How to Get Motivated:  Ask the Right Questions

How to Get Motivated: Ask the Right Questions

So many of us want to know how we can get motivated.  We seem to want to achieve things, obtain things, get things to happen – but we just don’t seem to have the wherewithal to make it a reality.  You think a lot about it, yet you can’t seem to drag up the energy to either take action, or continue to take action to obtain your goals. How about taking a look at what it is that caused us …

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Stress Management:  Can What You Eat Stress You Out?

Stress Management: Can What You Eat Stress You Out?

Your big meeting at work didn’t go exactly as planned and you fought traffic all the way home.  Your neck is tense and your shoulders somewhere up around your ears.  Once you hit your driveway you slam through the front door, head straight into the kitchen, pull a bag of potato chips out of the cabinet, rip it open, grab the remote and plop down on the couch. All you want is a few minutes respite from the stress of …

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Meditation Techniques: Key Techniques for the Beginner

Meditation Techniques: Key Techniques for the Beginner

You’d practically have to be a hermit whose been living isolated for society in a cave for most of your life not to have heard about the benefits of mediation. But, before you can enjoy the benefits of meditating, you’ve got to learn how to meditate. For many, attempting to learn to meditate can be a daunting task.  What can inhibit many new adherents from progressing in their practice are unrealistic expectations.  Knowing that meditation can reduce levels of stress …

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Stress Relief: Assert Your Way to Calm

Stress Relief: Assert Your Way to Calm

Think of a time you were feeling particularly stressed-out.  Most likely your neck was tight, perhaps your breath was shallow and rapid, your stomach churning with nervous tension.  Now think of a time you felt calm; your muscles felt loose; your breathing deep; no sense of anxiety or apprehension in your body or your mind.  So, it only seems logical to think that consistently maintaining calm demeanor is top dog when it comes to stress reduction. We usually associate relieving …

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Positive Affirmations: How To Construct Affirmations That Work

Positive Affirmations: How To Construct Affirmations That Work

You’ve tried positive affirmations.  Talked to yourself until you were blue in the face; repeated the same phrases over, and over, and over again.  You’ve even tried writing them down – again more times than you can count.   You don’t want to hear anymore about how “like attracts like” or the power of the “Law of Attraction.”  You’re done. Actually what you’ve just done is essentially prove to yourself that affirmations can work – they just need to be constructed …

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Benefits of Meditation: Some May Surprise You

Benefits of Meditation: Some May Surprise You

Most physicians within the field of traditional medicine not only cite the health benefits of meditation, they actually prescribe it for many of their patients.  Most of us are aware that practicing medication can improve our health by doing things like lower our blood pressure.  Meditation can even strengthen our immune system and help the body fight off infection and disease.  However, there are many other, often overlooked benefits of practicing meditation that you may not be aware of – …

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How To Relax Your Mind: Activating The Body To Calm The Mind

How To Relax Your Mind: Activating The Body To Calm The Mind

Your world is so full of the “stuff of life” that you feel as if you’re life is running at light speed.  Perhaps you’d consider it a gross understatement to call a suggestion to add more activity as a way to relax as being “counter-intuitive.” Well, counter-intuitive or not – there is truth to this suggestion.  Activating our bodies in certain ways, can indeed calm our minds and refresh our spirit. A breath of fresh air Take something as simple …

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How to Memorize Quickly: The Basics of being BRAV(-)e

How to Memorize Quickly: The Basics of being BRAV(-)e

The ability to memorize information quickly is not reserved to “nerdy geeks” who possess alien-like powers of the mind.  Normal, even semi-normal, human beings are equally as capable when it comes to memorizing information accurately and in record time.  However, there is one characteristic that you must have in order to memorize information quickly: You’ve got to be brave without an e, or “BRAV(-)e” The purpose of this article is to provide you with the basics of quick memorization techniques …

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How To Overcome Fear:  The Value Of Fear

How To Overcome Fear: The Value Of Fear

Fear is a funny thing – especially in today’s popular culture.  Think about it: most of us take extreme care to avoid exposing ourselves to events, objects, and beings that we fear.  And yet, at the same time, there are entire industries devoted to providing us with opportunities to not only voluntarily expose ourselves to events, objects, and beings that cause us great fear – but to pay dearly for the experience . The entertainment industry.  While many of the …

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How to Clear Your Mind: The Rhythm of Positive Living

How to Clear Your Mind: The Rhythm of Positive Living

 Have you ever been trying to work on – or even simply start – a project and feel you just can’t get started because you just can’t think straight?  Your mind is jumbled, cluttered with thoughts.  True, many of these thoughts might be associated with the project, but there can also be a seemingly endless list of other thoughts swimming through your brain that are not even remotely related. Interestingly, when stymied as to getting something done at work, you …

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