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- August 17th, 2008
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Goodbye to Summertime
It is the end of summer, and at least in North Texas where I live, every parent I talk to is looking forward to the opening of school in a week or two. We all look forward to the resumption of a more structured, predictable schedule. For my family, t
- August 14th, 2008
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krisrob01 has posted a new entry on: The Everyday Mystic
How to Recognize and Trust your Heavenly Messengers
It’s delightful to read a book that affirms and explains experiences that you’ve had but didn’t fully understand. That was my reaction to Sonia Choquette’s book, Ask Your Guides: Connecting to Your Divine Support System,
- August 9th, 2008
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Change your Inner Thoughts, Change your Outer Life
Change your thoughts and you change your life - we’ve heard this lesson in multiple forms from many teachers. May Kay Ash told us that "If your mind can conceive it, and if you can believe it, you can achieve it." Dr. Norman Vince
- August 3rd, 2008
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krisrob01 has posted a new entry on: The Everyday Mystic
Message from the Angels and Spirit Guides
Angels and spirit guides visit me during meditation. Encircling me, they draw near, shoulder to shoulder. Dazzling ring of light and love is all around me. I feel their love and devotion. "Tell them," they whisper in my ear. "Tell t
- August 2nd, 2008
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Five Ways to Cut the Clutter and Find Serenity
I am on a mission to reduce clutter in my outer world, knowing that doing so will increase the serenity in my inner world. In addition to being tired of clutter, I am also tired of not being able to find things (especially books) when I need th
- July 30th, 2008
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Take Nothing Personally: A Process for Workplace Productivity
The scene: a hip and fashionable downtown restaurant. A high-ranking manager of a technology company and several of his team members are enjoying lunch together to celebrate the team’s recent achievement. As the conversation veers off onto casu
- July 27th, 2008
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krisrob01 has posted a new entry on: The Everyday Mystic
Developing Compassion & Courage: Strong Back, Soft Belly
When we sit in Buddhist meditation, we are taught to keep our back straight and our stomachs relaxed. Keeping our spine straight helps us maintain our focus and clarity during meditation, and keeping our stomachs relaxed represents the need to
- July 17th, 2008
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krisrob01 has posted a new entry on: The Everyday Mystic
Our Spirits and Minds Need Rest and Recovery Time
An athlete in training knows that periods of intense exercise must be followed by time for rest and recovery. The muscles are strengthened by this process of stress followed by rest, but muscles fail if they are strained for too long. Just like athle
- July 14th, 2008
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krisrob01 has posted a new entry on: The Everyday Mystic
Imprisoned by False Beliefs like Bees in a Mason Jar
Habits of thought and habits of false beliefs can imprison us. Many times, we aren’t even aware of the habits, much less their sentence of imprisonment. Awareness of the habitual thoughts and false beliefs is the first step to freedom. So
- July 10th, 2008
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krisrob01 has posted a new entry on: The Everyday Mystic
Forgiveness is a Team Sport
We do not often think of forgiveness as having anything to do with the workplace, but surprisingly, forgiveness is an essential practice of a highly effective work team. Thanks to recent psychological and medical research, we know that the act of for
- July 6th, 2008
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krisrob01 has posted a new entry on: The Everyday Mystic
How to Be Mindful in the Present Moment
If you had to answer honestly, could you truly say that you are present in the moment most of the time? I think that most of us (I include myself, but I’m working on it!) are neither mindful nor fully present for the majority
- July 2nd, 2008
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How to Stay Sane during an Insane Day
Have you ever attended an all-day meeting or had back-to-back meetings from morning to night? Ever wonder how you can keep a sense of balance or a connection to the All-That-Is during a day in which there is no time for contemplation or even much of
- June 28th, 2008
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krisrob01 has posted a new entry on: The Everyday Mystic
Gratitude at Journey’s End
The business trip I took this week was long and hard - a seven-day journey with stops in three countries. Despite the difficulty of the trip, this journey for me was punctuated by multiple moments of gratitude: gratitude at the outset and gratitude u
- June 26th, 2008
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krisrob01 has posted a new entry on: The Everyday Mystic
Releasing Judgmental Thoughts
Can you think of a colleague, co-worker or acquaintance who really annoys you, but is probably a pretty agreeable person underneath their irritating qualities? Stated another way, are there people who make you bristle because of a certain aspec
- June 20th, 2008
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Freeing Ourselves from Limiting Beliefs
Limiting beliefs are those mental blocks that keep us from living happy lives and fulfilling our potential. They tell us things like, "I am not good enough" or "I will never have enough money". Limiting beliefs are created in reaction
- June 17th, 2008
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Simple Everyday Miracles that We Give Each Other
Most of the time, we go through life totally oblivious to how our words and deeds can positively affect - indeed, change the course of - another person’s life. It could be a simple observation we say to someone, it could be a random act o
- June 14th, 2008
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krisrob01 has posted a new entry on: The Everyday Mystic
How to Discern God’s Communications to Us
In traditional prayer, we talk to God and lay bare our souls, express our deepest desires and ask for blessings on ourselves and others. Is there a way that we can discern God’s communication back to us? My answer to that question i
- June 12th, 2008
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krisrob01 has posted a new entry on: The Everyday Mystic
Building the Temple of Well-Being
An Everyday Mystic understands that she must build her life like a Greek temple. The foundation of the temple represents her personal values, those things she holds most dear and important. The values support the temple columns, which rep
- June 9th, 2008
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The Three Hill Walk
I did a "three hill walk" tonight at sundown. I live in a neighborhood that’s unusual for these parts - it has hills. There are three streets that go up that hill, and I walked all three of them tonight. Fast. I got up a bit
- June 8th, 2008
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Pillar Days of our Lives
Pillar days are those significant dates that mark the beginning or end of a chapter in the book of life. Pillar days include births, deaths, weddings, graduations and other momentous events. It is good that we observe them with rituals and ceremonies
- June 1st, 2008
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Spiritual Practice Breaks are OK
Lapses in our spiritual practice cannot be cause for beating ourselves up. If we wish to practice forgiveness in our lives, it has to start on the inside by allowing ourselves to take sabbaticals every now and then from even our most cherished
- May 29th, 2008
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Prayers for All Occasions
Last Sunday at the Adult Sunday School that I teach at my church, we talked about the different types of prayer. In a group brainstorming session, we listed the different ways we pray. Far from a theoretical, academic or exhaustive compendium,
- May 26th, 2008
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Memorial Day Tribute to All Families Who’ve Lost a Loved One
Memorial Day in the US is a day to remember our fallen soldiers. It was always an emotional day for my family of origin, because my Mother lost her twin brother in World War II. Often, we would travel to Mom’s home town in southern Minnes
- May 24th, 2008
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krisrob01 has posted a new entry on: The Everyday Mystic
Is Your Work Calling You?
If your work is calling you, answer the phone! Although the word is not often used in business settings, a "calling" is a deep inner assuredness that the work you do - or will do - is your right livelihood. A calling is the work you MUS