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How To Transform Your Fear

Mike Robbins | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Motivational Speaker, Emotions, Scared, Fear, Courage, Honesty, Transformation, Mike Robbins, Authenticity, Anxiety, Appreciation, Gratitude, Self-Help, The Inner Life, Living News
Mike Robbins

Many of us run away or hide from our fears because they seem scary, uncomfortable, or embarrassing. We also erroneously think we "shouldn't" have them or that we are somehow "wrong" for feeling scared.

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Build, Don't Destroy in Afghanistan: An Open Letter to President Obama

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: White House, Strike, President Obama, Civil, International, Indigenous, Washington, Pakistan, War, United Nations, Campaign, Muslim Countries, Collateral Damage, Surge, Prayer, America, Muslim, Conflict, Un, Terror, Technology, Security, Development, History, Afghan Government, Democracy, Fear, Terrorist, Ngos, Unmanned Drones, Religious Leaders, Engagement, Death, Foreign Policy, Moral Values, Occupier, Extremists, Moral Issues, Deaths, Women, Escalation, Faith Community, Economic Support, Taliban, Military, Afghanistan, General Assembly, Terrorism, Humanitarian Assistance, D.C., Casualties, Faith-Based, World News
Jim Wallis

Already, thousands of our readers have signed a letter and contacted the White House urging a new way forward in Afghanistan. I encourage you to read it and to endorse this message if you have not done so already.

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10 Ways To Embrace Change

realsimple.com | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Change, Fear, The Balanced Life, Unemployment, Job Loss, Dealing With Change, Work-Life Balance, Identity, Happiness, Risk, Living News

Blindsided by a job loss, the unfamiliar isn't to be feared: It can be a chance to turn your life around....

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Releasing Your Expectations

Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Meeting Needs, Fear, Positive Thinking, Expectations, Mindfulness, Disillusionment, Disappointment, Breathing, The Balanced Life, Living News
Eva M. Selhub, M.D.

Your expectations are clues that can guide you to healing your deeper needs so that you can feel more balanced as a whole.

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Smiling at Fear: Pema Chodron

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Spiritual Warrior, Fear, Terror, Courage, Swine Flu Vaccine, Terrorism, Self-Confidence, Swine Flu, Buddhism, Confidence, Pema Chodron, Living News
Alison Rose Levy

Whether we seek protection, or try to prove how brave we are, we often miss fear's true opportunity to teach us authentic courage.

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Aging: Giving Up 'Giving Up'

Jim Selman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Habits, Aging, Fear, Wisdom, Relationship, Values, Retirement, Transformation, Freedom, Future, Prejudice, Resentment, Growing Older, Choice, Eldering, Happiness, Living News
Jim Selman

What if wisdom has more to do with 'giving up' our beliefs and attachments than 'getting' more insights or having 'more, better and different' of whatever we think is important?

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Broadway Play Tackles Issues of Death

nytimes.com | Gina Kolata | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Broadway Play, Women, Fear, Dying, Mourning, Death and Dying, Broadway, Loss, Death, Grief, Anna Deavere Smith, Coping, Hurricane Katrina, Cancer, Health Care, Lance Armstrong, Living News

Ms. Smith, a tall, imposing woman, takes on the character of her subjects by repeating their exact words, complete with regional accents, ums and uhs ...

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The Power Of Fear: Lessons From Ft. Hood

Kiri Westby | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Palestine, Iraq War, Ft Hood Shooting, Fear, Visualization, Kiri Westby, Maj-Nidal-Malik-Hasan, The Power of Fear, Be the Change, Afghanistan War, Death & Dying, Living News
Kiri Westby

Although I have made friends with fear, I have not conquered it. Fear arises as an instinct. But the more we work with it, the less it controls our actions.

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Dem Leaders in 1965: "Filibuster Threat Is Too Daunting -- So Let's Just Drop This Civil Rights Crap"

Martin Lewis | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Profiles-in-Cowardice, John McCain, Fear, Civil Rights Movement, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, President Obama, Filibuster-Proof Majority, Filibuster, President Johnson, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Lbj, Democratic Majority, Lyndon B. Johnson, Health Care Reform, Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, Health Care, Politics News
Martin Lewis

It's March 16, 1965. We have a Democratic President. We have large Democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate. It's long been part of the progressive and liberal platform...

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It's Okay To Do It Wrong

Mike Robbins | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Fear, Courage, Honesty, Mike Robbins, Authenticity, Self-Esteem, Confidence, Learning, Self-Help, The Inner Life, Living News
Mike Robbins

Many of us, myself included, get so obsessed with doing things "right," or at the very least not doing anything that could be perceived as "wrong," we organize much of what we say and do to avoid ever being "wrong."

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The Power of Fear and the Obligation to Hope

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Equality, Fearmongering, Fear, LGBT Issues, Hope, Gay, New Jersey Governor Race, Marriage Equality, Maine, LGBT Politics, Virginia, Lgbt, Gay Rights, Virginia Governors Race, New Jersey, LGBT Rights, Maine Gay Marriage, Fundraising, LGBT Families, Gay Issues, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Emma Ruby-Sachs

It was not surprising to learn that New Jersey and Virginia both elected Republican Governors. But I could not have predicted the loss in the tiny, liberal, free state of Maine.

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Five Things That Scare Me

Robert Englund | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fear, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy Krueger, Entertainment News
Robert Englund

A Nightmare on Elm Street's original Freddy Krueger reveals five things that are currently giving him nightmares.

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6 Strategies to Handle Transition Fears

Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Job Losses, Transition, Change, Fear, Hope, Personal Health, Recession Fears, Love, Self-Care, Living News
Eva M. Selhub, M.D.

Loss and change cannot be prevented in life. It would be nice, but the reality is that the future is uncertain and anything can happen. The key is to stay out of fear by controlling your physiology.

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9 Ways To Face Your Halloween Fears

Therese Borchard | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Therese Borchard, Fear, Halloween, The Inner Life, Anxiety, Thanksgiving, Living News
Therese Borchard

Fears are like annoying relatives. You can't avoid them forever, and ignoring them won't make them go away.

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Sunday Morning Doubts About the Man

Lisa Guest | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Liars, Unconscious, Fear, Hiv, Doubt, Deception, Dating, Oprah, Woman, Man, The Truth?, Relationship Advice, Living News
Lisa Guest

Anyone can say anything. Anyone can come up with a line. With a gift bag gab of wisdom, knowledge and confidence, someone can really cover the world and be quite deceptive. There are those that do it. They make it bad for the rest.

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Why Majority Support Does Not Guarantee Health Reform (and Why This Isn't All Bad)

Elizabeth Rigby | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fear, Public Fears, House, Health, Public Opinion, Congress, Health Care, Health Reform, Obama Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Senate, Public Option, Barack Obama, Politics News
Elizabeth Rigby

A full defense of the public option requires moving beyond the basic arguments for reform. It requires reform proponents to take seriously the fears of opponents, even if they make up only a minority of the American public.

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'He's Just Not That Into You' Really?

Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Srini Pillay, Homosexuality, Fear, Rejection, Guilt, Brain, Trust, Srinivasan Pillay, Sex, Abandonment, Homophobia, Love, Intimacy, Relationships, Living News
Srinivasan Pillay

What does "not being into you" mean? People assume that it is just about sexual attraction, but is it just this?

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Two Kinds Of Deaths

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Elderly, Creativity, Fear, Aging, Dying, Jack LaLanne, Novelty, Death, Death & Dying, Death and Dying, Susan Smalley, Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

It is an interesting dichotomy - one group seems to open with age, the other seems to close. With openness, it seems that death is much less frightening as if it is merely another viewpoint of sorts.

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We Cannot Let Fear Turn Into Hate: Iran's Nobel Peace Laureate, Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Speaks

Kiri Westby | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Shirin Ebadi, Fearmongering, Fear, Hate, World, President Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Naropa University, Denver, Clash of Civilizations, Iran, Samuel Huntington, Politics, Peace, Kiri Westby, Living, Boulder Colorado, 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Living News
Kiri Westby

Last Friday I went to hear a keynote address from Iran's only Nobel Peace Laureate, Dr. Shirin Ebadi. I was blown away.

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Dan Brown's New Book, 2012 - Are You Ready for the Consciousness Shift?

Doc Childre | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Deborah Rozman, Emotions, Fear, Heartmath, Consciousness, Institute of HeartMath, Global Coherence Initiative, The Lost Symbol, Science, Shift, Planet, Doc Childre, Compassion, Dan Brown, 2012, Living News
Doc Childre

Many people are feeling a shift in consciousness happening now and some are predicting a major planetary shift around the year 2012.

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Can Memories Be Erased?

Joseph LeDoux | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York

Read More: Emotions, Fear, Trauma, How to Control Emotions, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Memories, New York News
Joseph LeDoux

Remember Jim Carrey's character in Eternal Sunshine? He wanted the memory of Clementine extracted, traces of her wiped clean. Surely this was a film fantasy and impossible in real life. Or is it?

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Changing the Philosophy on Wall Street

Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Srini Pillay, Leadership, Anger, Fear, Trust, Money, Srinivasan Pillay, Wall Street, Coaching, Executives, Living News
Srinivasan Pillay

The image of corporations as "hard-ass", "bottom-line" machines of productivity is appealing to those who wish to believe that money comes from automatic sources that respond to cold, hard, practical and rational interventions.

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Media Literacy 101: Of Mothers, Pakistan, Suicide Bombs, and Track II Diplomacy

Susan Moeller | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Media Literacy, Track II, Fear, Afghanistan, Suicide Bombers, Un, Pakistan, World Food Program, World News
Susan Moeller

Too much of what comes back to the US about Pakistan is breaking news of such events as a suicide attack. We Americans project our own fears, our own concerns on them.

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Accepting Social Fears

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 10.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Social Anxiety, Fear, Laughter, Social Phobia, Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

Working with social anxiety - and phobias - can take many forms including therapy, meditation, and medication. And I have found that humor also helps.

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Health Care, Immigrants, and the Character of Our Country

Jim Wallis | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Law, Allison Johnson, Debate, Undocumented Immigrants, President Obama, Scripture, Media, Health Care Plan, Immigration, Immigrants, Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Legislation, Immigration Status, Faith Groups, Fact Checkers, Moral Obligation, Public Policies, Immigrant, Immigrant Children, Christian Scriptures, Members of Congress, Values, Pregnant Women, Policy Debate, Health Care Coverage, Moral Priorities, Teaching, Stranger, Safety Net, Health Care, Christians, Public Policy, Fear, Lying, Subsidies, Politics, Community, Basic Human Needs, Medicaid, Congress, Faith Communities, Migrants, Moral Issue, Reform Legislation, Moral Consideration, Compassion, Jewish, Moral Values, Moral Issues, Moral Mandate, Inclusion, Faith Community, Political Feasibility, Health Care Reform, Hospitals, Undocumented Immigrant, Legal Immigrants, Christian, Health Care System, Politics News
Jim Wallis

With an issue like health, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debate.

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