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Art of Attention: From Acceptance to Intimacy

Elena Brower | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Self-Trust, Yoga of Heart, Listening, Courage, Relationships, Self-Worth, Hugo Cory, Mark Whitwell, John Friend, Healing, Intimacy, Shoulder Principles, Universe, Anusara, The Inner Life, Elena Brower, Sarah Starnes, Living News
Elena Brower

We must cultivate a state of radical forgiveness to experience true intimacy.

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Computer Loneliness

Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Loneliness, Mind.Body.Soul, Mindfulness, Traveling, Mindful Eating, Meditation, Healing, Anxiety, Appreciation, Relaxation, Living News
Eva M. Selhub, M.D.

Take some time away from cyberspace and connect. Appreciate. See life and yourself as small miracles and allow yourself to experience awe.

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A Holiday To Hope

Patricia Yarberry Allen | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Gynecologist, Hyannis, Vacation, Healing, Medical Chart, Nantucket, Living News
Patricia Yarberry Allen

I often tease the husband that over the years of our marriage he fancies that he is a doctor. Well, he was my doctor and guide as I trusted him enough to stop and take time for a holiday.

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There Is Always Trauma In The Room

Sharon Salzberg | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Community, Healing, Netroots Nation, Ptsd, Trauma, Faith, Compassion, Sharon Salzberg, Living News
Sharon Salzberg

I've done a little bit of work with soldiers returning from Iraq and have worked with domestic violence shelter workers on issues of vicarious trauma. I've also found in teaching the diverse groups who come for meditation guidance that, as someone once said to me, "There is always trauma in the room."

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Shannon's Story: Health Care and Our Need for Cultural Healing (originally posted in August 2009)

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lifestyle, Holistic Medicine, Healthy Lifestyle, Personal Health, Healing, American Culture, Diet, Western Medicine, Leukemia, Aml, Health, Acute Myelogenous Leukemia, Health Care Reform, Cancer, Health Care, Sleep, Gandhi, Nonviolence, Integrative Power, Politics News
Cynthia Boaz

We in the United States have a health care system that creates (rather than eases) burdens for those battling critical illness. We have it all backwards.

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Heal Yourself

Lee Schneider | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychosomatic, Religious Science, Ernest Holmes, Dr. Mona Lisa, Louise Hay, Healing, Positive Thinking, Wellness, Living News
Lee Schneider

Can you heal with a shift in attitude?

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8 Ways To Read Your Body's Warning Signs For Health

Anne Naylor | Posted 09.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Forgiving, John Lennon, Human Spirit, Good Health, Dr John Demartini, Healing, Joy, Dr Judith Rich, Stress, Self-Care, Health, Wellness, Living News
Anne Naylor

This morning, I woke with a stiff neck. I was not aware of it until I turned by head to brush my hair and then - ouch! A stiff neck tells me I am bei...

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Whites Who Say Blacks Are Racist Are Onto Something

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate, Collective, Break In, Police, Activity, President Barack Obama, Racist, Run, Healing, Drugs, Beer Summit, Robbery, Boy, Home, Urban, Henry Louis Gates Jr, 2nd Amendment, Running, Ritual, African American, Sgt. James Crowley, Freedom, Man, Glenn Beck, Credit Card, Black, Shelby Steele, Franz Fanon, Gun Rights, Cat-Calling, Reconciliation, Politics News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

In Glenn Beck's mind it doesn't add up. How can it be that people who are treated badly are not filled with hate?

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5 Ways To Heal Grief: One Couple's Heart Wrenching Story

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Meditation, Healing, Grief, The Inner Life, Death & Dying, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

The one thing we all pray won't happen, happened one day when Art was driving home from a hockey game in Vail, Colorado, with his wife Kathy and their...

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Should Physicians Participate in the Death Penalty?

Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Murder, Srini Pillay, Law, Guilt, Brain, Crime, Srinivasan Pillay, Needles, Ethics, Healing, Death Penalty, Morality, Physician, Gunshots, Living News
Srinivasan Pillay

I submit that delaying the death penalty is an indication that our own brains are in conflict about killing people in the first place.

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Why I Love Self-Help Books (Even Though They Don't Work)

Christina Patterson | Posted 08.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Health, Fiction, Healing, Psychology, Beauty, Poetry, Relaxation, Self-Help, Jerry Springer, Living News
Christina Patterson

Don't you just love those exclamation marks? Well, maybe you don't, but I do. I love the perkiness. I love the confidence. I love the lack of ambiguity.

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Heal Yourself with Ayurveda: The Science of Life

Lissa Coffey | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Meditation, Yoga, Healing, Ayurveda, Lifestyle, Diet, Exercise, Living News
Lissa Coffey

Ayurveda is India's 5,000 year old "Science of Life." It is the art of living in harmony with nature, and it explains the nature of everything in the universe.

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One Nice, Simple Way to Find Your Center

Margaret Ruth | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Energy, Stress, Center, Margaret Ruth, Mediation, Intuition, Healing, Clarity, Flow, Centered, Living News
Margaret Ruth

Even if you have not attained perfect inner harmony, there is something to be gained from finding out what is going on with you at your core.

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Making the Best of the Worst

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 08.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Emotions, Psychology, Healing, Emotion, Resilience Psychology, Stories, Resilience, Living News
Alison Rose Levy

Some people I know are exquisitely sensitive. Every hurt, harm, or horror imprints their impressionable soul(s). Meanwhile others laugh it off, tough it out, shut down, deny, or resolutely move on.

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What's Your Favorite Method of Nature-Connection?

Linda Buzzell | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Yoga, Psychotherapy, Art, Nature, Environment, Green, Meditation, Science, Healing, Ecopsychology, Ecotherapy, Evidence-Based Medicine, Living News
Linda Buzzell

Research has shown that nature-connection of almost any kind turns out to be a powerful healing force.

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How Service In Prison Brings Forgiveness And Healing

Anne Naylor | Posted 07.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Victor Frankl, President Obama, Attitude, Freedom to Choose, United We Serve, Service, Freedom, Valley State Prison for Women, Healing, Correctional System, University of Santa Monica, Rehabilitation, Cannes Film Festival 2009, Living News
Anne Naylor

"Prison isn't a place... It's a state of mind." Freedom To Choose is a 22 minute documentary based on the 7th workshop conducted at Valley State Prison for Women at Cowchilla California in 2007. This film won the award in the Documentary category, Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the American Pavilion at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

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Sexual Abuse Takes Toll on Victims

Trish Kinney | Posted 07.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Child Abuse, Chronic-Pain, Irritable-Bowel-Syndrome, Healing, Fibromyalgia, Cancer, Sexual Abuse, Mayo Clinic, Living News
Trish Kinney

The emotional stress of being a victim of sexual abuse may lead to physical illness such as fibromyalgia, chronic pain, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and even cancer.

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Oprah Backlash in Newsweek

Lee Schneider | Posted 07.06.2009 | Media

Read More: H. Pylori, Jenny McCarthy, Newsweek, Suzanne Somers, Oprah Winfrey, Ulcers, The Secret, Science-and-Spirituality, Meditation, Autism, Healing, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Snake Oil, Alternative Medicine, Media News
Lee Schneider

Oprah does cover some fringe stuff that is wacky and sometimes wrong. But I think she's right to do it. Here's why.

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The Moment is Now

Lisa Guest | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Success, Emotions, Trauma, General Motors, Jewish, Choices, Architecture, Healing, Reticence, Now, Michael Moore, Artistic Output, Fashion, Spirituality, Living News
Lisa Guest

My life has been one sacrifice after another. It would have been simpler to lower my ideals, to set my sights on something easier, more mainstream. I couldn't do that.

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Changing Our Minds, Speaking Up For The Truth!

Lisa Guest | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Truth Telling, Healing, Lying, Abuse, Making Peace, Torture, Politics News
Lisa Guest

The more we hide, the more we have reason to hide and the more such treacherous thinking causes missteps and wrongful living.

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The Upside of Stress

Gary Zukav | Posted 06.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Healing, Emotional Intelligence, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Stress, Living News
Gary Zukav

The dynamic is the same whether the change appears minor, major, or ultimate -- resistance to change, not change itself, creates stress.

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Body Payments, in This Economy?

Lisa Guest | Posted 05.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Healing, Cure, Indulgences, Attitude, Money, Disease, Economy, Living News
Lisa Guest

We expect our bodies to behave like our toaster (efficiently), and give us what we want when we want it. Rarely do most of us do what our bodies need for such optimal performance.

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Ask Maddisen: How to Forgive Yourself for Judging Yourself

Maddisen K. Krown | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Self-Criticism, Rejection, Judgement, Healing, Self-Judgement, Forgiveness, Criticism, Happiness, Goal-Reaching, Allies, Inner Beauty, Balance, Supporters, Goals, Productivity, Living News
Maddisen K. Krown

Dear Maddisen, I am highly self critical, self judgmental, and even cruel to myself with my thoughts and my mental talk.

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Seeking Clarity

Tabby Biddle | Posted 04.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Linkedin, Health, Alternative Medicine, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, Louise Hay, Healing, Clarity, Somatic Therapies, Alternative Healing, Mind-Body-Wisdom, Alternative Therapies, Living News
Tabby Biddle

Last week as I went to wash my face before bedtime, I noticed that my right eye was bloodshot. Tired? Maybe. Too much computer time? Probably. But, I ...

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The Pressure to Heal Ourselves

Claire Bidwell Smith | Posted 04.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Oprah Winfrey, Ovarian Cyst, Health, John-Kabat-Zinn, The Secret, Ram Dass, Deepak Chopra, Louise Hay, Healing, Living News
Claire Bidwell Smith

Every time I tried to picture my baby, happy and swimming around in my uterus, the image was overshadowed by that of the grapefruit-sized cyst growing alongside it.

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