Archive - Spirit of Change Magazine

Your Organic Lawn

Americans directly apply 70 million pounds of pesticides to home lawns and gardens each year. In the pursuit of greener lawns, birds and other wildlife are killed and important water resources are affected.

Bridging the Great Divide: Touching Our Most Basic Humanity

The impersonality of lie in the Western world has become such that we have produced a race of untouchables.

Reiki: An Ancient Tool For Modern Living

As a social worker, educator, Reiki Master and a homeschooling parent, I am consistently challenged by the question of how to balance my "outer world" with my "inner world."

Relaxed, Recharged and Grounded

How many times do you wake up feeling tired, no energy or no excitement for the day ahead of you?

Cultural Crossroads: The Young People Voting Block

Democrats and progressives make the mistake of thinking that today's Social Security debate is about Social Security. It's not. It's about creating single party rule for a generation or more.

Better Health Through Bra-Free Living

Remember when you were told tobacco was safe? Remember when you were told fast foods were healthy? Have you been told bras are good for you?

Light: Eating The Wild Electron

Light is the basic component from which all life originates, evolves, and is energized. Light and health are inseparable.

Musings: Your Personal Healing System

Amazing, but true…according to the latest statistics posted at http://www.AmericanCancerSociety.org, your lifetime probability of developing cancer is 1 in 2 if you are a US male, and 1 in 3 if you are female.

Shock and Awe: Holistic Health Traumatic Stress Care

When the phone rang on Mother's Day a few years ago, my heart stopped when the caller identified herself as a police officer from our town.

The Era of Energy Medicine

Throughout history, subtle energies associated with the human body have been used for healing purposes.

Functioning Without Silence: The Mistake of the Intellect

In 1969, when I was dumb and bold, I talked my way onto a crew hired to sail a boat from Hawaii back to the mainland after the boat had under-performed in the Trans-pacific yacht race.

Whole Foods Healthy Cooking: Cooking on a Budget

The one question I can count on being asked each time I do a cooking class is about suggestions on how to keep the cost down.

Homemade Green Cleaners

A walk down the cleaning aisle of a supermarket offers a dazzling array of products all designed to get the job done quicker in a new and improved way. But at what cost to our health and our environment?

Musings on Self Confidence

What is invisible and imaginary yet has more impact in steering the course of your life than even a million dollar bank account? Your self image.

Sacred Soul Stories

I used to feel badly when people made these comments to me after looking at my artwork...

Choosing Serenity in a Hostile World

Dear Editor, There is a serious error in your Nov/Dec ’04 issue in the article entitled “Can You Too, Live To Be 122?” Dr. Glaser implies that readers should eat plenty of Brazil nuts because they contain the antioxidant selenium.

We Are All Swans: Sexual Self Image in the Real World

Whether by accident, illness, aging or the cards life deals you any time from birth onwards, at some point in life many of us face obstacles to sexuality.

True Healing

A few months ago, I fled with my small child to a woman’s shelter to find refuge from a violent husband. Several weeks later, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Hyping Terror For Fun, Profit And Power

What if there really was no need for much - or even most - of the Cold War? What if, in fact, the Cold War had been kept alive for two decades based on phony WMD threats?

Null and Void

The announcement that the California Supreme Court would rule within the month on the legality of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s initiative granting of marriage licenses to same-sex couples had been made weeks earlier.