Daily Life

Winter Solstice & the Holidays

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The winter solstice, December 22nd, has been celebrated in cultures the world over for thousands of years. As the shortest day/longest night of the year, this start of the solar year is a celebration of light and the rebirth of the Sun. We have all completed one more official journey around the Sun.

Many of the customs, lore, symbols, and rituals associated with the Solstice have survived into the 21st century so let’s see how we can join in this ancient celebration to bring love, …
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Forgiveness is Choosing to Love

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“Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

Do you find it easy to forgive people who have hurt or abused you in some way? I didn’t until I started to understand that I was hurting myself more by maintaining a tight knot of resentment and anger towards the people who had wronged me. As I learned to love myself, and make loving myself more important than hating the other person, a profound shift …
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FREE AUDIO: Three Master Keys for Anxiety Relief & Stress-Free Living

Meditation Techniques for increased Focus, Confidence and Relaxation

Pragito Dove is interviewed by Marilyn Suttle, co-author of the bestselling book “Who’s Your Gladys? How To Turn Even The most Difficult Customer Into Your Biggest Fan”. Three Master Keys for Anxiety Relief & Stress-Free Living Pragito discusses her 3 Master Keys for: * overcoming fear of rejection * building confidence * having patience and compassion under fire * achieving clarity of mind for decision making * maintaining your sense of …
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Top Six Ways to Reduce Stress & Get More Done

Here are my top six ways that I use every day to keep myself relaxed and productive. Let me know your comments and what works for you. 1. Become Aware of Your Stress Habits You cannot change what you are not aware of. Bring your awareness to the habits you have on a daily basis that make you feel stressed out eg: Drinking 8 cups of espresso before 10a.m. I’m exaggerating (I hope!) The morning is a particularly good time to focus …
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How to Love Yourself & Gain Self-Confidence

Loving yourself gives you self-worth, self-respect AND self-confidence. Love is a behavior and it starts with you. If you don’t love yourself, you will never be able to truly love and experience the infinite joy of giving and receiving love. The more you love yourself, and draw on the infinite source of love from within your own heart, the more your heart expands and you begin to experience love and happiness for no reason. Self-confidence grows as a by-product of self-love, so stay focused on …
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Anxiety Relief from Meditation Techniques

The advances of technology are incredible but they have brought something with them that is not so incredible – anxiety. What is it about these wonderful technological advances that cause this new problem? Speed Suddenly our lives are speeded up with instant this and instant that, from fast foods, to instant messaging. We become impatient if something takes more than 20 seconds to happen. If our email has a problem or our computer crashes we become frustrated and …
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Meditation Techniques Can Help Bring You Anxiety Relief from Overeating!

Did you know that meditation techniques can help bring you anxiety relief from overeating? For many people, overeating is one of the anxiety symptoms that plague our fast-paced world. This is the story of one of my clients, I will call her Carol, who succeeded in calming herself down with the meditation techniques I gave her and greatly reduced her food intake. Carol’s habit was to open the refrigerator door whenever she needed anxiety relief. She had become so obsessed with food that she …
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Laughter Meditation for Parents and Kids

I first heard about the laughter meditation when my son was 5 yrs old. Like all children, he loved to laugh, play, dance, sing,have fun. He was a natural and highlighted how much I had lost touch with those qualities in myself. Enter the laughter meditation(instructions at bottom of page) which gave me permission to invite my deeply buried spontaneity, playfulness, wonder, creativity, imagination and joy to be lived and enjoyed NOW. Wow!All was not lost. I was re-claiming myself and …
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Laughter As Therapy

Laughter as therapy? I never imagined such a thing was possible. As a child I longed to laugh, giggle and be funny but this was frowned upon in our household. In fact, fear and anger were prevalent and joy made scant appearances. Yet the giggles remained, albeit stuffed down deep in case inappropriate gales of laughter erupted at an inopportune moment. As an adult embarking upon the therapy I needed to heal my childhood wounds, I experienced a lot of grief, tears and sadness. Allowing those …
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How To Live Without Fear

Disconnect yourself from anything that is connected with fear. That's how maturity comes. Just watch all your acts, all your beliefs, and find out whether they are based in reality, in experience, or based in fear. And anything based in fear has to be dropped immediately, without a second thought. It is your armor. The very awareness that the fear is there will help you drop it. We go on living out of fear — that’s why we go on poisoning our experiences. We love somebody, but if …
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