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		<title>Presence: Awakening</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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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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		<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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		<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: 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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		<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>
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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>
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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>
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		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<title>Belief: Dying to Live</title>
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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>On the Loss of My Parents &#8211; 12</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 17:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Closure means to find a resolution to a significant event in a person&#8217;s life. With respect to the loss of a loved one, closure ultimately means to find contentment and gratitude as the final and most significant outcome of death. This is the twelfth and final entry I will dedicate to the series [...]]]></description>
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