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<description><![CDATA[Judy Ringer is owner of Power & Presence Training, a Portsmouth, NH company specializing in unique workshops to help organizations manage conflict, communicate effectively, and co-create a positive work environment. The author of Unlikely Teachers: Finding the Hidden Gifts in Daily Conflict, Ringer provides training throughout the U.S. and Canada with unique workshops based on mind/body principles from the martial art aikido, in which she holds a black belt. In addition, she uses her expertise in several best practice communication models to bring to life key concepts such as self-management under pressure and appreciation of other viewpoints. Her programs are ... ]]></description>
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<title>No Spare Parts: Finding Your Purpose</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:04:59 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Over the holidays, I saw the movie Hugo. I went without great expectation, but I was delightfully surprised. It's a wonderful movie, full of fantasy, fun, and food for thought. I like movies with messages, and this one had many. The one that stuck, though, is the idea that, in a well-designed machine, there are "no spare parts."]]></description>
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<title>Free Won't: 5 Steps To Keep Control Over Your Emotions</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:49:16 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, I related a Ki Moment in which my ability to center and regain emotional control was tested. In the middle of multi-tasking kitchen chores, I turned around and walked into the open door of the dishwasher, cracking my shin and careening in pain. Instead of tearing the door from its hinges, I caught myself, took a breath and re-centered. The incident came to mind recently when I attended a presentation on "Free Will and Free Won't." I'd never heard the phrase "Free Won't," and I was intrigued.]]></description>
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<title>Constructive Criticism in the Workplace</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:41:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It started out innocuously. I asked a colleague if she'd be willing to listen to an upcoming presentation for a local non-profit. She said she would, and I plunged in. My colleague had a lot to say and delivered it with stinging energy. "You use too much jargon; I hate jargon," she said. "And you need something besides theory. They'll fall asleep." My hackles went up. Wow! Was there anything you liked? I was ready to leap on her but stopped, centered myself, and decided to practice what I do, in fact, teach.]]></description>
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<title>How to Confront With Skill and Confidence: 7 Tips</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:41:39 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A friend stopped me on the way out of the locker room. Concerned about a fellow exerciser's habit of not wiping down the equipment after using it, she asked me if I thought she should say something. She thought about going to the facility manager, but the word tattle-tale came to mind. What should she do?]]></description>
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<title>What If They Don't Want to Resolve the Conflict</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:19:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I frequently receive the following question when working with coaching clients and during workshops. What if I'm the only one who wants to resolve the conflict? If you're entering a conflict conversation believing this, it will be difficult to gain traction. More than any other element, your attitude does the heavy lifting in determining how the conversation goes.]]></description>
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<title>Top 6 Effective Leadership Traits</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:10:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Even the most effective leaders lose their way occasionally. In spite of best efforts, you forget how much influence you have and how your action (or inaction) affects the workplace environment. These six traits are common causes.]]></description>
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<title>Energy Precedes Awareness: What I Did on My Summer Retreat</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:00:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We each have a field of personal space that we carry with us, similar to a magnetic field. This field can expand and contract. When we enter a new space--our office or home--our field comes along. How do we affect that space? Do we add positive energy, or do we pollute it?]]></description>
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<title>Do You Have a Resentment Garden?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I grew up an accomplished gardener. I was well into adulthood before I understood that I wasn't really growing anything but resentment. And I was slowly killing my relationships and myself. Afraid of venting the anger and hurting the relationship, I was, in my own way, doing just as much damage. So I began to look for another way.]]></description>
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<title>Managing the Unexpected: How I Stayed Present in Seven (Not So) Simple Steps</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:08:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[  So, there I was alone in a hotel room in Poughkeepsie, NY, instead of attending my college reunion festivities. I'd been looking forward to meeting up with past classmates, going to lectures and, most of all, walking the campus.]]></description>
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<title>What Can't You Say? A Technique for Difficult Conversations</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 08:34:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Is there a difficult conversation you're not having? What stops you from saying what's on your mind? You may know exactly what you want to say, but you don't say it. Instead the problem festers and the associated emotions leak out. ]]></description>
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<title>Bad Weather: Understanding Power and How to Embrace it in Your Life</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:35:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing. - Benjamin Zander. The weather is a wonderful teacher because it's obvious and relentless. But what about our not so obvious teachers?]]></description>
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<title>Dreaming The Future: What's Holding You Back?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:11:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In Aikido we use an exercise to physically distinguish between three kinds of power -- power that is rigid and controlling, power that's limp and ineffectual, and power that flows. Verbally and emotionally we act out these three forms of power when we attack ("I can't believe you're late again!"), manipulate or acquiesce ("I guess I'll just have to put up with you being the way you are."), or speak with purpose and positive intent ("In the future, I'd appreciate your calling when you know you're going to be late."). Students find this Aikido exercise has applications beyond language, from leadership and parenting styles to how they execute their golf swing.]]></description>
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<title>It's All So Simple</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:09:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this month of giving, getting, and gathering, when we all do more and push harder, relaxing and letting go are relegated to minor bullet points on the To Do List. In our bustling and striving, we barely remember what we're bustling and striving for. In our rush to find the perfect turkey or bottle of wine, we forget why we're looking. Mindful of the next task, we miss being present to this one.]]></description>
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<title>What Is It All About?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:04:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One evening, angry and sad, I told my new husband that life was meaningless, pointless. Why work? Why do anything? We're here for such a short time and then it's over. What's it all about?]]></description>
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<title>What Can Aikido Teach Us About Conflict?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:14:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We all know how we want to be when in conflict. People usually report a wish to be "calm; in control; present; confident." Yet our own conflict habits-unconscious, ingrained behaviors such as fight, flee, and freeze-get triggered in difficult moments, despite our best intentions. Aikido gives us a way to retrain these habits.]]></description>
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<title>Changing the Dance of Conflict</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:12:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When a person can't hear or see you as you really are, can you still communicate with compassion? What if you're the only one interested in resolving the conflict?]]></description>
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<title>Manners, Aikido, and Ki Moments</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:34:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In a recent Wall Street Journal editorial, columnist Peggy Noonan discussed the disappearance of manners in our culture. The article was provoked by news stories of Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant whose claim to fame is the rudeness with which he addressed passengers at their arrival gate before taking the emergency chute to the tarmac and driving home. Peggy's article got me thinking about manners, ki moments, and the contribution we each make in creating our culture.]]></description>
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<title>It's Not the Words</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:39:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Generally speaking, we respond to others' ways of being toward us rather than to their behavior. -- The Anatomy of Peace, by The Arbinger Institute As a college drama major, I learned an exercise in which you speak a single sentence repeatedly, each time emphasizing a different word. For example, the first time you speak the sentence you emphasize the first word, as in What do you think we should do?]]></description>
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<title>A Choice Moment - Finding the Way Back</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:59:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Twenty miles past the exit, I figured I'd gone too far. I couldn't believe it.]]></description>
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<title>Why Am I Doing This? Acting on Purpose</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:46:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most of my stories have several purposes: to elucidate ki moments that happen to me or others in ways that help us all to be more intentional in life; to clarify motives and choices; and to build awareness around moments that might otherwise go by unexamined. With awareness, I can discover what causes me to act, and what holds me back; I realize I have choices, and I can practice purposeful action.]]></description>
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<title>What is Worth a Happy Dollar to You?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:43:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Portsmouth Rotary Club has a tradition we call "Happy Dollars" - a time when any Rotarian can stand up and donate a dollar (or more) for something he or she is happy about. It's always great - a new baby or grandbaby; son or daughter's graduation; a happy vacation; a concert; an award; or any other blessing the member chooses to acknowledge.]]></description>
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<title>Turning Resistance Into Power - Embracing This &quot;Ki Moment&quot;</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:18:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Resistance can become habitual. You could find yourself wishing most of your life away -- and wishing most of your ki moments away as well.]]></description>
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<title>Loving - Kindness</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:19:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[My teacher helped us understand the difference between feelings and directed energy. Feelings, he said, just happen.]]></description>
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<title>Swimming Pool Self Defense</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:56:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As I continued swimming and musing, my attitude gradually moved from anger to reflection and curiosity. I thought, this isn't so different from life.]]></description>
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<title>Wired to Worry</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:22:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Does anything warrant anxiety? Does worry help? Probably not. ]]></description>
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<title>Start Breathing Again</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:10:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A good way to increase relaxation and develop your centering practice is to notice you're holding your breath. It may make you a little crazy at first. We all hold breath in our bodies far more often than we realize, and it may surprise you just how often it happens.]]></description>
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<title>I Feel Great</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:23:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Lately, I've been focusing on being more appreciative in my everyday conversations and stating what is good in life rather than focusing on what isn't. It takes practice. For example, how often do you respond, "I feel great!" when someone casually asks "How are you?"]]></description>
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<title>Just Center, That's All You Have to Do</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:29:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Suddenly it comes to me: "Now would be a good time to center." This is my latest way of reminding myself to choose the centered state. And I do. I just center. I don't think about what centering will help me do or say. I just center. And everything changes.]]></description>
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<title>To Agree Or Not to Agree, Is That the Question?</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:27:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[But what are the problems with just agreeing? I don't learn anything; I lose the opportunity for deeper dialogue and understanding of the situation and of my friend. And I leave an impression of agreement where it doesn't exist.]]></description>
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<title>Centered Self Versus Personality</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:00:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Personality's main goals are safety and approval -- it wants to stay safe and look good. The Centered Self is already okay. The Centered Self is enlightened and connected to a higher wisdom.]]></description>
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<title>Groundhog Day - Living Life on Purpose</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:16:14 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Groundhog Day - and this sense of repeating the same day over and over - stayed with me. I saw how that thought - same day, same people, same words, smiles, gestures, conversations - could seriously depress one's mood... or... as it finally did with Phil, cause one to seriously consider what life is all about.]]></description>
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<title>Improving Your Visibility</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:23:56 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How visible are you? Do you spend your valuable life energy shining or hiding? Probably both. Can you choose to center yourself, find your light, and shine, even when you want to hide? What might happen?]]></description>
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<title>Point of View to Viewing Point - Listening For Understanding</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:46:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Why is it so difficult to see someone else's viewpoint in a conflict? When one person shifts to inquiry, things change. New worlds open.]]></description>
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<title>By Your Pupils You Are Taught - Being Present</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:46:24 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Multi-tasking is easy and way overrated. What takes practice is being fully present with one thing, one place, and one person at a time.]]></description>
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<title>Follow the Energy - Writing Aikido</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:46:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When my friend Lynn asked how I incorporate the principles of Aikido into my writing practice, I was surprised and dumbfounded-surprised by the delightful question and dumbfounded because I've been practicing Aikido for fifteen years and teaching and writing about Aikido almost as long, but I'd never considered how my Aikido and writing practices might be connected. Aikido-translated as The Way of Blending with Energy-is a Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba in the early 20th century. Ueshiba died in 1969.]]></description>
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<title>The Centered State</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:07:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The centered state is always available though often hard to find when we need it most. The calm center of the storm, a refuge in difficulty, and the peace of simply being -- why is it so easy to lose sight of this powerful choice?]]></description>
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<title>Begin it - Lessons on Worrying From Junior High Math</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:59:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What are you worrying about today? Maybe it only seems difficult because you haven't begun it yet.]]></description>
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<title>Practicing Happiness</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:18:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[True happiness connects us with what's meaningful in life. We learn to develop gratitude, awe and wonder, central characteristics of happy people.]]></description>
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<title>How to Let Go - Steps For Taming the Inner Critic</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:09:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's a question that comes up all the time in my workshops. Most conflict is with ourselves, I think. It may be generated by something that happens on the outside, but eventually I have to go inside and consider what to do about it. How do I handle this situation and manage myself in the process?]]></description>
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<title>The Little Things</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:08:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Little things like these are big things in disguise. These ki moments beckon and invite us to notice them, to wake up, pay attention, be present and be happy. And yet, if you're like me, you're mostly in pursuit of the next moment, letting this one get away. On my way to the next moment, the next completed task, I'm never really here.]]></description>
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<title>The Conflict Lover - Tips For Taming the Adversarial</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:35:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A recent email from a subscriber asked: What do you do with the person who seems to love conflict? You say black, they say white; you say up, they say down. After a while this can be demoralizing, especially if this person is in a managerial position.]]></description>
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<title>You Get What You Look For</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:31:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tell me a story about the best Christmas, best Hanukkah, best holiday season you ever had. What made it so wonderful? Who was involved? What happened? What about that time makes you remember it so vividly? What do you value about what you did? How did you contribute to its special qualities? Write the story down if you like.]]></description>
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<title>Cycles - Managing Emotions With Intention</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:21:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For me, part of finding my way back to peace, center, and purpose is a willingness to sit in the discomfort of uncentered chaotic feelings. These, too, are life. These messy feelings connect me to what is trying to emerge, to insight, to a source of inspiration-if I can pay attention.]]></description>
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<title>Bring a Coffee Cake</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:27:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[At dinner with my friend Susan recently, I was struck by the simplicity of her conflict resolution strategy. A friend sought Susan's advice about how to approach her neighbor about a potential conflict. The neighbor was prickly and the friend uneasy, and she asked Susan to come along as support for the conversation.]]></description>
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<title>Hurry Up and Meditate</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:25:19 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hurry up and meditate, I'm thinking as I sit in half-lotus, willing myself to quiet down and connect with the source. Wow, that's really taking things to extremes. How can you meditate in a hurry? Isn't the whole point to SLOW DOWN? Quiet the rushing stream of thoughts and make the world disappear, at least for a little while?]]></description>
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<title>When You Don't Know the Answer</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:27:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A client was struggling with how to manage her stress level during the Q&A period after a presentation when she doesn't have an immediate answer. The simple solution might be to say, "I don't know." But it's not that simple.]]></description>
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<title>Creating Resilience</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:11:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What is your creative practice?  Have you actually practiced it lately?]]></description>
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<title>Cooling My Hot Buttons</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:10:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I know these two hot buttons well. Whenever I don't receive the service I think I should or when technology doesn't work the way it's supposed to, I get hooked. You might think I'd be on the alert, center myself really fast, and not take the bait. But no. I guess that's why they call them hot buttons. Face red, muscles tight, arms flying into the air, blind to what is possible. It's good to know you're human.]]></description>
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<title>Turning a Difficult Situation Into a Centering Practice</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:10:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You'll forget to center; I guarantee this. When you remember you forgot, center then - at that moment. Practice in your mind's eye. Replay the triggering situation and imagine yourself centered. What changes? How are you different? How does the situation evolve differently?]]></description>
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<title>A Revolutionary Act</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1401354</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:03:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It sometimes seems as if there's an injunction against being too happy. We don't want to stand out from the crowd, appear different, weird, or as if we're putting on that happy face to show off or cover something up.]]></description>
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<title>Can We Talk? A Simple Checklist For Conflict Conversations</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:40:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The majority of the work in any conflict conversation is work you do on yourself. No matter how well the conversation begins, staying in charge of yourself, your purpose, and your emotional energy is key to a successful outcome.]]></description>
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<title>Negativity RX - Change Your Ki</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1345074</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:49:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Negativity is a common theme in my conflict and communication skills trainings. The costs of negativity in the workplace are far-reaching, from lateness, errors, and unhappy customers to illness, accidents, and the loss of more positive-minded employees.]]></description>
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<title>The Pause</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:12:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Think of a difficult person in your life, someone whose presence causes you to become uncentered. With a small mental shift you can remake this person into a centering practice.]]></description>
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<title>Purposeful Conversations - A Role Play</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1309700</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:11:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["I'm sick and tired of HR's red tape. I need this employee now, not next month. My department suffers while you drag your feet trying to get references I don't need. I want THIS person. Get off the stick and make it happen!"   Not the best way to get your needs met. ]]></description>
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<title>Attitude Adjustment</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1305797</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:38:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Zander, author, motivational speaker, and conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, often quotes his father as saying that "there is no bad weather, just inappropriate clothing." I try to practice this kind of thinking as often as possible. ]]></description>
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<title>Heart at Peace</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1305855</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:31:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["We give ourselves the best opportunity to make clear-minded decisions only to the extent that our hearts are at peace." --   The Anatomy of Peace    Choosing to resolve conflict begins when we approach it with a "Heart at Peace." So opens a new book I just finished, The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict, by the Arbinger Institute.]]></description>
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<title>Clarity of Purpose</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:30:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I've been thinking a lot lately about why we fear our more serious conflict conversations, why we put them off or hold them in nonconstructive ways. The answers usually have to do with how well I am prepared ...]]></description>
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<title>The Weight of Perfection - Lightening Up</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:44:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I was preparing for a workshop and found myself exhibiting the symptoms of a full-blown Perfection Infection. I worried myself into a state of anxiety I hadn't experienced in quite a while.]]></description>
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<title>Inner Freedom</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1030227</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1030227</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:43:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When we celebrate Independence Day in the U.S., we remember the freedoms we normally take for granted and we appreciate our responsibility to honor, maintain, and clarify those freedoms every day. What about our inner freedoms? ]]></description>
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<title>Managing Their Reactions - An Aiki Approach</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:43:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What happens if you're in a conversation or a conflict and the other person is out of control? How do you manage their strong ki, especially when it's forcefully directed at you?]]></description>
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<title>Neighbors With Drums - Making Choices</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1030169</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1030169</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:41:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Every day around 3:30 pm, a neighbor with a new drum set begins practicing - at full volume. The drummer must be on his deck or screened porch, because there doesn't seem to be any buffer.]]></description>
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<title>A Christmas Carol - Finding The Spirit Any Time Of Year</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1027593</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1027593</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:04:33 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[My favorite scene bar none (and there are some GREAT scenes in this movie) is the one where Scrooge has awakened from the nightmare of the three spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, and is so happy to be alive and capable of doing good in the world that he can barely contain himself. He runs to the window and calls to a small boy walking below. Scrooge asks the boy to go to the nearby butcher, buy the biggest turkey, and take it to his clerk, Bob Cratchit, and his family.]]></description>
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<title>Don't Wait - Center</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:01:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If I can catch myself, I can turn the waiting into my own personal rest stop in a busy day. A health break. A ki moment.]]></description>
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<title>Go Ahead, Be Thankful</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1027555</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:01:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I was seven or eight years old, playing with my cousins in the back yard of my grandmother's house in Oak Park, Illinois. Mimi (my Aunt Mary) was probably 30-something at the time and in her wheelchair, where she'd been since a spinal disease struck at age thirteen.]]></description>
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<title>Discovery on an Icy Bridge</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:22:40 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Driving home late one night during the first snow of the season, I hit a patch of ice on a slippery bridge and collided with the barrier that separates the bridge from the air and the water. I careened off one side of the bridge, slid across three lanes of Interstate 95, and scraped along the barrier on the opposite side. Luckily there weren't any other cars nearby.]]></description>
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<title>When Tempers Flare - Five Tips to Manage Your Anger in the Heat of the Moment</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:27:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Emotions happen. We can, however, make choices about how we manage them.]]></description>
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<title>When Things Don't Go Well - Find Your Positive Intention</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/574823</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/574823</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 12:48:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What do you tell yourself when you say or do something you regret? Does the inner critic run amok, calling you every name in the book and maybe even trying to blame the other person -- the victim of your gaffe? I know my critic does these things.]]></description>
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<title>Seeing Things As We Are - The Power of Your Worldview</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/574813</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/574813</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 11:34:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I can't think of a better way to begin each day than to remember the power of our innate creativity. Be mindful of what you hope for and what you worry about, what you believe and what you foster in the world. Read on-]]></description>
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<title>Sophia and Sam: Life Lessons from Little Ones</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:48:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Recently, I had a delightful visit with my friend, Linda, and her four-month-old twins, Sophia and Sam, who taught me some important life lessons without even trying.]]></description>
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<title>Managing Emotions: Begin with Self-Awareness and Self-Management</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/503525</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/503525</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:24:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I turned around in my kitchen and walked into the open dishwasher, cracking my shin on the edge of the door. Ouch!#@%*! It was all I could do to keep from kicking the door. But I caught myself and made some better choices.]]></description>
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<title>High Hopes and Generosity of Spirit</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/503492</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:24:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[My friend, Suzanne, is an inspiration. One of her favorite songs is "High Hopes." What I've learned and continue to learn from Suzanne goes beyond words.]]></description>
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<title>There Are No Guarantees</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/391507</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/391507</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:40:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You've spent time and energy preparing and holding an important conversation. You developed a useful purpose, acknowledged your conversation partner, and framed your message with skill. But, in spite of your best efforts, the situation doesn't change. What do you do?]]></description>
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<title>Cultivating Gratitude</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/391496</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/391496</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:26:18 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What are you grateful for? Counterbalance worry, doubt, and constant striving by taking a moment each day to "cultivate gratitude."]]></description>
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<title>Defusing Customer Disputes: 7 Strategies to Centered Communication</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/391484</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/391484</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:26:15 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Defusing difficult or angry customers calmly and assertively benefits the company, the customer, and the service representative.]]></description>
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<title>Stopping to Listen: The Precious Present</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/391502</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/391502</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:10:20 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Life is so busy and so full, it's hard to remember the quiet from which all activity springs. Stop. Listen. And appreciate the richness of the moment.]]></description>
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<title>Being Heard: Mental and Verbal Strategies for Getting Your Point Across</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/283810</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/283810</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:13:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We all want to be heard. It's gratifying, empowering, and makes us feel valued. And in a difference of opinion, we want our side to be represented. We want others to get who we are and to hear our valid arguments, even if they don't agree with us-though, of course, we'd like that to happen as well.]]></description>
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<title>The Power of Not Knowing: Understanding Your Adversary</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/286074</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/286074</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:34:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most of the time, your eagerness to get your point across guarantees that you won't. It seems the harder you push to be heard, the harder they push back.
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<title>Stage Fright: Use It and Lose It</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/283855</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/283855</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:41:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As a professional singer and speaker, I'm often asked if I still get nervous in front of an audience. I do. But I've learned to use my nervous energy - and minimize its impact.]]></description>
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<title>Finding Your Voice</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/243067</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/243067</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:53:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What are the parallels between finding your literal voice and finding your personal voice - the voice that links you to your purpose, power, and work in the world? Read on]]></description>
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<title>Aikido and Conflict: Turning Difficult Moments into Ki Moments</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/243054</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/243054</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:46:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How can we turn daily conflicts into life teachers? Just by asking the question, we begin to transform conflict moments into ki moments and attacks into energy we can use to build the kinds of home, work, and community environments we want to live in.]]></description>
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<title>Conflict Mistakes</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/243061</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/243061</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:38:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ever make a conflict mistake? No, I'm sure you haven't. Neither have I. Healing a conflict mistake is possible with patience and positive intention.]]></description>
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<title>Negotiating Life's Detours: Follow Your Energy</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/199307</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/199307</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2006 16:57:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Someone asked me recently if I had a guiding principle that helped me decide what new work to take on, and how I decide how much time to spend pursuing my various interests. It's a great question. Entrepreneurs have an idea a minute, and it's often difficult to know which ideas to invest time in. A mentor of mine gave me this principle some years ago, and I try to live by it. ]]></description>
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<title>View from Another Planet: Learning to Talk to Our Children</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/199299</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/199299</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2006 16:38:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Conflict within families can be the way to increased connection or separation. Your ability to manage your own reactions is a key ingredient.]]></description>
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<title>Night and Day: Choosing Your Reality</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/182439</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:22:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["There's nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
- William Shakespeare

The title of this great Cole Porter song -Night and Day - also describes the sometimes changeable nature of my outlook on life.
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<title>Practice Makes Perfect: Changing Your Communication Habits One Step At a Time</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/177588</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/177588</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:10:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The concept of practice applies to any skill that you want to cultivate. If you take up a new musical instrument, you will need to practice a while before you're ready to give your first concert. In Aikido, the martial art I study and teach, we get on the mat many times each week to practice and perfect our technique. ]]></description>
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<title>Conflict and Change: Managing Emotional Energy</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/176441</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/176441</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:30:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The beginning of a new year, like the beginning of anything, brings with it thoughts of change, rejuvenation, new life, and resolutions about how to accomplish these changes. Life offers possibilities of a fresh start for our relationships. But we don't always carry through on our resolutions. ]]></description>
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<title>Greatest Gift</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/127468</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:43:28 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In my fifteenth year, I became the proud owner of my first mini-skirt. Upon seeing it my dad hit the roof, and my favorite aunt gave me the greatest gift of all.]]></description>
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<title>Knowing When I'm Not: 4 Suggestions for Developing a Strong Center</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/127465</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/127465</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:36:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The more I practice centering, the more I realize that as important as it is to be able to identify and access the centered state, it is equally important to be able to know when I'm NOT centered. Otherwise, how do I choose? ]]></description>
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<title>Holiday &quot;Ki&quot; Moments: Choosing Your Best Self</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/125665</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/125665</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:32:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Holidays are filled with key moments -- and Ki Moments. Are you ready for them? Gift decisions, company parties, Holiday dinners with friends and family -- they're loaded with opportunities, aren't they? Will the pressure of the moment help you reach peak performance or will you look back later wondering why you did what you did -- again!]]></description>
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<title>Centering Defined: What, How and Why?</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/125648</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:39:56 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What is center? How do you choose to be centered, and why? In what ways can you develop a strong center? ]]></description>
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<title>Advocate Respectfully</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/125633</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/125633</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:32:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is one of a series of brief articles on holding difficult conversations. In earlier issues of Ki Moments, I suggested ways to open communications that create mutual respect; we talked about the importance of knowing your purpose for the conversation; and we added Inquiry and Curiosity to our conversational toolbox. Here the topic is Advocacy.]]></description>
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<title>Breathing: The Way Back to Balance</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/125643</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/125643</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:25:54 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How are you inventing your life today? How does the way you think affect your actions? And how might you become more aware of the process?

A centering breath is a place to start.  
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<title>Be Curious - And Be A Successful Communicator</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/109149</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/109149</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:40:30 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are many ways to improve the way you communicate. For example, you will always start things off on the right foot by opening the conversation in a way that creates mutual respect. Using phrases such as, "If you have a minute, I'd like to talk with you about something that I think will improve the way we work together," helps set your conversation partner at ease. It tells him or her that you have positive intentions.]]></description>
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<title>Thank You Very Much - Turning Problems Into Gifts</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/109153</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/109153</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:00:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I am a martial artist and black belt in aikido, a practice that continues to teach me about life, both on and off the mat. For example, at the end of each aikido practice, I express gratitude to my partners by bowing and saying: "Thank you very much." I've found over the years that sometimes I have obvious reasons to say thank you - working with that person was exhilarating and fun. However, sometimes the reasons are not so obvious - my partner was stiff, rough, unconscious, or generally difficult to work with.]]></description>
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<title>Being the Mountain</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/108452</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:48:40 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As I hiked up the path to the Peaceful Valley Chapel, I relished the quiet of my early morning solitude. After many years as a participant and assistant instructor at Thomas Crum's Journey To Center Program, this beautiful and energizing ten-minute hike had become a personal ritual.  Each morning of each Journey to Center week, before our breathing and meditation session at 7, I always hike to the top of this small mountain to be inspired by the view of a much higher mountain range in the distance. ]]></description>
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<title>Go Where Your Energy Is Strong</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/108463</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/108463</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:30:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I had undertaken a project that I was beginning to feel was beyond my personal resources to accomplish. I had asked a friend and colleague if I might organize a workshop in the New England area that he would teach. After many months of collecting information, I was at the point of choosing and committing to a conference center. Next would come the advertising, invitations, mailings, registrations, etc. It happened many years ago in the early stages of my new career, and I was beginning to feel that I was in over my head. ]]></description>
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<title>Make Their Day</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/88010</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:44:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When was the last time someone made your day - or you made theirs? In the national bestselling book, FISH!, by Stephen C. Lundin Ph.D., Harry Paul, and John Christensen, the fishmongers at the world famous Pike Place Fish Company in Seattle do it daily. They do it by throwing fish and joking with their loyal customer-fans, and by just having fun.]]></description>
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<title>A Gift of Energy</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/88011</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:01:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["When attack becomes dance, everything is seen as a gift of energy."

That sounds great, doesn't it?

Couldn't we all use a little more energy from time to time? ]]></description>
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<title>The Hot Tub</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/77721</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:50:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I swim most mornings at the community pool and then, if there's time, reward myself with a soak in the hot tub. It's a great tub with room for four or five people, the water is really hot, and you can turn the bubbles on or off. My favorite soak is when I'm alone and the water is still. I sit quietly and enjoy the serenity before my day begins.]]></description>
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<title>Difficult Conversations - Getting Started</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:47:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Is there a conversation you've been putting off? Is there a coworker or family member with whom you need to talk - but don't? Maybe you've tried and it didn't turn out as you had hoped. Or maybe you fear that talking will only make things worse. Whatever the reason, you feel stuck and you'd like to free up that energy for more useful purposes.]]></description>
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