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The Chocolate Cake Sutra: Recipe for Rediscovering the Holiness in Life

If your life is anything but a 'chocolate cake equivalent', then you may be missing one or more of the 8 key ingredients that Geri Larkin has talked about in this entertaining spiritual book…

Uncover Your Life Purpose with Meditation — Part 3

The final part of this series explores the obstacles to finding and living our true calling. Learn how to increase your confidence and mental strength using meditation and live a life of purpose coura…

5 Healthy Foods You Are Not Eating

Bored with broccoli and spinach? Toss in these unusual healthy foods to spice up your disease-fighting eating plan…

Reduce Stress & Anxiety with Full Moon Guided Relaxation

Harness the healing power of the full moon to calm you down and harmonize your body, mind and soul…

No-Body Meditation to Dissolve Stress & Tension

Feeling stressed and wishing you could just dissolve it all and start afresh? Here is a simple meditation that's effective for relieving stress and unloading a heavy, burdened mind. Like dropping an effervescent vitamin C tablet into a glass of water, feel your worries, exhaustion, sadness, disappointments and fears dissolving completely…

Posted on 4 July, 2011

The Omega-3, 6 and 9 of Cooking Oils

Cooking oil is a basic and almost indispensable ingredient in every kitchen. But nowadays, there are so many different types of cooking oil that you can literally take an hour or more just to go through all the options in a well-stocked supermarket. From the ubiquitous refined soybean and corn oils that seem to be in every manufactured food, to…

Posted on 29 June, 2011

Anti-Inflammatory Supplements for Arthritis

While it's important to adopt a diet rich in anti-inflammatory foods and cut down on food sources of inflammation, these steps alone may not be enough to offer pain relief and protection against further arthritic damage for people suffering from arthritis. On the other extreme, though pharmaceutical anti-inflammatories do provide temporary…

Posted on 16 June, 2011

Is Your Water Making You Sick Slowly?

We drink and use water day in and day out. But have you ever stop and wonder what may be in the water that you use to cook, drink, shower and wash without fail every day? Chances are, even though your water may look fresh and clean, it isn't as pure as it appears. Even if you buy the argument that the use of chlorine and fluoride as water…

Posted on 7 June, 2011

Relaxing Music Highlight: Canyon Trilogy by R. Carlos Nakai

Canyons, waterfalls, mountains and other magnificent natural monuments have the power to put us completely in the present, even if it's only for a couple of seconds. Their beauty takes our breaths away as we experience them directly momentarily without filters and conditioning that dominate our mind most of the time. Music has such effect on…

Posted on 26 May, 2011

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Retreat May 2011

Last week from May 16 to 20, I've the good fortune to attend an interesting retreat on mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) organized by the Shan You Counselling Centre. I've long read about studies on the benefits of mindfulness interventions. So, I was glad that I've the chance to personally experience a mindfulness method that was used…

Posted on 24 May, 2011

A Review of The Illusion of Limitation and How to Get It Free

You've probably heard or read that limitations only exist in the mind. But, if you've caught yourself saying things like "I'm too stupid to learn these things" or "I always mess things up" to yourself more times than you'd like, then clearly, you're still under the strong grip of the limitations conjured by your mind. The Illusion of…

Posted on 9 May, 2011

How to Stop Beating Yourself Up

A while back, I posted a personal observation I've made on The Conscious Life Facebook wall. The entry went like this: "While we appear to treat ourselves with love, and pamper ourselves on the outside, internally, we beat ourselves up far worse than what our enemies would do to us. Hello, deeply conflicted humans!" The post triggered a…

Posted on 3 May, 2011

Inspirational Quotes from 4 Spiritual Enlightenment Teachers

The path to spiritual awakening or enlightenment is not just a journey less traveled, but also one potentially filled with many pitfalls and misleading guides. For one, you don't get any useful information or reminders on the subject from the media or from the people around you. Then, there's no lack of daily distractions and entrapment that…

Posted on 22 April, 2011

How to Make Water Kefir (aka Tibicos and Snow Lotus)

Note: This article only talks about what is water kefir and how to brew it. If you're looking for kefir grains, please try searching on the major search engines. Alternatively, you can also buy water kefir grains from Amazon.com. Recently, I was the proud recipient of a box of water kefir given by a kind young lady, who didn't just give me the…

Posted on 14 April, 2011

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