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"I pay attention to
the simple things in life
that give me enjoyment"
-- From Seed Thoughts
by Suzanne E. Harrill |
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By Leanne Pollock
by Rowena Pattee Kryder,
Ph.D.
By Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D.
by Suzanne E. Harrill
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Ebook:
Empowering You to Love Yourself
Special
Price
for June 2006 Only:
$5.00
“This book taught me
what I did not know about myself. I learned that I’m
going to be okay no matter what, that on one can take
away what you have inside of you. I also learned there
are different parts of me inside that have different
feelings. I recommend this book to other teenagers
because it explains things we were never taught. It
takes over where everyone else leaves off.”
Christine Snitzer, age 18 (more)
Reader
Experience
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Greetings from the
Editor:
Happy Journey
My trip to China was an experience of a lifetime. I changed
many of my ideas and pictures of this country from direct
experience. Fred Wang was our guide for two weeks as thirty of
us traveled by plane, bus, and ship to several cities. We
explored the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square in Beijing,
walked on part of The Great Wall, saw the terra cotta soldiers
in Xian, visited the Dalai Lama’s summer palace in Lhasa,
Tibet, sailed down the Yanzi river viewing the beautiful Three
Gorges and the new dam being built, and ended up in modern
Shanghai. We visited two families, one in Beijing and one in
Lhasa, enjoyed several performances, such as the Beijing
Opera, and ate Peking Duck. While in Tibet our bus stopped by
the roadside so we could see a yak close up. The farmer did
his best to keep turning his two yaks towards our tour bus
group so we could take pictures as he plowed his field.
The most important experience for me was
the relationship the thirty of us tourists developed with each
other and with our guide. Fred kept us informed of the rich
history and culture as we traveled and kept us laughing, as he
had a great sense of humor. He told us he likes Americans
because we are open minded and like to laugh. He was much more
open and honest than I had expected and we Americans asked him
about everything, from family life to politics. During the
trip it was helpful that I was reading, Wild Swans, by Jung
Chang. This is a true story of three generations of women. It
helped me understand the Cultural Revolution, which our guide
experienced growing up.
When we left our guide, Fred, at the
airport he said, "Happy Journey."
Fortunate Blessings
Suzanne
By Leanne Pollock
I have a 37-year-old son challenged with
schizophrenia. Often, I ask myself how this can really be
true. Yes, I was in denial for quite a while, not realizing
during adolescence that his problems were much deeper than
those of most teenagers and young adults. His crash when a
girlfriend broke up with him was our first clue he was ill. It
took another ten years to really understand how serious his
problems were...
(read
the article)
By Suzanne E. Harrill
MONTHLY ON LINE AFFIRMATIONS.
Affirmations to support self-esteem and spiritual growth
now available in monthly installments. Only available here on
line.
(read
the whole story)
Question: I am interested in how you
distinguish between rage and anger. You said last time,
"Rage does not respond to rational communication as anger
does." I would have to say my partner has a lot of
anger and it comes out as a 'temper tantrum.’ When he is
angry he still doesn't respond to reason. Also there
have been and still are, a number discussions between us in
which my partner gets 'angry' (I wouldn't say raging) and
issues are not resolved for him because he cannot
'understand' (hear) my point of view. It's like he's convinced that
I am out to 'get' him and he can't open his mind to
otherwise (even though my request would appear perfectly
'reasonable' to 95% of the general population). He makes up
things in his mind that no amount of clean, reasoned
discussion seems to change. How do I get him to understand
otherwise?
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whole article)
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Poetry
By Suzanne E. Harrill
You are already
what you are becoming,
the Cosmos laughs.
All the seeking
and searching to only find
yourself right here is the joke.
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whole story)
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by Rowena Pattee Kryder,
Ph.D.
The Source of creativity in
our lives is like a river that must run clean, clear, and full
of light in order to keep us in continuous regeneration. The
Source is ever pristine, waiting for us to find it within
ourselves. How do we discover the Source? By living our lives
wholeheartedly regardless of anyone’s opinion, yet sensitive
to who and what is around us. When we live from the Source we
feel joy and a sense of outrageous gratitude.
Whenever we struggle for
existence rather live from a love of life, we let schedules, job
pressures, fear of loss rule our lives. When we live
wholeheartedly, the Source founts forth within our hearts and
minds, and we create our lives anew in unexpected ways. We
don’t allow poisonous thoughts to harm us. We get in touch
with our instinctual nature, our body, and sensitively reawaken
our intuition. To get in touch with Source we need to go to our
own depths and clear the dead thoughts and habits we
unconsciously took in from parents and society.
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whole article)
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By Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D.
Earlier in my career as a
research scientist and medical school professor, I actively
supported the perspective that the human body was a
"biochemical machine ‘programmed’ by its genes. We
scientists believed that our strengths, such as artistic or
intellectual abilities, and our weaknesses, such as
cardiovascular disease, cancer or depression, represented traits
that were preprogrammed into our genes. Hence I perceived
life’s attributes and deficits, as well as our health and our
frailties as merely a reflection of our heredity expression.
Until recently, it was
thought that genes were self-actualizing…that genes could
‘turn themselves on and off.’ Such behavior is required in
order for genes to control biology. Though the power of genes is
still emphasized in current biology courses and textbooks, a
radically new understanding has emerged at the leading edge of
cell science. It is now recognized that the environment, and
more specifically, our perception (interpretation)of the
environment, directly controls the activity of our genes.
Environment controls gene activity through a process known as
epigenetic control....
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the whole article)
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