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  • Jessica Ruby

    How to Use Guided Meditations to Awaken and Utilize the Power of Your Mind! 

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    Jessica Ruby
    Published on 05-10-2012 09:42 AM  Number of Views: 353 
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    If you’re ready to take the first steps toward creating a better life, you may want to find someone to walk you through the basics of meditation. This can be in the form of a teacher you meet with in person, or a guided meditation CD. People who have listened to guided meditation CDs have experienced increases in creative problem solving, improved concentration, and reductions in tension and stress. Guided meditation takes you through visualization strengthening exercises that are easy to understand and apply. These exercises help to strengthen your body-mind connection to improve mental focus and acuity. You deserve a better life, and learning to meditate can lead you to peace of mind and a stress-free body.

    If you’re a person who doesn’t believe in the power ...
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  • Magi

    Confident Creating by Eric Maisel

    If you want to live a creative life and make your mark in some competitive art field like writing, film-making, the visual arts, or music, and if at the same time you want to live an emotionally healthy life full of love and satisfaction, you need an intimate understanding of certain key ideas and how they relate to the creative process.

    One key idea is that you must act confidently whether or not you feel confident. You need to manifest confidence in every stage of the creative process if you want to get your creative work accomplished. Here’s what confidence looks like throughout the creative process.

    Stage 1. Wishing

    ‘Wishing’ is a pre-contemplation stage where you haven’t really decided that you intend to create. You dabble at making art, you don’t... read more
    Magi 05-20-2013, 12:35 PM

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    Life Purpose  Creativity/Art 
    Tags: creative process  confidence and creativity  eric maisel 
    DrBarbara

    A New Motherhood? Evolving Policies, Practices, & Families - a report on the Museum of Motherhood's Conference

    This is a two-part report on some of the studies from a variety of disciplines presented at the Museum of Motherhood's Conference: A New Motherhood? Evolving Policies, Practices, and Families.

    Part I is a brief synopsis of several studies which raise questions about the state of modern mothers around the world.

    Part II relates to how the marketing of motherhood, society's expectations and practices impact on mothers navigating their way as parents. Are mothers being expected to accept what marketers and medical professionals tell them about motherhood instead of being listened to by professionals to understand what motherhood means?

    Feel free to ask questions. If I don't know the answer, I will contact the presenters and find out. As you can see the... read more
    DrBarbara 05-10-2013, 03:46 PM

    Categories:

    Sociology  Family  Parents  Women  Research 
    Tags: motherhood  research on motherhood 
    RosieKuhn

    We want Transformation... we just don't want to Change.

    My colleague and friend, Maureen O’Neill, and I kibitz a great deal about what it is like to be on this spiritual journey – one of transformation. The truth is: It hard friggin’ work and it hurts like HELL, sometimes.

    Transformation, we think, is easy. It’s something that just happens, like miracles and magic. It’s as if we have to do nothing, and all of a sudden – presto-change-o, we are transformed. We imagine with that transformation that life is effortless, and that there is no more hard work to be done.

    Change, on the other hand, occurs through conscious choice-making. This obviously requires consciousness, which means you have to start by cultivating a desire to be awake, aware and open to what is. Change doesn’t occur on its own; it requires conscious choice.... read more
    RosieKuhn 04-30-2013, 04:46 PM

    Categories:

    Change Mgmt  Transitions  Transformation 
    Tags: transformation  risk  change 
    Rachel Katz

    Brushes with Mortality- 5 Lessons on Dealing with Hard Times

    When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature. --Wayne Muller

    As someone with a serious chronic medical condition, I have danced with mortality. Many times. It wasn't until our most recent pas de deux, however, that I truly understood just how much this dance could impact me.

    Nowhere was this more apparent than in my work as a hospice volunteer.

    The mission of the San Francisco-based Zen Hospice Project -- a Buddhist-inspired organization where I have volunteered for five years -- is to bring kindness and compassion to those facing loss and death. I trained to be a volunteer out of a deep longing to explore and evolve my comfort level... read more
    Rachel Katz 04-23-2013, 05:30 PM
    Lisa Michele Fonseca

    Accessing Your Inner Wisdom

    Accessing Your Inner Wisdom

    Congratulations on making it here!

    Too many people read a title like this and automatically dismiss it as “woo-woo” stuff – as if only gurus and mystics have “inner wisdom” or intuition.

    The reality is that we were all born intuitive. Over time and environmental conditioning, we lose the ability to “hear” this little voice inside us. But, it is still there. Perhaps buried under all of the “shoulds” that society, in general, and our parents/families, in particular, have taught us, but still in us and waiting to accessed.

    Our intuition is our connection to the wisdom of the Universe. In The Alchemist, Paolo Coelho describes it:

    “Intuition is a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal... read more
    Lisa Michele Fonseca 04-07-2013, 07:17 PM

  • Kristy Sweetland

    Witches, Quacks, and Scientific Objectivity (Ha!)

    There’s a way of being that I use to guide my life and it’s called Beginner’s Mind. It’s about opening to all possibilities without attaching to deeply entrenched “knowings” which have the tendency to get us all into a lot of trouble. It’s the ”seeing through the eyes of a child” phenomenon. It’s powerful. I still have an old textbook on my shelf which I use to remind me how...

    Kristy Sweetland 05-24-2013 04:11 PM
    art2heal

    VISION BOARDs - Your Personal Roadmap

    During the first few weeks of the New Year, we are inundated with news of dieting offers, gym bargains, car deals and for those among us who are self-growth-ers....VISION BOARDS. I happen to love vision boards and have made many of them over the years usually using collage. I don't always wait for a new year to make one; you can create a vision board anytime during the year but, the New Year...

    art2heal 05-24-2013 03:56 PM
    DrBarbara

    Thursday's Psychology Trivia: Oz, Tornadoes & Regaining Control

    [/URL] Thought for the Day: As the people in Oklahoma begin to cope with the the aftermath of the tornado, & I reviewed the literature on recovery, I was reminded of the fact that [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/‎"]The Wizard of Oz begins with a tornado in Kansas. Dorothy is thrown into a foreign world filled with new dangers. She simply wants to get home to her family & the life...

    DrBarbara 05-23-2013 06:29 PM
    yvonneserocki

    Answers

    [/URL] Fire burning naturally in midst of waterfall There is a philosophical idea that says “live in the question” but I am putting forth a spiritual idea: live in the answer. The answer is God….Live from the finished work of the cross: God dwelling in the human heart; God in the midst of human beings; Christ in us the hope of glory; Christ flowing out of us the manifested...

    yvonneserocki 05-23-2013 06:14 PM
    Magi

    Am I Marriageable?

    We are attracted to people who have the qualities we have and want more of. We are repulsed by people who have the qualities we have and deny in ourselves. As Carl Jung discovered, “Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s life, the blacker and denser it is.” He called it the “unconscious snag thwarting our most well-meant intentions.” The aim is to do...

    Magi 05-23-2013 05:59 PM
    DrBarbara

    Wednesday's Words of Wisdom: Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

    [/URL] Thought for the Day: Today's Words of Wisdom come from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.D."]M.D. She was born in 1926 in Zurich Switzerland. She graduated from medical school in Switzerland in 1957 & specialized in psychiatry in United States. As a medical student she was disturbed by the treatment of dying patients. in her groundbreaking book, On Death and...

    DrBarbara 05-22-2013 12:42 PM
    nancynicholas

    Grow Your Gifts Meditation - Path of Joy

    The path before me is of my own making. I love where I am going! I am at peace with where I have been. I love this place! It is one of my favorite spots to walk because it feels so magical. I hope you find connecting with it brings you to a sense of wonder and joy about the path ahead. Life is good! Claim that it is so, and allow your birthright of joy to unfold. How to Work with the...

    nancynicholas 05-22-2013 12:31 PM
    TheBullBuster

    Today's Lie: I Can't Figure Out What to Do

    [/URL] Many times in our life, (sometimes several times a week!) we end up having situations where we say, “I can’t figure out what to do about…” Usually, it’s things like: Whether to make up or break up Whether to accept a new job offer or stay put Whether to confront the boss How to handle a resignation

    TheBullBuster 05-22-2013 12:15 PM
    CatherineAuman

    Giving More than You Get

    Back in the 90s, I studied with Robert Kiyosaki, the multi-millionaire author of the Rich Dad series of financial advice books. He was “only” worth four million at the time, years before he became much richer and world famous. Robert taught us that the number one thing he attributed his success to was tithing, the practice of giving away ten percent of your money. Even when his business tanked...

    CatherineAuman 05-21-2013 05:08 PM
    SevenSistersMysterySchool

    How to Restore Your Virginity

    Dear Sacred Community, Earlier this month I wrote about the importance of women ritually “restoring their virginity.” The post created an avalanche of responses, mostly by appreciative women who understood the profound meaning of this womb clearing process. Before I talk about one way to do it, let me address a fundamental question: What is virginity, anyway? Some women get triggered by...

    SevenSistersMysterySchool 05-21-2013 02:28 PM
    Lisa Michele Fonseca

    Of Two Minds

    The brain is such a mystery. I love activities that show us just a little bit of insight into how it works. I have been particularly interested in this exercise I found online. It's a simple video that shows you when you are using the left or right side of your brain. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/weird/the-right-brain-vs-left-brain/story-e6frev20-1111114577583 (In case the...

    Lisa Michele Fonseca 05-21-2013 01:11 PM
    DrBarbara

    Motivational Mondays: What Inspires You?

    [/URL] * Photo 'Inspiration' Thought for the Day: Today, I'd like to post a slightly different Motivational Monday post. As a psychologist, I never cease to be inspired by what motivates people. In the past all my Motivational Mondays posts ([URL="http://wakeupanddreamcatalyst.blogspot.com/2013/05/motivational-mondays-bay-path-college.html"]Bay Path College Motivating Women to Reach Their...

    DrBarbara 05-20-2013 01:48 PM