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		<title>Harvest Time—Closing of Life&#8217;s Cycles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At harvest time, my mind inevitably turns to 'cycles.' Life is full of cycles, and harvest is the closing of one of them.  The harvest cycle begins with an intention, the intention to grow a crop, and it ends with the actual harvest. In between there was soil preparation, seeding, watering, weeding, etc. Seeing the cycle through to completion took work and a lot of patience and simply 'allowing.' ]]></description>
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		<title>Chronically Unhappy People vs. Happy People</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Neill Neill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You and I have experienced people who seem to be stuck in chronic unhappiness. It is as if they had "Victim" tattooed on their foreheads and wore a badge saying, "long-suffering."  There is no question that some of the chronically unhappy people have suffered severe trauma and bad times. But there are other chronically unhappy people who seem to have everything going for them. They may justify their gloom with excuses like, "How can I be happy when some animals are going extinct?" ]]></description>
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		<title>To Celebrate your Life is to Expand your Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Neill Neill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why celebrate?

If you fulfill an intention, if you achieve something, and then you celebrate what you have accomplished, you are acknowledging to your center and to the universe what you have done. This tends to anchor it as real.

Too often, when we achieve something, we forget, or neglect out of false modesty to celebrate and anchor what we have done. Instead, with no change in pace, we just whimper, "Next!" We are left with the feeling we haven't got anything done.]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness, Therapy and Money: Psychological Well-Being</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Neill Neill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all want to have a sense of psychological well-being, that is, we want to be happy.  So what do we do to gain happiness? We work harder. We buy lottery tickets. We invest. We do anything we can to improve our economic well-being, because we believe it translates directly into happiness. Furthermore, we do this as individuals and as a society.]]></description>
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		<title>Family Peace and Holiday Stress</title>
		<link>http://www.neillneill.com/family-peace-and-holiday-stress</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Neill Neill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most families the holiday season is an emotional time. Our young children make more demands upon us. Our adult children expect something of us. If our parents are alive, they may have expectations of us. Our friends may expect us to go shopping with them or go to parties—thus causing holiday stress!]]></description>
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		<title>Have Yourself a Mellow Little Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.neillneill.com/have-yourself-a-mellow-little-christmas</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Neill Neill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We hope that Christmas is a time of joy and happy memories for everyone but the sad truth is, it is not.  Many people have experienced the loss of a loved one and celebrating Christmas without them is unbearable. ]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Entitled to Happiness?</title>
		<link>http://www.neillneill.com/entitled-to-happiness</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 15:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Neill Neill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I write about happiness, entitlement, achievement and meaning. How do they all connect?]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Change: Do You Welcome It or Resist It?</title>
		<link>http://www.neillneill.com/personal-change-do-you-welcome-it</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Neill Neill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to popular belief, we all want change. We all want to grow. We are hard-wired to seek happiness, bond with others, reproduce and make our lives better. The inevitability of change comes with the territory of life.]]></description>
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		<title>In Search of Happiness</title>
		<link>http://www.neillneill.com/in-search-of-happiness</link>
		<comments>http://www.neillneill.com/in-search-of-happiness#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 01:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Neill Neill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reflections on the nature of happiness and on what we all need to do to achieve happiness.]]></description>
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		<title>The Measure of a Man</title>
		<link>http://www.neillneill.com/the-measure-of-a-man</link>
		<comments>http://www.neillneill.com/the-measure-of-a-man#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 23:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Neill Neill</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mid life crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Men in from 40 to 55 years old go through an uncomfortable period of self-reflection as they search to understand their core qualities, those qualities that measure them as men.
 ]]></description>
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