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Check Off Your Own Kind of 'Bucket List' The 5 Wishes Way
How to make your own kind of 'Bucket List' using Gay Hendricks' Five Wishes process. Make your life more fulfilling, peaceful and meaningful now.

How to Get Comfortable in Uncomfortable Situations
I'll bet there is something you'd like to do that you've been putting off for a long time. Whatever it is, I'll also bet that a fear of awkwardness is one of the main things holding you back.

Deepak Chopra Explains How Spirituality Can Be Funny
In this refreshing new take on spirituality, bestselling author Deepak Chopra uses a fictional tale of a comedian and his unlikely mentor to show us a path back to hope, joy, and even enlightenment—with a lot of laughter along the way.

Why Is God Laughing?
Is reality what we think it is? After all, rocks are solid, air sustains life, and the planet revolves on its axis. Yet these facts are not what the word illusion refers to.

How to Use Your Strengths and Weaknesses to Achieve Success
When we were young, we were taught ro Identify our weaknesses, then go to work to strengthen them so we'll become a well-rounded person. We think that’s a colossal waste of time.

What Is Intention?
It all begins with intention. Intention is higher-consciousness thought. In other words, it’s using the mind for a higher purpose—higher, meaning that you are not limiting yourself to certain outcomes or procedures.

How to Become a Mindful Parent
I’m constantly seeking the balance between work, family and my inner life. During my search I discovered that life is here to teach us as we go along, and parenting is just one very special course—with no textbook.

Kabbalah Secrets for a More Fulfilling Relationship
Why are men and women so different? Kabbalah answers this question from a spiritual standpoint, and in the answer lies the key to loving, worthwhile relationships.

Calm Mom: 5 Ways to Be a Present Parent
Composed mothering isn’t out of reach for you, say mindful mothering experts and moms who are borrowing techniques from practices like yoga and meditation to boost their calm-mom powers. Try these five tips and make being a calm mom look like child’s play.

Do You Know Where You're Going To?
On my way home the other morning, I stopped at an intersection and asked myself which way I should go. I swear, the right side of my body started tingling as if someone had plugged my toe into a socket.

Everything I Need to Know About Mindfulness I Learned From Dolly Parton
There are some days when I sit down to meditate and I slip right into following my breath. These days are rare. Most days, my mind is babbling away.

Avoid the Traps of Unconscious Loving
Are you creating misunderstanding, hurt and conflict in your most cherished relationships — without even knowing it?

Deepak Chopra Shares The Happiness Prescription
When it comes to mind-body health, spirituality and peace, Deepak Chopra has long been acknowledged as one of the world’s experts. Now he has turned his attention toward happiness.

Meditation 101: Techniques, Benefits & Beginner’s How-to
Meditation is an approach to training the mind, similar to the way that fitness is an approach to training the body. Here is an introduction to the styles and benefits of regular practice.

Joan Borysenko Talks About Being Open to Spiritual Guidance
Integrative medicine pioneer and renowned mind-body connection expert Joan Borysenko talks about opening up to spiritual guidance.

Why Good People Do Bad Things
Author and psychologist Debbie Ford explains how and why embracing your dark side can help keep you from doing something rash that damages the life you work so hard to create.

Eckhart Tolle's Advice For Waking Up and Living Your Best Life
An excerpt from Eckhart Tolle’s "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose," an Oprah’s Book Club selection and webcast event. For many who may not even have realized it, the process of awakening has already begun.

10 Ways To Nurture Greatness In Your Child
Great kids are emotionally and intellectually healthy people. Great doesn't refer to a specific temperamental quality, such as boldness; nor does it depend on athletic skills or on musical or mathematical or artistic talent. Great kids come in all varieties. And, given the right nurturing and encouragement, all kids can be great kids.

How I Stay So Happy: Q&A with Patricia Moreno
What keeps this powerhouse personal trainer so darned joyful — and how the rest of us can get our hands on whatever she eats for breakfast.

Stand By Your Mantra for a New Attitude
How to get started using mantras, how to choose a mantra, insight on the origin of mantras and their power for better well-being, and tips on using mantras to help with anything you're struggling with.

Utopian Intentional Community Has Thrived for 30 Years
A tour of the intentional community Damanhur, a 'social experiment' whose local economy, utopian values, and environmental sustainability have worked for 30 years.

Why Meditate? Science Finds Clues
Researchers are finding exciting evidence of meditation’s effects on the brain -- new clues to why it can help calm emotions, sharpen reasoning and even make you healthier.

Marianne Williamson Talks About Inner and Outer Peace
If you’re learning ways to find inner peace, are you really helping create world peace? Q&A with best-selling author and peace activist Marianne Williamson on what “being peace” looks like.

The Truth About Happiness: Q&A with Michael Beckwith
Michael Beckwith answers our top questions on the keys to becoming truly happy, based on the advice he shares as an expert featured in "‘The Secret’" and "‘Living Luminaries."

4 Ways to Tap Into Your Intuition
Tips and techniques from experts on cultivating, tapping into, and trusting your intuition to help you make decisions -- in your personal life and even in business scenarios.

How to Break Through Toxic Emotions
Life coaching expert and author Debbie Ford helps you identify which of the 11 emotions are most impacting your life — and shows you important steps to breaking free of them.

15 Easy Ways to Be Healthier
A doctor, nutritionist and fitness trainer each recommend their top five changes they recommend in diet, exercise and stress management to improve your health without a big lifestyle change.

3 Steps to Being ‘Happy for No Reason’
Chicken Soup for the Soul co-author Marci Shimoff, a featured expert in ‘The Secret,’ shares tips from her new book ‘Happy for No Reason.’

How to Be Green in the Afterlife
Death these days is bad news for the environment. Although you can't stop the steady march of time, you can ensure that your passing does not take such a toll on the earth by informing your loved ones to provide you with a green burial.

Creating a Sacred Space at Home
Create a special place for meditation, rituals, reflection and just renewing your spirit. These 15 tips will help you use candles, statues, sculptures, lighting, altars, cushions, furniture and more to express your spirituality and connect with what's meaningful to you.

Mariel Hemingway: Front and Centered
Finding peace wasn't always easy for Mariel Hemingway. In her book Finding My Balance, Mariel narrates a life story filled with painful memories compounded by a career that puts incredible pressure on women to look a certain way. But through yoga, Mariel was able to firmly plant her feet.

Organic Farming Changes Everything: Part 2, Escaping the Chemicals
The local ecosystem and the religious beliefs of a community of cotton farming families in rural India called for unique solutions to some universal agricultural challenges. Organic farming methods proved to be the solution on all counts.

Rodney Yee Says "Be Quiet": Q&A on Meditation
The yoga and meditation expert on why it's not enough to "be present" in everyday life, how you can respond vs. react in challenging situations, and why this is one of the most important skills a regular meditation practice can help you learn.

Finding Spirit: Q&A with the Body Prayer Diva
America has embraced Seane Corn, the yoga teacher known for her unapologetic spiritual bent. What are they connecting with in her message? An intimate and candid interview with one of America's most sought-after yoga teachers.

Oh, Goddess! Is feminine divinity what's missing in your spiritual life?
Why honoring a goddess shatters female stereotypes and reveals creative, nurturing and intuitive elements of the divine -- filling a void in the lives of many modern spiritual seekers.

How to De-Stress in 1 Minute
Life running you ragged? Schedule too packed for you to breathe? Learn how to take short, 60-second mini-meditations to clear your mind and quickly reduce stress and release tension when the pressure is on.

Travel as Meditation: Journey to Renewal
This time last year, I heard the call. I finished a challenging project, put my things in storage, and embarked on what I could only call a walkabout. I planned to be gone for a couple of months, yet I could not see myself returning. Being present in travel means opening yourself to what surrounds you -- immersion.


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Patricia Walden's Sacred Experience
How Patricia Walden finds in every Yoga session exactly what she was drawn to.

Did Organic Agriculture Save This Community?
Chemical costs, health issues, dwindling crop yields and spiritual conflicts with pesticide use were threatening welfare and quality of life in this farming community in India. We talked with these soulful, hardworking people on why organic works.

When Will Yoga Transform You? Patricia Walden's Advice
Yoga expert Patricia Walden on when you can expect to feel a change for the better brewing if you practice yoga.

The Greatest Spiritual Teachers May Be Closer Than You Think
Yogi Nicki Doane recalls a great influencer of her sense of spirituality -- her grandmother. This story about the power of faith is a reminder about the value of welcoming a tapestry of different belief systems into your circle.

Rodney Yee: Make Peace Your Way
Got to get more peace in your life? When we ask Rodney Yee to share and talk about the thought leaders and books most inspiring his work today, his first message is Thich Nhat Hanh's: Peace is the way, not the destination.

Patricia Walden: Are You a Control Freak? Yoga Can Help
Trouble in relationships? At work? Maybe you're trying to be general manager of the universe. One of America's most respected yogis on how yoga helped her let go of control, react more thoughtfully, and find more peace in relationships and in herself.

Get-Grounded Yoga
Patricia Moreno begins a live class by grounding students in a sense of gratitude.

Yoga With Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm, appreciation, beauty, strength, power! Patricia Moreno lends new energy and names to familiar poses.

Keep Passion Alive
Relationship experts Gay and Katie Hendricks share the top secrets of keeping the spark ignited long-term.

Happier You, Cooler Planet
Global Brain author Peter Russell explains one way to change your happiness quotient and your eco footprint.

How to Find Peace Inside Yourself
Patricia Walden on how to regain inner peace.

Death Isn't Failure: Michael Beckwith at Urban Zen
Why is death a failure, not a celebration? The Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith shares perspective and a personal story at Donna Karan's Urban Zen forum.

Damanhur: Spiritual Utopia
A video tour of spectacular temples and progressive spirituality in this intentional community in Italy.

Crazy Sexy Cancer
Possibly the most honest first-person account of (and advice on) dealing with cancer. With lessons and advice from actress/photographer Kris Carr's own journey giving cancer a "makeover".

Deepak Chopra: 10 Keys to a Happy Life
Mind-body wellness expert Deepak Chopra shares the keys to reaching true happiness with an audience in this clip from the Happiness Prescription DVD.

How to Learn About Yourself Through Relationships
Deepak Chopra explains the details of an ancient concept that says we are attracted to others who embody traits we want more of, and are repelled by those who embody traits we object to and deny in ourselves.

The Difference Between Logic and Intuition
What is the difference between logic and intuition? Deepak Chopra explains that logic is an aspect of your mind, while intuition is an attribute of your soul. Logic is linear and relies on reasoning, while intuition goes to a deeper part of your soul.

'5 Wishes' Film Preview
A man's life changes dramatically when he learns in one evening a simple process for turning wishes and dreams into reality. A preview of the film based on the book Five Wishes by Gay Hendricks.


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