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20 Most Recent Post Titles with Excerpts
A bare list of links to the last 20 blog posts with linked titles, author and date, a short excerpt, and a continue-reading link.
“April showers bring May flowers.” It’s that time again—despite the “crazy” weather of the past two weeks. In the space of a fifteen minute window it hailed hard and fast, followed by sheets of sideways rain, and then the dark grey clouds dissipated, leaving snowy white clouds hanging in a bright blue sky. And within…
Continue reading...Allow me to introduce myself. I am the illustration of the term “Feel-good-about-Self.” I am one of the 40 new concepts that are launched in the upcoming book by Antoinetta Vogels: A healthy Sense Of Self – How to be true to yourself and make your world a better place! I represent a feeling that…
Continue reading...Monday April 22nd 2015 1:00 PM EST (10 AM PST) Healthy Sense of Self, Key to Better Relationships Monday April 22nd 1 PM EST Healthy Sense of Self or Nutrition Key to Better Relationships? http://goo.gl/QDDmS “A healthy Sense of Self is the backbone of the human psyche. Without it a person skips his/her own life…
Continue reading...Editor’s note: David Innes is many things and happily for the team that is HealthySenseofSelf, he is much more than our webmaster and technical go to guy. He is as passionate about the HySoS Mission and Method as he is about technology, his family, his community, education and social justice issues. His contributions to team…
Continue reading...Please Help! “I feel as though I cannot communicate with anyone, it’s not that I do not want to…I can’t. I can’t think of anything to say to start a conversation, sometimes if I’m lucky ill get a conversation going but then random negative thoughts just come back into my head, I get flustered, and…
Continue reading...“I wish for you discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships so that you will live deep in your heart. “May you be blessed with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation so that you will work for justice, equity, and peace. “May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer…
Continue reading...Why are stories so important for the human species? This is the question Jonathan Gottschall answers in his crisply written book The Storytelling Animal. He points out that since the cave men the story teller knew how to surround himself by people which put him in a position of power. So whether for play or…
Continue reading...“I don’t expect you to agree with me; you weren’t put on the face of the earth to validate and reinforce me. But I want you to love me – and you can’t really do that if you don’t know me. I don’t want your rejection – but I must face that possibility if I’m…
Continue reading...“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.“- Buddha Are there times that this golden kernel of the Buddha’s seems not to apply to you? It takes time to recover and often we forget that important detail. May we be gentle with ourselves and especially after life-changing events.
Continue reading...“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will…
Continue reading...For the past four months I have participated in a social and active meditation that I look forward to repeating monthly. And the funny thing is each time I take on yet again “doing the AUM Meditation” with a group of 8-14 people, I literally get to know my Self better. I see my Self…
Continue reading...A series for a new year and a new you—if you are willing to give up what doesn’t work anymore and get to know your Real Self Are you thinking you are ready to do great things? And if you are thinking you are…: Are you equipped to not only conceive of an idea that…
Continue reading...How unfair it is sometimes: as a toddler and child we are looking in the mirror our parents hold up for us. We like to see the reflection of this cherished and adored little boy or girl in it and we go out of our way to realize that image. Especially when we depend on…
Continue reading...January 21, 2013 “We hold these truths to be self-evident.” Today is a doubly significant day for it is both the day of the Presidential Inauguration and it is also Martin Luther King Day. I happened to turn on the radio at just the right moment for the special coverage of today’s grand event. Last…
Continue reading...“I used to drink, to solve problems causd by drinking. The more I drank the relieve my shame-based loneliness and hurt, the more I felt ashamed. …I came to see that shame is one of the major destructive forces in all human life. In naming shame I began to have power over it.” ~John Bradshaw, Healing…
Continue reading...I caught myself – it was only a split second – but I caught myself thinking- or was it a feeling?- yes almost a feeling. It was such an internalized thought that it was almost a feeling…I caught myself feel-thinking, somewhere in the back of my head, almost unnoticeable but I did notice it because…
Continue reading...It was the 27th of December when a message arrived that “shined bright” in my stream of updates on Facebook. Here struck me a person who knew her Self. And shares it so graciously. As we commence a new calendar year I offer this intention for us all to fully embrace getting in touch with…
Continue reading...When you are who you are, there is no one you can’t get along with. It takes only one and that one is you. You can go downtown and pick a perfect stranger and get married and have a happy life. You are always with a perfect mate. ~Byron Katie
Continue reading...Today is the day for the official release of a new book, 4th in the series of Bestsellers, Ready, Aim, Captivate! Put Magic in Your Message, and a Fortune in Your Future… I was pleased to be a part of this collective venture! And happy to be featured alongside many fine other thought leaders. Please help us spread…
Continue reading...We do need more time for reflection and self-management. We also need new guidelines that help us ground in ourselves in this tumultuous world. The values of our parents turn out to be not always usable anymore; times have changed. We need to become more self-reliant as often we live far away from our native town or even country.…
Continue reading...20 Most Recent Post Titles
A bare list of links to the last 20 blog posts.