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How Can I Help? Stepping Into Service and Discovering Joy

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 07.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Inner Life, Service, Happiness, Community Service, All for Good, Giving, The Giving Life, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

As one of our teachers told us, "Who is the most selfish person? It is the one who is most selfless! Why? Because by being selfless, you will always retain your happiness."

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Dinner With Monica Lewinsky -- 6 Reasons To Forgive Yourself

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 07.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Inner Life, Happiness, Friendship, The Inner Life, Peace of Mind, Self Help, Identity, Balance, Forgiveness, Peace, Wellness, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

While we were recently in England we were invited to a dinner party that was also attended by Monica Lewinsky (yes, that Monica!). She struck us as be...

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How Do You Deal With Burnt Toast?

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 07.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Inner Life, Happiness, Anne Bancroft, The House of Lords, London, England, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

We were just with Deb's mother, Anne Bancroft, in England. On the third day we were invited for tea at the House of Lord's (more of that below) and we...

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Does A Recession Make Us Less Compassionate?

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Kindness, Inner Life, Compassion, Living, Caring, The Inner Life, Neighbors, Tea, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

When we have money we tend to build a bigger house and then we have to put a fence around it to keep people out, and then we have to become wary of an...

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How Do You Digest Your Reality?

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Inner Life, Health, Living, Stress, Digestive Rhythm, The Inner Life, Reality, Digestion, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

We are teaching workshops and traveling a lot at the moment, eating wherever we are and whenever we can. This easily upsets our daily digestive rhythm...

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Will The Real Anne Bancroft Please Stand Up?

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 06.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Inner Life, Inspiration, Happiness, Living, Anne Bancroft, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

"First it's Shirley MacLaine, now Anne Bancroft. Who next?!" an editor of the Yoga Journal once exclaimed to us. She did not realize that she was actu...

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What Do Handmade Soap, Recycled Tires, And Yoga Have In Common With Coca Cola And Walmart?

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 06.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Green, Business, Inner Life, Living, Coca-Cola, Stock Portfolio, Self Worth, Soap, Economic Crisis, Self Confidence, Lohas, Coke, Recession, Wal-Mart, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

A shift is now taking place in the way we live that is affecting us all. It asks us to reconsider what our priorities are, who we want to share our li...

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What Are You Working on? Part 3

Hillary Rubin | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Michelangelo's David, Hillary, Yoga, Multiple Sclerosis, The Balanced Life, Personal Health, Disease, Inner Life, Life Challenges, Personal Growth, Michelangelo, The Inner Life, Living News
Hillary Rubin

How many of you are looking for the work to stop? Do you want to just breathe and erase all your problems? Are you ready to learn a tool that will shi...

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Happiness Is An Inside Job: 7 Ways To Enjoy it!

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 06.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Inner Life, Happiness, How to Be Happy, Finding Happiness, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

What really emerged for everyone was the awareness that their true happiness lies within themselves, that it is not dependent on someone or something outside of them.

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Why Is Yoga So Misunderstood In America?

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 05.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Inner Life, Yoga, Living, Happiness, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

Before the Beatles discovered the Maharishi, and before our friend and artist Peter Max brought Swami Satchidananda to America, where he opened the Wo...

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President Obama: Keep Your Friends Close And Your Enemies Closer

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 05.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Inner Life, Barack Obama, Relationships, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

President Obama has faced many difficult challenges in the first 100 days of office, including controversy over the prosecution of Bush terrorism offi...

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Why Do Little Girls Skip (And Little Boys Run)?

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 05.17.2009 | Living

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Ed and Deb Shapiro

Just the other morning we were going to the gym when we passed a little girl holding hands with her mother. The girl was happily skipping along. It im...

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Why Only A Loser Would Want Someone To Fail

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 05.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Inner Life, Rush Limbaugh Fail, Mudita, Rush Limbaugh Obama Fail, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

We may not always agree with others, but why would we want them to fail? What makes us want to put someone down? There must be another way! Rush Limb...

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How Does A Waitress Deal With Rude People?

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 04.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Inner Life, Happiness, Kindness, Serving Rude People, Waitress Rude Customers, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

A few weeks ago we wrote a blog called "Walking Your Talk: How Do You Treat a Waitress?" We had a great response and so this time we thought we would ...

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How I Lost My Marriage Business and Health...And Survived: 4 Tips To Reinvention

Eli Davidson | Posted 04.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Reinvention, Careers, Balanced Life, Inner Life, Self-Help, Living News
Eli Davidson

Last week, I told you about my 'Leaf on a River' journey. After the 18 months in which I lost my marriage, business and health and ended up with $88,...

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How Do You Live In A Changing World?

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 04.19.2009 | Living

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Ed and Deb Shapiro

When everything looks hopeless we do have the chance to grow into something better: what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, we call a butterf...

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10 Internal Pathways To Personal Peace

intent.com | Cynthia Legette Davis | Posted 04.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Inner Life, Personal Peace, Pathways to Peace, Wellness, Living News

If you want peace in your life, you can have it, but you have to go inside to get it. Inside is where your real power is because it's where you connec...

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Chanting: A Wallet-Friendly Exercise In Body And Spirit

nytimes.com | SARA ECKEL | Posted 04.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Inner Life, Yoga, Meditation, Kirtan, Chanting, Personal Health, Health, Wellness, Living News

As with meditation, the intent of chanting is to calm and focus the mind, relieving it from its usual chatter -- grocery lists, money worries, petty a...

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Walking Your Talk: How Do You Treat A Waitress?

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 04.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Inner Life, Living, Happiness, Kindness, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

We had a TV series in London. One of our fellow TV presenters seriously upset the camera crew when they arrived at his house. He was rude and dismissi...

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The Science of Visualization: Maximizing Your Brain's Potential During The Recession

Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 04.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Success, Meditation, Inner Life, Vizualization, Recession, Huffington Visualizaton, Visualization, Living News
Srinivasan Pillay

At times like these, we may hear advice columnists tell us to "visualize success" or to "imagine our greatest possibilities." While this is inspiring, is there actually a science behind this?

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What Buddha Might Say To Bill O'Reilly

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 03.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Happiness, Inner Life, Buddha, Bill O'Reilly, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

What's with Bill O'Reilly? He does not seem to know what he is saying! Ed was at a Dalai Lama talk in London when the Dalai Lama said, "People say t...

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Today's Economy: What Myth Are You Stuck In?

Russell Bishop | Posted 03.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Economic Crisis, Russell Bishop, Choice, Control, Keys to Life, Economy, Inner Life, Self Help, The Balanced Life, Today's Economy, Living News
Russell Bishop

In my work over the years with individuals as well as corporate leadership teams, I often bump into the same phenomenon: many of us seem to prefer li...

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Citizen Confidence -- are Americans Having "Honeymoon Blues?"

Kari Henley | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Well-Being, Happiness, Hope, Obama Inauguration, President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Senate Confirmation, Senator Daschle, Senator Geithner, Bill Richardson, Nancy Killefer, Giving Life, Balanced Life, The Balanced Life, Inner Life, The Inner Life, Obama's Cabinet, The Giving Life, Featured Contributor, Politics News
Kari Henley

It took a lot after Bush to get our hopes up and get hitched in the first place. I am not sure this newlywed bliss is ready for the partisan beating, delays and the frustrations.

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Making Our Own Mistakes

Michelle Renee | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Single Mom, Parenting Magazine, Parenting Tips, Personal Growth, Single Parents, Personal Development, Inner Life, Healing, Parenting, Teen Magazine, Inner Child Healing, Teen Life, Living News
Michelle Renee

The simple truth is what we label as our own mistakes are really just choices that have led us to this moment in time.

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America's Awakening: Choosing Hope Over Fear

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 02.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Ancestors, Relations, Hope, War, Transformation, Sacrifice, Economic Crisis, Barack Obama Inaugural Speech, Inner Life, Balance, What We Can Do, Our Awakening, Featured Contributor, Living News
Dr. Cara Barker

"That we are in the midst of a crisis is now well understood....Less measurable, but no less profound, is a sapping of confidence across our land--a n...

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