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Getting into the Real You

Getting into the Real You

By Paula Kawal • on July 20, 2007

Are you in your own way? Whether you’re developing spiritually, psychically or pursuing some other kind of self improvement you will of course encounter yourself…and your success will hinge on whether or not you can let the totality act through you and get out of your own way. If you have a strong ego the answer is…probably not until

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Time to Fly

Time to Fly

By Paula Kawal • on June 12, 2007

How long do we sit in anguish watching others use their wings wistfully wishing we could follow them out into the bright blue sky? How much conditioning does it take before we have convinced ourselves of our worth, readiness or ability to take the leap? Who do the voices belong to that say that we

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About Power

About Power

By Paula Kawal • on May 3, 2007

Born to be Powerful Would you think it strange if I told you that you were born to powerful? If you and I had a conversation in which we discussed becoming empowered would you blanch, cringe, shrink or would you notice an attraction to this idea and feel yourself moving forward, feeling balanced? What

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Conscious Choice

Conscious Choice

By Paula Kawal • on March 13, 2007

What is Conscious Choice? In my last article I talked a little about making choices conscious. In this entry I would like to further define what it is to make a conscious choice. A conscious choice involves a synergy of thinking and doing. It creates a harmonious interaction between your physical

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Transmuting Negative Energy

Transmuting Negative Energy

By Paula Kawal • on March 12, 2007

When Bad Vibes Find You There are times when we find ourselves surrounded by negative energy. Perhaps we have entered a resistance pattern to some activity we are engaged in or some circumstance in our lives, sometimes it’s a residual energy we encounter from another situation or person and sometimes

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Removing the Fast Lane

Removing the Fast Lane

By Paula Kawal • on March 7, 2007

Fast Lane Thinking I live in the Seattle area where urbanites chug Starbucks driving their SUVs down traffic clogged roads. This is a land of Magellan equipped traffic adventurers racing against unknown masses of fellow drivers to be the first one down the hidden back roads of their environments in

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A Seven’s Guide to Unresponsiveness

A Seven’s Guide to Unresponsiveness

By Paula Kawal • on March 5, 2007

The Situation So you are trying to connect with someone who is hard to get a hold of…you’ve emailed and called…left funny or challenging messages and used all the charm of your personality to no avail. If you’re a seven on the enneagram, this is personal; nothing drives a seven

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Meeting Needs Without Repeating Patterns

Meeting Needs Without Repeating Patterns

By Paula Kawal • on February 25, 2007

Familiar Ground So you find yourself sitting alone wondering how in the world this has happened to you again. You were just going along as usual when something came up that got you into behavior you yourself don’t even like…yet you still engage in it because it meets some unconscious need

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The Transformative Power of Feelings

The Transformative Power of Feelings

By Paula Kawal • on February 20, 2007

The Emotional Guidance System Many of us carry around strong ideas about our emotions and how we feel. These ideas were created in part by the reactions of those around us while we were experiencing them, by the ideology of the society in which we grew to maturity and by our own experience of and with

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Re-Write Your Story

Re-Write Your Story

By Paula Kawal • on February 9, 2007

Close Encounters So you’re about to go into a room with that person who asks you questions that make you feel uncomfortable. The conversations always leave you feeling less than good and you’ve developed either a history of avoiding them or anxious anticipation of the next unpleasant encounter.

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