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Compassion – Essential Life Series

Compassion connects us to others and brings our innate natural nurturing feeling to the surface. We feel fulfilled when we help our fellow man. We want to be connected to our world. Compassion is when we give without expecting anything in return, when we are kind just to be so. Compassion takes us to a feeling that we are all one. Life with compassion takes on meaning and purpose.  

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Alpha State – Essential Life Series

The alpha state of mind activates the parasympathetic nervous system. Therefore, if we want health of body and mind, we need to bring our mind into alpha states. We can live our life in an alpha state. It is called mindfulness.

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Accepting Who I am!

It would be wonderful if we could accept who we are without self-criticism. There seems to be a corner of the mind that has an unstoppable record player that keeps repeating the same sentences. “I am not good enough, I am too tall, too short, too fat, too stupid, too whatever.” Very rarely does it repeat “I am smart, I am healthy, I am abundant, I am happy, I am amazing.” No one criticizes us more than our own mind. And worst of all we do not even know that we are doing it.

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Reprogramming the Subconscious Mind

Our conscious mind contains those things that we have accepted as valid and true, either positive or negative. It stores and is influenced and controlled by impulses, beliefs, addictions, and the worldly collective consciousness via our subconscious. The conscious mind is constantly affected by our subconscious mind and brings in all past experiences into the present. 

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World View: Essential Life Series

The whole world is full of wonder and excitement. But we can not experience it, because we are confined by our world view.
World view is the way we look and understand the world. It is the lens through which we interpret all of our experiences, make decisions that make sense of life. Each individual has a unique world view.

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