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<title>Happiness is Contagious - How to Find Happiness</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Happiness is more contagious than unhappiness. Our behaviors are spread socially and the most surprising finding of this research is that it's not the small cluster of long term friends that is crucial to being happy it's the number of positive connections a person has every day.]]></description>
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<title>Knowing Yourself - Your History</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:59:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We are all shaped by our history.     Many believe that they can't change their behavior or character traits because these down loaded patterns are permanent. But are they?  A wise man said, "Don't believe everything your think."]]></description>
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<title>The Best Way to Understand</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:43:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Seeking first to understand allows you to become influenced.  When this happens your circle of concern expands and you are in turn able to influence.  The more deeply you understand other people the more you will learn to appreciate them.  The more reverent you will feel about them.]]></description>
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<title>Ten Ways to Fight Misery - Learning to Find Satisfaction</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:36:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some people become so attached to misery that they wander around inevitably searching for the same old dramas, pleasure and pain, loss and gain, praise and criticism.   For each one of us the pathway to satisfaction is slightly different because of our own unique expectations and experiences.  But we all travel the same road when it comes to our thinking.  Our thoughts can make us vulnerable to anxiety and worry about the future.]]></description>
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<title>The Criticism Sandwich - Remember Your Own Divinity</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:31:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The criticism sandwich is a widely practiced managerial technique.  It's simple: structure constructive criticism between praise, just like a sandwich with the praise on the top and bottom.   It's candy coating the message but it is extremely effective in getting the desired result.  And who among doesn't' like our bad medicine to be just a bit sweeter?]]></description>
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<title>The Best Way to Develop a Child's Self-Esteem</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 15:57:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A simple definition of self-esteem is having respect and a positive regard for yourself.  Children first learn to feel right about themselves from the loving attention of their mothers.  As a child basks in the love of their mother the connection between the orbitorfrontal brain and the body is established.  This connection makes it easier for a child to go within and feel what is right and to know how to go after it.]]></description>
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<title>The Best Sex Education For Your Teen</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:06:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Today our children are quite different biologically from those in the past.  Our improved diets, artificial light, decreased physical activity, and the explosion of sexually provocative material have resulted in earlier puberty and greater sexual activity and fertility than in the past.  Unfortunately it's almost impossible to keep your child from being exposed to the overly sexualized media content.  It is estimated that on average children view about 14,000 sexual references per year.  Sex and sexual innuendo on TV rarely show the adverse consequences of irresponsible sexual behavior.]]></description>
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<title>The Best Life Lessons - Teaching Character</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:28:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many schools embrace some sort of character education in an effort to curtail discipline problems.   The hope is for students to stop and think how they would feel in difficult situations and use that feeling as a gauge for their own behavior.  The question is does it work?]]></description>
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<title>The Best Way to Teach Character</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:06:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Imagine how changed you might be if every day your spouse, your children or whoever shares you life told you how wonderful you are.  This kind of loving commitment and confidence would inspire everything you do all day long.]]></description>
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<title>The Best Way to Know Yourself</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:55:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An ancient sage says knowing the world is knowledge but knowing yourself is wisdom.  Who among us can say they really know themselves, beyond the face in the mirror? The question of identity is struggling to come to terms with where we are, where we've been and where we are going.]]></description>
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<title>Manage Your Anger - Transform Yourself</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:09:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Only the strongest and most disciplined person can hope to achieve the status of Gandhi's teachings.  Gandhi's wisdom reminds us to recognize how connected we all are in this small tenuous world.  Unconditional love and compassion are stronger than ignorance and prejudice, stronger than even hatred.]]></description>
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<title>Life Lessons - What I Learned Remodeling Our Bathroom</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:45:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The first week of January my husband and I gutted our one full size bathroom.  It was old and dated and needed to be remodeled. I believed the schedule was realistic and thought it would be a relatively easy job.  I have never been more wrong in my life.]]></description>
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<title>Nutritional Gatekeepers</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:57:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The biggest influence on family eating is the person who buys and prepares the food.  Researchers call this person the "nutritional gatekeeper.  These persons be it the mother, father, grandparent or nanny needs to be aware of the importance of nutrition. The nutritional gatekeeper will typical pass on their own eating choices and habits to other family members.   They can improve the health of the whole family or contribute to unhealthy habits.]]></description>
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<title>Can You Change Your Mind?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:39:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Everything changes; it's a universal law.  Change is difficult and uncomfortable because whenever you initiate change even desired changes you activate fear in the emotional brain.  If the fear is great enough your fight or flight response will go off and you will literally run away from what you're trying to do.]]></description>
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<title>Surviving Your Teen</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:31:06 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[My daughter once asked me if she could have some friends over after a homecoming dance. I told her sure. And then she delivered the punch line. She asked, "Where will you and dad be?" ]]></description>
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<title>Take the Responsibility Test</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:20:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You can't talk your way out of problems that you behave yourself into. You have to accept the natural consequences of your own choices. This idea could be compared to a universal law like gravity because despite what we desire the reality is at some time we have to accept responsibility for our actions.]]></description>
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<title>Renovating Your Life</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:20:16 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Is life ever convenient?  I believe the answer is no because our human brains are wired for comfort.  We work around complex ideas by taking insubstantial data and jumping to conclusions.  We take meaning only from the familiar patterns that we see, and we only ever see part of any picture.]]></description>
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<title>The Ultimate Rules For a Blissful Life</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:07:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In essence calling a penalty on yourself is the definition of true nobility because it's not about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you use to be.  You are not dominated by your ego's demands to accomplish and triumph.]]></description>
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<title>The Best Way to Heal Yourself</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:02:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I wondered if this was an example of the placebo effect or if this woman truly had healing powers.  Medicine is confounded with the placebo effect and why it affects patients so profoundly.  The critical ingredient in the placebo dynamic is the doctor.  What the doctor believes and how it's communicated deeply affects a patients healing.]]></description>
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<title>Protecting Your Ego</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:08:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Years ago at a family reunion picnic the day was ending with a baseball game. People were choosing up sides and when it was my turn I was quick to say, "no thanks, I'm not very athletic." I didn't just decline I continued to elaborate my excuse saying as a child I was never encouraged to play sports and had no physical fitness class in school so I never developed any athletic skills.]]></description>
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<title>Don't Be Too Certain</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:32:18 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Is certainty more dangerous than doubt? I asked myself this question as I watched a history channel program titled Nostradamus 2012. The entire program featured writers certain that an unprecedented astrological event will occur in 2012 and that Nostradamus predicted it.]]></description>
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<title>The Top Six Healthy Guidelines For Teen Dating</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:27:18 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Two things lead teens into unhealthy relationships, one believing that having a girlfriend or boy friend is the only way to be happy and two believing that the more you like someone the more physical you have to get.  The idea you can only show affection with your body.]]></description>
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<title>Rescuing Yourself</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:10:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I'm not nostalgic for a depression era experience to see what I'm made of.  Survival is one of the basic human needs. I suspect that given the right circumstances I could be resourceful enough to find my way in a storm too.  But that's not really the question.   It seems the pendulum has swung too far.  Today we suffer from too much.   It's not scarcity that's threatening us its abundance.  We've taken more than we need without regard to the price.]]></description>
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<title>Avoiding Disaster - How to Manage Risks</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:37:47 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I watched "The Day After Tomorrow" a disaster movie with a tired plot. Climate change and terrible storms threatens to wipeout half the population of the entire planet.  Watching the movie I found myself cheering for the survival of a couple of the main characters.  ]]></description>
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<title>What Really is Christmas?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:08:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I recently read that we in America owe our version of Christmas to Charles Dickens.  His short novel "A Christmas Carole" is credited for the 19th century's changing attitude toward Christmas.  Something apparently the early church could not do even by poaching the secular celebration from German pagan practices like stuffing stockings and Yule logs.]]></description>
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<title>Om - Finding Peace Within</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:33:15 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is believed at the most fundamental level that the whole universe is made up of vibrating pulsating energy.  The sound of Om is considered as the humming sound of this cosmic energy.   If you observe the nature of sound you will fine that sticking together two objects produces all ordinary audible sounds, in contrast Om is not the result of sticking two objects.  It's a primal sound of the universe that emanates on its own.]]></description>
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<title>Schadenfreude - Compete and Compare</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:10:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The German's have a word for this feeling it's schadenfreude and it means having distress over another person's happiness.  Another way to define it is killjoy.   Being a killjoy is most dangerous for children because instead of exploring their own amazing potential they put energy into wanting someone else's.]]></description>
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<title>Mind Your Manners - Teaching Children</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:05:37 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many children had never learned how to respect themselves.   They had no experience in developing relationships with each other and adults that were based on kindness and civility.]]></description>
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<title>Leaving Behind a Mess - Letting Go of Our Ego Attachments</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:00:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Eckhart Tolle author of "The Power of Now" and "A New Earth" believes we are on the path of enlightenment when we let go of our ego attachments.   According to Tolle our egos are our primary dysfunction.  So how do I silence the chatter of my ego when I want to arrange my future like a drive through order?]]></description>
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<title>Mind Body Connection - Dealing With Vertigo</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:23:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Several years ago I suffered with bouts of vertigo. This out of balance disturbance was like spending the day literally on the tilt a whirl at a carnival, except the ride never stopped. The first time this happened to me I got out of bed and ran into the wall, the room and the floor were both spinning. ]]></description>
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<title>Germs R Us</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:38:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We scrub our bodies and our environment but it's not always to get cleaner.  It's to alleviate our anxieties.  But in the process we are sabotaging our health.   All this sanitizing is compromising the immune system.  The immune system ironically needs germs to keep it viable.]]></description>
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<title>Tidying Up Your Head</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:34:39 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The philosophical question remains unanswered, "do we invent ourselves or do we discover it?"  ...Psychologists say becoming authentic means accepting our personal faults.  Pinning down our true selves is difficult.  We act virtuous seeking to obtain a higher good but what about the actions we don't claim?   This got me to thinking about my own contradictions.]]></description>
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<title>Be Kind First</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:24:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mistakes in life are curious because they cannot be labeled a mistake until they're recognized.  And it takes some self-awareness and humility in order to call anything a mistake.  Because that means you could have done something better.]]></description>
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<title>Ask the Universe</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:08:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There is old Roman saying, "The fates lead him who will, him who won't they drag."  I was being dragged.  Forced to learn a lesson the hard way.  As I confronted my fear I was slowly evolving.   You see for years I asked rhetorical questions to the universe...I was discovering the answers to my questions.  I never really expected an answer but I was getting one nonetheless.]]></description>
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<title>What Are You Willing to Believe In?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:11:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Besides happy people Iceland has a tradition rich in mythology.  The ancient Vikings practiced heathenism a peaceful religion based upon the love of the earth and its spirit.   In the heathen religion there are many fantastic stories about one eyed giants and ogres.  Icelanders don't necessarily believe in the stories but they leave the door slightly open just in case.]]></description>
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<title>Practice Right Speech</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:47:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Be impeccable with your word.  Speaking with integrity means to be honest and kind.   It's a simple rule but difficult to live by because words reflect emotions.  And emotions are fueled by grievances, offenses and assumptions.]]></description>
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<title>What is Karma?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:51:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[My sister recently suggested to me that we host a past life regression party. She had finished reading a Brian Weiss book on the subject and in her excitement did a search and found  a regressionist living in our area.  Just to clarify this type of party is a small gathering of friends who are collectively regressed lead by an clairvoyant intuitive.]]></description>
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<title>Intentional Thinking</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:03:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change."  I like to refer to these condensed words of wisdom from Albert Einstein any time I have a dilemma.   They remind me that the solution to most problems in life requires adjustments in my thinking.]]></description>
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<title>Adjusting Your Thinking</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:42:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's a contest of finger pointing.  The meltdown of the financial markets is the most recent crisis in which people are choosing sides and deciding who is to blame.   Much of this blame-making is not based in information but rather in emotion.  The feelings of anxiety and fear are pushing these thought processes into react mode.]]></description>
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