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Unconditional Love For Others

The Mastery of Self takes the Toltec philosophy of the Dream of the Plan[image error]et and the personal dream and explains how a person can:

Wake up Liberate themselves from illusory beliefs and stories Live with authenticity

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As a master of self, when I look into the eyes of another individual I see another Authentic self, a beautiful expression of the Divine. No matter where this person is in the process of awakening. I respect that his or her intent is just as powerful as mine, and d...

Emotional Fantasy: AI Can Pretend to Love Us, but Should We Love It Back?

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[image error], Sherry Turkle, author of reclaiming conversation, is constantly questioning the role that technology plays in our lives. From personal computers and medical technology to children’s toys that now include sophisticated artificial intelligence, the pace of technological progress has sped rapidly within the last several decades. But has often been the case in the past, our emotional and ethical progress lags substantially behind the adv...

10 Powerful Tools For Overcoming Procrastination

The now habitoffers a comprehensive plan to help readers lower their stre[image error]ss andincrease their time to enjoy guilt-free play. Dr. Fiore’s techniques will help any busy person start tasks sooner and accomplish them more quickly, without the anxiety brought on by the negative habits of procrastination and perfectionism.

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This program is based on more positive definitions of life, work, human potential, and procrastination that are more in keeping with the positive psychology of Ab...

How to Write Better: Get to Know Your Deepest Animal Impulses — and Kill Your Distractions

What’s the best advice novelist Joshua Cohen has for aspiring [image error]writers? It’snot to kill your darlings but kill your distractions. Put down the smartphone, close your laptop, and turn off your TV. Besides taking your writing time from you, watching videos creates a lot of noise in your life —literal and figurative — that keeps you from hearing yourself think and talk.

What frustrates many writers, says Cohen, author of Book of Numbers, is that they look for someone else in the writing rather...

What You Can Do About Fear, Grief, Anger and Joy

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Finding Your Own North Star will teach you how to read your internal compasses, articulate your core desires, identify and repair the unconscious beliefs that may be blocking your progress, nurture your intuition, and cultivate your dreams from the first magical flicker of an idea through the planning and implementation of a more satisfying life.

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I base all my counseling on the premise that each of us has these two sides: the essential self and the social self.

The es...

Discover the Joy and Meaning of Life through Science by Planting a Tree

Plants are such a familiar part of our landscape that we eas[image error]ily take them for granted. And our proclivity for ascribing human characteristics to non-human things — a helpful way to understand the world — often has us comparing the similarities between plants and animals. Both need water oxygen, and nutrients to grow, for example, and a host of loose metaphors are found: plants are said to be able to see, feel pain, and even speak to one another. But what really distinguishes plants, says ca...

Always Bet On Yourself

[image error][image error]To the outside observer, it seems like they’ve won the career lottery—that by some stroke of luck or circumstance, they’ve found the one thing they love so much that it doesn’t even feel like work, and they’re getting paid well to do it.

In reality, their good fortune has nothing to do with chance. There’s a method for finding your perfect job, and Chris Guillebeau, author of Born for this, has created a practical guide for how to do it—whether within a traditional company or business, or by...

LinkFest ~ Best Reads on Writing, Screenwriting & Self-Publishing: Write Garbage, Edit Brilliantly

WRITING

Writing suspenseful fiction: Reveal answers slowly | JANE FRIEDMAN

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The narrative question, that key longing or conflict that forms the overarching driver of your story, shouldn’t be answered all at once, or too early. Writing that engenders reader questions creates suspense.
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[image error]8 Necessary tips for how to write child characters| HELPING WRITERS BECOME AUTHORS

[image error]With their alluring mix of innocence, alertness, selfishness, a...

How Enlightenment Changes the Brain — And How You Can Become Enlightened

Enlightenment is a traditionally mystical and slippery concept, but w[image error]hen it is subjected to the rigors of empirical analysis, there is a lot to be learned about our brains and ourselves. Dr. Andrew Newberg, author of How enlightenment changes your brain, who has put enlightenment through a battery of scientific tests, says there are actually two kinds of enlightenment: lowercase-e enlightenment, which changes our opinions about the world, and Enlightenment, which changes our essence, i.e. ho...

Becoming A Prosperous Coach

The Prosperous Coach will show you how to:
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• Access a set of tools you can use to begin creating your own clients immediately
• Sign clients you love while maintaining your integrity
• Match your unique skills and talents with the clients you serve
• Develop a system that works for you for referrals and new clients, time after time
• Make bold, life-changing proposals
• Move beyond the deep-seated beliefs that hold most coaches back from success for themselves and their clients
• Overcome—f...