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Author: Kathy Ekdahl, Personal Best Personal Training

“Start your day with the breakfast of a king, have the lunch of a queen, and the dinner of a pauper.”

Sage advice, but one that most people ignore when dieting. In fact, most dieters do the opposite; eating a miniature breakfast, a small lunch and, as a response to under eating, a huge dinner.  This is a recipe for dieting disaster. And even when not dieting, most Americans can’t seem to figure breakfast out? We have the terrible habit of either skipping breakfast altogether, or overindulging on sweets or carbs such as donuts or bagels. SO…. What is a healthy breakfast? Continue Reading »

Here are some ideas for saving when online shopping.

Money Saving Tips With Internet Online Shopping

Author: The Thrift Guy

Learn great money saving tips with online shopping as they could really give you huge savings if you practice them well. Internet online shopping has been gathering popularity as you can easily sift through many online stores in the shortest time frame to get the best deal, at the click of a mouse button. With discount vouchers, discount codes or promotional codes, you can save even more when shopping online.

5 Essential Money Saving Tips With Internet Online Shopping

1. Always aim for the best deal and save more for the item(s) you desire. Do not immediately settle down with your purchase on the first online store that you come across. Scout through a few of them and make your price comparison to get the best deal. Lookout for sale items especially. Sale prices can be dramatically lower than the standard prices and help you to save big. Continue Reading »

Mercury is in retrograde from January 11 – February 1. It’s a time of miscommunication, misunderstanding and network problems not only for individuals but for the globe. If you are aware of this energy, you can deal with it. Be careful with your words and how you communicate. Back up your hard drive. Double check all your documents.

Just be aware. Self awareness will get you through. This article may give some assistance.

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Conflict: Why Do You Argue, Why Do You Fight in Conflict?

Author: Margaret Paul, Ph.d.

Think about the last time you had a conflict with someone and you argued – with your partner, your friend, your parent, your child, or someone else in your life.

What did you argue about, and why did you spend your energy arguing or fighting?

REASONS FOR ARGUING AND FIGHTING

Here are some of the reasons you might argue and fight in conflict situations:

* You believe that you can get the other person to see things your way – that if you say the right thing, be very convincing, be very logical and rational, be right, be parental, talk very loudly, yell, threaten, blame, attack, call names, or even hit – you can have control over getting the other person to think and feel the way you want. You believe that not only can you win, but that you can somehow have control over the other’s thoughts and feelings.

The problem is that, while you might be able to get control over another’s behavior, you cannot control their thought and feelings. No matter how right you are, another thoughts and feelings are not yours to control.

* Dumping anger on another person may be a way of not dealing with your own feelings. Perhaps you are projecting your own self-abandonment onto the other person, i.e. you are not listening to or hearing yourself so you attack the other person for not listening to you or hearing. Or you are judging yourself so you attack the other person for judging you. If you are judging yourself or not listening to yourself and not taking responsibility for your own feelings, then you may be blaming the other person for the guilt, shame and aloneness you feel within. Continue Reading »

Author: Christine Phoenix Green

As a (previously) full time piano/music teacher of over thirty years experience in the school system and private studio, I, as well as many other fine private teachers, have been watching a drastic and devastating trend: The silencing of personally studied music, and the lack of interest of students and their parents in investing time and energy into the experience of music and mastery of a preferred instrument…if not for excellence, than at least for pleasure and delight!

Please notice that even with the severe economic times we are facing now, I did not include the notion that finances are a major part of this trend, for one sure thing I have observed over these past 30  years as a teacher, is that parents will try their very best to give their children the best for their future. What I am seeing is a change in values in what the culture feeds us as important and relevant, that both spurs us on to have more STUFF, and to indulge in an all-consuming and compulsive love affair with technology, gidgets, widgets  and techno-toys that keep us and our children in a state of denial about some of the darker more painful shadows we would rather not deal with. We are losing our sense of beauty, literacy and elegance. And in some instances we are just plain lazy. It is now easier, quicker and perhaps more amusing to download other people’s music (some of it lovely, some of it trash) and to play with the techno-toys and games than it is to spend the sometimes solitary time necessary to use your brain, your imagination and your HEART to make your own music, to learn to discern and delight in the beautiful musical “language” and sounds of the Masters of both historical and contemporary composition. Continue Reading »

Editor: Pat Mullaly

I am one of those people who likes to dabble a bit in all kinds of odd cosmic directions. The direction depends on my mood. One day it could be Tarot cards, another, Feng Shui, and, as today, astrology. I stumbled across a couple of websites that pretend to portend the future. It’s a hoot to read the predictions. Sometimes, however, they do actually reflect the happenings of the day, or my mood, or suprisingly, the future. And in this case, I am intrigued rather than amused. A good friend, Christine  Phoenix Green who has written articles on “Spirit” for this blog, is developing a progressed astrological chart for me, i.e. the chart indicates where the cosmic energy is for me in my astrological picture – and where potential strengths and weaknesses lie in the coming year. She should have it ready for me by next week. Chris has been doing this work for years and is available for consultation. (See note at the end of this article.)

Once I have the chart in hand, this knowledge should help me develop a strategy for my current circumstance that will assist in making the most of any situation. The down side is knowing so much about the possibilities makes me responsible for taking action… which might in itself be a burden. But I prefer to know.

NOTE: Christine Phoenix-Green is an Intuitive Guidance Counselor and astrologer. Her email address is: cphoenixrising@earthlink.net