Use What You Get

At one point, without any relevant context, he brings up Hootie & the Blowfish. Tribal wars, religious wars, civil wars, dynastic wars, national wars, revolutionary wars, colonial wars, wars of conquest and of liberation, wars to prevent and to end all wars, follow each other in a chain of compulsive repetitiveness …

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Act Mindfully

You might even store it in your buttocks or in your hamstrings. Use the completion principle to get your motivation back. It is not life's events but how you react to them and your attitude about them that determine whether the events have a positive or negative effect on your …

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Playing Sports

Each week as I tried to grab hold of an issue, it would strangely evanesce. R apport is about more than just tricking someone into allowing you to really understand them. After the drama of an acute admission, with its ambulances, scans, blood tests and intravenous drips, patients and their …

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Listen To The Music Inside

In fact you never quite get back to where you were before you started. Too many of us turn away from using our influence to create change because we just don't know how to bridge the differences between us. But no matter how many times you watch a demonstration in …

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Giving Up Alliance For Lent

The problem came when I noticed that being busy didn't ever end--there was always more to do. Others are adventurers who welcome the challenge and excitement of risk. This isn't an ideal opportunity to push limits and endeavour to accomplish troublesome stances, yet rather to deal with care and meditation …

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Speak Like You Really Mean It

The reason why IBS sufferers appear to be neurotic worriers is because it is another manifestation of the same disease: the serotonin disturbance that is causing their harried bowels is also depleting their ability to think clearly. This also demands that you should live and act as though you already …

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Turn Piety Into A Game

Put on comfortable clothes and sit in your favorite place in your house. If uncertainty exists in many areas of your life, or if it lasts a long time, you and your emotions are going to need to build a myriad of self-care and mindfulness practices (and human support) to …

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Filter Out Resistance

The amygdala's role is to process stimuli and respond with emotion. Just as I began scraping together the courage to once more suggest to Steven that he and I go into couples counseling, I got pregnant for the third time. It seems that forgiving ourselves for procrastinating helps us move …

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Motivational Bias In Attribution

As a first-time offender with a misdemeanor charge, Angela would in all likelihood eventually either have her case dismissed or be sentenced to pay a fine or perform community service--all outcomes that would not include any jail time. It is this pressure that damages the optic nerve, causing permanent loss …

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Standing Up For Pity

Yet having been able to learn through concrete means why she needs certain types of words to get her ideas across (the specific word choices being hers alone), her written work is vastly more communicative of the growing person within. An effective way to do this is to change how …

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Harnessing Adaptability

You must replace emotional and ethical rationales with pure survival instinct. The self-disclosure, of course, needs to be genuine and relevant: It is unlikely that each person who hoards has the same vulnerabilities, but it is likely that all have some predisposing factors that set them up for hoarding symptoms …

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Is It Time To See Zeal Yet?

Let's say you need one cup of sugar--visualize a one-cup measuring cup circling around your bag or canister of sugar. I loved it when you used to rub my feet while we watched the news is easier to understand and act upon than You used to be a loving husband …

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Appreciating Our World

The more aggressive person pushes all of his buttons, and his refusal to deal with it pushes hers. It's because, again, your mind is constantly consuming and programming itself with whatever you're feeding it. You're possibly familiar with the pre-frontal cortex - the 'thinking part' of the brain. While seating, the …

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Repair Your Harmony

Bit by bit, we managed to turn the volume down on the blame and criticism and create a safer atmosphere for exploration. I call upon the four directions, the north, south, east, and west. In his 2009 Nature Review article, he provided an alternative theory, the dynamic polygon hypothesis. It's …

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Maybe It's Good

You need to find some sort of intermediary that allows for this process to happen without you feeling like you cannot control it. When our two-year-old plays with the pink tower of ten wooden stacking blocks, they offer him proprioceptive and visual exploration of comparative quantities. Each of these themes …

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Showed Me What It's Like To Be

The problem is that treatments based on this hypothesis, including medicines to extinguish those plaques, have largely failed in clinical trials. Work no longer appears as the thief of our free time, it becomes an old friend that we are used to visiting with. Alcohol is involved in about half …

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Getting Paid To Meditate

These two steps detail how to proceed as you practice exposure: Instead of biting your lip because you know he's been swamped at work, you need to politely say, "If you could please put away your laundry on laundry day, it would be a big help for my stress level …

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