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3 Ways Water Helps You Ignite Your Life
Water helps you live a better life. I’m sure you’ve heard how water makes up about 60% of our body. It’s true! So it’s essential to stay hydrated for maintaining our body temperature, body weight, improving blood oxygen circulation, and more. Often we don’t want to drink a lot of water because we think we’ll be stuck in the toilet all day long. Read on and I’ll tell you the secret to staying hydrated but not having to run for the bathroom all the time. What Does Water Do for Your Body We’ve talked prior about the importance of water for healthy brain function. When your brain gets dehydrated, it…
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A Review of Eckhart Tolle’s Books (Including A New Earth)
Eckhart Tolle has written a few books on how to profoundly transform your inner self. It speaks to me with wanting to ignite your life! In today’s blog, I thought I’d touch upon two of the most well known books and the lessons you can take away from them. Who Is Eckhart Tolle Eckhart considers himself a spiritual teacher. He was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. His Unhappy Early Life He was depressed for most of his early life until he had an inner transformation at age 29. Eckhart didn’t take the obvious paths. He was mostly likely unhappy because his parents did…
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Change Your Life with NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
You may never have heard of the term “neuro-linguistic programming” or NLP, but I’m sure you’ve seen or used some of its practices. Remember last week when I was discussing using visualization as a method of guiding your brain? NLP is visualizing with superpower! What Is Neuro-Linguistic Programming? In a nutshell, NLP is an approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy that was created by John Grinder and Richard Bandler in the United States in the 1970’s Their goal was to help individuals face and overcome all kinds of challenges and improve performance mentally, physically, and emotionally. NLP has also been shown to help some people to heal from traumatic events.…
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Meditation for Inner Peace
Meditation can bring you inner peace when you need it most. But as with most things, you need to practice regularly to get into that state of flow. The good news is that when times get stressful, you will naturally have a calm response because you’ll be used to staying present in the moment. Learning Meditation for a Peaceful Mind No one really knows how learning to meditate was created. The word “meditation” is connected to a Latin root meaning to think, to think about something, or to consider something. Some people think meditation is the ability to focus on one thought, and others believe it to be the ability…
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Staying Positive In A Hectic World
To maintain your inner peace, a key skill is staying positive. To continue on with my discussion on Self-Confidence and Self-Worth, to live a truly amazing life, you need to know that you can handle whatever comes your way. A big part of that is mastering the ability to stay positive no matter what seems to be going on around you. Feeling that things are happening for a reason even if you don’t understand why will give you inner peace and calm. And when you’re calm inside, you’re able to make smarter decisions in the moment. It’s All In How You Perceive It I’ll start with a parable. There was…
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Living Your Purpose
Are you living your true purpose or are you living someone else’s? Or are you just reacting to what happens during the day? Do you want to do what’s most important for your journey during this life? What Is Living Your Purpose When you know your purpose in life, you feel an incredible joy. It’s easy to wake up and get going on your day. Plus, those problems that used to stop you before are just small pebbles to be stepped over. When you’re living your purpose, you are becoming the best you that you can. What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up? Living your life’s purpose…
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The Four Tendencies Book Review
The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin is not your typical personality type book. Her main point is that there are four ways people respond to expectations. And there are outer expectations and inner expectations. Outer expectations are those placed on us like a work deadline, a medical appointment, or a request from a friend or relative. And inner expectations are those we place upon are selves. Most of these expectations come from our personal goals. So if we wanted to learn to play the piano, our inner expectation is that we would regularly practice the piano and take lessons. How Do I Learn My Tendency? Gretchen has a very short…
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What Is Cryptocurrency (and Why You Should Care)
Have you been hearing about Bitcoin and wondering what Cryptocurrency is and if it’s something you should be doing? What Is Cryptocurrency In a nutshell, cryptocurrency is a digital currency in which encryption techniques are used to regulate the generation of units and transfer of funds. In Plain English A currency allows people to exchange goods and services indirectly. You may have heard it called a medium of exchange value. Cryptocurrency is another form of payment that happens to be digital only, and is secured with cryptography. How Cryptocurrency Works But the cryptocurrencies go a little further than just cash. It’s somewhat more like a checking or savings account in…
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Self-Esteem Building Tips
Last week, we talked about self-confidence and I promised this week we’d discuss self-esteem. It’s important that you learn to love and accept yourself, so I’ve got lots of tips for building up your sense of self-worth today. What Is Self-Esteem Your self-esteem is how much you value yourself. You could even define it as self-respect. When Does Self-Esteem Get Set Your sense of self worth begins in your early childhood. Some factors that influence it include How others react to you Experiences at home, school, community Illnesses, injuries, or deaths (Yours or those close to you) Your age and messages in the media Your role in society People with…
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Self-Confidence Building Secrets
One of the best ways to ignite your life is by building up your self-confidence. It can assist you in so many areas of your life. A good sense of self-confidence will boost your ability to try new things, and stick with them until you’re able to master them. What Is Self-Confidence? Self-confidence is your attitude and your belief in your ability to get things done. This impacts your estimate of how likely you are to succeed at your goals. Self-confidence also affects how you feel when things don’t go right. It’s your resilience and ability to bounce back after mistakes or failures. So it comes as no surprise that…
