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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
By
Richard LouvHave you noticed that a warm, sunny day in early Spring can bring out droves of people? After a long winter there is a strong urge to get outside. We've been cooped up in our homes and offices for months, away from the sun and the outdoors.

This craving for the outdoors and nature is referred to as biophilia (love of living things). Scientists have theorized that humans have a biological need to bond with and be close to other living systems, including: animals, plants, habitats, objects in nature and even the weather.

The term Nature Deficit Disorder was first coined by author Richard Louv in his book, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder. He refers to the biophilia theory and suggests that many of our children are suffering as a result of the disconnect from nature created by our modern lifestyles.

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Why Can't I Lose Weight?

Do you keep trying to lose weight, but fail every single time? Have you tried every popular diet out there, but nothing works? Well, today you will find the answer! In this article, I will outline the most common reasons why you may be unable to lose weight:

"You have a slow metabolism": The term metabolism is a very complex concept and includes all the chemical reactions that occur in the human body. The body requires large amounts of energy every day in order to regulate temperature, repair internal damages and synthesize useful substances that will enable the various organs to function. In fact, the liver uses 27% of this energy, the heart only 10%, the brain 19% and the kidneys 7%. Also, a large amount of energy is spent as heat loss.

Your metabolism doesn't always remain constant and having an extremely low metabolism is impossible, because your organs always need energy in order to function. However, it may be true that you burn calories at a lower rate than you should.

Why Can't I Lose Weight?

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Holiday Help For Emotional Eaters

Weight is just that, weight. It is an inadvertent way to keep you on the ground. You are grounded when you have clarity. You are in control, and your creative mind is working to its full potential. With grounding comes enhanced intuition, you may be surprised just what flows forth when you are secure in your own self-being. Grounding offers complete confidence in your abilities and who you are. It gives you the ability to STAY motivated.

The best way I describe not being grounded, in relation to food, are my bouts with binge eating and bulimia. I never focused on what I was eating. It was more about what I would eat next. One thing after another was consumed before I had time to even think about what I was swallowing. During those times, there never was an "Earth to Catherine" moment.

Holiday Help For Emotional Eaters

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Traditions For Thanksgiving Morning

While no one would argue that the Thanksgiving highlight is the feast everyone is waiting for, this often leaves several hours of time for family and guests to fill until it is time to eat.

If you find as the cook, that you are often surrounded by bored or curious onlookers, you may want to consider instituting several Thanksgiving morning traditions that will help fill the hours and clear your kitchen of those who have nothing else to do.

The added bonus of these fun Thanksgiving morning traditions is that instead of just one meal to look forward to, your family and guests will have a whole day of fun! Here are some traditions for Thanksgiving morning.

Traditions For Thanksgiving Morning

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Six Secrets of Organized Moms

A mom often wears many hats, taxi driver, cook, housekeeper, bread-winner, shoulder to cry on, and more. So, how does mom juggle it all? The following are six secrets of organized moms to help make things easier.

Secrets of Organized Moms

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How To Nourish The Sandwich That Is You

The "Sandwich Generation" is a term that has now made it into the dictionary. It fits an increasing number of Boomer women whose reality includes being squeezed between the demands of growing children and the needs of aging parents.

A study by AARP and the National Alliance for Care-giving identified over 44 million Americans who are caring for ill adult family members, 60% of them women. According to the National Center on Health Statistics, about 80% of women in their 40's have children for whom they are still somewhat responsible. Given these numbers, many of you may well be asking yourself, how can I balance caring for my parents, my children and myself? Here are some tips to help you sustain and nourish yourself.

How To Nourish The Sandwich That Is You

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Focus On The Joy

It's the Holiday Season -- A new year is just around the corner! I'll bet you're already thinking about how you'd like next year to be a little different than the last, right?

But instead of thinking of performance, and efficiency, and control, I'd like you to take this opportunity to think about how many things in your daily life that you do "just for the joy of it"?

Focus On The Joy

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Ten Ways to Beat the Heat

It's the dog days of summer (in the northern hemisphere) when the temperature goes up (and has been up for a while) and tempers can flare. Learning to manage anger is an emotional intelligence competency and a process of personal awareness and growth.

Ten Ways to Beat the Heat

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Aromatherapy Begins at Home

Love a clean, fresh-smelling home, but you're wary of spraying chemical air fresheners all over the place ... and $$$ for those lovely aromatherapy candles-in-jars just aren't in the budget? Well, here are some ideas I came across from How Stuff Works. (One of the most interesting sites on the internet. No kidding, I could play here for hours!)

You know how great your house smells when there's a home-made apple pie baking in the oven? (Ok, maybe you'll need to think back to how great your grandmother's house smelled then!!) Or in the winter when there's spiced cider mulling in the kitchen? Well, it's the spices in those things that make the scent, and you can recreate that great fragrance any time you want by letting a collection of spices not-quite-simmer on the stove.

Aromatherapy Begins at Home

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The Top 7 Tips For Preventing a Heart Attack

Unfortunately, the incidence of heart attack and heart disease is on the rise. Many times, heart disease and heart attacks can be prevented -- even when heart disease is hereditary. With the popularity of fast food, pre -- packaged frozen dinners, and fattening desserts increasing every day, so do the number of heart attacks per year.

The Top 7 Tips For Preventing a Heart Attack

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What Happens To Your Body When You Quit Smoking?

While you want to stop, you might not know what happens to your body when you quit smoking. In addition to nicotine, cigarettes contain many chemicals that affect your health in very damaging ways. It might be difficult to believe, but healing begins within 20 minutes when you quit smoking.

What Happens To Your Body When You Quit Smoking?

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A Look at Alternative Medicine and Conventional Medicine

Alternative medicine and alternative therapies are therapeutic practices, which are currently not considered as an integral part of conventional medicine. Conventional medicine is the current mainstream medical system of diagnosis and treatment of disease.

However, an increasing desire for wellness, in response to today's stressful lifestyle and rising incidences of cancer, disease and illness, has led to the rising demand for alternative medicine and therapies. It is true that many people are becoming disenchanted with conventional medicine's drugs and the approach to healing.

A Look at Alternative Medicine and Conventional Medicine

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Best 8 Ways to Deal with Detractors

We have all had them as we set and go after our goals, no matter where we are or what our goals may be: naysayers, detractors, people who poke fun or get angry or tell us we can't do it. Detractors are very serious business, even if they just seem to be having a little fun at our expense. Don't let them stop you or even slow you down. How do you deal with detractors? Each one will be different, but here are a few tips:

Best 8 Ways to Deal with Detractors

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Enjoy the Holidays!
5 Practices to Less Stress and More Joy

It bothers me that most conversations I have at this time of year contain some level of stress and anxiety about the upcoming holiday season. I'm not immune myself - every year I swing on a pendulum between being caught up in a frenzy of materialism or feeling the urge to back away and becoming cynical about the entire season. What is up with that? Shouldn't this time of year be about peace, joy and celebration?

It's understandably complex; the holiday season taps into all of our personal and collective beliefs and values, from our deepest feelings about creation to how our families function to how we live in community. Throw a substantial dose of shameless consumerism into the mix and it's no wonder people both love and dread December.

Enjoy the Holidays!
5 Practices to Less Stress and More Joy

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How to Recover From a Bad Day

Bad days are a part of life. We all have them. No matter how many yoga classes you attend or how smoothly your life runs, you'll run up against one sooner or later. The secret to thriving is learning how to move forward in spite of bad days, not aiming to never have one (although minimizing their frequency is a good thing).

Here are some tips for dusting yourself off and getting back on track after a bad day happens.

How to Recover From a Bad Day

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Be a Money Shaman

Native shamans teach, "Take care of yourself first, so that you can then take care of others." You've got to give yourself enough love, money and health, in order to have enough to share with others. You've got to be allowing love, abundance and vitality to be flowing into and through you, in order for it to be flowing out from you.

Be a Money Shaman

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Self Care on the Fly
Or 7 Strategies to Resolve
Work/Life Imbalance - NOW

Stress is high, your energy is low. Sound familiar? This is the common experience of most small business owners I know. Owning a business can be like running a marathon. You know you're in it for the long haul, there's not much time to catch your breath, yet you push on. You can easily see how this scenario can lead quickly to an out of balance life.

Self Care on the FlyOr 7 Strategies to Resolve Work/Life Imbalance -- NOW

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Turn Overwhelm Around With These 10 Tips

Overwhelm is one of the biggest challenges that entrepreneurs experience on a daily basis. The definition of overwhelm, according to The Brainy Dictionary is, "To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to engulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly." Whew...sound familiar? I've been there, too, so I understand -it's not a fun place to be.

Turn Overwhelm Around With These 10 Tips

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Emotional Sensitivity

Sensitivity is a set of character traits that has just begun receiving attention from the psychological community within the past few years. This is strange because it has always been fairly prevalent among the population. Nevertheless, it has not even been officially recognized as a personality type. I want to make sure that you understand what I mean when I use the term sensitivity. Following is a list that describes the attributes of emotionally sensitive people.

Emotional Sensitivity

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Get Healthy and Fit
The Exercise Edition

First let me say: eating healthy is a great foundation for getting fit and healthy, but exercise is what will really get you there. Actually, you can do one and not the other, but you'll only be halfway there, really. You need both.

Get Healthy and Fit
The Exercise Edition

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Powerful & Effective Psychic Protection Technique

Do this exercise in the morning, and in the afternoon and before going to sleep initially, until you find yourself more peaceful, calmer and feeling more in control of your life.

Powerful & Effective Psychic Protection Technique

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10 Tips for Quitting Smoking

I recently celebrated my one-year anniversary of quitting smoking. Well, of finally quitting ... like most smokers, I had tried to quit many times and failed. But this quit stuck, and I'd like to share the top 10 things that made this quit successful when the others failed.

10 Tips for Quitting Smoking

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How to Drive When it Starts to Snow

Driving in the winter season is relatively more difficult than normal, and requires skill and practice. In the absence of these important factors, accidents can occur. It might be best to stay at home in bad weather but it cannot always be done as some tasks cannot be postponed.

For people who are not accustomed to driving in snow, the task can be challenging. In order to avoid any kind of unpleasant experiences during the winter season, you should have your car thoroughly checked before the season so that you car is well maintained. You should keep yourself up to date with the weather forecasts so that you know what to expect on the road.

How to Drive When it Starts to Snow

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Are You Being Stalked?

This is not just a question reserved for the rich and famous. Stalking is not a behavior defined with logic or reason. Millions of people have been stalked through time and history. Stalking is typically defined as three instances of contact after you have asked the individual to refrain from contact. This can be seeing them in public, a telephone call, or an email.

Stallkng does not come in one form or one type of activity. Is there someone who you bump into in public a little too often? Does this go a little beyond coincidence? Do you have telephone calls from the same person too often? Does this continue to be a daily problem even after you ask them to stop? Do your instincts tell you something is very wrong with this situation?

Are You Being Stalked?

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Battle With Burn-Out

Letting yourself reach the point where you are burnt out, worn down and used up is a threat to your dreams, goals and your life's happiness. The physical manifestation of burnout, or an overload of stress, is your body's natural response to the pressures you are placed under and that place it under during the course of your day. Worse yet when you place yourself in a stressful situation in your mind through worry and fret, your body reacts as if physically placed in that situation. Your body's natural defenses go into action.

Battle With Burn-Out

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Sacred Space, Sacred Time

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The Sacred Heart of the World: Restoring Mystical Devotion to Our Spiritual Life
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David Richo We all need space, we all need time to ourselves. Indeed, one little corner, a fraction of time that you allow yourself can do wonders to your being, to get in touch with your inner self and give expression to your faith. A space that allows you to reflect on your life, on your day, on what tomorrow may bring. A small place where you can shed a tear, or breathe a sigh of relief, quieten a troubled mind or savor a few victories.

It is a place to reflect and contemplate on what is important to you, to allow you to connect with your inner self, without interference, and in solitude. It could be as simple as a table top, a corner of the bedroom, a place just for you to enjoy few precious moments alone.

No, it does not require a whole room, or many hours. Is there a small table top, a spot on the dresser, an isolated corner, an idle spot that collects clutter and dust? If you are on the road a lot, would you not want to carry something to evoke that feeling of connectedness?

Sacred Space, Sacred Time

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Stress Management
Pressure-Proof Your Holidays

The holidays are fast approaching. Are you feeling stress and overwhelm, instead of joyful anticipation? With so many competing obligations and needs in our modern life, preparing for the holidays might feel like yet another daunting chore. I'll share 5 key strategies to help you pressure-proof your holidays, so you can enjoy instead of "endure" your holidays.

1. Focus on what's important

What does the holidays mean to you? Is it the special time with loved ones, gratitude, renewal, hope, cultural or family traditions, reconnecting with old friends, serving the community, religious meaning, etc.? Find out what's important to you, and set a clear intention to focus only on those things.

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Pressure-Proof Your Holidays

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Be Good to Yourself While Grieving

Grief is exhausting. In some ways, it is like running a marathon. You have to be in good shape and stay that way. If you are going to be able to help others you need to be good to yourself. Though I have tried to do this I forget sometimes.

I keep working on self-care, however, and here are some of the ways I am good to myself while grieving for four loved ones.

Be Good to Yourself While Grieving

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Anticipatory Grief and Holidays
12 Survival Tips

Anticipatory grief - a feeling of loss before a death or dreaded event occurs - is a hard journey. Holidays make it even harder. At a time when you're supposed to feel happy and joyful, you feel sad and anxious. You're on pins and needles and wonder what will happen next.

Remember, your grief stems from love, and you may find comfort in that. Holidays don't erase your reasons for feeling sad and lonely, according to the National Mental Health Association, and "there is room for these feelings to be present." So accept your feelings and, if you feel like crying, go ahead and do it.

Anticipatory Grief and Holidays
12 Survival Tips

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Taking Care of Number One
Ten Tips to Get Into the Self-Care Habit

Have you ever noticed that there is just never enough time? There is always another project, another "to-do", another responsibility to take care of. In this "fast" world of ours, the easy way out is to take on more and more responsibilities for others, at the expense of oneself.

Yet, your own body and soul needs care and feeding. Whether it is kicking the smoking habit, or eating better, or getting active again, or training for a specific event, or simply taking some "me time", once you learn to take care of yourself first, before everyone and everything, you will discover that you gain the energy to take care of everything else.

Taking Care of Number One
Ten Tips to Get Into the Self-Care Habit

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Reasons To Say "NO"

This month I said, "NO, I'm not going to write a feature article this month, I want to work on my book instead." As soon as I said that, I realized that there might be some learning (AND an article!) in that decision. Here are the top 10 reasons to say "NO," in service of your creativity and self-care.

Reasons To Say "NO"

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Start Taking Control of Your Life

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You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder
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Kate Kelly, Peggy Ramundo At first glance, it would seem that positive thinking and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) have nothing to do with one another. But many of us with ADD develop negative thinking patterns because we become frustrated by our challenges and frequent feelings of being overwhelmed. This negative outlook then makes it even harder for us to manage those challenges and move forward.

Practicing positive thinking allows people with ADD to focus on our strengths and accomplishments, which increases happiness and motivation. This, in turn, allows us to spend more time making progress, and less time feeling down and stuck. The following tips provide practical suggestions that you can use to help you shift into more positive thinking patterns:

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Protect Your Self-Care

So, you've set your self-care goals and you're all set. You've even considered the ways you'll sabotage yourself - but wait! What about those well-meaning friends and relatives who probably don't mean any harm but they may DO you harm if they steer you away from the self-care goals you've set for yourself. So how do your put yourself first and get selfish when others are tempting you to stray?

Protect Your Self-Care

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Love Your Self, Learn to Say No

No is a powerful word. I once took a street defense class with my daughter, Shelly. In simulated exercises, men in helmets and padded clothing approached us in menacing ways and we were taught how to protect ourselves. These simulations felt amazingly real! Saying "NO!" was always the first step. We learn to say no loudly and from a place of inner strength. There was something about the way we were taught to say no that seemed to increase our overall strength; physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

Love Your Self, Learn to Say No

Are You Able To Say Both 'Yes!' And 'No!'?

When it is all said and done, when we delve deeply into our emotions, we almost always find that our strongest and most habitual response is covering up other feelings that we are not fully aware of. We feel hurt, disrespected, abandoned, or sad, and we cover over these feelings and lose touch with them, by expressing anger or resentment instead.

When we find ways to tap into our deeper emotions we invariably find that we have been neglecting some form of pain or discomfort. When we neglect or simply don't notice our deeper emotional reactions, we lose the ability to express our full range of emotions. In the process we find that by consistently expressing only one segment of our entire emotional range, we limit our ability to be happy and feel at ease within ourselves and with those that we interact with.

Are You Able To Say Both 'Yes!' And 'No!'?

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Pisces is the astrology sign that deals specifically with Faith, Therapy, Healing, Self-Understanding, Psychological Issues, Self-Sabotage, Cosmic Consciousness, Artistic Inspiration, and Karma. Learn more about Pisces.
The information here tells all about Pisces Astrology.

Pisces Horoscope

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
~ Wayne Dyer ~
Born March 10, 1940

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