Petrene Soames' articles are grouped by the following sections:

Calendar Celebrations and Holidays:

Happy Valentine: Celebrate Love, Celebrate Yourself

Romance, love, lust, big business or plain indifference, February 14th brings with it Valentine's Day. Research reveals that approximately 74% of Americans celebrate Valentine's Day. But where did the Valentine's Day tradition begin? Is romance still alive and well? Can the romantically involved as well as the single celebrate it with equal gusto? The answer is definitely yes... [2 versions]

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Celebrate St. Patrick's Day and May the Luck of the Irish be with you

Yes, March 17th is rolling closer and just what we all need in these changing, sometimes confusing times: a reason to celebrate. Soon, pubs, clubs, schools and households all over the country will be turning their thoughts to shamrocks, Irish jigs, fairies, three leaf clovers, green beer, cabbages and all things Irish for this great day... Get out there; join in; let go and have fun because that's the true way to experience the luck of the Irish, and who knows, maybe, just maybe, the magic of the little people might just visit you too...

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April Fools Day: Foolish or Wise

April 1st, known as April Fools Day, is coming fast. Do you look forward to April 1st with a sense of fun or dread? Tradition celebrates this day by the playing of practical jokes on friends, family and even strangers... Let's look again at April Fools Day this year in a new light. We might allow ourselves to let go and be foolish without fear of judgment from others or ourselves. We can also take the chance to look around at all that we consider foolish and then open our hearts and minds to a broader understanding of the Fool in us all. Then we can truly celebrate without fear or dread...

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Celebrate the Holiday Season out of the box

For many of us Thanksgiving, Christmas and other holidays such as Diwali, Hanukah and Ramadan will fill us with joyful anticipation, warm memories of family and friends. For others the dread of stress, money we have to spend and that we cannot afford, and obligations that we can see no way around make the holiday season seems like a chore rather than a joy. In today's high-speed modern world many of us only get one or two days off from work and we have so much to do to prepare for the big day that it can become a nightmare, instead of those wonderful holidays we remember in our childhood. We experience massive marketing hype, which leaves us feeling at the end of the year empty and depressed. But we have a choice to get out of the rut, to really re-connect with the holiday spirit, choose the best and leave the rest...

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Winter Season:

Top Ten Tips to beat the winter blues

Even if we are not always inspired or at our best during the cold months of winter, there is a lot we can do to stay creative, fresh, alive and happy. Petrene offers 10 simple tips that will help your readers beat the winter blues.

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Winter colds and flu: what you think does make a difference

Let's look again at those winter months: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year celebration. These are Holidays times, family times, wonderful times, but periods of high stress for most of us. Our nervous system plays an important part in the well-being of our physical body, and when we are stressed, our body becomes run down...

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Switch from Blank and White and Color your life

Are you feeling down? Are the winter blues catching up with you? Well, look around: shocking pink, sunshine yellow, vibrant purple, midnight blue, have you noticed how many hot new colors are available in the stores over the past couple of years? Isn't it great? When you wear bold color, you say to the world: I feel great! or I want to feel great! When you explore and surround yourself with color, you also bring yourself the opportunity to improve your health because color is a healing material that makes people feel good...

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Spring Season:

Spring clean your life: it's easier than you think

Spring comes but once a year. It's a season awaited and welcomed by many. It's the time we brush away cobwebs, spring clean our house, replace the old with the new, generally feel ready and inspired to bring positive change into our life, and dream of exciting positive futures. So this year, let's not only spring-clean our house, but also spring-clean our life.

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Allergies: let's face it

Spring for most of us is the season of colors, flowers, life and love. But for many others, spring is nothing more than the most dreadful and feared Allergy Season. According to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, up to 20 percent of Americans suffer from allergies. Although many over-the-counter remedies and prescription drugs are available, many allergy sufferers keep filling their medicine cabinets with products that bring them little relief... [2 formats]

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Color your life: how to use color to change your life and feel great

Shocking pink, sunshine yellow, vibrant purple, midnight blue, have you noticed how many hot new colors are available in the stores? Isn't it great? When you explore and surround yourself with color, you also bring yourself the opportunity to improve your health...

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Summer Season:

School's out for Summer

Spring turns into summer and before you know it Summer Vacation has arrived. While you may be one of the almost fifty percent of Americans that didn't tale a vacation last summer, if you are a child, Summer break is inevitable. School breaks will always be important to both children and parents. But in these days of more one-parent families and many more families where mom and dad work, vacations can also be a stressful time to navigate through and ensure that our kids have happy summer vacation memories... See Petrene's Top Ten Tips to making the most of summer time fun when school's out for summer.

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Take a break

Are you one of the almost half of Americans who did not take a vacation this summer? Do you often find yourself rushing from A to B with no time to breath, working seven days a week and not taking time for lunch? If so, it's time to take a break. Taking a break is not only necessary for the well-being of our mind and body, but a real need. Ironic, isn't it, that if one waits for the perfect time to take a break, it never seems to come, because there is always something to do and take care of, instead of taking care of ourselves and accepting that well deserved break...

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Family - Relationships:

Are you loving or mothering your man?

We all agree that relationships are amazing. But hold on for a moment before you jump into a pool of romanticism and wonder, or shake your head in disbelief and despair. It's important to know if you are you a mother or a lover. We've all read the signs... We women are strange creatures. We want it all; we dream of love, strength, passion and power in our mates. When we first meet them, we love them for who they are. Yet somewhere along the way, we give them our all, loose sight of our own power and then try to change them when the going gets tough... Includes 10 questions to know if you are loving or mothering your man!

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What makes a great mom?

Mothers' Day is here again, that special day of the year when we celebrate the woman who gave us life and thank her for all that she is and all that she does. Where it is all start and what makes a great Mom? Find here the top ten most frequent aspects that seem to make a great mom...

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Drugging our kids: is this a sign of the times?

As a society, we agree on certain ways of being and doing which we consider normal. We generally believe that such rules are necessary to ensure that society runs as smoothly and safely as possible for the individual and the mass. Sadly, the boundaries and rules are not working, not just for a few but for more and more people, many of them children...

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Relationships: both joy and pain?

I used to think that relationships were all joy, as was life. I still do. Along my journey through life I met other people who hoped that life and relationships would be painless, but expected the opposite. In fact, many people believe that there cannot be pleasure and joy without pain: No pain, no gain! Personally, I would say that whoever came up with this concept has a lot to answer for!

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Tuning into love (2 parts article)

Love is a natural state of being which we can choose to experience and, if we wish, to express. Love is a part of every one of us, so why are so many starving for love? Are our own beliefs and ideals preventing us from accepting love?

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Personal Issues:

"Awaken the passion within" OR "Sex, Love, rock and roll"

Can you really have it all? What is love and do sex addicts exist? Read on to discover the top ten tips to awaken the passion within.

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Wake Up and Kick the Caffeine Habit for Good

Do you need a cup or two of coffee just to get started in the morning? Do you crave more coffee or a couple of colas to make it through the afternoon? While you're reaching for another cup, do you find yourself devouring a donut, Danish, or other fat, sugar-laden treats? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, read on and kick the caffeine habit for good, and get back on track with your life...

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Stressed out... Get on top!

It's a small word with big consequences. Stress has become more and more commonly used over the past 50 years. Stress is not a disease but a normal part of everyday life. It's not necessarily good or bad. Yet it can feel either or both. There are some people who seem to thrive on stress and chaos, while others become overwhelmed by it. Stress can lead to anxiety and also be the root cause or participating factor in everything from insomnia, hyperventilation, heart attacks, hypertension, depression, alcoholism, infections, immune system disorders and a host of other physical, emotional and mental problems...

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Failure is not an option

Facing a serious illness is a life-changing event. All the small things that you used to be worried about become unimportant. At the same time, some small things become precious and meaningful. A flower can be seen as if for the first time; a smile will speak volumes...

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Depression, coping beyond the clinical approach

As anyone who has experienced it knows, one does not simply snap out of depression. Help often is needed in one form or another. Petrene offers a series of tips that will help your readers to begin the climb out of the deep abyss of the depressive's state...

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How to heal your past and create the future you want.

Sometimes we need to step back and heal the past before we can move forward. Regression Therapy is commonly used to heal the past, allowing participants to free themselves and create positive and happy futures. However, you may not have access to a Regression therapist, or you may not wish to use Regression as a tool. Let's look at some simple exercises that you can use to heal the past...

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Discover the amazingly creative you

A group of friends are lounging on the deck, late afternoon, in the still hot Texas summer sun, discussing their latest creative endeavors. One beautiful woman who seems to have it all looks uncomfortable, then owns up wistfully to her belief that she doesn't seem to have a single creative bone in her body. This sets me thinking, right through the next few days, and propels me to write down my own thoughts on creativity, because life has shown me that we are all creative people, without exception...

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Healing the trauma of physical, sexual and emotional abuse

The emotional trauma left by abuse, although often devastating, can be healed. More and more women today are using self-healing and other alternatives as well as traditional therapy to heal themselves and move on with their lives. For women who have suffered abuse, feelings of rage, despair, depression, sadness and low self-esteem are common. Behavior patterns such as self-sabotage, attempted suicide, panic attacks, insomnia, addictions, poor relationship choices or not being able to accept or sustain a loving relationship are often hallmarks of former abuse...

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How to feel safe?

Feeling safe is an issue of paramount importance to us all in these changing times, especially after the September 11th attack on the USA. Reuters News Headlines on October 15th states that anxious New Yorkers turn to drugs. The story claims that New Yorkers are increasingly turning to psychiatrists, therapists and anti-depressant drugs to help them deal with stress, anxiety and paranoia. Adding to the tragic events of September 11th and its after effects on the individual and national psyche, Americans are now dealing with a new threat to their safety with the more recent confirmed reports of Anthrax contaminated letters. Recently the topic of smallpox is being brought up by the media, adding to already high level of stress...

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Yes, I am a woman of color

My house is painted in bright bold yellows, blues, purples, greens, oranges and many others. My wardrobe contains every color of the rainbow, but more importantly, I am yellow, green, pink, blue, red, gold, brown, white, black, violet, orange. I am every color that you can think of, all the colors you have ever seen and all these colors that you see in your dreams and have known as being from another place. Yes, I am all of those brilliant, wonderful colors, and so are you... Colors are vibrations. Science and Physics recognize this. We as humans are made up of vibrations. This is a proven fact. We each oscillate, scintillate and vibrate at different frequencies. This makes each and every one of us unique.... The colors that we wear, the colors that we live in and surround ourselves with, play a vital part in how we feel and how we express ourselves to the world. Anything and everything must go. We cannot afford to be victims to the dictates of seasons and fashions if we really wish to experience life...

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Self-Healing - Self-Help:

A choice to heal

Self-healing is not a major part of our world because we give it little space and accept many different concepts, percepts and beliefs instead. In order to accept healing, wholeness and perfect health, we will need to recognize our responsibility for the presence of imbalance within our lives and ourselves...

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A brief recipe for good health

Self-healing is not limited to dealing with one particular type of ailment, disease or imbalance at one time, but can also be used for prevention and to heal both serious and unusual illnesses. You will need to build your self-belief and set aside a lot of what you have been taught which makes you believe that you are not in control and cannot heal. Start today and give yourself a chance; you probably realize already that you have nothing to lose and everything to gain...

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Our Role in Personal Transformation and Healing

There is a lot of fear in the world today. Many people worry about a possible World War III involving chemical and nuclear weapons. Others are concerned that the end of the world is imminent, or that life as we know it will end. It is important to realize that when we learn to heal ourselves, we are not limited merely to changing our own realities; the world reality is also ours to change. We are all responsible for the collective thoughts and fears. In essence, we are as responsible as those that drop the bombs and pull the triggers. While we continue to accept war, violence and horror, our own fascination with the subject helps to create it. The choice and the responsibility are there for each and every one of us to use.

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Self-Healing: The Other Alternative

We are without a doubt in a time of change. Of course, this has always been true, but we appear to be more focused and aware of change now. Our own health and related issues are more talked about, more written about and researched by more people than ever before. Health has also become a vast enterprise in a growing market, and this includes the multi-billion dollar alternative health market. Despite the efforts, the facts are that the three leading causes of death in the United States have remained virtually unchanged for almost two decades...

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Bringing Positive Thinking

Choice in our lives is continuous and everywhere. Suppose you are not feeling good at this exact moment. Instead, you have a heavy, down feeling. Sometimes you don't want to deal with this feeling or dig deeper and see what this heaviness is all about right away. You would rather do that later. That's fine, but right now you want to feel great; maybe you even need to feel great...

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No More Pain

I meet many people who are afraid of being perfect, brilliant, assertive or beautiful, simply because they have faced jealousy and aggression from others in the past. And yet, there is a part within each and every one of us that wants to shine and to be recognized. All of the time that we spend hiding and standing in the shadows, we make it harder for ourselves and for others to be who we really are, to be perfect. The truth is simple: we don't need these barriers and confines, and we don't have to accept them. One small step taken by individuals can bring a huge shift for humankind.

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Self Belief: A first step to self-Healing

During the self-healing process, it is important to realize how much belief exists in you the individual, or anyone else you may be helping to heal. Sometimes you may feel that you want to be well, that you have total belief in being well, and that you are following all the requirements necessary for healing to work, but you are not making the progress you want. Blocks and non-beliefs will make themselves known at some point...

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Letting Go: simple tips to staying in balance

An important part of becoming healthy and staying in balance is letting go of tension, stress and deeply buried or surface negative emotions such as anger, frustration, fear, hurt, pain and hate. I mentioned these so-called negative emotions because I have not yet found anyone who was ill or out of balance because he or she was living in or holding onto an abundance of joy and love. However, people are often ill because of the loss of joy and love from their lives; some have never known either of these emotions..

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Self-Healing is empowering

As you realize, become aware, understand, and reconnect with what you know, you are empowered; you are no longer controlled by assumptions, incorrect information, and poor self-belief. The obvious has not been lost; it is still obvious and right in front of you. It is there for you to take and use in whatever way you need at this time. Getting back to the essence of self-healing reminds you of how clever, how smart, and how in control you actually are...

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What is self-Healing and why is it so important?

Self-healing means you healing you by using your mind, your hands, your awareness, or whatever else is needed at the time. Self-healing means you healing all of the different parts that make up your own self: the physical, the emotional, the mental and the all different you that you have been in the past as well as the present. As you use self-healing, you will become more aware of what your self is and you will see that you can heal the wounded, the hurt, the angry, the sad, and all the parts of you in pain... [2 versions]

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Yes, you are a healer

Yes! You are a healer. What' s more, you can heal yourself of a multitude of different ailments. With practice, your confidence will grow and you will be delighted with the results. The next step could mean helping your family and friends. So give yourself a chance, and get started today!

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I, The Healer

I do no view healing as being amazing. I see it as an ability that we all have, and can use. I see healing and self-healing as being a part of us that adds to and expands our lives. I like people and I believe in them. I like and believe in myself too. I see this as a basic and necessary part of being a healer...

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The importance of Touch

The studies about the damaging and harmful effects of touch deprivation are numerous. Enough research has been done over the years to determine that infants, children, adolescents, adults and seniors need touch and that the benefits of touch in our lives are quite substantial... We thrive with touch, and we become imbalanced without it.

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Out of Shape - Body Image:

Fat or fit: How to feel great with your body

The search for our true self has also become an insatiable need. Books, tapes, seminars, programs, retreats are everywhere. There seems so much to do in the quest to be ourselves, to recognize the perfection within us and finally gain that all-elusive having it all status. But is there a way we can feel great with ourselves and have it all whatever our body shape and lifestyle? The answer is yes, and it's very simple.

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If your body is out of shape, it's because you are not being in it.

For many of us, not being happy or satisfied or even disliking our body is a major block to happiness and awareness. Women especially spend a lot of time wishing their body was different in one way or another. We have not only bought into accepted concepts of what is perfect, beautiful and ideal for body shape, we also police ourselves constantly with thoughts and beliefs...

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The Myth of Good and Bad Food

We hear constantly about good and bad foods. We've become obsessed with reading food labels. If you ever hear a professional nutritionist speak, you might well come to the conclusion that there is little left on the planet that is safe or good to eat. It is easy to realize that we have at one time or another each bought into this idea: the good food and bad food syndrome...

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Out of the Ordinary:

Nothing is ever only as it seems

Have you ever been away from home, for say a week or 10 days, and noticed that everything looks and feels different when you return? You may notice objects and shapes that you had stopped noticing before. So to take a break from your present reality, to step out somehow is a good way to get a fresh perspective and to see things as new, or should I say, to see things in the present moment and more of how they actually are...

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Set Free Daydreaming - Bring Back Imagination

Mankind en-mass threw away one of our greatest keys to awareness, advancement, fulfillment, realization and happiness on a personal and mankind level. I feel very strongly that it is time to reinstate daydreaming and imagination to all of their former glory and to realize once again their many powerful and positive aspects. To daydream is to let yourself go, to cease concentrating on the everyday, to allow yourself to be some of the millions of different characters that you are and have access to...

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Setting Personal Boundaries

Perhaps I do not set as many personal boundaries as other people, and this can be seen as a weakness (the Fool may well be the Wise one in the end). The boundaries that I do set are generally for other people rather than for myself. I see that as humans we have somehow slipped into the belief that boundaries are necessary for order and self-preservation...

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Tips for everyone:

Top Tips for Stress Free Travel and Great Vacations

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Top Tips on how we can make life better for ourselves and the World a better place to live in

Petrene Soames' exclusive top tips on how we can make life better for ourselves...

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Have a great day: 12 tips to make the best of today

Is routine getting you down? Do you feel tired and listless? Is it hard to remember the last time you felt great? Let today be the first great day of the rest of your life. Simply follow these tips, give yourself a break and have a great day! Remember, whenever you decide to have a great day, go with what you feel. Break the usual routines...

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10 Top Tips to Developing your Own Psychic and Healing Abilities

Developing your own psychic abilities, healing skills and awareness, is a lot simpler than you may have realized. Yet, there has been mystery surrounding ESP and the healer within for so many years. Unfortunately many psychics and mystics throughout time have allowed the layperson to believe that ESP is a gift and belongs to only a few. This is not true; the paranormal is in fact very normal and is an everyday part of us all...

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Ten Tips to heal the individual and national psyche

What can we do as individuals to take back control, heal and get back on track with our life? Petrene Soames, author of The Essence of Self-Healing: How to bring Health and Happiness to our Life, is offering 10 top tips to your readers to help them recover...

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Top Tips for not getting ripped off by Psychics

In the USA the problem of being ripped off by psychics seems to be getting worse. I am too often approached by people, sometimes in tears, who have lost thousands of dollars and are wondering what their options are. This happens to very level headed and often professional people; their need for help and pain relief have led them to trust unscrupulous characters who have promised them whatever they wished to hear.

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Ten Top Tips for a Paranormal Year

Superb tips to open up yourself to the so called paranormal...

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