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Resolutions — Make Em, Keep Em

Four experts discuss how to make and keep your New Year’s Resolutions, and why spinning your wheels by constant rumination is a recipe for depression and disconnection.

Tips for Holiday Eating and Being

Tips for eating and being describes things to do to help with alcohol and eating overindulgence, as well as how to best enjoy the company of others during this Holiday Season.

Sunday Summary: Lifespan, Superfoods and Happiness

This post summarizes some insightful articles about longevity, superfoods and the psychology of happiness. Superfoods are nutrient-dense and are based on whole foods with minimum processing. Longevity can often be improved by adopting the right behaviors and scuttling the bad ones.

Inspirational Alice – Dancing Under the Gallows at 107

Despite being interned for years in a concentration camp during World War II, Alice Herz-Sommer — at 107, the oldest survivor of the holocaust — has lived her life without hatred. Instead, she has thrived through her optimism and music.

Saturated by Fat and TV News? Get Simple!

the Salt/Sugar/Fat trilogy is the intoxicating recipe to give a fast jolt (yeah, add caffeine to the mix) of brain-soothing dopamine neurotransmitters. It’s a heaping of short-run pleasure. In the case of TV programming, it’s the play to the primal instincts of tribalism — us against them — rather than a search for commonalities and consensus. Modern “food” and media are essentially forms of entertainment; the kind that play to instinctive, but base, attitudes and senses.

A Teaching Inspired by 9-11 and Joseph Campbell

Religion often separates us because it’s read literally rather than metaphorically. Thus the religious stories are not interpreted as mythology, but fact. The results penetrate us: the Catholic world was made by a anthropomorphic deity only several thousand years ago; the Muslim world where woman are often viewed inferior and treated like objects; a Jewish world where ancestral land rights promised in ancient texts are the pretext for dominating another people.

Deconstruct Fear with Action

Deconstruct fear with action. Worry and fear overwhelm us in the fertile ground of inaction. Your brain’s task is to look into the fear and deconstruct the fear with action. It is almost always the case that when you are not getting what you want, that your brain is receiving fear messages that you are unaware of.

Addicted to the Past?

When unhappy with your “now”, the tendency is to live in the past. Some of us are addicted to it, meaning, that we miss today because our focus is in the past. There are six signs that you’re doing this, which result in disrupting your full potential from flowering.

The 4 Addictions — Which 1 is Yours?

Emotional/psychological struggles are often based upon one of “addictions”, which are addictions to opinions, drama, worry or the past. Which addiction is yours? Each of them can keep you from living a life you value.

Empathy for a Bug

What does it take to empathize with lesser creatures? Empathy perhaps. All life-forms struggle, in that we’re alike. May a superior alien race look more kindly on us than we do lesser beings on planet earth.

The Past Dissolves… I Am Free

I am free. Create your reality. This is 1 of the 10 videos found on the “freedom” DVD at www.igetrealtv.com.

Need to Change? Make it Fun!

Make change fun by doing it with a friend. Make it social. Otherwise it will seem as if you’re depriving yourself. The new thing needs to be perceived not only as worth having, but fun to get.

One Less Cookie = 10 Less Pounds

The basic formula for gaining and losing weight is well known: a pound of fat equals 3,500 calories. That simple equation has fueled the widely accepted notion that weight loss does not require daunting lifestyle changes but “small changes that add up,” as the first lady, Michelle Obama, put it last month in announcing a national plan to counter childhood obesity.

Are Your Thoughts Yours?

Our thoughts seem to come from us, but do they? Don’t robotically react to thoughts, but observe them dispassionately. Are they really yours?

Dr Oz and the 14-Day Reboot Diet Plan

Dr. Oz’s Reboot Diet. The first 7 days are key as are the 5 foods that make you fat. How stress ads to belly fat and changes hormones.

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