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A... http://www.purearticles.com/health_medical/to_conquer_fear_you_have_to_become_fear_itself.html To Conquer Fear, You Have To Become Fear Itself by Zamri Nanyan What I've learned from "Batman Begins", the movie, was more than the cost of a ticket to sit in a dark room full of strangers for more than two hours. Well, actually the... http://www.purearticles.com/health_medical/to_boost_your_brain_move_your_body.html If you really want your brain to be at its best, you need to commit to regular physical exercise. Does that surprise you? You may wonder why physical exercise is important if your main priority is to improve your brain function. Aren't very... http://www.purearticles.com/health_medical/to_be_is_to_become.html To make change effective, you have to BE what you want to BECOME. There is a concept that I'll bet you have heard about most of your life. It goes something like this-"You can do anything, if you put your mind to it." 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Sure! ... http://www.purearticles.com/health_medical/the_top_10_creative_strategies_for_moving_into_action_and_for_getting_bottom_line_results.html Your ability to move into action and to achieve bottom line results rests in the power of your thinking. These ten strategies will support you in transforming your desires into concrete action. 1. Expose your fears. Fear is a gift that was... http://www.purearticles.com/health_medical/the_tibetan_and_chinese_health_secret_if_you_read_one_health_report_a_year_this_should_be_it.html It seems as if the health of America is failing. One million Americans will die of circulatory disease this year. Six hundred thousand lives will be cut short by cancer as well. How did we get in such a mess? I’m not sure. But there is a way... http://www.purearticles.com/health_medical/the_three_you.html Today if we are asked as to what kind of person we are, we tend to say, we are not a GOOD HUMAN BEING. We say this not out of modesty but out of guilt-stricken sincerity. Though we don’t call ourselves Bad, we don’t consider ourselves Good either.... http://www.purearticles.com/health_medical/the_three_factors_of_leadership_motivation.html Leaders do nothing more important than get results. But you can't get results by yourself. You need others to help you do it. And the best way to have other people get results is not by ordering them but motivating them. Yet many leaders fail to... http://www.purearticles.com/health_medical/the_sweat_stops_here.html As many as one in 100 individuals across the UK suffer from severe excessive sweating or hyperhidrosis, according to the clinical paper Boni R. in Kreydon OP, Boni R, Burg G (eds); Hyperhidrosis and Botulinum Toxin in Dermatology. Many more... http://www.purearticles.com/health_medical/the_swan_on_the_chopping_block.html When Anderson wrote “The Ugly Duckling”, he was imagining a natural transformation from awkward youth to mature beauty. 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Im not sure where the drink industry turned the corner but contests and advertisements... http://www.purearticles.com/health_medical/the_startling_statistics_on_road_rage.html * A recent Gallup poll reported that motorists were more worried about road rage (42%) than about drunk driving (35%). - NY Times * The Mizell Report, commissioned by AAA, uncovered 10,037 crashes caused by violent aggressive driving... http://www.purearticles.com/health_medical/the_stand_out_principle.html Think for a moment about all the people you know that Stand Out from their peers. Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky and Tiger Woods may come to mind. Singers like Madonna, Paul McCartney, Pavarotti, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald. Actors like Tom... http://www.purearticles.com/health_medical/the_springtime_of_peace.html The deeper beauty of spring is its process. In winter's last days, as the sun warms the earth, each root and branch awakens to the patterned memory of who it is and what it can be. 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