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Conscious Awareness

Why People Smoke Cigarettes: Five Reasons That Might Surprise You

Cigarette smoking is a personal choice. However, if you are considering stopping smoking, you may already realize that quitting requires more than willpower or scaring yourself with statistics of why smoking is bad. 
Conventional smoking cessation systems often don’t work in the long term because they do not address the real reasons that people smoke. Listed [...]

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Initiate a Morning Ritual of Sitting Quietly

Before starting your day in the morning, sit quietly, even if only for one minute. This one minute may be the most important minute of your day. Sit down and simply breathe. This can help slow your mind, lift you out of old habits of stress and rushing, and create balance. 
Take a minute to touch [...]

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Your Intuition is Speaking, Are You Listening?

“Follow your intuition! Go with your instincts! Trust your gut!” I’m sure you have heard this advice numerous times even well before depression set in. You would probably love to follow it, if only you could find the magic button labeled “Intuition Now.”
Intuition under normal circumstances is a very confusing thing. It’s not an emotion [...]

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Living Your Highest Potential

No one can change the past; no one can undo past actions. What is done is done. At some point, if feeling better and greater fulfillment are desired outcomes, we finally say, “Okay. I can rant, rave, and feel sorry for myself all I want. I can blame others or myself for this life I’m [...]

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Timeless Thoughts For Taking Responsibility For Your Life

 
 
Creating a great life means taking the steps to know yourself on an intimate level. It is about feeling entitled to take care of yourself, define your needs, and put the achieving of those needs at the very top number one slot of your to-do list.
 
Creating a great life involves noticing how you feel [...]

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Tired of the Same Ole Same Ole? Time to Shake Things Up!

“With the past, I have  nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every day we wake up, eat, go to work, eat, sleep, and do it all over again the next day. We find a system makes life run smoothly and that adds to our productivity. And it works – [...]

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Feeling Worse Instead of Better? Why Personal Growth Often Feels Bad

A great wave of healing and awakening is sweeping the world. A new time of personal growth, conscious awareness, and awakened co-creation among humanity is flowering. People are stepping into an exciting ability to bring greater peace, love, and joy into their lives.
 
Perhaps you have noticed this breath of awakening within yourself. However, instead of [...]

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Enjoy Food, Enjoy Life!

A crisp wind rustles through what is left of the golden and brown leaves of my neighborhood trees. There’s frost on the morning grass, and depending on where you live, snow may already be painting the landscape a brilliant white. The chilly breezy days invite invigorating walks through blowing leaves and the cold nights inspire [...]

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Love is in the Details

Do you want to live a life filled with joy and vibrant aliveness? Of course you do! 
But knowing precisely how to live that joy-filled life can be confusing. Exactly where does one begin to create a better future? 
Start by paying attention to the details! It’s absolutely amazing how paying attention to the little things can [...]

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Somebody Fix My Life Now!

On our path into a personally happy, fulfilling life, we move through various stages of personal evolution. At first, we generally live a day-to-day existence stuck in the movie of our life without realizing that we have any choice about the matter. We accept the circumstances of how we live tolerating whatever comes along.
In this [...]

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