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goodbye bni

by chas on March 3, 2009

     fork in the road after 9 months of waking up (almost) every tuesday morning at 5 am in order to do my mp’s and take my heart med before showering and rushing out the door in order to take the drive to temple sinai in brookline, 9 months in which i learned all the short [...]

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10 seconds?

by chas on February 10, 2009

koyaanisqatsi life out of balance hurts. i can help. charles faris for creative lifestyles, taking the hell out of healthy, putting the ions back in motivation.

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the passionate lion!

by chas on February 3, 2009

good morning bni charles faris here of creative lifestyles. my recipe for making 2009 your best year ever…paraphrasing bert lahr from the wizard of oz: passion what makes a king out of a slave? passion. what makes the flag on the mast to wave? passion. what makes the elephant charge his tusk in the mist [...]

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what’s holding you back?

by chas on January 27, 2009

good morning bni charles faris here of creative lifestyles. everyone is talking about change…and how do we really get some? my clients and i have been having lot’s of luck the past two weeks clearing out stuckness in our businesses as well as our personal lives by the simple process of focusing our energy on [...]

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putting the ions back in motivation

by chas on January 13, 2009

good morning bni charles faris here of creative lifestyles. marketing guru seth godin pointed out in a blog post yesterday that  songs about romance don’t tell you how to make out, they merely encourage it. it’s not the data that people seek, it’s the mood. in that spirit i am happy to introduce my three [...]

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a vision of wholeness and light

by chas on January 6, 2009

a new year’s question. what is health? and how do we get it?  etymologically, the word health comes from the same root as the word wholeness. wholeness is being and accepting all that you are. letting go of your denial of the parts of yourself that you don’t like. as well as your denial of the [...]

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the gift economy

by chas on December 9, 2008

the erotic life of property how’s that for an attention grabber? In his brilliant book The Gift: The Erotic Life of Property, Lewis Hyde points to two types of economies. In a commodity (or exchange) economy, status is accorded to those who have the most. In a gift economy, status is accorded to those who give the most [...]

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8 minutes

by chas on December 2, 2008

announcing creative lifestyles, llc that’s me, my yoga mat, my thai bodywork mat, and my website. what i want to talk about today is how i got to be where i am, where the heck i am, and why it could make a difference in your life, and the lives of many that you hold [...]

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change

by chas on November 18, 2008

change so… change real change change we can believe in small change spare some change at no other time in human history have we been in greater need of change, of bringing ourselves into greater alignment with the natural forces of Universe. our lifestyles, our economy, our very planet depend upon it. at bodyodyssey yoga [...]

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good morning bni

by chas on November 4, 2008

good morning bni

i’m charles faris and i approved this message:

You know,
All across this Country
I hear Real Americans
Crying out for Real Change,
And I’m here to tell you:

If you stand with me, [...]

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