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  • video: feeling for healing

    Byheartwideopen October 21, 2017

    UPLIFT CONNECT explores the benefits of embracing our emotions in the short video “Feeling for Healing“

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  • quote: becoming the journey

    Byheartwideopen October 1, 2017

    In the end, she became more than what she expected. She became the journey, and like all journeys, she did not end, she just simply changed directions and kept going. — R.M. Drake

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  • quote: courage

    Byheartwideopen August 17, 2017

    Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor – the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant “To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.” Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds….

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  • article: how to make fear your friend

    Byheartwideopen June 27, 2017

    Simon Yugler writes, “I’d like to fashion myself an advocate of doing things that scare us. In today’s world of guard-rails, antibacterial soap, and well-meaning regulations, there are more precautions set in place to make sure people live comfortable, protected lives than ever before. Yet despite the efforts of mainstream media to convince us otherwise,…

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  • quote: two ways to live

    Byheartwideopen May 7, 2017May 7, 2017

    There are two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle. — Albert Einstein

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  • article: five steps to mindfulness

    Byheartwideopen April 23, 2017

    Thich Nhat Hanh writes, “Our true home is not in the past. Our true home is not in the future. Our true home is in the here and the now. Life is available only in the here and the now, and it is our true home. Mindfulness is the energy that helps us recognize the…

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  • quote: believing in ourselves

    Byheartwideopen November 25, 2016

    Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ― e.e. cummings

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  • article: a step by step guide to managing your energy

    Byheartwideopen September 9, 2016September 11, 2016

    Balancing your Energetic Bank Account Chip Richards writes, “Almost every culture has a word for the unseen energy that breathes life into form. Chinese culture calls this energy qì (or ch’i), Japanese call it ki. What is referred to as prana by Indians, is mana to Hawaiians, lüng in Tibetan Buddhism, ruah in Hebrew and…

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  • quote: relationship

    Byheartwideopen March 10, 2016March 10, 2016

    “You discover yourself, not in isolation, not in withdrawal, but in relationship.” — Krishnamurti

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