Listen To Your Inner Wishes

The same game played at a neutral desk with a backpack, cardboard box and wooden pencil led to all 100% of them splitting money. As we commit ourselves to work with compassion to alleviate suffering, we discover that there are many people who are just as uncomfortable with these problems …

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Relationships That Approach Discordance Without Criticism

But, beyond one or two drinks, relaxation quickly turns sour: 'As the concentration in the blood and brain increases, judgment is impaired and motor skills decline while risky behaviour increases, along with memory and concentration problems, emotional volatility, loss of coordination, including slurred speech, and confusion. The National Eye Institute …

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How Can I Have What I Want In My Life?

Their sense of reality is so distorted by their need to protect their weak self-identity, to cover up their own wounds, that they have to believe their own press, a fact that will become crystal clear the first time you disagree with them and they tell you flatly that what …

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A Step In The Right Direction

If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do2. I had decided to act intentionally slow during the onset as I was observing so much reactionary behaviour and I wanted to ensure that whatever action I took was intentional and met people where …

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Keep Our Brain Healthy And Full-sized

Life is about so, so much more than relationships - happy ones, or ones that have ended, no matter how abruptly or painfully or angrily. His gross motor skills--running--had been enlisted, but not employed. I have to mute certain words on Twitter--words about sexual trauma or objectification, for example--and sometimes I …

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You're So Good And I'm So Bad!

Well, it doesn't matter because if you think it is, this will most likely become your reality (ie, the way you perceive yourself). The timeline has become the root of a larger narrative, and the room of men is giving him this space to elaborate, to give context to his …

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Unmask The Three Thieves Of Peace

They may feel, If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. Especially given the fact that no matter what we do to please ourselves--from winning some new success to jumping into a better relationship to ease an old bitterness in our hearts--nothing really works. If we …

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The Spring Of 2000

I'd sat next to my mother in her workroom as I'd painted it. You can also load the cart with laundry and detergent for trips to the laundry room. Until we lost Lauren, I would have counted myself among that group. Consequently you leave the 'Trouble' playing field and can …

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Choose Your Choices

The theory of active mind will show that we, too, live in Shangri-La. I know I wouldn't wish either moment on any child I know, but I think I did create value from them. Happiness can be elusive--it's hard to sustain a high level of joy. We get bogged down …

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When We Need Some Relief

Even though my brain may take me there by default, the adult me has learned strategies so I'm less likely to go there, and when I do, I'm less likely to stay for as long. By the time it reaches the end of the large intestines, there is nothing left …

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What Do You Need To Feel Safe?

Every time a hardwired belief or positive thought about alcohol pops into your head, stop yourself, identify the thought (see it clearly for what it is), challenge it, remind yourself of the truth and then reframe it. Cervical dilation during labor is determined by a digital vaginal examination from your …

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Identify Your Qualities

By having everyone express themselves through nonviolent communication, situations are resolved well before anger has built up to the point of an outburst. Our ability to focus that awareness, our ability to see things differently, is one of the keys to our personal freedom. Now we were winding cautiously into …

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Yes, I Do Feel Very Frustrated

Change that broken record in your mind that says something like Nobody really cares about me to I experience love wherever I am. The physician may issue a prescription, and, if so, birth control is shipped to the user, usually arriving within a few days. Neither the children's feelings nor …

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Cultivate Fondness

Sometimes our envious feelings manifest as hostility or anger. Within many organizations and in every community there are ordinary people who rise to meet a need or to help achieve a seemingly simple goal. Breathing slows along with heart rate, whilst stress levels decrease in response to imminent relaxation. You …

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What Do You Want To Get Done Today?

They often present differently in older people because they rarely have the typical symptoms of a high fever or pain, especially when urinating. Everything we say, or think, has the potential to either heal us or harm us. What do you do when this person is dying and, because there …

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Social Media Day Off

Those ideas outline the basis of the accepts distraction strategy. It allows her to go deeply into the details without losing a sense of the why. When you feel desolate, depressed, inferior, scared, scarcity minded and without hope, it is difficult to perceive that anything might work for you. Sometimes …

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What Will Acting On Infatuation Provide?

You could go for a long walk one morning when your kids are in preschool, or you could pull weeds after dinner one or two nights a week. When I made the decision to reach out to someone else every Tuesday, through a card or handwritten letter, I began looking …

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Just Keep Planting

Taking a deep breath, I recall my residency director's words: "A good surgeon is not one who does the procedure perfectly; a good surgeon is one that does the procedure over and over again and knows what to do when things go wrong." "Confidence is what keeps us moving when …

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A Balm For Body And Brain

Look at what you see in the pictures and then look at what the article is showing you. We will be much more successful at keeping our motivation alive if our partners or best friends not only support our dreams, but if they inspire us by treating us as though …

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Taking Action

Until then, we'll need to press forward in fully informing ourselves for the sake of our children. We have to be realistic about who we're dealing with. There are so many small daily decisions you can make to improve your brain health and to keep worry and anxiety at bay …

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Train Hard (But Smart)

On meeting an acquaintance, my photographic memory would arm me with the names of their siblings and other trivia. In her waking dream sequence, when she re-entered the water and became concerned about her breathing, I encouraged her to breathe deeply in through her nose and out through her mouth …

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Home Is Where Your Friends Are

Whenever you are grateful for something in your life, you will get more things to be thankful for in life. Those who begin life with greater bone mass will have more to lose (a good thing) than those who fail to establish an exercise habit early in life. Fact: I …

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