“Most people make the number one writer’s mistake when they start,” he said. “They think they’re talking to an audience. There’s never an audience. Instead, people read everything from books to articles to ad copy one at a time.
Put simply, birds talk. They discuss everything and everyone. They talk to each other. They talk to potential and existing partners. They discuss territories, predators, and other animals, using a combination of calls, songs, and body language.
Since so much of what we call reality is subjective, there are few right or wrong stories; instead, there are useful and not useful stories. This is dependent upon what culture you belong to, your status in your culture, and your relationship to the natural world and vision of the future.
The universe shows us what we need to resolve by triggering reactions in us. We are meant to notice our behavior and work on refining it. When we don’t pay attention to early signs we get from the universe, events increase in intensity, frequency, numbers of people involved, including those close to us.
I was brutally raped at the tender age of about twelve-years-old by a gang belonging to the Bronx mob, likely the Fordham Daggers, writes Peter Levine, the renowned developer of Somatic Experiencing in this intimate memoir excerpt from An Autobiography of Trauma.
Though most of us have never met, I feel connected to you. Connection is what fuels life, and empathy lets you find peace. With both, we can make sense of this world together. We can find a better way with empathy. We have the potential to create an exciting and hopeful future.
Each new moon, we experience the lunar energy of that particular solar Zodiac season. Watch for Monday, April 8’s new moon in Aries — also a solar eclipse.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Get ready for a busy stretch of exhilarating events, head scratching realizations and alliances, as well as spiritually inspired developments. The possibilities are huge.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The $100,000 prize will be awarded to researchers meaningfully advancing the science of consciousness.
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.
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