Category Archives: Find Your Center

Exercise Physiology

Just as our minds require strengthening to embrace life’s difficult situations and decisions, such as relationships, family, career, and lifestyle, and our spirits need centering and calming to create the internal space to grow as complete individuals, so our bodies also require tuning and development to keep our energy high and build the confidence necessary to reinforce our mental powers.
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Optimism

The Oxford English Dictionary defines optimism as having “hopefulness and confidence about the future or successful outcome of something; a tendency to take a favorable or hopeful view.” The word is originally derived from the Latin optimum, meaning “best.” Being optimistic, in the typical sense of the world, ultimately means one expects the best possible outcome from any given situation. This is usually referred to in psychology as dispositional optimism.
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Raising Your Sites

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and
feelings as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security. — Albert Einstein

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