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    Happiness and Dung

    Is it really true that people can live in an area with no running water or electricity and dwell in huts made out of dung and be equally as happy as those listed on the Forbes richest 400 Americans? According to leading happiness researcher Ed Diener it is true. He conducted a study of the Forbes richest...
    Posted to elishagoldstein (Weblog) by Elisha Goldstein on 08-11-2008
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    1 poem that may just change our life!

    Mary Oliver makes us go hmmmm..... Read this one twice...feel free to click on 'tools' and briefly write down your reaction in your journal. Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean-the one who the one who has flung herself...
    Posted to elishagoldstein (Weblog) by Elisha Goldstein on 08-06-2008
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    Job and life giving you ADD? Some resources to try today!

    When having trouble juggling all our responsibilities at home and work, many people will try and pull it together by focusing on tried and true time management techniques. While time management can be helpful, in this day and age we need to also really consider attention management. Yes, it's our...
    Posted to elishagoldstein (Weblog) by Elisha Goldstein on 07-28-2008
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    Work ranks as #1 stressor for people, tips on what you can do now!

    A recent poll conducted by Elizabeth Scott,, M.S., Stress Management Consultant, found that the top stressor for people is found at work! So what can we do? Here are some more tips from Mindful Healing on how to practice to reduce stress through the workday: As the workday begins, slightly slow down...
    Posted to elishagoldstein (Weblog) by Elisha Goldstein on 07-24-2008
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    3 Ways to Beat our Mood Food Addiction

    3 Ways to Beat our Mood Food Addiction How many times have you caught yourself either stressed, anxious, or uncomfortable, chowin' down only to realize that not only have you not even tasted what you were eating, but you've eaten it to excess. We can think of cookies, pretzels, nuts, ice cream...
    Posted to elishagoldstein (Weblog) by Elisha Goldstein on 07-22-2008
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    21 days to creat a habit and our Email plight!

    ....how about the habits that we've created over a life time that we'd rather not have. In our lives we have habits of the mind that we're aware of and some that we're not aware of. Mindfulness gives us the unique ability to step out of a habit simply by noticing it. How about at work...
    Posted to elishagoldstein (Weblog) by Elisha Goldstein on 07-19-2008
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    If you don't want to look back on life and say where did it go....

    ...become aware of where you are. How do know where we are and how do we know if we're making the most of it? Throughout the day we are ingesting all kinds of energy and mostly unaware of it. Whether this energy makes for good nutrition is good to start to be aware of. What do I mean by this? Because...
    Posted to elishagoldstein (Weblog) by Elisha Goldstein on 07-17-2008
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    The half-smile experiment

    It's become clear that it's not only our minds that have an effect on our bodies and emotions, but it is also our bodies that affect our minds and emotions. Just think about after exercise or yoga, sometimes we might feel better both physically and emotionally. Now, this is going to sound silly...
    Posted to elishagoldstein (Weblog) by Elisha Goldstein on 07-15-2008
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    Beyond right and wrong

    Whether you are a fan of poetry or not, like an art piece, sometimes it has a way of speaking to us on a nonverbal level. When we're caught up in our judgments of self and others...ponder this one for a moment by one of my favorite wisdom teachers... Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing...
    Posted to elishagoldstein (Weblog) by Elisha Goldstein on 07-13-2008
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    You're angry, they're angry, now what?

    You're angry, they're angry, now what? The highly respected Vietnamese Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh has some good words for this in his book Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames . His basic message is this: When we are angry, it is very clear in that moment that we are suffering. But what is...
    Posted to elishagoldstein (Weblog) by Elisha Goldstein on 07-10-2008
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