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Food for Thought: A Weekly Column from Peter Vajda, PhD.
What are you doing, and why? - Feb 5, 2010 - 11:39:50 AM
When we experience harmony and balance in our lives, it's most often because there is a conscious alignment between what we think, feel, say and do. We are in integrity. Our life choices and decisions - at work, at home, at play and in relationship, have a "felt-sense" of being true, honest and sincere. We have a "knowing" that our thinking, feeling, be-ing and do-ing come from a place that is honest, sincere and self-responsible.

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Food for Thought: A Weekly Column from Peter Vajda, PhD.
Happiness - money vs. inner work - Jan 29, 2010 - 2:32:44 PM
These are tough times. Millions of folks are experiencing pain and suffering - lost jobs, reduced wages, foreclosures, bankruptcies, lack of health care and on and on. According to Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, the most basic need is that of survival. These folks are experiencing that desperate state - simply looking to survive. Curiously, there's another group among us which is surviving, has covered their basic needs, but who experience a similar state of desperation - namely, unhappiness - those who feel that more money is the one element that will bring them happiness.

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Food for Thought: A Weekly Column from Peter Vajda, PhD.
Anger - show me the love - Jan 22, 2010 - 1:53:00 PM
Anger is a human emotion, ranking up there with fear as the most common emotion. Curiously, anger is an often an unconscious expression of the need for contact. Strange, but true. Our innate essence is composed of three subtle energies - love, intelligence and power. We manifest anger when we sense a lack in one of these three energies. Here, we'll consider the energy of love.
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Food for Thought: A Weekly Column from Peter Vajda, PhD.
Haiti - and a deeper meaning - Jan 15, 2010 - 2:42:26 PM
I seldom write about "current events." However, the disaster that is taking place in Haiti has grabbed me and won't let go. So, like so many others, I feel compelled to ask "why?"
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Food for Thought: A Weekly Column from Peter Vajda, PhD.
Why change triggers a fear of dying - Jan 7, 2010 - 6:24:55 PM
Probably the greatest obstacle to a life worth living is the fear of death - not death itself - but the fear of death. Think about the last time you chose to, or were asked to, embrace true and real change - at work, at home, at play or in relationship. What was that like for you?
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Food for Thought: A Weekly Column from Peter Vajda, PhD.
One Way We Might Subvert Resolve in 2010 - Dec 31, 2009 - 11:08:11 AM
New Year's resolutions are on the tip of most everyone's pen and tongue. Thousands of suggestions, "how tos," and "best ways" are being offered to help folks make, and carry through on, their New Year's resolutions. Sadly, as in past years, 98% of those who make resolutions will have given up or failed by Valentine's Day.
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