Transformation

Lessons From the Diva

Misha Lyuve | Posted 05.28.2012

Misha Lyuve

Your work-of-art life will depend on your requests and negotiations with your bosses and coworkers, friends and family. You should consider taking lessons from Mona. She gets what she needs.

GPS To A Quiet Mind: 6 Meditative Steps To Freedom

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 05.22.2012

Ed and Deb Shapiro

Meditation is simple and transformative, yet it is highly misunderstood. Some people think it is about controlling our mind or stopping our thinking, while others see it as both weird and wacky or boring and meaningless.

You Don't Have to Do it All

Jinny Ditzler | Posted 05.09.2012

Jinny Ditzler

After a moment of desperation, I laughed out loud. Hopeless! The list is getting longer, not shorter. Do I really have to do everything I think I have to do? And my inner wisdom whispered, "No."

Personal Transformation: And How to Stay That Way

Jinny Ditzler | Posted 04.30.2012

Jinny Ditzler

To maintain your personal transformation, remember that what you focus on is what you get. Mindfulness means keeping your mind on positive thoughts and actions and pulling it back when it wanders off course.

'Altered States' Makes Deterioration Look Good

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.11.2012

Somehow both patriotism and horror are palpable in Valerie Hegarty's works, which she mutilates and brings to new life in a new exhibition, titled, "A...

Personal Transformation: The ABC's of Destroying Limiting Beliefs

Jinny Ditzler | Posted 04.17.2012

Jinny Ditzler

When you master the art and science of the paradigm shift, you're able to make life as meaningful as you like. You're now able to clear the obstacles on the path to the results you want and need. You can silence the whining, self-pitying monkey mind any time you like.

The Startling Truth I Discovered In My Vacation Photos

Elise Sax | Posted 04.16.2012

Elise Sax

When did this happen? The last I looked, I was pretty much my own self with my own eyes and nose. But now, my mom has taken over, and my cheeks, my chin, my whole profile is hers.

It's Time to Rethink and Reshape Our Organizational Cultures

Michele Hunt | Posted 04.12.2012

Michele Hunt

Attracting and retaining the best and the brightest, and achieving extraordinary results is simple; create a great organizational culture -- A Culture For People.

Shifting into Higher Consciousness: Will It Happen to All of Us?

Jen Grisanti | Posted 04.10.2012

Jen Grisanti

How do we move into a higher consciousness? What has to happen in our lives? I feel that writing from a place of higher consciousness is the key to affecting universal change through story.

Sensing Spring: A New Beginning

Lilian Cheung, D.Sc., R.D. | Posted 04.05.2012

Lilian Cheung, D.Sc., R.D.

As spring so fragrantly reminds us, we stand at the threshold of life. We are constantly transforming and therefore capable of wondrous things. To embrace this gift, all we need to do is show up, truly and fully.

Personal Transformation: Anything Is Possible

Jinny Ditzler | Posted 04.14.2012

Jinny Ditzler

In all my many years of coaching people, I've never met anyone without a "monkey mind" -- the little voice that runs a commentary on what's wrong with us and why we can't get what we want and need.

Enjoy Every Sandwich: Living Each Day as If It Were Your Last

Carolyn Anderson | Posted 04.05.2012

Carolyn Anderson

It is about living a life so rich, so meaningful, so moment to moment that if we were to die today we could do so knowing that we had sucked the marrow out of life and really maximized every moment.

You Are a Rock Star, Old Lady

Misha Lyuve | Posted 04.03.2012

Misha Lyuve

Thank you for allowing me to appreciate the efforts people around me make to live their lives and push their walkers; how those efforts vary in size and scope; how they are not always seen and, if seen, not always noticed and, if noticed, not always acknowledged.

Formula for Transformation

Ronit Herzfeld | Posted 04.02.2012

Ronit Herzfeld

You probably have told yourself a hundred times: "Tonight I am going to organize my paperwork," "I am not going to get angry with the kids today," "I will get up tomorrow and exercise," only to find yourself back at square one.

To Be or Not to Be

Denise M. Wilbanks | Posted 05.31.2012

Denise M. Wilbanks

Anyone who has traveled the rocky roads of self-transformation can tell you that embarking on a journey of discovery is not for the faint at heart. It requires a warrior's heart and a fierce determination to conquer the unknown.

Personal Transformation: Personal Responsibility

Jinny Ditzler | Posted 05.27.2012

Jinny Ditzler

Few would say that personal transformation is easy. Or as our friend Lew Epstein put it -- "It's simple, but not easy."

Personal Transformation: What's Wrong With You?

Jinny Ditzler | Posted 05.21.2012

Jinny Ditzler

There is absolutely nothing wrong with you. There's nothing to fix. You don't need to get better or become different. You're fine, just as you are. You know all you need to know, and you have all the answers. And you can overcome the obstacles in your way.

The Grave Dangers of Inspiration

Misha Lyuve | Posted 05.18.2012

Misha Lyuve

From ART BEAUTY LIFE blog. In this short essay I would like to warn you of dangers of inspiration. After suffering for over a week without inspirat...

Personal Transformation: What's Motivating You?

Jinny Ditzler | Posted 05.09.2012

Jinny Ditzler

I'm too embarrassed to tell you the pain I've caused others by forgetting who I am and what I'm here for. However, I will tell you that I'm learning. The results are making a positive impact on the difference I'm making to others and in the quality of my life.

Why Your Dream Matters

Misha Lyuve | Posted 05.07.2012

Misha Lyuve

Can you imagine how alive and bubbly our planet would be if people just minded their own dreams? That's my dream. And what is yours?

'Hoarders' House Transformed From Squalor To Beautiful

Posted 02.21.2012

Jan's home experience prior to the introduction of "Hoarders" (Mon., 9 p.m. EST on A&E) into her life could optimistically be described as living in s...

Live Wholeheartedly This Valentine's Day

Amy Elias, MS | Posted 04.15.2012

Amy Elias, MS

Whole-hearted living is where we allow ourselves to taste the whole broad spectrum of emotions -- living life. When we live life fully we open up to the capacity for real joy because we live in uncertainty and vulnerability.

The Phoenix Generation: The Rise of Those Who Will Change the World

Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D. | Posted 04.09.2012

Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.

The world we live in now is changing rapidly. The normal state of affairs is not the static and stationary that we sometimes view our lives to be, but of flux and flow.

Life P******

Misha Lyuve | Posted 04.08.2012

Misha Lyuve

Do you know what your life purpose is? This question used to make me uncomfortable. Its answer does not seem to be easily tracked down in smart books or far-away journeys or deep prayers.

Join Eckhart Tolle, Jim Carrey and John Raatz in Raising Consciousness Through Entertainment, Media and the Arts

Stacey Nemour | Posted 04.03.2012

Stacey Nemour

It is said when the student is ready the teacher will appear. In this case, spiritually-aware people in entertainment and media have been waiting for a movement that will echo the awakening now happening around the world. And it has arrived, in the form of "GATE."