How are you allowing music to influence your feelings and thoughts?

With everything that bombards us in today’s electronic culture, we are influenced every single nanosecond. There are sights and sounds coming at us continually. Some of it makes us feel frenetic because it is too loud, too pounding, too high pitched, too angry, too slow, too fast–your interpretation of it  all depends upon what you

How to quickly get out of a bad mood

Step 1–stomp your foot! Step 2–own the feelings that you are having and make sure you are accountable to yourself for them! Step 3–your leg should be talking back to you for stomping, telling you it is not happy about the residual feeling, your ownership of your feelings ought to have you motivated to be
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Create a Work-Life Balance to Keep Loved Ones Close

Journal Star, the website for the daily newspaper in Lincoln, NE, posted Dr Deb’s Monster piece, based on BUILD THE STRENGTH WITHIN, on October 23, 2014, and included the jacket image, as well as a link to the book’s page on Amazon, and to her website.  The site has approximately 260,000 visitors per month. Below is the

6 Insights Gained From A Weekend With Laura: Laura Miravete, A True Inspiration (A guest blog post by Tara Rose Gladstone)

This past weekend, I met Laura Miravete, a woman who was born with muscular dystrophy.  She is now 70 years old and has not only lived a full, self-sufficient life but has surpassed the level of achievement that seems possible for someone in her position.  She keeps her home in spotless condition, has an impressive vegetable
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Why Leonardo Da Vinci matters

Did you know that his life spanned from 1452 – 1519? Did you know that his full legal name is Leonardo Di Ser Piero Da Vinci? I find it impressive and gorgeous to write out and then to pronounce–add a flare of Italian accent to it and I promise that you will feel a surge

My journey up the mountain

Several years ago, I was invited to book a massage appointment with someone described to me as a yoga teacher from Tibet. I made the appointment and didn’t know much other than this was a Tibetan monk and that the experience would be just that – an experience. It was. A man of small physical

Stupid

Have you ever felt it? Do you recollect the image of yourself as a complete idiot? Do you wonder where you fit in this life? I hope your answer, the one deep inside of your heart, mind, and soul is affirmative. Why? Because there is no one on the planet who has not had this

Anxiety + Panic = Opportunity

Most often, people who have the experiences of feeling so out of sorts that it is identified as panic and/or anxiety, wish they would die rather than have to continue having the experience. There is a strong desire to escape from it–at almost any cost. This line of thinking and the approach generally lead to

The K Factor

Where K = Kindness, and the factors are the things that lead to it.  
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The only New Year Resolution you need

Last night, as I was thinking about the many resolutions that have been made over the centuries, I wondered what percentage of them had been fulfilled. Given the manner in which discouragement is expressed annually within weeks of the new year, seems to be a safe bet, that the numbers are low. Why maintain a
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