Self Discovery

Who Are We Without Our Titles?

Natalie Thomas | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Saying Goodbye, Self-Discovery, Divorce, Loss, Breakups, Labels, Identity Crisis, Empty Nest Syndrome, Career, Goodbye, Empty Nest, Self Concept, Self Definition, Emotional Wellness, Healthy Living News
Natalie Thomas

Too often, we define ourselves by our jobs in this world: "I work at X," "I'm so and so's mother, ____'s wife." But when those relationships have expired, matured or evaporated, what's left?

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The Limitless Treasure Of Who You Are

Gangaji | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Attention, Gangaji, Discovery, Treasure, Wonder, Surrender, Life, Consciousness, Self, Self-Discovery, Who You Are, Gps-Soul, Identity, The Self, Healthy Living News
Gangaji

As I began to grow up, I attempted to define myself -- this presence of "I" -- through endlessly collecting information. In this natural process of mental awareness inhabiting a body, I discovered a symphonic mandala of sometimes competing, sometimes complementing explanations.

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Life After College -- My Crash Course into Adulthood at 22

Patrice Bendig | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Self Discovery, The Roaring Twenties, Women's Issues, College, Dating-in-Your-Twenties, Life, Women Workplace, Quarter-Life Crisis, Women News
Patrice Bendig

Each time I log into my Facebook account, another high school or college friend is getting engaged or having babies.

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Meditation: The Pearl In The Oyster

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Meditation, Self-Discovery, Spirituality, Benefits of Meditation, Mindfulness, Meditation Benefits, Mindfulness Meditation, Healthy Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

Meditation is both an experience of being who we really are, as well as the practice that invites us to be in this state. No one practice is more effective or important than another.

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Finding My Voice

Randi Miller | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Self-Expression, Finding Peace, Changing Direction, Self-Awareness, Voiceover Artisits, Voiceover, Self-Discovery, DC News
Randi Miller

Finding my voice has been the best experience I could have hoped for, even with all the heartache that came with it.

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Minding the Chatter ... Clears Clutter

Stephanie Bennett Vogt | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Reinvention, Personal Transformation, Self-Discovery, Mindfulness, Meditation, Self-Improvement, Self-Reinvention, Changing Your Life, Self-Care, Simplifying Life, Fifty News
Stephanie Bennett Vogt

Have you ever stopped what you were doing to simply watch what's going on in your head? Yes, to do nothing more than observe your thoughts without doing anything to fix or manage them?

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It Takes One to Know One: Dancing With the Shadow Self

Akoshia Yoba | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Meditation, Psychology, Self-Improvement, Self-Awareness, Emotional Management, Self-Awareness Tips, Self-Discovery, Mindfulness, Self Esteem, Healthy Living News
Akoshia Yoba

Living in a society that shuns blatant acts of self-praise, I learned that when we admire people we are often projecting the best and beautiful parts of ourselves onto them.

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Celebrating Life, Death, And The Space In Between

Stephanie Bennett Vogt | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Reinvention, Day of the Dead, Personal Transformation, Self-Discovery, All Soul's Day, Self-Improvement, Self-Reinvention, Changing Your Life, Dying, Death, Fifty News
Stephanie Bennett Vogt

I can only imagine what the final ride will be like to the other side when our time comes. But if Steve Jobs' final words are any indication, I'd like to think that it will be an exquisite homecoming.

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What Drives YOU? Take Our Core Values Quiz

John Tsilimparis | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Depression, Identity, Self-Esteem, Personal Growth, Anxiety, Confidence, Self-Discovery, Consciousness, Core Values, Healthy Living Spirit, Healthy Living News
John Tsilimparis

When we rediscover our core values and make a conscious decision to live by them as best we can, we gradually begin to see changes in our lives.

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57 And Just Getting Started: Reflections of a Late Bloomer

Stephanie Bennett Vogt | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Reinvention, Self-Reinvention, Self-Improvement, Personal Transformation, Self-Discovery, Changing Your Life, Fifty News
Stephanie Bennett Vogt

I will send out this silent blessing to everybody out there that could use a lift and a nudge: Do what makes your heart sing. And if you don't know what it is yet, keep going until you find it.

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Steps to Building Self-Confidence

Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Self Discovery, Self-Esteem, Self Value, Self-Worth, Self-Confidence, Healthy Living Mind, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News
Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD

All of us as humans are worthy, but some of us detach from that truth and start judging ourselves and denying our own right, the right to have a positive place in this world.

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How To Look For Genuine Spirituality When Your Religion Can't Give It To You

Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Religion, Religion Science, Self-Discovery, Self-Awareness, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Spirit, Spirituality vs. Religion, Spiritual Not Religious, Religion News
Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD

Why is it that sometimes I feel like my religion is giving me junk food for the soul? Why does my religion confuse me about God and encourage me to deny my truth about how I really feel?

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How To Be Completely Honest With Yourself

Gangaji | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Awareness, Attention, Self-Discovery, Consciousness, Hidden Treasure, Storytelling, Stories, Teaching, The Inner Life, Life Stories, Conscious Awareness, Silent Awareness, Healthy Living News
Gangaji

By inquiring into your life story, you can recognize the layers of ephemeral distraction that keep your attention busy with entanglements. When you recognize this, you can reclaim your attention.

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Clear a Drawer, Change Your Life: A Surprising Path to Reinvention

Stephanie Bennett Vogt | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Cleaning, Changing Careers, Self-Discovery, Changing Your Life, Clearing Your Mind, Reinvention, Self-Reinvention, Fifty News
Stephanie Bennett Vogt

Whether it is a lighter load, a quieter mind, a better mood, a solution to a problem that you're chewing on, less attachment to outcomes, finding your soulmate or your mojo... here's my all-purpose recipe for reinvention.

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On The Path To Self-Discovery With Fergie

Laura Harvey | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Healthy Living Spirit, Wisdom, Self Discovery, Healthy Living, Fergie Self Help, Fergie Spirituality, Fergie, Fergie Self Esteem, Fergie on Oprah, Sarah Ferguson, Self Discovery Sarah Ferguson, Healthy Living News
Laura Harvey

While I cannot relate to life as a royal, I can certainly relate to Sarah's personal struggle of not knowing her true value, making destructive choices and self-sabotage.

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Are You Too Comfortable With Being Comfortable?

Lisa Arie | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Silly Head Games, Self-Discovery, Innovation, Unitasking, Being Aware, Horse, Horses, In the Moment, Being Present, Success, Head Games, Healthy Living News
Lisa Arie

The point is that many of us are operating in default mode on a daily basis. We're on automatic pilot. We are so overwhelmed with information and requests for information we shut down and go on cruise control.

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Liver Donation, Break up, Led Author David Jedeikin to Wander the Rainbow

Simona Rabinovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Self Publishing, Jordan, Liver Transplant, Self Discovery, Lgbt, Gay Travel, Eat Pray Love, New Zealand, Living Liver Donation, LGBT Travel, Brazil, Flashpacking, Solo Travel, Singapore, Peru, Travel Memoir, Cambodia, San Francisco, Ebooks, Tokyo, Dublin, Travel News
Simona Rabinovitch

After donating part of his liver to his (now ex-) boyfriend, breaking up and feeling lost, David Jedeikin wrote about it all in his book, Wander the Rainbow.

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Remembering A Buddhist Psychotherapy Pioneer

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Buddhist Therapy, Ron Kurtz, Self-Discovery, Buddhism, Hakomi, Ron Kurtz Dead, Psychotherapy, Buddha, Therapy, Freud, Bodhisattva, Therapists, Religion News
Craig K. Comstock

Take a man trained in natural science, expose him to eastern religions and to West Coast therapy and the result was Hakomi.

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Discovery

Rabbi Mordecai Finley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Therapy, Insight, Divorce, Self-Discovery, Forgiveness, Personal Growth, Divorce News
Rabbi Mordecai Finley

Every divorce is uniquely unhappy, to paraphrase Tolstoy.

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7 Transformative Solo Trips

Jeff Wise | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adventure, Travel, Slidepollajax, Travel Tips, Self-Discovery, Desert, Zen, Solo, Travel News
Jeff Wise

While the risks are greater without a buffer of companions, so are the rewards. You enjoy perfect freedom of thought and movement, a steeling of self-reliance, and an ability to connect more intensely.

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'Eat Pray Love' Ex-Husband's Book Canceled

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, Self Discovery, Memoirs, Eat Pray Love, Books, Michael Cooper, Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love Movie, Displaced, Books News

Hyperion has canceled "Displaced," the rebuttal memoir by the "Eat Pray Love" author's ex-husband Michael Cooper. Elizabeth Gilbert broke with Cooper ...

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Circle Dance

Jessica Keener | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Birds, Self-Discovery, Home, Vermont, Healthy Living News
Jessica Keener

Recently, I spent a week in a two-bedroom cottage in southwestern Vermont. I'd rented this cottage once in the winter and was eager to return to the ...

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A Journey into Self-Discovery

Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Self-Discovery, Personality, Life Choices, Objective, Long-Term Value, The Inner Life, Category, Misery, Happiness, Culture, Roles, Language, Career, Work, Effectiveness, Positive, Healthy Living News
Marshall Goldsmith

When you have to adapt yourself to fit a role, you may not be miserable, but it will likely be hard work. For this reason, it's best to choose roles that match your personality and behavioral styles.

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The Path Of Spiritual Awakening

Natasha Dern | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Spirituality, Spiritual Growth, Mind.Body.Soul, Living News, Self Discovery, The Inner Life, Living, Spiritual Awakening, Healthy Living News
Natasha Dern

When you perceive yourself, your life, your world in a new and meaningful way, be assured, that something within you will bring forth illumination, an ocean of possibilities pour into your life.

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Sub-Personalities: Who's Calling The Shots?

Natasha Dern | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Transformation, Spiritual Journey, Mind.Body.Soul, Living News, The Inner Life, Spirituality, Self Discovery, Healing, Living, Self-Realization, Healthy Living News
Natasha Dern

Sub-personalities are like children - they need and demand a lot and often insist on getting their way. They keep nagging at you, screaming or throwing a tantrum when things do not materialize

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