An Avian Orchestra Outside My Window
My bird’s eye view where I live now, on an upper floor, includes a wider lens in many ways. But it also includes a deeper listening at every level. Taken together, I experience the world in a more expansive way.
Mind & Spirit
Aikido Is Training To Face Reality
Based on the principle of loving kindness and protection of all living things, Aikido even teaches compassion so that we bring the least amount of harm even to the person who attacks us. Aikido is a path for creating peaceful living through responsible stewardship.
I Discovered My True Beauty And Confidence By Surviving Cancer Twice
The scars and mishaps that are now a part of my body due to cancer are the symbols of my struggle for which I am thankful. I am thankful, because if I had not struggled, I would not have found my true strengths, not allowing anything to stop me.
Chronicling The Messy Truth Of Cancer
Some of us must chronicle the messy truths of it so that more of us can care for each other better in a time of profound alienation and isolation. Few have written about what it is to suffer cancer surgeries and treatment. This experience only underscored and deepened the solitude intrinsic to all of us who come close to death, all of us who must build a new life.
Spring 2024 Astrological Forecast
Get ready for a busy stretch of exhilarating events, head scratching realizations and alliances, as well as spiritually inspired developments. The possibilities are huge.
Explaining The Akashic Mystery
You have the tools and potential within your consciousness to access your personal history and soul records within the akashic field. With this access, you gain understanding about the wounded places where your soul has disconnected from its source of love.
Do You Know What’s Creating Your Reality?
We have on average 60,000 thoughts each day, with the vast majority of them being negative — what we have been thinking about for years! — and here’s the kicker, aren’t even aware of. Our thoughts are so comfortable and familiar to us that we are mostly unconscious of what is going on in our own minds.
10 Rules Of Ikigai — The Japanese Secret To A Long And Happy Life
There is a passion inside of you, a unique talent that gives meaning to your days and drives you to share the best of yourself until the very end. When you have a clear purpose, no one can stop you.
How To Find Joy Through Play As An Adult
Becoming an adult often seems to mean leaving play behind. The term “adulting” refers to doing things that are joyless, boring and tiresome - the opposite of play. But we can embrace adulthood while still finding joy through play and being playful.
Three Steps For Getting Over Social Media Envy
We carry comparison machines around with us in the form of mobile phones. The rise of social media has had many benefits but also given rise to social media envy when users perceive the perfect lives of others – even though they are rarely as perfect as they seem on the surface.
Why Couples Fight For Love And Then Love To Fight
The primary purpose for our committed love relationships is to find someone who will trigger and piss us off the most. As Harville Hendrix said, “We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.”
Letting The Mud Settle
The discovery that when all the mud settles — the mud being the difficult and troubling thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations threatening to take over — a sense of spaciousness washes over me, creating the potential for me to see clearly and effortlessly what is real and what is true.
Giving Peace A Chance
Recently, I asked the universe to provide me with a sign of guidance (and I asked specifically for a sign that I would understand and remember!) Almost immediately, a song popped into my head. I heard very clearly, “All we are saying is give peace a chance,” on a constant loop.
Dragon Delight
The new Moon in Aquarius at 5:59PM EST on February 9, 2024 is the marker for the Chinese New Year. This year, we enter the Year of the Dragon, considered to be the most fortunate of all the twelve signs.
Techniques To Raise Your Happiness Level
Happiness can be learned. Part of the equation is training yourself to view life's events from a different perspective. Inconveniences and more serious troubles are unavoidable facts of life. What many fail to realize is that these events do not automatically bar you from being happy — unless you let them, that is.
Start Your Journey To Self-Love This Valentine’s Day
When I first decided to engage in a self-love challenge, it was born out of a desire to switch the focus of Valentine's Day from the other back to the self. I learned a few things about self-love, self-respect, and self-care, which have inspired me to incorporate many of the activities into a regular habit.
Second Annual Noetic Sciences Research Prize To Recognize Groundbreaking Consciousness Research
The $100,000 prize will be awarded to researchers meaningfully advancing the science of consciousness.
When I Challenged My Worldview, My World Healed
Begin to wonder why you believe what you do. To wonder is to connect with the voice and wisdom of your very own soul. It is to open yourself beyond the conditioning, fears and habits you have adopted.
Keep Your Root Chakra In Balance This Winter
Nurturing your root chakra is an ongoing process that contributes significantly to your overall well-being and connection to Earth in any season, but try paying special attention to your root chakra this winter with these practices.
Why Boredom Can Be Good For You
In our hectic lives, in which we’re bombarded by attention-grabbing external stimuli, the chance, instead, to withdraw for a while is an important opportunity to recharge mental batteries. Moments when there seems to be “nothing to do” are times when we can turn inwards, to reestablish our relationship with our self and cultivate an inner life.
How To Use Habit Science To Help You Keep Your New Year’s Resolution
Breaking out of bad habits isn’t easy. It takes time and repetition. But as you work toward forming better habits, you can, at the very least, incorporate these simple reverse-engineering strategies to help you avoid becoming one of the 80% of people who throw in the towel.
I Am A Human Being
No matter how heinous a crime, if a human being did it, you have to say, “I have in me all the components that are in her or in him. I intend to use my energies constructively, as opposed to destructively.” — Maya Angelou
Distant Healing — The Heart-Opening Technique
First, the Golden Rule: Distant healing must always be done in a relaxed, calm and loving way. Otherwise, you may be sending agitated vibrations and energies. In particular, you need to monitor that you do not have any neediness that there be a healing. The keynote is compassionate equanimity.
How To Combat Appearance Dissatisfaction In The Digital Age
Videoconferencing, taking selfies and posting on social media are visually based activities where appearance is often the primary focus. Perhaps not surprisingly, these image-based platforms have been significantly associated with appearance dissatisfaction, anxiety, depression and eating disorders.
Chosen By A Whale
It was an honor that very few humans will experience, having contact with a whale in such an intimate way, in her natural habitat, and on her terms. By visualizing this day and imagining riding on Molly’s back with her heart-shaped, puffy blows spraying me in my face while we breach the water surface, I settle myself from the chatter in my mind to calm and center myself.
Daily Astrology
September 6, 2025
Less than an hour after midnight the eccentric and on occasion stunningly brilliant planet Uranus begins a five month long retrograde. Restlessness can be one impact. Future plans or friendships may suddenly seem...
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