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Tag Archives: Tamara Star
Happiness isn’t a Destination.
Most of us spend our days seeking happiness as if happiness were a destination or golden prize at the end of long journey. I believe happiness isn’t something to achieve or a reward for a life well lived ~I believe happiness is a point of view. And it’s an interesting point of view isn’t it? […]
Want More Happiness? It’s Hidden in the Ordinary.
Pleasure is a muscle that must be formed and exercised to become habitual. When we become pleasure seeking people creating pleasure and joy in the ordinary~ life becomes extraordinary.
When Ordinary Life Became Extraordinary.
I realized that after times of stress we become conditioned to look for what’s wrong instead of what’s right, and if we don’t stop ourselves, this pattern of thinking becomes habit and sadly, this habit becomes our life.
The Boulder Flood and the Gift of Men
I heard the dispatcher announce “all rescue units seek higher ground, the city of Boulder is impassable”, and at that point went into full blown panic. Sirens were going off, the night was pitch black and I could hear the rushing water going past my street and behind my house as the usual small trickle of a creek bed had risen past its banks and created a 200 yard raging river.
Can Divorcing a Family Member be an Act of Unconditional Love?
Is it healthy to love unconditionally? Compassion for yourself and unconditional love go hand in hand. — All spiritual teachers have pointed to unconditional love as the path to freedom; yet too often we mix up unconditional love with abusive love. Compassion for yourself and unconditional love go hand in hand. In its healthiest […]
A Surprising Reason Why it’s So Hard to Forgive.
It may sound crazy, but the amazing brain with its many functions and miracles, really does dictate your life experience.
How to Stay Safe in Yoga and 3 Signs You’re Not.
Via Elephant Journal They say there’s no such thing as a bad yoga class, but there certainly are dangerous ones. As a yogi, I look at each class as an opportunity to actually “practice” my yoga. This means if I don’t love the teacher, the music, the flow or the style, I remind myself that yoga […]
Why You’re Bored When You Get What You Want.
Why Are We So Bored When We Get What We Want?
How Being Attacked by a Deer Killed My Fear.
Her huge head and fierce brown eyes were less than an arm’s length away and I thought to myself: “seriously? THIS is how I’m going to die?”
Her snorts were drowned out by my screams as I felt the wind from her hooves skimming the small space between us while pinned against that front door, no where to escape.
11 Ways to Emotionally Thrive in Today’s World.
11 Ways to emotionally thrive in this ever changing fast paced world.
Top Feng Shui Bedroom Tips.
Feng Shui for attracting love. The most important corner of your home and any room is the relationship corner.
When we enhance the positive of our homes and limit the negative, this energy can flow unrestrained in harmonious ways. Health, money and love come easier and our homes suddenly feel like the refuge from the world they were meant to be.
Why We Keep Picking the Wrong Relationships.
You might be surprised. Often we are to blame for our own bad relationship. Here’s how to avoid it.
Start Over for Spring.
Your mantra while doing this? “If I don’t use it, I’m going to lose it. I’m not going to keep things just in case.
I trust the universe will provide me with what I need when I need it. There is someone out there that needs this more than me and will use this rather than my keeping it just in case.”
Think Women are Crazy?
This post is the other side of the coin, and no I’m not going to shame anyone. I vote for peace between the sexes by honoring our differences. I can’t possibly speak for all women but I can tell you, most of us are tired of being labeled.
When Life Blows Up on Every Level.
When Life Blows Up. 15 years ago, mine did, and I survived. I make it a rule to never take advice from someone who hasn’t been there, so I’ll share with you what happened, and then I’ll share how I got through my own personal tunnel of hell. In a 30-day period I lost it […]
Headline News Got You Down? Here’s How to Cope Without Burying Your Head in the Sand.
How to help when disasters strike. The answer may surprise you.
Should We Treat The People We Love Like Dogs?
In a society that seems to have given up on long term relationships, we’ve lost our desire to make things last. Most of us consider our current love to be Mr or Mrs right Now versus Mr or Mrs right, and dispose of the relationship in the first sign of irritation. Patience has been groomed […]
11 Ways to Keep Your Cool This Summer.
Even though we celebrate the arrival of summertime, it’s easy to lose our balance as well as our tempers under the fiery summer heat. Here are my top tips to stay cool this season. Put your hands in the earth and your body on it. Digging in the dirt, planting flowers and/or gardening relaxes your […]
What Women Want.
Let me say there’s absolutely no way I would trade places with our men. We may get the short end of the aging stick, but our men definitely have it far harder these days when it comes to dating. Show up masculine and strong, and we wish you were more emotional and vulnerable. Show up […]
How to Feel Connection
Polite conversation, (let’s admit) is boring. We spend our days going about our business, waving at neighbors, interacting with co-workers and chatting at parties; yet we still feel disconnected and lonely. There’s a woman in my neighborhood I’ve never really connected with conversationally, although I’m very social, I can be shy at times and find […]
We’re Told to Be Here Now- But How to We Get to Now…From Here?
We’re promised the pathway to peace if we can be here now, yet how do we get to now from here?
Happy Earth Day!
Happy Earth Day! It seems our Mother Earth is birthing lately with all of her earthquakes, eruptions, storms and shifts. Like the birth process, it can seem dark and scary, even messy at times. I like to remember that once that dark and mysterious process is over, a baby’s first breath is taken and there […]
Driving to Patience.
I’m one of those people that thinks I’m pretty cool headed behind the wheel and yet I’ve been humbled a lot lately. While driving down a one lane street last week, a car came speeding up behind me while honking and flashing it’s lights, I thought “gee mister, take a chill pill we’re all in […]
Can You See Me? Feeling Connection in a Virtually Connected World.
1 in 3 people say they feel disconnected from the world around them. 1 in 3, think about that. We’ve got a million ways to connect yet we’re all feeling more disconnected than ever regardless of the many virtual devices available. So why all this loneliness? Have you noticed how little we actually “look” at […]
Change
We’ve reached a point in this world when things seem to be spinning out of control. Mother nature has a mind of her own and the media convinces us daily that our world is in ruin. Standing in the middle, as things around us drop away, or finding ourselves in the place of no longer […]
Dating Do’s & Don’ts. The Top 5 Buzz Killers.
You meet one another, there seems to be chemistry, numbers have been exchanged and the air is alive with possibility. So what are the quickest ways to let the air out of your dating balloon? by Chanpipat 1. Instead of planning a date, ask them “what do you want to do?” Come on, show some effort here. […]
The Gift of Letting Yourself Be Proven Wrong.
As I write this, it’s thundering, raining and snowing here in Colorado all at the same time. I realize with a grin that once again my expectations of what’s normal are proven wrong by mother nature. So I’m inspired to ask the question: “Why can’t we drop our expectations and open ourselves up to […]
Domestic Violence Isn’t Always Physical.
Domestic Violence outside the obvious signs of physical abuse such as pushing, grabbing, and hitting can be subtle.
Easy Cures for Life’s Little Problems
Problem getting your man to share? After he speaks count to 11 in your head slowly. 9 times out of 10 a man will start to speak again. It’s not that they don’t share with us; we often don’t give them a chance to finish their thoughts since we’re used to bantering with our girlfriends at a rapid pace.
Emotional Freedom.
I woke up this morning feeling sad yet had no reason I could think of to feel so down. Even after taking a yoga class to clear my head, I was left feeling even worse. I realized that sometimes emotions just run through us that have nothing to do with “today”. For me; I tapped […]