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Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.

Bill Crawford

True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.
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Magic Potters Use
Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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Energy Shame Spurs Worry
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
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Coal Fire Hot
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
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Order Pain Painful Past Serve
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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Constantly Mean Mind Past
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
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Creating Meaningful Past
A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
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Meaningful Skills Want
Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
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Awareness Expectations Keys
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Care Caring Selfish
To spank or not to spank isn’t the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?
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Kids Quality Teaching

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