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Writing First e-Book and DrRKG.com Posts

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger05.20.2010 Balance & Happiness
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Striving to create a meaningful website and blog, DrRKG: Gaining Balance and Strategies for Happiness, I write several posts each week. When the blog launched in January 2010, writing these posts felt like a daunting task. I labored over the composition of each one. Now several months and 70 posts later, I feel as though [...]

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Finding your Flow

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger05.10.2010 Balance & Happiness
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Incorporating ‘flow activities‘ into your everyday life is one of the keys to gaining balance and happiness. Remember as a kid how you got lost building castles on the beach, swimming, roller skating with friends, play games – those are examples of flow activities. As adults when we spend time reading, writing, gardening, dancing, painting [...]

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Maintaining a Positive Mental Attitude in the Face of a Physical Injury

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger04.30.2010 Affirmations
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Physical activity has always been a saving grace for me. As a teenager I loved swimming in the summers and running along the beach with my dog whenever I could. One day while meandering through the Brooklyn College bookstore I discovered a book on the practice of yoga. As I read that book, gleaning various [...]

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Cultivate Gratitude for Greater Health and Happiness

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger04.04.2010 Balance & Happiness
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A daily gratitude journal can enable you to be more optimistic, happy, creative and healthy. Our days rarely go according to plan or without unexpected challenges. The ability to appreciate what works well is a special gift that some of us have. Others need to cultivate a sense of appreciation, as it is a vital [...]

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Bringing a Book to Life

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger02.28.2010 Balance & Happiness
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Throughout my life I’ve always had a secret passion for writing. Stacks of journals accumulated over the years line my office book shelves. My first journal dates back to second grade. Back then I wrote about the activities of the day, the weather or the food I ate. Over time the writing became more inspired [...]

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Helping Women with Breast Cancer: Two Friends Create JILLIES®

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger02.28.2010 Balance & Happiness
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Sandy just underwent a mastectomy followed by reconstructive surgery for breast cancer. When she returned home, she put on her JILLIE® and wore the cozy 100% cotton garment throughout her recuperation. “It was soft and feminine and made me feel better, less like a patient,” she said. “The Velcro made access to my post-surgical areas [...]

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The Healing Powers of Friendship

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger02.16.2010 Balance & Happiness
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Remember those times when you felt lost and all alone. Maybe your relationship was on the rocks. Maybe you were sick and no one was around to take care of you. Perhaps you screwed up at work or that you were about to get downsized. Maybe you thought no one could possibly understand the pain [...]

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Strategies for Happiness and Balance – How To Create These Practices

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger02.10.2010 Balance & Happiness

Abdominal breathing, meditation, mindful walking, constructive rest and building friendships are some of my favorite behavioral strategies for balance and happiness. Click on any of the titles listed at the bottom of this page and learn how to create these practices for yourself. Abdominal breathing is useful anytime and can be practiced in a concentrated [...]

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The Benefits of Laughter

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger01.10.2010 Balance & Happiness
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At a motivational seminar three women are asked to come up to the stage. They are all asked, “When you are in your casket and friends and family are mourning, what would you like to hear them say about you? The first woman says, “I would like to hear them say that I was a [...]

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Welcome 2010

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger12.30.2009 Balance & Happiness
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My favorite and only resolution for the coming year is to have more fun. This year my commitment to myself is to clear the decks for at least an hour a day so that I can devote more time to doing things that make me laugh, feel enriched, balanced or energized. Not the usual resolution [...]

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