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Success

January 30, 2012

How do you measure success?  It seems to mean different things to different people depending on our beliefs and experiences.  Many measure success in terms of money.  I would define success as the ability to fulfill your needs and desires, and that could certainly include money. Here I would like to borrow a quote from [...]

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Creating A Healthy Lifestyle

January 23, 2012

First I would like to share with you information about a great new book that is being launched tomorrow.  It is entitled The 5 Minute Motivator, by Dr. Eric Kaplan.  This book is filled with great stories, wisdom and inspiration and I believe it will help you understand the importance of creating a healthy lifestyle.  [...]

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Wholeness

January 9, 2012

We saw a TV show last night on Oprah’s new network OWN that was most impressive.  It was about Jane Fonda’s life as she described it.  If you missed it, I will give you a brief overview of her story.  She had a very lonely childhood.  She always knew it was dangerous to be around [...]

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Change Your Life

December 5, 2011

Blog by Valerie Lower Unlimited Futures gently challenges us to create the life we want for ourselves. We have to believe, know what we want and focus, yes. But what my husband Gary and I found that makes UF different is that in order to create these wonderful things, we need to strengthen our bodies, [...]

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Stress and Cancer

November 21, 2011

Some time ago I told you about our former daughter-in-law who was recovering from breast cancer.  She has fully recovered and she is going to be writing the next few blogs to share some of her experiences with you. I hope these blogs are enlightening and helpful.  If you would like to talk with Valerie [...]

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The Effects of Stress

November 14, 2011

Let’s look at the effects of stress in several different areas of our lives.  First let’s look at how stress affects our choices and ability to learn. When the nervous system is overstressed the mind is not clear.  Our perception becomes fuzzy.  You have heard of fuzzy thinking referring to people making bad choices.  We [...]

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What Causes Stress?

November 7, 2011

Now that we know what stress is, let’s take a look at what causes it.  Most people in the world today have been overstressing themselves since childhood because we have not understood stress and how it works. Many times children are pushed to do more than they are capable of doing.  We do that to [...]

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What Is Stress

October 31, 2011

Dr. Hans Selye coined the word stress to describe the pressures we experience in our lives and the affect it has on our health and functioning. I had the privilege of meeting Dr. Selye and visiting his lab where he kept all of the little white mice that he was experimenting with at McGill University [...]

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Are You Overstressed?

October 10, 2011

Are you over stressed? Most people are.  Every time we make more demands on our minds and bodies than they can handle, the entire mind/body system becomes stressed. Many people have stressful childhoods and then going to school, studying, working and trying to have a social life is also stressful.  Then it’s time to prove [...]

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Create a Job

September 19, 2011

Are you capable of creating a job for yourself?  Every day on the news we hear about the need to create jobs.  There is certainly no lack of things that need to be done.  Almost anything you can think of needs work, the infer structure, politics, all areas of government, the financial systems, education, health [...]

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