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Discipline of Prayer: Always Connected
A daily train ride supplies insight into the nature of prayer: the power is always present if we are willing to stay connected. This awareness of God's omnipresence is the grand thing David celebrates. Jesus reminds us of it as His parting gift before ascending to the Father.
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The Key to a Clear Conscience
I have discovered as I grow older in Christ Jesus and wiser in all things spiritual, that one of the best possessions any person can have is a clear conscience. You feel good. I mean, you really feel good. You can let folks say about you whatever they will and it is of little consequence.
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Fulfillment
Are you seeking fulfillment? Have you any idea of how to get there? Did you know that in order to achieve it it might mean challenging some basic beliefs you hold? Did you know that in order to do so it means making a committment to life, your life?
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Selling Spiritual Stuff
Why is it that selling drugs, sex, a big screen TVs, or any physical item is easier than selling someone on a new way of thinking? What is it that grounds us in our idealogy even if what we believe in doesn't demonstrate that it works for us? What is so compelling in our thoughts that we won't budge from our political or religions beliefs?
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An Alternative to A Life of Healing
A brief exploration of the difference between the western view of our imperfection and a movement towards 'Wholeness' vs the eastern view of our always already perfection and movement away from 'Wholeness'.
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He's Jesus!
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses. --HEBREWS 4:15
He was the kind of fellow you’d invite to watch the Rams-Giants game at your house. He’d wrestle on the floor with your kids, doze on your couch, and cook steaks on your grill. He’d laugh at your jokes and tell a few of His own. And when you spoke, He’d listen to you as if He had all the time in eternity.
And one thing’s for sure, you’d invite Him back...
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Angel to Angel
Years ago, my minister spoke to us about how you could solicit the help of your guardian angels to help with conflict resolution. She told us stories about how she and others had successfully asked ...
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Change Your Outlook on Change
Make no mistake about it, change is challenging whether it is conscious or unexpected. Viewing adversity as change, not loss or failure, is part of empowered and positive thinking.
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Accept Life On It's Own Terms
Those living on the highest levels of life have learned to accept life on its own terms. There are some realities about life that we must accept. This is the key to living joyfully in communion with the heavenly while abiding here on earth.
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Neither White-washed Nor Unmarked
Like a white-washed tomb, the beautiful externals of a hypocrite's life conceal a horrible inner corruption. But some hypocrites are so good at their art that they are more like unmarked graves--you get defiled being around them, and you don't even realize what's happening. The challenge is to avoid being either kind of grave by working a being transparently honest in all of your relationships.
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Spiritual Prosperity
What is the meaning of life? While we are in the business of getting, we should gather the true currency of the soul. We are here for a purpose. And when our intention is pure, we ascend to success in this life and the next.
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Alpaca Ranching - No More Fight or Flight Response
Do you grind your teeth at night? Have headaches or eye twitching? Would you like to stop the fight or flight responses that occur daily to your body? Alpaca ranching can help remove stress hormones from your body and calm overactive neurons.
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How To Break The Cycle Of Anxiety Attacks
An anxiety attack can be devastating to those who suffer from them and leave the person shaking and in fear of the next one and what else might be just around the corner. However panic attacks can be cured given time and the understanding of them and how and why they occur.
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More Practical Stress Management
A Canadian Scientist, Hans Selye (1907-1982), observed that individuals who suffered from chronic diseases revealed some symptoms related to it. This time, the experiment on rats was done. When rats are exposed to various physical trauma factors - shock, poison, high temperature, and noise, their glands enlarged, and thymus gland and lymph nodes shrunken. Selye then created the three Stages of Stress Response consisting alarm, resistance and exhaustion.
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Anxiety Relief - Best Essential Oils to Use & Why
A synergy blend of essential oils is often more effective for helping to promote symptomatic relief and healing than any single essential oil. In this article I'll share the best pure essential oils to use in synergy to calm your nerves and give relief for anxiety, worry or fear and why.
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Don't Forget to Breathe
What is the one thing you can do in three minutes to take control when there seems to be none? How can you possibly make decisions when there are so many competing choices? Take a moment in the busy day of a parent. The baby is crying uncontrollably, the phone is ringing, someone is at the door and needs your attention and you have to leave for the pediatrician appointment you NEED to keep. Just the day–to-day challenges of parenting offer stresses that must be juggled. Choices have to be made. How about choosing to take the next moment and take some deep breaths. Just take three deep breaths and you can begin to change your whole perspective.
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The Physical Symptoms Of Stress
Stress plays a huge part in all of our lives now, we all face challenges (good and bad) and obstacles, and when it gets too much, when we are past our comfort zone, then stress manifests. It can be good sometimes, personally I work best when I am slightly stressed, it pushes you to work faster and stay focussed on the task at hand, but too much stress can have detrimental effects.
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Stress Management - Besting It Before It Starts
The signs of stress are- excess alcohol consumption (daily), frustration, lost sense of humour, sensitive to loud noises, uncertainty, wanting to get away from people, anxiety, unusually tearful, sleeplessness. The best remedy.
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