An ‘extraordinary event’ for mountain gorillas has been reported as conservationists celebrate a second twin birth just two months after another set was discovered in Virunga National Park. Barely 250 mountain gorillas were left in the 1970s, and many thought the animals faced extinction.
Breath is simply waiting for you to be aware of it, to use it and harness its powers to shift your reactions, your thoughts, your emotional charges, and your trauma. Breath can be used to regulate hormones, shift nervous system responses, clear trauma, and stop repetitive, totally unhelpful thought cycles.
Imagine three days dedicated entirely to your growth, healing, and personal empowerment. That’s exactly what awaits at Girlfriend’s Getaway “Seeds of Possibilities and Potentials”, created by two visionary new event planners.
We see that we will leave this life without any part of our physical form, including opinions, beliefs, likes/dislikes. In that awareness, there is no separation. When the illusion of “other” falls away, compassion and love emerge, and the full light of source energy shines through us all.
April 1: Rabbit! Rabbit! A cascade of possibilities unfolds throughout this fast-paced day. Tune in to your dreams and early morning hunches. These premonitions can prove uncannily accurate and indispensable throughout the busy daytime hours. Tonight, the brilliantly illuminating energies…
Floating solar farms operate similarly to ground-mounted farms. Devices keeping the system buoyant sit on top of the water, cooling the panels, which increases efficiency.
Ask a question about any aspect of your being. What a gift that is for any soul willing to connect to spirit; ask the question and then allow the answer to come forth through your own hand.
Rather than viewing the body as a collection of isolated systems, chakra psychology examines how emotional experience, identity, safety, power, connection, and purpose are stored and expressed through the body's energetic and neurological centers.
Fred Rogers Productions and Little Dot Studios have teamed to bring Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood to a dedicated YouTube channel that will make the wonder, kindness, and human connection of the series more discoverable and accessible than ever.
Quiet courage can look like hesitation. It can look like doubt. It can even look like weakness. But sometimes it’s the difference between walking away from a room full of “chaos” and discovering a room full of brilliance.
Our members of Congress craft special provisions to exempt foreign-owned meat producers from animal welfare rules our states voted for! Please take just 30 seconds to add your voice saying, "No!"
I am weeding among the flower beds blooming amok with irises, nasturtiums, pink and purple anemones and California poppies when the siren — the first of many — shatters the repose. My body jolts upright, cellular memory reawakened from the terrible months after October 7th.
Nothing like this spring has been seen in generations. We are on the cusp of a reimagined world. On April 25th, Uranus returns to Gemini, a planet associated with progressive social movements, libertarian philosophies and cutting edge technologies.
We are powerful energetic creators sending out an energetic signal. The energy of the spoken word and of our thoughts sends out a unique energetic frequency to the universe. Be clear and precise with your request, then sit back and watch the universe create it for you.
Teachers on Reddit making a teacher salary with “teacher mental health needs” shared the affordable and no-cost mental health resources they discovered to help them stay well on a small budget after refusing to pay $175/hour.
I want to go back to the miracle of no longer enjoying blaming the past and identifying with my wound. Perhaps the exhaustion of being a victim for so many years left me immune, although saying this is unfair: I have worked throughout my life to stop being “my wound.”
The convergence of ancient wisdom and modern science points to one profound truth: The heart is more than a physical organ. It is the seat of our emotions, a center of communication, and a key player in our health.
New elephant ambulance marks its inaugural rescue mission, bringing a 27-year-old to the hospital with a leg injury in Uttar Pradesh, India. The specially designed truck is built to move elephants in a way that protects both them and everybody else on the road.
Long before the mind assembles an explanation, the body registers strain, misalignment, and truth. A tightening in the chest, a heaviness in the gut, a fatigue that doesn’t lift with rest. These signals arrive quietly, without argument, without justification.
The idea of quiet clean drones replacing noisy fireworks that leave a trail of toxic chemicals and paper behind is an idea whose time has come. However, we humans are slow to change, and nothing acts slower than government.
While Minnesotans rose up to oppose the surge in the streets, doctors and nurses have quietly operated informal, underground medical networks, dodging detection to care for patients at home.
I stood there in the darkness slowly munching my stalk of celery. I wondered if this is why animals eat grass; maybe it’s to help their digestive systems. By the time I had finished the stalk my heartburn had subsided. This was shocking!
Understanding that your immune system never stops managing tattoo pigment raises a natural follow-up question: what exactly is it managing? The answer lies in ink chemistry — and it's more industrial than most people realize.
People who reported frequently encountering, commenting on or sharing political content online consistently exhibited the highest overall levels of political stress in our survey, compared with those who primarily consumed political information passively and without engaging.
Louisiana is among the worst-performing states in maternal and infant health outcomes. So, New Orleans is trying to catch health issues early — and get families off to an easier start — by adding home health visits during the crucial first months of life.
Have you ever looked at a person and felt their bad mood, or felt a person enter a room before you’ve seen them? Now you can scientifically explain how you know these things. As science progresses and human minds reach outside their comfort zones, we see science explaining the unexplainable more and more every day.
The good arm can be strengthened. In a newly published research in the journal JAMA Neurology, it was found that training the less-impaired arm in people living with chronic stroke can improve everyday hand function.
At seventy-eight, I carry more gratitude than certainty that nonviolence will prevail, yet I live with the unshakable conviction that violence, its alternative, must be resisted, especially during this tumultuous period in American history.
Natural birth control, when done with knowledge and intention, can become not only a viable tool for family planning but also a deeply transformative experience of self-discovery.
March 1: The waxing, nearly full Leo Moon is an animating force of nature. Keep in mind, the Full Worm Moon, now only two days away, will be eclipsed by the Sun. Events just before and after an eclipse can…
A division of the U.S. Agency for International Development was reborn Thursday as an independent nonprofit, allowing its international work to continue in a new form. This reincarnation of USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures as the nonprofit DIV Fund is thanks to $48 million raised from two private donors.
Though long out of print and now a work in the public domain, the wisdom in the stories from "Rainbow Boy" are as timeless and essential as the spirit of change itself. Read the back story of how a character in "Rainbow Boy" is the namesake for Spirit of Change Magazine.
Information arrives fast, loud, and fragmented. It’s designed to grab attention, provoke reaction, and then make room for the next thing. Wisdom, on the other hand, moves slowly. It requires context, memory, and a willingness to hold competing truths in the mind.
The editors of "The Nation" magazine are in the process of formally nominating the city of Minneapolis and its people for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for “the positive affirmation of peace.”
Actor James Van Der Beek died from colon cancer at age 48. Researchers have identified a number of factors associated with increasing numbers of young people developing colorectal cancer, but there is no one clear answer that explains this trend.
We are long past making sure no one’s feelings get hurt when it comes to really digging into what is happening to our children. We have important work to do — work that can only be done by grown-ups willing to take full responsibility for what they are bringing to the table.
Consumers can fight shrimp fraud by making informed purchases and choosing trusted sources like certified sustainable fisheries. Support stronger labeling laws and traceability programs.
We’re trained to distrust enough, to see it as settling, complacency, or as the enemy of ambition. But for most of human history, enough wasn’t a failure state: it was a goal. Enough meant survival with dignity, security without hoarding.
Original article text highlighting Bad Bunny’s role as an environmental justice educator replaced with a disheartening reality check after an angry reader email.
Autophagy is a natural process by which your cells recycle or dispose of damaged cellular components and fats. Chronic alcohol use slows or even shuts down this crucial cleaning process. Once alcohol is out of your system, autophagy resumes, allowing the liver to restore its optimal functionality.
In a 2025 mini baby boom reported by the Ministry of Statistics, childbirths and marriages are up, and divorces are down in the world’s least fertile country. It’s believed that economic assistance for childcare has helped incentivize couples desiring children but who were wary of the economic burden in the high-cost country.
The eighth chakra for animals is their ecosystem, their morphic resonance, their own field of energy connected to the bigger field. In many ways, the eighth chakra represents the home of instinct that we humans have dulled.
Personal growth isn’t meant to feel like a life sentence. It’s meant to support us in becoming more whole, present, and alive. If you’ve been feeling tired of “working on yourself,” it doesn’t mean something has gone wrong.
Qigong and Yoga offer powerful and complementary pathways for nervous system healing. Beyond their physical benefits, both practices invite us back into a felt sense of connection with breath, nature, and the living world of which we are a part.
In recent years, there has been very strong interest in the reemergence and use of natural herbal medicine. Based on consumer demand, along with scientific studies that are often validating the effectiveness of ancient traditional herbal remedies, natural medicine is experiencing a renaissance.
It's official: New York City is leading the world away from fossil fuels, being the first large U.S. city to adopt a comprehensive, city-wide mandate requiring most new construction to avoid fossil fuels and rely entirely on electric systems.
Chinese cosmology and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) uses a combination of animals and elements to describe how energy moves and expresses itself over time. The Year of the Fire Horse is a rare combination that appears only once every 60 years and is associated with strong, active, and outward-moving energy.
Old-souled people tend to value different things: depth over reach, meaning over metrics, and continuity over disruption. They’re less interested in what’s new than in what endures. Less concerned with being seen than with seeing clearly.
If intuition feels unreliable, it’s not because it failed you. It’s because the relationship hasn’t been given space to grow in a world that rarely slows down.
Over half of U.S. adults’ at-home calories come through ultraprocessed foods — a major global health threat driving chronic disease — according to a study in The Lancet.
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