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The Dangers of Oversimplicating

The Dangers of Oversimplicating

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The Dangers of Oversimplicating

Do you want to get stuck in life, carry chronic stress, or remain in persistent conflicts?. If so, here’s what to do. Oversimplify things, failing to see the subtleties and complexities. Then, to compensate for your oversimplified view of the...

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Steve BearmanOct 08 A User's Guide to the Mind, Conscious Practices, Free Your Mind Comments Disabled
How To Make Friends With Anyone

How To Make Friends With Anyone

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How To Make Friends With Anyone

Just because you have friends, doesn’t mean you know how to make friends. There is an art to making friends, and not everyone learns it. Fortunately, even if you never learn the art, you can wind up with friends anyway. There are some disadvantages,...

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Steve BearmanJan 22 Conscious Communication, Conscious Practices, How To, Relationships, Unconditional Love Comments Disabled
Getting Good at Getting Rejected

Getting Good at Getting Rejected

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Getting Good at Getting Rejected

Here’s what’s great about getting rejected! Many of life’s most desirable experiences and meaningful relationships come from asking for what you want. If you’re too afraid of getting rejected, you won’t ask for what you...

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Steve BearmanNov 12 Conscious Communication, Conscious Practices, Dealing with Rejection, How To, Relationships Comments Disabled
How to Flirt (with everything)

How to Flirt (with everything)

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How to Flirt (with everything)

I’ve seen you. You always want to connect with people, but you’re not always sure how to do it. Sometimes it just happens. You find that, somehow, one of you has invited the other to play. Without being serious, without anyone trying too...

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Steve BearmanMar 28 Conscious Communication, Conscious Practices, How To, Relationships Comments Disabled
Exercising Will

Exercising Will

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Exercising Will

How’s your strength of will? Without a healthy will, challenges may be impossible to overcome, getting the motivation to start anything new is difficult, and momentum never seems to build.

Will is a developmental resource, and like all...

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Steve BearmanAug 14 Conscious Practices, Growth and Development Comments Disabled

Occupy Your Body

How much of your time do you spend in your body, and how much in your head? In our current cultural climate, it’s easy to live a life of the mind and leave your body behind. Losing your body, however, is just as bad as losing your mind, negatively...

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Steve BearmanJul 01 Conscious Practices, Embodiment Comments Disabled

You Are What You Repeat

What are the things that you do every day, over and over again? Do the things you repeat contribute to you becoming the person you most wish to be? The fabric of your life is composed of these repetitions. Out of what materials are you weaving that...

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The Witness Meditation

If you are committed to ongoing growth and development, you will want to keep developing your capacity to witness. Witnessing makes you capable of many things that are otherwise impossible, but more importantly, it allows your self-knowledge and self-awareness...

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Steve BearmanApr 19 Conscious Practices, Enlightenment, Free Your Mind Comments Disabled
Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

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Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

Feeling uncomfortable can be an integral part of healing, growth, and liberation! In our work on ourselves, and in our work with the people we counsel, when someone starts to get uncomfortable, you know something important is happening. The discomfort...

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Steve BearmanJan 24 Conscious Practices, Counseling Relationships, Free Your Mind Comments Disabled
How to Sleep

How to Sleep

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How to Sleep

Once upon a time, on the nights when my wife had trouble sleeping, she would close her eyes, lie on her back, and say, “teach me how to sleep.” In my best lulling voice, I would give her these basic instructions:

“Close your eyes, and...

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Steve BearmanNov 07 Conscious Practices, How To Comments Disabled

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