How to Talk Your Way Around Big Egos

February 19, 2010

We all know at least a person or two with oversized egos. As you might know, it can be very hard to make people with heavy egos understand or appreciate an alternate point of view for the simple fact that their ego stands in the way between your message and its acceptance. This can very [...]

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How to Survive the ‘Negativity Pandemic’

February 8, 2010

Lately we have heard so much about the global economic crisis, recessions, job cuts, natural disasters, increasing environmental problems and so on. Continuous talk about these things can easily influence the collective psyche in a negative way. Even before recent events, we have always been bombarded with news, images and video clips of tragedies, wars,disasters, [...]

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Why Passion is such a Bad Thing

January 30, 2010

I have been annoyed for some time now about the frequent misuse of the term ‘Passion’ in the personal development arena. I must admit beforehand that I was also guilty of the same mistake in one or two of my past articles. The thing is that passion is most frequently used to mean a positive [...]

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Save the World: Live in Balance & Inner Harmony

January 29, 2010

Life is in perfect balance & harmony. It is in dynamic balance or equilibrium, meaning that although it is in constant flux, with things coming and going out of existence, the net effect is total balance. It is also in harmony because its different forms fit in and blend together. Observing nature you can see [...]

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The Strength of Non-Resistance

January 27, 2010

Ancient Eastern Philosophy has taught a lot about the concept of non-resistance. This view has been deeply rooted as a cultural way of life as can be most popularly seen in the martial arts for example. Most internal martial arts such as Tai Chi, for instance, are built on this principle of non-resistance and ‘action [...]

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How to Meditate while Being Active

January 17, 2010

When we hear about meditation most of us think of a person sitting down in a traditional meditative posture such as the half lotus position with a straight back, closed eyes and a very still body. Of course the above picture is a very common one and it is a correct one too. This is [...]

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Why Resolutions Fail

January 11, 2010

This is a Guest Post by Joseph Philips of Lifelong Project Did you know that most people ditch their resolutions before January is over and many more give up on their resolutions before springtime? That’s a result based on a survey from FranklinCovey. And when we fail from a resolution we feel lousy, depressed, and [...]

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Overcoming Fear and Breaking Free from its Tyranny

January 4, 2010

digg_url = ‘http://soulhiker.com/2010/01/overcoming-fear-and-breaking-free-from-its-tyranny/’;digg_title = ‘Overcoming Fear and Breaking Free from its Tyranny’; Fear is a cruel tyrant and we all know it. It debilitates us and immobilizes us, by restricting our possible responses to life and thus severely limiting it. It effectively sabotages us from succeeding in reaching a goal or achieving happiness and peace [...]

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How to be a mindful parent

December 29, 2009

Mindfulness, the practice of focusing on just one thing, means to simply experience the moment while excluding worries, self-doubts and distractions. Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society together with his wife Myla, apply the concept of mindfulness to parenting. According to Kabat-Zinn, mindfulness allows us to [...]

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