The body responds to tension
Friday, 11 October 2013
When you investigate the literature about stress, you will read about how there is good and not so good stress but that life itself has stress, it is a natural. The changing environment, even if we love the seasons in the Midwestern region in the U.S., show clearly that those changes are still stressful and
The idea of self determination
Sunday, 22 September 2013
When I think about each and every single thing that I write, even when it is about faith, the underlying theme is self determination. No matter what it is that is taking place, we have an investment, we have ownership, we have a percentage of accountability. Creating the life we crave takes a level of
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Obama care and more…
Friday, 20 September 2013
I am an American. I was born in this country and I love it here, I love the land, the tradition, the richness, the beauty. I embrace the songs of our country and sing them proudly. When I was a child, my parents took me to Washington, D.C. to see the monuments and to feel
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Manage your stress and spread happiness
Monday, 16 September 2013
Wringing your hands won’t do you much in the way of anything productive, we all actually know this. I think it is an old habit someone started when they wanted to hold the hand of a loved one but no one was there. It might have started as a way to provide a bit of
When you have people whose brain power is awesome…
Friday, 13 September 2013
Sometimes you wonder who is reading what it is that you write. Make a mistake and you are certain to find out. I wrote on Wednesday about relaxing the brain, I guess I got an early start. I didn’t realize I had talked about relaxation by mediating instead of writing meditating. Today is Friday and
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Think nothing?
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Can you take time off from your brain being in high gear and allow it time to relax a bit or do you need to be running and engaged at every moment? There is a risk in believing that you need to maintain a high gear consistently — exhaustion. Our brain is just like every
Your Brain Power: Important Steps To Take Today
Monday, 09 September 2013
Build The Strength Within — the idea came to me as I witnessed my own struggle with tragedy and dramatic sorrow and knew that I had to find a way to take hold of my mind and salvage my own sanity and spirit. Every single day there are events that take us off on a
Build upon your inner strength
Wednesday, 04 September 2013
Happiness comes in all sorts of packages but there is one package that never changes — YOU. The real trick is to be primed for happiness and to be intentional about it. How does that happen? It is not about smiling all the time and denying your feelings — quite the opposite. It is about
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Labor Day 2013
Monday, 02 September 2013
What an interesting concept — to honor the labor of others. Straight from Wikipedia, here is what we learn: “In the United States, Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute
Help, I have fallen…
Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Famous lines from a commercial that most of us have heard. Right? The strangeness of it is that we have been falling down our entire life — we began as toddlers, it is something we have learned to manage so that we don’t get hurt. However, as we move through the decades of our life,