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Realizing We Secretly Want Our Suffering – A Process for Emotional Healing

May 8, 2009
There was something I discovered recently, something that sounds so absurd and yet so simple. As much as I want to be free of whatever I am suffering – there is a part of me that wants it. Whatever I was facing – sorrow, anger, guilt,...

How To Perform Self Hypnosis

May 4, 2009
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Jon Rhodes of HypnoBusters Blog. Hypnotherapy is a great tool for relaxation and relieving stress. It helps calm both the mind and body, giving a valuable...

What 11 Inspirational People Can Teach You About Life

Mar 3, 2009
As humans, our ability to learn vast amounts of information is one of the greatest qualities we have. Often, however, we learn things that hold us back such as limiting beliefs and believe that...

Turning Around Your Stories with The Work of Byron Katie, Part 3

Dec 5, 2008
This is the last post to the guide to The Work, a powerful system of undoing our painful thoughts and beliefs. In this post, we look at the most powerful, and yet most misunderstood section of the...

What is Yoga all about?

Nov 5, 2008
“Yoga to me is still a gym class thing for chicks to lose weight, although I know it is so much more than that.” – Albert, Urban Monk. Oh Albert… all jokes aside, you are so right! Yoga IS so much more than that, and it is with...

Our Innate Innocence – Reflections on Forgiveness

Dec 21, 2009
An imaginary conversation on forgiveness; what I had asked years ago, and the answers I have found since – right or wrong, I do not know, but offered in the hopes someone somewhere might benefit. Forgiveness is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to...

Interviewed by Michelle from Divine Purpose

Dec 16, 2009
I was recently interviewed by Michelle Vandepas from Divine Purpose. It was a fantastic interview, and she asked some really good questions. Thankfully it was a written interview so I had time to really think some of the stuff through. Please visit...

Finding Peace in Happiness

Dec 1, 2009
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Dani of Positively Present. Thanks Dani! Often when people think about being happy, they think about the giddy, exhilarating feeling that comes with things like falling in love or getting a promotion or having...

Gratitude – A Positive Psychology Perspective

Nov 23, 2009
From the classical philosophers, to the ancient religions, all the way to the modern self-improvement industry – gratitude has been offered as a way of increasing our basic happiness and satisfaction with life. It is only in recent years, though,...

Reader Discussion: Ask Me Anything You Want

Nov 16, 2009
Questions closed! It’s been a long time since we’ve done something like this, so here goes! This post is plain and simple – ask me whatever you want in the comments: from the personal, to the silly, to the philosophical, to whatever. In fact, the...




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