Attitude Adjustments

Details: Written by: Kristin Naragon-Gainey

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Financial stress is affecting us in many different ways. Some people are struggling to pay bills, feed the family, or maintain a place to live. Others are meeting their basic needs but are dipping into their savings for extras.

Details: Written by: Steven Washington

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Stepping into the unknown and beyond the constraints we have created for ourselves is no small feat, but it is a worthwhile effort.

Details: Written by: Hugh and Gayle Prather

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As we amble along our chosen path, we encounter many distractions. One of the most insidious is the notion that to pursue a path is sufficient, that pursuit is an end in itself.

Details: Written by: Joyce Vissell

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A lot has been written about forgiveness and how it blesses the person who forgives. I hope to add another aspect which is very important in the journey of full forgiveness.

Details: Written by: Dawn Baumann Brunke

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We human beings are such incongruous creatures, saying one thing while thinking or feeling another. We flaunt and celebrate parts of ourselves, hide, repress, and deny others.

Details: Written by: Corrie Pikul

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People who share a political ideology have more similar “neural fingerprints” of political words and process new information in similar ways, according to a new analysis.

Details: Written by: Ellen Meredith

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If you were born before the year 2000, you most likely experienced the old reality, which I have come to think of as the outside-in culture.

Details: Written by: MaryAnn DiMarco

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Fear happens. It’s unavoidable. It’s part of what makes us human. When fear rears its ugly head, it creates havoc. Though this is never an easy experience, it can be particularly damaging for spiritual Lightworkers.

Details: Written by: Pierre Pradervand

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Kindness is one of the most civilized expressions of the human being. The well-known US writer George Saunders says that what he regrets most in life are failures of kindness.

Details: Written by: Barry Vissell

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Coronaphobia is a real word. Researchers coined this term in December 2020. It's the fear of Covid infection, sometimes to the point of crippling a person, interfering with their lives.

Details: Written by: Gabes Torres

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"When was the last time you experienced compassion? Similar to shame, compassion is also a social experience."

Details: Written by: Olivier Clerc

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“Can we heal the wounds of the heart, can everything be forgiven?” The question must actually be reformulated.

Details: Written by: Bryant Lusk

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Anxiety disorders have long been associated with the early-onset and progression of cardiovascular health issues.

Details: Written by: Charlotte Pennington and Daniel Shaw

Are you a doom scroller or a frequent Tweeter? Do you pass the time by flicking endlessly through others’ posts on social networking sites, or perhaps you use these platforms to share your own content?

Details: Written by: Dawn Baumann Brunke

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If spiders present so little of an actual threat to our survival, why do we fear them so much?

Details: Written by: Michael Glauser

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Decades of research in psychology have shown that we have significant limitations in how we perceive the world around us.

Details: Written by: Steven Washington

How To Move Beyond Fear

Without a doubt, it takes courage to face our fears, to be willing to look beneath the surface and examine what we normally avoid.

Details: Written by: Dawn Baumann Brunke

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The cat never touched me, but an indelible impression of her remains. It is my first memory of meeting a shadow animal, face to green-eyed face.

Details: Written by: Bethany Teachman

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Well-meaning advice for people stressing out about current events often includes encouragement to be patient, stay calm and keep the faith – but how on Earth are you supposed to do that when the onslaught of troubling news seems never to stop?

Details: Written by: Rabbi Wayne Dosick

Going back only ten generations, each of us has 1,024 direct ancestors. Each of those 1,024 people left a lineage and a personal legacy. If any of them had lived in a different place...