Archive - Spirit of Change Magazine

Let’s Follow New Zealand’s Lead And Make People And Nature As Important As GDP

By requiring planners to consider impacts on society and the environment as well as economics, New Zealand is setting a much-needed example for other nations.

Why Stretching Is (Still) Important For Weight Loss And Exercise

There seems to be a lot of confusion regarding the value – or lack thereof – of muscle stretching to accelerate recovery after exercise. “Stretching clears out your lactic acid,” and other similar claims abound. Is any of this true?

Water Protectors Take Action To Keep Pipeline Out Of Black And Indigenous Communities

An encampment of protesters in Louisiana is resisting the crude oil industry, whose environmental disasters disproportionately affect the poor and people of color.

Good News Headlines 8/28/18

World Animal Protection has successfully lobbied the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO) to start tagging fishing nets and help prevent ghost nets, or ghost gear, that is lost or abandoned at sea.

Astrological Forecast For Fall/Winter 2018

The outer planets, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, have much to say about where humanity is headed. Trends in the arts, culture, fashion, and politics are governed by these distant stars.

A Healing From The Forest

Just as phytoncides are part of the trees’ immune system, so can they become part of ours.

A Walk In The Woulds

Broaden your mind while you narrow your waistline.

Going On/Transformed By Writing

Loved ones lost are like beautiful memories that we are gifted to have. They helped make us the people we are.

Fall/Winter 2018 Book Reviews

As lawmakers introduce new legislation to federally Free the Weed, many states already acknowledge the legal right of cannabis to be a plant, an herb adults can choose to use recreationally and medicinally.

Family Medicine — We’re All In This Together

They say you can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your family. And that means forever, since the roots and shoots of your genetic lineage go backwards and forwards in time without end.

Be The Support You Seek

Meir Schneider was born blind, yet he found ways to heal himself and offer that opportunity to others.

Preventive Medicine And The Inner Smile

While visiting my GP recently, he began talking with me about his own health.

Mushrooms: Mycological Marvels In Nature And Your Kitchen

Neither animal nor plant (though related to both), mushrooms occupy their own special place in culinary, nutritional and plant medicinal use and lore.

Parenting As An Act Of Rebellion

The more we advance into the technological era, parenting becomes a more complicated mission.

Finding Peace Through Your Family Lineage

There is a path that leads to inner peace. It is through your family lineage. Humanity’s movement towards peace begins one person at a time, one family at a time.

“Heigh-Ho Heigh-Ho” to Mindfulness We Go…

Seven fun, musical ways to teach your children mindfulness.

Dreaming Of A Different Sort

When you hold a sacred dream, the universe begins to actively conspire on your behalf to make the impossible doable.

Ancestry

I have a small part in healing the whole, and for that I am responsible.

The Ultimate Transition

If you know someone who’s about to pass or who has recently passed on — whether it was a natural end-of-life passing or a sudden, unexpected passing — take comfort in knowing that no one ever goes home alone.