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Planning for Atkins

October 30, 2008 By The Passion Diva Leave a Comment
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When it comes to the Atkins diet, your success will lie in your planning. Making sure you have the proper foods on hand when you begin your diet will go a long way toward your ongoing weight loss. There are many suggestions for Atkins diet meals in the Atkins books, and there are plenty of resources online for Atkins and low-carb recipes. Planning your meals and snacks will be an important part of your life when you are on this diet. That advice really goes for any diet. When you eat whatever … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Good Health Tagged With: adjustment, Atkins, carbohydrate, chicken, effort, experiment, Good Health, patience, planning, substitute, weight, zucchini

Energy Healing 101: Pranic, Tantric, and Reiki

October 23, 2008 By The Passion Diva Leave a Comment
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You have probably come across exotic-sounding terms such as “chakra”, “prana”, “aura”, and “tantra” in your course of reading books on spirituality, sex, and healing in the New Age literature section of the bookstore. But what’s the real scoop behind these exotic vocabularies? Are All Energy Healings the Same? Chakra or energy center is a term used in Pranic healing, an ancient Hindu system of energy healing. “Prana” means life energy. “Aura” is another terminology … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestyles Tagged With: energy, Good Health, healing, Meditation, patient, present, Sex, spirituality, Tantra, Tantric, terminology, thickness

Cutting the Red Dragon

October 20, 2008 By The Passion Diva Leave a Comment
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"Cutting the Red Dragon"1 is a term of Feminine Alchemy. In the cultivation of Feminine Alchemy, menses are compared to the "red dragon". Physiologically speaking, a fundamental difference between females and males is that the former has menstruation. The Daoist Pristine Cultivation Sect believes that unceasing menstruation will result in failure in Inner Alchemy cultivation. Therefore, for a Feminine Alchemy practitioner, the first barrier to be passed is to stop menstruation, namely "Cutting the … [Read more...]

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Establishing Online Dating Relationships: Safety First

October 16, 2008 By The Passion Diva Leave a Comment
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Online dating can be fun. But don’t neglect safety and common sense when you try to hook up with a mate. At minimum, take caution in the following areas. Protect Your Computer Take care of your equipment and systems before you head out into the Internet realm. You need to have a firewall and anti-virus protection for your email and for when you search websites and interact online. At the bare minimum, you may want these two solutions that are offered at no charge to home computer users (i.e. … [Read more...]

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11 Buildings Wrapped in Gorgeous Green and Living Walls

October 15, 2008 By The Passion Diva Leave a Comment
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TreeHugger.com has a great article on Living Walls.  You see this a lot in Kelowna, not sure if it intentional or not, but it looks beautiful.  I can't wait to see what I can accomplish on my deck next summer! Frank Lloyd Wright once said, “A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.” It turns out that his suggestion is also a good idea for creating handsome buildings. And who wants to hide an investment in green away on the roof when you can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestyles Tagged With: blanket, carbon, dioxide, everyone, habitat, heating, summer, Vertical

Common mistakes of Atkins dieters

October 13, 2008 By The Passion Diva Leave a Comment

This has been the best "plan" that has worked for me, so I am again working the plan.  But this time I am really viewing it from the point of view a lifestyle commitment.  Like a Vegetarian in reverse :) And of course I am also added much more activity into my life! I am very comfortable with this decision. The Atkins diet is one of the simplest weight loss plans to follow. Although the principles are clearly set out in the books, there are some common misconceptions that occur for dieters. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Good Health Tagged With: activity, carbohydrate, detoxify, dieting, difference, experience, Good Health, Induction, lifestyle, metabolism, portion, sugar, Vegetarian

The Tao of Love and Sex – The Ancient Chinese Way to Ecstasy

October 9, 2008 By The Passion Diva Leave a Comment

Jolan Chang explains how the ancient philosophy of Taoism can be applied to modern sex techniques. Two thousand years ago, at a time when the Christian West was frantically repressing sexuality, the Chinese were enjoying an erotic life that fused the sensual and the spiritual, in which sexual guilt and sexual aberrations like sadism and masochism were all but absent. This bestselling book by a leading modern exponent of Taoism makes that erotic life available to all who seek it. With its emphasis … [Read more...]

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Tantra: A Transformational Practice for Couples by Diana Daffner

October 6, 2008 By The Passion Diva 2 Comments

In the recently published book, Yoga and the Quest for the True Self, psychotherapist Stephen Cope discusses our need for transformational environments, cocoons such as schools or ashrams that allow us to mature our rebirthing into wholeness. He outlines eight specific qualities that one should look for in an authentic transformational space. A Tantra love relationship can be considered a powerful transformational space, a spiritual community of two that provides an effective and delightful way … [Read more...]

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New Tribalism By Royce Carlson

October 3, 2008 By The Passion Diva Leave a Comment

New Tribalism By Royce Carlson As people flock to the cities and life in the Western world becomes more crowded and alienating, some people are creating new social structures that resemble tribal structures. Why are people doing this? What does the tribal social structure offer that our modern world doesn’t? What are new tribes and how are they created? All of us have ancestors that lived their lives as part of a tribe. For some of us, that may be the case now, but for most in the western world, … [Read more...]

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