Praise Yourself

Once Mel connected with the word shame and his experience of it, he described shame as his constant childhood companion. I turned to him and said: 'Oh, so we're flying together after all! We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. There …

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I Have Gifts

Also, you may experience some resistance from your mind when you start doing this practice. Panic sets in if/when our child loses developmental gains. Therefore, the reality above 200 is totally different than the reality below 200. I'm sorry to harp on but, if you want to be the …

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Mindful Emotions

I've had a great game--looks like I'll break eighty. And it has the ability to call upon various levels of defense. If you have been helping with homework up until this point, this switch-up is going to be a real challenge, but like those toddler temper tantrums that required you …

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Helplessly Hoping

If you are wondering how those super-employees do it, the answer is simple. Whether it's because of overpopulation, pollution, technology, unhealthy lifestyles, or a case of having too much to handle, the stress levels of urbanites jump off the charts. And then we see that the same sensation and coping …

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Maintaining Objectivity

I helped arrange the place settings and then waited with my parents for the other darvishes to sit down before finding a spot. The first thing most of us do in the morning, aside from looking at our smartphones, is brush our teeth. I know that my concern, anger, stress …

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Manipulation Techniques

Perhaps that's why one trip stands out as a shimmering article in our family's story. An fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) brain scan showed what was happening in the subconscious brain: the suggestion given to the subject while in a hypnotic state decreased activity in a part of the brain …

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A Poor Eating Schedule

As tempting as it can be to buy shelving units, storage boxes, folders and binders, new labels, coloured pens - whatever it is that you have your eye on to help get your stuff 'in order' - don't make that purchase! It's about trying to reframe these basic survival moments as times …

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All I Gotta Say Is We're Starting A New Life

But now you know this is part of the solution, and it sticks and gets unconsciously turned over, and then perhaps the epiphany comes through that uncovers why you have that behavior, how meaningless it is to continue the way you do, and how much more meaningful it would be …

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The Laziest Programmer

She lost her passion and could no longer find her once so resolute motivation. + Most of us frown on adults marrying teens, eat delicious donuts instead of nutritious grubs, and, for the most part, are not interested in having ten children and do what we must to keep those numbers …

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To Be Entertained

Every few seconds, the bulge would reappear and disappear. When we act unconscious, our eyes betray us, often revealing our inner beliefs and feelings without our knowledge. But subsequent research, much of it conducted and published over the past decade or so, focused on unbundling the effects of trans fat …

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