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The Science of Affection: How a Rebel Researcher Pioneered the Study of Love in the 1950s and Illuminated How Parents Shape Children’s Emotional Patterns

“If monkeys have taught us anything,” Harlow asserted in reflecting on his experiments, “it’s that you’ve got to learn how to love before you learn how to live.” Do give a read to: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/07/07/love-at-goon-park-harry-harlow-deborah-blum/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits The Science of Affection: How a Rebel Researcher Pioneered the Study of Love in the 1950s and Illuminated How Parents Shape […]

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Understanding the Dynamics of Hate, by Jose Stevens

A new José Stevens Article Understanding the Dynamics of Hate June 17, 2016 By José Stevens  This is an article about a topic that most people are quite uncomfortable with because the subject tends to spark great anger and attacks by these very fanatical people who are not neutral or objective in any way about whom they […]

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It’s way more fun…

It seems trite to say: ‘let’s loosen up a bit, stop taking things so seriously!’. But seriously, let’s. It’s way more fun.

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“The Secret Formula for Resilience”

Dear Readers Resilience is one of my favorite topics. It is about how we decide to perceive and experience adversity. As this author states “Perception is key to resilience: Do you conceptualize an event as traumatic, or as a chance to learn and grow?”  This is so true, and so relevant to personal growth and […]

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Good Enough!!

Dear Readers! I have heard this story many times, and today I came to me again from Marc & Angel in their daily message. I have posted it before, and here it is again. It is timeless, and fits all cultures.   “Once upon a time there was an elderly woman who needed to walk […]

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Be Like Water…

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves…. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes […]

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Pets and Telepathy

Owen K Waters – Biologist Rupert Sheldrake did enough research on the intuitive powers of pets to fill an entire book. It was called, “Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals.” In it, Sheldrake documents extensive cases of animals’ telepathic communication, awareness of distant events and precognition […]

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Are You Energy Sensitive? 6 Telling Signs

  By Andrea Schulman As you’ve probably noticed before, there is a range in our sensory abilities.  Some people can see very well, others not very well at all.  Some have excellent hearing, while others are deaf.  The same applies to energy sensitivity, or as they call it, your “sixth sense.”   Are you energy […]

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7 Ways Happy Couples Deal With Disagreements Differently

  by MARC CHERNOFF Differences of opinion don’t destroy relationships – it’s how a couple deals with their inevitable differences that counts. Every couple disagrees from time to time.  Perfect compatibility is not possible, but sensibly working though incompatibility is.  The difference between a happy couple and an unhappy couple is the way in which […]

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Elder’s Meditation of the Day – July 4

“That is not our way, to set yourself apart and talk about who you are and what you’ve done. You let your life speak for you. With the Mohawk people, wisdom is how you live and how you interpret what your mother and father, what your grandmothers and grandfathers have told you about this world […]

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To become a butterfly, you must be willing to give up being a caterpillar.