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YOU- Body Mind Spirit Series #3: Body Blues
It's a new year and I started off last week with a new idea. I introduced you to Ogee who’s confused because he has two heads! So I was telling him I was on this mastermind call and we were talking about problems that people have with losing weight and stuff like...
YOU- Body Mind Spirit Series #1: Creating a Sacred Space
Today I'm going to show you my altar which you may have noticed if you’ve ever seen one of my Facebook videos (go to FB@marciagrace.tropin on Fridays at 1 pm) because it's always right behind me. I want to talk about the kinds of things that I have on my altar...
Stress Less by Going Back to Basics
Practice these simple techniques to be more stress-free, and more relaxed as you go through your day. Being of a certain age, I get the AARP magazine. Yesterday I read an article about four natural stress remedies. I said to myself, “That's a perfect topic because...
When tragedy strikes and creates stress and anxiety in our minds.
How do we navigate through tragic events that are beyond our control? Today I want to speak from the heart. I got a call last night from a dear friend who told me something that's just incomprehensible. If this happened to you, you would feel the horror of it just as...
Awe releases your stress.
“Everything begins with a thought” you hear me often say, and that’s important because today I want to talk about the fact that you have no idle thoughts. No thoughts that are unimportant, shall we say. Every thought that you have produces either peace or chaos in your mind. It’s one or the other, there’s nothing in between.
Every thought produces an effect.
“Everything begins with a thought” you hear me often say, and that’s important because today I want to talk about the fact that you have no idle thoughts. No thoughts that are unimportant, shall we say. Every thought that you have produces either peace or chaos in your mind. It’s one or the other, there’s nothing in between.
Do You Know Why You’re Upset?
The reason you're upset has nothing to do with the circumstances that are happening in the present moment. You are never upset for the reason you think. You think you're upset because somebody said something nasty to you or you lost money in the stock market. You had...
You are up for stress if you do this often.
"I have given everything I see in this place all the meaning that it has for me." I have been a student and a teacher of "A Course in Miracles" for 40 years now. It's a book that you can read for free on www.acim.org. It was written by two psychologists from Columbia...
Entrepreneurs have forgotten to do this, and that’s why they are stressed.
Let's allow ourselves to lighten up from stress and improve our overall health. As entrepreneurs, we wear many hats. We work hard for our business almost every day while also trying to spend quality time with our family. We struggle to divide the 24 hours of each day...
Stress management amidst disasters.
Our stress mostly comes from elements we cannot control, the weather being one of them. A few days ago, I woke up to a morning of a big thunderstorm. Suddenly I thought of a friend who bought a property upstate where floods frequently happen. I could only hope she was...
Less stress and more success by being resilient.
It's not about being immune to challenges, but about being able to overcome them. Life is full of surprises. We can make plans, but we also need to be prepared because not everything is within our control. When things don't go our way, it's easy to get frustrated and...
Manage your stress through spiritual freedom.
Freedom is the ultimate stress reliever. Modern meditation mentor explains how... Happy 4th of July to everyone living in the US! This time every year we celebrate the freedom of our great nation. Our forefathers fought and sacrificed their lives for this cherished...