August 10th, 2010
Every time I walk by a newsstand or pass through a grocery store check-out line, I am interested and alarmed to note headline after headline extolling the virtues of sex. If you only knew the right steps, tricks, positions, and attitudes, you could cure whatever ails your sex life and thus save your marriage, keep your lover, or attract the mate of your dreams. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: personal growth, self-improvement
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June 22nd, 2010
When I first started my website blog section, I wrote a small piece about THE SECRET, the book and DVD that were produced after the author, Rhonda Byrne, interviewed Jerry and Esther Hicks on one of the ABRAHAM Alaskan Cruises. Jerry and Esther were in the very first version of the DVD but then withdrew their involvement because the book’s author didn’t really “get” what they were talking about when they taught intentionality. It is not about concentrating one’s thoughts….I want…., I want….I want…., but rather about the convergence of one’s desires, beliefs and emotions, which is much harder than it sounds. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: metahphysics, Metaphysics
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March 30th, 2010
Who are you, what is your core-being really all about? What is the theme of your life, your entire life? Can a person have such a thing? Aren’t we a whole lot more complicated than just one theme, one defined core idea? But if you did have a core theme, how would you go about finding it? Read the rest of this entry »
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March 15th, 2010
If what quantum physicists say is true, that everything in the Universe is connected…animate and inanimate…then how can you experience that in everyday life, outside the physicist laboratory? How can you know yourself that this is true? The answer is by paying attention to everything in your life, by keeping your ears, eyes and mind open to the “messages” in all those everyday experiences that we commonly ignore, take for granted and never consider as having anything to do with each other. Read the rest of this entry »
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February 19th, 2010
What is the Protestant Work Ethic, or is it the Puritan Work Ethic (PWE)? To put it succinctly, for me, the PWE means you have no worth (in society, your family and to yourself) unless you are productive each and every day and you get all your work done before you take time to play. The trouble is there never is any time to play because there is always more work to do. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 30th, 2010
How come just saying “No” never really works?
I’ll tell you why. Because for most of us, saying “No” is the hardest thing we have to do in our daily lives. Most women but many men too just avoid it by running themselves ragged, even to the point of illness, doing for others rather than saying, “No” to them. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: personal growth
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January 28th, 2010
Letting go, Exquisite Agony ( short version)
In the mid 80′s, I had the good fortune to interview Mr. James Cox several months before he died. His father had purchased some of the St. Augustine Ranch (on the western edge of White Sands Missile Range between Alamogordo and Las Cruces,) from a James MacAllister, so he was curious about me as well. Mr. Cox was an avid historian too, so we were in “hog heaven” so to speak, talking for hours about the history of the Mesilla Valley (in Southern New Mexico). One of the questions I asked Mr. Cox as I do of every elderly person I have the privilege to interview was, “If you had one piece of advice to give to young people today, what would it be?” Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Grief & Loss
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January 28th, 2010
Have You Hugged Your Plants Today?
“Short of Aphrodite, there is nothing lovelier on this planet than a flower, nor more essential than a plant.” Thus begins Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird’s remarkable book, The Secret Life of Plants.
Though it was published in 1972, I only recently discovered this book and was spellbound by it. It is a historical review of centuries of scientific research on the physical, emotional and spiritual relations between plants and man. The authors went to the Library of Congress and dusted off the secrets of plant research long buried on the archive shelves, some for centuries, by the authorities of the day. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Inspirational, quantum physics
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January 27th, 2010
How many of you feel liked by someone, appreciated by someone, loved by someone? Now how do you know that? How do you know you are cared for or about? How do you know you are appreciated? How do you know you are loved—by friends, fellow group members, your siblings, your partners, your children? What exactly is it that makes you feel loved or cared for or appreciation? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: communication, love, relationships
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November 20th, 2009
The problem with books like “The Secret” which was actually taken from the work of Gerry and Esther Hicks and the channeling of entities collectively calling themselves “Abraham,” is that they do not tell or show you how to actually convert a negative feeling or thought into positive ones. Abraham tells us to “pivot” in every small segment of intending to choose the positive of what we want, but when I am flooded with negative feelings, no matter how hard I try, I cannot make myself feel positive. Even when I use a positive mantra, I can’t do it. But if you stop and ask, “Okay, what is being brought to my attention, could there possibly be a hidden blessing in all this negative, or what am I being forced to literally do, and is there a positive in that, then you have a chance to turn the emotional sock inside out. Try it.
Tags: attraction, Metaphysics, self-improvement
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