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The Horrors and Gifts of Growing Older

Hugh and Gayle Prather By Hugh and Gayle Prather
Hugh and Gayle Prather

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I’m beginning to notice a few unexpected benefits from looking my age.

Me Me Me vs Taking Care of Oneself

Jude Bijou By Jude Bijou
Jude Bijou

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I heard an interesting theory about egoism a while back... "Egoism is the root of all conflict in the world." Intuitively that makes perfect sense.

Learning Self-Care—Saying No and Using Love as the Ultimate Healing Tool

Eileen Day McKusick By Eileen Day McKusick
Eileen Day McKusick

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"Your relationship with your body is one of the most important relationships you’ll ever have. And since repairs are expensive and spare parts are hard to come by, it pays to make that relationship good. "

The Path of Self Love Is Not for the Faint of Heart

Sarah Love McCoy By Sarah Love McCoy
Sarah Love McCoy

a man with a backpack standing in front of rocks and boulders 

Truth be told, the path of Self Love is not for the faint of heart. There's no destination or end to it.

Why You Can’t Remember Being Born, Learning To Walk Or Saying Your First Words

Vanessa LoBue, Rutgers University By Vanessa LoBue, Rutgers University
Vanessa LoBue, Rutgers University

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Despite the fact that people can’t remember much before the age of 2 or 3, research suggests that infants can form memories – just not the kinds of memories you tell about yourself.

Freeing Ourselves by Telling the Truth

Barbara Berger By Barbara Berger
Barbara Berger

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It's hard to make any real progress on the journey of self-discovery, self-realization, self-empowerment and healing without telling the truth. We have to tell the truth to get the energy moving. We have to tell the truth for change to happen in our lives.

How To Bring Yourself To Delete That Social Media Account

Sharon Horwood, Deakin University By Sharon Horwood, Deakin University
Sharon Horwood, Deakin University

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For more than a decade we’ve been deeply immersed in a love affair with social media. And the thought of ending things can be painful.

Why You Might Feel "Blah" After Christmas

Jolanta Burke, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences By Jolanta Burke, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Jolanta Burke, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

after christmas blahs

The holiday season is usually a joyous occasion, but many people feel “blah” soon after the celebrations. What is it about Christmas that makes people feel this way?

Loving Relationships and a Peaceful Soul

Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com By Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com

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All of us, even animals, need to love and be loved. We need it for basic survival, we need it for growth, both physical and emotional, and we need it for happiness. 

Loving Relationships and a Peaceful Soul (Video)

Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com By Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com

smiling mother, sitting on the grass, holding up a child

All of us, even animals, need to love and be loved. We need it for basic survival, we need it for growth, both physical and emotional, and we need it for happiness. 

Pleasure: The Medicine of Sensing and Being Here Now

Julia Paulette Hollenbery By Julia Paulette Hollenbery
Julia Paulette Hollenbery

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Ancient Vedic texts describe the universe and everything in it, including us, as being made of bliss. Bliss is our underlying nature, discoverable through a focus on this moment of experience.

Pleasure: The Medicine of Sensing and Being Here Now (Video)

Julia Paulette Hollenbery By Julia Paulette Hollenbery
Julia Paulette Hollenbery

woman touching her bare arm

Ancient Vedic texts describe the universe and everything in it, including us, as being made of bliss. Bliss is our underlying nature, discoverable through a focus on this moment of experience.

Is There Such A Thing As Good Selfishness?

Alan Cohen By Alan Cohen
Alan Cohen

What Is The Highest and Best Form of Selfishness?

I have been rethinking selfishness, the ego, and self-centeredness. In some schools of thought these are dirty words, nasty attributes to be subdued, transmuted, and overcome. But maybe they're not so bad. Maybe it's all how you look at them. Baseball star Reggie Jackson said, "The only thing I don't...

Healing Otherness: Your Changes, Reflected in Community

Stacee L. Reicherzer PhD By Stacee L. Reicherzer PhD
Stacee L. Reicherzer PhD

Healing Otherness: Your Changes, Reflected in Community

Seeking out a community of healing, being exploited in it, perhaps assuming the shame and responsibility for what went wrong, and then isolating back into our struggle, can become a cycle. This happens in many ways as we choose bold and radical new lives for ourselves.

Healing Otherness: Your Changes, Reflected in Community (Video)

Stacee L. Reicherzer PhD By Stacee L. Reicherzer PhD
Stacee L. Reicherzer PhD

Healing Otherness: Your Changes, Reflected in Community

Seeking out a community of healing, being exploited in it, perhaps assuming the shame and responsibility for what went wrong, and then isolating back into our struggle, can become a cycle...

Are Emotions Bad or Are They A Gateway to the Soul?

Brandon Bays By Brandon Bays
Brandon Bays

Are Emotions Bad or A Gateway to Your Soul?

We often have the misconception that our emotions interfere with our experience of ultimate peace: that they are the storm that distracts us from spacious calm. There are so many false notions about emotions. We usually learn at an early age that there are "good"...

Being A Better Person

Marie T. Russell By Marie T. Russell
Marie T. Russell

Being A Better Person

"He makes me want to be a better person." As I reflected on this statement later, I realized that this is the best compliment anyone could ever hope to receive. Just think about your own life... Think of the reactions and comments you may have made about others...

Getting Along With Others: Simple or Complicated?

Karol Kuhn Truman By Karol Kuhn Truman
Karol Kuhn Truman

Getting Along With Others: Simple or Complicated?

Many people have real challenges in their relationships with other people. Are you one of them? One of the largest contributing factors to your ability to freely enjoy other people depends upon how much you enjoy yourself... how much you accept yourself.

Are You Honoring Yourself? Honor is Really About Respect

Brian Klemmer By Brian Klemmer
Brian Klemmer

Are You Honoring Yourself? Honor is Really About Respect

The word respect is commonly used as it relates to respecting others. For example, "Respect your elders. Honor your mother and your father." These phrases are familiar. But how about this one: "Honor yourself." Does that feel right to you?

Expressing Feelings: A Drawing is Worth a Thousand Tears

Lucia Capacchione By Lucia Capacchione
Lucia Capacchione

Expressing Feelings: A Drawing is Worth a Thousand Tears

I discovered the healing power of getting in touch with feelings while struggling with a serious illness. Without realizing what I was doing or where it would lead, I scribbled and doodled my feelings out on paper. These strange...

Mechanics or Miracles: Which Are You Seeing?

Alan Cohen By Alan Cohen
Alan Cohen

Mechanics or Miracles: Which Are You Seeing?

Considering the challenges facing humanity, one might wonder if it’s time to put less emphasis on activity and more emphasis on awakening. Less what and more why. The form of life is the chalice through which we drink the essence of life.

Releasing The Junk Emotions By Washing Your Mind

Venerable Yifa By Venerable Yifa
Venerable Yifa

Releasing The Junk Emotions By Washing Your Mind

Junk emotions, such as anxiety, jealousy, anger, obsession, short-temperedness, greed, hatred, and so on, are neither good for us nor are they good for other people with whom we come into contact. They need to be inventoried, just like...

The Five Stages of Projection: Re-Owning Our Abandoned Self

Bill Plotkin, Ph.D. By Bill Plotkin, Ph.D.
Bill Plotkin, Ph.D.

The Five Stages of Projection: Re-Owning Our Abandoned Self

Why do we project our repressed parts? Why can't or don't those parts just remain peacefully buried -- or asleep in the basement -- and let us go on undisturbed with our "normal" lives? Apparently there is no way to avoid it even while there are limitless ways to ignore or deny it...

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