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Thursday, January 07, 2010
five good minutes: exercises & activities

Excerpt from Five Good Minutes®


You will work with a variety of approaches in your five good minutes. They include the following:


  • Mindfulness
  • Meditation
  • Imagery
  • Acting wholeheartedly
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Posted By newharb / 9:00 AM / Thursday, January 07, 2010
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
five good minutes: learning by doing

Excerpt from Five Good Minutes®


As you experiment and practice with the five good minutes exercises, you will learn to apply consciously your attention, intention, and wholeheartedness. You will see for yourself the power of being present and acting with intention while doing specifically guided exercises. Beyond the exercises, you may even discover more ways to apply these same principles throughout your life.

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Posted By newharb / 9:00 AM / Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Monday, January 04, 2010
what are five good minutes?

Excerpt from Five Good Minutes®


From our perspective, five minutes of clock time begins to change into something much more powerful and interesting when you are present (attention is in the present moment, and not lost in thoughts of past or future), when you set a clear intention for your actions, and when you act wholeheartedly. When you apply attention, intention, and wholeheartedness to the exercises in this book, which are aimed at cultivating peace and relaxation, deepening awareness and connection to life, enhancing relationships, and developing kindness and wisdom, then your five minutes truly becomes five good minutes.

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Posted By newharb / 9:00 AM / Monday, January 04, 2010
Thursday, December 17, 2009
toxic power of negative belief stories

excerpt from Everyday Bliss for Women


After I emerged from years of paralysis, I felt a tremendous need to apol­ogize for being slow, overweight, and lacking in strength. I did this by telling the story of my broken back to everyone I met, elaborating on both how much I had suffered—and was still suffering—and how hard I was working on my recovery.


Thanks to brilliant, caring friends and an extraordinarily dedi­cated yoga teacher, I realized that I wasn’t simply a broken-back story and got on with living my life.

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Posted By newharb / 9:00 AM / Thursday, December 17, 2009
Friday, December 04, 2009
responding to emotions

Excerpt from The Mindful Path through Shyness


That we have emotions is a given. How we react or respond to them is a matter of choice. Victor Frankl offered the important insight that there’s a space between stimulus and response, and if we can pause and bring the full light of our awareness into it that space, we can free ourselves from automatic reactions that are often dysfunctional. Mindfulness practice will allow you to recognize that space and use it to respond to your emotions with clarity, compassion, and skillfulness.

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Posted By newharb / 9:00 AM / Friday, December 04, 2009
Thursday, December 03, 2009
mindfulness and compassion

Excerpt from The Mindful Path Through Worry and Rumination


Traditionally, mindfulness was taught as the essential foundation for meditation practice. However, it was also understood that mindfulness was half of this foundation. The other essential half was compassion. For thousands of years, mindfulness and compassion have been understood to be the two wings of spiritual enlightenment and psychological freedom.

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Posted By newharb / 12:00 AM / Thursday, December 03, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
bedtime rituals; empty your mind

Excerpt from five good minutes in the evening


If kids can have bedtime rituals, why can’t you? Tonight, be mindful of your bedtime routine and be fully present in each moment-to-moment ritual. Take extra care in brushing your teeth, washing your face, drying your hands, changing into your comfy pajamas, pulling back the blankets, fluffing your favorite pillow, and hugging yourself good night.

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Posted By newharb / 9:00 AM / Friday, November 20, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
choose your team and support group

Excerpt from The Whole Body Workbook for Cancer

The most important advice is that if you have cancer, or any major health challenge, don’t to try to do it all alone. Carefully choose a team of professionals and try to weave them into a support net for your healing process. A complementary health care provider—whether a medical doctor, osteopath, chiropractor, naturopath, or acupuncturist—can play an important role on your team. The stereotype of an untrained quack exploiting desperate, gullible late-stage patients is much less common than imagined. Work with your loved ones too.

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Posted By newharb / 12:00 AM / Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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