Decision making in the Absence of Adequate Data

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How many times a week do you need to make a decision without all the facts you'd like to have? If you're a manager -- of anything, from a household to a multi-billion-dollar corporation to your own life --you're probably faced with that kind of challenge daily. But in this rationally oriented culture, you may not realize there are ways to make quite sensible decisions without adequate logical information, yet with a minimum of stress. Doing this effectively requires learning to operate with … [Read more...]

What’s Stressing You Today–and What Will Help?

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Featured Topic: Techniques to Relieve Stress In our fast-paced culture, just about everyone feels stressed...by work demands, schedules and deadlines, if nothing else. But it's not necessary to stay stressed, and you don't have to quit your job to get some relief. It's also not necessary to learn to meditate or do yoga or Tai Chi, though those practices certainly help when you can do them. Let's look more closely at what you're feeling stressed by, and I'll offer some ways you can help … [Read more...]

Everything and Everyone Really is Connected

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I'm on the 7 a.m. Eastern Shuttle to New York from Washington, a trip I've taken countless times. Today I'm scheduled for a 10 a.m. meeting with AT&T managers at 22 Cortlandt St., across from the World Trade Center. It's mid-1979. We're at cruising altitude, and I'm in a window seat. Outside are clouds -- pleasant, white, puffy ones. It was a little chilly on the way to the airport, but the sun is out, and it should be fine as the day moves along. I'm gazing at the clouds -- not really … [Read more...]

Flower essences: Vibrational medicine

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As the days lengthen and the buds begin to appear, we find ourselves wanting to be outside. The natural world beckons, and our bodies and spirits want to respond, because we know at a deep level that the natural world can heal and rejuvenate us. We are particularly drawn to flowers. The concept of healing with the energies of flowers is relatively new in our era, but the Australian aborigines and other native peoples have long known of flowers' healing properties. Paracelsus also knew about … [Read more...]

7 Ways to Get Yourself Grounded

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When we're feeling nervous, anxious, worried, moving too fast and thinking too much, all our energy is focused in our minds and we're not really in our bodies. We may feel harried, frantic and even panicky. If we're having this kind of experience, we can be pretty sure that we're disconnected energetically from the earth, and the various energies that are flying through our systems are not grounded. Our bodies and energy systems need a strong, reliable connection to the earth, just as a house … [Read more...]

Bursting out of your cocoon

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A human life is an amazing opportunity to experience physical possibilities, to use your soul's ability to manifest in physicality, and also to grow spiritually. Life is even more fun when you realize you're really the one in charge of your experience! You have choice about how you think about and experience difficult circumstances; in fact, those "difficult" circumstances may be exactly what you need to burst out of your comfortable cocoon. If you don't like what you're experiencing, it's … [Read more...]