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- Relaxing at Home - A Parents Guide - by Submitted on Nov 09, 2009 from marneta viegasBefore School This is often one of the most stressful times in the day. If you could introduce just 2 minutes relaxation, it will help set your child on the right track, for a relaxed and positive day. 1 As your child is waking put on one track from the CD and allow them to have a few moments ...
Views: 1387(2 votes) - How To Get The Most From Personal Relationships - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2009 from kenneth smallWe are all guilty of taking things for granted. Perhaps the thing we take for granted most of all are our personal relationships. However, very rarely do we stop to think about the processes involved in forming personal relationships. The reason why we should, is because personal relationships ...
Views: 2590(4 votes) - Mentorship - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2009 from Danish AhmedHey there everyone!! Finding and receiving mentorship has transformed my life in ways some find remarkable. At age thirteen, I was the first person in the Toronto Board of Education to participate in Co-Operative Education (working in the job market). There I met Peter who would become my ...
Views: 2227(6 votes) - The Truth on Creatine Monohydrate Digestion - by Submitted on Oct 15, 2009 from i-Supplements comCreatine Monohydrate Digestion Creatine monohydrate has long been a staple in the supplement regiment of nearly any fitness enthusiast since it started gaining notoriety in the 90’s. Whether it be EAS’s Phosphagen or Champion Nutrition’s Power Creatine, almost everyone I’ve ever talked to has ...
Views: 15258(2 votes) - ***Achieve your Goals and Dreams by Changing Your Beliefs - by Submitted on Oct 15, 2009 from Kamila HarkavyMany people start out their adult lives expecting to fulfill their dreams, their life purpose, expecting to be successful, to be balanced, happy and fulfilled, become wealthy, etc., but when they perceive that they may not reach their targets (perhaps an obstacle arises, perhaps they don’t ...
Views: 1690(5 votes) - Babies may be brighter than we think - by Submitted on Oct 09, 2009 from James EvansBelieve it or not, your baby – even as young as 6 months old – might be brighter than you think. In fact, your little tyke might be able to interpret the emotions of your family pet even before he/she can talk. A new study published in the July edition of Developmental Psychology ...
Views: 1853(1 vote) - Vitamin D levels in Kids SO low that Rickets is back! - by Submitted on Sep 30, 2009 from Kerri KnoxKids get so little Vitamin D these days, that Rickets- a disease that was thought to be virtually eradicated over 50 years ago in developed countries- is back again. Rickets, with it's characteristic bowed legs from improper bone hardening, is caused by a simple nutritional deficiency. Yet ...
Views: 1460(1 vote) - The Value of our Own Healing - by Submitted on Sep 16, 2009 from Amber AghaThe value of our own healing How much value do you place on your own wellbeing and healing? In these financially precarious times it is tempting to skimp on what can be seen to be a luxury. But skimping on healing or resenting paying for it defeat the purpose Healing of any sort involves ...
Views: 1964(4 votes) - Grow Taller Exercises - How To Increase Your Height - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2009 from Benjamin StylesGenerally, the growth process is stopped when you reach 20-21 years of life for boys, and 18-19 years for girls. Human growth is strictly connected to the genetic material that a person has and for an adult, to grow taller significantly is something that has not been substantially proved by ...
Views: 4907(1 vote) - Buy Legal Prohormones at i-Supplements.com - by Submitted on Sep 01, 2009 from i-Supplements comIf you are a sports fan chances are that you watch ESPN or some other sporting news show. Over the last few years, the news media has been obsessed with the use of performance enhancing drugs in sports. In 2005 Major League Baseball star Jose Canseco released his tell all book Juiced. In this ...
Views: 2946(2 votes) - Pleasure vs. Pain - by Submitted on Sep 02, 2009 from Anthony DAlessandroWhen I listen to a speaker, even if I get just one or two things from them, it’s a success. I don’t expect you to do everything I say, just take the things that work for you. Take a few nuggets and apply them to your life and you’ll start seeing dramatic results. Now the name of this article ...
Views: 3241(3 votes) - Self Growth Music - by Submitted on Aug 28, 2009 from Asoma MusicThese days it seems like there’s no time for anything. The hectic pace most Americans keep make it difficult to add anything into our schedules and this includes meditation and wellness exercises or classes. We must try to find time during the odd hours of our day, and it’s not always easy. Many ...
Views: 2365(2 votes) - *** The Quickening Of Humanity In Its Awakening - by Submitted on Sep 29, 2009 from Christine BreeseHumanity is experiencing a quantum leap in its evolutionary growth. It has been experiencing this quantum leap for quite a while now, beginning with the age of technology. What is at hand now is a “quickening” of this growth, an awakening, a doorway to an expanded state of being. Humanity is ...
Views: 2100(2 votes) - Exercise and Recovery Time - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2009 from Deborah McIncrowWhen working out is a regular occurrence in your life and it is as regimented as brushing your teeth or picking up the mail, there comes a time during your travels toward better health and fitness that you must begin to contemplate taking time away from your exercise routine. The body will not ...
Views: 1402(1 vote) - A Different Way of Life, or a Different Way of Living? - by Submitted on Aug 23, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe other day the United Nations in New York City decided to celebrate indigenous peoples, and we were treated to pictures on our TV of people dressed in native American Indian garb of all sorts, from Peru to Seattle, chanting songs in the grand meeting chamber. It was an event designed to bring ...
Views: 1242(2 votes) - Too Busy to Change the World? - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI was on an Internet radio show last night with Bernedette on Hidden Wisdom Radio. At one point Bernedette asked me about my predictions for the future of the world. What an awesome question: often asked. I staggered when presented with this essential question. Before I give my prediction, ...
Views: 858(1 vote) - The 11th Dimension Space For Higher Cognitive Functioning - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2010 from Andre ZiziThis is part of my audio introduction into the 11th dimension Neuro Visualisation coming soon What is this 11th Dimension Space? This 11th dimension space baffled physicists and astrophysicists Proponents of string theory debate about special dimension told us for a while that there ...
Views: 2220(2 votes) - Investing in Our Human Infrastructure: The Real Wealth of Our Nation Is Its People - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOver half a million people lost their jobs last month. There's no question we need a job-creation plan. The real question is what kind of plan will most quickly stimulate the economy and at the same time provide the best long-term investment for our nation. Let's urge President Obama and ...
Views: 1042 - Maximizing Gains From Weight Training - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from i-Supplements comWhether you are an experienced weight trainer or a novice to the muscle building scene, we all want to know one thing; “How can I make the most of my workouts?” It doesn’t matter if you’re involved in strength training, powerlifting, or you simply exercise just to stay in shape, here are some ...
Views: 1054(1 vote) - The Path to Happiness; Take a Shortcut! - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Marylou SmithTHE PATH TO HAPPINESS: TAKE A SHORTCUT What is the one thing every human being on the planet has in common? What is it that drives us all into countless workshops, has us filling bookshelves with rows of self-help books and causes us to spent thousands of dollars and endless hours with a ...
Views: 1371(4 votes) - Understanding Judgment - Use of the Word Should - by Submitted on Jul 29, 2009 from Cindy L. HerbHow many of you have wonderful feelings of unconditional love when someone judged you or whenever you judged another? A good way to gauge the answer is by your reaction to it. From my own observations, whenever someone judged me, I became angry or upset. I noticed it most when someone would say ...
Views: 1671(2 votes) - The Art of Empathetic Listening - by Submitted on Jul 29, 2009 from Gian Fiero |Listening is such a simple process. One person talks, the other person listens. Or do they? We often confuse hearing with listening. The two are different, though both are done with our ears. Hearing is a natural function of the ear which involves the reception of sound. It's one of your ...
Views: 5153(7 votes) - BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY; CONSCIOUSNESS BEYOND TIME - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2009 from Mark AbadiBRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY CONSCIOUSNESS BEYOND TIME Mark ABADI - www.simplyholisticliving.co.uk ; www.markabadi.com; Spiritual Scientists & Integrated Health Psychologist Keywords: Quantum Vacuum; Zero Point Field; Akashic Field; Horizon Problem; Entanglement; ...
Views: 6072 - The Privilege of Being a Parent - by Submitted on Jul 17, 2009 from Jo-Anne CutlerLast weekend I was one of 850 people in my local community that participated in the National Walk for Kids Help Phone, celebrating this amazing organization’s 20th year and raising, within just our small group, approximately 210,000 in pledges! I was so grateful to be a part of this special ...
Views: 5203(5 votes) - What is it Like Being You? - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2009 from Norma CasasDo you like yourself? Do you love the person you are with all your weaknesses and strengths? One of our worst mistakes as a human race is non-acceptance. Every day we wake up looking at a strange reflection in the mirror. We don't like what we see, want to change it but don't know how or why. ...
Views: 1212 - Surrendering to "What Is": the Necessity and the Challenge - by Submitted on Jul 10, 2009 from Alan SealeI heard a recording of Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, the president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, in her first address to IONS Shift in Action members. She spoke of the current projects of the Institute and their importance in today's world. Toward the end of the talk, she made a comment, ...
Views: 1489(3 votes) - Scientific Knowledge is Not Dependent on Religion or the Hard Sciences - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2009 from Cheryl PetersenOrganized religion and the hard sciences add to our stash of knowledge. Unfortunately, part of this knowledge is only religious fervor or junk science; in other words, human knowledge—information twisted by politics, personal ideologies, or money. Basically, human information is not scientific; ...
Views: 1529 - A Touch of Evil - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2009 from Shifra HendrieThe world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. -Albert Einstein Anyone who watches the news knows that there are some truly evil people in this world. There are also a very few, not so much on the ...
Views: 1159 - Focus on the Things We Can Do to Eliminate Prejudice, Hate and Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2009 from Janie BehrPrejudice, discrimination, and scapegoating is alive and well in the 21st century. Marshall Wong, a hate-crime coordinator said, "anti-Semitic crime is still consistently among the top four groups targeted." Perhaps the most startling discovery is the reports of anti-Semitic schoolyard ...
Views: 2985 - The Dilemma of the "Good" Muslim - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsEven before his inauguration, President Obama signaled a change of attitude toward Islam. He renounced the term "war on terror" and has never even flirted with another right-wing favorite, "clash of civilizations." Since taking office he has addressed the Islamic world with respect -- a key ...
Views: 958 - The Taliban Within - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAlmost every day we come across some news or another about the atrocities of the Talibans in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Most of us have been viewing this issue as some incomprehensible disease in a remote and perennially troubled part of the world. The truth is, as we have all come to learn ...
Views: 978 - Neurobiology of Human Error - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2009 from Albert GaroliImagine a world free from wars, deception, unjust laws, corruption, pollution, artificial radiation, mass hypnosis, poverty and starvation. Imagine a world where human beings are integrated with nature and live a free, real and healthy eco-sustainable life. This has been and will be a dim ...
Views: 1580(7 votes) - You Can Help Roxanne Saberi, Euna Lee, and Laura Ling - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSeveral years ago when I was detained by officials while trying to pass through immigration on the way out of a certain “rogue nation,” and kept in a holding cell while the officials tried to determine what to do with me, I alternatively freaked out, tried to reflect on the lessons I could learn ...
Views: 962 - Unseen Hazards Worse Than Global Warming - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2009 from Nina AndersonUntil recently the news media has been focused on wars and civil disruptions worldwide. According to scientific calculations, about 15,000 wars have taken place on the planet during the recent 5 thousand years. More than 3.5 billion people have been killed in the wars. There were only 292 ...
Views: 1956 - Humanity of Motive Behind the Inhumanity of Action (movie review) - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsKudos to Bodrov! What a movie: piercing and breathtaking as an invasion of mongols itself! Having grown up as a Russian, furthermore, in Moscow in the Arbat neighborhood literally a two lane street from Mongol Embassy (on what used to be called Voevodin Lane, across school #69), I have always ...
Views: 1199 - How Can We Help the Helpless? - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAs a mother, I read with horror a news article from CNN.com last week about Masika Bermudez, a mother who found her dead eleven-year-old son Jaheem Herrera hanging from a belt in a closet. In the article, Masika said she believes that Jaheem could no longer cope with the bullying that was ...
Views: 1271 - When Being Named TED is Cool - by Submitted on May 26, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA new and cool online group now grants your wishes. Imagine a friend, a peer or a colleague quietly filling out an online form telling this group all about your work and how the members of this group might help -- and this nomination is kept from you. Now visualize getting a call out of the ...
Views: 1102 - Changing Times - by Submitted on May 24, 2009 from Erika CookIn the beginning there was light. That is how each and every one of us started, and that is what each and every one of us is. Light. We are all tiny sparks of God; we are all tiny pieces of one puzzle. When put together the puzzle makes one magnificent picture. We are all the puzzle ...
Views: 1028 - Barack Obama's First 100 Days - For the Muslim World - by Submitted on May 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsTo the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect.” When President Barack Obama said that during his January 2009 presidential inaugural address, he sent a clear message to the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims. A few weeks ago in Ankara, he fulfilled his ...
Views: 992(1 vote) - The Toxic Residue of Torture - by Submitted on May 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt seems clear that the question of torture won't go away. It would be easier to talk about moving ahead. Images of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo belong in nightmares. As a physician, my personal nightmare is of the doctors who stood by during torture sessions to monitor the victim's vital signs. ...
Views: 1144 - ***Multidimensional Living - by Submitted on May 15, 2009 from Eleanor Haspel-PortnerYou are driven constantly to live an integrated multidimensional life that aligns all parts of yourself: mental, spiritual, emotional, and physical. These different components of yourself develop gradually over an important six-month period beginning three months before your birth and continuing ...
Views: 2479 - 5 Tips for Having an Uncomfortable Conversation - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2009 from Pamela ZiemannThe experts agree that having uncomfortable conversations is the best way to succeed in your business. Timothy Ferriss, author of The Four Week Work Week talks about the importance of having uncomfortable conversations in this current economy and how it relates to small business ...
Views: 3202(2 votes) - The Mind of God - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2009 from Sharon EllisOriginally, we were part of the Mind of the Creator, of "ALL THAT IS" and we were the "The Mind of God, ALL ONE MIND, ALL KNOWING and all ONE CONSCIOUSNESS. Then this mind realised that to know "ALL THAT IS" conceptually, is never really knowing anything!! What was required to truly know the ...
Views: 1512 - *** We Must Start Loving the Killers Among Us - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2009 from Deborah LeighOprah decided to pull the plug on her April 20 show focusing on the 10th anniversary of the Columbine shootings because in her words, “After reviewing it, I thought it focused too much on the killers.” Instead, she ran a rather ho-hum episode about a mother leaving prison. Oprah was wrong. ...
Views: 1585(3 votes) - Making a World of New Possibilities - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2009 from Cheril GoodrichThe world is on the brink of breaking through a cycle of learning from the past into a virtual reality. The veil that has existed between this dimension and the next is lifting to reveal this. The muted distortions the veil once posed is revealing a crystal blue reality where truth, peace, and ...
Views: 1308 - Are You a Slave? - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2009 from Joseph GhabiThe first thing that probably comes to your mind when you hear the word ‘slavery’ is the unfortunate situation in the United States which dates as far back as 1607 according to Wikipedia. The slavery that took place during that time involved mostly African-Americans, however there was also some ...
Views: 2228(1 vote) - A Day in the Life of a Conscious Woman - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2009 from SUZANNE MOLINO SINGLETONWhat does it mean to be a conscious human being? This isn’t exactly the opposite of being unconscious as in BAM! - someone knocks you out - but almost. The best parallel I can think of is kids - such oblivious little mortals. They will step on your foot without knowing it, butt in front of you ...
Views: 2053(2 votes) - Aging: More Than the Passage of Time - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2009 from ALFORD VASSALL JRThere is a thought that aging has to do with the passage of time but this thought takes us in a direction that is misleading. This makes us think that we age because we gradually become less effective because we grow and age as time passes. In this view every year that passes brings us closer to ...
Views: 1544 - Past Life Regression: Looking to the Past to Better Our Future - by Submitted on Apr 10, 2009 from linda marvinWhen my hypnosis practice becomes inundated with inquiries about past life regression, I know that a TV program has just showcased the wonderful world of PLR. Thanks to Oprah and others, PLR has joined the mainstream. Most people are not aware that looking into your past life is even ...
Views: 1268 - Fractals and Nature's Evolution as Explained by Dr. Bruce Lipton - by Submitted on Mar 22, 2009 from Nancy StremmelFractals explain all natural phenomenon. Although fractal geometry was theorized at the beginning of the 20th century, it was not until the development of the super computer that we have been able to see the full implications of fractals. Bruce Lipton, cellular biologist, explains in this series ...
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