Author: Biljana Ognenova
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How to Love Someone, Body and Soul (or Love, Shortly)
Yes. It’s that time of the year again and Christmas movies are on the repertoire. A great time to talk about love, actually… shortly When we first meet a new person, our eyes see their body. We see the body as an indicator of that person’s worth and attractiveness. We don’t do this only with…
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![8 Reasons Why the Dutch Sex-Ed Model is Best in the World [UPDATED 2020]](https://biljanaognenova.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/dutch-based-sex-ed-model.jpg?w=640)
8 Reasons Why the Dutch Sex-Ed Model is Best in the World [UPDATED 2020]
We have plenty to learn from the Dutch sex-ed model. Let’s start with a visualization exercise.
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A Red Ribbon Letter to a Young Woman on Her Journey to Adulthood
Read this letter to a young woman you know in your life or to the young woman that still lives within you, even if you are a fully grown adult.
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How to Harness Your Intuition by Following Your Natural Intuitive Tracker
How to develop and nurture your intuition by practicing tracking, the long-forgotten outdoor skill.
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Questioning the Limits of Human Fertility
When it comes to creations of various kinds, nothing is as generous, as fertile and as persistent as nature. If you want to picture nature’s fertility, think of the acacia and the linden trees in spring and early summer. In a very similar way, our female bodies, minds and souls are full of creative potential…
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Mother-daughter Relationships: How to Perform the Healing Practice of the Women’s Heritage
Pause for a moment to think about your mother daughter relationship. Take a look back into your life and the life of your mother. Go as far back as into the histories of all women related to you, all the way you can go to picture each woman’s foremother. As you travel back into your…
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The Pink Gorilla at the Back of My Garden
This morning I went out in the back garden to pick up some basil for my pasta. And – there she was. The pinkest gorilla I have ever seen! How do I know she was a lady? Pretty easy – she gave an arrogant look at my messy hair. Just like she knows better! She…
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A Role Model from the Dark Side
I will call him the Shrew. People didn’t always like him. He had a dark side. But although I was young, I could easily grasp his darkness. My old soul was able to relate to all types of people, including dark characters. It came naturally for an empathetic character – I thought people were too…
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Red Thread – the Invisible String Connecting All Women
Without venturing into the spiritual realm, you can use the invisible red thread connection by wearing a tiny red yarn around your wrist. This will remind you of the powers you have as a woman standing on her own and in her community.
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3 Mental Health Benefits from Owning a Dog
How owning a dog can help you improve your well-being: set boundaries, respond, and ditch your neurosis.
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Meaning of Beauty: How to Talk About Beauty to Young Girls
The meaning of beauty is about art and intellect, power and strength, humbleness and experience.
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Heart Intelligence: Can Your Heart Predict the Future?
There are many secrets to the human heart. As we advance in sophisticated technological research methods and innovative software, we can start unveiling at least some of them. The heart has an intelligence of its own. Heart’s Intuitive Intelligence Heart – the vital organ of emotions- has been a research topic in prominent studies, but…
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![Mathematics – the Imperfect Language of the Universe [UPDATED 2020]](https://biljanaognenova.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/mathsthelanguage-of-the-universe.jpg?w=1024)
Mathematics – the Imperfect Language of the Universe [UPDATED 2020]
Have you heard this famous quote about God speaking through the universe via the language of mathematics? Galileo was a smart man.
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Emotional Contagion: Social Media Insanity
When people are emotionally afflicted they feel the same emotions as someone who is nearby. Emotional contagion can take place without the participants’ awareness of how this happened. On massive social networks, there is even something called global emotional synchrony.
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How I Built A Long-Lasting Relationship With Writing
I learned how to write when I was four. I learned the Latin alphabet by the age of six. I had short stories published by the second grade and although they were only published in the school magazines, by then I knew that I was a storyteller who got hungrier by the day. By the…
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3 Surprising Ways to Master Office Communication
The consumer-related and production-oriented business world we live in makes it difficult to discover the power of quietude and receptiveness to the environment. Taking action is so championed that most people find it extremely complicated to sit calm and do nothing, at least on the outside. Perhaps this is so because most job descriptions include…
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3 Steps to Creating a Pleasant Workplace at Home Before Holidays
Will you be working from home this holiday season? It is hard to tell, but it is very much likely. And you might just need angelic help.
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How Berkeley Linked Magic and Science
“Rationality by itself does not solve any problems or answer any questions. Its efficaciousness depends on how we combine it with our drives, goals, and desires–and perhaps our less-linear-algorithm-based intuitions. This synthesis of the rational and a-rational occurs at the individual level of a person figuring out a problem or making a decision. It also…
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How to Manage Your Time by Staying in the Now
I remember that I wondered about time and space for the first time when I was a kid of about 4 or 5 falling asleep in my bed at night. Such a young age to wonder about so serious things! I thought – time and space are both so infinite! But still, I was both fascinated…
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How Prison Turned Manuel Bauer into a New Man
This is an ordinary human story. In a way. But not so in another. This is a story that might melt your heart. Because it tells about human victory after a time of struggle. It gives hope and courage. It looks at the beauty of the humanity. It is what makes people cry at the…
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How to Take Risks in 7 Steps
Practice, practice, practice. The trial and error system builds confidence. This is where you learn to enjoy uncertainty and be uncomfortable. Have a safety net. You don’t need to do any unnecessary madness so that you bring your life in jeopardy. Or your health. Or any good that is of vital importance to you. Trust…
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10 Personality Traits of a Democratic Leader
A leader with a flexible democratic mindset is what we all wish to see in our workplaces. They get more done and are more fun to be with. They are well admired and respected for the personality they show and shine with at the office. They handle conflicts well. They understand the elasticity of deadlines.
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How to Have a Good Day at Work
We all want to start the day on the high note, keep up the good energy throughout the day and avoid feeling exhausted when we take a look at the day behind. And we definitely want to have sufficient energy to keep the rest of the day rolling out and pulsing vibrantly. Often, there is…
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