easy access. Such as coaches, teachers, scout leaders, clergy, youth group leaders and recreation leaders. Sex offenders in these groups are particularly difficult to spot because they can easily cover their true motivation for fostering a close relationship with a child.

Good - Appropriate Touch with Children
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Everyone needs touch that soothes and nurtures. The most important guideline in touching your child is respecting your child’s likes and dislikes. When you child is non-verbal, you will need to watch for signals, such as: wincing, squirming, holding the breath, or crying to decide if the touch is disliked. Any sign of dislike or discomfort needs to be respected.

Pedophile--Characteristics and Behavior Patterns
[News-and-Society] The most common response when I speak about the prevalence of sexual child abuse is in the form of denial: "I don't have to be concerned about that in my community. That would never happen in my family." Through numerous case studies, the Department of Justice has developed characteristics and behavior patterns of a pedophile.

Protect Your Child from Sex Offenders—Practice Appropriate Suspicion
[News-and-Society] If you fail to heed your intuitive signals you will then accept its diabolic competitor, the denial process. Denial protects us from what we do not want to know. Denial eliminates the discomfort of accepting the horrific reality we do not want to acknowledge. As with intuition, denial prompts recognizable signals. If you detect these signals within yourself, you can stop and ask yourself an empowering and powerful question: “What am I stopping myself from knowing?”

Is Your Child a Sex Offender's Target?—Learn Their Ruse
[News-and-Society] Most sex offenders "groom" their victims prior to any sexual abuse for a period of months or even years. After gaining trust in the parents, the offender offers to baby sit the child or provide fun activities. During this time, he/she proceeds to groom the child. The perpetrator is aware that the child must be controlled to the extent where he/she can sexually abuse the child without fear of disclosure to another adult. This manipulation may be obtained in many ways: favors, threats, guilt, etc.

Alcoholism and Drug Addiction-Change to Recovery
[Self-Improvement:Addictions] The ‘Once an addict always an addict and Relapse is a Part of Recovery’ paradigm has crippled and doomed many people to a life of struggle and self-deprecation throughout the world. “You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely chosen a substance to cope with the underlying conditions that you can heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.”

Is Gambling An Expensive Pass-Time or Guilty Pleasure?
[Self-Improvement:Addictions] Deepak Chopra, MD states, "Addiction: The Number One Disease of Civilization." If you or someone you know answered, "Yes" to seven or more of these questions, problem/ compulsive gambling is the issue.

Natural Heartburn Remedies
[Health-and-Fitness] Holistic treatment for heartburn is more effective in the long run than taking prescriptions or OTC pills or liquid, which has a plethora of side effects. Holistic heartburn treatment has no side effects.

Understanding Clients or Customers-Two Fool Proof Secrets
[Business:Customer-Service] If you could buy fool proof secrets that would bring more clients or customers to need your product or service, would you buy them?

Avoid Joining the Self-Deprecator
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] The Self-Deprecating person uses self-deprecating statements to avoid standing out or to avoid engendering positive recognition. A person, who has high self-esteem make statements that clearly and concisely state their truth. We are all meant to shine; each in our own unique way.

Nurture Your Soul—Create Peace of Mind
[Health-and-Fitness] Nurturing the soul is as important as healthy nutrition, exercising and sleep. The soul’s sole purpose in a human life is to create spiritual and emotional growth. The sense of well-being and happiness emanates from the soul to the psyche. If the soul is ignored or malnourished the psyche and ultimately the body suffers.

Have the Body Weight You Desire Through Hypnosis—What to Expect
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] There is a battle going on between your conscious and subconscious mind. Your conscious mind knows you need to lose weight for your health and well-being—but your subconscious mind resists the process because, "Lose" is a negative command. Learn how 'positive' commands help you gain the body you desire.

Quit Smoking Effortlessly and Easily with Hypnosis-What to Expect
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] Everyone wants to know the number of sessions required. Using a systematic approach, the majority of people need 4-6 sessions for a specific issue. Five sessions is the average number of sessions required to create permanent and lasting results. Many hypnotherapists state that one one-hour session is all that is required to quit smoking. However, with only one one-hour session 95% of people start smoking again after six to eighteen months. Why? The answer is the emotional reason the person started smoking can not be removed in only one session. In order for the majority of people to cease smoking forever, the root cause that prompted them to smoke needs to be removed, thus an average of five sessions is required.

Tame Migraine Headaches - Naturally
[Health-and-Fitness:Headaches-Migraines] Can migraine headache suffers find relief for the pain without breaking the bank? A study completed by P.E. Strang, W.H. Crown, R. Bizier, et al suggests preventative approaches are far more effective than is commonly believed. Preventative measures can eliminate the need for pharmaceuticals or natural remedies, as well as pain/suffering and lost work.

Home Foreclosure Investing -Learn the Secrets - How I Created A Second Income Stream
[Investing] Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD, author, speaker, and inspirational leader shares her secrets to real estate investing. It's a win-win proposition. You, the real estate investor, can help the homeowner save their credit and make a nice profit at the same time. This is called Pre-foreclosure real estate investing. "Pre-foreclosure is where the most return on the investment can be made," states Don Myers, Pre-foreclosure consultant at the Arizona Department of Foreclosure Assistance, Inc., a non-profit organization, Tempe. AZ.

Feelings just Are—Neither Good nor Bad
[Self-Improvement] Suppressing, depressing, or being dishonest is what makes feelings seem bad. Honestly Feeling and Expressing Feelings Makes One Powerful and allows you to maintain integrity.

Mind, Body, Spirit Healing-The Process
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] When we truly ask for Mind, Body, Spirit healing we are asking about the ‘cause,’ of our pain not the symptoms we are experiencing. When I work with someone, I am not treating, I am not giving therapy, I am only conscious of symptoms because the symptoms are clues to what needs to be transformed. Using the unconscious mind the person is guided to create their unique transformation process to ultimately eliminate (heal) the cause of the symptoms.

Internet Safety - The Missing Link
[News-and-Society] May 22, 2006, the 109th Congress 2nd session declared June as Internet Safety Month. Recently, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and Cox Communication released a highly disturbing survey of youth between 13 and 17 years old about their use of the Internet.

Living Life from the Inside Out
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] The key to living a rich and rewarding life is the act of 'being present' - truly being 'in the moment,' savoring every smell, taste, sound and nuance. Being connected to yourself as you move from within to the world around you.

Diabetes - Natural Treatment
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Research shows that a natural diabetes remedy can regulate blood sugar and eliminate the need for painful injections.

Body Language -- The Truth Sawyer
[Self-Improvement:Success] It is often said that body language doesn’t lie. This is true because body language is an unconscious process interpreted by the right brain of the receiver. Yet it is difficult to interpret body language because a slight variation can mean many different things to different people.

Deepening Communication - Engaging Left Brain - Right Brain Language
[Self-Improvement:Success] A person perceives messages in a style unique to that individual’s development. Does the person understand information better when it is presented in a logical, straightforward manner or when it is offered with descriptions and allegories which can be visualized? Or would a combination of both the logical and descriptive styles be more appropriate?

Effective Communication—A 100% Responsibility
[Self-Improvement:Success] When communication goes awry, as it sometimes will, we usually blame the other person that the listener has the major responsibility in making sure the message is understood. In reality, communication is a 100% responsibility by both the listener and the speaker.

Is It Stress or Is It Memorex?
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] We think stress is something to avoid. However, the concept that stress is bad is a misnomer. Any event can be construed as stressful—i.e. the belief about the event is what creates the event as stressful or non-stressful. Thus, the key to avoiding stress is to redefine stress.

Depression—Healing is Possible
[Health-and-Fitness:Depression] Depression is holding onto trauma, not consciously realizing that processing the feelings triggered by the experience is the solution. Thus, the anger is turned inward and held. We either identify with emotions as ‘ourselves’ [That’s just the way I am] to avoid or escape them or act out.

Are You a Human Doing or a Human Being?
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] It's not what you're doing that counts the most. You can do all of the right things to establish a business connection or relationship, but if you have the belief that you are not valuable, this will come across in your body language as lack of confidence. People will sense (feel) your doubt and, in turn, will also doubt you.

Four Words Create Your Success
[Self-Improvement:Success] All the strategies about how to build a business are meaningless, if your thoughts and self image prevent your success. That point is very important. The fastest way to change your world - business or personal - is to change yourself first.

Transform Your Life Through Gratitude and Acceptance
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Whatever you focus on grows, regardless of whether that focus is positive or negative. The Universe remains neutral; it can only bring to you that into which you put your energy and attention on. This is referred to as the Law of Attraction—an immutable Universal Law.

Say What You Mean and Do What You Say
[Self-Improvement] The majority of people want to do the right thing. Even though we succumb to temptation, most people regret that they didn’t honor their most prized characteristic—being true to our higher self and integrity.

Cause and Effect —The Missing Link
[News-and-Society] The effects in your life is a direct reflection of the causes you put in place. Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Bill Gates and Tiger Woods never took the quick-and-easy approach to their success. They applied massive causes and got massive efforts.

Doubt – Kills Goal Achievement
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Do you question your ability to live according to your Higher Self’s purpose? Your ego has been conditioned to question your higher self. It is an altruism that keeps us living our lives based on someone else’s beliefs and values. Life IS fair. Life is fair to those who HAVE NO DOUBT. Or more accurately, Life is fair to those who HAVE NO FEAR.

Does Fear Keep You Fat?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] On a conscious level, people blame it on a sweet tooth, lack of exercise, or genetics. No matter the explanation there is something going on at a deeper level that is holding you back, and that is fear. Yes, fear. How could that be?

Self-Mastery - Four Easy Steps to Joy, Love and Fulfillment
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] You can be the master of your life. Imagine creating true joy and light in your heart and your life.

Create Success -- One Goal at a Time
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] The most important aspect of creating a meaningful life is your Inner Thoughts and Feelings. Your Inner Thoughts and Feelings include your ambitions, your body sensations, your mood, the images you envision for yourself. This is your private domain—it is where your true identity is defined and your integrity is rooted.

Good Health--In Steps
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] According to researchers, if you walk 30-45 minutes twice a day, you will avoid heart disease, kidney disease, stress related diseases, diabetes or any metabolism problems. Don’t forget to hydrate while you walk—especially in the summer.

Mitral Valve Prolapse - Healing is Possible - A Case Study
[Health-and-Fitness] The premise of Holistic Healing (HH) states all physical dysfunctions is the unconscious mind’s way to convey a message to the conscious mind. What does the unconscious mind want you to know about a particular body part?

Prosperity Thinking
[Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] The Universal Law of Attraction affirms that like attracts like. Prosperity thinking attracts more of what we want. Self-deprecating and scarcity thoughts set up negatively charged energy that attracts what we don’t want. This Law is Universal because it does not matter who you are, where you live, what your religious beliefs are, what year you were born...the Law is true for everyone equally. It is as true as the Law of Gravity.

Migraine Headaches - Eight Prevention Steps
[Health-and-Fitness:Headaches-Migraines] The price one pays while having a migraine headache is not limited to physical pain. According to a recent study, fiscal pain can be an unfortunate consequence, since headaches often result in multiple trips to the doctor and missed days of work or school.

Making the Connection - Mind, Body, Spirit
[Health-and-Fitness] Did you know that when you experience pain either physically or mentally—any pain—it is your body’s way of communicating with you? Have you ever considered that the origin of this pain may not be connected to the specific part of your body experiencing the pain? Have you ever wondered if the origin of the pain may be connected to another time or experience in your life that you have forgotten?

Gifted/Exceptional Children - ADD, ADHD or ?
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Children, who don't fit the stereo type characteristics are frequently given drugs as a means to make them conform and then we scratch our heads and wonder why as adults they use alcohol or drugs—prescription or illegal—to manage their lives. It is imperative society affirms children's characteristics rather than make their uniqueness wrong or attempt to force the child to conform to society's preconceived notion of what is considered acceptable characteristics.

Alone--But Not Lonely
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Have you felt that somehow you were nameless and faceless to others? We can feel left out and lonely when being passed over for a promotion, or a raise or rejected by a loved one. You might have felt it when a close friend or partner ignored your feelings. Or you might have felt it in a relationship when something important to you was dismissed as insignificant.

Peace of Mind - Your Birth Right
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] The concept of Peace of Mind, a birth right, seems elusive within the world—what with wars, higher cost of living, family responsibility and work—many people are on a tight rope. Peace of Mind seems to elude us from kindergarten on. What is a birth right has slipped from our grasp like sand through an hour glass—it simply trickled away. Yet, we plaintively talk about it as if it is a foreign concept or only for the elite—those few who are gurus or highly exceptional people.

Regression Work - The Benefits
[Self-Improvement] There are no limitations to the kind of benefits that come from regression work –physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Some examples are: resolution of relationship difficulties, as well as elimination of nightmares, phobias, obsessions, compulsive or addictive behaviors, chronic physical conditions, memory problems and psychosomatic disorders.

Hypnosis—Frequently Asked Questions
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] The hypnotic state is a special form of communication to the subconscious mind, where all habits are established and memory is stored. Because the language of the subconscious mind is visual, the more detailed your image is of your goal, the faster your subconscious mind will create the changes you desire. Once your subconscious accepts a new idea, you automatically accept it at a conscious level.

Creating Your Future - Heals Your Past
[Self-Improvement] By looking at the ‘Future Self’ you can then see clearly what obstacles need to be resolved. Thus, you can go into your past with the love and power of your Future Self, to heal the past quickly, to fix it, so you can move ahead into your exciting future. When your Future Self and you go back and find your “Inner Child” it immediately reveals to you events in your life that you aren’t aware of that are still ‘running you’ as an adult. You then learn to express, reframe and truly heal those events.

Low Back Pain--Cause and Healing Process
[Health-and-Fitness:Back-Pain] Seven million Americans suffer from chronic back pain and 80% of Americans will suffer from low back pain at some point in their lifetime.

Holistic Health Care - What and Whom
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] A study published in April 2005 revealed that more than 70 percent of adults aged 50 or older are now using some form of holistic health care. This includes medicinal herbs, meditation and chiropractic care. The fact that these people are embracing holistic health care is fascinating in and of itself, but what is really fascinating about this research is the response it has been getting from the conventional medical community. It is fascinating that, when talking about drugs and herbs in the same person's body, the doctors phrase it as if the herbs are interfering with the drugs.

Mind, Body, Spirit Healing--Putting It into Practice
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] If you believe as Norman Vincent Peale, Caroline Myss, PhD, Deepak Chopra, MD and Wayne Dyer, PhD believe your choices, thoughts and feelings are an act of power, and that you are responsible, then you are in control of your health.

Holistic Nutrition
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Macrobiotic nutrition has proven that if we return to a diet based on whole cereal grains, vegetables and fruit with animal products, rather than our present reliance on animal products, refined-chemically engineered foods, and sugar, we can regain our physical and mental health.

Lower Back Pain - There is Relief
[Health-and-Fitness:Back-Pain] Lower back pain is more common than we might think—seven million Americans suffer from chronic back pain and 80% of Americans will suffer from lower back pain at some point in their lifetime.

Ten Signs of Good Health
[Health-and-Fitness] As humans, we have the ability to make conscious choices as to how we want to live our lives. Our choices determine the outcome of our life experiences.

Healthy Life Style--Easily, Quickly and Simply
[Health-and-Fitness] Follow this regime for four weeks, you will find a healthier and slimmer you. If you maintain this healthy life style you will find a permanently healthier and slimmer you without ‘dieting.’

Mind, Body, Spirit Healing
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] I believe healing is much more. The soul’s sole purpose for being here is for emotional and spiritual growth—a.k.a. transformation. Healing to me is evolving and optimizing into our health and into who we really are. I believe that Mind, Body, Spirit healing is restructuring our energy that has become distorted, misaligned or suppressed. My definition of healing is evolution beyond just losing some ability and regaining it.

Change Your Words - Change the Outcome of Your Conversation
[Self-Improvement] Although research reveals choice of words has a mere 7% impact on the outcome of a conversation, there are some words everyone seems to have a negative reaction to albeit in different intensity.

Tending Your Mental Garden
[Self-Improvement] Sometimes the minutia of life is more turbulent and thorny than others, however, we can be in control—it is a matter of choice. Remember that feelings follow thoughts. What are you saying to yourself about what you are experiencing? We create what we experience with every thought.

Critical Thinking - What Is It?
[Self-Improvement] Thinking has two components: 1) a framework of information and belief generating and processing skills, and 2) the habit, based on intellectual commitment, of using those skills to guide behavior. It is contrasted with: 1) the mere acquisition and retention of information alone, because it involves a particular way in which information is sought and treated; 2) the mere possession of skills, because it involves the continual use of them; and 3) the mere use of those skills ("as an exercise") without acceptance of their results.

Success--Conscious and Unconscious Choices
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Strange as it may sound, there are payoffs when we don't succeed. What you may exclaim? Before you dismiss this statement read the following explanation on what payoffs you might be gaining from not succeeding. Ask yourself the following questions.

Changing the Paradigms in Your Life
[Self-Improvement:Creativity] Changing the Paradigms in your life is based on eleven basic principals. These principals work together simultaneously and are interconnected, yet separate.

Is Vengeance - Socially Heralded?
[News-and-Society] In the post-9/11 world, is revenge becoming as socially heralded as forgiveness once was? Since George W. Bush’s remark that "either you are with us or against us" the possibility of rational debate has become less and less and enthusiasm for war has flowered. As enthusiasm for war grows, fanned by the militarist Bush administration, space for reasonable protest has dissipated to almost nothing--except Cindy Crawford, who continues to dog President Bush.

Creating Peace of Mind
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] The catch is that these thoughts—these shadows of experiences gone by—seem to have a life of their own. However, the life they seem to have is being created by you. You are carrying a full complement of thoughts that create emotional baggage—the still-smoldering stuff of what you went through the first time the event transpired. To see the truth of this inner dynamic is the first step you need to take to learn to walk away from—the useless suffering that wrecks your life, a step that brings you to the essential point of creating freedom from unhappiness.

Are You Your Own Worst Enemy -- a.k.a. Self-Sabotage
[Self-Improvement:Success] You need to become an expert at getting out of your own way when it comes to achieving your dreams. We sabotage ourselves in any number of ways by our thoughts.

What Goes Around--Comes Around
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] What Goes Around—Comes Around is the American definition of Karma. Karma deals with causality. A specific action leads to a specific result. A positive act will lead to a positive result, hence, to the experience of positive events, may it be in this life or in future ones. On the other hand, negative acts will unavoidably sooner or later lead to suffering. This is the Law of Cause and Effect of itself, because the result will unavoidably correspond to the nature of the cause. For example, if you plant a seed, a certain kind of plant will grow from this. From a bean seed, a bean plant will grow; from an apple seed an apple tree will grow and not any other kind. The effects of a deed, word or thought, sometimes are immediate but in some cases many days, months, years or lives elapse until the precise time comes about. Buddha said: "Our good and evil deeds follow us continually like shadows."

Living Your Truth—Being Who You Truly Are
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] Without being who you truly are, you will live life afraid that it might hinder your success. If you are afraid to speak the truth about who you truly are, you will live life without discovering your full potential. Fortunately, we never fully abandon our authentic self. We may conform to society while embracing secret passions when alone. We may withhold certain opinions, though it doesn't change the fact that we possess them.

Conscious Spiritual Peacemaker
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] You are needed as a conscious Spiritual Peacemaker to hold the resonance of Peace, Love and Divine Truth as our Earth and her people go through this time of tremendous change. Prayer is a very valuable tool that comes from the heart. There are lessons to be learned from every experience. This truly is one planet, one globe—and one country's disaster or loss affects all of us.

Domestic Violence (Battering) Increasing
[Relationships:Domestic-Violence] Domestic Violence/Battering is used when one person believes they are entitled to control another. Assault, battering and domestic violence are crimes.

Sexual Childhood Abuse Recovery - The Right Professional is Key
[Self-Improvement] Sexual abuse does not heal itself. Time, marriages, children, success, wealth, buying a bigger house, or faster car, changing jobs or relocating will not CURE it. The survivor is robbed of his or her innocence, core identity and trust. It is 'violence' that does not require force. The child is thrown into a state of shock. For some the memories remain conscious, while others drive them beneath the conscious level. These coping mechanisms are carried into adulthood and impact the person's life on every level. Sexual child abuse is the most profound, pervasive and all encompassing injury anyone could sustain—it permeates every aspect of one's being.

Co-dependency Impacts Our Spirituality
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Embracing and honoring the concept of self-reliance and self-determination is the only way a codependent person will change this self-crippling and self-defeating life style.

Did God Create Everything That Exists?
[News-and-Society] 'If God created everything, then He created evil. Since evil exists (as noticed by our own actions), so God created evil. The student could not respond to that statement causing the professor to conclude that he had 'proved' that the belief in God was a fairy tale, and therefore worthless.

Soul Retrieval - aka Soul Healing
[Health-and-Fitness] From a Metaphysical point of view the search to recover and restore a person's vital essence that was damaged, stolen or lost through physical and emotional trauma, as well as misfortune, are due to the loss of personal power or life force—the diminution of spirit that keeps us strong and alive. Each piece has its own characteristic that once reintegrated enhance our capacity to thrive.

Bio-Feedback Technology Offers Exciting Breakthrough to healing Physical and Emotional Dysfunctions
[News-and-Society] Using quantum physics the QXCI/SCIO bio feedback machine runs a scan through your entire body, looking for viruses, fungi and other problems from A to Z—a total of 92,000 areas are checked in a matter of minutes.

Happiness Is A Natural State of Mind - Claim Yours
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Happiness seems to be elusive for many people. We are asked, "What makes you happy?" as if something can make us happy. Have you watched an infant or a young child? They seem quite "happy" to just "BE"—no matter what they are doing—they are happy. They are in awe of the world and experience joy with each discovery and accomplishment.

Sexual Child Abuse - Media Consistently Distorts The Facts
[News-and-Society] The media's reference to the teenage girl Buttafuoco sexually abused as 'his teenage girlfriend is a total distortion of the truth. Joey Buttafuoco was a 36-year-old married man, who like many other married men, used 16-year-old Amy Fisher as his sex-toy.

Emotional Aftereffects of Rape -- Healing is Possible
[Self-Improvement] Using a 7-Step process that is direct, focused and combines healing the past while creating the future. Thus, you transform how you feel, sense, and experience global political mass consciousness, as well as your individual consciousness, like never before. A Mind, Body, Spirit approach addresses the three critical aspects of one's being, therefore opening the door to true balance and emotional healing.

Championing Oneself
[Self-Improvement:Success] A person doesn't necessarily need competition-level talent to earn the right to believe in oneself and champion oneself. Championing oneself is as important as good nutrition, exercise and a spiritual connection.

Spanking for Discipline-Alternatives
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] There is a scientific reason why children need to know what "To Do." The brain is like a computer. A computer is programmed with what "To Do"-not what "Not to Do." That is how a child's brain works-it operates on what "To Do."

Sexual Child Abuse--Most Frequently Asked Questions
[News-and-Society] Myths abound regarding sexual child abuse. This article dispels the myths and gives straight answers to frequently asked questions.

People Who Give You Angst Have A Gift For You
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] We are here to learn and grow spiritually and emotionally. In order for this growth to occur we need to see what needs our attention for growth. Other people are the most effective way for anyone to learn and grow - they hold up the mirror for you to see yourself. They bring to you the issues you need to learn about and move beyond.

Sex Offenders--Do Laws Restricting Where They Live Protect Children?
[News-and-Society] Sex offenders are society’s lepers. Governments are racing each other to pass tougher laws to restrict where they can live and impose longer prison time if they re-offend. But, will it make children safer? Society needs to take a hard look to make sure such laws are not giving families a false sense of security.

An Affair Aftermath--What to Do
[Relationships:Affairs] Healing emotional issues for anyone who has an emotional and/or sexual affair—no matter the reason—is possible. An innovative and highly effective process to achieve deeper and more total healing can be achieved through healing mind, body and spirit. This process is direct, focused, and combines healing the past while creating the future. You will make a subtle and effective transition to self-discovery and empowerment.

Scientific Break Through - Lupus Can Be Healed
[Health-and-Fitness] You won't hear or read about this anywhere else, because it isn't in the interest of pharmaceutical companies or medical professionals to inform you. "Why?" You might ask.

Banning All Corporal Punishment of Children
[News-and-Society] Swedish Member of Parliament Sixten Pettersson stated "In a free democracy like our own, we use words as arguments, not blows. We talk to people and do not beat them. If we can't convince our children with words, we shall never convince them with violence". Today Corporal punishment of children by their parents/caretakers is not legal in all Nordic countries. Nordic societies agree that children are better educated with words than with violence.

Obtain Justice and Accountability for Childhood Sexual and Physical Abuse
[News-and-Society] It is a known fact, civil suits are more easily won than criminal suits, therefore, an increasing number of childhood sexual abuse survivors (CSAS) are launching civil suits as a means to obtain justice and accountability for their abuse.

Twenty-two US States Allow Corporal Punishment in School
[News-and-Society] The cynical, systemic avoidance of responsibility with regard to the welfare of children in the United States is nowhere better illustrated than in the practice of corporal punishment in schools. The U.S Department of Education declared school corporal punishment is a matter for the states to decide.

Affair-Proof Your Relationship
[Relationships:Affairs] First and foremost learn the signs a partner gives that she/he would or is having an affair. Although, ‘an emotional affair’ is considered a lesser transgression, it leaves the same emotional impact on the relationship.

True Test of Civilization - What Does It Mean?
[News-and-Society] "In the history of the world, the true test of a civilization is how well people treat the most vulnerable and most helpless in their society."

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month - What Will You Do To Protect Children?
[News-and-Society] We are all responsible for the protection of children. Each of us needs to consider this commitment by redefining touch based on the recipient’s likes and dislikes, family loyalty and the distribution of power.

Department of Social Services Fails to Protect Children
[News-and-Society] Every adult is responsible for the protection of children. "We are not only responsible for what we do, but also, for that what we don’t do." –Voltaire "The worst way you can choose is to choose no way at all." –Friedrich II To remain silent about the DSS failure to protect children is to be complicit.

Emotional Healing
[Health-and-Fitness:Depression] An innovative and highly effective process to achieve complete and more total healing is direct, focused, and combines healing the past while creating the future. You will make a subtle and effective transition to self-discovery and empowerment.

Obesity - The Cause
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] "I feel euphoric when I eat foods that have a lot of calories." That awareness is the beginning of solving the mystery behind the cause of obesity. The mystery is in your mind and psyche.

Sexual Child Abuse Knows No Gender
[News-and-Society] Male Sexual Abuse Survivors face the same emotional, mental, physical and spiritual trauma women survivors face with two exceptions—they judge themselves more harshly, and they have difficulty recognizing/believing they have been abused or that the abuse could possibly affect them.

A Sad Commentary for America and the World
[News-and-Society:Politics] The United States Senate under the Republican control blocks the investigation of what happened on 9/11, what happened with FEMA and what happened with the Intelligence that lead us into war in Iraq and the Republican controlled Senate Judiciary Committee protects these corrupt officials by allowing them to testify without benefit of sworn oath when they appear before Senate investigating committee.

Coaxing Your Child to Eat Vegetables--Does It Work?
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Everyone knows eating several helpings of vegetables every day makes a healthier food plan, but unfortunately, children don't see the wisdom in eating veggies. You might not be able to sell your kids on eating every vegetable-Brussels sprouts, green beans or turnips, but can by-pass their resistance with a few simple strategies.

Silence—The Ultimate Control and Power Over Another
[Relationships] There are fifteen categories of verbal abuse. Verbal abuse is a violation, not a conflict. In describing verbal abuse it is a boundary violation, it is an intrusion upon another, or disregard of another in a relentless pursuit of Power Over, superiority and dominance by covert or overt means.

Benefits of Past Life Regression
[Self-Improvement] Past Life Regression is valuable and the only source for clearing/healing traumatic experiences in prior lifetimes, which otherwise holds us back from full actualization in this life, and/or is causing distress. Additional benefits are activating creativity or a valuable talent that was actively expressed before but has remained latent or unrecognized in this life.

Don't Fool With Mother Nature - Part II
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Stopping the flow is known as endometrial ablation (destruction of the uterine lining). Endometrial ablation procedures can be accomplished through a variety of techniques—Electrocautery; Balloon endometrial ablation; Freezing of the uterine lining.

Create the Life You Want Through Hypnosis
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] What is holding you back from living the life you dream about? What is stopping you from reaching your goals? What is preventing you from enjoying healthy loving relationships? If you knew the answer to these questions you would not be interested in reading this article.

Regression and the Benefits
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] There are no limits to the kind or number of benefits that emanate from regression work: mentally, intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and physically. However, some examples are: resolution of relationship difficulties, career success, as well as elimination of nightmares, phobias, obsessions, compulsive or addictive behaviors, chronic physical conditions, memory problems and psychosomatic disorders. Entire books have been written describing examples of this work and the resultant benefits.

Spare the Rod-Spoil the Child - Part I
[News-and-Society] Those who believe chastening is commended in the Bible, specifically the book of Proverbs have misinterpreted the Bible. There is a distinction between the practice of King Solomon beating people on the back and the modern American habit of buttocks hitting, chastening, spanking of children. The latter is not prescribed anywhere in the Bible.

Hot Saucing as Discipline Increasing
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Medical services have reported they are seeing an increase of children needing treatment for burns in the mouth, esophagus and stomach caused by Hot sauce a.k.a Hot Tongue.

Creating Confidence in Social Situations
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] While social events can be enjoyable, especially when you are surrounded by people whom you enjoy, there are social events that you might wish you were someplace else. Such occasions can sometimes be the cause of anxiousness and self-consciousness. You may even feel like everyone else is having a good time except for you. There is a sure-fire way to overcome social awkwardness or self-consciousness without pills.

Prescription and OTC Drugs: Dangers and Permanent Damage
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] There aren’t any "safe," prescription or OTC drugs. Each one has numerous harmful short term and unknown long term negative side effects. The side effects seem worse than what is ailing me—and that is reason enough for me to use herbal and natural supplements to create and maintain wellness. This article will focus on prescription psychiatric drugs.

Food for Thought... Prayer for Humanity
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] These thought provoking missives, have served as a guiding light for my life. I hope you find them as helpful as I have.

Spiritual Perspective on Peace
[News-and-Society] Have you ever wondered about a spiritual perspective on peace? Every country, culture and religion has fought war in the name of creating peace. Through quotes from spiritual and political leaders from several ethnic backgrounds, it is abundantly clear peace is created through spirituality; yet we continue to wage war in the guise of creating world peace.

Creating and Maintaining Health in Mind, Body, and Spirit
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] As you will recall in Alternative Healthcare verses Western Medicine, Western Medicine perceives the human body as a battleground on which wars are waged against invaders (viruses, bacterial infections and tumors). What Western Medicine fails to recognize is that diseases are not separate from the person.

Holistic Healthcare versus Traditional Western Medicine
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] The Western medicine community recently asked the question: Will Alternative Healthcare, a.k.a. Holistic, Metaphysical, Energy or Mind, Body, Spirit healing and Western Medicine (WM) merge? This question implies there is reason to wonder and/or we need to consider the benefits a merger might create. The consideration of merging Holistic, Metaphysical, Energy or Mind, Body, Spirit healing and Western Medicine is analogues to comparing apples to oranges. The only comparison between apples and oranges is that they are both fruit—but the comparison ends there. Holistic, Metaphysical, Energy or Mind, Body, Spirit Healing and Western Medicine is diametrically polar opposites with nothing in common, except the subject (you). I will explain.

Surgery Du Jour - Unnecessary Surgery
[Health-and-Fitness] Surgery is the mainstay of traditional Western Medicine. It can be said, the philosophy is, ‘When in doubt, cut it out.’ The burning question is: “If any body part isn’t necessary then why has it been there since the beginning of human existence?” Think about it—if a body part wasn’t for a specific purpose, the human body would not have evolved with it in tact. Western medicine ideology is rooted in the language used by doctors and researchers. Their choice of words reveals their belief systems and the models they use to understand the way they think medicine works.

Verbal Abuse Defined
[News-and-Society] Verbal abuse in many ways is built into our culture. One-upsmanship, defeating, putting down, topping, countering, manipulating, criticizing, over powering and intimidating are accepted as fair game by many. Therefore, it is difficult for the victim to gain the support and help needed. When these power plays are enacted and denied by the perpetrator, confusion results.

Emotional Abuse Defined
[News-and-Society] Emotional abuse is more than just verbal abuse. It is an attack on a child's emotional and social development, and is a basic threat to healthy human development. Emotional abuse can take many forms:

The Simple Truth - Anyone Can Write
[Writing-and-Speaking] It has been said that every person has a book to write. Although I knew I would one day write a book, I don't consider myself a writer. I have written over 200 articles and two books. My approach to writing is simple: decide what message you want to convey, whether fiction or non-fiction, and write with the audience in mind.

The Answer is: Emotional Healing.. The Question is: How Were You Harmed?
[Self-Improvement] Are you experiencing trouble with—relationships, on the job, in your family; or experience low self-esteem, panic attacks, anxiety, depression, alcohol/drug abuse, nightmares, suicidal thoughts or attempts, shame, guilt, baseless crying, angry outbursts, inability to recognize your feelings, mood swings, emotional shut down, numbing out, arthritis/joint pain, chronic/acute fear, headaches/ migraines, eating disorders, PMS, gastrointestinal/gynecological disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome, MS or fibromyalgia? There is hope--healing is possible.

Have You Tried Everything and Still Feel Sick and Tired? The Benefits of Reflexology
[Health-and-Fitness] The body is designed to heal itself provided it has the proper support to do its job.

Sexual Child Abuse is Perpetrated Anywhere, Anytime and by Someone You Would Least Expect
[News-and-Society] CBS news reported "It's a disgusting crime and one most parents can't even think about." Therein, lies the reason sex offenders are able to abuse children.

Would You Consider This Scenario Sexual Child Abuse?
[Home-and-Family] The following is a dialog and thought process derived from a mother's story. "Mommy, can I take my panties off outside?" my 3 ½ year-old daughter, Cindy,* asked as we walked across the street to our house; this followed her visit with her friend, Gretchen at her home, while her friends mother supervised them.

Sexual Child Abuse/Incest Defined
[News-and-Society] This article is intended to educate the reader—mental health professionals or non-professionals, on a definitive definition of sexual child abuse and incest.

The Cost of Child Abuse
[News-and-Society] The U.S. Department of Health and Human services estimated 906,000 children were victims of child abuse or neglect in 2003. While physical injuries may or may not be immediately visible, abuse and neglect can have consequences for children, families, and society that last lifetimes, if not generations.

Sexual Child Abuse - Something Can Be Done
[News-and-Society] Prevention has eluded all of society, even passionate and committed prevention advocates, such as myself, because we concentrated our efforts entirely on repairing the damage. As the president and founder of MOTHERS AGAINST SEXUAL ABUSE, MASA, I see the carnage of lives on a daily basis.

Terrorism in American Families
[News-and-Society] In his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" message ("to the city and to the world") the Pope said, "Today my thoughts go to all the children of the world: so many, too many, are children condemned from birth to suffer through no fault of their own the effects of cruel conflicts. Let us save the children, in order to save the hope of humanity."

Your Higher Purpose In Life
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] What is my Higher Purpose in Life? You have probably asked this question many times, not knowing if you would receive an answer. The answer is quite simple.

Is Your Child Safe in School?
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Every year throughout the world several hundred children are sexually abused (sexually assaulted) by teachers, bus drivers, janitors, or other adults associated with your child's school experience. To adequately prepare your child for school you need to prepare your child to protect him/herself from cunning sexual abuse perpetrators.

Is Your Child Safe From Sexual Abuse?
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] If you have taught your child all the rules of "stranger danger" you have protected him/her from a 1% change of being sexually abused. This leaves your child vulnerable to the most likely sexual child abuse offender, family members or other trusted adults. 80% of children are sexually abused by a family member, 19% are abused by someone the child knows and trusts.

Agoraphobia - Another Perspective - Healing is Possible
[Self-Improvement] The term agoraphobia is generally misunderstood and mistreated. Its literal definition suggests a fear of "open spaces." This is not only incomplete, but a misleading view. Agoraphobics are not necessarily afraid of open spaces. Instead, they are afraid of having panicky feelings, wherever these fearful feelings may occur-at home, in public buildings, or in crowded supermarkets, driving a car or driving over bridges or places that are certainly not "open," but are unfamiliar or triggers feelings of being "out of control."

Don't Fool With Mother Nature
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] "Stop the Flow—Period. We did," a group of young looking talking heads intone. A woman in doctor’s garb continues to extol the virtues of not ever having a ‘period’ again. You may recognize this as the latest commercial for a medical miracle—stopping your menstrual cycle forever. The medical procedure to create this miracle is touted to be a walk in the park, a piece of cake, an opportunity too good to pass up. What the commercial doesn’t tell you, is the inherent negative aftereffects of stopping your menstrual cycle.

Government Banning Two Antiviral Drugs--There Is A Better Solution
[News-and-Society] Ninety-one percent of virus samples tested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this flu season proved resistant to rimantadine and amantadine, a huge increase since last year, when eleven percent were resistant.

Sexual Abuse Recovery - What to Do & What to Avoid - If Your Partner is a Survivor
[News-and-Society] The recovery process for physical or sexual abuse survivors requires a multifaceted therapeutic process, facilitated by a professional who is trained in mind, body, spirit healing. Traditional therapy is not effective for physical or sexual abuse recovery. Here are some practical Do's and Things to Avoid.

Reclaiming Your Spiritual Self
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] The aftereffects of sexual abuse or physical abuse are profound, extensive and pervasive. It is a soul injury. The soul is the center of our spirituality. Before the child has the opportunity to experience him or herself as a fully functioning human being, they have been sexually or physically abused--more often than not by the person with whom the child has implicit trust--the person who is required to protect them from all harm--the parent or another trusted adult. You can reclaim your Spiritual Self.

Psychogenic Amnesia - Sometimes Referred to as Repressed Memory
[Self-Improvement] [The] Betrayal trauma theory suggests that psychogenic amnesia is an adaptive response to childhood abuse. When a parent or other powerful figure violates a fundamental ethic of human relationships, victims may need to remain unaware of the trauma not to reduce suffering but rather to promote survival. Amnesia enables the child to maintain an attachment with a figure vital to survival, development, and thriving. (E. Sue Blume, Secret Survivors).

Fulfilling Your Spiritual Needs
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Spiritual health is the ultimate goal to achieve total wellness, and leads to a heightened awareness of the Divine Spirit referred to, but seldom fostered by religions. It doesn't matter how you achieve Spiritual health. What matters is that you come to know and attune yourself to spiritual guidance in all areas of your daily life. Doing so reduces fear, anxiety, worrying and provides a greater capacity for loving oneself and others unconditionally. Spirituality helps you reconnect to your special talents and gifts so that you can fulfill your life's purpose.

What Will You Do To Foster Non-Violence/Abuse In Your Family/Life?
[Self-Improvement:Anger-Management] Abuse/Violence can be physical, psychological/emotional, mental or Spiritual.

Corporal Punishment - Does Your State Allow It In School?
[News-and-Society] Every industrialized country in the world now prohibits school corporal punishment, except the U.S. and Australia (Outback regions only). The following list shows the trend towards the elimination of corporal punishment in schools, dating back to the 1700's.

Ten Things Anyone Can Do To Prevent Violence
[News-and-Society] Violence is an issue involving people of all ages and socioeconomic, racial and ethnic backgrounds. View violent people not only as perpetrators or possible offenders, but also, as someone who is also an abused person who is simply repeating what she/he experienced.

Rape -- Stranger or Date-Acquaintance - Healing is Possible
[Relationships] It is important to know that healing from rape is possible. Engaging with a specialist who provides healing in mind, body, and spirit will create an effective healing process.

The Three Stages of Healing - Verbal, Physical or Sexual Trauma
[Self-Improvement] In order to heal, the root cause of the emotional pain needs to be accessed, processed and healed. Treating 'root cause' focuses on the experience the person endured-the emotional, physical or sexual trauma-and the ensuing aftereffects. Thus, uncovering the experience that created the pain and healing the emotions associated with it is the key to restoring a person to natural wholeness in mind, body and spirit.

Protect Your Child From Sexual Abuse
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Self-protection offers a direct and effective way to empower children to help themselves. Since the perpetrator (a.k.a. sex offender) cunningly and with forethought sets the stage to perpetrate this crime in secrecy, who is better able than the child to protect him/herself? Perpetrators say they can sense a child to victimize; they sense this by the child's demeanor, body language and facial expressions.

How to Choose a Clinical Hypnosis Professional
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] Psychiatrists and other licensed mental health practitioners at times use hypnosis in treating people; however certified hypnotists have more in-depth training. The psychiatrist or licensed mental health practitioner may have attended a weekend workshop and learned how to induce hypnosis but may have little or no experience in communicating with the mind in its subconscious mode.

Hypnosis - Healing, Empowering, and Life Enhancing Process
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] Hypnosis is client-centered with its focus on the discovery of the origin of a person’s issues. Through the process of hypnosis/regression the unconscious mind goes to the original cause, which then gives the person and practitioner the opportunity to process the original feelings surrounding the original experience/cause. These surrounding feelings can be healed, thus empowering the person to live the life they want to live.

Create a Better Future
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] Where you plan to go in life is far more important and powerful than ‘where you’ve been.’ We are taught that the past controls us and most therapies focus just on the past, which is why it can take years to produce change.

Spanking - The Golden Rule of Child Discipline
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] At birth we intuitively know our bodies are sacred. This provides a built-in protection system. When a baby is startled by an uncomfortable noise or touch, this protective system kicks in. When a child squirms or throws both arms across the chest, the child is using this protective mechanism. Observers of child development refer to this self-protective mechanism as the ‘startle response.’ Within a few minutes of birth this startle response is apparent.

Restless Leg Syndrome - Healing is Possible
[Health-and-Fitness] THERE IS HOPE: In twenty-five years of working with those suffering with RLS, I have learned RLS can be readily healed with 100% long-term results and satisfaction with no side effects. While the western medical profession says there is NO known cause for RLS, there is a plausible explanation for the symptoms to occur and therein lies the clues to the healing process.

Communication Dynamics--Send a Congruent Message
[Business:Workplace-Communication] Miscommunication is more prevalent than ever imagined. In fact miscommunication is so frequent it can be said to be a normal occurrence. Therefore, any work to create effective communication needs to start with that premise. Thus with that in mind, I will discuss four highly effective tools to ensure that we have understood the meaning of a message or delivered the message we intended to deliver. If any one of these tools is neglected, communication may break down.

Making the Summer Camp Decision for Your Child
[Kids-and-Teens] The thought of 'summer camp' can evoke strong emotions on the part of parents and children alike. These emotions run the spectrum from excitement and fun to fear and anxiety. Camp isn't for everyone-child or parent. In many social circles it is a status symbol or a family tradition. Neither of these reasons are the appropriate reason for sending your child to camp. The correct reason for providing the 'camp experience' is if it is 'in the best interest of the child.'

Sexual Abuse--Have You Ever Wondered?
[Health-and-Fitness] This provocative question/thought begs an answer. Most people, who have asked themselves or someone else asked that question often answer with — "Yes, I have wondered, but: "I don’t know who it would have been." "My Dad would never do such a thing." "I don't think so." "If I was, I would remember." Or many other variations that leave the question unanswered.

More Men than Women Abuse Power
[News-and-Society] Since there are fewer women than men in positions of power, it stands to reason that fewer women abuse it. But there is a more intimate reason for the absence of women in the scandals of abuse of power.

The Traumatic Aftereffects of Difficult Childbirth Experiences Misunderstood by Doctors
[Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Trauma after childbirth leaves the same sense of post traumatic stress that can occur in any other unhealed traumatic situation. The aftereffects of Post Traumatic Response (PTR) are both emotional and physical ailments, trouble bonding with the child, failing marriages, and a fear of having more children.

Internet Addiction on the Rise
[Self-Improvement:Addictions] The Internet is an increasing presence in the lives of many. To most, the internet is a source of information, education, commerce outlet and/or fun. But for a few people, the Internet has become an obsession, often to the detriment of their families, careers, and well-being. There is an increase in the number of people addicted to Internet activities.

Past Life Regression - A Highly Effective Healing Process
[News-and-Society] If we accept the idea of reincarnation, it follows that there would be some method to illuminate the darkness of the death-rebirth period and learn about our past lives. Many techniques have been developed to do just that. One famous occultist called remembering past lives "developing your magical memory." Today, the various systems of recall are known as past life regression. But why investigate this at all? Other than being an interesting curiosity, what good can you get from learning about your past lives?

Common Myths About Child Sexual Abuse and Incest
[News-and-Society] The majority of people find sexual abuse and incest even more difficult to believe or accept when the sex offender is someone they like, admire, love, and/or marry. Tragically, the unwillingness to accept the facts concerning sex offenders leaves children vulnerable to becoming victims and increases the likelihood they will be abused.

Keys to Creating a Happy Life
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Sometimes people, events and circumstances will go against our wishes, desires or expectations, thus creating reactions of anger and frustration within us. These reactions are natural and need to be acknowledged rather than denied or ignored. Furthermore, the underlying reasons for the reactions need to be acknowledged and healed.

What Does Healing Childhood Experiences Mean?
[Health-and-Fitness:Depression] The impact of unacknowledged and unresolved childhood emotional issues, physical and sexual abuse can last a lifetime, unless the person completes a healing process. The impact includes mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, relational and sexual aspects of your life.

Teamwork is Key to Success
[Self-Improvement:Success] In the finest companies, much gets done without dazzle or hype by teams of people pulling together. “We” and “Our” replace “I” and “My.” The team is the star; its leader is the articulator and sponsor of the vision that emerges from the team’s collaboration.

Key to Excellence-Simple and Demanding
[Self-Improvement:Success] Excellence is continually and consistenly striving to do a better job, meeting new challenges, making a difference, and inspiring others. Excellence is the best you could do at the time you did it. Excellence is taking advantage of every situation and experience to learn and grow. Excellence is taking every opportunity to learn something new. Excellence is achieving excellence when the pinnacle has already been reached.

If It Weren't For Them-This Job Would Be Easy
[Business:Management] Managers/Team Leaders need to know how to manage a variety of communication styles. Lean to manage the five most frequent and difficult communications well and you job will be easier.

Everything is Negotiable - Including Sex - Learn to Do it Well
[Business:Negotiation] Negotiation is an integral part of our lives. It occurs between neighbors, associates, friends, in-laws, and lovers. You probably have negotiated for such items as an increase in salary, more office space, time off work, transfer, time alone, or the price of your home and car. You negotiate nearly everything you do in life—learn to do it well. Learn to be an effective negotiator and enhance the quality of your life and relationships—on and off the job.

It's Okay to Seek Help Parenting Your Children
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Raising a family can be one of the most rewarding and frustrating jobs a person undertakes. Most parents aren’t prepared for the hassles, worries and constant demands of parenting. What’s more, everyday problems can be overwhelming to a parent who often expects the joys of family life to resemble “The Bill Cosby Show” or “Roseanne” where every problem no matter how difficult or demanding was resolved in an hour with four commercial breaks.

If You Love Me-Set Me a Limit
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] It is a psychological fact of life that children are looking for limits, guidelines and boundaries for their behavior. Children any age experiment, test and seek to discover what the world has to offer and how what they do affects themselves and their surroundings. Although children protest loudly when limits are set, without boundaries they feel out of control. Without limits, appropriate impulse control does not develop. If children are unable to find limits, they continue to push, becoming anxious when there seems to be no end to how far they can go. With their immature, inexperienced egos and impulse control as their only defense against the world, they unconsciously want someone to stop them so that they can feel in control and, therefore, secure.

Developing Emotional and Professional Muscle
[Self-Improvement] The willingness to challenge oneself to learn new behavior seems to be overshadowed by anxiety-fear of failure, skepticism, or pain avoidance. We seem willing to accept personal challenges on other issues, however. Take physical fitness, for example. How many people are out jogging, bicycling, or working out in one way or another to achieve physical fitness? However, how many of these same people are willing to change their behavior for the sake of personal or professional fitness?

Healing From Within - Healing Allergies
[Health-and-Fitness:Allergies] Throughout the years, I had suffered tremendously with bouts of allergies and asthma; it wasn't until that moment that I had a confirmation I could eliminate my allergy problems. The asthma attacks had been under control since leaving the mid west where I was born and raised. This move eliminated contact with cattle hair and grain dust and other pollens indigenous to the area, which I had extreme allergic reactions with.

New Year's Resolutions - Developing a Plan to Achieve a Goal
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] If you achieve your New Year’s resolutions you are in the minority. Surveys reveal that less than one percent of New Year’s resolutions are achieved. It is merely a ritual people have followed for decades. The question is, “Do you want to make changes in your life?” Making a resolution to accomplish something without a plan to achieve it is like putting gasoline into a car that doesn’t have an engine.

Do You Need A Life Coach? What is a Life Coach?
[Self-Improvement:Coaching] There is much more you could achieve in your life with a Life Coach. A Life Coach is part personal consultant, part sounding board, part manager. Yes, manager. Someone to help you maintain direction, develop strategy, motivation, and goal setting. A coach is often the person, who encourages a professional to succeed, to hire, to fire, to fine-tune a sales pitch, to stretch, set higher goals, boost profits and make better decisions about everything from personnel to strategy.

Disbelieve People of Fame or Pillars in the Community Could Possibly Sexually Abuse Children
[News-and-Society] The unbelievable truth: Pedophiles/Ephebophiles conduct themselves as average and ordinary to the world. He or she may be a leader in the church; the community; or business. Pedophiles or ephebophiles seldom fit a classic stereotype education, socioeconomic status, career or culture. Furthermore, sexual abuse/incest is more difficult to believe or accept when the person we like, admire, love, and/or marry is the perpetrator.

SELF-INJURY - You Are Not the Only One
[Health-and-Fitness] In spite of the definition—self-injury— a.k.a. self-harm, self-mutilation, cutting, burning, SI, you are doing nothing shameful—you are maintaining psychological integrity with the only tool you have. It is a crude and ultimately self-destructive tool, but it works; you get relief from the overwhelming emotional pain—fear/anxiety/sadness/anger in your life.

Sexual Child Abuse--Healing is Possible
[Home-and-Family] You are not alone. Many men and women experience this kind of pain. Many, if not most, do not know sexual abuse/incest is the cause of their emotional/physical pain. They attribute these maladies to their inadequacy for the rigors of adult life or genetic abnormality.

Emotional and Spiritual Sustenance - The Forgotten Food
[Health-and-Fitness] While food provides sustenance to the body, it also provides immediate psychological gratification, thus becoming a substitute for spiritual/emotional sustenance. Subsequently, without proper spiritual/emotional sustenance the psyche deteriorates and ultimately the body deteriorates; because the body is dependent on the psyche. Pharmaceuticals and medical practices have created a false belief that a pill or surgery will sustain/restore emotional/physical functions.

Sexual Child Abuse - Society In Deep Denial
[News-and-Society] The Michael Jackson verdict exemplifies the degree to which people are in denial about sex offenders, their ruse and their cunning modus operandi? The truth is, we cannot have empathy toward abused children until we can honestly acknowledge the mistreatment from our own childhood experiences and examine the shortcomings of our own parents. To the extent we feel compelled to defend our parents and guard their secrets of mistreatment, we will do the same for others.

"Picky Eater" Syndrome
[Food-and-Drink] The 'picky eater' struggle comes to the fore because children begin to assert their independence simultaneously with the onset of solid food consumption. If the parent uses bribery, enticement, cajoling, and begging, the child quickly learns, NOT eating is a way to maintain control of their life-albeit-a tiny slice. What to do is crucial...

Honoring Children
[Home-and-Family] Honor your child with respect, understanding, love and emotional support. Thus, your child will learn to respect, understand, love and give emotional support in return. The abuse many children endure if committed against another adult would result in arrest and sometimes jail time. Whereas, only the worst cases of child abuse are ever reported or adjudicated.

Creating Your Desires
[Self-Improvement] I AM the sole creator of everything in my life. All thoughts are creative. I accept my Real Self. When I accept myself as Cause, I accept responsibility for the contents of my consciousness. I create the results.

Sex Offenders-Pedophilia or Ephebophilia-The Truth
[News-and-Society] The unbelievable truth: Pedophiles/Ephebophiles conduct themselves as average and ordinary to the world. He or she may be a leader in the church; the community; or business; a celebrity or beloved family member. Pedophiles/ephebophiles seldom fit a classic stereotype-education, socioeconomic status, career or culture.

Faith - Moves Mountains
[Self-Improvement] Faith is also not the same thing as wishing. Faith produces results. Wishing doesn't. Wishing keeps us focused on what we don't have. We feel lack rather than peace. Seek out people who have more faith than you or at least support your faith. Find a friend, a group or a spiritual teacher whose faith will spark your own.

Health in the Self
[Health-and-Fitness] Is health the absence of disease? Is health a birth right or simply luck? According to Ayuveda, India's ancient art of healing, the meaning of health is a single word: Swastha. Swa = self + Stha = established. Thus a person is healthy when '"established in the self." Immunity is much more than T-cells, B-cells and antibodies. Health depends upon a well-integrated core of identity. Thus, health is a birth right.

Navigating "The Squeeze"
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] A paradigm shift teaches us about working with chaos and things turned upside down. The old paradigm needs to be examined and shifted before a new paradigm can evolve-this is the lesson we need most to learn. Doing the same thing over and over because that is what we have always done or because it seems expedient doesn't mean 'it is right.'

Change Your Beliefs - Change Your Health
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] To many people in the Western world Metaphysical Healing is akin to voodoo, quackery, complete fantasy or lunacy. In China, Japan, India and other Eastern countries Metaphysical Healing has been the primary medical practice for thousands of years.

Mind, Body, Spirit Healing vs Traditional Psychotherapy/Psychoanalysis
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Traditional psychotherapy/psychoanalysis fails to address the all-important relationship to one's true spiritual nature. Traditional spiritual practice often bypasses -and thus fails to transform - the psychological conditional patterns and unconscious beliefs that arise from our personal histories and adaptations.

Communicating Anger Compassionately
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Approximately 70% of people have a tendency to suppress anger. In other words, they bottle it up and lash out later. Bottling up feelings often leads to ‘anger attacks’—those bursts of rage that leave you feeling guilty afterwards.

Achieving Spiritual Health
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] The four most important rituals to create spiritual health is: Prayer, Meditation, Gratitude, Spending time in nature, including near fire and water.

Obfuscation Rules The World
[News-and-Society] For any societal issue to be addressed, a study needs to be done, statistics submitted and criteria for addressing the issue developed. Herein lies the dilemma, who decides what the criteria needs to be on any given issue? And who decides the best method to gather data which is unbiased and/or accurate? You guessed it researchers, submitting data to politicians, government officials (elected or appointed), and people who have a vested interest in the issue.

Self-Worthiness
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Most people base their worth or value by deriving it from those around them. This is a false and empty standard by which to measure our worth or value. For many denying the truth abounds. The truth is - our worth or value is best measured by our own yardstick.