"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."Plato
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A Matter Of The End Being Nigh? For years, decades even, we have been assailed by "prophets", conference speakers, writers and similar to the effect that "the end is nigh". In other words, that we are living in the end times, that is, the end end times. The Second Coming will be here ...
Bay Leaf Ritual for the New Year HI would like to share with you a ritual I do every New Year's that is quite involved and requires a lot of thought and meditation time. It is derived from an ancient Greek ritual for prosperity and fertility. As you may recall, ancient Mediterranean ...
Overcoming Stress: Seven Ways To Manage Stress In The New Year Because of the fast paced nature of our society, overcoming or reducing stress has made it to the list of top ten New Year's Resolutions. Approximately 19 million Americans suffer from stress related illnesses. The hormone, cortisol, is released during ...
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This time you are serious about achieving fast weight loss? You're heading out on a big trip, and you've glanced at the latest South Beach Diet book to see if this just might be the answer to your prayers. Fast weight loss is achieveable, but so is long-term weight loss. There's nothing worse than losing 5 pounds, only to gain it back within 4 weeks. So how do you summon the focus to begin fast weight loss and the dedication to stick with it for the long-term? Overcoming most challenges in life depend on having the right mental attitude, beliefs and motivation. Here are 4 steps you can use to set the foundation for fast weight loss: 1. Understand Pain Versus Pleasure Most behaviors in life occur either because we are trying to avoid pain or achieve pleasure. In fact, our opinion of how painful or how pleasurable something is has a major impact on our committment and actions. So, your chance of achieving fast weight loss is much greater if you can focus on the pain of NOT losing weight. What if you don't succeed? What will your friends, family and others think of you if you don't experience fast weight loss? How will you feel tomorrow, the next day and the next if you continue to pack on the pounds. Then, imagine what losing 2 pounds per week could mean to you in just 1-month? Imagine how much energy and vitality you could experience with your fast weight loss? Actually picture yourself looking in the mirror and seeing someone who you strive to be. Build your own pain pleasure scale to help you stay motivated. 2. Find a buddy or two Finding others who have experienced fast weight loss to help you along the way is so important to your eventual success. Not everyone requires as much external support as the other, but we all - as human beings - strive for external support of our goals, beliefs and actions. Fast weight loss support can come from someone in your neighborhood, a weight loss support group, online weight loss forums and membership sites, weight loss books, or health and fitness coaches. 3. Weight Gain Triggers Your fast weight loss goals will be helped along by understanding the reality and emotional triggers of what causes weight gain. For example, weight gain is a natural and standard experience of hitting middle age. Similarly, common weight gain triggers involve stress, unhappiness, frustration, lack of control, etc... A suggestion is to keep a log of your feelings and what you eat for 2-weeks prior to dieting. Call it your fast weight loss journal! Everytime you eat something, no matter how small, make a log entry and write down your thoughts and what led to those thoughts. I think you will be surprised to see what triggers your over-eating. 4. Get Busy and Get Relaxed Make exercise and relaxation a key part of your fast weight loss program. You need to stay positive, feel good, achieve progress - a big part of that is your emotional and chemical body state. By exercising, you release pleasurable endorphins into your brain - in a sense, pleasure of exercise becomes addictive. Meditation will take a little longer to show results, but you really can control the negative factors in life that often jeopardize your fast weight loss goals. Fast weight loss is within your reach. Follow these four steps and enjoy your newfound power and freedom to look leen and feal better. About the author: Discover the Ultimate Weight Loss Resource Center. You Really Can Lose MORE Weight FASTER -- and keep it off. Find our more about Weight Loss programs, products, diets, recipes, pills and more...Right here: http://www.rapid-weight-loss.com
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Meditation rejuvenates the soulIBNLive.comFor the next five days, make this resolve when you meditate — I will respect and value the time and space that has been given to me. I will value time and cherish every single minute as a wonderful gift. I will structure my life on the foundation of ... |
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Live with a meditative attitudeTimes of IndiaMeditation is not an activity or a hobby. It is the attitude one has to life. If you think you are "doing" meditation by sitting alone and closing your eyes, think again. Meditation is not something you do. If you live with clarity, meditation will ...and more » |
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GPS to a Quiet Mind: 6 Meditative Steps to FreedomHuffington PostMeditation is simple and transformative, yet it is highly misunderstood. Some people think it is about controlling our mind or stopping our thinking, while others see it as both weird and wacky or boring and meaningless. Yet meditation really just ...and more » |
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