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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 way [...]

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Enhancing Intimacy in Relationships

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger02.03.2010 Mind Sculpting

How to create a practice of enhancing intimacy:

Learn to tolerate difficult feelings through abdominal breathing. Deep breaths bring you back into the present moment.
Remember that all feelings have a rise and fall. The intensity of any feeling you experience will subside.
Actively listen to your partner or friend by paying close attention to the nonverbal cues [...]

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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 great wife [...]

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Red Mountain Spa: Adventure, Relationships and Inspiration

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger01.04.2010 Adventure
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Every year I am blessed with the opportunity to present workshops and seminars at the Red Mountain Resort and Spa.  The workshops and seminars cover a wide range of women’s issues like resilience, building healthy relationships, happiness, gratitude and forgiveness, parenting concerns, building supports systems etc.
This year my talks will be about love, romance and [...]

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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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Create the Practice of Building Friendships

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger12.12.2009 Mind Sculpting

How to build friendships:

Be pro-active. Be willing to take a risk and make a new friend.
Make daily contact with one or two friends or potential friends. Building friendships takes time.
Foster your friendships and put them high on your “to do” list.
Pay attention to which friends leave you feeling uplifted and which friends bring you down. [...]

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Welcome to Dr.RKG – What Women Need – Video

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger12.08.2009 Life Lessons

Throughout our lives we are faced with challenges, transitions and losses. How can you find the strength and grace to let go of what is lost? It is about thriving…not just surviving.

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Resilience, Relationships and Happiness – Video

by admin112.05.2009 Balance & Happiness

Women’s Workshop on Creating Greater Resilience, Relationships and Happiness
This video is about creating healthy relationships the ability to successfully manage family and work responsibilities. The ultimate key lies in our capacity to self regulate and build healthy friendships and support systems. The women involved in this seminar are from Wayland, Massachusetts.

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My Empty Nest

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Saying goodbye to my daughter, Amy, brought up memories of my going off to college. I also felt infused with a sense of loss in the pit of my stomach. I ached for my girl.
I had to remind myself it was a different experience when I left for college, because I knew I would probably [...]

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Viva La Difference

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger12.02.2009 Communication
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Last night my husband and I attended a stunning performance of Stravinsky’s Petrushka by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. At the intermission I asked him what he was thinking about during the concert. He said with a smile that he imagined old Bugs Bunny cartoons. At first I felt annoyed that his mind had not drifted [...]

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