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Avoid the Traps of Unconscious Loving
Are you creating misunderstanding, hurt and conflict in your most cherished relationships — without even knowing it?

The Positive Side of Divorce: Becoming More Spiritual
Author Debbie Ford reveals how a devastating divorce can be turned into a profoundly life-changing experience.

Deepak Chopra Shares The Happiness Prescription
When it comes to mind-body health, spirituality and peace, Deepak Chopra has long been acknowledged as one of the world’s experts. Now he has turned his attention toward happiness.

How to Unleash Your Full Potential to Live Your Unlived Life
It's easy to allow the feelings of loss and regret about the past overcome our desire to enjoy life in the present. Learn how to emerge from negative emotions and inspire yourself to live life to the fullest again.

Why Good People Do Bad Things
Author and psychologist Debbie Ford explains how and why embracing your dark side can help keep you from doing something rash that damages the life you work so hard to create.

Eckhart Tolle's Advice For Waking Up and Living Your Best Life
An excerpt from Eckhart Tolle’s "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose," an Oprah’s Book Club selection and webcast event. For many who may not even have realized it, the process of awakening has already begun.

10 Ways To Nurture Greatness In Your Child
Great kids are emotionally and intellectually healthy people. Great doesn't refer to a specific temperamental quality, such as boldness; nor does it depend on athletic skills or on musical or mathematical or artistic talent. Great kids come in all varieties. And, given the right nurturing and encouragement, all kids can be great kids.

5 Steps to Overcoming a Painful Past
Reverend Cynthia James shares action steps from her new book “What Will Set You Free” on how to heal your spirit after painful events kick you to the floor.

Beat the Blues with Heart-Opening Yoga
Feeling blue? Yoga instructor Kate Hanley explains how to do simple yoga poses that open the chest -- a surprisingly simple and effective way to lift your mood.

Marianne Williamson Talks About Inner and Outer Peace
If you’re learning ways to find inner peace, are you really helping create world peace? Q&A with best-selling author and peace activist Marianne Williamson on what “being peace” looks like.

The Truth About Happiness: Q&A with Michael Beckwith
Michael Beckwith answers our top questions on the keys to becoming truly happy, based on the advice he shares as an expert featured in "‘The Secret’" and "‘Living Luminaries."

Get Creative to Live Healthier, Longer
Aging experts help you act on research showing that staying active and creative as you age yields better health and cognitive abilities, and more happiness.

4 Ways to Tap Into Your Intuition
Tips and techniques from experts on cultivating, tapping into, and trusting your intuition to help you make decisions -- in your personal life and even in business scenarios.

How to Break Through Toxic Emotions
Life coaching expert and author Debbie Ford helps you identify which of the 11 emotions are most impacting your life — and shows you important steps to breaking free of them.

3 Steps to Being ‘Happy for No Reason’
Chicken Soup for the Soul co-author Marci Shimoff, a featured expert in ‘The Secret,’ shares tips from her new book ‘Happy for No Reason.’

Relationship Fix: How to Tell Difficult Truths So People Thank You
It’s possible to tell the most difficult truths so that people are literally filled with gratitude afterwards. Follow this advice from The Relationship Survival Guide, and overcome what you fear the most about telling a life-defining truth.

The Secret behind 'The Secret': The Making of an Oprah Favorite Film
Rhonda Byrne says The Secret is not just the name of her film, but also the method behind its making -- and the key to her own ability to emerge from a dark time in her life and create this film that has created such a buzz.

Mariel Hemingway's Secrets to Healthy Living
In her new book, actress, yogi and survivor Mariel Hemingway shows you a 30-day plan to help you derive "more health, more peace and more pleasure" from the life you already have.

Start with Compassion: The Dalai Lama's message of peace
In the "human garden," says the Dalai Lama, more culture is more attractive. In this excerpt from his DVD Harmony in Diversity, he says we need to take care of each individual to have a beautiful society.

Making Conversations with God: Finally, a filmmaker Neale Walsch trusts
At the lowest point in Neale Donald Walsch's life, he asked God some very hard questions. Conversations with God tells the story of the answers he got. The author had been protecting his story from the movie business for a decade -- but then he met a kindred spirit in Hollywood.

Finding Spirit: Q&A with the Body Prayer Diva
America has embraced Seane Corn, the yoga teacher known for her unapologetic spiritual bent. What are they connecting with in her message? An intimate and candid interview with one of America's most sought-after yoga teachers.

8 Ways to Strengthen Your Relationship
Love and intimacy have been linked to better physical and mental health. Stay more connected to your partner with these tips from experts including "Dr. Phil" and Love & Survival author Dean Ornish, M.D.

Oh, Goddess! Is feminine divinity what's missing in your spiritual life?
Why honoring a goddess shatters female stereotypes and reveals creative, nurturing and intuitive elements of the divine -- filling a void in the lives of many modern spiritual seekers.

How to De-Stress in 1 Minute
Life running you ragged? Schedule too packed for you to breathe? Learn how to take short, 60-second mini-meditations to clear your mind and quickly reduce stress and release tension when the pressure is on.


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Cyndi Lee on an untouchable student
One woman's journey and a seemingly insignificant event that was actually a really big deal.

Shiva Rea on the Cha Cha Cha of Life
Feel angst that you're not always going forward? How to be at peace with it by reconnecting with a simple rhythm, a grounding activity or simply being conscious of how "one step back" can be a positive one.

Shiva Rea's Unexpectedly Spiritual Moment
Spirituality doesn't just happen in churches and on mountaintops. Yoga trance-dance diva Shiva Rea experienced it in the power of connection at its most spontaneous, in a most unlikely place -- a public transit stop.

The Greatest Spiritual Teachers May Be Closer Than You Think
Yogi Nicki Doane recalls a great influencer of her sense of spirituality -- her grandmother. This story about the power of faith is a reminder about the value of welcoming a tapestry of different belief systems into your circle.

Seane Corn's idea of spirituality
Ask 10 people and you'll get 10 different answers on what spirituality means. Seane's take reminds us that it's not just about good things, and that everyone is a spiritual being.

The Secret: Turn Thoughts Into Realities
Preview the DVD featured twice on Oprah for its power to turn lives around. Learn to use the law of attraction to bring the things you hope for into your life, from positive loving relationships to weight loss, financial freedom, your dream job .... This is the trailer clip for the groundbreaking documentary / how-to film.

How to Get Some Power in Your Life
"Most people don't know how to get power in their lives," says Tae Bo? creator Billy Blanks in this interview for Gaiam Life. Take some sage advice on how to power yourself up, from a man who defied the odds and the naysayers to become a karate champ and celebrity trainer.

Relationship Fix: Never Fight About Sex or Money Again
Relationship experts Gay Hendricks, Ph.D. and Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D., reveal why arguments about sex and money are almost never really about sex or money. Find out what's really going on and how to get past it to stop the bickering.

Rodney Yee: Make Peace Your Way
Got to get more peace in your life? When we ask Rodney Yee to share and talk about the thought leaders and books most inspiring his work today, his first message is Thich Nhat Hanh's: Peace is the way, not the destination.

Patricia Walden: Are You a Control Freak? Yoga Can Help
Trouble in relationships? At work? Maybe you're trying to be general manager of the universe. One of America's most respected yogis on how yoga helped her let go of control, react more thoughtfully, and find more peace in relationships and in herself.

Same Argument Again? How to Stop It
Keep having the same fight with your partner? Arguing at the same time every week? Relationship experts Gay and Katie Hendricks show how to shut down the next argument fast, and stop the cycle by expanding your feel-good "upper limit" — your capacity to enjoy positive energy.

How To Attract Healthy Relationships
We all long for finding the right relationship, but it isn't easy to do. Relationship experts Gay and Katie Hendricks explain the #1 key to to attracting healthy, fulfilling relationships.

Keep Passion Alive
Relationship experts Gay and Katie Hendricks share the top secrets of keeping the spark ignited long-term.

How to Find Peace Inside Yourself
Patricia Walden on how to regain inner peace.

Why We Never Argue
Relationship gurus Gay and Katie Hendricks share the secret to why they haven't had a fight in nearly 30 years or marriage.

Can Your Relationship Survive an Affair?
Can you and your spouse or significant other survive cheating? Experts Gay & Katie Hendricks on how to heal after an affair or infidelity.

3 Steps to Being Happy for No Reason: Video Q&A with Marci Shimoff
Bestseller "Happy for No Reason" author Marci Shimoff reveals surprisingly simple ways to find happiness.

Damanhur: Spiritual Utopia
A video tour of spectacular temples and progressive spirituality in this intentional community in Italy.

Sex Drive Clash? No Problem
Can you both feel fulfilled if your sex drive is higher or lower than your mate's? Sexologist Marilyn Volker says yes in this interview with a real couple, from Marilyn's "Red Couch Sessions in the City."

5 Cs Spell A Great Sex Life
To keep your sex life fun and interesting, sexologist Marilyn Volker says remember the 5 Cs in this interview with a real couple in one of her "Red Couch Sessions in the City."

Why You're Attracted
Opposites attract, and knowing why can be a key to relationship success. Quick insight from relationship experts Gay & Katie Hendricks.

Crazy Sexy Cancer
Possibly the most honest first-person account of (and advice on) dealing with cancer. With lessons and advice from actress/photographer Kris Carr's own journey giving cancer a "makeover".

Deepak Chopra: 10 Keys to a Happy Life
Mind-body wellness expert Deepak Chopra shares the keys to reaching true happiness with an audience in this clip from the Happiness Prescription DVD.


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