Self Reflection

Thoughts on Turning 30

Susan R. Hatten | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Baptism, Psychology, Turning 30, Relationships, Girlfriends, Emotional Growth, Self-Reflection, 30th Birthday, 30, Thirty, Women News
Susan R. Hatten

As I approach my thirtieth birthday in the coming weeks, I have chosen to review my life in detail, and to dissect each layer of my being to discover what I am comprised of.

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Fragments of A Life

Nancy Sharp | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: May, Twins, Summer, Memoir, Spring, Motherhood, Changing Seasons, Self-Reflection, Fragments, Parents News
Nancy Sharp

Every May, the buzz of adult, kid, family and professional activities wipes me out. So much so that I tend to feel rather porous, as if my brain has turned to Swiss cheese.

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The Importance of Forgiveness in Yourself and Others

Amanda Slavin | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: 9/11, Heartbreak, Phyllis Rodriguez, TED Talks, Nyc, Hamptons, Self-Reflection, Forgiveness, Aicha El-Wafi, Impact News
Amanda Slavin

This act of forgiveness is beyond powerful. Forgiveness allows you to see people for all they are, and see yourself for who you are.

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A New Era For The Brain -- Guiding Your Own Evolution

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Higher Brain Functioning, Evolutionary Leaps, Brain Research, Self-Reflection, Homeostasis, State of Consciousness, Consciousness, Mind the Brain, Human Brain, Brain and Mind, Brain Mind, Higher Consciousness, The Brain, The Mind, Healthy Living News
Deepak Chopra

In the following posts I'll suggest a new synthesis that takes the most basic aspects of brain function to show that the era of higher brain function has arrived, awaiting only how you and I choose to participate.

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Specks And Planks

Tanya Martin | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Self-Reflection, Self-Evaluation, Judgment, Gossip, Christianity, Scripture Commentary, Religion News
Tanya Martin

What if they were able to reveal the most intimate details of both our words and actions? What if the covers were pulled off our hidden sins and exposed for the entire world to evaluate?

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Letter To My Younger Self

Christopher Meeks | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Reinvention, Self Growth, Personal Growth, Looking Back, Self-Reflection, Parenting post50, Nostalgia, Redroom, Growing Older, Fifty News
Christopher Meeks

I came across a picture of myself in college, and was stunned how much I used to look like my son does now, who's also in college. I wanted to write a letter to my younger self -- or is it to my son? It works either way.

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Dear Me -- A Letter to My 16-Year-Old Self

Trish Mitchell | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Psychology, Dearme, Journals, Self-Reflection, Teenage Years, The Past, Reflection, Comedy News
Trish Mitchell

Dearest Trisha, You are about to have a rough year. Your 16th birthday was crap, I know, like a lot of your life so far, but I promise it'll be ok. I...

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My Mirror, Myself

Renata Helfman | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Beauty Flash Report, Mirrored-Self, Aging, Healthy Living Body, No Mirror Day, Beauty and Skin, Self-Awareness, Self-Love, Bikram Yoga, Mirrors, Self-Reflection, Beauty, Mirror Time, Benefits of Yoga, Healthy Living News
Renata Helfman

Have you ever felt like you look in the mirror too much? I'm raising my own hand very high as I pose that question.

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Honest Talk in the Body Acceptance Movement

Rosalind Wiseman | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Jess Weiner, Body Image, Women's Health, Obesity, Personal Health, Honesty, Women's Self-Esteem, Weight Loss, Self-Reflection, Style News
Rosalind Wiseman

It is essential to women's emotional health to love their body in spite of the constant messages we get that we only deserve to do so if we are as thin as we are told to be. But somewhere along the way we lost the overall point.

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A Reflection On Identity And Changing Religious Beliefs

Brandon G. Withrow | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Theology, Personal Identity, St. Augustine, Self-Reflection, Rainer Maria Rilke, Spiritual Journey, Religious Fundamentalism, Religious Journey, Christian Fundamentalism, Religion and Family, Religion News
Brandon G. Withrow

Time and distance may make it hard for me to remember why I believed what I did once. Why did my early ideas make sense then but now seem so foreign?

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Rewiring Our Minds For A Modern Lifestyle

Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Neuroplasticity, Neuroscience, Spiritual Living, Self-Reflection, The Inner Life, Self-Awareness, Brain, Social Networking, Science, Healthy Living News
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.

When we spend hours in the front of a computer screen, we may be involved in rewiring our neural connections to make our brains more receptive to a modern, highly connected and networked lifestyle.

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Stop Shoulding All Over Yourself in LA

Holly Sidell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Self Awareness, Spiritual Journey, Holly Sidell, Holly-Sidell, Self-Reflection, Spirituality, Self-Help, Self-Realization, Los Angeles News
Holly Sidell

Since high school, one of my favorite quotes has been Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Traveling is a fool's paradise." And I always believed this quote to be resoundingly true.

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Flight Patterns

Todd Greene | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Meditation, Fine Art, Self-Reflection, Meaning of Life, Meaning, Reflection, Travel, Healthy Living News
Todd Greene

One of the most interesting things about traveling is how much it broadens the mind's perspective (much needed). A perfect example is traffic.

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What Can You Do To Lower Your Kids' Future Therapy Bills?

Dr. Paula Bloom | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Therapy, Parenting, Self-Reflection, Parenting Tips, PBS This Emotional Life, Paula Bloom, Pbs, Healthy Living News
Dr. Paula Bloom

Parents today worry about how their decisions are sending their kids straight to a shrink's couch. As if parents keep a running tab of what each "mistake" might cost in future therapy bills.

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Recentered and Ready for 2010 - Creating Your Best Year Yet

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Top Ten List, How to Be Happy, Life Goals, 2009 Reflections, 2010, Soul, Self-Reflection, Happy New Year, Goals, Healthy Living News
Danielle Cavallucci

With 2009 coming to an end and so many of us having "lost" so many of the material comforts and ease that marked years prior, we are faced with an opportunity to do the soul work necessary for a more fulfilling, heart-centered life.

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Unprecedented Anger in the Face of Economic Hardship and War

Lynn Tilton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leadership, Anger, America, Self-Reflection, Collective Consciousness, Economy, Truth, World News
Lynn Tilton

As we start this new decade, we face the dangers of an unprecedented anger embedded in our nation as well as in countries across the the world. It is a time when divides are widening.

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Striving for Purpose and Meaning

Stacey Radin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Meaning, Careers, Unemployment, Purpose, Recession, Leadership, Sickness, Self-Actualization, Health, Self-Reflection, Healthy Living News
Stacey Radin

I just received news that I will be physically fine -- but the learning that came from two months of grappling with life and death was the best education I could have ever received.

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Why Men Don't Talk

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women, Tony Soprano, Don Draper, Manhood, Feelings, Men and Communication, Difference Between Men and Women, Men and Emotions, Self-Reflection, Healthy Living News
Tom Matlack

Men don't talk because the very vocabulary for day-to-day life has been so dominated by a female frame of reference that we've lost the ability to explain ourselves in any meaningful way.

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What Religion Are You?

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Religion, Fatherhod, Faith, Dogs, Jews, Buddhist, Finding God, Christians, Self-Reflection, Muslim, Quakers, Self-Realization, Healthy Living News
Tom Matlack

"What religion are you?" my 13 year-old son Seamus asked me last night. His mother and I have been divorced since he was six months old. He's grown up a strict Catholic. I was born a Quaker.

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Will Ferrell's Sunday Night Live

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cort Theatre, Will Ferrell, Laughing at Oneself, George W. Bush, Pavel Somov, Will Ferrell Bush, Self-Reflection, W, Self-Awareness, Snl, Comedy News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

What can I say? I can't quite say "it'd be funny if it wasn't so true" - because it is true and it is funny. I can simply say this: in Will Ferrell's portrayal of "W", the Cort Theatre has finally met its historical Jester.

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Steve Pavlina: Personal Development for Smart People (Part 2)

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Personal Development, Personal Growth, Steve Pavlina, Spirituality, Bill Maher, Religion, Self Reflection, Self Exploration, Religiosity, Self-Help, Healthy Living News
Dr. Susan Corso

Every bit of advice in this book has been self-tested and found to work or not to work, and the author says so. Up front. No equivocating. You gotta like that in a personal development person.

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