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When Others Put You Second

What do you do when others think they are more important than you? How do you deal with people who always put themselves first? It seems like there is always someone who believes they deserve more than others. It is not just that they put themselves first, but it is that they put you second. This can feel horrible and be very hard to deal with. How do you balance out the conflict and find a resolution when it is probably someone you relate to often, maybe even someone important to you?

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Living Without Depression

Depression is a form of escapism; it is a way of protecting one’s self from the outside world. By reverting inward one is able to let go of reality, to turn off events and withdraw. Depression can be caused by many events, real or imagined. It is a sense of being overwhelmed, being overtaken by emotion, the world, or even ourselves. Sometimes the idea of who we are and how we interact with the world becomes too much. And the easiest behavior is to pull back, withdraw, and wait it out. Best not to deal with the situation, for even the idea of it becomes overwhelming.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Dealing With Stress

Stress is a development of how we see things; how we perceive the world around us changes how we feel. Do you take it all in or do it one step at a time? Do you look at all that is to be done and believe it has to happen now, that you must take care of it right away? Are you overwhelmed by things out of your control? Do you try to control things, thus only adding onto what you should do? How we interact with what happens around us has a lot to do with how we feel.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Feeling At Peace With Life

In our search to feel content and at peace in life, we may think we have to change our behavior or habits, but does this really work? What really is in our way of finding peace is our decision of what life is. It is the belief that somehow we can figure it out, figure out our problems, and destroy our struggles? What we have is the core belief that what we do today will inhibit any further creation of tomorrow’s sorrows. We think that if we can stop the struggles in our life right now, we will live in peace in the future. But life does not work this way.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Letting Go Of Negativity

How we look at our life and the world around us has a lot to do with how we live our lives. If we see our lives from a point of view that is pessimistic, negative, or without hope, then this is what our lives will feel like. When we see our lives as progressing, changing, and evolving, then this is the life we will live. The same can be said for how we see the world around us; it is all a matter of our perception. Two people seeing the same thing will of course interpret it differently.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Finding Your Path In Life

Understanding your path in life is more about finding out who you are than being who you think you should be. We often go through life living a blueprint of our lives. Following plans laid down ages ago, acting out a future to please others or even ourselves. We choose not to let go of the ideal so that we can fulfill some grander plan we have devised, often without thought to our true happiness. Why do we let happiness escape our plans, why do we live a life that we are not destined for? Why do we not even try to seek that which we are meant for?

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Losing Weight Without Dieting

In order to lose weight you must first look at why you have become overweight. What choices, subconscious or unconscious, led you to this point? Sometimes it may feel like you have always been so, that it is out of your control. But this is the furthest thing from the truth. Weight comes by choices we make every day. The most important step to realizing your weight goal is to let go of the idea that this is you, that you have no options and believe you can’t be who you want to be. Sometimes we block ourselves from happiness.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Perspective and Acceptance

What is the best outlook to have on life? If we are to have one perspective, what should it be and where should it come from? We can look at life in so many ways. We can see it as a struggle, as something to be fought against, as a hardship. At times, do we not see life from this vantage point, as an obstacle to overcome? We may also see life as a ladder we have to climb, always striving to reach a goal or accomplishment, but never reaching the point when we can stop. Or we may come from another stand-point, that of waiting, never really committing to life.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Finding Yourself

Often in life we find we are not being who we truly are, that we are holding something back, a feeling that we are not fully connected to what we are as a person. It is like we are going through life as someone else, playing a role and not being true to who we really are. Often the truth of who we are escapes us unintentionally and we do not fully understand where or why we lost ourselves.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Guiding Your Child

When we are raising our children we are guiding them through life, giving them advice and teaching them what they need to know. Children follow by example; they watch and listen to everything we do. What habits we have in ourselves can follow them in their lives. How we look at the world can also become their perception of it. That is why how we live our lives affects our child’s life in a way that becomes their own. Of course, each child is an individual, but sometimes in their behavior you can see a mirror of yourself. It is helpful to look at our children this way.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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What Is Acceptance?

To accept something is to let it be as it is, to not fight it, not even the idea of it, internally. It is to be open to what is, however it may be, without resistance. It is the understanding that every moment changes; therefore, what may be now will change. This allows continual acceptance to happen. When we create resistance against ideas, moments, thoughts, feelings, others, or anything at all, we are forcing ourselves into one way of living. It is saying I can only be happy if I approve and accept what is happening or going on around me.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Learning To Forgive

Forgiving someone after they have hurt you is the best and only option you have to release what happened. Forgiving something that happened in your past is also another way to let it go and move on. Forgiveness is a powerful tool that is often left abandoned, for we often choose to instead condemn the past and the people that hurt us by staying mad and angry. When we choose to hold onto anger and resentment instead of forgiving, we create a host of problems for ourselves. We change how we interact, how we perceive the world around us, and how we think and feel.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Reaching Enlightenment

Enlightenment is a jou ey; it is a way of seeking to understand all that is important and the truth of our own being. It is a goal and at the same time a way of existing in the world. It is without trying and without finding, for it is a presence that is already within. Each of us is capable of discovering peace, happiness, and truth, if only we are able to let go long enough to see that we already exist in such a state. We exist in a realm full of creation. So much is going on endlessly around us.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Letting Go Of Your Ideas Of The World

When we let go of our ideas of the world around us, we begin to see what is really there. When we open ourselves up to what is real, we begin to live the life we are really living. Just by setting aside our agendas, expectations, control, and the process we normally live by, we escape the rudimentary existence we have been living in. Life is not only how we see it or believe it to be. Opening up yourself to simply be with what is, without your ideas controlling how you see life, is a remarkable experience, for often we are choosing how to see life.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Being Calm Under Stress

In our day-to-day life, we get over excited, overstimulated, stressed, and overworked, too much of one thing or another, whether it is our frame of mind, our emotional reactions, or something in our outside world affecting us. We all need to learn the techniques that enable us to relax at all times. What this means is we can have the ability to retrain our behaviors so that we can feel better, no matter what is happening or how we are feeling. This is a great tool for all situations, for it is in these times that we overreact, that we feel the most out of whack.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Energy and Being Tired

Having energy in life is about balance. It is about being clear and not being weighed down by thoughts, emotions. It is to let go of struggle and to remain present. Energy in life comes from connecting, from being present, and from being your true self. When we feel low our energy drops; when we are angry our energy plummets. When we seek comfort from within, connect to ourselves, we rise up.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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See Yourself For Who You Are

We all know what it is like to not feel or be fully present with who we really are. Sometimes life seems only just barely manageable, with so much to do and take care of, that we get pulled away from our true self and yet it is our responsibility to and for ourselves to maintain this balance. It is so important to be clear with who we are, not only to better ourselves or become who we are meant to be, but so that we can understand where we are coming from.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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How To Be Present When You Start Your Day

When we wake up in the morning, where do our thoughts go? Do they run to the things we have to do? Are they filled with memories of yesterday and worries for tomorrow? How we think and feel when we wake up has a lot to do with how we will perceive the day. If we can relax our mind in those waking moments, we will give ourselves time to wake up in a more natural way. If we forgo the thoughts of moments passed and those to come, we will remain present as we wake up.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Why You Have To Stop Waiting For Life To Begin

We sometimes go through life in a dream-like state, never really connecting or being who we truly are. It is as if we are waiting for ourselves to begin or for our life to take form. It is this constant waiting that prevents us from taking the center stage in our life. The waiting for the right moment, for things to get better, or change, where does this get us? This kind of dissatisfaction leaves us not only wanting, but distant and not at peace in our own life.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Creating Your Own Happiness

Creating your own happiness is letting go of what is holding it back, for we are all meant to be happy in our lives, living from a place of enjoyment, contentment ,and love. Why then does it feel like sometimes your life is missing this element; why are you without it? It can feel this way and really seem like this is so. But being happy is realizing you can be and that it is a choice. Happiness is not because of something on the outside, it comes from within.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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The Source Of Your Happiness

Awakening the source of your happiness is about letting go of the idea that you are waiting for something or holding yourself back. It is about being present with where you are in life. It is about connecting to your true self and letting yourself be you just as you are. All of these things are interconnected and are important in finding our own happiness in life. Without knowing our true selves, without remaining present and therefore constant in our own life, we are missing what is real. By seeing who we are and where we are meant to be, we unleash our happiness.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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How To Believe In Yourself

When you look at the very core of who you are and ask yourself why you believe you are worth less, what do you hear? What put this in your thoughts originally, and why is it there? For the doubt stems from somewhere, you didn't always believe less of yourself. At one point you created this perception of yourself. Others may have factored into this decision, usually this is how it works, for when others judge us, treat us a certain way, we tend to assume it is valid. This creates an emptiness where our self-worth used to be.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Releasing Old Habits

We all walk through life differently, seeking different options and looking in different directions, but there is one thing we are all the same at and that is how we believe in ourselves plays a huge role in our success as a person. In letting go of old habits we are releasing something that is not only old, but no longer a part of us. It is just a habit that has been formed, a pattern that has been given strength and is no longer serving a purpose. All habits are an occurrence given strength by our previous behaviors.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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How To Tame The Thoughts In Your Mind

Our mind seems to wander on its own, seeming to escape our abilities to tame it. How do we go about harnessing our thoughts and controlling our mind so that we can be present? This is a very good question and one that many have tried to answer. But there is no one answer, for it really comes down to you, not the path others have taken. Very often our own patterns of thought are stuck on a very personal cycle, repeating in patterns only known to us. And this is the essential component in releasing your thoughts and calming your mind.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Looking For Love

During life, we all seek to know someone well enough to feel love and be loved; we seek to connect and be a part of another person's life. When we look for love, sometimes we are looking for a lot more than love itself. We are not just looking for someone to be with, but we are also looking to fulfill everything we need in life. We want understanding, someone by our side; we want companionship, sentiment, and all the desired characteristics we find attractive and need in another person. Love has a big list to fill, or so we think so.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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How and Why To Be Free Of Sadness

Sadness may feel like a part of you that is always there, never letting go, but it is only a state of being and not your true self. So how do you find your way out of it? What can bring you back up and help you to feel happy again? How do you let go of sadness? As crazy as this might seem, any emotion we hold onto and identify with has been a choice we have made. How you see yourself, believe yourself to be, even if it feels out of your control, was at one point a choice.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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How To Achieve Prosperity

We are all meant to exist in a space that is effortless and transparent of need. The drive to excel for monetary gain is false for it will not fill the true need of wellness and satisfaction. Our energy desires for us to be connected to everything, it desires to be fulfilled and engaged, not only with life but from within. True abundance is finding these needs met. Becoming our own true desire, seeing it fulfilled, and at peace with our own actions leads not only to happiness but prosperity in many ways.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Contentment and Money

We often find in life that we are always seeking wealth, that we always need more, that somewhere around the corner we will find the excess we are looking for. There must be more money to be had, more wealth to be made, that we never have enough. Always looking, always seeking for more, leads us to feeling empty. Of course we believe we could all be happy with just a little bit more money. That to be fantastically wealthy would open all the doors we need. But the truth of the matter is that always seeking for this leads to disappointment.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Feel and Be Empowered

Empowerment comes from a place of being present in one's self, of acting from a place that is solely a jou ey of personal truth. To become one's self more so is really to be who you are. Not to act differently to suit the moment, but to come fully into who you are. To be present through all your actions, thoughts, and words. Not to let yourself fall behind so that you will fit in, be liked, or gain something. When we come from a place that allows our true self to come forward, we enact the beginning of our true purpose.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Approaching Someone That You Have A Crush On

When we like someone, we may be afraid to approach them. We may have developed a crush and feelings toward them, but because of our fear of rejection, we haven’t spoken to them about the possibility of getting together. When we really like someone, approaching them feels even hard because they have become something more to us. We may imagine what they would be like or simply feel good when we see them. But how does a person go up to another person and really say what they want to say?

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Being In The Moment

Being in the moment is about releasing everything, the purpose of this being that you then exist with nothing pulling at you. Therefore, there is openness, a clear space to be with no ulterior distractions. No pull forward or backward, but simply being present with where you are. There are many levels to this and even more ways to look at it. But the simplest approach is to be with an open heart and open mind, and then you are free to feel and think where you are.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Why Life Feels Boring

What is boredom? Is it seeing our life as not enough? We may want something else, believe we need something else, in order to be happy and feel fulfilled. But it is also feeling that we are missing something, either missing out on something in life or lacking what it is we need to be happy. It is not about not having enough to do, for most of us have plenty of this. It is this need for more that we rely on in life, for we believe that when we have enough of whatever it may be, then we will feel and be satisfied. Some of us may wonder what it is that we lack, for we may not even know.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Become Enlightened

The true path to happiness in life comes from not only knowing one's self, but seeing clearly all that is around us. We can perceive things as they are in relation to how we feel, how we think, and how we act. To reach a state of pure enjoyment, that flowing feeling of being connected, one must let go of the act of controlling ourselves and surroundings. To see what is real in our present state of being is to transcend the belief that we must alter it first. In judgment, we align our thoughts with how the world must be.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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How To Find Peace During Your Day

In order to find peace, we do not need to escape the moment we are in. We may think that we must have things be a certain way in order to feel peaceful. We may believe peace can only be found during certain types of moments. This is not true. All moments can provide peace to us if we can be with them and allow ourselves to relax. Take this for example, you are driving in your car, anxious to get somewhere, your mind is busy, your body is tense. Is this peaceful? Add to this the traffic jam you just got stuck in. Anxiety builds, tension escalates, and you feel trapped.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Find Peace and Happiness

By existing in a state of continually staying present you will find peace. You will enjoy a tranquil state of happiness because you have let go of the struggle with your past and future. Many of life’s problems can be connected to these moments. How you see your past or what is to come often overrules our existence in the moment we are in. If you were to exist fully in the now of the moment, without clinging to issues of your past or worry for the future, there is nothing but being.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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How To Let Go Of Emotional Stress

During life, we may encounter periods of time where we are under a lot of stress. We tend to hold onto these moments and carry them forward with us. How we felt during that period is also carried forward if we do not let go of it. That is why, even though the moment we are in may seem good, easy, and enjoyable, we may still feel anxious, unsure, and troubled. Letting go of what happened to us, as well as how we felt, is very important in order to feel at ease and confident with where we are.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Why We Think About Our Past So Often

Sometimes we spend a chunk of our lives looking back on what was. We are stuck remembering and holding onto something that is no more. We reflect on old issues, remembering things that have happened and moments that have passed. Why do we do this; why is it so important to us that it, in a way, consumes us? What benefit is there from spending so much time reflecting and remembering? Sometimes it seems like our mind wanders there on its own, without our consent.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Why It Is So Important To Love Yourself

When we speak of love, we think of others and what they mean to us; we think of those we love. We do not, however, delve into what we think of ourselves and if we love the most important person to us, ourselves. Love, when given to ourselves, has the power to erase doubt, self-loathing, discrimination, and any hurtful feelings we may feel. It erases the negative ways we see ourselves, and it also alleviates that feeling that no one cares or that we are alone. For when we love ourselves unconditionally, we are complete; we do not need others to fill this void.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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How To Stay In The Moment

Staying present in life seems harder than it is. It is not about controlling yourself or always reminding yourself to stay present. In fact, it is the release of all of that that makes it possible. When we release ourselves, we can be present. When we let go of our ideas of control over ourselves, we enable ourselves to just be. And when we do this, there is nothing in the way of us just being us. It is the worry, the trying, the controlling, the constant anxiety attached to how we are that keeps us from being us.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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How To Deal With Changes

What happens when our plans are changed or when things are not going our way? How do we deal with these kinds of moments? How do we let go of our plans so that we can shift with the moment in a less stressful way? When things happen that go against what we want, we have to be able to adjust in a way that is not a struggle. What we need to understand is that life itself is not made up of our plans and agendas, nor does it run on a course we have already decided. If life were so, then everything, including ourselves, would always be as we wished.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Letting Go Of Feeling Sad

Where does sadness come from when you don't understand its presence? Why is it there when you see no reason for it? Sadness itself has no control over you; it is not a separate thing. If we imagine sadness itself as something we must get rid of, let go of, or solve, then we are going about it the wrong way. Sadness is there because of something you are holding onto, something that occurred in your past, something that is still with you today. Sadness is simply attachment to something that has happened in your life that you have not yet let go of.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Living Your Dreams

Getting what you want in life is vital to your happiness and success. Fulfilling our desires gives us hope and helps us to strive for more in future endeavors. By accomplishing what we set out to do, we gain the courage to keep on trying and the belief that we can and will keep on succeeding. Attaining your true desires is serving your purpose in life. If your desires truly speak to you and are part of what matters most to you, then seeking out this goal is the best thing for you.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Who You Are On The Inside

We need to know that it is not what we are, but who we are that is important. We may believe that we are a product of our environment, that who we are is created by our surroundings, because we react and then become; this is not so. You can live anywhere, become anything, no matter the circumstances. Who we are fundamentally has nothing to do with the outside world. Inside of ourselves lies the beginning and the end of who we really are. Nothing truly penetrates our core. Not our families, our friends, our work, our dreams, nothing does.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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How To Create Change In Yourself

When you wish you could live your life differently, what is holding you back? If you truly want to change, what is stopping you, why can't you do it? For so many of us, we seem to be blocked by the inability to alter our own behaviors, even when we know we need to. What limits our capability to alter our very own self? We may try and try again, and still never quit accomplish what we set out to do. We give up at some point, forget our resolve, and slide back into what we once were.

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Why Do I Feel Lost?

Do you feel confused about your life or lost? Does your life feel like it has no purpose or plan, that you are just using up time? Do you wonder about when it will get better and when will you start really living your life? When you feel this way there is a reason. All of these thoughts mean something and add up to what is really missing from your life. The difference between someone who is content and someone who feels lost or even distant from their own life is realizing one thing. That thing is what is inside of you.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Choosing Happiness

During life, we may sometimes find ourselves in a slump, experiencing sadness, emptiness, or withdrawal at times when we know our lives should be making us happy. This can be confusing. Why, if all seems as it should be, are we not happy? What is in our way or stopping us from experiencing the happiness we deserve? Sometimes, it is us. Sometimes, we are the ones who have chosen to be unhappy. Why do we do this? Because, at one point in our lives, we may have experienced something that made us think our life was an unhappy place.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Dreams and Destiny

Waking up to your destiny is about finding your path; it is about letting yourself be led by instinct, emotion, feeling, knowledge, and with what feels right. Destiny is not about control or how you see things. Instead, it is about becoming part of where and who you should be; it is not about what you are forcing yourself to be and do. Destiny is a word we use to give meaning to our lives. It is what we are meant for, where we belong in our life.

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Being True To Yourself

Awakening to your true self is like opening up to the truth. It is finding what you are meant for, where you should go, and what to do with your life. It is knowing from within all that matters and what is real. It is your truth that is most evident and that is pouring forth in your day to day life, not with just big decisions, but in all moments of your existence. How do you get there, how do you find what everyone is looking for--your truth, your real self?

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Personal Growth

Personal growth is about reaching a place that is a new you, the real you. It is about releasing parts of you that you no longer need and finding out about who you really are. To achieve any kind of growth is to find what is holding you back and then what you need to do to set it free. Becoming who you are and letting go of what is old is one step. Realizing that you can change is another. We so often hold ourselves back in life because we have accepted who we are.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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Letting Go Of Fear

When we are faced with events or moments in our lives that cause us to fear something it is easy to slip into the role of always behaving this way. If an event or moment were to come along that reminds us of something that came before, something we had a hard time with, it is easy to associate it with the current moment or event. We often look at life as a repeating pattern, especially when it comes to our fears, for that which we fear the most we expect to happen again. Why is it this way, why do we make it so hard on ourselves?

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