No Sweat No Glory

Do you like advertisements like ‘lose weight without any diet or exercising’ or ‘yoga for the lazy’? If your answer is ‘Yes’, then my writing is not your cup of tea. If you are looking for a magic trick to solve your mental or emotional problems, do not buy my book. It is not worth paying 12.50 $ for something that is not going to help. Read more: http://www.helenasmole.com/2011/no-sweat-no-glory

Respect Thy Parents

We all have to learn how to say No in certain situations. Even to our parents, who took care of us. Respecting parents has a limit – the limit is the respect for ourselves. Read more: http://www.helenasmole.com/2011/respect-thy-parents

The Age of Aquarius

In my opinion the Age of Aquarius among other things means a shift in our thinking regarding our freedom. In the former millennium the humanity has fought for freedom. However, it was the famous philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre already who anticipated today’s chaos and confusion, when he affirmed that “Freedom was a heavy burden.” Read more:

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The Age of Anger

There is so much anger on the planet these days that it is accumulating in what Phyllis Krystal calls a thought form. We only need to get a bit angry at somebody/something and we feel a huge wave of anger all of a sudden. It is because we subconsciously connect to the thought form of anger. What can we do about it?

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Trying to Avoid Mistakes

»You cannot spend your life trying to avoid the mistakes I have made. You have to make your own.« This is a line from a movie. It is a piece of advice a mother gives her grown-up daughter. (Laws of Attraction with Julianne Moore and Pierce Brosnan) Being a light comedy the movie still has some important messages in it. I would like to concentrate on the upper quotation. Many times we are so afraid of making the same mistake our parents did …

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How to lead a quality life with bipolar disorder?

I have worked with the books of Louise Hay and with the Phyllis Krystal Method, but there are many others. The important thing is to pick one and take it seriously. Some people tend to collect certificates of seminars attended like one would collect stamps. What really counts is daily practice. No one is going to give 'daily showers' to our minds unless we do it ourselves. Other people can only teach us various methods…
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The best things in life happen…

… when you don’t get what you think you want. (M. de Montaigne)
After 450 miles of motorway my husband and I arrive at Adelboden, Switzerland. A personal catastrophe for great planners like my husband and I – we set up the tent in rain and five minutes later the sun begins to shine.
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