Love is painful because it creates the way for joy, for ecstasy, for bliss. Love is painful because it transforms you. Love is growth.
Love itself does not hurt. It is growth that hurts, the ego that stings.
Each transformation is painful because the old situation is being left behind for the new. Hence, fear arises.
The real problem is the mind. Fear lives in the mind and the mind wants you to hang on to a situation that is known and comfortable for you. …
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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. 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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Pragito is interviewed by Hale Dwoskin, founder of The Sedona Method.
They spent almost a half an hour talking and laughing and there was a lot more laughter than speaking. Be sure and listen all the way to the end for the longest period of laughter. Have fun!
Pragito is interviewed by Hale Dwoskin, founder of The Sedona Method.
Laughter meditation heals fear, anxiety and worry.
Even just listening to this recording will bring you anxiety …Pragito Dove on the Dr Michael Craig Show
Free Recording:
How to Transform Anxiety and Pain into Joy and Inner Peace
Listen to this inspiring recording of Pragito being interviewed
by Dr Michael Craig about her journey “from there to here”.
Pragito reveals how she learned to transform her pain and anxiety into joy and inner peace through the meditation techniques she now shares in her books, workshops and trainings.
This is a not-to-be-missed fun, informative …
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Guest post by Jan Andrew
I first heard about the healing power of laughter in the 70s when I read about how Norman Cousins cured himself of a fatal disease with the help of the Marx Brothers, but I already believed in it.
In college, my best friends and I formed a “super society” bonded in a belief that laughter and song were the best antidotes to life’s challenges and to find anxiety relief. That bond of laughter got me through a lot of heartache and loss until I became …
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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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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? 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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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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LAUGHTER, TEARS, SILENCE
Expressive Meditations to Calm Your Mind and Open Your Heart
"No matter what you think about meditation, read this book."
- Marcia Wieder, CEO of Dream University
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Laughter, Tears, Silence breaks the stereotype by introducing alternate techniques that promote active expression as well as silence. By unlocking your own laughter, tears, and inner peace you are catapulted into long-lasting joy and can experience the full spectrum of a vibrant life.