I am celebrating 5 weeks without Coffee/Decaf Coffee today.
I did not start drinking coffee until the last month of undergrad., (approx. 3 yrs ago) because I hated the taste.
But I have always loved the aroma. My Italian father is a life-long coffee lover and gourmand. I loved to go with him to our local fine food [...]
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I spent the past 10 days on a silent meditation retreat. It was a beautiful experience. It was the fourth retreat of this type that I have attended.
In the type of meditation I practice, you are asked to observe your physical sensations with a calm and equanimous, detached mind. My first two 10-day meditation retreats [...]
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I have been struggling with a sugar addiction for as long as I can remember. I have tried just about everything to kick the habit, including but not limited to: letting myself have it daily but in moderation (I couldn’t focus on anything–all I could think about was when I got to have my controlled [...]
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I was born with some sort of foggy grey cloud over my mind that seemed to keep me from feeling the sunlight of the spirit that I was in touch with in my heart. I attribute this largely to having undiagnosed Celiac Disease for many years.
I lived with a usually tolerable level of mental fog and [...]
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My good friend recently told me she was receiving training in a healing technique called Theta Healing. Living in the Bay Area, it seems like I hear about a handful of new therapeutic modality everyday from one of my friends, on bulleting boards at cafes, or stapled to telephone poles. I rarely give the modality a second [...]
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This is a little quote that has been feeding me for years:
“Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness and our confusion, and therefore it doesn’t do any good to try to get rid of our so-called negative [...]
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