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How Is Genuine Self-Esteem Actually Developed?

Sometimes, you may feel bogged down owing to factors that may not be too obvious. Despite giving your best at the workplace and elsewhere, a sense of negativity and gloom may permeate your mind. There are days when you feel like staying disconnected from everything and everyone. This is often caused by low self-esteem. There ...

Raven Montmorency

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A Tutelary God Repaid Kindness With a Silver Coin

This is a true story that took place in central Taiwan concerning a tutelary god (a guardian god).   A couple lived on a tight budget and often quarreled with each other over their finances. Despite that, they got along most of the time and led a simple life together.  One night, the husband had a dream. A tutelary ...

Helen London

A statue of a village god placed on a famous tomb in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.

Have You Ever Experienced Lucid Dreaming?

A lucid dream is described as a type of dream where the individual dreaming is, in fact, aware that they’re asleep in their physical form yet still awake mentally. It has been said that individuals can even control the narrative of their dreams while in this state of dreaming.  I find the concept of lucid ...

Katrina Hicks

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How Kindness to an Old Beggar Was Rewarded

Victor grew up in a poor family in England, and his parents were both working for a living. Although the family lived in poverty, they had an abundance of integrity, kindness, and love. When Victor was a child, he met a poor old man who was begging at the door. It was winter, and it ...

Helen London

A beggar holding a little silver bowl full of coins.

What Is Being in the Flow?

This is an important question, as being in the flow has the potential to impact many aspects of your life. We all know that when we are “in the zone,” everything just seems to flow. Everything clicks and falls into place. We perform effortlessly and our productivity is through the roof. But what is brain ...

Armin Auctor

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How a Poor Young Man Became an Entrepreneur

Many people dream of starting their own business and becoming successful entrepreneurs. But they feel heavy-hearted believing that they will never make it without any financial privilege or joint venture (JV) funding.  But the following story may prove this belief wrong as it shows the successful journey of a young man who started up a ...

Hermann Rohr

Multi-story buildings and a radio tower with trees and light poles in the forground and mountains in the background of Mohe County, Heilongjiang Province, China.

Liu Xiangshi: Legendary Fortune Teller of Taiwan

In Taiwan, there lived a legendary fortune teller whose magical powers and skills for fortune-telling are still being talked about long after he passed away. He was Liu Denan, better known as Liu Xiangshi. He was from a very poor family.  When he was 10 years old, during the period of the War of Resistance against Japan, Japanese warplanes regularly bombed his local neighborhood. During those bombing raids, he and his friends often took refuge in the local bridge cave.  On ...

Michael Segarty

Fortune teller in a painting.

Your State of Mind Impacts Your Health

Scientists have observed that our moral state of mind affects our health. For example, people who lack patience age faster while people with a loving heart tend to be healthier, and honest people are even better off. Your state of mind impacts aging The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published a study in January ...

Emma Lu

Man holding helium-filled balloons at the beach in the shape of a heart.

8 Great Ways to Teach Your Kids Gratitude This Christmas

Christmas is a time of giving and being grateful for what we have. Thus, Christmas is an excellent time to teach your kids gratitude. 8 ways you can teach your kids gratitude this Christmas  1. Give back It can be easy to think of Christmas as a selfish time of year, but you do not ...

Raven Montmorency

Two children, a boy and girl, wearing santa hats and sitting in front of a Christmas tree while the boy whispers in the girl's ear.

8 Simple Activities That Teach Kids an Act of Kindness

When it comes to raising kind kids, it’s not about lecturing them on what they should and shouldn’t do. Kindness is a state of being that needs to be nurtured and cultivated. And the best way to do that is by getting your children involved in fun activities that teach them to perform an act ...

Emma Lu

Smiling redheaded boy playing with an alphabet puzzle.