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January 31, 2019 Cindie Chavez

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Reading Time: 3 minutes I imagined how devout Catholics must feel when they’ve been given a blessing by the Pope, or how it must feel to be blessed by the Dalai Lama, or how one would feel being personally greeted by the Queen or complimented by any highly esteemed person. But truly, we all have the capacity to bless someone.

So I began imagining what would shift in my own life if I truly recognized this as fact. If I chose to believe that every time someone welcomes me, or wishes me a nice day, it is a magical blessing that carries a great deal of weight, something that I can be grateful for, something that I never want to take for granted, a sparkling gift to be appreciated.

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January 29, 2019 Confluence

New York Times: Finding Female Friends Over 50 Can Be Hard. These Women Figured It Out.

Reading Time: 6 minutes “At this age, you are who you are. Your life has been lived, your career is over or in its last stage, you’re married or single, had children or not,” Ms. Pollekoff wrote in an email a few days after the meeting. “You’re not looking over the horizon for the next best thing. So there’s no jealousy or competition. The struggle is over, you come to terms with who you are because there’s no alternative. Acceptance is all that’s left.”

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January 25, 2019 Confluence

ARE YOU A WORKAHOLIC? HERE’S WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT

Reading Time: 5 minutes To help you to scale back, set boundaries for yourself – and write them down. Set a cut-off time for leaving the office or shutting down your laptop at home. Don’t leave your smartphone on your nightstand (or bring it to the dinner table); instead, put it on the other side of the room, so that you’ll be less tempted to check in on work while you’re in your bed or having dinner with your loved ones. Setting boundaries is simply a form of goal-setting, so for your goals to be most effective, consider them set in stone, so that you don’t allow for any slippage. To up the ante, select an accountability partner who can help you to keep your commitments to yourself.

Astro Evolve Weekly

January 25, 2019 Janette Dalgliesh

Astrology: See a change a-comin’ down the track

Reading Time: 6 minutes Imagine what you want.

Make it radical and outrageous.

Set intentions for delightful surprises.

Get ready to lean out over the front of your metaphorical skis, yelling ‘WOOHOOOOO!’ at the top of your voice, and prepare to enjoy the ride.

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January 24, 2019 Cindie Chavez

The Real Problem with Doreen Virtue’s Unicorn

Reading Time: 3 minutes Following the “rules” and practicing one’s chosen belief system in an “all-out” manner isn’t fundamentalism. Some of us like to play full out, heart and soul, in a dot-every-i-and-cross-every-t sort of way. And some of us are more laid back, and choose to engage in a more relaxed way. But fundamentalism doesn’t allow the adherent to choose their participation level. There is no freedom to choose a certain path, or way of navigating that path. Fundamentalism chooses for you, and it’s “our way or the highway”.

Fundamentalism in any form – religious, political, social – is worrisome. It always separates, it never unifies.

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January 18, 2019 Confluence

WORKAHOLISM DOESN’T MAKE YOU MORE PRODUCTIVE. HERE’S WHY.

Reading Time: 4 minutes As you might expect, having an all-consuming devotion to work is linked to a variety of undesirable outcomes. For example, workaholism is linked to work-family conflict, or having competing, and often conflicting demands in one’s professional and private spheres. In turn, work-family conflict can decrease satisfaction with one’s family, or even one’s life as a whole. After all, if your significant other or children are complaining that you’re not present enough at home, and you’re simultaneously feeling that you’re not living up to the demands of your job, it can be a pretty stressful and conflicted existence. Consequently, it’s not surprising that workaholism is also linked to burnout.

By definition, workaholism makes it difficult to psychologically detach from work, and can interfere with the individual’s ability to recharge and recover from the job.

Astro Evolve Weekly

January 18, 2019 Janette Dalgliesh

Super blood wolf moon Eclipse – AAAOOOOOOWWHHH!!!

Reading Time: 5 minutes We have a busy astro week this week, including a gorgeous Full Moon Eclipse in Leo (exact times below). And with all the major planets in forward motion, not a Retrograde to be seen, there’s a definite surge of forward momentum at play.

Which is fantastic in these last two weeks before we plunge into the Chinese New Year of the Pig, known for its favourable outlook on prosperity, good luck, and happiness.

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January 18, 2019 Confluence

I WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE HERE – WHY I AM PRO-CHOICE, EVEN THOUGH I WAS MEANT TO BE ABORTED

Reading Time: 10 minutes As for myself, I mostly feel alright with existing now, with my purpose here, my worth.

It’s sometimes a precarious thing, my hold on this life, like a fragile vase in a window which could tip one way or another in a breeze – tipping gently and safely to the table nearby or smashing fatally down to the garden below – but inside are pink scented lilies and beauty, so I go on, day by day, month by month, year by year, and gradually I find, as my Buddhist teacher once told me, that, though I wasn’t invited to this party, people like my presence and I like the music and chitchat and, mostly, it all makes me very happy.

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January 17, 2019 Confluence

Five Must Have’s to Be a Successful Light Worker

Reading Time: 3 minutes If you use energy or consciousness as a medium for the work you do, whether it be as a coach, healer, reader or practitioner, you’ve already become in tune with your inner world. Or at least most of your practices are ones that get you deeper into your inner world.

And even if you aren’t offering your services to others and only doing the work for yourself, there are a few things that are building blocks if you want to be successful in your practice.

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January 11, 2019 Confluence

WHY KNOWING YOUR VALUES IS A POWERFUL WAY TO BOOST YOUR SUCCESS

Reading Time: 5 minutes Getting in touch with your values can also provide you an important cue—namely, that it’s time to move on if and when you determine that your values are in conflict with the work you are doing. Research has shown that when there is a mismatch between your personal values and that of your organization, you are at increased risk of burnout. Cynicism, one of the components of burnout, occurs when you feel less attached to, and engaged with, the work you are doing. If a values clarification exercise reveals to you that you are simply in the wrong job or at the wrong company, you might consider moving on.