When I was growing up, there was one year in particular when I had an extremely important wish on my Santa list: Please let my little brother live. Please bring him home to us from the hospital. I was nine years old and he had been diagnosed with a brain tumor two years earlier. […]
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Decide what you really want and understand you have the POWER to create it–let’s join together and build progressive change in America! The topic of this blog is “What do you really want?” –and I know the immediate tendency is to say or think: I want this to not have happened, I want Hillary
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Do you recall the 2008 financial crisis? Of course you do. Many people panicked over the sudden loss in value of their homes and investments. In response to that situation, realizing that I could help alleviate anxiety, I wrote my first personal development book, called Forget Your Troubles: Enjoy Your Life Today, a five-step stress
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We get confused between compassion for someone we like who is easy to get along with and loving, and a higher level of compassion that invites us to remain compassionate for all people, no matter how they behave. Often, the love and compassion we feel for our family members and spouse get tested when
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One of the core principles of using the law of attraction to our advantage instead of unconsciously magnetizing results that we don’t really like or want, is to understand the power of focusing our thoughts so that we appreciate what we want to experience even before we get it. When we enter into a
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When we look at emotions, at first it can seem like there are so many different ones: happiness, love, compassion, annoyance, hate, despair, confusion, bliss, and so many more in a wide range of changeable feelings. However, if we simplify matters, we can set up two umbrellas, one for “Love” and one for “Fear,” and
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I was in the grocery store line and heard a little girl behind me pipe up, telling her mom, “When I grow up, I’m going to teach running because I’m really fast, and I’m going to teach singing because I like it.” The mom replied that she thought those were great ideas and that her
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We all know what it’s like to walk into a crowded room, whether it’s an informal get-together or a work conference, and have the instant sensation that there’s a good “vibe” going on. Of course we have the contrary experience many times, too, when we detect an energy of anger, sadness or upset of any
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Please take a moment to read the title again, and now repeat it out loud, “This is my life—and I love it!” Did you smile? Or did you instantly think of all the ways your life sucks? If your thoughts went to a laundry list of things you are upset or discouraged about, understand that
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Whenever we walk out the door, we have an intention of heading somewhere, even if it is only a vague idea of taking a walk in the neighborhood. We always have an intention, but most of the time it is barely thought off, and we run on automatic pilot day in and day out. That’s
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