Attitude

Rediscover Your Passion for Life

Follow these simple steps to rediscover your passion for life. from www.RealAge.com 1. Value Your Daily Diversions When you’re adding items to your to-do list, don’t forget the good stuff. If you look forward to reading in bed, going out to breakfast, taking long walks, listening to music, or just sitting quietly outside, make time [...]

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Thoughts Can Heal Your Body

by Robert Moss Our thoughts can make us sick, and they can help us get well.  That may seem like New Age thinking, but medical research increasingly supports the role played by the mind in physical health. “People have been seeking healing through prayer and intention since Paleolithic times,” notes Dr. Herbert Benson, founder of [...]

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How to Get Focused

By Jill Russell, in Whole Living: Body+Soul – www.wholeliving.com – June 2008 An imbalance in your mental energy can leave you unable to focus. Break the pattern, and you’ll effectively return to the present moment — and the task at hand. “I call it changing your state,” says Lucy Jo Palladino, Ph.D., psychologist, attention expert, and [...]

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Nix Negativity

By Nicole Williams That friend who just can’t stop complaining. That co-worker who always has to one-up you with her breakup stories or that traumatic encounter at the bank. That client who takes out her perpetual bad mood on you. None of these people are contributing to your sanity or self-esteem. Though it’s not always [...]

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Making Your Resolutions Stick

How to Create Healthy Habits December 2010 newsletter www.nih.gov New Year’s resolutions—they’re easy to make but easier to break. Why is it so hard to make the healthy changes that we know can help us feel better and live longer? And why is it so hard to make them last? NIH-funded scientists are learning more [...]

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Take Back the Joy

Here’s how to take back the joy you’ve lost: 1.  Understand what joy is Joy is not the absence of problems or stress.  We all have troubles in daily life.  Joy is the understanding that in spite of those troubles, we know we will be okay.  It is holding onto a sense of peace and [...]

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The Healing Power of Forgiveness

There’s one simple secret to achieving happiness, balance, and better health, scientists say: letting go of past hurts and absolving the people who’ve caused them. And that lofty goal is easier to reach than you’d think. Here, four steps to help you find forgiveness and inner peace this holiday season. by Amelia R. Farquhar http://www.redbookmag.com/, [...]

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