Archive for April, 2008
“Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow”?
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Fleetwood Mac (yes, I’m that old) reminded us that “yesterday’s gone”. This is absolutely true - and us ‘holding on’ to it leads to many problems. Many of us have attitudes that haven’t been up-dated since our childhood, and this can lead to big problems in our relationships. At [...]Intimacy: how to get more of it
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I think we can get more intimacy in our lives - but indirectly. When I say “indirectly” I don’t mean sneakily. To explain this strange situation I need to explain what I mean by intimacy. Our intimate moments are those where we feel that we are close [...]More Vitality For Us By Listening to Our Muscles: What Benefits We Can Get From Bodywork
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There is a school of therapy called ‘bodywork’. This sits in the area between massage and talking. It is focused on our ability to feel and express our vitality and to remove the blocks that get in the way of us doing this. It mostly deals with our muscles and emotions [...]Self-Improvement for Dummies.
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The usual approach to self-improvement encourages us to be heroic, independant, take initiative and be positive. All of which are admirable. But I have a confession (or series of confessions) to make. I think that I feel pretty weak and easily influenced much of the time. When [...]Big Benefits of a Little Exercise.
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1. You’re Never Too Old. In a recent study of 213 people, aged from 70 to 89, the better the participants’ adherence to a physical activity program, the greater their improvements in physical functioning.
At the beginning of the study, all of the male and female volunteers were sedentary and had [...]A Great Series of Posts
Cathy Crovis is doing a great series of posts on her blog Ripples of Improvement.
I’ve written about Cathy, and how much I like her writing, before: you’ll find her blog on my blogroll (on the left of the screen).
The series she is doing is on self-improvement and what you aren’t told about it. The first [...]Your Neighbour and Your Self: Which First?
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Jesus said (summarising the law concerned with people rather than focused on God):
You shall love your neighbour as yourself. Here’s my guess about what Jesus meant. We naturally want to be healthy: we spit out what tastes bad. If we see a projectile heading for us we dodge. [...]
