Someone the other day asked me how to explain the difference between Reiki healing, Spiritual healing, and Christian prayer, and whether there was actually a difference between any of these things. So this is what I came up with.

Christian prayer of course depends on a belief in the Christian God, and involves and individual making a request to that deity to intercede in some way in the life of another person, whether that be to eliminate a disease or symptoms or make some improvement in the life of the intended recipient. There will be no thought of an energy providing the mechanism behind such changes, and the person offering up the prayer is essentially powerless in the situation, unable to influence the outcome beyond asking or pleading with the deity to intercede.

So there are important differences when compared to Reiki.

The practice of Reiki does not depend on a belief in any diety or pantheon and does not require any sort of religious or spiritual beliefs, so it should be acceptable to people of any, or no, religion. And because there are no Gods in Reiki, there is no-one there to ask for help in a particular situation. Thats not to say that some Reiki practitioners dont bring their personal spiritual or religious beliefs into their practice, though, so it wouldnt be unheard of for a Christian, say, to practise Reiki, or practise their Reiki healing, in the name of Jesus Christ, and some Reiki practitioners might call on the Ascended Masters or Spirit Guides when treating or attuning someone, but that is their personal choice and is not something that is an essential, or necessary, part of the system.

The Reiki practice that comes closest to Christian prayer would be distant healing, I suppose, where one sits quietly, perhaps clasping ones hands together, enters a gentle meditative state, and allows the energy to flow to the recipient. We are neutral in the process, of course, not pushing for a particular end result, just allowing the energy to do what it does, and we tend to have in mind that the healing is for the highest good of the recipient.

But Reiki practiitoners do not necessarily frame that highest good in terms of a deity that decides what is right for the recipient: we are merely framing the energy transmission in such a way that we are not pushing the recipient to receive a particular result, or even receive or benefit from the energy: we are offering it up for the recipient to receive or not receive, as is appropriate. And as to who or what determines what is appropriate for the individual that is left vague.

So the ways in which Reiki is not the same as Christian prayer boil down to our not requesting a particular end result (we stay neutral and offer up the energy when practising distant healing, certainly) and in not requiring the existence or intervention of some deity in the process.

To the casual onlooker, Reiki healing would appear to be much the same as Spiritual Healing, where energy is channelled from a higher source, through your hands, into the recipient. But there are some major differences, and that is what I want to describe here. Spiritual Healing and Reiki are not the same. In the end I see all forms of energy healing as working with the same sort of stuff, so the differences are in how you connect to the energy and what you do with it when youre connected. I am in no way an expert on spiritual healing in all its forms, but from my point of view the differences between spiritual healing and Reiki are as follows:

Spiritual healing grew up through Victorian Spiritualist Churches, with their table-thumping sances, and has thus had a sort of Christian origin which has continued to a greater or a lesser degree. Reiki is Japanese and has more in common with Tai Chi, QiGong, Shiatsu and Acupuncture, Mystical Buddhism, Shintoism etc. Having said that, the NFSH (National Federation of Spiritual Healers) in the UK is non-denominational, but I see the *origins* of spiritual healing as being connected to Christianity, and spiritual healing is offered at some churches.

Spiritual healers learn through practice to connect to and draw down the energy. Reiki practitioners go through a connection ritual that gives them a strong and consistent connection to the source right from day one, which I imagine seems to be a nonsense for spiritual healers, who have to work hard and long to do this.

Though some spiritual healers would see themselves as attuning to the energy just before they treat someone, the word attunement has a special meaning within Reiki, and does not refer to an individuals preparation to give a treatment. Attunement within Reiki is a special connection ritual that is carried out on a Reiki student when they attend a Reiki course.

Once attuned on a Reiki course, the Reiki student is able to channel chi strongly from day 1. It seems to give a strong consistent connection to the source, according to spiritual healers to whom I have taught Reiki. Students can then carry out daily energy exercises (similar to QiGong exercises) to help make them a stronger channel for the energy.

Spiritual healers believe that they can be vulnerable to astral plane entities when they open themselves to the energy, so they take steps to protect themselves by visualising bubbles of light around them, and close themselves down closing down their chakras at the end of a treatment session. I have heard of some spiritual healers having someone on hand to stand guard as they treat. Reiki people do not have such beliefs, they do not generally take those steps, and the energy seems to be inherently protective.

If you believe that you need to protect yourself then your underlying belief is that you are vulnerable, and that becomes your reality. It you believe that you are safe then you are too!

Protection is also seen as needed to prevent a practitioner from picking up problems from the person they are working on. I have met people particularly hands-on therapists (reflexology, aromatherapy etc.) who have experienced this problem. Reiki however seems to prevent this from happening. I have taught many therapists who found that attunement to Reiki both prevented them from picking up things from their clients, but also stopped them from feeling drained at the end of a session. Reiki seems to have the protection built in, without having to do anything to achieve this.

Thats not to say that some Reiki people arent taught to protect themselves, and visualise protective bubbles etc., but this is usually something that is passed on by Reiki teachers who started out in spiritual healing. They have brought their spiritual healing beliefs with them, and applied those rules to the practice of Reiki.

Spiritual healers tend to treat people seated in a chair, and work in the aura. Reiki people tend to treat people who are lying down on a treatment couch and tend to use a hands-on rather than a hands-off approach.

There seems to be more of an emphasis on self-treating within Reiki, an essential part of the system. I dont get the impression that this is the same with all spiritual healing.

In the way that Reiki is taught and practiced in the West, symbols are an integral part of the system, used both in the connection rituals (attunements), and used when treating others. The symbols give the Reiki practitioner more conscious control of the energy they are working with, though ideally the symbols should be used intuitively rather than being imposed in a calculated academic fashion. Spiritual healing does not use symbols.

Now the above are generalisations, and I am sure that there are many, many spiritual healers out there who will disagree with what I have just said, but as I understand it, those are the main differences between spiritual healing and Reiki.

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Barbara Marx Hubbard has been called "the voice for conscious evolution of our time" by Deepak Chopra and is the subject of Neale Donald Walsch's book "The Mother of Invention."

A world-renowned visionary futurist, evolutionary educator and inspiring speaker, Barbara is the author of six acclaimed books that communicate the new worldview of conscious evolution. She is the co-founder and chair of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, and additionally co-founded many progressive organizations, including The Association for Global New Thought, as well as The World Future Society.

In 1984 her name was placed in nomination for the vice presidency of the United States on the Democratic ticket with the campaign theme "To Fulfill the Dream, a Campaign for a Positive Future."

She is the producer and narrator of the award-winning documentary series entitled Humanity Ascending: A New Way through Together and is currently co-producing with The Shift Network a global multi-media event entitled, "Birth 2012: Co-Creating a Planetary Shift in Time" on Dec. 22, 2012. This event aims to unify 100 million people worldwide in coherence and social synergy to birth a new "evolved" era and "universal humanity." Barbara's previous books include: The Hunger of Eve, The Revelation, Conscious Evolution, Emergence, the 52 Codes for Conscious Self Evolution and her new book Birth 2012 and Beyond: Humanity's Great Shift To the Age of Conscious Evolution

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Barbara Marx Hubbard was born in 1929. She is a major originator of the new world view of conscious evolution, has reached thousands of students on the theme of a positive future and written 9 books on this theme.

She is co-innovator of the process called SYNCON leading toward a more synergistic democracy.In 1984 her name was placed in nomination for Vice President of the United States on the Democratic ticket proposing an Office for the Future to scan for, map, connect snd communicate what is working in the world. She is founder and co/chair of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and co-chair of The Center for Integral Wisdom. She is now teaching major new courses with Humanitys Team.

In 2012 she co/initiated and was the spokesperson for Birth 2012, a global initiative with Shift Network to dramatize and connect what is working on the world. She is a founder and member of the Evolutionary Leaders, the World Future Society, AGNT, the Association for New Thought and Ervin Laszlos Club of Budapest.

She has 5 children, 10 grandchildren, 3 great grandchildren and has her office and residence at Sunrise Ranch in Loveland, Colorado.

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Daniel Steven Pea Sr.[1] (born August 10, 1945), also known as Dan Pea, is an American businessman and business coach. He developed QLA (Quantum Leap Advantage) methodology which is based on his years of experience buying and selling businesses. He currently resides at Guthrie Castle, Scotland, United Kingdom where he hosts his exclusive seminars.[2]

When he turned 5, they left Florida and moved to east Los Angeles, California where he spent most of his youth. He is the son of Manuel Pea, a former Lieutenant Commander, WWII and Korean War veteran, CIA operative and was the lead investigator for the RFK assassination investigation in 1968.[3]

Pena graduated from Reseda High School in 1963. After that, he went to CSUN to take up math and engineering until he voluntarily enlisted for the US Army and attended OCS (Officer Candidate School) at Fort Benning on 1966. He held the rank of Second Lieutenant and cooperated with NATO in the late 1960s.[4] After graduating from military school, he went back to college and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from California State University, Northridge (CSUN) in 1971.[5][6][7]

He was the founder, former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Great Western Resources Inc.(GWRI), a Houston-based natural resources company public on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) that explores and produces coal. GWRI has operations in US, the Gulf of Mexico, the United Kingdom, and South America.[8][9][10] In January 1992, Pea was ousted from the company and he then decided to bring the issues to court. He subsequently won and GWRI was asked to pay an undisclosed amount to the former chairman and founder.[11]

He is also the founder and chairman of The Guthrie Group, an investment consortium, incorporated on the Channel Islands in 2002. He also founded a company called iZone-iHUB, which ran a hackathon with the stated purposes of allowing start-ups the ability to develop their ideas and pitch products for potential investment.[12][13][14][15]

Before he founded GWRI, he was the Chairman of JPK Industries, Inc., a company which focused in the petroleum industry.[citation needed] He was also with the investment banking firm of Bear Stearns and Co. where he advised clients internationally, not just in the USA.[citation needed] And he served as President and CEO of Kennedy Industries Inc., a company with interests in real estate, the entertainment/movie industry, insurance and also financial services.[citation needed]

List of notable rewards and recognition he received throughout the years:

Here are some of of the books he published throughout his career in business:

He participates in various charitable activities, such as: Faith Foundation a Primary school in Rwanda[24], Holy Family Mission in Sri Lanka, Student Athlete High School Scholarships in name of Dan's father, Manuel S. Pea, at Lincoln High School in East LA (USA), The Wounded Warriors in the USA[25] and also provided financial support and donation to his blind friend and mentee Tony Ward, who established the Fighting Blindness Charity Institution in Ireland.[26]

In March 2006, an Indian software engineer alleged that Pea, Pea's wife, Sally Hall, and employee Bill William Smith[citation needed], had deceived him and stolen credit card details from illegal proxy websites that they operated. Smith was arrested in Bangalore and all three were charged under the Information Technology Act of 2000.[27]

In August 2009 the cyber crime police in India told the I ACMM court that it was a "mistake of facts" and the court officially acquitted him of all charges. [28][additional citation(s) needed]

Last 2017, a wedding planner named Craig Williamson at Guthrie Castle stole 130,000 from couples who booked the wedding venue to fund his gambling habit and then fled to Ibiza. He was then arrested and sentenced to jail for two and a half years.[29][30] The castle owner, was later interviewed by BBC News and he said that he honored and refunded all the couples affected by this unfortunate incident.[31]

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Boat Pose:Boat, Ship, Canoe, Kayak(Balance on your buttocks with your legs up. Then rock in the water like a boat.)

Bow Pose:Fish, Whale, Basket, Sleigh, Angelfish, Nest, Bow(Lie on your tummy, bend your knees, lift your chest, reach your arms back towards your toes, and hold onto your feet.)

Bridge Pose:Bridge, Boardwalk, Ramp, Overpass, Whale(Lie on your back with your knees bent and your feet flat on the ground. Rest your arms down alongside your body, tuck your chin into your chest, and lift up your buttocks and back to create a bridge.)

Childs Pose:Mouse, Mole, Urchin, Rabbit, Rock, Snail, Hedgehog, Seed, Ladybird, Turtle, Hippo, Curling Leaf, Cloud(Sit on your heels, slowly bring your forehead down to rest in front of your knees, rest your arms down alongside your body, and take a few deep breaths.)

Downhill Skier:Downhill Skier(Stand tall in Mountain Pose with your feet hip-width apart and then bend your knees. Rest your elbows slightly above your knees, clasp your hands together, keep a straight spine, and look forward, pretending you are skiing down the mountain.)

Mountain Pose:Mountain, Cactus, Helicopter (swinging arms), Bird (flapping arms), Penguin(Stand tall with legs hip-width apart, feet facing forward, and straighten your arms alongside your body.)

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Mindfulness isnt just about the mind. Its a holistic approach to living that addresses the entire person. As we learn to monitor and direct the activities of our minds through meditation, its helpful to bring that same kind of conscious, compassionate awareness to our entire bodies. Yoga teachers frequently remind students to listen to your bodies, and with good reason. Scientific and medical studies have shown that physical ailments and pain can have their root causes in emotional traumas, stress and other nonphysiological causes.

I have come to believe that the purely physical realm of illnessthe part you can diagnose with laboratory testsis only part of the equation, the physician Lissa Rankin, M.D., has written.

Tuning in to our bodies is the first step in learning to take better care of them through proper exercise, diet and other vital lifestyle choices. Fortunately, the same Eastern spiritual traditions that have brought meditation to the West have also brought mindful forms of physical exercise such as yoga and Tai Chi Chuan, both of which have become very popular in America and Europe over the past few decades.

WesternersAmericans, in particulartend to think of physical exercise in terms of competitive sports. And while tennis, soccer, baseball, football, etc. all provide a great cardiovascular workout and can improve muscle tone, theyre basically outward-directed activities. The whole point is to beat your opponent, which means youre essentially reinforcing and acting out the same aggressive, competitive tensions you face in the workplace and other potentially stressful life situations. One might argue that competitive sports are a nonharmful way to work out these aggressionsleaving aside sports injuries for the moment. But youre not really learning much about yourself that wayabout why, for example, you feel so aggressive in the first place.

Yoga, in contrast, is an inward-directed form of exercise. Its noncompetitiveintegrating rather than polarizing. Theres no us vs. them. Theres just you and a burgeoning sense of your connection to all of life around you. The word yoga has its origin in a Sanskrit term meaning to yokethat is, to realize and actualize a connection between the individual self and the universe. And while Tai Chi Chuan has its origins in the martial arts, it too is often taught as a form of noncompetitive meditation in motion in the West. Both yoga and Tai Chi Chuan can teach you a lot about how your consciousness exists in relation to your body.

Stone carvings found in Indias Indus Valley and dating from around 3,000 B.C. depict human figures in what appear to be yoga postures. So the modern practice of yoga may go back that far, if not further. The first historic written record of yoga is a mention in the Hindu scriptures known as the Vedas, which date from around 2,500 B.C. Yoga is a comprehensive spiritual system aimed at the attainment of enlightenment. Asanasthe familiar physical postures of hatha yogarepresent only one branch of the overall yogic system.

Yoga first came to the West when the Indian master Swami Vivekananda toured Europe and the United States in the 1890s. Many yoga and spiritual teachers from India followed in the late-19th and early 20th centuries, including Paramahansa Yogananda, founder of todays Self Realization Fellowship. Yoga got a big boost in the West with the consciousness-expansion movement of the late 1960s. Another revered Indian yogi, Swami Satchidananda, was chosen to open the Woodstock rock festival in 1969.

Yogas next major upsurge in popularity came in the 1980s as its physical health benefits became better known. In 2001, there were approximately four million people practicing yoga in the United States. By 2011, that number had grown to about 20 million.

But as Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health founder Amrit Desai once said, Yoga is very popular today. But whats popular today isnt really yoga.

Meaning that the commercialization of yoga in the capitalist West has slightly warped peoples perceptions of it. The promise that doing yoga will give you tight buns and a hot little body is used to sell designer-brand yoga wear and a host of yoga-centric consumer goods. You can find fitness-oriented exercise forms that have yoga-sounding names, or that combine a few yoga asanas with more strenuous activities. These will certainly help you develop your physique. But youre not likely to develop much mindfulness that way.

So if mindfulness is your goal, youre better off sticking to one of the more traditional yoga modalities. Youll still tone and tighten your body, but youll also cultivate a beautifuland happiermind. Most yoga styles taught in America can be practiced without having to buy into a spiritual belief system and will still benefit both body and mind. While you can get the basics from books and videos, its best to learn from a certified yoga teacher, who can make sure youre aligning your body properly, obtaining maximum benefit from the asanas and, very importantly, avoiding injury. You may have to try a few different yoga studios to find one that feels right for you. Fortunately, there are many across the U.S.

While instruction styles differ, yoga classes typically begin with some kind of activity that focuses and centers the mind. Often this is done by chanting the Sanskrit syllable om. But if that seems too religious, you can find teachers and classes that use other centering exercises. Fitness centers and gyms are good places to look.

After this initial exercise, the teacher will lead the class through a series of asanas designed to work each part of the body systematicallystretching the muscles and ligaments, aligning the spine and working to keep it flexible, limbering up the joints and improving blood circulation. There are classes for every level of experience, from beginners to advanced. The class atmosphere is noncompetitive. If you find an asana too strenuous or demanding, you can simply come out of the posture. Try to avoid comparing yourself with other students in the class or trying to compete with them. Again, yoga isnt a sport. This is a different kind of exercise.

Youll also want to maintain an inward focus. This is the mindful part of yoga. Pay careful attention to how each asana makes you feel, both physically and emotionally. The teacher may remind students to focus on their breath to help with this. This is another way of meditatingone where you dont have to remain sitting on a cushion. Gradually you should feel yourself becoming more relaxed and tranquil, which is perhaps the main reason why yoga has skyrocketed in popularity over the past 20 years.

Toward the end of the class, the teacher will have students lie flat on their backs in savasana, or corpse pose. From there, they will be led in a progressive relaxation exercise, focusing in turn on each part of the body, from the feet to the crown of the head, and relaxing each part totally. After this, you will leave the class feeling refreshed and far less stressed than when you first walked in.

Yoga Journal magazine has listed 38 different health benefits to be derived from yoga. These include helping regulate blood pressure, blood sugar levels, cholesterol levels and the adrenal glands; boosting the immune system; improving balance; maintaining the nervous system; strengthening the spine and relieving pain. Yoga can also improve digestion and help you sleep better, and it has proven effective in combating depression. But perhaps the most important item on the magazines list is Number 12: Yoga makes you happier.

Mindfulness, a very simple form of meditation, has been proven to increase calm, reduce depression and help combat anxiety associated with our increasingly frantic existence. In this special guide, the technique is explained in clear, everyday language, with additional information on its spiritual roots and present-day application. Buy a copy today.

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As you begin to experience your biological unity with the plant kingdom, you embark on an exciting voyage in consciousness that can open you up to a new understanding of medicinal herbs, aromatherapy, meditation and spirituality. This manifests in many ways, from the kind of herb gardens you grow to how you use essential oils in your practice.

For instance, when we smell an essential oil such as lavender, we can begin to perceive that it conveys elements of the earth, and moonlight and sunlight directly into our consciousness. So lavender is relaxing but what were looking at is why because its conveying something from the outer environment into our internal environment.

By understanding plants in a more multi-dimensional way, we open up a deeper cosmological view and a more dynamic relationship with the life force around us. We cultivate more prana or chi. We harmonize our bodily systems. We heal old traumas.

You can envision this new relationship with the plant kingdom by thinking of it in terms of growing new and deeper roots for embodied living. This strengthened root system in your consciousness allows you to weather metaphorical storms, droughts and other life challenges.

This increase in groundedness applies not just at the personal level but the collective one. If were trying to grow a healthy new culture, we need to deepen our roots by connecting to the biological realities that allow us to grow in a way that is sustainable.

Put simply, by reconnecting with plants, we re-establish a relationship with the ground of being.

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In this 7-module transformational intensive, David will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies to become attuned and aligned to your deeper biological interconnectedness with the plant kingdom. Youll develop a broader spiritual lens that will support a deconstruction of false notions about your relationship with plants, and youll learn how to work with energy, consciousness and healing in new ways.

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Dear friend on the path,

Welcome to the first-ever enrollment for The Eckhart Tolle School of Awakening.

I know many of you are experiencing inner transformation. Perhaps you have begun to realize the possibility within yourself of living from a different state of consciousnessa state we call "the awakened state."

But transformation often presents challenges. A difficulty many people come up against is how to integrate and stabilize their arising new consciousness in daily life.

The dance between the world of form and the formless, or the un-manifested, can lead to suffering and confusion.

Many of you may be asking, "How do I live in this world and stay rooted in deeper states of Being and Presence?"

The School of Awakening was designed to help you transcend the egoic state of mind that makes life seem like a series of frustrating or unsatisfying experiences. Awakening is a release of the dysfunctional state of mind that creates suffering so you can discover and live from your true essencewhat I refer to as the "Deep I."

The world will continually challenge and try to pull you out of living from this awakened state of consciousness.

Your commitment is what keeps you rooted in the present moment.

This can lead to the realization that your primary purpose in life is awakeningliving consciously and being a bringer of consciousness in the world.

The School of Awakening will further the awakening of consciousness that is already happening in you and allow you to integrate it more continuously in everyday life.

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In response to a growing number of requests from students on retreat with Eckhart, she eventually developed PTM into its current form. People wanted a form or structure for the movement, but at its deepest level, PTM is not about form. Its not about the physical per se; the physical is simply a vehicle, a portal to stillness and to essence. You can do the exercises, but if youre not tapped in to stillness, youre just doing exercises.

Kim encourages practitioners of PTM to evolve the practice for themselves after learning the forms through workshops or retreats. Through stillness, your own way of moving will emerge naturally, as an unfolding practice that you create every day.

Perhaps most importantly, PTM has provided a complement to Eckhart Tolles teachings that takes people from conceptual knowing to direct experiencean experience that has proven elusive especially for those readers and followers of his work who are very much identified with their thoughts and therefore have not really had a direct experience of stillness before. Many of those people find the inner stillness through the PTM approach, Kim explains. And for those who have already had an experience of stillness, it can help them go more deeply into it.

Kim considers this practice one of many spiritual pathways to awakening and wholeness. She emphasizes, For those with whom it resonates, it is a practice that can resolve lack of alignment with Spirit and Source, especially if traditional sitting methods have not worked for you.

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Personal empowerment is about taking control over your life. Of course, life is multi-faceted. There could be many areas of your life that you want to improve or feel more control over for example, your finances, your career, your health and maybe even your love life.

Instead of feeling like a victim or like circumstances control you, you can become empowered. The first step to empowerment is to begin to identify goals.

Take a look at your life and start asking questions. Focus on where you feel most happy and where you feel unhappy. Unhappiness may stem from not feeling appreciated, purposeful, or respected. Explore where you feel unhappy and why. You can then set goals to reduce or even eliminate that unhappiness.

For example, if youre unhappy because you never have any energy, you can begin researching the cause of your lack of energy. You can then set a goal to get more sleep, eat better, or you visit a health care practitioner to identify the cause.

Whether you feel like a victim of circumstance, your past, or a victim of a person or organisation, you can regain control and set empowerment goals to move past this feeling. For example, maybe you feel like a victim of circumstance with your current financial situation. Assess why you feel like a victim and what you can do to turn around the situation.

What are your strengths? When do you feel most confident? In what areas of your life do you feel like youre most in control? Sometimes when you focus more on these areas of your life and strengthen your sense of joy and empowerment, it spills over into other areas of your life.

Identifying and defining your personal empowerment goals takes some time and deep thought. Give yourself time to think about how you feel about your life and what steps you can take to make your future one that youre excited about.

Grab a notebook and start jotting down goals and ideas for your future. Dont just stop at the goal that you want to set for yourself; also identify how youre going to achieve that goal. What steps are you going to take? Identifying your goals is the first step to living a more empowered life.

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How To Define Your Personal Empowerment Goals