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Looking back now, I see that I have been a lifelong learner, making it a priority to attend professional development conferences, Cathy says. I still do, learning new techniques, and attending yoga conferences as well. Yoga has offered me chances to travel and study in Mexico, Seattle, Denver, Toronto, Boston, Los Angeles, Iceland, and now Duluth. Cathy is currently enrolled at Soma Yoga International in Duluth, studying a yoga therapy program that blends yoga and somatics. It works on healing physically, emotionally, and spiritually, Cathy says. I don't think complete healing can happen unless we include the spirit in the journey. I feel so grateful that I can offer people a treatment plan that includes their spiritual health as well. While Cathy continues to conduct traditional hatha yoga classes, her specialty is therapeutic yoga, helping people get out of, and stay out of, pain, both physical and emotional. Outside of her scheduled classes, she holds private individual yoga sessions. Seeing and feeling the result of your already having lived and achieved that which you want. Giving yourself the positive and empowering self-talk--always verbalized in the present tense as if you have and are enjoying those qualities right now--and seeing in your mind and feeling the terrific emotions of the reasons you want to do, be and have the things that you do. For if you have enough reasons, you will find enough ways to have whatever it is that you want. THE POWER OF AN ORGANIZED MIND Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life. Many people complain that they just can't seem to find the time to do what they really want to do. They may even say that they're organized, yet their actions say something entirely different. Look at their desks, homes, closets, cars, or appearance. All these are merely indicators of how well organized their internal thinking and direction is. Surveys have found that people with organized work environments make on the average many times more than their messy counterparts. When characterized in its entirety, antisocial personality disorder is much more dramatic and disconcerting.

Antisocial personality disorder is characterized as a prevailing behavioral pattern of disregard or violation of the rights of others. Since many of the signs and symptoms of APD overlap with other disorders, it is not easy for practitioners to diagnose this condition. A single test to assess a person does not exist. Before any conclusions can be made, a comprehensive medical exam and mental health interview must be conducted. A primary factor in diagnosing someone with antisocial personality disorder is the person's age when their symptoms first began. An APD diagnosis requires that the person showed symptoms of conduct disorder before the age of fifteen. Signs and symptoms of antisocial personality disorder appearing before age fifteen may include: Cruelty to animals Little or no regard for people's feelings The I and me, small and vulnerable to begin with, get distorted. We try to live up to what we think others think of us, even at the expense of our values. Rarely, if ever, do we consciously, intentionally, create our own values. We make life choices using this twice-reflected image of who we might be, without really thinking it through. Cooley called this phenomenon the Looking-Glass Self. We live in a perception of a perception of ourselves, and we've lost our real selves as a result. How can we recognize who we are and what makes us happy when we're chasing the distorted reflection of someone else's dreams? You might think that the hard part about becoming a monk is letting go of the fun stuff: partying, sex, watching TV, owning things, sleeping in an actual bed (okay, the bed part was pretty rough). But before I took that step there was a bigger hurdle I had to overcome: breaking my career choice to my parents. By the time I was wrapping up my final year of college, I had decided what path I wanted to take. She has helped cancer patients, nursing home residents, and troubled children find healing and comfort through yoga practice.

For people dealing with pain or heartache, we are dealing with little broken pieces, Cathy says. Yoga can help them feel whole. THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS One of the first projects I undertook in my position as a Senior Services librarian was to form a group I inelegantly dubbed the Lifelong Learners Creativity Group. Forming the group made sense for a librarian. A 2015 Pew Research study revealed that adults who use libraries are more likely to consider themselves to be lifelong learners, actively pursuing learning opportunities. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has added lifelong learning to the list of services all libraries should provide. The group was consistent with a library's mission to engage learners and inspire thinkers, but the formation of it was not simply a job-related, altruistic move. It had been months since I'd felt the kind of creative energy that tended to reveal itself in the writing classes I'd conducted. The outside is only a reflection of the inside, and what a message it can tell! When it comes to success and achievement, why is it important for you to be organized? Oh, that's simple. To start with, organization eliminates guesswork; Just by doing that, you decrease anxiety and stress and empower yourself to feel more in control of your life. All of this helps you find the time to release your creativity, which will increase your self-worth, thereby helping you want to use your gifts, talents and abilities to provide service to others, which in turn raises your market value to society, thereby increasing your wealth and giving you the rewards of a better lifestyle, a sense of accomplishment and deep fulfillment. And I've only just begun. TIMING IS EVERYTHING All things happen when they're ready, and not a moment sooner. Haven't you found that to be true? Poor academic performance in school

Alcohol or substance abuse Impulsiveness Not motivated by either approval or reward Suicide attempts Criminal behavior Explosions of anger A true APD diagnosis cannot be made until the age of eighteen. The symptoms are typically most evident between the ages of twenty and thirty. Signs and symptoms of antisocial personality disorder in adulthood may include: I told my parents I would be turning down the job offers that had come my way. I always joke that as far as my parents were concerned, I had three career options: doctor, lawyer, or failure. There's no better way to tell your parents that everything they did for you was a waste than to become a monk. Like all parents, mine had dreams for me, but at least I had eased them into the idea that I might become a monk: Every year since I was eighteen I'd spent part of the summer interning at a finance job in London and part of the year training at the ashram in Mumbai. By the time I made my decision, my mother's first concern was the same as any mother's: my well-being. Would I have health care? Was seeking enlightenment just a fancy way of saying sitting around all day? Even more challenging for my mother was that we were surrounded by friends and family who shared the doctor-lawyer-failure definition of success. Word spread that I was making this radical move, and her friends started saying But you've invested so much in his education and He's been brainwashed and He's going to waste his life. My friends too thought I was failing at life. I'd seen what could happen in a room full of people who invested in their craft, and I missed those passionate conversations about writing.

I'd experienced the same thing at writers' conferences too; I needed what this group could offer. It turned out others did too. Women in the fledgling group admitted they weren't sure what they'd gain from membership, but something in the description had appealed to a restless stirring within them: Perhaps you were the daydreamer in grade school, the child staring out the window with a head full of stories, or the one reading articles from your lap beneath the desk. Then someone snatched the box of crayons from your hand, insisting you'd done it all wrong; Or maybe they pulled the article out from beneath your desk, telling you it was time for math, not reading. Whether you're ready to reignite your childhood passion for all things creative and want your crayons back, or are looking for a way to connect with your inner artist and others who think outside of the box, a new group forming at the James Kennedy Library might be of interest. The group was not closed to males, nor was there any age restriction, yet our initial membership consisted of women ranging from their early thirties to mid-seventies. How many times in your life has it happened that you planned and planned and did everything needed for success, but your timing wasn't quite right and that deal you wanted didn't happen in the time and way you thought? It is little wonder so many people are frustrated. The reality is that people want to control everything. They want things to happen and they want them to happen when they want them to happen. However, whether it's romance, finance, career, fun, hobbies or whatever, there is a perfect time for anything and everything. One of the most profound lessons successful people in life say they learned was that their timing was off because they weren't in synch with the higher purpose for their lives. All things happen in God's perfect timing, and everything will work in divine perfect order for your life if you let it. These people have found that when your prayers, needs and desires are answered, so are many others people's answered at the same time. Step back for a moment and look at some of the things that have happened to you when your timing was right on. You'll be amazed to find how making your dream come true also made the dreams of many others come true too. Disregard for right and wrong