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How to Be an Alchemist and Change Yourself and Your Life for the Better

July 18, 2022 July 17, 2022 / By Nina Amir / 2 Comments

When you hear the word “alchemist,” what comes to mind? You likely imagine a magician producing something out of nothing or a scientist turning lead into gold. However, people who transform themselves are alchemists, too. Indeed, if you apply personal and spiritual growth strategies to yourself, you are an alchemist. Why? In the process, you …

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Why Your Attempts to Manifest Attract the Opposite of Your Desires

July 11, 2022 July 10, 2022 / By Nina Amir / 3 Comments

Too often, my attempts to manifest my desires result in creation of the exact opposite—what I don’t want. You probably have had the same experience. So what’s up with that? There are several ways to explain this phenomenon, but Neale Donald Walsch offers a fabulous one in Conversations with God. He writes, “Whenever you proclaim …

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How to Prove to Yourself that What you Focus on Expands

July 4, 2022 July 3, 2022 / By Nina Amir / 2 Comments

It’s been four decades since I read about the concept of “vaporizing clouds” in Richard Bach’s book, Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. Donald Shimoda teaches Bach to make clouds disappear or appear using the power of the mind. Indeed, our thoughts are creative. What you focus on expands. Stop placing your attention on …

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The Expansive Power of Living a Life that Feeds your Soul

June 27, 2022 June 27, 2022 / By Nina Amir / Leave a Comment

You are bombarded daily with information about feeding and caring for your body. Of course, doing so is essential, but it’s not enough. You also need to feed and care for your soul. The reason is simple: You are a spiritual being having a physical experience. Therefore, you must feed both body and soul to …

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The One Thing You Must Do if You Want to Live Fully

June 20, 2022 June 19, 2022 / By Nina Amir / 2 Comments

Are you living your life fully? Be honest. Are you stretching, growing, loving, and doing things that make you feel alive, passionate, excited, and fulfilled? If not, you probably lack trust. When you don’t trust—yourself, others, or the Creator, you hold yourself back. And as long as you continue to restrain yourself, you can’t truly …

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Why Your Personal Growth Strategy Isn’t Helping You Realize Your Potential

June 6, 2022 June 5, 2022 / By Nina Amir / 4 Comments

When people become conscious that they aren’t realizing their potential, they turn to some form of personal growth for help. Maybe you can relate… You want to be, do, and have more, and deep inside, you know you can. So you read books, take courses, invest in coaching, and “work on yourself.” All your personal …

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Why Bother with Transformational Tools that Don’t Achieve Results?

October 14, 2016 October 13, 2016 / By Nina Amir / Leave a Comment

Have you given up on the spiritual, metaphysical or personal development techniques you’ve tried in the past? You decided they didn’t work and went in search of something else… Or not. Instead, you simply stopped trying new transformational tools. I get it. Many personal growth or spiritual tools promise huge results but don’t deliver. And …

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The Secret to Your Success

October 16, 2015 October 15, 2015 / By Nina Amir / 2 Comments

Success may depend upon a variety of factors, but most successful people will tell you the secret to success lies between your ears. It’s your mind, and, more specifically, your thoughts. That’s why they focus an enormous amount of time, attention and money on personal development. A few years ago, I attended New Media Expo, …

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Tips for Achieving Your Highest Potential and Improving Yourself

September 25, 2015 September 14, 2015 / By Nina Amir / Leave a Comment

The Jewish High Holy Days have just ended. Despite what many people think, the theme that runs through Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the New Year and Day of Repentance, has less to do with the concept of “sin” as we typically think about it and more to do with goal setting. The word for …

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What Does It Mean to Sin Against Yourself?

September 12, 2013 September 12, 2013 / By Nina Amir / 4 Comments

Tomorrow begins the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the Day of Repentance. It comes after 10 days of introspection when we explore the sins we’ve committed and how to rectify them. We ask for forgiveness from those we’ve wronged as well as from God. There are three types of sins in the Jewish traditions: sins …

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Are you stretching?

January 27, 2013 January 27, 2013 / By Nina Amir / 4 Comments

Lately I’ve been stretched to my max. I have no one to blame but myself. I’ve created numerous deadlines for myself and challenges—opportunities—all within a very short amount of time. Sometimes the stretching doesn’t feel so good. Like a teenager with growth pains, I can feel myself aching from the effort. But I know it’s …

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The Biggest Sin of All: Not Living Up to Your Potential

September 23, 2012 September 23, 2012 / By Nina Amir / Leave a Comment

As a Jew, I’m now in the midst of Days of Awe, the 10 days between the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah and the Day of Repentance, Yom Kippur. During this time we are supposed to take an accounting of our sins and repent for them. However, I think the biggest sin of all is …

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