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Keeping Calm in Financial Crisis

sophie smith — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:08:16 +0000

The 2008 stock market crash affected the global economy. Financial companies and banks worldwide experienced significant losses. Companies in almost every sector were affected as investors reduced direct investments and people spent less. The collapse also brought about a series of job losses that ultimately affected the real estate and consumer durable markets. Aside from [...]

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Performance Enhancing Drugs and Racing

sophie smith — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:28:28 +0000

In any stressful environment where people are expected and nearly forced towards high goals, substance abuse is a big problem. There is a reason lawyers, by profession, have one of the highest rates of substance abuse, and professional athletes get caught with drugs all the time. When the pressure is on, some people like to [...]

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Higher Power in AA

sophie smith — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 01:17:36 +0000

In all addiction recovery programs, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Gamblers Anonymous (GA), Over-eaters Anonymous (OA), the higher power is perhaps the most important aspect of the recovery program. The first three steps of the Alcoholics Anonymous program read as follows. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become [...]

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Meditation Used at M.D. Anderson to Help Cancer Patients

sophie smith — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:25:24 +0000

Alejandro Chaoul left Argentina in 1996 to come to America and study religion at Rice University. As with most great journeys, Chaoul’s path took an unexpected turn. One day, Chaoul accompanied his father to the world renowned University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (located in Houston, Texas). That’s where he met the brave souls [...]

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Spiritual Approaches to Healing

sophie smith — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 01:04:16 +0000

The connection between the body and the mind is one that has been argued and considered for a very long time. The ancient Greek philosophers considered it as one of the fundamental questions in the nature of the human character. When it comes up again, making its way from the recesses of deep philosophy [...]

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Enlightenment for Free

sophie smith — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:27:02 +0000

It is necessary to get away from everything every once in awhile. This is the basis of the idea of the vacation, where, for at least two weeks out of the year, people who work mainstream jobs get to spend time getting rest and perspective. Rest and perspective certainly do go hand in hand, [...]

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Weekend Road Trips Great to Relieve Stress

sophie smith — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000

One of the best things you can do for your mental health and overall sense of well-being is to leave town. And while that’s a common escape fantasy for many people, to just get in their car, start driving and then just keep going. That’s not exactly the type of getting out of town trip [...]

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How an Alcohol Treatment Center Could Help You

sophie smith — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:33:54 +0000

There are several ways that an alcohol treatment center can help you get your life back, get sober and stay sober. Through different stages of getting your sobriety back, you may find yourself in need of a treatment center. Detox If you have been drinking heavily and regularly for some time, stopping cold turkey can take [...]

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When Buddhism Meets Physics

sophie smith — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000

The revelation that the perceiver affects the perceived was a notion that turned the physical universe into something entirely other, at least in terms of how the thinkers of their time were perceiving that universe. If the one who is seeing is also affecting the thing they are looking at, then there is no objective [...]

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Meditating in Calgary

sophie smith — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:46:28 +0000

Meditation in a cold place is an experience that is impossible to replicate anywhere else. Of course, in the bigger sense, everything that is, is right now and right here. But anyone who’s lived in warm places and cold places has had the experience that only the cold can provide. Calgary does have its temperate [...]

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