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Self development
STOP SPINNING! This post is about how to enjoy the Christmas season despite being sober! (oops I meant sane!) By the way, if you don’t celebrate Christmas, please insert your holiday wherever I mention Christmas. No one could convince me that the world is not spinning faster! Time really has sped up and I…
Health
Endorphins are the body’s natural happy drugs! Joy buddies! They make us feel great, happy, peaceful, relaxed and joyful. We can’t synthetically manufacture anything as powerful as endorphins, but humans can do things to produce them anytime! A simple way to release them is to put a big “silly” grin on our faces, …
Emotional intelligence
What do you want your life to look like at the end of the adventure of 2015? Grab a piece of paper (and maybe a glass of wine!) and make a list of all the areas on your life, work, family, relationship, health, finances, self, learning, growth, friends, lifestyle etc. Under each of those…
Change
Robert Dilts is a well known American expert in neurolinguistics and writes frequently for a magazine called Anchor Point. In a past edition he was discussing the connection between beliefs and health or wellness. He introduced the concept of ‘thought viruses’. What a fantastic way of describing one of the most powerful mechanisms of illness…
Emotional intelligence
A quote from a book written by The Mother, a student of Sri Arubindo (a famous Indian Guru) touched my heart. “Everything always depends on the way in which things are done. Not so much what one does but the spirit in which one does it.” To me, the spirit in which we do things…
Emotional intelligence
When I lived in America, I spoke to a lovely group in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. I was telling them about my niece’s first gym competition. At the time she was 9 and I was (and still am) a very doting, and enthusiastic aunt! In between exercises (which I must say were not that exciting and seemed…
Emotional intelligence
The Harvard business review (HBR) lists emotional intelligence (EQ) as the number one quality of a great leader. The essence of EQ is to know yourself, manage yourself and manage relationships. Out of all the various aspects of EQ, HBR states that the leader’s mood has the most significant impact on the culture of an…
Change
continued from Part I The fifth lesson in a Course of Miracles asks you to work with the idea that “I am never upset for the reason I think.” They give examples like: “I am not angry with/afraid of/upset with for the reason I think.” I think that’s a great exercise! I have tried practicing…
Health
We had just taken off from some airport in the U.S. on a particularly stormy day, it was bumpy and rough and a bit scary, but then we passed through the clouds, and it was the most gorgeous, sunny clear blue sky! It suddenly dawned on me that it’s ALWAYS sunny above the clouds!…
Gratitude
No matter how you look at it, comparisons will ruin your joy! Comparison is the cousin of judgment. It serves no purpose other than to make you feel discontented with what you have. STOP IT! Here are 6 ways to increase your joy: 1. STOP comparing how you look with how others look. 2. STOP…
Self development
Wonderful Sylvia, who is an inspiration to me, sent me a link this morning, When you click on this link, you will be showered with hundreds of extraordinary heart shaped cactus images! It had me thinking about and searching for hearts in nature, I found ‘love’ everywhere! Here are just a few: It’s…
Self development
2014 has started with all sorts of solar flares and cosmic activities that some people say will change the way we live and especially our awareness! Which is interesting because I had planned to write early this year about the best strategies we can use to actually make change in our lives. The best strategy…
Self development
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves” Leo Tolstoy It seems an oxymoron to put joy and change in the same sentence, a short sentence at that! But this is my next mission, to help people understand that change is possible and can be joyful. We know…
Self development
Will this New Year be the same as usual for you? You rush around for Christmas/Holidays, eat and drink too much and then find the best party you can go to on New Year’s Eve, drink buckets more and the next morning think about what resolutions you need to make for the new year.…
Self development
“In the beginning was the word” So spake the Bible a zillion years ago. But we seem to have forgotten these words of wisdom. We are taught lots of words to use at school but very few of us are taught to be ‘wordsmiths’, to have a love of words or most importantly to respect…
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