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Going with the Flow

Posted on11. Jun, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

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“Nothing that you want is upstream….The stream of well-being is a powerful stream… When your stream is moving fast, and you’re not flowing with it, it’s beating you up, and it makes you grumpy…” –Abraham-Hicks
This video speaks for itself. One of the best… simple… amazing… teachings – delivered in less than 10 minutes!
Here’s to experiencing more flow [...]

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Nurturing Creativity

Posted on10. Nov, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

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I’m writing a book about Simplicity. I’m finding the process excruciatingly not simple!
After two days of thrashing and butting up against all my resisting, exhausting, perfectionistic patterns – and very little to show for all my efforting – I saw a fabulous 20-minute video of a talk given by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love.
Whether [...]

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Reducing Stress in Hard Times

Posted on16. Oct, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

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How do we cultivate happiness in hard times? Especially when there is so much stress in the world.
Today’s five-minute movie feature is Tony Robbins on Good Morning America. Though his mile-a-minute message is pitched to viewers experiencing economic hard times, I believe his wisdom on how to reduce stress and cultivate happiness * is useful [...]

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Lighting Up the World from the Dance Floor

Posted on25. Sep, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

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If you knew me, you’d know that I studied dance intensively for six weeks at Harvard at the grandmotherly age of 30. I was the oldest one in the program. I thought if I studied Ballet, Modern, and Jazz for 6 hours every day I’d get this “dance star” thing out of my system.
Not.
But I [...]

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Changing Our Story Around Money

Posted on30. Jun, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

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“What you’re living is the (temporary, in the moment) indicator of your vibration.”
–Abraham-Hicks
This YouTube video says it better than I ever could. It’s very funny too! The way Abraham-Hicks portrays the nonstop (and annoying) chatter of the Monkey Mind is priceless!
I found myself laughing and cringing at the same time – aware of the tightness [...]

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Fresh, Alive, Real…Food

Posted on09. Jun, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

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“Simplify, simplify…” – Henry David Thoreau
Last night I watched the second segment of Brian Williams’ “Inside the Obama White House,” which aired on NBC last week. One of the highlights for me was seeing the new garden that the Obama’s have installed this year at the White House. (It’s stunning!)
I especially loved seeing the chefs [...]

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Why I Watch (and Love) Television

Posted on22. May, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

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“Hey Ted, move your head.”
Living in a family of book lovers, readers, and library fanatics, I feel a twinge of guilt every time I turn on the TV. Why is it that I feel somehow “less than” when I choose this visual pleasure over a written one?
Maybe it’s because it was called the “idiot box” [...]

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Living the Dream

Posted on21. Apr, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

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Even when things look impossible, bleak, or even hopeless, I love it when life throws us humans a curve ball that reminds us not to be so quick to judge (or throw in the towel).
Such is the case of an unlikely contestant on a show called “Britain’s Got Talent.” You may have heard about [...]

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Living My Life Like It’s Golden

Posted on24. Mar, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

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Spaciousness. Want to know what it feels like? (One way, anyway.) Four words: Jill Scott singing Golden. For best results: Play it really loud and listen to the lyrics.
I LOVE this song. I listen to it in my car every chance I get. I crank it up when I feel celebratory (like the morning I [...]

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Awareness Changes Everything

Posted on10. Mar, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

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“I feel completely different today. Almost like my meltdown
created space for a whole new me.” (sbv)
If you read “Massaging a Meltdown” (Feb 23, 2009), my blog post which describes a rough re-entry I had after two weeks in the sun in Mexico, you might be interested to know what happened next:
Nothing…Everything.
Here’s what I did:
Nothing.
The emotional [...]

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The Obama Effect: A New Dawn

Posted on23. Jan, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

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“All around us, Washington is glowing, not just from the flood lights and flash bulbs of thousands of people already here to watch history, but seemingly lit from within.”––Anderson Cooper reporting on the Inauguration of President Barack Obama, on CNN
There’s was a lot that moved me as I watched history being made this week.
There was [...]