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Well Being Blog

An Elevated View

Crossing the wide span Of a tall river bridge I want to freeze the moment As I gaze out across the endless wide water. It always makes me ecstatic Uplifting me to some Other plane

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Comparing Ourselves to Others

In this day and age where we have so many outlets for intimately seeing other’s lives, and it’s important we aren’t distracted from our own. Comparisons can be dangerous—and can lead to feeling of inadequacy,

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The Relevance of Meditation

  When someone comes to me with concerns, be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual, the first strategy I recommend for coping and healing is to learn to meditate. When the body is sending stress signals of discomfort,

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What Is Health?

What is health anyway? With all the talk about the flu lately, and how seemingly healthy individuals can have very serious cases of it, it brought to mind how we think of health. In the

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January Newsletter 2018

This year is starting off for me in an unfamiliar, sort of scattered way. I’d like to be really honest with all of you, I want to be as authentic as I can be this

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My Little Holiday Message

I wish this holiday that you find ways to make it easier on yourself. Remember, your time is the most precious gift of all. Most presents will eventually be tomorrow’s trash, but not your presence.  

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It’s a Women’s World to be Had

Another report out today, this time from the World Economic Forum’s findings and projections revealing the gender gap is worsening. They rank countries by economic opportunities, education, political participation and health. These kinds of reports

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A Tiny Story

There was once a young woman walking down her life path, and every so often she would pick up something and put it somewhere: in her pocket, her back pack, purse, over her shoulder even.

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Heal Ourselves, Heal the World

We all have judgments, prejudices, opinions and beliefs. Have you ever changed your beliefs or opinions during your life? Can you recall what happened to cause you to change an opinion? Most of us want

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Where are our Leaders?

  There is a leading edge of evolution functioning within humanity. This leading edge is a minority of the population, yet large enough to have an impact by showing the way, being an example of

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What is Ayurveda?

Ayurveda is a very deep topic, a vast, ancient, body of knowledge divined long before any other known health system. But it’s more than a health system. I’ve been studying this subject a bit here

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TWO TREES

Two trees, strong and firmly planted, could only travel through the experience of their roots and leaves For a few short moments the leaves of the two trees, anchored far apart, lifted in the wind

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Looking for Thank Yous Revisited

20 years ago, as a stockbroker, I had a client that was very demanding. In an effort to satisfy her requests, I went above and beyond my normal responsibilities, spending an inordinate amount of time

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A Better Way

So many angry people. So many fearful people. It matters not what political view one has, there is plenty of vitriol flowing on every side. Anger is a step up from powerlessness. Anger gives us

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On Courage

Courage is a force that is willed, and will isn’t from our ego, our personality or our logical mind. It is from our heart and soul. It rises up from deep within us. I haven’t

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About Women

I wrote this last night after watching the news. Instead of railing against how the news is presented, I write. I like hearing about women who ignore the idea that the world is stacked against

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Inviting Peace In

What do you do when you’re stressed out, fed up, feeling as if things are way out of control, and you can’t do anything about it? What is really going on? Let’s see, and learn

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Benefiting from Retreat

  It was an extremely enjoyable and refreshing time, going on my annual silent retreat in the Monterey Peninsula with the Chopra Center. Not the huge revelations that I had on my first venture into

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Why sign up for this Chopra Course?

A SPECIAL MESSAGE about this course (reprinted from a previous newsletter. We received so many positive comments we thought it should be in our blog.) We are offering the Chopra Center Meditation program next month,

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Author’s Note

I’d like to tell you that this whole story was completely written by me, from my brain, my own imagination, but I tell you, while writing this book, more often than not, when I sat

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