self improvement
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Life
5 Tools To Overcome Negative Energy and Take Back Your Power
Regaining your personal power from negative energy can be made a little bit easier with these 5 suggestions. Take a breath, grab some tea and read this!
Riley McCoy | May 24, 2017
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Life
Why You Need to Ditch the Self-Help Books Now (and What to Do Instead)
With an abundance of knowledge (self-help, success literature, life hacks, etc.) there are still many out there who are frustrated with the results.
Ashton Aiden | April 28, 2017
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Life
Have Trust Issues? 4 Ways Yoga Can Help
Trust is a hard thing to come by for so many of us. We often don’t trust ourselves,...
Aimee Hughes | September 16, 2016
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Life
Why You Need a Mindful Journaling Practice & Tips to Get You Started
When you put your feet on the floor tomorrow morning, reach for your notebook and write down the first thoughts you have when you wake up.
Brittany Nowicki | August 28, 2016
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OM
How to Improve Your Meditation Practice
Have you come to a place in your meditation practice that needs some encouragement? How have you helped deepen your own practice?
Aimee Hughes | August 26, 2016
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Life
Find Ways To Better Yourself: A Guide to the Niyamas
The Niyamas, a Sanskrit word meaning “observances,” asks us to dive deeply into who we are in these five areas: purity, contentment, self-discipline, self-study and surrender.
Alisha Leytem | August 19, 2016
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Life
What Soul Surfer Bethany Hamilton Teaches Us About Tragedy, Faith, and Finding Life’s Purpose
If you’re feeling lost, or sensing that there’s something unique and powerful that only you were born to do, have patience and follow Bethany’s example.
Aimee Hughes | August 9, 2016
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Life
Cameron Diaz Talks How to Live Authentically and Find Contentment (Video)
We’ve all seen her beautiful smile in movies. We’ve fallen in love with her in Charlie’s Angels or...
Ashton August | August 1, 2016
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Life
How to Calm Your Mind and Cultivate More Presence
Hopefully, seeing the distinction between the thinking mind and the observing mind will help you recognize some of the unhealthiness that occurs in your head.
Danielle Phillips | June 30, 2016
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Life
The Four Agreements: How to Achieve Your Personal Best On and Off the Mat
Yoga is a vehicle for change. And so is The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. Change happens even...
Lara Falberg | June 26, 2016
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Life
8 Ways to Cope with the Post-College “Real World”
Many of us have turned to meditation, yoga, or other spiritual methods to help process these changes.Yet there is so little said about the mental agony that descends on the post-graduate “adult.” The mental and emotional pain of outgrowing friends, of feeling unsatisfied with reality, of the absolute battle of trying to find what you love is not as glamorized or talked about. Where do we turn to for advice on how to get through these real-world adult issues?
Teresa Mason | June 25, 2016
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Life
Your Mind is a Garden and Your Thoughts Are the Seeds (Poem)
Your mind is like a piece of land planted with many different kinds of seeds: seeds of joy,...
Kerry Fantelli | June 12, 2016
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Life
How to Regain Your Youthful Confidence (Poem)
When do we lose that beautiful pride? Not the ego-driven kind, but the free-spirited, self-loving kind. The one...
Kerry Fantelli | June 5, 2016
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Life
How to Become an Artist of Your Soul and Live from a Place of Possibility
There are several easy ways you can become a true artist of your soul and live from a place of possibility. Here are 3 ways that you can awaken your fullest potential:
Aimee Hughes | May 19, 2016
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Life
10 Reasons You Should Cancel Your Cable TV Today
Is there a benefit to ditching cable tv and its 300+ channels? We say YES! And after reading this list, you may agree that there really isn’t anything glamorous about TV at all.
Stephanie Stanley | May 17, 2016
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Health & Wellness
10 Hacks for Cultivating Daily Mindfulness
It can be challenging to stay grounded and mindful with an open heart when we are bombarded with negativity as soon as we leave our mats. Mindfulness is the key. Here are 10 tips to stay mindful throughout your day.
Maria Moscato | May 13, 2016
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Health & Wellness
4 Spring Cleaning Tips to Detox Your Mind and Body
Use these four tips to cleanse yourself of common toxins for a happier, healthier life:
Josh Duvauchelle | April 27, 2016
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OM
The Third Chakra: How it Impacts Your Personal Power
The energy of the third chakra, often referred to as the solar plexus or Manipura, is the formation of the independent self - independent from our tribe and independent from external relationships.
Katie Ness | April 17, 2016
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Life
Why You Must Doubt Your Doubt
Self doubt is thoughts that don't support us in our capabilities. Our ability to grow is our ability to move beyond doubtful thinking.
Mary Beth LaRue | March 22, 2016
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Life
If You Want to Be Happy, Science Says You Should Start Here
When you focus enough attention, motivation and words on a particular goal, you are actively working to make your dream a reality.
Jessie Wren | March 11, 2016
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Life
Two Inspiring Poems for Self-Love and Positivity
You don’t see Sun yell at Clouds, “Hey you! Get out of my way! You are blocking my beauty, my rays of power! MOVE DAMN IT!”
Kerry Fantelli | March 5, 2016
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Life
An Interview With Kathryn Mitchem – Thriving Through Life’s Transitions
Meet Kathryn Mitchem, life coach, yoga instructor and loving mom. In this interview you'll learn how to live Your Best Life starting today using the following insights from the interview:
Erik Vienneau | March 1, 2016
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Life
How to Gain Control Over YOUR Life (Video)
Gain control over that which is currently in control of you. And find out where the center of your power lies.
Yogi Aaron | January 4, 2016
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Life
5 Tips to Cultivate Self-Compassion
Self-compassion is a topic of discussion in the partner yoga classes that I teach to support women emotionally, mentally and physically.
Denita Austin | November 25, 2015
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Life
6 Signs You Are NOT at Peace (and Advice on How to Get There)
May we all find each other in the same place of Peace, Love, and Eternity regardless of how we got there.
Ashton Aiden | November 18, 2015
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Life
6 Simple Ways to Increase Your Happiness Now
You deserve to be happy, so follow these simple steps to ensure that you’re happy in the good times, through the hard times, and most importantly, right now!
Eirinn Norrie | November 10, 2015
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OM
5 Important Benefits of Meditation on Your Brain
If you practice meditation regularly, you know how good it feels - like a deep breath for the mind. We know it feels great, but what are the actual affects on the brain?
Meredith Osborne | November 6, 2015
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Life
What Jim Carrey Explains In 1 Minute Will Change Your Life Forever (Video)
Not only is Jim Carrey a fantastic actor , comedian, and artist, but he is also a deeply wise man. During a commencement speech, he gave the graduates the most useful advice anyone could give.
Johnny Jedi | October 31, 2015
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Life
How to Remove “Quit” From Your Vocabulary & Your Life
Quitting is a defeating experience that leaves you feeling like the world is against you. Surrendering is relinquishing the false notion of the ego’s power and trusting the true power of the Universe. Sometimes it takes greater strength to let go. Accept the answer you get from the Universe and just breathe.
Jessie Wren | October 15, 2015
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Life
7 Simple Ways to Avoid Stress
Ways to avoid stress by: Only having one coffee a day, maintain motivation, breathe, laughter, do more savasana, walk, and play your favorite song
Kasia Litwinski | October 14, 2015
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Life
8 Easy Ways to Feed Your Soul
Feeding your soul by spending time outdoors, listening to music, unplugging, indulging, expressing yourself, getting nostalgic, reading, & seeking thrills.
Kelsey Struble | October 6, 2015
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Life
6 Steps to Plan and Achieve Your Life Goals
You can achieve your life goals. Realism, much like fear, is just an artificial construct of our minds that is based on a conceptualized notion of the future.
Enrico Fioranelli | October 1, 2015
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Life
5 Ways to Create Balance Between Your Work and Personal Life
Finding work/life balance is no different. There is no perfectly prescribed algorithm, no all–encompassing equation that informs us of the exact parameters we place around that which we call work and that which we call play. Part of the dance itself is the swaying back and forth from moment to moment to find the rhythm that feels right for us.
Kari-Ann Levine | September 13, 2015
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Life
Let Go of the Mouse – How to Handle Negative Self-Chatter
This negative self-chatter is like thousands of little creatures that snake their ways into our brains: the fear-based thoughts that arise, the self-defeating stories that we tell ourselves and attach to. When we search for something new - a job, place to live, a significant other - and it doesn’t work out, we feel like Scott did in his kitchen staring at an empty mousetrap with no cheese.
Jessie Wren | September 9, 2015
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Life
How to Silence Your Inner Chatter
The ability to silence your inner chatter is like the ability to step into another world. It is where the spiritual journey stops being something that you read about in books, hear about from “experts,” or think to death in your mind.
Ashton Aiden | June 28, 2015
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Health & Wellness
10 Ways to Manifest Abundance This Summer
Here are 10 simple ways you can change energy patterns this season and create more lasting abundance in your life...
Allison Dailey | June 22, 2015
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OM
Energy Management Techniques – Live a More Balanced Life
I will share a technique for each area of energy management. We will start with physical energy, as this is the one that is most easily measurable and understandable.
Ashton Aiden | June 17, 2015
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Life
4 Simple Ways to Start Living a More Positive Life
Negativity ages us, it pains us, and it brings us down. These 4 simple suggestions will help you start living a more positive life today.
Alissa Lastres | June 11, 2015
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Life
3 Yogic Steps to Keep Your Cool When the Going Gets Tough
Life might knock us down, but the trick is in what comes next, in how we respond. You can keep your cool when things get hard by gaining control over your reactions to stimuli. You have the power to put space between you and the catalyst.
Alissa Lastres | June 4, 2015
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Yoga
4 Tips for Creating a Home Yoga Practice
4 Tips for Creating a Home Practice: Here are the 4 lessons I learned along my journey to shedding predictability and embracing the Wild Yogi within through a solitary home practice:
Melissa Nordin | May 27, 2015
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Life
10 Signs You Are in a Healthy Relationship with Yourself
Healthy Relationship: It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and make your happiness a priority — it’s actually quite necessary! When you take care of you, you will be better able to take care of those around you. Before you can expect anyone else to love you, you must love yourself and commit to fostering a healthy relationship with that person that you spend the most time with – yourself!
Krysta Shannon | May 18, 2015
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Yoga
Ashtanga Yoga: What Our Challenges on the Mat Teach Us About Our Challenges in Life
Our greatest growth exists on the other side of our greatest challenges. The five-breath count in Ashtanga reminds us that in order to progress forward, we have to accept where we are today, let go, and then move on.
Kari-Ann Levine | May 13, 2015
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Health & Wellness
Harness Your Energy, Empower Your Life (Self Improvement)
When we break everything down to its most basic, primordial essence, everything is energy. Your body is energy. Your thoughts and feelings are energy. If you’re reading this article, you most likely are already aware of this.
Ashton Aiden | May 8, 2015
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Yoga
Confessions of an Egotistical Yoga Teacher
When I first started teaching yoga, it was all about me. I wanted students to think I was a “good” teacher. I wanted to move students and their bodies through never-before-seen sequences.
Meredith DeCosta | April 30, 2015
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Yoga
10 Great Yoga YouTube Channels for Free Yoga Videos
Are you looking for free yoga videos on YouTube? Here is our YogiApproved list of the top 10 yoga YouTube channels to get you on your yoga mat right now:
Krysta Shannon | April 20, 2015
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Life
Why You Should LIVE Your Life Now
Why You Should Live Your Life Now. One of my greatest challenges is fear. Fear of what will be, and what will not be. Fear of what has been, becoming again. If I allowed it, my mind would be a constant whirl of negative possibilities.
Elisha Thompson | April 8, 2015
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Health & Wellness
The Problem with Using Yoga to Lose Weight
The Problem with Using Yoga to Lose weight. Yoga is a practice of the mind over the body. Never is this more apparent than when one finds self-confidence in the body through yoga, not because yoga transformed your body, but because yoga transformed your mind.
Sophia Herbst | April 8, 2015
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Life
Is Your Job A F*ck Yes?
If there is one thing we should do on this planet—one thing—it should be to find the thing that makes us feel most alive and work every single day at creating a career out of it.
Janne Robinson | March 9, 2015
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Health & Wellness
How to Cultivate Healthy Habits For a Positive Self-Image
Here are some suggestions to help you cultivate a healthy self-image and take your power back: New habits take practice and many of the beliefs that are connected with our self-image and identity stem from our childhood conditioning.
Katherine Smith | March 7, 2015
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OM
5 Ways Yoga Helps You Find Self-Acceptance
Here are five ways that a regular yoga practice can help you find self-acceptance and love: It forces you to prove that you CAN.
Elisha Thompson | March 6, 2015
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Health & Wellness
8 Tips on How to Create The Perfect Personal Retreat
Lets face it. We all need the occasional ‘duvet’ or ‘mental health’ day. Keeping the blinds closed and staying where it’s cozy gives us the opportunity to hit the pause button, unplug and process what’s happening in our lives.
Katherine Smith | March 3, 2015
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Life
Why You Should do a #30DayYogaChallenge
You might feel like your life is too busy to post and practice yoga every day straight for 30 days, but don’t let that stop you! The commitment is worth it.
Molly Flynn | March 2, 2015
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OM
How To Start A Spiritual Practice And Where To Begin
Here is some guidance to get you started on your own spiritual quest for a more fulfilling life. We are here to help you on your spiritual journey.
Katherine Smith | March 1, 2015
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Life
Letting Go of Perfectionism – How I Am, and Why You Must
I’m not perfect. I know this. I never have been, and I never will be. Truth be told though, as a yoga practitioner and yoga teacher, I struggle with the desire to be “perfect.”
Meredith DeCosta | January 12, 2015
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Life
Become An Opportunist – 7 Ways To Start Right Now
Becoming an opportunist takes practice. Start small. You must start somewhere and at sometime. Today seems as good of day as any. Here are 7 suggestions to get started:
Kelsey Struble | January 7, 2015
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Life
Why You Need to Make a Vision Board ASAP
Creating a vision board is a super concrete practice where heart, mind and imagination go to art class. Vision boards allow us to use images to set our intentions. You can use a bulletin board, the wall, a notebook or a cool site like Pinterest to create your collage.
Sarah Herrington | January 4, 2015
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