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The new law in Israel prohibiting smoking in public areas and restaurants means one step closer to cleaner, greener living, right?

Not exactly, walk by any coffee shop in Tel Aviv and the first thing you will notice are dozens of cigarette butts surrounding the area.

Why is this happening? Restaurant owners are prohibiting smoking anywhere on restaurant property (including tables outside) and requesting that their customers smoke just outside the property line before returning to their tables.

The result? City sidewalks and curbs are turning into heavily littered personal ashtrays.

“Yeah, but what could I possible do about it?”

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Beliefs are formed and adopted by recognizing patterns through a series of events, even if the events have nothing to do with our own personal experience. Why is this important? Everything we experience in our lives is centered on our beliefs about life.

All beliefs effect experience, yet not all beliefs are part of our reality. There are main beliefs and core beliefs. Main beliefs are the beliefs we have about life that match our reality. These are the beliefs that are developed through observing our everyday life and determining that life is this way because we perceive it to be. Having a core belief means believing in something even though we do not experience it as reality in our everyday lives.

You might say main beliefs are the strongest since they are the beliefs that effect our lives on a continuous basis, but core beliefs are strong too since you can have a core belief all your life and never experience it as reality because you have too many main beliefs blocking your core belief.

For example, one of my core beliefs is that anyone can make a living doing what they passionately love, yet I did not always experience this as my reality because I was perceiving/ experiencing life with main limiting beliefs, I did not understand the relationship between consciousness verse reality, and I did not live my passion as a career from moment to moment…

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I am writing this to the woman who wants it all.  I am all about wanting it all.  I dream big, I aim (really) high, I think whoever thinks I have delusions of grandeur apparently doesn’t know me well enough, and I sip from a glass that’s half-full. 

It’s wonderful, really. 

What ISN’T wonderful is the insane amount of stress that can come from having to multi-task and drudge through a way too busy day.  Stress is like quicksand right at the very center of your dreams.  You add to, tweak, or create new dreams and goals and while you are trying to move forward with all of your plans, the quicksand sucks you and your strength away as you try to forge on!  The less strength you have, the less you are able to manage.   Regardless of what success is for you, effort and energy is required to make the engine of your dreamboat purr.  If you want to be  super-mom, a straight-A student, a star at work, handy-sans-the-man,  or (eek) everything at once–

You’re going to need a system. 

If You Can’t Think Straight, Don’t.

Gifting yourself a few minutes in the midst of all the mind clutter can be the best thing you can do for your day.  Sometimes all the external stimulation, rushing, and chronic anxiety undermines your efforts instead of contributing to your productivity.  So, as a major fan of Me Time, I suggest that you take some to regroup and energize yourself.  Find a quiet area away from all distractions (even if it’s a bathroom stall at work) and take five.  Close your eyes and still the currents of thoughts in your mind.  In this moment, your only job is to drain it all away.  Relax every tense muscle in your body.  Not only will catching your breath energize you, it will help bring clarity to your thoughts.  That clarity will come a better ability to manage your tasks…

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A common “suggestion/implied obligation” encountered in one’s spiritual study is to “overcome the ego.” The idea seems to be that one should subdue, train, or even eliminate the ego. As a tool to avoid misidentifying myself as only ego, it has often been suggested to me to consider “the watcher” that remains outside the psychodrama of any moment of my mind or life—a marker to bring my awareness to the true, higher self.

I, however, would suggest that as long as there is a “watcher,” there is ego. Coming to awareness of the watcher merely brings my attention from one level of ego to another. Perhaps the nature of this next level of ego is something the (egoic) mind would consider less objectionable, but it is still ego. Does the Tao ‘watch’ the unfolding of its infinite manifestations? Does it care? Caring and watching (more “considering what we see”, in this context) is an anthropomorphic—human-like—characteristic. ‘Human’ is by definition ‘self-aware.’ Self-awareness is interdependent with—the soil of—ego.

I am by no means in disagreement with this long-established practice—focusing on “who is watching”—to pull oneself from the mire of immediate obsession. Nor do I question the benefit of this method. I have already suggested that we might better define where our attention has arrived when considering this watcher, and I would also suggest we reconsider our intention of subduing, training, or (especially) eliminating the ego…

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There are two traps in happiness.The first trap is deciding to make a tiny change when a big change is needed. If you hate your job, figuring out a way to stop working on the weekends isn’t going to solve the underlying problem.

The second trap – and I think the more common trap – is believing that a small change won’t make a difference, that only radical change can make you happier.

I’m constantly amazed by the big boost in happiness I get from small changes. Sometimes, though, it can be hard to identify the places where a small improvement could yield big happiness benefits.

So try these two steps if you feel like you need a happiness lift…

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…..fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives.

If the line above sounds familiar, it’s primarily because it’s a line from the movie, V for Vendetta. (I love that movie, and think its in a class of its own) Let me first say, that the line is more politically inclined.

So what does that have to do with the Law of Attraction? Well, in an odd way of looking, quite a bit really. And hopefully once you’re done with this, I would have conveyed that message that isn’t said in the countless millions of posts that has talked on the ominous Law of Attration.

We’ll start at the beginning….my beginning

For a while now, I’ve been listening Michael Losiers – Law of Attraction audio book. My personal feeling in regard to Losier is one – the guy is sheer Genius.

Oh no wait, I meant “Marketing Genius”. And it ends there.

He took a topic, broke it down into simple lay man English, added a book and Bam, he’s added a bestseller to his credit. I’m still wondering why I didn’t think of it first.

But it was one portion of his audio that clicked some of the pieces for me – his “What do you want” method. Losier’s approach is first determine what you don’t want, move away from it and ask yourself “What do you want” (If you’re wondering, I can hear the voice in my head as I type this)

Now, this was in fact the message was said on The Secret as well, only not very clear. In fact, it was so befuddled, the message was either intentionally obscured or somehow lost.

And that message is – Attraction is a perspective.

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So first of all, Happy New Years to everyone! One can hope that 2008 will be a better year for everyone with a fresh new start.

If you haven’t already thought about a New Years Resolution, may I suggest that you try to bolster your eco-bling by using re-usable bags at the grocery store or at the market instead of using paper or plastic. Its a great way to help out and I think theres nothing cooler than seeing people use these instead of the traditional bags.

To enter the contest is simple, you have to sign up for the email subscription on the original site and confirm the subscription by checking your email inbox and selecting the link that says confirm subscription. Once you have confirmed, your email will be entered into the contest and 3 winners will be selected at random for a PaperNorPlastic re-usable bag…

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