It’s Not a Feeling

“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.” ~Iris Murdoch

Most of us share a common mis-perception about happiness. We expect to identify it through how we feel rather than viewing it as the perceptual frame of reference that it is. Oddly you could be quite happy at a work task and not feel happy at the moment...

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Prostate Cancer Healing with Rabbi Ed Weinsberg

Prostate cancer is the leading cancer among men world wide effecting over 700,000 men annually. It is also a leading cause of sexual dysfunction for men and their partners. Listen as Rabbi Ed Weinsberg shares his own journey of healing and explores the wide capacity for intimacy that this illness generates. If you know someone who is facing the life changing impacts of illness, this show will...

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Life That Works: A Positive Adult Experience

On my way home from the adult entertainment trade show, my positivity was not only intact, but improved. I haven’t attended this tradeshow in the last five years, focusing my marketing efforts on educating the natural and medical markets about the importance of healthy and clean intimacy products, as well as clarifying the steps for a healthy libido to thrive.

Five years ago, before all the free...

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Deep Fun with Bernie DeKoven

Start the year off with increasing the fun, Deep Fun in fact with our guest, Bernie DeKoven a certified Fun Coach.   He has spent his life understanding the nature of play and creating opportunities for the Well Played Gameto transform your relationship to love and life. There is a great deal to be learned about how we can live more satisfying lives by introducing and sustaining more fun in them....

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Life That Works: Sustained Focus

Although this is the day of new beginnings for me it is also a point of reflection about how to sustain the positive changes that have begun to reinvent my life. Years ago when I was 20-something I lived in France and memorized the fifty principles of miracles that make up the first several pages in the Course in Miracles. One of my good friends and I learned them all and had to keep repeating...

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On Being A Loner with Anneli Rufus

Discover the truth about all the people in your life who prefer their own company to a crowd of friends.  Anneli Rufus author of the  Party of One: the Loner’s Manifestodispels the negative associations and myths of not being social. Dive deep with us as we discuss the ways that we get stuck in life and the simple, but not necessarily easy fixes to creating a life that is responsive and open to...

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Day 363: Choosing Courage

“Courage is a kind of salvation.” -Plato

Years ago I gave my son a children’s book about courage that illustrated the many small ways that we learn to find courage as we grow up. Everything from standing up and giving a speech in front of the class to saying goodbye to a close friend who is moving away. Starting new schools, new jobs, or new habits all take courage.

Endings take courage too. At...

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Day 362: The Power of Intention

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” -Mary Anne Radmacher

I never had babies that slept. My second child was awake every night for two years. I was so exhausted by the time the third and fourth babies arrived that as...

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Day 360: Intention and Goals

“In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.”  -Victor Cousins

One of the most important practices that I have established during my year of the positivity quest is my daily meditation when I practice Sankalpa. The practice of Sankalpa, which means intention or resolve, is derived from an esoteric Himalayan yogic science, which was known and practiced 5000 years ago....

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