Happy for No Reason (audio)

Marci Shimoff with Aurora Winter, griefcoachacademy.com

Marci Shimoff is happy and in love for no reason at all (OmTimes.com)

   

(awarenessmag.com)

How do we raise our current happiness level? Is there a process to open our hearts and dissolve all pain, heartache, and psychological emptiness. 

  

Sometimes we need a fresh approach to deal with the negativity in our mind, in our relationships, and in our environment. What is it? What are the three essential "happiness habits" to live a life of freedom, joy, and ease?

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Aurora Winter, Grief Coach

Marci and Aurora share the latest scientific research on happiness with personal stories and the wisdom of the ages around releasing grief and reclaiming happiness.
  
Enjoy! Aurora Winter is dedicated to everyone's happiness as the founder of the GriefCoachAcademy.com, (866) 344-3108.

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Suu Kyi's Engaged Buddhism (audio)

NPR.org (Morning Edition), June 20, 2012
Burmese opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is getting an honorary doctorate from Oxford Wednesday. Last week, she formally accepted the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. As she tours Europe, Suu Kyi is being honored for her nonviolent political protest against a military junta that kept her under house arrest [and continues to operate as dictators of Burma] for most of the last 20 years. But her philosophy of civil disobedience might have to change to fit her new role as a politician back home.
  
  

• A Life Beyond Money
• Closer look at Daw Suu Kyi and ethnic turmoil
• Sonali Kolhatkar welcomed a thoughtful guest to explore what's really going on in Burma -- from new "freedoms" within an impoverished police state to its government-fomented turmoil between Buddhists and extremely marginalized non-Buddhist ethnic minorities like the Rohingyas. The audio is archived for 90 days (Uprising! Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:00 am). 
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• Oxford to honor Suu Kyi after years of house arrest 
• Burma's Suu Kyi visits London, Oxford on UK tour 
• Burmese journalists win battles, but war not over 
• Suu Kyi walks on with "star-struck" Bono 
• PHOTOS: Bono's many brushes with greatness (AP) 
• Suu Kyi' bittersweet return to her alma mater Oxford

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Can Men and Women be just friends? (audio)

Text: Linda Holmes, Monkey See (NPR.org); Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

They're not naked if it's "art" - Ai Weiwei's nude supporters (monster-island.net)

  

It's a question that kicks around endlessly without resolution: Can men and women really be just friends? [The answer depends on your sex.]

   

On Weekend Edition Sunday, NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Faith Salie and Mario Correa, hosts of WNYC's RelationShow, about it.

• LISTEN TO THE SCIENTIFIC DEBATE (NPR)

As it happens, Faith and Mario are friends, but they put that down in part to the fact that Faith is straight and Mario is gay.

  

They describe some research that makes them think perhaps platonic friendship between straight men and women is NOT, in fact, really possible.

  

Some of the research indicates that men, in particular, are somewhat likely to both report some level of attraction to their female friends and to believe their female friends feel some level of attraction to them.

 

    

Now, I will make a confession... But I am always willing to listen to [scientific] research.... More

   

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