Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Chloe Panta
Overcoming roadblocks doesn't have to be hard work. In this article, learn how changing your beliefs can transform your life and lead you to success. Discover simple steps to re-examine your beliefs, release limiting thoughts, and adopt a positive mindset. With these techniques, you can overcome any obstacle and create the life of your dreams.
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- Written by: Matthew Wood
The shaman’s journey is a long and winding road. We imagine a goal but when we get there, we find something else. One thing we find is another goal.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Have you ever felt stuck in your career, where you live, or in relationships? Adam Alter, NYU psychology professor and author of "Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most," offers insights into overcoming these periods. His research reveals that 99% of people experience stuckness, often due to life quakes or the Plateau Effect. He suggests breaking goals into smaller parts, celebrating small victories, conducting friction audits, and embracing failure to get unstuck. Persistence, exploration, and reframing obstacles as growth opportunities are key strategies. Feeling stuck is common, but it doesn't have to be permanent.
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- Written by: Stu Crum
In life, we are often faced with challenges that make us question our abilities and capabilities. The initial moment of pause where we ask ourselves, " Can I do this?" is a common experience shared by many.
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- Written by: Judith Orloff, M.D.
It’s never too late to tip the scales toward compassion and goodness. A lack of empathy has helped get us into this personal and global predicament. Reclaiming it will help get us out.
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- Written by: Cate Montana
Embracing simplicity is probably one of the hardest keys to embody because we've been trained to believe that the more complicated something is the more important and valuable it is.
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- Written by: Erin Rachel Doppelt
At Columbia, I took a life-changing positive psychology course with Dr. Dan Tomasulo. Of all the brilliant topics I studied, I found learning about personal strengths to be transformational when it came to healing understimulation and living a nourishing life.
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- Written by: Selina Maitreya
When I ask my students: Why is a healthy life important? What would a new romantic relationship bring? How would you benefit from a meaningful career? The answer is always the same: “I’d be happy. I’d stop worrying. I’d be at peace.”
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- Written by: Will T. Wilkinson
Problems. They’re everywhere. In our personal lives, in the world all around us. Who’s got solutions?
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell
These days, when people see my garden or the fruit trees in my yard, they often comment that I have a green thumb. That's because they see the abundance of produce in my garden.
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- Written by: Sydney Williams
While I knew I had learned a lot about myself on this trip, I also knew there was a lot of work ahead of me. This was a big step in my healing journey, and I knew it wasn’t the last.
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- Written by: Wolf-Dieter Storl Ph.D.
We live in diabocal times. The word diabolical truly fits; it comes from the Greek diabállein (to set at variance, to set against). We really do live in times when what used to be ordered is jumbled, contentious, confused, and chaotic. It is happening at all levels...
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- Written by: Trevor Griffiths
The more I looked into the subject of life’s capacity to heal and renew after divisive setbacks, the deeper and wider my view had to grow. This discovery took me through regions of knowledge I knew nothing about—yet. I had to explore them.
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- Written by: Cate Montana
One of the most powerful things you can do is a personal clearing of your own energy field. The following is an energetic clearing that Robin Duda, the soul alchemist I've been working with from Santa Fe, has supplied
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- Written by: Agata Lulkowska, Staffordshire University
Paradoxically, the more passionate and responsible you are, the more likely you are to burn out since you’ll be unwilling to stop at times of being overwhelmed, not wanting to make others pick up the slack.
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- Written by: Will T. Wilkinson
The phrase “Get ready, get set, GO!” describes a formula for effective living. We screw things up when we leave out the middle step, by getting trapped on what I call the “see-do bypass.”
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- Written by: Pierre Pradervand
I interviewed over two hundred people in more than 100 organizations. I ended almost every interview with the question: "It's easy to see what's wrong with the world today... So, I'd like to ask you to mention what you see as the three positive trends in the world - in any field."
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- Written by: Astrid Hopfensitz, EM Lyon Business School
In today’s fiercely competitive job market, the economic advantages of beauty are undeniable. Numerous studies have shown that attractive individuals benefit from a beauty bonus and earn higher salaries on average.
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- Written by: Paul Levy
One of the great spiritual teacher Sri Aurobindo’s main messages is that humanity is a transitional being. Our current state of being is not final, we are in the process of transitioning into a new state of being.
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- Written by: Peter A. Levine
Nightmarish traumas can be transmitted over multiple generations. Indeed these implicit memory engrams had a deep impact on my life, particularly on some of my behaviors, and my haunting and pervasive feelings of shame and guilt.
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- Written by: Dr. Edgar Mitchell
Thorough and careful thinking pays off. The concept was ingrained in me from childhood through my career with NASA.
