I choose to find the empowering meaning in every circumstance

I choose to find the empowering meaning in every circumstance. I get to decide what things mean in my life.   Life expands as I find the empowering meaning.

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How The Brain Works During The Two Main Types of Meditation

nondirective meditation allows for more room to process memories and emotions than during concentrated meditation.” “This area of the brain has its highest activity when we rest. It represents a kind of basic operating system, a resting network that takes over when external tasks do not require our attention. It is remarkable that a mental task like nondirective meditation results in even higher activity in this network than regular rest.

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We continue to outgrow the sundry unhealthy and insipid activities that usurp the name of recovery

 

, so that we discover a mature, abundantly fruitful spirituality as we move out of the kindergarden. It’s time for us to grow up, to genuinely lead lives of integrity, goodness, kindness and other virtues of excellence.

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Recovery is a safe place to be until that safety becomes restrictive

 

–if it does–it’s different for all of us. If it becomes restrictive to what feels to you like a more true spiritual path, then it might be time to do something different.

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Everyone has heard about karma

 

Everyone has heard about karma; some of us even venture to think we know what it means. We don’t. Karma is, like the Universe, like life, more complex and grand than our human minds can ever comprehend. Karma, in Buddhist terms, is defined as the impact of your past imprinting on your present and your future. I may not be able to completely understand karma, but I do know what it isn’t.

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Fasting activates your body's 'survival' mode, boosting your immune system

"With a system heavily damaged by chemotherapy or ageing, fasting cycles can generate, literally, a new immune system."

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