Healthy Living

Add Feng Shui to Your Spring House Cleaning

Carolyn Cooper, our official Energy Healing Expert

Just what is Feng Shui? The short answer is that it's an ancient Chinese art and science that was developed some 3000 years ago to help people balance the energies in the places they lived. It's pronounced Fung Shway and it translates to "Wind Water." In Chinese culture, the elements play an important part in everyday life, as in wind and water that bring good harvests, which in turn bring good health and prosperity.

Feng Shui is based on Taoist philosophy, which puts a great deal of stock in living in harmony with nature, and states that land is alive and brimming with energy, or chi (pronounced chee). This in turn means that your home is alive and full of chi as well and needs to be arranged in such a way that the chi can be maximized.

How can you use this Chinese art in your spring cleaning? You'll need to do some rearranging, but first, you'll need a bagua (pronounced bah-gwah) map. This map includes the eight building blocks of life, according to the Chinese Taoist philosophy: health, love/marriage, wealth, career, wisdom/knowledge, reputation/fame, children/creativity and helpful people, plus the center area of chi.

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6 Tips to Turn Negative Thoughts into Positive Thoughts

Carolyn Cooper, our official Energy Healing Expert

1) Notice your speech patterns and change them when necessary. Do you ever say things like, "I'm not good enough," "I can't afford it," "I'm so fat," "There are no good men/women out there for me," etc. All of these are examples of very limited thinking. When you hear that negative self-talk creeping into your thoughts, acknowledge it briefly, then let it go by replacing it with a new positive affirmation. Examples: "I am enough," "Money flows to me; I always have enough to pay my bills and much more," "I love my healthy, fit body," "I am worthy of and attract a healthy relationship." Always state them in the present-tense positive: "I am healthy" rather than "I am not fat."

Even if you are 30 pounds overweight and your conscious mind isn't quite buying it, the subconscious mind, which sees in pictures, will take it without questioning and your behaviors always align themselves with that subconscious belief.

It actually becomes fun, coming up with more and more positive affirmations to say to yourself. Start your own affirmation notebook.

2) Be willing to let go of what is no longer serving you, even if (especially if) it will take you out of your comfort zone. Believe that it is safe to release the need to keep any distorted patterns.

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How to Overcome Sex Addiction

Stephany Alexander, our official Dating Expert

Sexual addiction is described as a progressive intimacy disorder characterized by compulsive sexual thoughts and acts. Like all other addictions, its negative impact on the addict and on family members increases as the disorder progresses. Over time, the addict has to intensify the addictive behavior to achieve the same results.

For some sex addicts, behavior does not progress beyond compulsive masturbation or the widespread use of pornography or phone or computer sex services. For others, addiction can involve illegal activities such as voyeurism, exhibitionism, obscene phone calls, child molestation or rape. Sex addicts do not inevitably become sex offenders. Furthermore, not all sex offenders are sex addicts. According to psychcentral.com roughly 55% of convicted sex offenders can be considered sex addicts. About 71% of child molesters are sex addicts. For many, their problems are so severe that imprisonment is only the way to ensure society's safety against them.

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Open Your Heart Using These 5 Ways

Carolyn Cooper, our official Energy Healing Expert

Love

Start by giving yourself unconditional love. You can't totally love and accept others when you have negative self-talk going on. After years of working with many clients in the field of Energy Healing, I am convinced that the #1 common denominator in every issue is the lack of self- worth, self-acceptance, self-love. Love is what we were born with; fear is what we have learned here. Our spiritual journey is to let go of the fear in order to accept the love back into our hearts. Recognize that we don't make any mistakes we don't need to in order to learn the lessons that are necessary for our growth. Listen to the lesson, forgive yourself, and move forward with love.

Help others

We all know the best way to lift ourselves when we are down is by giving service to someone else. It's a universal law; you can't bless the life of another without receiving blessings in return. It is as if we are all connected (which we are) by an invisible thread, and each time we lift another, we too are lifted. Likewise, each time we put someone else down, we also bring ourselves down. Helping a fellow-being, whether friend or stranger, is truly the best thing to do when you feel sorry for yourself. It opens your heart by helping you realize there are others in less fortunate circumstances right now than you.

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What are you doing to make it your best year ever?

I like to make each year better than the one I had before…I think of it as self-realization in action.  It is ambitious to hold a goal to constantly keep improving — that being said, I have learned that ambition, striving, accomplishing and creating my best year ever, in part come from, full acknowledgement of all that is already abundant and beautiful in my life.  Self-realization comes in part from the striving to always do and be better, while also embracing the absolute perfection of what is now.

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Lynda Monk, our official Self-Care Expert

Life Balance: The Essentials of How to Be Happy

How You Can Be Happy

What would your life be like if you were happy all the time? Really, think about it. What would it be like?

In this day and age, you may think that being happy all the time just isn't possible, but in reality it is. And, not only is it possible for you, it's also possible for everyone you know. That is, once one understands the essentials of how to be happy.

The Paradox of Happiness

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Ed McDonough, our official Life Balance Expert

Life Coach: Solving Your Life's Problems in Two Simple Steps

Having problems and challenges in life is something we all face at one time or another. For most people, problems drag them way down emotionally and almost completely drain the life energy out of them.

But it doesn't have to be that way. By making a few simple adjustments in the way you view and react to your life's problems, you can quickly be on your way to eliminating the dilemma and living a better, healthier and happier life.

It all starts by making a small "shift" in your attitude towards problem solving.

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Ed McDonough, our official Life Balance Expert

Revolutionary Free Online Video Series Reveals the Secret to Stress Management

America's Life Balance Expert™, Life Coach Ed McDonough announced today the release of an innovate, easy-to-follow, free online video series which helps people reduce and eliminate stress while simultaneously guiding them towards improved health and living a balanced life.

The series, titled, "21 Ways to Balance Your Life," takes each participant step-by-step through Coach Ed McDonough's personal tips, techniques and little-known life balancing secrets. The novel aspect of the series stems from the ability of each video to be used on its own or in conjunction with the others. The online video format allows participants to easily follow the course at their own pace any time they want.

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Ed McDonough, our official Life Balance Coach Expert

Two Simple Steps to Solving Your Problems Fast!

Having problems and challenges in life is something we all face at one time or another. For most people, problems drag them way down emotionally and almost completely drain the life energy out of them.

But it doesn't have to be that way. By making a few simple adjustments in the way you view and react to your life's problems, you can quickly be on your way to eliminating the dilemma and living a better, healthier and happier life.

It all starts by making a small "shift" in your attitude towards problem solving.

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Ed McDonough, our official Life Balance Expert

Empowerment and The Third Dimension

Empowerment: To give yourself the authority to choose and create your destiny at will.

Creating your destiny, changing your life for the better and receiving the things you want start with you becoming self-empowered to reach your goal and obtain all of your desires.

Anyone who's ever achieved any goal; an athlete, a doctor, an astronaut, a composer or the student who won the local spelling bee, were all self-empowered. They all had a desire to obtain something and they stayed focused on it until they received it.

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Ed McDonough, our official Life Balance Expert