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	Improving Your Mood and Attitude
Astrology, Tarot, and Self Improvement for the New Age.

Improving Your Mood and Attitude

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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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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How To Have A Hassle-Free Holiday Season

Do you know that some people actually relish the hustle and bustle, the crowded parking lots, and the singing Santas that comes with the holiday season? But even if you're not one of them, you can have a hassle-free holiday. Try these simple steps to put you in the mood for a happy, healthy, easier holiday season.

How To Have A Hassle-Free Holiday Season

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Five Ways to Cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude

Oprah Winfrey and Sarah Ban Breathnach, author of Simple Abundance, speak often of the importance of a Gratitude Journal, in which, at the end of each day, they record five things that they're grateful for.

Regardless of whether you record these items, spend some time each day to focus on the little things in your life that make each day special. Perhaps it's your child's toothless grin. A warm home. Delicious food enjoyed with family.

Five Ways to Cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude

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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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The Tyranny of "What If ..."

A number of years ago I had a client who came to me in a really bad stressed out condition. He came for one session, and then the next thing I knew I was told he had had a nervous breakdown.

When I visited him in the hospital, I was quite surprised to see that his face had a certain radiance to it. I asked how he was doing, half expecting to hear a litany of bad news.

The Tyranny of "What If ..."

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Where's Your Focus?

Are you focusing on the positives and living your life to the fullest? Or are you caught up in all of the negativity and fear that is troubling the world today?

It is easy to become trapped in the cycle of fear these days. Everywhere you turn someone is talking about what's going on 'over there'. Or you turn on the TV and the media is replaying the latest pictures from the front lines.

Where's Your Focus?

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Ways Your Emotions Can Be Making You Sick

The field with the long name -- psychoneuroimmunology -- provides new confirmation daily of what we've long suspected -- the link between our emotions and our well-being. The good news is emotional intelligence can be learned. "You can empower people to alter their perceptions," Christopher Coe, Ph.D., says, "and thereby to prevent these immune changes from occurring."

Ways Your Emotions Can Be Making You Sick

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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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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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Possibilities to Consider When You're Feeling Down

Seems as though it's easy to get down these days. While the reasons are legion, the story is pretty much the same: try as you may, being up, on top, all the time can be a chore. When that happens -- and for most of us, it does -- here are some things you may want to consider.

Possibilities to Consider When You're Feeling Down

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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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Zen Gardening ... Key Elements

There are two main elements to creating the perfect zen garden. Of which are rocks and sand. The rocks represent mountains and grounding, while the sand helps to represent flowing water. However, this sand shouldn't be just any ordinary beach or garden variety sand. Instead you should purchase enough crushed granite sand to fill your space. Whether it be outside or in. Of which can be found in three different shades white, gray, or beige.

You should try to avoid using light tinted granite sand in sunny areas, as it will produce glare and cut back on the zen-like feeling you wish to achieve. Instead use these lighter colors in shady areas or within your office or other indoor gardens. While you don't need a container for an out-door zen garden, you can find many different platforms for an office-sized zen garden. Whether it be online at websites such as this one, or at a local Feng Shui shop.

Zen Gardening ... Key Elements

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Stay Calm When Everyone is Freaking Out

Most places I go, people are talking about the economy, and they're freaking out. They're speculating on what will happen and how it will affect their lives. It can all feel pretty scary, and the fear feels contagious. Here are some tips to help you stay calm.

Stay Calm When Everyone is Freaking Out

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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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How to Beat the Christmas Blues

Even though Christmas is a season of joy and giving, it also can be a time of seasonal blues. Unrealistic expectations, overwork, loneliness and resentment can all contribute to transitory feelings of depression around the holidays.

Just the changing of the seasons can affect some people's outlook during Christmas. People with seasonal affective disorder will feel low energy from the drop in serotonin levels and limited amount of sunlight during the winter months. Throw some expectations about Christmas into the mix and the holiday season can become a burden rather than a joy.

How to Beat the Christmas Blues

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Easy, Fun Ways to Feel Prosperous
When the Economy Screams 'Poverty!'

I would start this list with, "Stop watching the news!" but these days that is just about impossible. In New York City, where I live, there are back seat television screens in cabs, elevator flat screens, and RSS feeds everywhere with headlines of unemployment rates, bailouts, caving consumer confidence and recession, recession, recession. Given this daily dosage of fear and poverty consciousness, I want to arm you with some easy, fun ways to guide yourself back to feeling and being prosperous.

Easy, Fun Ways to Feel Prosperous
When the Economy Screams 'Poverty!'

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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.

Stress Management
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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Are You Bored?

Feeling energized yet? It really doesn't take much action to break out of the boredom cycle, but you must DO something! Start a new habit of regular action and watch boredom disappear from your life!

Are You Bored?

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Cancer is the astrology sign that deals specifically with Home, Family, Emotional Security, and Feelings. Learn more about Cancer.
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