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Bernie Siegel MD's picture

Today’s Prescription For The Soul – Endangered Species

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I hope that my “365 Prescriptions for the Soul,” will be a welcome and healing addition to your day. The prescriptions I ask you to fill are designed for your total well-being. They come from hard-earned wisdom and experience with the difficulties of life. They are dispensed “as written” with love. At the end of each prescription is my “Soulution” to help you develop healthy self-love, self-esteem, and self-worth. Please take the prescription I have written for you here and fill it right away.

Dear Readers,
Our fellow citizens in Boston, along with the rest of the country and caring people around the world have experienced a sad and confusing time during the week of April 15 through 19, 2013. I found a “Prescription for the Soul” that I believe can encourage us all to move forward.
- Bernie

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Marcia Wieder's picture

Choosing To Be Happy

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Is  happiness a personal choice?  Absolutely!  Here’s how I changed my entire existence in one day and with one thought. I decided and chose to be happy. Please don’t read this or write it off as being sappy. I am absolutely 100% serious about happiness.

There are a lot of books out on this topic right now. I have never read any of them. “Why would I need that?”, I silently thought. But I noticed I was moody, sometimes happy sometimes far from it. I saw that my state was often based on what was happening or not in my daily life.

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Bethany Butzer's picture

You Deserve To Be Happy. Here’s Why.

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Lately, I’ve been feeling extremely blessed. I moved to an amazing city, I have a great job, and I’ve been traveling to sunny beaches and yoga retreat centers. But something didn’t seem right. There was a feeling inside of me—a sort of guilt—that kept popping up every time I thought about the gifts I’m being given at this time.

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Monica Wilcox's picture

Mind Over Medicine: The Personal Power We Have Over Our Health

mind over medicine

I had this funky, unexplainable medical issue with my face. It started with the massive cold sore that took over the corner of my mouth. This may not be a big deal for some but I only get them when I’m moving, flying to New Zealand or living in the sun. That averages out to one every 4 years. After a two week recuperation, another one came on. Two weeks later a third one hit me. Something was wrong.  I was as frustrated and mystified as my naturopath physician. We even ran a test on my white blood cell count to make sure it was running properly.

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Cucumber Water Is Not Lemonade

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I was recently floating in the outdoor pool at a local hot springs resort when I heard a loud voice shouting,

“Honey, you will love this, it’s just like lemonade.”  I got curious who this voice belonged to and where this person found this delicious lemonade, so I opened my eyes and what I saw was an excited mom handing her young toddler, who was happy playing on the pool’s steps, a plastic cup of cucumber water.

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Kate Northrup's picture

People Showed Up Here For What You Have To Say - So Say It.

Time

The clock was dangerously nearing 12:30pm. Tummies were grumbling. Butts were getting sore from sitting too long. Blood sugar levels were dipping.

My talk, Money: A Love Story, was supposed to end the morning session. But the audience’s (and my own) need for a break were obvious.

So I whispered to the organizer:

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Emma French's picture

A Phoenix From The Ashes

phoenix from ashes, up in smoke, wildfire

As I write the first piece for this wonderful site, I find myself in a challenging place. A few weeks ago I had to leave the house I magically manifested more than a year ago, and around the same time two of my friendships collapsed, as well as my closest relationship. Having outgrown my old life without really knowing it, I was like an over-sized goldfish who then busted through her rose-colored glass bowl and watched in horror as the sharp little smithereens of her security floated away like so much flotsam and jetsam. Now I feel like a small fish in a pretty vast ocean, but luckily I am a creature of the deep…

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Laurie Erdman's picture

How Can You Relieve Stress? Start By Releasing Judgments

Judgment

Stress cannot be avoided. We live in a 24/7 world and it’s just unrealistic to believe you can eliminate, reduce or avoid stress.  In fact, believing you can eliminate, reduce or avoid stress will only stress you out more.

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Danielle LaPorte's picture

What It Really Means To "Go With The Flow"

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Going with the flow isn’t about being passive or lazy. It’s not about just letting things happen “to you”. It’s not aimless wandering. It’s a co-creative act.

“The flow” is the ocean of cosmic intelligence. It’s the substance that carries the whole shebang. The flow is life energy itself. 

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Scorpio Lunar Eclipse: Living On The Edge

Phoenix rising

An intense six-month chapter is coming to a head at today’s Scorpio lunar (full moon) eclipse. This is no ordinary full moon—more like a lunation to the hundredth power—as a changemaking eclipse sweeps in to remove all that no longer serves us. Since the moon is in extreme Scorpio, we can expect the decks to be cleared completely, leaving no mess behind.

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