Mind & Spirit

What’s Your Birthstone

There are 12 birthstones (plus a few more), each embodying many different qualities, each of great stillness and beauty. Here's the crystal carver’s guide to the perennial favorites of the year.

Five Tips For Using Mindfulness To Elevate Your Public Presentation Skills

The ability to anchor oneself in the present moment is a skill that is particularly beneficial in the realm of public speaking, where challenges such as anxiety, scattered concentration, and a disconnection from the audience loom large.

Top Five Tips For Enjoying The Natural Living Expo

If you are anything like me, you’ve been waiting patiently for this year’s Natural Living Expo — a weekend chock-full of empowering workshops, incredible connections, and life changing opportunities for healthy living and healing. Yes, please!

8 Movies To Lift Your Spirits When You're Feeling Low

We all need inspiration from time to time to create those feel-good emotions, and a good movie can give us that lift, they can inspire, offer an alternative point of view, or simply demonstrate how petty our problems really are.

Forgiveness Is A Gift You Give Yourself

Learning to forgive is a crucial, yet challenging, step toward personal growth, inner peace, and healthier relationships. By understanding that forgiveness is a path to self-liberation, you can take the first step toward a lighter and brighter future.

Five Strategies For Cultivating The Grace To Go With The Flow

If you find yourself struggling in the face of change, there’s good news. The ability to cope and thrive in the face of life changes can be cultivated. Consider these strategies for developing more grace and ease to help during times of change.

Embark On The Most Rewarding And Illuminating Journey Of Your Life

It is no exaggeration that the path of intensive meditation training may turn out to be the most illuminating and rewarding journey of your life. Explore starting your own practice of intensive meditation in this book excerpt from “The Meditation Retreat Manual”.

When You Lift Your Finger, You Move The Stars

The law of nature is that there’s always change. Even if there seems to be darkness today, I know for sure — it’s not just a hope, it’s a conviction — that after the night, after the darkest hour, the day surely has to come, and the dawn will break.

I Was Shocked By How Many People I Needed To Forgive

I thought the exercise was a tremendous way to release past attachments and emotions of other people. It was, indeed, a freeing experience. I was not prepared, however, for the next step.

Wisdom Of The Ages

When stepping out into your day, do it with a smile and great enthusiasm. Expect the best. Be determined when trying something new. And, make sure that your own mental library is full of positive quotes to live by.

Beyond Polarity

I have made peace with the past, and refuse to pit anything against anything, anyone against anyone.

The Heart-Brain Of The Forest

In the last couple of decades, research conducted in the soil under trees and other plants has completely revolutionized how we think about trees. What we have learned will amaze you.

If It’s Light It’s Right: A Mantra For Psychic Guidance And Clarity

Would you like to tap into a place of light when a decision and clarity is needed? When moving into a lighted realm, it is of the utmost importance to clear yourself of Earthly chatter, noise and your own thinking as much as possible.

Gift Or Lesson? How Your Past Lives Impact Your Present

Before each lifetime, you select the gifts and lessons you are to receive. Your soul is returning to Earth to face challenges, such as being pulled back into old patterns from previous lifetimes in order to heal them.

The Power Of Next

Next is possibility. Next is hope. Next is new beginnings. Next is sewn into the very fabric of forward motion. What are my next steps? What’s the next chapter for me? What’s next on the agenda?

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Crystal Correspondences

Some of the major correspondences used in crystal healing today include color, chakra, elemental, planetary, and zodiacal correspondences. But by beginning with a brief geology lesson, we can explore how the science of crystals corresponds with their energy.

Astrological Forecast Autumn 2023

Dreamy planetary influences mid-November conspire to make the world a kinder, gentler and happier place where dreams come true.

Pick Your Hard

It’s hard to have a long overdue conversation, and it’s hard to carry what is unresolved. It’s hard to make changes in your life, and it’s hard to not feel good. It’s hard to take the time to discover what your offer to the world is, and it’s hard to work at a job you hate. So, pick your hard.

Naming Suicide In Obits Was Once Taboo. Changing That Can Help Loved Ones Grieve.

While there’s no right or wrong way to write death announcements, mental health and grief experts said the reluctance to acknowledge suicide has implications beyond the confines of a public notice.

How Mediums Do What They Do

Because parapsychologists observe so many different types of psychic phenomena, they have devised descriptive categories based on certain characteristics. Within the branch called mental phenomena, several categorical definitions have been established.

Moving Beyond Victimhood: The Great Unconscious Metapattern Of Our Time

It's time for humanity to choose to move on from the victim mindset. Past abuses are past. The only reason they continue to plague us in the present is we are unconsciously repeating the old patterns that are begging to change.

Quiet, Please

Gordon Hempton believes there may be fewer than a dozen places left in the United States — and none at all in Europe — where you can sit for twenty minutes during the day without hearing a plane fly over or some other noise from human activity.

5 Tips For Building Kids’ Resilience After Bumps, Scrapes And Other Minor Injuries

Bang! A child trips and grazes their knee. Your toddler bumps his head on the table. Do you: (a) tell them to “brush-it-off”, (b) make a fuss and laboriously check for grazes, or (c) give them a cuddle, quick check, and encourage them to keep playing?

Sing The Algonquin Water Song

The Water Song Project engages women around the world to become keepers of the water in spirit and action. It starts with an Algonquin Water Song that expresses loving gratitude for the water and raises the consciousness and connection of women with Mother Nature’s greatest gift.

Sharing The Burden: Our Ancestors Healed Through Storytelling and So Can You

Our conscious choice to share something and make it known in a safe way is an act of bringing what was hidden into a space where it can be consciously observed, understood, and worked with.