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5 Tips to Creating a Healthy Mind

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Experiencing Joy through good Health includes not only the body but the MIND and Spirit. Here are 5 simple tips on how to create a healthy mind! Believe in the power of your mind! The mind is a powerful thing. Buddah says: “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” Ask yourself… what do I want to become? Then keep checking in with yourself if that’s what you’re thinking or not. For example: Thinking things like: “I’m not good enough or smart enough or pretty or skinny enough.” Then you’ll never become enough. Thinking: “It’s too hard. I can’t…

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5 Simple Tips for Creating A Healthy Body

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  “Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well…and not today’s pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.” —James H. West Just because health is a large word and concept that encompasses a lot of varying aspects, not to mention several different modes of study and practice, doesn’t mean it has to be something difficult and complicated to achieve. Here’s 5 Simple tips to help you create a healthy body. Stop the Diets. I know you’re saying well how’s that possible if I want…

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How to Be Grateful For Things That are Hard to Be Grateful For

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Sometimes things happen in our lives that aren’t all that great. But when we develop a true attitude of gratitude we can truly be grateful for all things. Whether they appear to be great or not, we make them great because we are grateful for them. And when we are grateful for everything in our life, then everything in our life because more joyful. Here are some examples in my own life: I am grateful that I am divorced. Not because my marriage fell apart but because I’m divorced I’ve been able to learn a lot about myself and some…

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Memorial Day–How We Truly Honor Those Who Lived

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Memorial Day weekend is a time to think of and honor the many fallen war heroes as well as our own dear loved ones who have passed on from our lives. We honor and remember them through the many ceremonies presented in their behalf and with the multitude of flowers and decorations placed in the cemeteries by their graves.  It’s also a time when family is gathering together, BBQ grills are getting fired up, and other traditions are carried out as well as big promotional sales happening in stores and on line everywhere. It’s amazing what our society and our…

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To Forgive or Not to Forgive?

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To forgive or not to forgive? Is that really the question? How about: To be at peace or to be in pain and suffering? That is the real question! I think some of the saddest words I ever hear are when someone says: “I’m never going to forgive them for the pain they caused me.” You might be saying those aren’t sad, they’re powerful! They clearly show who’s in control and a real strong determination to not let a wrong doing and wrong doer go unnoticed and unpunished. That justice and fairness are being served. That it’s only right that…

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25 Lessons I’ve Learned Through Life’s Education

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We’ve all been taught throughout the years to go to school and get an education so that you can learn all the things you need to learn in order to make it in life. It’s all well and good to know that 2+2=4 and what an adjective, noun and verb are. It’s even nice to know the square root of 144, how to find the area of a triangle and be familiar with some of the famous works of William Shakespeare. But there are some other really great things to learn and know in life and many of them are…

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Dance Moves for a Joyful Life

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I am not a dancer by any means. I’ve never had any real formal dance instruction. I’ve watched a few videos trying to learn various dance steps. I’ve been to dance clubs and other such group dances. I’ve watched a lot of other dancers in movies, TV, and in real life. I am always in awe at how they move their bodies and make it all seem so fluid and fun. I’ve wanted to be able to dance like they do. To feel free and fabulous in moving my body to the rhythm of the music. Lately I’ve been fascinated…

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Finding Joy in Life’s Daily Dance

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Not every dance we do in life involves being in the arms of a strong handsome man or having a beautiful lady attached to your side gliding effortlessly across a beautiful dance floor. Sometimes it doesn’t even resemble any sort of actual dancing as we commonly think of it. Sometimes the dance we experience in our daily life can be quite different. Here’s  an example of a daily dance I experienced not long ago. My partner was my trusty old Ford Escort and the movement we created was more of a frenzied shuffle back and forth across the busy city…

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Curious Sue–A Personal Tale of Self Discovery

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I thought for this next post on Curiosity I’d try something a little different. In the spirit of some of my favorite stories of “Curious George”,  I wrote my own personal tale of self discovery. How I learned to experience more JOY in my life. As you read my little story I hope that you can see yourself in some of it and desire to discover more fully your own personal power and joy. “Curious Sue” Once there was a little brown eyed curly haired girl named Sue. Sue grew up in a house full of people. She had siblings…

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How being Curious brings great Joy

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“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” –Walt Disney So often we get stuck in the same ruts of our everyday life. Get up, get dressed, eat, go to school, go to work, eat, come home, do more school, do more work, eat some more, go to bed then get up and do it all over again. In between all the routines we have we make plans for what else we need to make sure we get done that particular day and we fret and…

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