Practical Inspiration

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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A Simple Strategy for Success

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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Why Vulnerability Brings Connection

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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4 Secrets for Harmonious Relationships

Are you experiencing relationship discord? Here are four secrets that, once known and practiced, can bring you harmony within yourself and with others. In fact, you will want to share this with as many people as possible. I’ve included a photo here of my little grandson who asked me to be his valentine. Of course I said Yes! Wearing a silly hat reminds me to have fun, be playful and enjoy all my relationships as well as practicing the secrets below. 1. LOVE AND ACCEPT …
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3 Keys to Lasting Happiness

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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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What Are Your Dreams? A 7 Step Strategy for 2011

1. IDENTIFY WHAT YOU WANT One of the main reasons people don’t get what they want is because they don’t know what they want. Write down your top 8 dreams for body, mind, heart and soul. Be clear and succinct or you’ll start to feel confused and overwhelmed. If you have too many, narrow it down to the essential 8. Then write one thing you can do every day to bring your dreams into reality. For example: "I want to be happy. I commit to 2 minutes of laughter meditation every day". …
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One Simple Tweak Can Transform Your Life

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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