Posted on July 31st, 2009 by lanadmin
I spent much of this morning wallowing in self-pity, and taking out my negative attitude on my dear husband. I won’t tell you why I was feeling sorry for myself, because it’s really embarrassing! But as I noticed my thoughts and energy spinning more and more out of control, I sat down and meditated. Sure [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2009 by lanadmin
In the great song “The Gambler,” Kenny Rogers sings you’d better “know when to walk away, and know when to run.” Today I’d like to look at the notion of putting distance between you and the dramas of others. Dramatic actors need an audience. They need people to perform for. They want people to be [...]
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Posted on July 27th, 2009 by lanadmin
I am certainly not the first person to cover this topic, but I’d like to talk briefly about how to frame your current reality. So much of self-help literature and popular metaphysics focus how to create new things for your future. That’s fine, but that kind of focus also distracts us from being in the [...]
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Posted on July 24th, 2009 by lanadmin
What is your career is not as straight-edged and vertical as a ladder, but more like a spiral? Particularly now, it’s important that we all cut ourselves quite a bit of slack when we find ourselves considering or accepting paid positions doing jobs that are sometimes so out of left field for us, we feel [...]
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Posted on July 22nd, 2009 by lanadmin
My father is a brilliant man. A medical doctor, a graduate of West Point, and a captain in the Air Force who flew over China during the Korean War, jamming radar, he is also a huge fan of Napoleon Bonaparte. A long time ago, he explained to me how Napoleon divided his men into four [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2009 by lanadmin
There’s a lot of opinion flying around right now about a certain prominent politician’s decision to resign before her term had ended. Certainly, American culture despises quitters and glorifies the Rocky mindset of dogged persistence, even at great risk of harm to self and others. Such stories of sacrifice are often glorified: “I gave my [...]
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Posted on July 18th, 2009 by lanadmin
Before I moved to Nevada, I spent many years after college living in Europe. I married in 1995, and my then husband and I tried to conceive. We were living in Ireland at that time, and tests showed that there was nothing physically wrong with either me or my husband. We were discouraged, frankly, from [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2009 by lanadmin
My friend Jamie contacted me in a panic recently, in an email with the subject heading I often get from people: “I didn’t know who else to talk to about this.” After many, many years of hard work and saving, my friend has bought his first home in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ypsilanti (pronounced IP-sih-LAN-tee, or “IP-see” [...]
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Posted on July 16th, 2009 by lanadmin
Deoending on what media you pay attention to, this might be old news to you. For those who are a little freaked out when the subject of meditation comes up, however, I am here to tell you that engaging in a simple, consistent meditation practice does not make you a weirdo! Some of the hangups [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2009 by lanadmin
Bad dreams aren’t necessarily all bad. Bad dreams often signify great shifts in energy and consciousness, whether of your own or within the collective spirit. For example, if you dream of a nuclear bomb going off in your area, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you are having a clairvoyant vision (though this also can happen). [...]
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