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10 Research-Based Reasons Compassion is Transformative

10 Research-Based Reasons Compassion is Transformative

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“The formula for true success includes being consistent, courageous, clear, compassionate and focused.” ~ Helen MacMillan Compassion may be the single most important attribute for achieving success and happiness in your life. There are many research-based findings that bear this out. Here is what science has learned that backs up what we already know in our heart. Compassion makes us happy – as happy as receiving money! Jordan Grafman, Neuroscientist at the National Institute of Health found that pleasure centers…

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7 Reasons to Be Happy Even If Your Life Isn't Perfect Yet

7 Reasons to Be Happy Even If Your Life Isn’t Perfect Yet

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“Being happy doesn’t mean everything’s perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” ~ Author Unknown Happiness is your birthright. Everyone, no matter who you are, deserves to be happy. Interestingly though, the happiest people in the world aren’t the ones with the most money, possessions, fame, power, friends, health or even love. Most of us, from an early age, learns to be unhappy. We form hidden or subconscious patterns that create unhappiness. Some people even come to…

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The Power Of A Good “Rant”

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Often times we get stuck in a negative situation because we avoid ranting and raving and expressing our outrage. There are many things that condition us to avoid expressing or honoring our extreme feelings of anger and rage. – You may have have created pain and suffering for yourself or others in the past when you expressed your anger and hurt. – Or you may have experienced being on the receiving end of someone else’s rage and it felt intimidating…

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Getting Off The Emotional Roller Coaster

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Growing up I was often told I was being “too emotional”.  In response to my emotional outbursts my mother would tell me, “All of life is in your mind!”, which I interpreted at the time as “get a hold of yourself and snap out of it”. Unable to understand the profound truth in that statement, I simply felt dismissed, unheard and misunderstood (as many teenagers are apt to do). But, like so much else else, her words were stored in…

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The Power of Feeling “Good”

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I am, unapologetically, a big fan of feeling “good”! (happy, contented, joyful, peaceful, calm). Having spent a good chunk of my early life depressed and feeling bad, riding the emotional roller coaster of doubt, fear, shame, judgement, criticism and comparison. I’m soooo over that! 🙂 I wouldn’t change a thing about my past. Inherent in each experience was a gift: a lesson, a healing, an opportunity. It is how we interpret a situation and respond to it that determines our…

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How’s Your Engine Running?

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      I was talking to a client of mine the other day. I had treated him for a shoulder pain sometime last year. He had had it for a while and had tried numerous approaches, including acupuncture and traditional physical therapy, which had not given any lasting relief. Truthfully, despite his sister urging him to come see me for months, the only reason he finally gave in and came was that it was seriously hindering his golf game!…

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5 Reasons to Love Your Body Just the Way it is (And how you can start if you don’’t!)

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Your body is your home! It’’s where you live. Like it or not, it’s the only one you’’ve got.  It’’s with you all the time, so it really suits to to find a way to love it. Just like your physical house, if you don’’t love it you’’ll be less likely to have friends over and you certainly aren’’t going to show it off! You also aren’’t as likely to spend money on it, or fix it up, and in the…

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