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Email Reflections: 10 Simple CourtesiesOkay, you are super busy or you are down to your last emailbefore heading home. Maybe it?s first thing in the morning,you have a full in box to read and handle, all before yourmeeting starts in 10 minutes. It?s easy to be in a rush anddismiss the little things, however......have you ever thought how your email looked from areceiver?s viewpoint? Of course you have, every day,haven't you? It is so easy in our fast-paced lives to letthe little things go.When you receive a poorly formatted email and you don't knowwhere each paragraph starts or finishes -- the thoughts arescattered and jumbled -- ...

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Responsibility means being accountable for what we think, say, and do. Personal responsibility involves working on our own character and skill development rather than blaming others for situations and circumstances. It means choosing to design a life that honors our values and purpose.Here are twelve reflections on personal responsibility:1. Personal responsibility begins from the inside and moves outward. We must begin by taking responsibility for our thoughts, choices, and reactions. Then we can be responsible for the circumstances we create in our world.2. We have the divine gift of free will. We make conscious choices as ...

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PILGRIMAGETake yourself to a place where tourists do not go.Leave behind umbrellas, luggage, your address book, ID.Take only what you can carry on your back.If you are lucky, you will not returnor, failing that, you will not return unchanged.Take yourself into the woods where maps fail andthere is no sound but the promising of rain.Let your feet carry you to the entrance of a cave.Sit there, and listen, to what the cave will say.Sit there. Listen.It is for this moment that you were born.It is for this moment that Life has called you to this place.Sit. Listen.Know your presence as your prayer.© Maureen Killoran, ...

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The problem with meditation is attachment. We get inthe habit of needing our altar, favorite cushion,incense, CD, certain time of day, necessary length oftime, or particular style of sitting. If we can?t doit the ?right? way, we tend to skip it altogether. Weget so attached to the trappings that we get a littletesty if we don?t have everything just so.This is funny when you think about it. In Buddhism,the core belief is that life is full of suffering, andthis suffering is due to attachment. Isn?t it ironicthat we become so attached to the idea of meditation?Isn?t it a bit absurd to think of followers ofparticular styles of meditation as ...

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1. Meditation:Meditation is a sacred practice. Shamans, gurus, priests, medicine men and other wise beings have practiced meditation for over 5000 years. In the 20th century, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi popularized one form of meditation he named Transcendental Meditation, This is a simple form of mantra meditation, easy to learn and to do.We meditate by sitting quietly, eyes open, and concentrating on an image such as a mandala, or a candle, or sitting with closed eyes, and, in either case, repeating a mantra. A mantra is not a word. A mantra is a sound. Different sounds, repeated over and over and over again, affect energies within the ...

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You can?t escape it - every time you look in a mirror there it is. It may be a pleasurable experience, or it can be a soul-searching, dismal attempt at facing the world. However, you view or react to what you see in a mirror, it is not the final word and it is not written in stone.It has been said throughout history that the truth of a person is in their face. Life has a way of etching out lines and features that reflect the real person inside. Cosmetics, and other cover-ups won?t disguise the heart and soul from being seen in the eyes of the person, nor in the resulting facial features that are a compilation of what they have done, and ...

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Modern city living piles on the stress in every conceivable way, with the fast pace of living we all have, stress slowly builds up creating headaches, stiffness in the neck and back, high blood pressure, indigestion and so on.Physical stress will leave the body uptight and tense, diminishing the appetite and the ability to sleep.Mental stress is much more serious, for when we are mentally stressed, the adrenal glands are activated and adrenalin is pumped into our body, giving us continous energy. Unfortunately overworking the adrenal glands due to constant mental pressure will, in the long run, create a serious break down in your physical ...

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This meditation is built on the idea of trance identification with a future idealised, or present higher realized, self. Deep Trance Identification is a concept derived from the fields of NLP and hypnosis, but has its origins in shamanism, spiritual and religious practices of all kinds. Shamanic practices of identification with spirit beings and deities would appear to go back to pre-history. More recently, some forms of the mystical Christian practices of the Stations of the Cross encourage identification with Jesus at stages from his being condemned to die through to his resurrection.In Sogyal Rinpoche's book, The Tibetan ...

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