Die to the past with each moment that passes. If you do this, there will be no suffering in mortal death. Do not resist your fate. Accept your fate, doing anything else is insanity. A Sordid History With Travel Travel has never been a pleasant…
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How to Stop Worrying
When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past. Hello. My name is Dena and I’m a recovering worrier. I’ve been a “worrier” since I was a little…
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Review: The Shadow Effect
You only have to gaze around you at the natural world to see the proof that beauty, form, order, and growth have survived for billions of years. In dealing with your shadow, you are aligning yourself with the same infinite power. The shadow isn’t a…
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The Best of evolution you
In celebration of my 10-month-blog-anniversary, I’ve decided to do a Best Of post. This is also a great place to start if you are new around here & looking to get a taste of the most delicious bits without having to sift wildly through the…
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5 Tips for Focusing & My Mini Meltdown
“When the lion is chasing the antelope, he doesn’t look back. He has to eat.” –Robert Cheruiyot The antelope knows how to focus. That’s what this post is about–focus. Last Sunday I had a meltdown. I was tired. In the past few weeks, I’ve gone…
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Review: The Power of Now
The Power of Now had been on my “to-read” list for years when, by a stroke of fate, a dear friend offered to lend me her audio copy. Based on my general understanding of the book and its content (prior to reading it) I felt…
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3 Super Simple Ways to Reduce Stress, Improve Health, & Live Happy
Want to know how you can cut your stress in half? How about if there were two things you could change that would drastically alter your stress levels for the rest of your life? Now I bet you really want to know, right? What if…
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Letting Go of the Past: Forgiveness
Last week, I finished listening to Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now. It had been on my “to-read” list for years, when by a stroke of fate a dear friend offered to lend me her audio copy. I plan to do a full review of…
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Hakuna Matata: 8 Lessons I Learned in Kenya
The Adventure Begins I was taking a required elective, World Geography, during my senior year of college. If it hadn’t been for that elective, I would have never been in the Science Building at all. (I was an English Major with a Creative Writing focus.)…