Our emotions influence our physical health. Science has proven that emotions, like chronic stress, unresolved trauma, anxiety, and depression, alter our inflammation levels, immune function, and ability to heal. However, spiritual and metaphysical teachers take this fact further, claiming that emotions are energetic events that can become trapped in the body. When that happens, “stuck […]
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It’s common for our happiness to depend on the emotional state of those we love or those who surround us. However, you don’t have to let your emotions fluctuate based on how others are feeling at any given moment. It is possible to have compassion—even to have sympathy—when other’s go through hard times but to
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You don’t believe now is the time to do the things that make you happy, including becoming the person you want to be. So, you keep waiting for a great reason to start enjoying your life. As a result, you don’t wear the clothes or jewelry. You don’t take up the hobby, start your passion
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It’s impossible to force people to do things differently or to be different. They change only when they decide they want to change, not because you want or insist that they do. If you haven’t realized that by now, you are in for constant battles, disharmonious relationships, and loads of frustration and anger. Believe me.
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We know the language of the soul at birth. Then, most of us forget it—or think we have. Some people remember their personal soul language from childhood or early adulthood and never forget it. Others spend their entire lives trying to communicate with their spiritual nature, never realizing that they’ve always known the language of
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You finally get the promotion, buy the new car, move into the dream apartment, or start dating someone amazing. For a while, you feel happy. Then, little by little, your happiness fades. Before you know it, you hardly think about that achievement, acquisition, or relationship, and, if you do, you don’t feel happy about it.
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Training to take a week-long hike, run a 26-mile marathon, or cycle 3,000 miles across the United States makes sense. It’s what’s necessary to complete the physical challenge. If you enjoy such activities and want to continue doing them throughout your life—even later in life—you need to build endurance, stamina, and strength that sustain these
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“You are here. So, are we good?” he asked me. “No. We aren’t good. I really don’t trust you or your team.” I was standing at the counter, speaking to a service agent at a car dealership. Within the last 12 months, I brought my car in for servicing and diagnostics twice because the engine
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Gardening offers a beautiful metaphor for personal growth. Plants remind us that transformation doesn’t happen overnight or even where we can see it clearly. Rather, it occurs gradually, intentionally, with care, and sometimes in unexpected ways and places. Every gardener knows you can’t rush a tomato plant into producing fruit, force a flower to bloom
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Every experience offers the opportunity to learn lessons and grow personally. Situations serve as mirrors, allowing you to look closely at yourself and discover your growing edge. A recent road-rage incident reminded me of this fact. Like many of my neighbors, I often walk my dog on a two-lane road near my house that has
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How many times have you blamed a lack of time for not doing something you said mattered to you? You reasoned that you were stretched thin, overwhelmed, at capacity, overcommitted, or didn’t have an extra minute for what you claimed was important to you. You couldn’t make or find time to do what matters.
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It’s frustrating when your friends, family, or coworkers won’t change. From your perspective, you know they need to change. Therefore, their unwillingness or inability to do things differently annoys, frustrates, angers, and upsets you. You keep telling them they need to change… and demanding that they change. You feel certain everything will be better if
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