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Distorted Perceptions
Often, in being dishonest about our own faults and failures, we have been far too insensitive and callous toward others who have fallen short.
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Get Off The Freeway
Have you ever noticed how much our lives resemble a freeway? Once we are on it, we are in constant motion.
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The Who Am I Koan
This article discusses the real spiritual purpose behind asking the question who am I.
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Recognizing Self
Life is never about yourself, neither is it about anyone else. Everyday you come face to face with another part of you in another body. The separation is just an illusion and in truth you are just interacting with yourself. You are alone in a world filled with images of yourself trying to figure out just who you are.
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Protective Symbols, Charms, and Totems
There is power in meanings of the old images and symbols. Below is a compendium of common symbols, charms and totems from antiquity that are thought to be useful against psychic aggression:
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Choosing Peace, One Shift at a Time
It doesn’t matter what magazine or newspaper you pick up these days, there it is! the evidence of violence; the killing of innocent people, the terror of aggression and destruction. How do we, as caring, compassionate, conscious people maintain our inner peace in the face of war? Is it responsible to turn from the glaring headlines, close our eyes, go within to connect with that place of inner peace? What if those headlines have stirred up our visceral fear reactions and we are disturbed and angry? When outer circumstances create worry, helplessness and judgment how do we shift our inner attention so that we send peaceful thoughts, rather than more anger and hatred?
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Are You a Microwave or Crock Pot?
When you think of a new School Year what are your first thoughts? There can often be lots of anxiety with a new school year for parents as well as children.
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Stress Inocculation
There are many components that need to work together in order for your self protection plan to be effective. Not surprisingly, most martial arts instructors and self defense experts concentrate on the physical skill necessary to protect yourself. Of course, that seems reasonable, right?
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Anxiety Out of Bounds
Anxiety - the distress evoked by life's pressures - is perhaps the emotion with the greatest weight of scientific evidence connecting it to the onset of sickness and course of recovery. When anxiety helps us to prepare to deal with danger, it serves us well, but in modern life, anxiety is more often out of proportion and out of place. Repeated times of anxiety signal high levels of stress.
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Manage Stress with Release Technique
Over the last decades stress had become an integral part of our daily lives. According to the last researches, conducted in United States only 2 % of people answered that they never feel stressed. While the rest 98 % feel stressed, more than one third of American workers claim that their work is harming their physical and emotional well being.
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Critical Incident Stress Management
What is critical incident stress management? It is an intervention procedure primarily and specifically intended for people affected with a traumatic event in their life. It's a highly structured, formal, and professionally acknowledged process of helping individuals involved in critical incidents to vent emotions, share experiences, and learn about stress symptoms and reactions, as well as being given referrals if further help is needed.
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Causes of Stress
Finding the causes of stress is the most efficient way to handle stress. By doing so, you will not only counter the ill effects of this but also divest these energies into something useful. Here are some tips for finding the causes of stress and controlling it.
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Zen Like Calm In 10 Seconds
What if you could feel more grounded and centered during almost any interaction? Well here is a ridiculously simple yet effective method that can allow you to feel more grounded and centered even during times of stress and chaos.
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40,000 Gallons of Resilience
Like filling a bath tub with water before a disaster, developing resilience is the key to your survival. How big is your bath tub?
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