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		<title>Awareness: Natural Resilience</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 13:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] The embrace of life is not without struggle. Obstacles and challenges are inevitable companions as we make our way through time. Our approach to the emergence of turbulence in life partially determines the character of our personal narrative. There is no life that avoids adversity. The story of our life is influenced and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mental Habitats: Multitasking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Multitasking is a form of mental degradation. We are not capable of working at several different tasks simultaneously. Instead, multitasking is really nothing more than the rapid shifting of attention across a variety of tasks in a vain attempt to accomplish more is less time. We do not accomplish more, and the quality [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] At night we sleep and surrender our awareness to the unconscious world of darkness and dreams. During the day we remain attentive to our needs, hopes, and desires in the midst of the circumstances that inhabit our conscious awareness. When we first begin to wake in the morning we are guided into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional Terrain: Anxiety</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patricia Pearson defines anxiety as fear in search of a cause. Fear is an immediate emotional response to a perceived threat, which results in potent feelings of apprehension, dread, terror and panic. In the midst of a crisis the brain invokes a pervasive feeling of tension and stress. Once the crisis we are experiencing has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aging: From Ageism to Age Affirmation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Ageism is prejudice or discrimination against older person simply because of their age. More specifically, ageism is a belief that older persons are unworthy, incompetent, low is status. The term ageism, coined in 1969 by gerontologist Dr. Robert Butler, is modeled on the pattern of racism and sexism. Butler states: “Ageism allows the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional Terrain: Grief-3</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] It has been just over one year since my parents passed away. The feeling of their absence remains poignant, yet there is a greater sense of acceptance of the loss. It is clear to me that we do not &#8220;get over&#8221; the loss of someone important in our lives. Grief is an amazingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aging: The Spirituality of Aging</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3. SPIRIT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] A goal that many of us hold secretly within is to live a long and healthy life, as free from pain and suffering as possible. It would be ideal if each of us were guaranteed to live a long, vibrant and healthy life, until we experience a sudden and painless decline far into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aging: Senescence as Creative Inspiration</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] It is strange to contemplate aging. The process of getting older often seems so gradual as to be imperceptible. The idea of getting older can create a sense of discomfort since the very mention of it requires us to come into closer proximity with the reality of our own impermanence. We have an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aging: An Acquaintance With Absence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Absence is an emotional state of awareness in which we feel a deep sense of loss; the death of a loved one or friend invokes the deepest sense of loss. The feeling of absence originates in the poignant contrast between the presence of someone or something and the impossibility of ever being able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aging: The End of Retirement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[5. EXPERIENCE]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] To retire means to withdraw, retreat, or remove oneself from a particular circumstance in order to engage in something different. The traditional view of retirement is that it brings one period of life to a close while simultaneously ushering in a new beginning in some other mode of life. The origins of retirement [...]]]></description>
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