Valerie Reiss

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• Fresh Morning: Christmas Quotes

  
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  "Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.  - Norman Vincent Peale "Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!"  -Hamilton Wright Mabie "Love is whats in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and ...
  5 days ago

• Holiday Eating Digestion Tips

  
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  If where you work is anything like where I work, youre surrounded by sugary holiday goodness right now. Or sugary badness, depending. I try to keep to my almonds and water and dark chocolate routine, but sometimes you just gots to have that homemade chocolate ganache thumbprint cookie (thanks, Sherry, yum!). And ...
  6 days ago

• Find Out Your Meditation Style

  
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                            We just produced this very cool quiz, if I do say so, "Whats Your Meditation Style?" I came out to be a mantra meditator--who knew? In it, the author, Andrea Ferretti, helps evaluate whether youd be a good fit with walking, sensory, mindful, guided, or mantra ...
  1 week ago

• Fresh Morning: Get a Peaceful Start

  
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   "Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful" --. Norman Vincent Peale Need more morning inspiration?  Read our entire Fresh Morning collection! ...
  1 week ago

• Does Everything Happen for a Reason?

  
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  "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when theyre right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." - Marilyn ...
  1 week ago

• 7 Small Ways to Stay Warm

  
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  Baby, its cold outside. I  can actually get into the cold--the way it wakes up every last sluggish cell and gives you that "IM ALIVE!" feeling. But also, uhg, brr, ouch. Here are some ideas for generating warmth in the midst of the cold, which is a little bit like enjoying the silence between your thoughts. Calm, ...
  1 week ago

• Fresh Morning: A New Day of Magic

  
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  "I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning..." - Joseph Priestley   Need more morning inspiration?  Read our entire Fresh Morning collection! Read this post »
  1 week ago

• 6 Yoga Tips for Holiday Stress

  
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  If you find a bit of an edge creeping in to your holiday buzz, check out these calming exercises from Candace Morano , a New York City-based yoga instructor. No need to do them all at once, try one or two at least to get settled. Yoga medicine is usually like good hair conditioner--a little goes a long way. Of ...
  1 week ago

• Neat Stuff: Parliament of the Worlds Religions

  
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  Our friends over at EnlightenNext magazine, run by spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen, spent last week at the Parliament of World Religions in Melbourne, Australia. This event has been happening every five years since 1993 in countries around the world. The idea is to bring together people of many, many faiths and ...
  1 week ago

• Fresh Morning: Notice, Accept, Act

  
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  Last week I took a most lovely yoga workshop than ran every morning. In it, the teacher asked us again and again to notice when we got so stressed we actually stopped breathing . Like the Buddhist-ish instructor she is, she emphasized the importance of simply NOTICING, not instantly following up with ...
  1 week ago

• Brain Break: What Teachers Make

  
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  If you havent seen it, definitely check out this classic video from poet/teacher Taylor Mali. A lawyer asks him at a dinner party what he makes as a teacher and he has the best answer ever:   Read this post »
  2 weeks ago

• Fresh Morning: What It Means to Be Alive

  
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  "What does it feel like to be alive? Living, you stand under a waterfall. You leave the sleeping shore deliberately; you shed your dusty clothes, pick your barefoot way over the high, slippery rocks, hold your breath, choose your footing, and step into the waterfall. The hard water pelts your skull, bangs in bits on ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Makes You Hold Your Breath?

  
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  This morning in my detox yoga workshop, our homework assignment was: "What makes you hold your breath?" The idea is to identify stressors as they happen--the kind that literally cause us to stop breathing abruptly and hold, diaphram jammed. Just to note and observe, not to judge. So far Ive noticed that I held ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Makes You Breathe Deeply?

  
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  Yesterday I wrote about noticing when stress causes you to shut down your breathing . Then talking to a friend yesterday, we realized an interesting follow-up question to "What makes you hold your breath" is the more positively spun: "What makes you breathe deeply?" You know those moments--when you read a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brain Break: Happy Hanukkah Video

  
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  Check out this fun, mood-boosting video of a flash-mob in Jersualem set to the tune of "Hey Ya." Wheee! "Oy is just "yo" backwards," indeed! Like what you see? Click here to subscribe and get Fresh Living in your in-box every day. Read this post »
  2 weeks ago

• Fresh Morning: What Can You Let Go Of?

  
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  Im taking a yoga workshop this week, every morning from 7 am to 9 am (uhg) and the theme is detoxing. Our teacher has given us two homework assignments so far. Yesterday was: What can you let go of? Coffee? Chocolate? Bread? What thing do you think you need that you can live without? Im choosing chocolate. (Double ...
  2 weeks ago

• Talkin Bout Presolutions (Pre-New Years Resolutions)

  
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  When I was kvetching to a friend recently about some items lodged on my to-do list for way too long, she suggested I make a pre-New Years resolution: "Clear the list out and start fresh." Ahhh. My whole body relaxes at that notion. Who knew? I can actually get to New Years day feeling accomplished? Instead of like ...
  2 weeks ago

• Edibles Im Grateful For

  
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  Over at my personal blog I keep regular gratitude lists, but I thought, in honor of post-Thanksgiving gartitude continuation, Id do an exclusively food-based list here in honor of Foodie Friday (and National Cookie Day!). These are a few of my favorite edible things (today!): 1) Annies Naturals Goddess Dressing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fresh Morning: The Basic Blessing We Often Forget

  
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   "We are lucky, even the worst of us, because daylight comes." - Jeanette Winterson   Need more morning inspiration?  Read our entire Fresh Morning collection!   Read this post »
  3 weeks ago

• Inspirational Gifts for the Holistic & Hippie-ish

  
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  If youre shopping for folks who like to be uplifted, healed, and the like by their gifts, check out our new inspirational gift guide full of things like quartz crystal ornaments, vegan brownies (yum), inspiring jewelry, a reflexology massager, happy-making calendars and more.       Wed also love to know ...
  3 weeks ago

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