The 100% Natural Solution
Delighting in the elemental and elegant things of nature is a privilege of membership in the human race.
Book Review | How Do You Pray? Inspiring Responses from Religious Leaders, Spiritual Guides, Healers, Activists and Other Leaders of Humanity
An anthology of one hundred twenty-nine of those ways, representing just as many diverse spiritual paths, including no path at all.
How To Express Your Condolences To Someone You Love
It is customary to send condolences to the bereaved when someone dies, but sending condolences to someone you love or someone you’re extremely close to can be a difficult task. When sending condolences to a person or family that you…
Musings: Vibrational Healing Is Logical and Elegant
Despite all the evidence of mind/body medicine’s success and the significance of its unlimited potential, our healthcare mindset remains stuck in the mud.
Where Mindfulness Meets Technology
We are in very uncharted waters when it comes to understanding the impact technology is having on what it means to be human.
Book Review | Tuning the Human Biofield: Healing with Vibrational Sound Therapy
Sound healer Eileen Day McKusick got some funny looks when she first told people her vocation, yet when she titled herself a researcher studying effects of audible sound on the body, she noticed people approved.
Book Review | Herbs for Stress and Anxiety: How to Make Herbal Remedies to Strengthen the Nervous System
When is the last time you felt peaceful? Bursting to-do lists, media overload, ISIS and Ebola; no wonder so many of us live in a state of chronic stress, an unfortunate path to illness and depression. But what can we do about it?
Book Review | The Heal Your Gut Cookbook: Nutrient-Dense Recipes for Intestinal Health Using the GAPS Diet
The concept behind the GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome — GAPS) protocol is to eat healthy to be healthy. A whole alphabet of diseases — addictions, ADD/ADHD, arthritis, asthma (and that's just the letter A!) — begin in the digestive system.
Happy Feet: A Simple Soothing Technique
This simple five-step routine says thank you to your feet for supporting your body weight all day long.
How Homeopathic Plant Remedies Reduce Stress
Many of us have had the experience of being thrown off balance or stressed by life’s turmoil. The stressors can range from the typical slings and arrows of life — unexpected expense, momentary panic or a real disappointment of some kind...
The Human Biofield; The Missing Dimension in Health Care
If everything is vibration as quantum physics asserts, then treating vibration with vibration is logical and elegant.
Deliciously Peaceful Recipes
Winter is the time for restoration of body, mind and spirit. Try this day’s worth of easy, unhurried recipes including fragrant herbs that help soothe an over-stressed mind and body.
Veganish: How Plant-Based Foods Can Work for Everyone
A reluctant, yet grateful omnivore speaks about humbly using animal products to heal her family in her new vegan cooking guide Veganish: The Omnivore’s Guide to Plant-Based Cooking.
The Fire Cider Trademark Debate
The owners of Shire City Herbals and Sage Mountain Herbal Retreat Center debate the trademark restriction of Fire Cider.
A Walk On The Wild Side
Like my grandmother before me, I bend over at the waist and pick straight from the earth that which heals us.
Plant Spirit Medicine
A plant spirit heals a patient as a favor to its friend-in-dreaming, the shaman. If you want to actually use a plant yourself, the spirit of the plant must come to you in your dreams. If the spirit of the plant tells you how to prepare it and what it will cure, you can use it. Otherwise, it won’t work for you.
Aromatic Plants — Cultivating The Scented Garden Within
Fragrant herbs are the way to take your garden with you, to refresh your own internal temple.
Astrology Forecast for Summer 2014
Summertime holds so many delights — long hours of daylight with easy-going, shirtsleeve weather, fresh local produce, backyard barbecues, jaunts to favorite beaches and parks, and of course, stargazing on warm nights...
Cared For and Loved By Green Beings
Our symbiotic relationship with plants physically, cognitively and spiritually suggests it is entirely possible humans evolved from plants.
St. John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum)
With its bright yellow, five-petaled flowers a familiar roadside sight in early summer, St. John’s wort is said to be named because it flowers on June 24th — St. John’s Day.
Sufi Element Breaths
Breathing in through the nose, out through the nose…thus begins the ancient Sufi elemental healing breath for Earth. For more than two thousand years, seekers of the mystical Sufi traditions have been practicing these purification breaths every morning.
Daily Astrology
March 3, 2026
The fateful full Worm Moon/lunar eclipse is exact minutes after sunrise. The Moon is in the discerning sign of Virgo. Criticism and divisiveness are out. Draw upon the lessons of history, practical experience and common sense...
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