Archive | April, 2011

10 Steps to Stress Free and Beautiful Skin

by on April 25, 2011 in Beauty, Connect Extra, Style

This time of year, many of us are taking antihistamines for our seasonal allergies.  Others depend on eye drops for relief of watery, puffy eyes.  So what are we to do about itchy, sensitized, stressed out skin? If you are like many, you may feel your skin is sensitive to much of what is out [...]

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The Impact of Our Actions

by on April 25, 2011 in Connect Extra, Spirit

“My actions are my only true belongings.”  - Thich Nhat Hanh Wherever the mind goes the body follows. Our actions are the products of our mind. Watch the mind very carefully; we can see its full array of responses, expectations, reactions, and judgments from moment to moment. The mind also changes pretty quickly. Our feelings [...]

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Mind Trip

by on April 25, 2011 in Featured Articles, Spirit

Tibetan Monk, Lama Thubten Yeshe gives a poignant and thoughtful perspective on how our mind trips, the things that “trip” us up, the places lingering in the unrealized elements of our being.  If we can be honest with ourselves and not over spiritualize our experience, we can find the underlying cause of our long and [...]

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Keeping Your “Betty” Happy

by on April 25, 2011 in Beauty, Style

Lately we seem to have an obsession with our “Betty”, “Southern Girl”, “Little Sister” or whatever special name we give the ”vajayjay”  (for the sake of this article we will use Betty).  She gets “fried, dyed and laid to the side”.  In the good ole days some of us went for the Nair down there, [...]

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Shadows: A Conversation with O’Dell Johnson

by on April 25, 2011 in Spirit

Shadows are the unconscious and conscious collective suppressed parts of us.  Referred to in the past as skeletons, the shadows pain us with shame, guilt, worthlessness, and emotional traumas that stall the actualization process.  Now, social and psychological scientists are finding that shadows can cause many adverse affects to mind, body, spirit, and environment. We [...]

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Possession Obsession

by on April 25, 2011 in Connect Extra, Entertainment

Why are we so passionate about the music groups that we like?  It is almost as if we are possessive and, perhaps, a bit obsessive.  I am a big fan of Swedish electronic music quartet Little Dragon. I have been listening to their most recent album, Machine Dreams, since its release in 2009.  Most people [...]

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