The Healing Power of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born By Robert Schwartz In his groundbreaking first book, Your Soul’s Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born, Robert Schwartz brought the idea of pre-birth planning into the mainstream. Now, his brilliant sequel Your Soul’s Gift: The [...]
Tag: personal development
Do You Need a Bigger Hammer?
by Cristina Smith Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping. ~ Neal Maxwell The question most associated with a hammer is whether you are the hammer or the nail. That question is a good one in many circumstances. It is often a metaphor [...]
Important Motivation Tips for Early Morning Workouts
by Maria Khalifé Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. ~Plato I don’t believe there is a human being alive today who isn’t interested in maintaining a healthy, shapely physique, but one of the areas where all of us struggle [...]
How To Attract Success
by Maria Khalifé “Work your fingers to the bone and whadda ya get? Boney fingers!” ~ Hoyt Axton I was torn between Hoyt Axton’s song lyrics above and this saying of Lewis Carroll: “The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.” So I thought I’d share both of them with you because together, they convey [...]
Choosing Mental Freedom
By Maria Khalifé How would you define mental freedom? What does it feel like? What would it take to live your life with mental freedom as your foundation? Do you know what it takes to achieve such self-mastery? If you have not defined what mental freedom means to you, how it feels, what it’s like [...]
Success – It’s All A Matter Of Mindset!
by Maria Khalife “The way we see the problem is the problem.” ~ Stephen R. Covey Each one of us has an internal monitor which keeps track of what is going on in our lives at all times. It functions like a judge, a courthouse consultant, and a jury. But sometimes, the interpretation of events [...]
The Challenges of Parenting Teenagers
By Maria Khalifé The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. ~Quentin Crisp Parenting teenagers can be particularly challenging for a parent. On the one hand, you have years and years of cherished [...]
9 Handy Tips for Curbing Your Appetite
by Maria Khalife A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Our appetites come from an inner urge that tells us to enjoy. Food brings enjoyment. So do lots of other things, but in our world today, food seems to have ascended to the priority when it comes to [...]
Choosing the Best Career Path for You
By Maria Khalifé The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which once realized makes all movements full of meaning and joy. But if we detach its movements from that ultimate idea, if we do not see the infinite rest and only see the infinite motion, then existence appears [...]
Foundations
By Kathy Custren What is the first impression that comes to mind when you encounter the word, “foundation?” Does your mind go to the money side of things, such as a trust that provides funds for an enterprise? If you are a woman, maybe make-up comes to mind. Or does your mind take a different turn, [...]
Navigating Your Life to Success through Modern Spirituality
Program Review Taught by Laura Schwalm-Anthony Monday, March 5, 2012 6:30PM – 9:30PM Laura Schwalm-Anthony’s seminar in modern spirituality facilitates the achievement of Conscious Awareness through full-body Consciousness. She highlights universal and cosmic laws, explaining how the laws of the Universe can create security, stability and anchor in life. The result is conscious navigation of [...]
Controlling the Chemistry of Emotional Eating
by Maria Khalifé There was a time in our civilization when eating was done only for survival. In our times, eating is so plentiful that it’s led to eating inappropriately, called emotional eating because we are angry, bored, stressed, frustrated, down in the dumps, watching TV, too busy, and not busy enough, getting together with [...]
Controlling Personalities
By Maria Khalifé There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so. ~ Wm. Shakespeare When you understand that life is one of the most luscious learning experiences, that all you experience comes from how you think, that you can improve the level of what you think about and improve this experience, at [...]
Becoming an Extraordinary You
by Maria Khalife “Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul”. ~ Flavia If you want to become an extraordinary “you,” you’ll need a solid foundation of understanding the basics of what life is all about. Put yourself out there first. Don’t care what anyone [...]

































