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	<title>Urban Guru</title>
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		<title>Serious Energy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q) Every year I have all the best intentions of sticking to my healthy eating and fitness resolutions, but I never manage to. How can I make this time different, and change my lifestyle for good?
A) Ever watched one of NASA’s space-rockets take off? Did you know that they use most of the fuel in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/serious-energy/</link>
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		<title>Just Let Go!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes life doesn&#8217;t give you time to think, to theorise, to philosophise, to ponder and wonder, what the deeper meanings are.
As a self-proclaimed &#8220;Urban Guru&#8221; i find this non-thinking type of service, slightly challenging, but that&#8217;s because i think too much, and God/ the Universe and everything is telling me to just stop!
Not that there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/just-let-go/</link>
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		<title>Bathroom Epiphany</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Had a real            [experiential] (almost life altering) epiphany the other            day.
All i did was add a prefix to every thing i thought about           [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/bathroom-epiphany/</link>
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		<title>When opportunity knocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The story goes something like this, a guy is drowning in the ocean and he prays to God to save him, a big piece of drift wood floats by, but he ignores it, knowing that God will answer his prayers, a guy in a small dingy offers him a lift, and eventually a helicopter comes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/when-opportunity-knocks/</link>
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		<title>Healthy Eating State of Mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I find this time of year so difficult to stick to my diet, as it seems like wherever I turn, someone is offering me fatty foods or alcohol! How can I keep my willpower strong throughout the festivities, without my friends and family thinking I&#8217;m a bore?
Let’s get one important thing clear: there’s a huge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/healthy-eating-state-of-mind/</link>
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		<title>Whats Life All About?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re alive and if you&#8217;ve ever taken a moment to think about the big questions, then you&#8217;ll probably admit that life is a little bit crazy.
After years of pondering this and other important questions, i&#8217;ve had one or two fairly cheesy but profound realisations:
Each and everyone of us has to activate a feeling of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/whats-life-all-about/</link>
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		<title>Dieting For Health and Happiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Since I started to lose weight a year ago, my target has been the holiday I took in July. Now that’s over, I’m finding it difficult to stay motivated. How can I regain my diet momentum?”
There are two answers: 1. the quick fix and 2. the real deal.
Quick fix.
Create another deadline around Christmas where you’ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/dieting-for-health-and-happiness/</link>
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		<title>Loosing Weight With Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mum’s doctor has told her she needs to lose at least 3st, but when it comes to diets, she doesn’t stay motivated. I’m worried for her health - how can I encourage her to take action?
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Trying to motivate someone else is a difficult thing, I’ve got lots of experience doing that, and the old [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/loosing-weight-with-love/</link>
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		<title>Motivated in the Winter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q. Over the last few months I&#8217;ve seen great results from going for a jog during evenings and weekends. But as the weather gets colder, I&#8217;m finding it more and more difficult to muster up the motivation to go. How can I make sure I keep up my good work throughout the winter?
A.  Firstly, well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/motiated-in-the-winter/</link>
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		<title>The cold shoulder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top five ways to tell your partner is angry:
1, Not talking.
2, Avoiding eye contact.
3, Avoiding touching you.
4, Slamming doors.
5, Doing things to upset you or provoke an emotional response from you.
But once you have noticed an icy stare, what can you do to smooth things over? Max says that solutions to the problem are pretty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/the-cold-shoulder/</link>
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		<title>Deep Listening - Shema</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most important theologically charged statements in the Bible, which is recited perhaps 4-5 times a day by the Observant Jews is the ‘Shema’.
the first word of the Shema - is the word Shema - and it simply means LISTEN!!!
It itself is a profoundly important and potentially life altering message from the author [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/deep-listening-shema/</link>
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		<title>Dangerous Kabbalah – the legend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kabbalah is the mystical tradition found within Judaism, it is said to be as old as civilization itself, it is the myth of a science as old as time, an understanding of life that pre-dates the Bible by some 3000 years.
It is a mystical understanding of the nature of the world and the nature of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/dangerous-kabbalah-%e2%80%93-the-legend/</link>
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		<title>This is the Holy Land! – Make here the land of Israel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stop running Way From Yourself !
I’ve always been puzzled by young, intelligent, movers and shakers in the Jewish community upping and moving to Israel, it seems so dualistic, and short sighted.
The primary motive they cite is that they don’t feel comfortable in the Diaspora and that they feel really Jewish in the Land of Israel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/this-is-the-holy-land-%e2%80%93-make-here-the-land-of-israel/</link>
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		<title>Learn From The Trees and the Naturally Beautiful Fields</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Separating the World from God is Suicide !
The Ethics of the Fathers teaches that ‘If you are learning and meditating on God and you stop to look at a beautiful tree or a beautiful field you forfeit your life.’ That to me has always seemed a little harsh coming from the bastions of morality. Thankfully [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/learn-from-the-trees-and-the-naturally-beautiful-fields/</link>
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		<title>Unity &#038; Camaraderie ‘v’ Pious Religious Observance</title>
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Loose an argument and win a friend
Many millennium ago in the lands of just east of the Nile and west of the Euphrates there happened to be two very different generations, their differences recorded by the ancient Kabbalists describe one generation as being very religious and pious and the other much less pious and very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/unity-camaraderie-%e2%80%98v%e2%80%99-pious-religious-observance/</link>
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		<title>Creating a New Me &#038; a New Religion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a pissed off peaceful person, I don’t think that I can have a more honest reaction or approach to the nature of being human and particularly being Jewish in this day. I have a pure soul, I was a baby, and am still in many way, naive and confused about what exactly this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/creating-a-new-me-a-new-religion/</link>
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		<title>Sleeping Giants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are sleeping giants,
Formed from dust by the great sky,
Our souls are more powerful than angels,
Our bodies shine brighter than the sun,
Our dreams now our destiny!
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		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/sleeping-giants/</link>
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		<title>Minds Wide Open</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every moment we&#8217;re born new!
Children with innocent eyes, hearts, minds wide open, lives of unlimited possibilities.
It&#8217;s our choice to be the same as before or to change.
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		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/minds-wide-open/</link>
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		<title>Trust Future Joy Materialise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We have seen it proved in practice that the greater a person&#8217;s trust and the more he looks towards his future with joy, the faster do these things materialise.&#8221;
- Rabbi Menachem M. Scheerson
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		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/trust-future-joy-materialise/</link>
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		<title>Tips for Overcoming Extreme Stage Fright</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. no one knows about it - except you (they are just expecting a presentation).
2. the majority of people listening to you - WANT you to Succeed!
3. imagine YOURSELF naked! in front of all those people - ahhh! but really, if you were, worrying about how your
presentation goes is the last thing on your mind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/tips-for-overcoming-extreme-stage-fright/</link>
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		<title>Creating Greater Confidence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q. For someone who has been told all their life by their family or peers that they won’t achieve their aims, how can they dispose of negative beliefs? Do they need counselling?
A. It really depends on the individual, it depends on their aims and goals and it depends on how much they believe the peer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/creating-greater-confidence/</link>
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		<title>How to be a Player  - Part One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Secrets of Bilateral Seduction

In the normal course of events if you fancy someone of the opposite sex, or the same sex for that matter, you’re less likely to be yourself and act normally. Yet this abnormal behaviour on your part is precisely what is most likely to put the other person off.
You see that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/how-to-be-a-player-part-one/</link>
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		<title>Light fantastic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the mystical writings of quantum physics they explain that every single particle and electron jumps in and out of existence in their dance around each other. Instead of smoothly swirling around the neutron like the orbit of the planets around the sun, the electrons appear and then seem to completely disappear and then they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/light-fantastic/</link>
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		<title>Mind Body Spirit Northern Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Mind Body Spirit Northern Festival
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th October, 2008
Manchester Central / G-MEX - Manchester M2 3GX
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		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/mind-body-spirit-northern-festival/</link>
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		<title>All Existence is Spiritual</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Classic Cartesian views of reality have fallen away from my sight, effervescent, oscillating glittering fireworks of divine energy pulsating so fast that, it appears to be joined up,
each gap in the in-between of coming into existence from the source of nothingness, seems to be longer than the next, where the possibility of falling through the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/all-existence-is-spiritual/</link>
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		<title>Live Forever* (terms &#038; conditions apply)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever we focus on becomes our reality - so i&#8217;d like to move your focus and attention on &#8216;living forever&#8217;.
Forever might mean a 1000 years or it might mean just a lot longer than we can imagine ourselves living.
The point is that our bodies are far more intelligent than our conscious minds, but our bodies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/live-forever-terms-conditions-apply/</link>
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		<title>Local and National News Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you&#8217;ve just got to find out what&#8217;s going on in the world, you&#8217;ve got to know the latest news, current affairs, the celebrity gossip, the weather, you&#8217;ve got to know about what&#8217;s going on locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
You&#8217;ve got to feed your hunger for information, to quickly absorb the exact information from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/local-and-national-news-media/</link>
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		<title>Spiritual Manchester</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spiritual Manchester - if you&#8217;ve found this page, there is a reason for it, you&#8217;ve found this page, this link to information that can, change everything.
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		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/spiritual-manchester/</link>
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		<title>Inner Beauty Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Feeling really positive about yourself, about your body and your life takes a huge amount of energy. Comparable to a rocket leaving the gravitational pull of the earth, but once clear of the first 2 miles or so, it&#8217;s plain sailing.
Really believing, and breathing in, I am BEAUTIFUL and &#8216;i love my lovely body&#8217; takes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/inner-beauty-tips/</link>
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		<title>Inner Beauty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Beauty is an internal quality - if you feel beautiful on the inside then no matter what you wear you&#8217;ll look fantastic! Spend some time to develop a sense of inner beauty. Say to yourself I am GORGEOUS!!! - but don&#8217;t just &#8217;say&#8217; it breathe it, allow it to enter your lungs and fill you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/inner-beauty/</link>
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		<title>Poolside Confidence, for people who haven&#8217;t been working out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Confidence, for people who haven&#8217;t been working out - still; feel great even though you&#8217;re not in the greatest of shape.
So you haven’t been working out, you’ve not been eating much more healthily in the run up to that all important summer ‘social catwalk’ by the pool, you haven’t got around to doing what you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/poolside-confidence-for-people-who-havent-been-working-out/</link>
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		<title>Feel the sunshine on the inside all year round</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s grey and rainy most of the year round in the UK, so make a point of capturing a little bit of holiday sun and inspiration to carry with you throughout the year. If you do get a chance to go on holiday, make a point of creating a few moments of blissful calm, tranquillity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/feel-the-sunshine-on-the-inside-all-year-round/</link>
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		<title>Stress is a choice!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stress at work has a real negative effect on your long-term health and wellbeing, pumping adrenalin around your body, causing increased blood pressure, shutting down your digestive system and stopping you’re higher brain function from functioning.
Stress was our ancestors’ way of staying alive, they needed it to fight or run from dangerous situations, nowadays we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/stress-is-a-choice/</link>
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		<title>Muscle Tension Relaxation Technique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Focus your attention on your right foot, tense your foot for 10 to 15 seconds and then relax, do the same with your lower leg, tense it and relax it, then your thigh, do the same with your left leg, continue tensing and relaxing every part of your body: your buttocks, lower back, belly, chest, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/muscle-tension-relaxation-technique/</link>
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		<title>Stressed at Work?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Work related stress is wearing you down and killing you slowly and it seems that no amount of deep breathing and positive visualisations seem to make it better?
The Urban Guru is here to help:
It’s the simple problem of your own mental perception and your bodies natural fight or flight response. You mistakenly see your boss [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/stressed-at-work/</link>
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		<title>Peace and Blessings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blessings are metered by OUR ability to receive, not the Universes ability to give. It&#8217;s almost like, the Universe would like to give us everything but it is us that says no.
In some sense, as a friend suggested, sometimes it&#8217;s our ‘personality’ which gets in the way of blessings. And that sometimes we need to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/peace-and-blessings/</link>
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		<title>Planning Real Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us might plan a few weeks in advance, we might even book our summer holidays in at the beginning of the year, but very few people actually make a plan for their life.
Where would I like to be in five or ten years time? How do I want to be? What kind of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/planning-real-change/</link>
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		<title>Spiritual Retreats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Escape from the city, and from the humdrum and stresses of everyday life&#8230;
Sometimes we all need to escape from the din of city living, step outside of our everyday selves and reassess the way we live, to help us gain new and different perspective on our lives.
Our Weekend &#8216;Shabbaton&#8217; Urban Guru Retreat is the perfect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/spiritual-retreats/</link>
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		<title>The True Name of God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 				

In Hebrew name of God is  יהוה or ‘Yahway’ however, that may not be the correct pronounciation, the three main letters of the name of God are הוהHoe-ve - which means present-being and the additional yud means makes God’s name translate as ‘That which brings into being’ or ‘that which is continuously present’ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/the-true-name-of-god/</link>
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		<title>Qabala, Cabala and Kabbalah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are they the same ? or just a bunch of Dyslexics magicians ?

Broadly speaking there are three types of Kabbalists, first the Quirky Quantum Qabalists, then the Crazy Cunning Cabbalists and finally the Kick Ass Kung Fu Kabbalists.
The difference between these three groups is the place that they originate; The Quirky Qabalists are obviously really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/qabala-cabala-and-kabbalah/</link>
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		<title>Quotes and wisdom from the Urban Guru</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(If you could put all of the Urban Guru&#8217;s wisdom in to a couple of dozen quoteable quotes this is what they might look like - Read the following to save yourself from reading anything else the Urban Guru has written or is likely to ever come up with.)
That whatever you see in others is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/quotes-and-wisdom-from-the-urban-guru/</link>
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		<title>Good, Bad or Ugly?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got chatting to the ex-nun that lives next door (as you do) about the benefits of going to confession. And although I’m not Catholic by any stretch of the cosmic canvas (not even in previous incarnations it seems) I was still attracted to the idea of coming clean about who you really are, exposing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/good-bad-or-ugly/</link>
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		<title>The One Commandments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
“I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME!”Tradition has it that the Ten Commandments may have not been exactly like the Hollywood version by Cecil B. De Mille staring Charlton Heston as Moses and Yil Brynner (who seems to play all the baddies) as Pharaoh.
Let’s just set the scene [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/the-one-commandments/</link>
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		<title>The Urban Guru is a FOOL!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I almost always look back at myself, what i&#8217;ve done, how i&#8217;ve been, what i&#8217;ve said, what i&#8217;ve felt and thought, and thought “what a freaking idiot i&#8217;ve been!”It&#8217;s sobering, but good to know that the person I was a minuet ago was an utter idiot compared to the person i am at this very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/the-urban-guru-is-a-fool/</link>
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		<title>I Surrender!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In truth each of us are already truly enlightened. Call it buddha, moshiach, God or whatever you like. Only when you or I completely surrender to our divine nature do we begin to live a life that fulfills all of our potential.
what does that even mean?
I&#8217;ve got an idea about what I mean, what place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/i-surrender/</link>
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		<title>Resistance is futile!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life can sometimes present us with lots of different challenges, they are of course, all there to help us grow and become deeper and better people because of them.
But I believe that it is our resistance to, what is, to the unfolding of life, the universe and everything, to the day-to-day stuff that happens in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/resistance-is-futile/</link>
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		<title>Taking your life seriously, seriously!?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the strange and sometimes manic but perfectly peaceful personal utopia that I inhabit and co-create, there are occasions when I dialogue with local sages, mystics, high priests and priestesses and even groups of young trainee rabbis.
On one such occasion debating the benefits of rigorous study over the comforts of staying in bed. I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/taking-your-life-seriously-seriously/</link>
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		<title>Emotional Healing and Spiritual Enlightenment 101</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the first and most important steps on the path to personal enlightenment or as I like to say creating a personal utopia, is becoming free of emotional blockages.
The reason why I’d suggest that this is the most important of journeys is that, in order to experience any idea, any profound and life altering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/emotional-healing-and-spiritual-enlightenment-101/</link>
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		<title>And I thought I was talking to myself?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it turns out that this little Urban Guru site this year got about 5000 unique hits a month! Which means about 1100 a week, which means approximately 150 a day!
And I know ‘unique visits’ doesn’t always mean 100% real people – but it does give me an indication of the level of real people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/and-i-thought-i-was-talking-to-myself/</link>
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		<title>Squiffy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a telling Italian saying: “When the wine goes in, the secrets come out!’ and another one that goes something like: “You can&#8217;t have a full bottle of wine AND a drunk wife!&#8221; But I’m not sure which one is more accurate?
A relatively modern school of mysticism (a subtle reference to the Urban Guru and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanguru.co.uk/squiffy/</link>
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