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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

A Centering Meditation...

Close your eyes. Feel your breath rising and falling in your body. Hold the thought that when you breathe, God is breathing with you. Place your hands on your heart. Feel the beat of your heart, the life force. Feel it pumping blood to every part of your body. Keep your attention focused on your... Sign in to see full entry.

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Making resolutions we don't always keep...

Most of us wake up with a resolution to eat well and enjoy our day. So many of us sabotage our resolutions by giving up without really trying. Each time we look in the mirror and see only part of who we are, we diminish our own worth. We also violate our bodies when we eat food that doesn't agree... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 5, 2008

Readjusting our consciousness not on the basis of pleasure alone...

but on delay of gratification. This is a psychological concept that refers to the postponement of immediate pleasure for future good. The ability to delay gratification is considered to be one of the hallmarks of emotional maturity, both in men and women. Everyone agrees patience is a virtue,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Breathing shows how you feel...

Learning good breathing techniques helps us relax and enjoy everything to the fullest. Most of us take breathing for granted. relaxed breathing helps us control our emotions, reduce stress, quiet our body and focus on our thoughts. If you are tense and stressed, breathing can return your body to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 1, 2008

It's a sick life being poet...he writes to give himself health...

*This my own sculpture. I call Bird of God. 12"x3", clay so long as he writes. When he lays down his pen or shuts off his typewriter he falls ill again. He finds himself in the world, bare, expect that he hears the poetry of gunfire and cries of revenge, worse yet, of murder. It is poetry he could... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Do you know how to get to the land of Self-Love and Acceptance?

This is a quote from Gary Zukav, referring to Willliam James, Carl Jung, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Niels Bohr, and Albert Einstein, Seat of the Soul, "...I came to understand that what motivated these men was not Earthly prizes or the respect of colleagues, but that they put their souls and minds on... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Do you work at playing or play at working?

When our business is creating, like writing poetry, or real art, it is hard to distinguish between whether we're playing or working. I think play is the most important component to learning to do anything well. It keeps us at it. If we try to learn everything with a sense of play, we would not... Sign in to see full entry.

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Dealing with your shadow...

Don't be afraid of the darker side of you. all of us have a dark side. We could say that the dark side of our personality is the side we often want to hide from the world. What's good about light is that it can cast off shadows wherever we see them. Angels are light and God is light. learning casts... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 28, 2008

Paying attention to your intuitions, your dreams, the symbols in your

in your life that motivate you. Do you see angels everywhere? Do you see butterflies or ladybugs? Do you having two huge furry dice hanging from your windshield. Pay attention to what drives your curiosity and enthusiasm for certain symbols? Learn how to use your personal and universal wisdom to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, April 26, 2008

Creating a family of choice...a group of people we love...who love us...

Most women are good at devoting time to developing and maintaining relationships. With an extended family, of small to none, I have a smile circle of friends I call family. As for my children, they are aunts and uncles, all grown up now with families of their own. My grandkids are like my kids now,... Sign in to see full entry.

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I am many, a ceramic artist, a poet and a wanderer. Give yourself a hug by looking for my book, Sculpting the Heart, to be in print soon; or in the meantime, check out The Soul's Palette, written by Cathy Malchiodi, leading authority at TLC, National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children on Art Therapy

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