Why You Shouldn't Thank Your Spouse Too Much
I do expect to be appreciated to some degree -- on Father's Day and throughout the year. But do I want to be lavished with gratitude for all my contri...
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What Is Spirituality: 5 (Not So) Easy Steps to Happiness
Dr. Alex Benzer | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living
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Spirituality can be a daunting concept. What does it really mean to be spiritual? I won't pretend to have the universal answer. What I can tell you is what spirituality means to me.
Loving Ourselves Unconditionally
John Morton | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living
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A key is to appreciate with gratitude whatever comes your way. Everything has value. Nothing needs to be different from what it is, including you.
10 Tips For Being The Best You Can Be
Anne Naylor | Posted 05.26.2009 | Living
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What do Susan Boyle, Paul Potts and J K Rowling all have in common - apart from they happen to be British? Their success did not come about overnight,...
Spirituality for Kids
Ariane de Bonvoisin | Posted 05.20.2009 | Media
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Well, most of the times! My first thought to tell parents is that kids are here to help YOU develop your spiritual essence
10 Ways To Get More Energy By Being Thankful
Anne Naylor | Posted 05.05.2009 | Living
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Being grateful is a way to be expansive, especially when we are feeling lacking, negative, cast down. Gratitude is at the heart of a renewed flow of giving and receiving.
5 Ways To Give The Gift Of Appreciation
Karen Leland | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living
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Every year, I look forward to the Oscars.But what I never expected from an evening at the Academy Awards was an exquisite example of appreciation in action -- but that's just what I got a few weeks ago.
Step #5: Practice Gratitude Daily
Colleen Perry | Posted 04.03.2009 | Living
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Gratitude is hardest to come by when my mood is sour. Ironically, that's exactly the time when looking at what I have rather than focusing on what I lack is the most important.
5 Ways To Turn On The Power Of Your Love
Anne Naylor | Posted 03.17.2009 | Living
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"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace." William E. Glad...
Top 11 Books for Brain Health
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 02.12.2009 | Living
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We've compiled the 10 Most Popular Brain Fitness & Cognitive Health Books, based on book purchases by SharpBrains' readers during 2008.
End '08 with '08 in Mind
Jason Mannino | Posted 01.26.2009 | Living
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A client of mine got laid off six months ago from a very lucrative position that offered him leadership and creative responsibility. Following the lay...
How To Awaken To The Miracle Of Love
Anne Naylor | Posted 01.20.2009 | Living
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"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature." Saint Augustine The way I see it, the time leading up t...
Why You Should Write An Acceptance Speech
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 01.14.2009 | Living
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I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit. ...
The Way I See It: Why Thankfulness and Selfishness Go Hand in Hand
Colleen Perry | Posted 12.31.2008 | Living
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Last week, I wrote about the benefits of selfishness, especially to those of us who are people pleasers. I had no way to predict the flood of respons...
Thanksgiving, a Practice of Gratitude
Kay Goldstein | Posted 12.28.2008 | Living
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On this Thanksgiving, we face the uncertainties and sufferings wrought by a faltering economy. Not all of us feel abundant right now. Yet, a grateful heart is an open heart.
5 Ways to Feel Thankful, Fast
Sharon Glassman | Posted 12.28.2008 | Living
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Is Thanksgiving catching you between a rock and a hard place, emotionally? Here are five ways to feel thankful (or thankfuller, if you're already into the T-zone), fast.
In Thanksgiving for our (Very Big) Government
Elizabeth Rigby | Posted 12.28.2008 | Politics
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In light of the tremendous challenges facing our country, I am grateful for a government big enough to help us weather the financial storm.
Four Generations, Bad Music and Good Food
Adele Stan | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics
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We didn't wind up being a biracial amalgam of cultural identities because of some angelic absence of prejudice, but, rather, because the combination of sexual attraction and a strong sense of curiosity led people to unexpected unions.
Gratitude, or Platitudes?
Michael Sigman | Posted 12.27.2008 | Style
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I often recall my conversation with a Jewish woman who worshipped an Indian guru. She was on the path to universal forgiveness and gratitude, she told me, there was one obstacle left: she was still working on forgiving Hitler.
A Warning to All the Thankful
Alison Stein Wellner | Posted 12.27.2008 | Living
So, tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and already many of us are not only thinking about exactly what we're grateful for, but actually saying these things alo...
Being Thankful for Dyslexia
Laurie Nadel | Posted 12.26.2008 | Living
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A study conducted at the Cass Business School in London last year found that 35 percent of successful entrepreneurs identified themselves as dyslexic.
Thanksgiving, Twenty-Something Style
Christine Hassler | Posted 12.26.2008 | Living
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Today's twentysomethings, aka Gen Y, have a reputation for being overly self-focused and entitled. Although there may be some truth to this stereotyp...
Let Us Give Thanks
Roger Fransecky | Posted 12.25.2008 | Living
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I would hope that this Thanksgiving we might all pause to do more than say thanks, but instead be the grateful selves that can fuel and inform a new way of being in our lives.
Transformation Keys: Universal Supply And The Economic Meltdown
Russell Bishop | Posted 12.25.2008 | Living
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Welcome to the second in a series on Transformation Keys, a weekly series on thoughts you can use to transform the quality and experience of life for ...
How To Say Thank You
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 12.21.2008 | Living
As we come to Thanksgiving next Thursday, we obviously have something to be very grateful for this year: the overcoming of racial prejudice. The reper...
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