Living Consciously
Your life is created by the choices you make in daily living. And while life does happen around you and to you, it is your thoughts, decisions and habits that create the effect and direction your life takes. It is what happens first quietly within yourself that creates a force that charts your life's course. Author and speaker, Anthony Robbins, conducts an exercise that asks people to look around the room and notice everything that is brown around them. He then has everyon
Guarding Hearts
Years ago I was talking with a friend in a acquaint, European style cafe in Edmonton, when she looked at me and exclaimed, "You have a heart-shaped face." It reminded her, she said, of author, C.S. Lewis' love story with is wife. His wife had a heart-shaped face as well, which he loved. Soon after the Lewis' were married, they purchased a new car. They loved it and found it quite beautiful. But as they stood looking at it, they had an ax in hand between them. And in the
Love Your Body, Love Your Life
Loving your body and your life is a hard thing to do for first world people and loving your body or not affects your life. Thinking about your body size and shape being "right" or "wrong" began in North America when an insurance company devised a height/weight chart. Before this, when people dieted, they spoke of feeling better for changing the way they ate. After this height/weight chart was made and used for insurance purposes, dieting grew to become focused on changing