Archive - Spirit of Change Magazine

New State Vaccine Bills Threaten Vaccine Choices

A number of proposed bills are attempting to restrict the use of conscientious or philosophical, religious and medical exemptions to mandatory vaccination laws...

See Calm, Be Calm with Feng Shui Home Tips

Our homes, which ideally should serve as quiet sanctuaries of peace and nurturing energies to restore our equilibrium, often contribute to our chaos and stress levels instead...

How to Keep Your Cool Without Air Conditioning

8 tips to help you beat the heat this summer....

10 Tips to Restore A Healthy Sleep Cycle

If you are having trouble sleeping on a nightly basis, you know how poor sleep affects your days. However, there are simple steps to take to get real results...

Musings: Make Your Home A Healing Haven

In a sense, we are all homing pigeons. Be it ever so humble, there’s no place you will ever feel more comfortable or secure than in your own home...

Welcoming Pleasure Back to the Table

When you’re turned on by your food, you turn on your metabolism and a whole lot more...

Reiki Success in Fertility Planning

In many areas of the world, medical treatments or health and wellness models include the integration of some type of energy medicine to treat the whole body. When one’s energy is out of balance, the body is impacted in some way...

The Wizard of Us: Transformational Lessons from Oz

Using the classic Oz narrative as metaphor, Jean Houston reveals the tremendous and timely wisdom conveyed in this archetypal transformation story...

Barefoot Walking: Free Your Feet to Minimize Impact

Turning your feet into living shoes allows you meet the ground correctly and connect to the earth's therapeutic restorative energy...

Beyond 2012: Recreating Ourselves in the Sixth Sun

Sergio Magaña is a teacher of the 4,000-year-old Toltec tradition that understands the timing of momentous shifts occurring in human consciousness at the beginning of this 21st century...

Healthy Home Walk Through

From kitchen, bathroom, glass and all-purpose cleaners to dishwashing detergent, laundry soap and bleach, Environmental Working Group has scoured the chemical ingredients of more than 2,000 different household cleaning products...

Earth Talk: Attract Bees and Butterflies To Your Garden

Dear EarthTalk: I’d like to have a garden that encourages bees and butterflies. What’s the best approach?

Amazing Wrap Sandwiches Are Portable, Delicious Nutrition — Day or Night

Food has a special power to bring people together and to make them feel healthy and vibrant...

Wind-Centered Economy Response

I work in a control room monitoring nine wind farms across North America. I have 5 years of experience in the field both operationally and in the market. I like the enthusiasm in this article...

Atheism Response

I recently read your paper Spirit of Change for the first time. When I came upon your Musings "Atheists Are Alright With Me," (Spring 2013) I paused and began reading it out of curiosity...

How Vintage Campers Will Save The Planet

The COMET (Cost-effective, Off-grid Mobile Eco Trailer) is an exercise in sustainability and small space living. It is an educational tool for children and adults alike. It is a DIY guide for others wanting to pare down...

The Longevity Kitchen: Satisfying, Big-Flavor Recipes with Age-Busting Power Foods

Rebecca Katz's recipes use bright delicious life-enhancing foods exploding with nutrients to create what she calls the The Science of Yum...

The Wild Medicine Solution: Healing with Aromatic, Bitter, and Tonic Plants

Calling for a return to daily traditional cuisine, Guido Mase draws on his storytelling skills to reveal both the historic and contemporary uses of aromatic, bitter and tonic plants...

Texas Could Happen Anywhere

Dear EarthTalk: The recent explosion at a West, Texas fertilizer plant that killed many people really alarmed me. Places like this must exist near many communities around the country. How do I know if my own community might be at risk of a similar disaster?

Alarming GMO Corn Results

Research conducted on GMO foods confirms the ability of these products to manipulate the genetic codes of other organisms. Could they also manipulate human genetic codes?