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Who Do You Turn To? In troubled times, who do you turn to? Do you talk to a friend, your spouse or significant other, or a family member? Perhaps you turn to your pastor, priest, rabbi or other religious figure. Others may have a professional therapist they talk to.... ( added 125 days 10 hours ago.)

Why Do You Eat? A Multiple Choice Test Question Why do you eat? Are you asking yourself, "Is this a trick question?" Or perhaps you're thinking, "The answer is obvious: because I get hungry!" While that may be the obvious answer, there are a significant number of people who eat for a variety of... ( added 134 days 1 hour ago.)

Loving Myself in 2009 I would like you to think about whether or not you agree with the following statements: 1. Guilt, blame, and anger are negative emotions. 2. Negative feelings and emotions can cause stress. 3. Stress takes it toll on your body. 4. Stress can make... ( added 160 days 4 hours ago.)

A Christmas Gift My daughter is visiting New York City with a friend of hers who has never been here before. The first night here, I had gotten stuck on a slippery slope and not one passer-by stopped to help us out. In all fairness to my fellow New Yorkers, it... ( added 191 days 11 hours ago.)

Forget About It! I'm not a native New Yorker, but New York City has been my home now for almost eight years. While the title of my column may suggest a topic about New Yorkers and their amazing expressive personalities or conjure up memories of that old television... ( added 212 days ago.)

Two-Four-Six-Eight! Who Do We Appreciate? Remember an old cheer during high school that went something like this? Two-Four-Six-Eight! Who Do We Appreciate? ____________ ! ______________! (Fill in the name of your favorite team) What better time to chant this cheer than at... ( added 223 days 6 hours ago.)

Giving From The Heart I have always been the type of person who feels compassion for people I see on the streets begging for money. I cannot imagine what it is like to be homeless or distraught to the point that one has to resort to begging on the streets. Having... ( added 229 days 7 hours ago.)

My Cup Runneth Over In This Economy: 10 Positive Reasons Why When you think about the economic situation these days, how are you feeling? Are you feeling as if your glass is half-empty or half-full? Perhaps you're feeling as if your glass has broken! My glass is neither. I actually have a cup and it runneth... ( added 251 days 21 hours ago.)

I'm Not Worried: What About You? So many people these days have been worrying and talking about our economic troubles. If you turn on the television set and tune in to any news channel, you can certainly get a panic attack, if you're not careful! I have been and am making a... ( added 270 days 1 hour ago.)

Traveling with Barack Obama Do you travel with Barack Obama? I do! I happen to travel domestically quite often and usually pass through Detroit and Minneapolis airports when I do. There is always a layover at one of these airports, as I wait for my connecting flight. I spend... ( added 270 days 1 hour ago.)

Five Tips For Living a More Joyful Life Sometimes life can feel overwhelming and it may feel as if it couldn't possibly get any worse. When you are stressed, depressed, upset, or otherwise in a negative state of mind because you perceive that "bad things" keep happening to you, it is... ( added 286 days 1 hour ago.)

Do You Talk To Yourself? Do you talk to yourself? While some people may be afraid to admit talking to themselves out of fear that they will be labeled as psychologically unstable, the truth is that we all do it. Most of us do it regularly, on a daily basis. Our... ( added 286 days 23 hours ago.)

Escape "Finally he's asleep." His body suddenly jerked, half-awakened by the bed as she moved to her side. Frozen, she eyed the bedroom door in front of her with anxious anticipation. Her eyes fixated on the door in the darkness. "Not yet," she scolded... ( added 1 year 11 days ago.)

On Being A Non-Custodial Mom For all mothers out there who have their children living with them, I hope you realize that being with your children daily is a tremendous pleasure and privilege that no one should take for granted. I know from personal experience as I am a... ( added 1 year 53 days ago.)

Who Am I? In Chapter 7 of A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, author Eckhart Tolle suggests that people discover who they truly are after a process of discovering who they are not. Knowing who you are not typically happens after a loss, such as... ( added 1 year 67 days ago.)

Breaking Free of The Pain-Body While author Eckhart Tolle suggests in Chapter 6 of "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose," that "it takes no time at all" to become free of our identification with our pain-body (page 183), he also says that breaking free of our... ( added 1 year 67 days ago.)

The Pain-Body: What We Carry With Us In Chapter 5 of "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose," author Eckhart Tolle states, "The energy field of old but still very much alive emotion that lives in almost every human being is the pain-body." --page 142 Our pain-bodies are the... ( added 1 year 67 days ago.)

The Roles We Play in Relationships In Chapter 4 of "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose," author Eckhart Tolle states, "When you are completely identified with a role, you confuse a pattern of behavior with who you are, and you take yourself very seriously. You also... ( added 1 year 67 days ago.)

Pretending To Be Necessary Reflections on Chapter 3 of "A New Earth" and the Online Class with Author Eckart Tolle & Oprah Winfrey There were so many parts of Chapter 3 of "A New Earth" that resonated with me that I found it difficult to decide what to write about here. I... ( added 1 year 102 days ago.)

Am I Still Breathing? Reflections from Chapter 2: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose Author Eckhart Tolle writes in Chapter 2 of A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose , "When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the... ( added 1 year 102 days ago.)

My Five Moments: Reflections on "A New Earth" Online Class & Book On its premier night, I had trouble viewing the online class about "A New Earth" with author Eckhart Tolle and Oprah Winfrey due to technical difficulties. Like many who experienced the same, I was relieved to know that the class would be... ( added 1 year 103 days ago.)

A New Earth: Reflections from My First Class As many of you know, tonight was the first class of the discussion of A New Earth on the web with the author, Eckhart Tolle and Oprah and about 380,000 people from around the world. I signed on at my assigned time of 8:40 ET and waited patiently... ( added 1 year 122 days ago.)

A Hug and a Kiss I just recently returned from visiting my mother in her assisted living facility, which is filled with many patients who suffer from Alzheimer's Disease, and other forms of dementia. As always on my visits to her, I am touched by the beautiful... ( added 1 year 140 days ago.)

What Goes Around, Comes Around I woke up this morning with this phrase in my head, "What goes around, comes around." It quickly occurred to me that I used to frequently think of this phrase in a negative context. I almost always heard it used (and used it myself) in the... ( added 1 year 142 days ago.)

An Open Mind Today someone told me that I am a really open person. This was in response to a conversation we were having about my views on interracial relationships, cultures different from my own, people from different religions and my work. Being in the... ( added 1 year 144 days ago.)