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		<title>Aging: Senescence as Creative Inspiration</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<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>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/5691/aging-the-end-of-retirement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Aging: An Unexpected Life</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/5567/aging-an-unexpected-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Life expectancy embraces a statistical assumption about how long, on average, we will live. We might also think about is a projection of when, on average, we can expect to die. For example, newborn Canadians will on average live to approximately age eighty-one. A sixty-five year-old Canadian can expect to live into their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aging: Creating A Foundation for Fulfilment</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/5531/aging-creating-a-foundation-for-fulfilment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] November mornings somehow inspire reflection. It&#8217;s strange to wake-up while it is still dark and this seems to be something that I never quite adjust to. Our natural internal rhythms somehow feel more forced as the amount of available light during the day decreases during the fall and winter months. On this November [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experience: Release From Self-Sabotage</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/5406/experience-release-from-self-sabotage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] When we are sabotaged we are in some manner undermined, injured, attacked, or vandalized. Sabotage retrieves imagery of warfare in which one side secretly attempts to destroy or disable critical facilities, structures, or positions of the enemy. The essence of sabotage lies within opposition and hostility directed toward a perceived threat to our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breathing: A Confluence of Body, Mind, and Spirit &#8211; 2</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/5355/breathing-a-confluence-of-body-mind-and-spirit-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Breathing Into Discernment: The first article in this series explored the importance of developing breath awareness as a means to explore the intuitive and deeply integrative realm of thoughts, feelings, and emotions that flow throughout the confluence of our everyday lives. Breathing affects everything in our experience, and our first task is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative Resilience: The Elements of Creativity</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/5334/creative-resilience-the-elements-of-creativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] The essential purpose of creativity is the provision of security and sanctuary from the confluence of situations and circumstances that circumambulate our presence in this world. That is, our creative capacities are most effectively used to nurture, cultivate, and care for ourselves, the people around us, and the earth itself. Creative resilience is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nature of Belief: Dying to Live</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/4985/nature-of-belief-dying-to-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] How do our beliefs change when we are faced with our own mortality? Our lives are fragile and inexorably transient. Our presence will transform when we die. The nature of our transformation at death is an unknown and, in spite of our proficiency in creating fanciful stories that propose an explanation and perhaps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional Terrain: Anxiety &#8211; Fear in Search of a Cause</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/2879/emotional-terrain-anxiety-fear-in-search-of-a-cause/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:31:49 +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 its most intense form, the fear response is specific to a time, place, moment, circumstance, or situation. In the midst of a [...]]]></description>
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