Mind & Spirit

Best Day Of My Life

The reactions of the two "Amazing Race" participants, each so different, gave me pause. I realized anew that I want to live life in celebration and not complaint.

Keep Holistic Medicine Available And Affordable In Massachusetts

At this time, two bills are before the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure which, if enacted, would seriously restrict your access to the wide variety of holistic healing practitioners available in Massachusetts today.

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How Do You Know Love?

Saying we all deserve love is an ideal that creates a struggle inside the parts of us that do not believe love is even possible. When we can love others, we are bridging the loved and unloved self of another in service to their deepest need, as well as our own.

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Why Do I Procrastinate? And Can I Do Anything About It?

Procrastination is not a character flaw, and it doesn’t mean you’re lazy or even bad at managing time. Framing it this way can make you feel even worse about the behaviour, and stops you learning the real reasons behind it. Here’s why you might be avoiding that task – and five steps to get on top of it.

It Can Take A Village To Understand A Dream

Have you ever had a dream that seemed to be about people or events in the wider world? These dreams may be more common than we realize, but there aren’t culturally available guidelines for recognizing them.

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Is This Helping Or Hurting?

Does what you watch leave you feeling paralyzed in your own life? As you feel this out for yourself, get truly single-celled-amoeba-intelligent about this: move towards what helps and move away from what hurts.

Pope Francis’ Death Right After Easter Sounds Miraculous – But Patients And Caregivers Often Work Together To Delay Dying

We want to give patients control about how they want to live their lives in the most meaningful way, especially at the end.

Three Ways Synchronicity Shows Up In Your Life

The universe is always talking to you. It is always guiding you. It is always sending signs and synchronicities to direct you to your highest good. When you can begin noticing and uncovering these communications, you can begin to develop a deeper relationship with it and all your higher helpers, and move through life with more confidence, ease and knowing.

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Gratitude Comes With Benefits — How To Practice It When Times Are Stressful

Gratitude is experienced as a positive emotion. It results from noticing that others − including friends and family certainly, but also strangers, a higher power or the planet − have provided assistance or given something of value such as friendship or financial support.

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An Invitation To Expand Your Listening

This Taurus season is an invitation to expand our listening, observing, and appreciating beauty without being called to analysis, assessment, or action. It is a time to settle into a place of connection, simplicity, and beauty, while focusing on nothing more than enjoying it.

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7 Tips To Help You Let Go And Move On

You are not what others say you are; those are only opinions. You are not your pain, your past, or your feelings. Letting go enables you to learn from your mistakes and choices, and grow into a stronger sense of self.

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Trapped Emotions — The Invisible Epidemic

What you may not realize is that some of the negative emotions you’ve experienced, even though you may have felt them long ago, may be creating problems for you now. An excerpt from the bestselling book "The Emotion Code."

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How To Accept A Compliment

If we don’t own our successes, beauty, and greatness, we’re buying into the assumption that we must be less than who we really are. Such an assumption denies our flowering of who we want to be and fully can be.

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Angel Trees

I nodded, thinking that, whether from the base or the crown, we have only begun our exploration of consciously communing with trees. Our human survival and that of the trees is twined together as intimately as my body hugging the redwood.

The Science Of Dowsing: A Paradigm Of Perception Beyond The Five Senses

Dowsing is essentially an act of resonance. The dowser holds a question or intention in mind, and their biofield — consciously or unconsciously — extends into the environment to seek an answer. This is not magic. It is the electric body in action, responding to subtle environmental changes with somatic precision.

Twelve Tips For Courageous Parenting In The Age Of Technology

For our children to be without imagination and play is the equivalent of imagining birds without wings. This is not natural. Creativity and play is the very heart, soul and essence of childhood. To watch it go missing is heartbreaking and soul crushing.

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11 Ways Spring Cleaning Benefits Your Mental Health

Spring cleaning is an act of self-care. Taking the time to clean and organize your home can improve your focus, reduce stress and even boost your mood. Plus, the sense of accomplishment you get from a freshly cleaned space is hard to beat.

My African High

The experience created a tectonic shift in how I viewed humanity; the privilege of my life and work was wholly reframed. I refer to this trip as “My African High” because it made me realize the incredible luck I had at being born to middle-class parents in the United States.

Our Dogs, Ourselves

Canine holistic herbalism centers on the mind-body-spirit connection, and that includes the vibrations we share with our dogs. Research has shown that dogs respond to human emotions, and even take them on physically.

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Stranger in a Strange Land: What Makes a Man?

There is a story of the new masculine from a book that was very popular in the 60s. "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein is about a man from Mars. Once we remember we are spiritual beings having a human experience, what makes a man isn't very different from what makes a woman.

Spring 2025 Astrological Forecast

Two important changes occur this spring, and it’s not just the late March eclipse of the Sun. Before March is over, Neptune, the planet of dreams, divine inspiration, empathy and compassion, will enter action-oriented Aries for the first time in more than a century and a half.

Invitation To Matter

It is dark and I am still, my small child arms wrapped tightly around my legs that are pulled up to my chest. The clothes are falling all around me as I sit on the floor of my bedroom closet with the door closed, peering, staring intently out of the wooden slats of the closet door.

Ides Of March Update

Beware the Ides of March? Not necessarily. Following Friday the 14th’s total eclipse of the Moon, Mercury turns retrograde during the wee hours of Saturday morning. Coming so close together it may be difficult to know precisely which event is making an impact.

Negative Ions From Sea Spray Can Boost Your Mood

Have you ever wondered why you feel so good, invigorated, and even fearless, after a nice long walk on the beach or a day out in the fresh sea air? Or maybe it was an exhilarating springtime thunderstorm, a visit to a waterfall, or a hike high in the mountains. Why is that?

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A Greenbreath Transformational Plant Ally Journey

What if we were to bring our breathing into conscious awareness, realizing that without it we would be dead within a few minutes? If this consciousness led us to the source of our breath — the plant kingdom — surely our relationship to the plants and trees would change.