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quiz: how ready for change are you?

April 30, 2007

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Not the world’s most scientific test, but still worth a shot. If nothing else, it’s blog fodder! To post the results in your own blog, take the test and copy the HTML the form gives you, then paste it in the HTML or Code editor. Sometimes the picture moves to the left after you post […]

Everyone has soul

April 27, 2007

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Just a different KIND of soul. Watch Davy Jones of the Monkees and Charlie Smalls and learn. White, black, Brazilian, splitting the difference, we all have soul. Video over the jump: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::

le grand content

April 26, 2007

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I’m not sure if this means anything, or if it does, what it does. But it sure is cool. Behold Le Grand Content, a video comment on the pathetic reduction of human thought to bullet points that will fit in Powerpoint. Is this what we’ve become? Or is this, in fact, everything? :: :: :: :: […]

worrying 101

April 25, 2007

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Here’s a nifty suggestion I stole from Self magazine, November 2004. Worriers spend a great deal of time worrying throughout the day, often re-worrying the same worry they’ve already worried earlier. This is inevitable, but exhausting and unproductive as well as rather dull. Suzanne C. Segerstrom PhD of the University of Kentucky, Lexington, suggests that every […]

affirmations for health

April 24, 2007

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Let’s be honest: affirmations are foofy, West Coast mantras that make people nervous. But they just might work. Give them a go and see if they work for you, foofy or not. After all, your bathroom mirror won’t tell on you. Recite the affirmation that you prefer to yourself in the mirror each morning, before you’ve […]

homework

April 24, 2007

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Read the last post. Does this remind you of you? It’s critical to define the changes we want to make in our lives and in ourselves before embarking on the journey of change. The goals may indeed shift while we’re working towards them and become more self-aware, but without a direction to move, we can […]

woman leaving the psychoanalyst’s office by remedios varo

April 19, 2007

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  Click to enlarge. Oh! How I love this painting! Remedios Varo was a Spanish Surrealist painter who moved to Mexico and became one of the most important artists in the country, although still largely and undeservedly in the shadow of Frida Kahlo. This is one of her best: Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst’s Office. Varo […]