Author: Biljana Ognenova
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Support and Comfort Words for Someone Who is Grieving
If you’re not used to offering words of encouragement after the death of a family member, it can be difficult to maintain contact and show your concern. Finding the right words of comfort for the family can be particularly challenging, especially if you were closer to the person who has passed away than to the…
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“Permanent Record” Review: Ed Snowden’s Great Reveal of Anti-privacy
Edward Snowden’s compelling memoir, “Permanent Record,” is an eye-opening exploration of the dangers posed by extensive data collection and storage. Edward Snowden’s Revelations on Government Surveillance In “Permanent Record,” Snowden unveils the risks inherent in the combination of ubiquitous data collection and permanent storage. Governments, he warns, can use this powerful tool to selectively target…
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Childhood Trauma Healing: How to Heal Your Inner Child
In the spiritual realm, there is often this notion that healing your child is of utmost importance. But while you do need to pay attention to parenting your inner child, you’re now a grown-up; even though you do need to pay attention to your inner child’s needs, you have needs as an adult, too. It is…
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Simple Pranayama Breathing Exercise to Manage Your Anger
Yoga breathing exercises enable steady progress in addressing your angry energy and directing it towards growth.
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Understanding Your Dog’s Behavior Could Save You So Much Money
Regardless of what is the full truth we yet have to discover to understand dogs, they do have an almost mythical quality. That quality separates them from other animals regarding how they behave around and with people. How to Understand Dogs And Befriend Them If you want to completely understand dogs, a lifetime of reading…
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How to Stop Criticizing Others and Yourself
Sooner or later, you will have to expose yourself to criticism. You will have your paper graded, your clothes praised or ridiculed, your speech applauded or booed, your book top-listed or chopped to pieces by a critic’s verbal sword. That’s life. You cannot live in isolation.
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A Snoring Hummingbird Totally Deserving of Its Own Blog Post
A cute, sleeping, emerald-green, Peruvian hummingbird, accidentally caught in the deepest of its sleep, snoring like a steaming kettle or, as some of the YouTube comments have cleverly nailed it “a falling grenade”.
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Raising Dogs vs. Raising Kids: 5 Ways to Practice Consistency
I don’t want to be one of “those” people that claim having a dog is the same as having a child. But some aspects of keeping a dog do resemble having a two-year kid. Others are completely different.
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What “Scrubs” (TV Series) Taught Me about Happy Families
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
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How to Get Noticed at Work
There is one characteristic that separates every successful person from the majority of other people.
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How to Prioritize Your Life with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
I once heard that the only people who love cycling are those who cannot afford to buy a car. If you want to know how to prioritize in life in general, and how to prioritize tasks and projects, you can find your answer about the value of your choices in the Maslow’s pyramid of needs.
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Psychology of Comedy: The Underestimated Power of the Dark Side of Laughter
This is the most important thing you need to keep in mind about the psychology of comedy if you want to make people laugh, and not cry. Freedom of speech? It is a chimerical web that can only be absolute on a one-man’s island. In social networks, its intricate boundaries are revealed when we remember…
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The Woman with a Mustache (Short Story)
People were giving me weird looks, couples whispering to each other, covering their mouths with their hands. I felt like I was in a Victorian era movie and that an unscrupulous ostracizing was waiting in the wings.
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How to Choose a Career as a Teenager
It is easy as a pie to choose a career as a teenager if you listen to your inner dragon. There is a dragon hidden in every girl before she hits puberty.
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How to Use Self-Doubt to Your Advantage
Self-doubt is the other side of the confidence coin. In a world where everything is about self-confidence as a market commodity, self-doubt becomes an undesirable asset. If you doubt yourself too much, you won’t take action, stand up for what you believe for, or fight for your rights. You will be a loser.
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How to Make Good Decisions that Snowball into Success
The average human makes 35,000 decisions a day. You get 35,000 chances a day to improve your life, and as many to blow it to pieces.
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5 Ways to Help Your Child Fight Bullies at School
The best way to fight bullies in school is to do something about it. You must not stand still and be quiet. You must support your child in the fight.
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How to Comfort Someone Who is Sad and Mourning
Life throws us curve balls and one of them is our inability to face its end. Unless you’ve lived in a family where processing hard stuff is easy (and I don’t know many of those), you are, like most of us, terribly equipped to deal with difficult emotions.
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Feel Tired All the Time? Give Yourself the Permission to Rest
Do you consider rest a luxury? I often do, but that is when energy and motivation about a project take over me, I run mostly on adrenaline and oxytocin, and I forget that, sooner or later, tiredness will take its toll.
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A Biocentric World: Is There Anything Outside Human Consciousness?
Like it or not, the Big Bang Theory doesn’t explain the birth of the universe. With the same level of defeatism, we must reluctantly admit that we haven’t yet produced the Theory of Everything. Perhaps the limitations of modern physics are such that they will never reach the final destination until we augment them with…
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Why Meditation is the Opposite of Resistance
What does it mean to meditate? There are numerous definitions of meditation. However, any person defining this effervescent notion struggles with the same problem. They are not completely happy about the wordage used to describe something that can only be experienced. Or as most yoga teachers tend to say: “Everything can be meditation.” It is…
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Yes, Dogs Can Help People with Dementia Heal
The sensory and perceptive world of dogs is entirely different than that of humans. Dogs live in the moment, are incredibly willing to give and seek attention, and don’t carry the burden of difficult neurotic emotions. If you ever doubted that dogs are admirable healers, here is the most recent proof. Can a Dog Help…
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Respecting Nature:How to Use Her Gifts without Creating Harm
In spring, nature boasts in all its beauty, and, as the time rolls out from June to October, we will enjoy in her flowers and fruits as they change colors and spice up the visual panopticon we stand on with an overwhelming sense of abundance. Even in deserts, if you know where to look, you…
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5 Ways to Help Your Dog Thrive if You Need to Stay at Home
Dogs are remarkably resilient animals, surprising us with their fight through incredibly tough circumstances over and over again. But dogs are also social creatures that need the outdoors to thrive. Despite being able to lean on you for social support, staying at home will not be an easy pill to swallow for most of them. …
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