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Keeping The Doors Of Love Open In Your Relationship

Does your relationship provide a safe emotional environment for you both? Are you free to be who you are? Or, do you edit yourself around your partner to avoid negative reactions? Do you walk on eggshells around each other? I…

How to Maintain Your Inner Well-Being – Part 2

Did you know that your brain gives preference to visual information? Researchers L.D. Rosenblum, Harold Stolovitch, and Erica Keeps refer to our senses as learning portals. They offer the following statistics regarding the percentage of data…

How to Maintain Your Inner Well-Being – Part 1

If any of the following sound familiar, you will be delighted to know you can eliminate them all! Feeling like an outsider Never feeling like you are good enough Being aware of an inner emotional heaviness or depression Experiencing…

Never Forget These Two Numbers: 11 Million and 40 – They Rule Your Life

Every second, we are bombarded with information. What Do We Perceive? In his book, Strangers to Ourselves, Timothy Wilson quantifies the processing capabilities of the human brain. While the conscious mind processes 40 bits of information…

What Are You Afraid Of?

Fear is a Fantasy Expectation Appearing Real.  Fear can get triggered in many ways. Some people are afraid of dogs or snakes or spiders, for example. Others fear experiencing such emotional states as humiliation, rejection, shame,…

What Gives Your Life Meaning?

What sustains you? What puts a smile on your face and lights up your heart? What keeps the embers of your soul on fire? What really matters deeply to you? It is so easy to get caught up in the ongoing activities and demands of…
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Celebrating Oneness in Diversity

Do you and your partner frequently battle over who is "right" and who is "wrong?" If so, battles will be won, but a war will rage on. Right/wrong thinking makes a relationship an ongoing power struggle. It is the territory of two ego personalities…

6 Ways to Say ‘Yes’ to Your Life

"If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?" --Hillel Learn to embrace the fullness of life. This calls us to bear personal responsibility and accountability for…
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When Loved Ones Aren’t Very Loving

Do you dread gathering with your family and friends for holidays, weddings, funerals and other events? Or have you been blessed with a truly loving and nurturing family? Dysfunctional childhood and family dynamics have a way resurfacing and…

How Well Do You Face the Trials and Tribulations of Your Life?

It really is what's inside that counts. It isn't so much what happens to you that determines the quality of your life. Rather, it is how well you deal with what happens. The quality of our inner experience matters far more than how we measure…

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