A natural and important part of our life is sleep and yet many people think it has little significance. They burn the midnight oil and get up before dawn. During the eight hours of sleep(recommended for most of us) life-energy is accumulated, your life gets revitalized, the centers of your brain and heart calm down and your life functions from your navel center. For those eight hours of sleep you have again become one with nature and with existence. That is why you become revitalized. It …
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I’ll start with my own story.  In four weeks I am scheduled to give a presentation at the Association of Applied Therapeutic Humor(AATH) Conference in Orlando, Florida. My plans have had to change since I got the results of an X-ray on my lower back. The s.i. joint needs attention and it will not be healed soon enough to make the journey from San Francisco to Orlando. I was disappointed. However as I dropped into acceptance, realized how things could be much worse (I don’t need …
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Happiness is living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. This is easy until things don’t go our way, isn’t it? Here are 3 Keys that I have found invaluable in my life to create lasting happiness. 1. Acceptance The problem arises when we do not like what is happening, whether it be losing our job, a failed relationship, or being rejected after an audition. Often adversity can create disbelief, denial, anger. We fight reality.  In so doing we cause ourselves even more pain. The …
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As you think about setting goals for next year, take some time to write down and CELEBRATE everything you have accomplished this year. (This exercise could take about 30 minutes - it's worth it!). Keep your focus on your successes. Be careful of negative self-critical thoughts coming in when you remember the goals you did not achieve. Put those on your list for next year. Here are 11 questions to help you write your success list. It’s important that you acknowledge and CELEBRATE all your …
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1. Focus on the Good. Life can sometimes be tough, especially around the holidays. Relatives can be difficult, money can be tight, loneliness can arise. To help stay positive, focus on what is GOOD in your life. What we focus on expands. Be vigilant of thoughts in the mind taking you on a negative track. There are always good things happening even if sometimes we have to look hard for them. Persevere, trust that when you stay focused on what IS good in your life, more is attracted  in. 2. …
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Fear is the absence of love. And the problem with something that is absent is that you cannot do anything with it directly. Fear is like darkness, which is the absence of light. There is nothing you can do with darkness directly, because it is an absence of something — which leaves you nothing to work with. But you can bring in more light. Switch on the light. If you want darkness, switch off the light again. You work directly with the light, not with the darkness. The same is true with …
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Kindness starts with oneself. If you are not kind to yourself then resentment starts breeding in your subconscious. Eventually this will leak out on to others and you create a negative response. Law of Attraction states that like attracts like. When you focus on being kind to yourself in thought and deed, then you create a positive vibration that attracts the same back to you. This is a win-win situation. The more filled up with kindness you feel, the more generous you feel. Generosity is an …
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