Cultivate Life! Magazine #38
This issue contains:
Quotes of the Week:—Albert Einstein"
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole
heart."
—Pearl S. Buck"
If you start to think the problem is 'out there,' stop yourself. That
thought is the problem."
—Stephen Covey"
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumedHappiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love,
grace, and gratitude."
—Denis Waitley
Feature Articles:
Lori Radun,
Things I've Learned about Parenting
While my lessons are invariably different than the parenting lessons you've received, I thought I would share five lessons that have become clear to me over the years. You will never be finished learning about parenting
Read More...
Jahiel Yasha
Kamhi, Is Genetics our Destiny, —or Not?
Recently, I was talking to an angry parent. He was upset with his
son’s behaviour, his marks in school and his lack of desire to achieve
any goal. “I don’t blame my son, but I blame my family’s ‘bad genes’. My
son is like my father
Read More...
Cultivate Life Weekly Writers:
We may deny that we value our aches, but on the other hand, we think about them all the time. We have yet to recognize the fact that our thinking about any painful event as something real, solid and unavoidable is one of the conditions that perpetuate it
Read More...
Chuck Gallozzi, To Bear Misfortune Is to
Overcome It
We may not agree with everything that happens in life, but what
should we do when we are embroiled in events that we would not
willingly choose? Should we fight them or accept them as the inevitable
cost of being alive? Ah, that is the question!
Read More...
Beca Lewis, Choosing The Filter
My daughter asked, “Didn’t you get my email?” That’s
when I realized that I hadn’t been receiving my main email account for
over a week. This
meant that for at least 7 days I didn’t notice that emails that come
every day had not arrived, that people who usually write to me weren’t,
and that I wasn’t receiving notices of orders from our websites
Read More...
Steve Wickham, Changing
Moods by Addressing Triggers
Moods are states that seem quite mysterious and what leads to them
cannot always be consciously known. But the truth is moods are so often
propagated via a trigger or triggers
Read More...
Cultivate Health:
Carrot juice contains many healthful benefits. Carrot juice is widely used in the diet. Carrot juice is very effective for the health and contains the body essential vitamins. Now a day carrot is used as treatment for the specific diseases
Read More...
Sarah,
Improve Asthma
Asthma is common condition that affects thousands of people all
over the world. There is no cure for asthma but there are definite ways
to improve your quality of life. Living with asthma can be easy as long
as you can figure out what triggers your asthma attacks and how to
avoid these triggers
Read More...
Cultivate Meditation:
They say “practice makes perfect.” When it comes to meditation however, the rule doesn’t apply. “After twenty years,” warned a Zen master, “you can finally say you’ve begun to learn how to sit.” Practice skill in meditation (and its associated benefit) is slow to develop. Indeed, you can get even less effective with practice!
Read More...
Hai Liang Tan, Let's Meditate!
The mention of meditation usually brings to mind an old sage
sitting crossed-legged in a cave. You don't have to be old or go to a
cave to practise meditation. In fact, meditation is something that
everyone can learn and practise in our daily life so that our mind is
calm and free from worries
Read More...
Kip Mazuy, How To Meditate Yourself To
Bliss In 6 Easy Steps
As you may already know, meditation has been proven to be one of
the most effective ways to experience inner peace and happiness and
dramatically improve every aspect of your life. So it can truly be a
life changing event to learn how to meditate
Read More...
Cultivate Life Extras:
Stuff, stuff and more stuff. How are you going to deal with all that stuff? Somewhere within the deep recesses of your brain, you know what you should be doing. Create categories for your stuff by deciding what to keep, what to toss, what to file, what to organize, what to put back in its place
Read More...
Alan Zimmerman, How to Get People to Work Hard Together
The true measure of a leader is not getting people to work; neither is it getting them to work hard. The true measure of a leader is getting people to work hard TOGETHER!
Read More...
Joyce Shafer, A New Way to View Goals
and Desired Outcomes
Goals and desired outcomes seem to come in two flavors:
the
ones easier to achieve and the ones we struggle with. There’s a word
you can apply to both that can shift the quality of your experiences
and take some of the “charge” out of struggle
Read More...
Maurice Turmel, Atlantis Rising Spirit
Atlantis provides the fundamental framework for where we are today
versus where we are going in terms of our spiritual quest. We are
leaving Old Atlantis behind, that is its second phase that morphed into
greed, competition and annihilation of others who were not like us at
the time
Read More...
Louis Daintree, Zen Games
Zen Games is an innovative new way to bring your mind to higher
states of consciousness. It is no secret that perceiving a world
without the filters we put up by living in everyday reality can stop us
from experiencing the great beauty of true nature
Read More...
Karla Brandau, I Heard It Through the
Grapevine
When you hear the words, "I heard it through the grapevine," do you
sing along with Gladys Knight and the Pips? Or Marvin Gaye? Both
recorded the song originally produced by Smokey Robinson and the
Miracles. Each put their own twist and sound on the music written by
Norman Whitfield and Barry Strong
Read More...
100 Words, Peter Russell plus
From The Shelf
Peter Russell, MA, DCS, is the author of ten books and producer of
two awardwinning videos. His work integrates Eastern and Western
understandings of the mind, exploring their relevance to the world
today and to humanity’s future
Read More...
Cultivate Life Partworks:
By now you have learned that you don't "need" the support of others in order to walk upon your own path. In fact, there are often times when you will encounter resistance as you move forward in your own direction. Sometimes your growth is threatening to others
Read More...
A Course In Miracles, Lesson 29 plus
Commentary by Allen Watson
The idea for today explains why you can see all purpose in
everything. It explains why nothing is separate, by itself or in
itself. And it explains why nothing you see means anything. In fact, it
explains every idea we have used thus far, and all subsequent ones as
well. Today's idea is the whole basis for vision
Read More...
Video of the Week:.