September 30, 2016
Disarming the Know-It-All
A Chance to Contribute
Most of us have encountered a person in our lives who can accurately be referred to as a know-it-all. This person seems to know everything about anything that gets brought up and tends to dominate the conversation. They don't take well to being questioned, and they have a hard time ever admitting that they were wrong.
Being around a know-it-all is inevitably tiring because there is no shared energy between the two of you. Rather, you become an audience member to this person's need to be the center of attention. Attention and respect are probably the two things this person most longs for, and at some point in their lives, they learned that knowing it all was the way to get those needs met. Over time, they have become stuck in this pattern, regardless of the fact that it is no longer working. They may feel afraid of the experience of listening, being receptive, or learning something new, because it's so unfamiliar.
On the one hand, when we see the childlike need underneath the know-it-all's mask of confidence, we feel compassion for the person, and we may tolerate their one-sided approach to conversation out of a desire not to hurt their feelings. On the other hand, we may be feeling drained and tempted to avoid this person altogether. In the middle of these two possible ways of feeling, we may actually like this person and wish for a closer relationship. If we come from a place of kindness, we might attempt to bridge the gap that this person's habitual way of relating creates. Simply expressing a desire to be closer may open their heart, and give you a chance to ask for what you need in the relationship—a chance to contribute.
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Overcoming Fear
by Debbie Ford
How many times have you felt yourself shrink? How many times have you made yourself small enough to fit into some role? How many times have you kept your mouth shut when you wanted to speak out or handed over your power to someone who didn't have your best interests at heart? Fear is built into our human operating system. It is a useful emotion that has gone seriously awry. Fear can make us choose what we believe will keep us safe even when the opposite is true. It can make us believe that we can't do it, we are wrong, the cost is too high, the path ahead too difficult. Fear disguises itself with the voice of certainty, filling us with worry, doubt, and even dread. Fear is a very real emotion that can render us powerless. This 8 week course contains powerful lessons every 4 days that includes specific information about how to overcome fear, ignite self-confidence and embody courage. There is a new audio guided meditation with each lesson to help you directly access your inne! r wisdom, resulting in tangible action steps to help you take the steps to living a courageous life.
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Cancer Horoscope: Present Joy
Present Joy
Cancer Daily Horoscope
You may feel unsettled in your personal affairs today or insecure about the course of your life. If your reality does not conform to your desires or expectations, you may find yourself worrying and harboring a great deal of stress. You can avoid the inner turmoil associated with this type of anxiety by grounding yourself firmly in the present. Engaging in repetitive physical exercise can help you achieve a more grounded state. You may also want to explore your need to hold on to expectations and consider instances in your life when waiting patiently for an unknown outcome has proven beneficial. Today can be a wonderful time to escape your thoughts by becoming absorbed in enjoyable activities like swimming or jogging.
Releasing your expectations and staying anchored in the moment can help you prevent past strife and future uncertainties from sapping your sense of confidence. It is often memories that plague us and a fear of the unknown that causes anxiety and tension. Staying grounded in the here and now allows you to focus on the tasks and goals you have chosen to devote your time to without becoming distracted by errant thoughts. Keeping your mind situated in the present helps you take pleasure in small accomplishments, while eschewing expectations helps you avoid worrying about events that may never come to pass. When you anchor yourself in the present today, you will enjoy what is rather than worry about what may lie ahead.
Overcoming Fear
by Debbie Ford
How many times have you felt yourself shrink? How many times have you made yourself small enough to fit into some role? How many times have you kept your mouth shut when you wanted to speak out or handed over your power to someone who didn't have your best interests at heart? Fear is built into our human operating system. It is a useful emotion that has gone seriously awry. Fear can make us choose what we believe will keep us safe even when the opposite is true. It can make us believe that we can't do it, we are wrong, the cost is too high, the path ahead too difficult. Fear disguises itself with the voice of certainty, filling us with worry, doubt, and even dread. Fear is a very real emotion that can render us powerless. This 8 week course contains powerful lessons every 4 days that includes specific information about how to overcome fear, ignite self-confidence and embody courage. There is a new audio guided meditation with each lesson to help you directly access your inne! r wisdom, resulting in tangible action steps to help you take the steps to living a courageous life.
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7. Shifting from Fear to Love
8. A Year of Guided Meditations
9. Intimacy Without Responsibility
10. Release Yourself from Family Karma
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Thursday, September 29, 2016
Life's Natural Rhythm
September 29, 2016
Life's Natural Rhythm
Universal Timing
Nature's natural rhythms orchestrate when day turns to night, when flowers must bloom, and provides the cue for when it is time for red and brown leaves to fall from trees. As human beings, our own inner rhythm is attuned to this universal sense of timing. Guided by the rising and setting of the sun, changes in temperature, and our own internal rhythm, we know when it is time to sleep, eat, or be active. While our minds and spirits are free to focus on other pursuits, our breath and our heartbeat are always there to remind us of life's pulsing rhythm that moves within and around us.
Moving to this rhythm, we know when it is time to stop working and when to rest. Pushing our bodies to work beyond their natural rhythm diminishes our ability to renew and recharge. A feeling much like jet lag lets us know when we've overridden our own natural rhythm. When we feel the frantic calls of all we want to accomplish impelling us to move faster than is natural for us, we may want to breathe deeply instead and look at nature moving to its own organic timing: birds flying south, leaves shedding, or snow falling. A walk in nature can also let us re-attune is to her organic rhythm, while allowing us to move back in time with our own. When we move to our natural rhythm, we can achieve all we need to do with less effort.
We may even notice that our soul moves to its own internal, natural rhythm – especially when it comes to our personal evolution. Comparing ourselves to others is unnecessary. Our best guide is to move to our own internal timing, while keeping time with the rhythm of nature.
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Activate Your Psychic Superpowers!
by Debra Lynne Katz and Krishanti
We all have to deal with problems, manage relationships, and make tough decisions on a daily basis. Much of the peace and harmony we experience in our lives depends upon how well we are able to manage these situations. Image how incredible it would be if you had the ability to tap into your innate psychic and intuitive powers to come up with solutions for all of the issues life presents - not just for yourself, but for others, too? With this course, you'll be able to do just that. While there are very few complete courses, if any, like this, these techniques have been taught in clairvoyant schools throughout the United States, Canada and Europe for over half a century to thousands of students who have gone on to assist countless others. Now for the first time, this information is presented in a unique on-line format in which students can work at their own pace and enjoy the benefit of listening to fun, relaxing and incredibly powerful healing audio meditations that will help! ! them cope with all aspects of life.
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10. A Year of Guided Meditations
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Cancer Horoscope: Learning More Naturally
Learning More Naturally
Cancer Daily Horoscope
An interest in how people from different backgrounds and cultures live their lives can develop into an overwhelming and compelling curiosity today. You may find yourself engaging a variety of individuals in conversation throughout your day, eager to hear more about their habits, beliefs, and customs. As you regale others with questions, the objects of your interest will likely respond affirmatively, encouraged by your enthusiasm and willingness to express the inquisitiveness you feel. You can make the most of these encounters by listening attentively to the tales your acquaintances tell and using your dialogues as a springboard from which you start forming new relationships. The attentiveness you exhibit when conversing with others today can help you broaden your social and business associations.
Our natural curiosity can aid us as we seek to make friends and establish new connections. It gives us a means for demonstrating our interest in the individuals we encounter. Frequently, we refrain from asking others personal questions even though we are eager to learn more about the people we meet in the various spheres of our lives. When we express our curiosity, however, we send a clear signal stating that we are open to taking our casual conversations to a more friendly level. Most people enjoy talking about themselves and will respond to our queries openly and enthusiastically. In this way, our inquisitiveness helps others feel at ease. The questions you ask others today will enable you to broaden the scope of your interpersonal network.
Activate Your Psychic Superpowers!
by Debra Lynne Katz and Krishanti
We all have to deal with problems, manage relationships, and make tough decisions on a daily basis. Much of the peace and harmony we experience in our lives depends upon how well we are able to manage these situations. Image how incredible it would be if you had the ability to tap into your innate psychic and intuitive powers to come up with solutions for all of the issues life presents - not just for yourself, but for others, too? With this course, you'll be able to do just that. While there are very few complete courses, if any, like this, these techniques have been taught in clairvoyant schools throughout the United States, Canada and Europe for over half a century to thousands of students who have gone on to assist countless others. Now for the first time, this information is presented in a unique on-line format in which students can work at their own pace and enjoy the benefit of listening to fun, relaxing and incredibly powerful healing audio meditations that will help! ! them cope with all aspects of life.
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10. A Year of Guided Meditations
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Doing Our Best
September 28, 2016
Doing Our Best
Personal Satisfaction
We often come into contact with the idea that our best isn't good enough, as if this were actually possible. If you examine this notion, you will begin to see that it doesn't make much sense. Your best is always good enough, because it comes from you, and you are always good enough. You may not be able to deliver someone else's idea of the best, but the good news is that's not your burden. You only need to fulfill your own potential, and as long as you remain true to that calling, and always do your best to fulfill your purpose, you don't need to expect anything more from yourself.
It's easy to get tangled up with the idea of trying to be the best—the best parent, the best employee, the best child, or best friend. If we try to be the best, we run the risk of short-circuiting our originality because we are striving to fit into someone else's vision of success. In addition, if everyone is striving for the same outcome, we lose out on creativity, diversity, and visionary alternatives to the way things are done. On another note, there is nothing wrong with wanting to improve, but examining where this feeling comes from is important because wanting to be better than others is our ego coming into play.
Letting go of the tendency to hold ourselves up to other people's standards, and letting go of the belief that we need to compete and win, doesn't mean we don't believe in doing the best job we can. We always strive to do our best, because when we do we create a life free of regret, knowing we have performed to the best of our ability. This allows us to feel great personal satisfaction in all of our efforts, regardless of how others perceive the outcome.
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Permanent Weight Loss with Self-Hypnosis
by Rena Greenberg
Are you tired of the endless struggle of dieting? Are you tired of feeling bad about your health, energy and weight? Do you feel out of control around food? Are you longing to feel better about yourself? Are you ready to take control of your life and your eating habits? If you answered, "yes" to any of these questions, then Lose Weight Now With Self-Hypnosis. In this course, you will learn how to tap into the incredible power of the subconscious mind to make permanent changes in your attitude towards food. You will be given the tools to change the way you think about food subconsciously so you naturally begin to prefer healthy foods and are turned off to foods that are harmful to you.
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2. A Year to Clear What is Holding You Back!
3. 8 Week Whole Body Makeover!
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5. Reinventing The Body, Resurrecting the Soul
6. Shifting from Fear to Love
7. Release Yourself from Family Karma
8. A Year of Guided Meditations
9. Intimacy Without Responsibility
10. Break the Grip of Past Lovers
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Cancer Horoscope: Curiosity Articulated
Curiosity Articulated
Cancer Daily Horoscope
Curiosity may be your watchword today, and you may find yourself approaching your loved ones, colleagues, superiors, and peers with questions. You may feel not only inquisitive but also bold, and you may be interested in unearthing what lies beneath the surface of the individuals you encounter and the circumstances in which you find yourself. Your courageous willingness to ask questions can aid you in your quest for knowledge, as it can empower you to put your most probing inquiries into words when engaged in conversations with others. What you learn may surprise you and can pique your curiosity. Rather than quelling your desire for information, the answers you receive when you give voice to your questions today will likely inspire you to further levels of inquiry.
The questions you ask are representative of your desire to learn and offer a simple means of acquiring the knowledge you long for. Questions promote not only thought but also dialogue. Through them, we articulate the fact that we wish to share in the wisdom we realize others possess. Though approaching others to request they share their knowledge with you can be a difficult and disconcerting experience, most people are delighted and flattered when approached by those who would seek to benefit from their experiences. The more you openly express your curiosity, the more information your peers will see fit to convey during your conversations. You'll discover new worlds of knowledge and gain a new depth of understanding today when you are willing to ask questions.
Permanent Weight Loss with Self-Hypnosis
by Rena Greenberg
Are you tired of the endless struggle of dieting? Are you tired of feeling bad about your health, energy and weight? Do you feel out of control around food? Are you longing to feel better about yourself? Are you ready to take control of your life and your eating habits? If you answered, "yes" to any of these questions, then Lose Weight Now With Self-Hypnosis. In this course, you will learn how to tap into the incredible power of the subconscious mind to make permanent changes in your attitude towards food. You will be given the tools to change the way you think about food subconsciously so you naturally begin to prefer healthy foods and are turned off to foods that are harmful to you.
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6. Shifting from Fear to Love
7. Release Yourself from Family Karma
8. A Year of Guided Meditations
9. Intimacy Without Responsibility
10. Break the Grip of Past Lovers
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Connection
September 27, 2016
Connection
The Truth of Interdependence
Picking a leaf off the ground and contemplating it as an object in and of itself is very inspiring. Its shape and color, the way it feels in your hand, its delicate veins and the stem that once held it fast to the branch of a tree—all of these qualities reveal a leaf to be a miniature work of natural art. As we contemplate this small object more deeply and consider where it came from and what purpose it has served, we find that the leaf is one small but essential part of a system that harnesses the energy of the sun, plumbs the depths of the earth, and in the process brings into being the oxygen many living things rely on to live.
A leaf transforms the elements of its environment—sunlight, carbon dioxide, rain—into nourishment for its tree. This beautiful, nearly weightless, ephemeral piece of nature is a vital conduit to the branch that is a conduit to the trunk that is a conduit to the roots of the tree. The roots, in turn, draw nourishment from the earth to feed the trunk, the branches, and the leaves. The living beings that inhale the oxygen that comes from this process exhale the carbon dioxide that feeds the leaves through which the tree is fed. It is difficult to know where one cycle ends and another one begins.
One of the many gifts that nature offers us is a clear demonstration of the interdependence between all living things. The person who exhales the carbon dioxide, the clouds that produce the rain, the sun that gives light, the leaf that transforms all these things into sustenance for a tree—not one of these could survive without being part of this cycle.
Each living being is dependent upon other living things for its survival. When we look at the world, we see that this is not a place where different beings survive independently of one another. Earth is home to a web of living things that are connected to each other through a spinning kaleidoscope of relationships. We need each other to survive and thrive.
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Heal Yourself With Ayurveda
by Lissa Coffey
Ayurveda teaches us to live life in balance. And it helps us to find exactly what that balance is for each one of us. We learn individual strategies for diet, exercise, and lifestyle. Since health is more than the physical, it is also mental, emotional, and spiritual, Ayurveda can be used to help us create and maintain healthy relationships. It can help us to better understand ourselves, and the people in our lives. We can work with our natural strengths to help balance each other out. We can stop trying to "change" others to fit our needs, and instead accept a person's characteristics as a part of their wholeness, and honor who they are. In Lissa's 8 week course, you will learn everything you need to know to get started living an Ayurvedic lifestyle and be on your way to a life of balance and bliss.
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