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Tips on how to love yourself
I was compelled to write today about self love and self care. And more specifically, I wanted to touch on “what is self love or self care?” and to give you some tips on how to love yourself. I will attempt to keep it brief though knowing how I write that could be difficult. Nevertheless, I will exercise self love and self care even in relation to this in allowing myself to fully express myself. When people think of self love or self care they often think of things such as pampering sessions or buying oneself something special. I want to expand your thinking a little here and include some…
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Living from a Place of Surrender – Michael Singer 8 Week Course Review
Surrender – huh? Some of you may find yourself reading this blog because you may be asking yourself the following important questions: What does it mean to surrender? Why surrender? How do you really surrender? or What does it mean if you are living from a place of surrender? This article is essentially a review of the Michael Singer 8 Week Course, Living from a Place of Surrender. But before I get into that, I want to provide a little personal background which has prompted me to review this course. If that’s not for you, skip down to the review below. Falling off the Rat Wheel of Life We all…
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Gratitude: Being grateful when you don’t feel it!
I’m not feeling it! Sometimes life, or rather our perception of life can get us down. I say perception here because it is our minds that determine our experience of life if we allow it to. And gratitude and particularly being grateful when you don’t feel it can seem impossible. You might be thinking ‘I am dissatisfied with my life”, “I’m not satisfied with my life” or even “how can I be grateful when life is so bad?”. Maybe you just want to know how to develop an attitude of gratitude or are asking “is gratitude the key to happiness?”. Or perhaps you just want to learn a little…
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Mindfulness Meditation Online Course – Top 6 Affordable Picks Reviewed
Plain old meditation Vs mindfulness meditation There are a plethora of mindfulness courses online and mindful meditation courses, but how do you go about choosing an online mindfulness course? That’s where I come in. I want to start out here by giving you a little information because I think it will influence how you go about making your choice on a Mindfulness Meditation Online Course. At the very least I hope it will expand your view. It’s always interesting to me when I do my research and see what terms people are googling or searching for. Interestingly, there seems to be a large volume of people asking about mindfulness whether…
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What is Zen Meditation? How to Awaken
Before I elaborate on “What is Zen Meditation?”, I think its pertinent to explain its origins and its relationship to Buddhism. What is Buddhism? Buddhism can be considered a philosophy, discipline of the mind, a religion and/or a way of life. The Buddhist path is a personal experience of achieving deep and long-lasting happiness by gaining wisdom and a mind free of negative emotions. Meditation is a means of accomplishing this (Venerable Thubten Lhundrup, 2004). Who founded Buddhism? Approximately 2,500 years ago, Siddhartha Gautama was born in the foothills of Nepal. At the age of 29, Siddhartha took up the life of an ascetic. After training in meditation for six…
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The Power of Now Book Review: The Teacher Will Appear!
Before the review – what we all want to know Price: Paperback $18.27 The Book Depository Audio download $16.77 (immediate) Sounds True My Rating: A must have on your bedside table just like Oprah – 10/10 The Power of Now Book Review: The Teacher Will Appear! Welcome to Part 2. This article reviews Chapters 6-10. In Part 1, The Power of Now Book Review – When the student is ready! I reviewed Chapters 1 – 5 and gave you a little background in relation to my own history with the book, how it sat on my bookshelf for 20 years and why and how it eventually became part of my…
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The Power of Now Book Review – When the student is ready!
On the shelf for 20 years I picked up my first copy of the best-selling book The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle around 20 years ago which was about the time it was first published. Back then, I have to say that I didn’t get it or perhaps I wasn’t ready. Perhaps I hadn’t suffered enough. Who knows, needless to say I put it aside and there it stayed in my bookshelf. It was some 15 or so years later that I picked up my dusty copy of The Power of Now again and this time it spoke to me. I was definitely in a time of crisis and…
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What is presence? And, what is the power of presence?
What is presence? To know it is to experience it! I would like to give you a straightforward answer, but unfortunately I can’t. And, in order to tell you what the ‘power of presence’ is I have to begin with presence itself. Let me explain why it’s not that straightforward though. Many are cautious in explaining what presence is and this is actually justifiable and reasonable. Presence is something that occurs beyond the intellect, that is to say beyond the mind and so it stands that it cannot be explained with the intellect and more specifically with language. Language in defining or explaining presence is fundamentally inadequate. To truly ‘know’ presence…
