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Life Balance Advantage Bootcamp

Personalized small group work (limited to 6-8 students) reserved for those who are serious about making rapid life changes. Participate in a series of six 90 minutes sessions focusing on becoming mentally focused, physically energized, emotionally centered, interpersonally connected and spiritually aligned.
Mark Armiento
June 25, 2012
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The Emotional Path

How we use our emotions in life can be a great source of happiness or the plight of misery. Learning emotional independence and maturity; knowing specifically what you’re feeling and how to responsibly express it, is essential to true inner peace and happiness.
Mark Armiento
June 24, 2012
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Find significance and meaning in our lives

Victor Frankle believed that the striving to find significance and meaning in our lives is man’s primary motivational force; nevertheless, this innate striving for life purpose can also be impeded due to ordinary existential adversity. Unfortunately, this can also result in spiritual depletion.
Mark Armiento
February 26, 2011
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What kinds of life questions do you ask yourself?

Do you live by the belief that if you were to continually ask yourself important life questions, that sooner or later the answers would just come? Asking ourselves life questions is only half the strategy for attaining success and happiness in life – the other half is discovering the right questions to ask ourselves.
Mark Armiento
June 1, 2010
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What fits for you: Spiritual or/and Religious?

Religious experiences are usually known as occurrences that are uncommon, in the sense that they don’t fit in with the norm of every day life experiences and are connected to the one’s perception of the divine. Religious experience is entirely a subjective phenomenon, however commonalities and differences have been argued by scholars for many years.
Mark Armiento
March 8, 2010
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Somewhere over the rainbow: Wellness beyond sobriety

Many view the illness of chemical dependency and addiction with the assumption that sobriety (the absence of drinking or substance abuse behavior) indicates true wellness. But actually there exists many degrees of wellness, just as there are degrees of substance misuse.
Mark Armiento
February 11, 2010
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An old Hasidic story

“An old Jewish tribe in a middle European Country faces crisis. They are about to be invaded; they look to the old venerated Rabbi for guidance and wisdom. The Rabbi said he had no immediate answer, but he knew how to find one: he went into the woods. He lit a fire. He said a prayer. God answered his prayer. The Rabbi told the people what God had revealed. The people did God’s will. The village was saved. That was the experience. Following the experience, the second generation said: “The woods we cannot find, but the fire we can, light and prayer we can say.” The third generation said: “The woods we cannot find, the fire we cannot light, but the prayer we can say.” The fourth generation said: “The woods we cannot find, the fire we cannot light, the prayer we cannot pray, but the story we can tell.”…
Mark Armiento
January 16, 2010
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Stop & Listen

A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried up to meet his schedule. A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping continued to walk. A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work. The one who paid the…
Mark Armiento
January 1, 2010
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Acres of Diamonds

In the mid 1800’s Russell Conwell, an educator & minister was approached by his following to assist them in getting into college. He felt very strongly about creating the opportunity for poor folks to get formally educated. He spent years raising the millions to establish Temple University! He accomplished this by giving 6000 free lectures where he told the following TRUE tale of an African farmer: The farmer excited about prospecting for diamonds spends his life in vain pursuit! Despondent, he threw himself into the river & drowned. The new owner of the African farmers original property, the one he vacated to find his fortune, discovered a large crystal in the stream that ran through the property. He placed it prominently on his fireplace mantle.
Mark Armiento
December 19, 2009
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True and lasting happiness comes through experiences of fulfillment

We search all of our lives for happiness, living the delusion that it will appear during moments of personal wealth, pleasurable experiences or when our soul mate finally appears. The truth is that lasting happiness is a direct result of one’s contributions, spiritual insights, and expansion of our personal and collective consciousness. During the upcoming holiday season ask yourself: Do I feel fulfilled? What will bring me lasting happiness? If you answered the second question: If only I could receive that special holiday gift, be given that new _____ (fill in the blank), or manifest that physical changes that I’ve been wishing for, THINK AGAIN! Our ultimate goal in life is always a spiritual one: i.e. peace, harmony, happiness (subjective state of joy), feeling “in tune” with the universe that you are part of. Money doesn’t buy Happiness! 42% of those on the Forbes 500 richest list were less happy…
Mark Armiento
December 8, 2009