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Chicken Soup with Chopsticks: A Jew's Struggle for Truth in an Interfaith Relationship (excerpts)
Even as I started dating a Chinese girl, I knew I was embarking on a remarkable adventure. I just had no idea where and how far the adventure would take me. The more events unfolded, the more I realized that my view of the world and how I lived in it were being profoundly and permanently altered...
If the problem with marrying a gentile was that my religion prohibited intermarriage, why should that bother me? Perhaps not everything in Judaism made sense, and as an intelligent and thinking individual I could take from my heritage what I felt was meaningful and disregard the rest...
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Stress & Spirituality, Part 1
A healthy spirituality can be one of the most effective tools at our disposal for managing stress. However, for reasons as individual as they themselves are, many people feel leery of anything to do with the spiritual. This article draws the all-important distinction between spirituality and religion, and explores how spirituality can reduce stress levels.
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Did You Use Your Sword Today?
It's real easy to look at the physical world around us and not see swords being used. To even find one it is often necessary to go to a museum. So what am I talking about?
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KABBALAH OF LOVE: The Secret Power of Ego
We all long for love, but the defensive reactions of the ego often get in the way. However, your ego plays a very positive role in your life as well. Once you learn the secret of ego and its role in Creation, it will stop getting in your way and become the biggest ally in your journey through life.
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What Does Unconditional Love Really Mean?
Humanity's interpretation of Unconditional Love is based on personal bias. In a world of contradictions and opposites, one decides how conditional he/she will experience love by applying unconditional love to conditional love.
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Actualizing Personal Truth
Self-actualization comes down to three basic premises: this is who I am, this is what I believe and the foundation on which my life is built, and this is the way I manifest that belief system on a daily basis.
If you say that you live by the Golden Rule, but treat other people with a lack of respect, then you are dishonest, and others will perceive you as hypocritical...
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The 7 Biggest Stress Culprets
We are more stressed, and leading less contented lives than ever before in modern history, and here’s the top 7 Greatest Stress-creating behaviors. Find the ones that apply to you and get to eliminating them, because these you can control!
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De-Stress in La Jolla - Spas
Sheesh, just trying to get through traffic into La Jolla can be stressful. The answer? The world class La Jolla spas.
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De-Stress in Atlanta- Spas
Atlanta is undoubtedly one of the top cities in the South. Among the many benefits, Atlanta spas are some of the best in the country.
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2 Key Ways to Reduce Your Stress
There is a lot of advice around regarding stress but everyone reacts differently to stress, with some people revelling in it as a challenge. There are two universal ways outlined here to tackle undue levels of stress.
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Imagery & Affirmations - Turn Off Your Stress
YOUR Brain's AMYGDALA operates to sense any real or perceived threat or potential stressors and is activated by the release of neuro-chemicals from your Psycho-Cybernetic mechanism.
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5 Steps To Stop Fighting Stress And Use It Instead
When faced with a stressful situation do you let it dictate your actions? Do you ever completely lose it and yell in frustration at others? Fight just to prove you’re right? Assume an action was intentional? Take things personally and sulk? These are just some of the negative emotional reactions USE IT is designed to relieve—forever. Rather than fighting against stress, you can learn to take any given situation and USE IT to your advantage. USE IT is an easy, life-tested five-thought approach that works in the office, at home, on the road—and everywhere in between.
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How to Avoid Nervousness
Nervousness comes becomes because we are agitated and are fearful of some event or person. We are often nervous at critical junctures in our life. However being nervous will not help in any way - when we are nervous we lose our clarity of thought. These are some practical suggestions for overcoming Nervousness.
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How to Turn the Anxiety Switch in Your Head OFF
This article enlightens the over 20 million people suffering from anxiety on a number of proven methods to treat or cure anxiety. Never feel like you're not under control ever again. Others have used these methods to conquer the terrible feeling of anxiety.
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