When struggling with the decision of whether to put a substance into your body or not, there are key questions to ask yourself: is this substance going to promote me or demote me? Is it going to build me up or bring me down? Why do I choose to bring marijuana into my life, especially […]
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A daily, consistent morning practice will transform your life. Even before we awaken, our mind gets going. Because so many of us start the day feeling anxious, stressed, or overwhelmed (or all three), we aren’t able to center ourselves and approach each day from a place of calmness, acceptance, and empowerment. Morning practice taps into
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I come from a background of severe drug addiction (alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, freebase, heroin) and now have over 31 years of continuous recovery. I tell people that my story is really a story of recovery within recovery. I first got sober and began a “one day at a time” approach to abstinence from drugs and
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Kintsukuroi is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery through the use of a lacquer resin sprinkled with gold powder to mend the broken pieces back together. At some point in the 15th Century, the Japanese started to employ this technique. Collectors everywhere started to clamor after these repaired pieces because they were seen to be much
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How to Stop Drinking Alcohol In today’s society, alcohol is embraced at nearly every occasion: births, deaths, social occasions, sporting events, holidays, marriages, and more. One gets to thinking that it’s abnormal not to drink, that it’s abnormal not to intoxicate yourself with a substance that your body knows is a poison. Our society, for
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One morning while on retreat in India, in the hour or two before the sun rose, I ventured down to the banks of “Ma Ganga” (The Ganges River) to accompany my dear friend and photographing ninja, DJ Pierce, who had expressed his desire to dip into the sacred waters. Where we go in Rishikesh the
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