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How Your Beliefs Shape Your Confidence

How much do you like yourself? If I asked you this question, how would you answer? Research has proven that the more you like yourself, the better you will do in life. Liking yourself and believing in yourself are both linked to having better relationships as well as...

Three Surprising Ways to Increase Your Happiness

Last month the World Happiness Report ranked countries on how happy their citizens are. Sadly, in recent years, the USA has been dropping down the list. We fell this year to the 18th spot. Happiness is a skill that we can all work with and develop. We need to start...

Can Money Buy You Happiness?

If you are like me, every Mother’s Day you start thinking beginning in April “ What am I going get for Mom?” My Mom lives in Puerto Rico, so that makes it a little bit of a challenge to try to figure out exactly what to get. “Can I get it shipped? How much is it going...

How Meditation Can Change Your Brain Today

Why are companies like Google and Twitter teaching their employees to meditate? It's because these savvy companies understand how the benefits of meditation can help lead to better business results. Google has been offering a free 'practical real-world meditation'...

7 Tips To Help You Meditate Right Now

Are you someone who wants to meditate, but just can't seem to do it? In the last few years, there's been an explosion of scientific studies on meditation. Most of us are familiar with the positive benefits that meditation could have in our lives, but we struggle to...

5 Tibetan Secrets That Will Boost Your Energy in Minutes

Image By: Wonderlane Recently I watched this beautiful documentary called Lazy Lama. This documentary shows a group of western students that decide to go on a Buddhist retreat. The retreat is for three years, three months and three days. This documentary sparked some...

3 Simple Steps to Achieve Complete Relaxation

Whenever I attend a yoga class at the studio, it always ends with corpse pose or Savasana. It doesn't matter what type of class it is or which teacher, it always finishes with the same pose. Recently one of my yoga teacher's said that it is the most important pose of...

How Matt Damon Helped Me Learn How to Become Fearless

Running is my new passion. The people close to me might say that it’s an obsession. It's hard to believe that all my life I had the preconception that I could not be a runner. I have always loved sports, but throughout my life I never found one that I was able to do,...