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Are Good Intentions the Road to Hell?

Jonathan — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 22:40:41 +0000

Are Good Intentions the Road to Hell? No doubt you’ve heard the saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. This is usually explained as being about the difference between what someone intends and what they actually do. In other words people can sometimes have what they think are the best intentions,

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What’s Wrong With Me?

Jonathan — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 13:32:38 +0000

What’s Wrong With Me? How often have you asked yourself, “what’s wrong with me?” Nearly everyone can point to reasons to conclude this. From messing up relationships, having accidents, having uncontrollable emotions, making damaging decisions, or just plain inabilities to succeed in health and financial goals. Maybe you’ve thought you were just not born into

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Panic Attacks & Anxiety Attacks How to Soothe Them

Jonathan — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 20:01:30 +0000

Panic Attacks & Anxiety Attacks and How to Soothe Them Panic attacks are a special form of anxiety that can appear quite differently from person to person! Because the symptoms can vary so widely, you may not recognize whether or not you’re actually having panic attacks. Common Symptoms of Panic Attacks While severity and types

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How You Can Stop Futility and Being Helpless

Jonathan — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 18:18:30 +0000

How You Can Stop Feeling Futility and Being Helpless You’ve undoubtedly felt futility and helpless numerous times in your life as pressures and stress overwhelmed you. Feeling futility and helpless is depressing; it envelopes you in a cloud of despair. When faced with obstacles and adversity, it’s easy to give into feelings of futility. If

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The Christmas Story You Haven’t Heard

Jonathan — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 17:33:22 +0000

The Christmas Story You Haven’t Heard by Jonathan Parker It is fascinating how we grow up accepting certain beliefs, usually without questioning them, only to later discover that somebody just made them up. I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I believed in Santa until I was 8. Talk about being niave. Well, this actually served

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Solutions to Feeling Lonely

Jonathan — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 22:48:01 +0000

Solutions to Feeling Lonely & Alone What do you do when you are feeling alone and lonely? Have you ever been surrounded by people and observed how they seem to be having fun, and yet you feel left out? You’d like to feel like you fit in but you don’t know the solution to feeling

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How to Clear Examples of Your Core Beliefs

Jonathan — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 19:22:35 +0000

How to Clear Examples of Your Core Beliefs It’s natural for you to want your spiritual path to be fun and inspiring, and, of course, sometimes it is. However, at other times you also have struggles, anger, anxiety, and futility. Just when you were hoping you had a handle on your life, some troublesome situation raises its

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How to Live in Serenity Automatically

Jonathan — Sat, 02 May 2020 20:42:33 +0000

Serenity means you feel peaceful, calm, tranquil, and at ease especially when there is turmoil going on around you, Everybody wants to live in serenity and inner peace but few actually understand how. I was with a group of about 50 people at a retreat and asked them what they wanted the most. I know

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How to Stop Overreacting And Calm Yourself

Jonathan — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 20:57:06 +0000

How to stop overreacting and calm yourself is one of the most important skills you can have. Maybe you’ve found yourself overreacting to things that happen almost everyday. For instance… 1. If someone cuts you off on the freeway you spontaneously get so angry you honk your horn and shout at them (even though they

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3 Steps to Clear Away Struggles

Jonathan — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 19:34:32 +0000

Struggles? Why Does Your Life Have Struggles? Everyone has had to struggle with something. Struggles come from striving to overcome obstacles or attempts to fix a condition. The question is why does your life have struggles? Is there some cosmic force making it happen? And, most importantly how can you clear the struggles away? You

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Do You Have Toxic Relationships?

Jonathan — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 20:53:44 +0000

It’s hard to avoid toxic relationships when you consider that more than 30% of the population has serious emotional issues. I’m talking about such reactions as anxiety, anger, depression, self-doubt, moodiness, loneliness, obsessive thoughts, fears, envy, guilt, jealousy, and the like. Of course, most people experience those symptoms from time to time, but 1 out

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The Subconscious Mind is a Force Controlling You

Jonathan — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 02:00:54 +0000

The Subconscious Mind is a Force Controlling You! I was trying to explain to a man that the subconscious mind is a force controlling him. He was upset with his life and much of what was causing him problems was clearly due to his unconscious programming blocking him. I said, “In some ways the subconscious

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Learning Self-Love is How You Deepen Love

Jonathan — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 20:23:56 +0000

Learning Self-Love is How You Deepen Love…Start with Self-Love! That is what opens the doors to your spiritual growth. All spiritual teachers say love is the way but have you ever wondered why or how it works? One reason love is confusing to understand is there are many forms of love and many levels of

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Is An Energy Vampire Draining You?

Jonathan — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 21:39:05 +0000

Have You Wondered if an Energy Vampire is Draining You? Have you ever felt completely drained, depleted, and exhausted after being around a particular person? If so, you may have come across an energy vampire. And they’re more common than you think. What is an Energy Vampire? An energy vampire is a person who feeds

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Help! My Inner Child Hurts

Jonathan — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 23:34:27 +0000

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How to Heal Your Inner Child

Jonathan — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 23:14:59 +0000

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How to Let Go of What’s Troubling You – Part 4

Jonathan — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:46:48 +0000

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Finding Peace of Mind in a Busy World

Jonathan — Mon, 28 May 2012 17:07:55 +0000

In today’s fast-paced world filled with chaos, stress, and too much to do, finding peace can sometimes seem impossible. Have you ever noticed that on days that are packed with obligations, friction with people in your life, and the challenging surprises you are left with feeling cranky, edgy, and powerless? In some cases, it can

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In Search of Inner Peace

Jonathan — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:11:23 +0000

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Happiness Is a State of Being

Jonathan — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:47:20 +0000

Why does a bird sing? I suppose you could say the miniaturized computer in its genes and brain evolved the need to sing for a mate, or to stake out its territory, or to warn competitors away, but the bird today isn’t thinking about any of that, it is just singing. Singing perhaps because it

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