| Articles
& Education
A Valentine’s Day Meditation on Love and Relationships
NEW!
by Mark A. Michaels (Swami Umeshanand Saraswati) and Patricia Johnson (Devi
Veenanand)
Tantra is an ancient Indian spiritual tradition that recognizes human sexuality as one avenue among many for achieving mystical experience. Although the number of Tantric texts that deal directly with sexual activity is quite small, most Westerners associate Tantra with love, sex, and relationships. While Western ideas about Tantra are thus somewhat misguided, if you can bring a Tantric sensibility to love and relationship, your love life will be richer and more fulfilling.
Celebrating Valentine’s Day is controversial in 21st-century India. This is due, in part, to the rise of Hindu fundamentalism and objections to the holiday’s Christian origins. More importantly, conservative Indians view Western ideas about romantic love as alien and immoral. Arranged marriages are still very much the norm, even as India becomes a technological superpower, and in arranged marriages, love is a fringe benefit, not a necessity. Click
Here To Read Article ___________________
The
Healing Touch
NEW!
by Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew
Blakeslee
Imagine lying on a therapy table as a
healer places her hand under the back of your neck. Her touch is gentle,
calm, tranquil. She places her other hand lightly onto your left shoulder,
then onto your right shoulder.
A sensation of tingling warmth ripples
through your body. A nagging pain in your lower back begins to drain away.
It's not vanquished, but it fades drastically. You relax under the spell
of the healer's hands.
Click
Here To Read Article
___________________
The Benefits of Energy Healing
by Wendy De Rosa
Today, in our advanced, modern society, people take time to perform some
kind of daily physical cleansing ritual. A shower or bath, teeth brushing,
shaving and hair styling are all standard forms of grooming that we make
time to fit into our busy lifestyles. After all, it’s good hygiene,
right? Our outward appearance is something most of us take pride in,
but what about what’s going on beneath the layers of the skin?
Click
Here To Read Article
____________________
Spiritual Awakening and the Near-death Experience
by Dr. Stephen Ruppenthal
When the mind closes down and the senses are stilled, mystics describe the sudden effulgence of pure light illuminating consciousness, accompanied by a flood of joy. After this experience, called enlightenment, illumination, or oneness with the Divine, people feel a happiness so unlike and above any other that they try to reach out to those still in the darkness we call everyday life. But enlightenment is not just for the saints, yogis and lamas who achieve it. It can come to any of us at any time-- at the time of death, in a deep and life-changing dream, or in a supreme awakening in meditation. And it is within the reach of us all. We have only to want it and ask for it. As Hamlet says, “The readiness is all.” Click
Here To Read Article ____________________
The
Journey Through Cancer and The Seven Levels of Healing®
by Jeremy R. Geffen, MD, FACP
As a medical oncologist, I have been honored to serve as
physician, guide, and friend to thousands of individuals with cancer and
their loved ones. Many heroic people have inspired and taught me a great
deal about living courageously in the face of great challenges, and the
unknown.
Click Here To Read Article
____________________
Ask Psychic Medium Laura Scott
(Issue #18)
by Laura Scott
Hi
Laura,
I was born to a teenage mother and heroine addicted father who later
abandoned us. My mother was so shamed that she was pregnant with me that
she refused to name me. I was told that a nun/nurse working in the Labor
and delivery room named me.
Click
Here To Read Article
____________________
Power
Reiki
by David Murphy, N.D., Ph.D. and
Rosario Murphy, Ph.D., CHT
The human body is sustained by life force energy. This energy appears to
travel through Meridian pathways inside the physical body and feed all the
main organs, glands and ultimately every muscle, nerve, tissue and cell.
We are all about energy. Energy goes by many different names but it
remains the universal life-force sea in which we exist and of which we are
a part. In Japan it is called Ki, in India the life-force energy is called
prana. It’s Qi (Chi) in China.
Click
Here To Read Article
____________________
The
Perception--Well-being Connection
by Kimmie Smith
Our own perception of the world and those we're personally involved with
stems from our childhood. If you grew up with one or more parent(s)
who displayed constant anxiety, worry, anger, etc., then you have most
likely adopted that same behavior as an adult. Some people eventually
recognize this in themselves and some never do. And even when the
ones that do recognize this in themselves they tend to just accept that
behavior as "who they are." They might try, through various
methods, to rid themselves of this unwanted negative behavior only to wind
up frustrated when something triggers a certain emotion and they find it
hasn't really left. So they give up and just accept that this is who
they are and that change is impossible. Maybe they are still hearing
the message that has been given to them over a lifetime, "Oh, that's
just they way you've always been, that's your personality and you'll never
change." They then decide that they are comfortable this way and
fear any kind of change, even if it would mean a positive change.
Click Here
To Read Article
____________________
Quick Tips for
Instant Calm
by Mark Thornton
Relax Your Jaw
Notice if you are clenching your jaw. For the next five minutes, allow the
muscles in your jaw to relax. Notice 10 times throughout the day if your
jaw has become clenched and tight. Less tension here makes you feel less
stressed.
Click Here To Read Article
____________________
Ask Psychic Medium
Laura Scott (Issue #16)
by Laura Scott
Dear
Laura,
I recently lost my teenage son to an overdose and have dozens of 'what if
I did this or that' come to my mind. I belong to the Compassionate Friends
support group for parents who have lost a child and I hear that phrase
over and over. What insight can you give us parents who have lost a child
and try to blame ourselves when we shouldn't?
Brian
Click
Here To Read Article
____________________
Thriving: Ten Ways to Make Peace With The Past And Create A New Future
by Suzanne Gold
Everyone comes into life with a purpose. You are a unique expression of the universal life force at the foundation of your being.
Spirit guides you from the moment your life begins, and the people and events of your life reflect your soul's journey. No one else
ever has or will affect the world as you do. With every act, word or thought, you are adding to All-That-Is.
Click Here To Read Article
____________________ Water As A Spiritual Element
by Annie B. Bond
Water is the central source of our beings. It is part of every cell and
fiber in us; it is our very essence. Could water be the common denominator
that weaves us all (earth, animal, human, and plant) together as one? Is
it the ultimate connector? It's awesome and humbling that water carries so
many entrained messages, especially when we consider that there has been
the same water, and the same amount of water, on the earth for millions of
years. What messages are we receiving from our ancestors when we drink?
And it is overwhelming to think that in the past 60 years alone, the human
hand has imprinted so much pollution on the water, bringing it out of
healthy balance. It is our spiritual obligation to be water's caretaker
and cause it no further harm.
Click Here To Read Article
____________________
Another Way To Help
The Victims Of Hurricane Katrina...
by Richard Gordon
Want to help the victims of Katrina? Try distant healing!
Distant healing is a simple, effective way to impact someone even if they
are miles away. The beauty about utilizing distant healing is that you
don't need extensive training to do it. All that is needed is intent, a
sincere desire to help people and a willingness to sit or lie quietly.
Click Here To Read Article
____________________
The True Nature of Health
by B.K.S. Iyengar
Most people ask only from their body that it does not trouble them. Most people
feel that they are healthy if they are not suffering from illness or pain, not aware of the imbalances that exist in their bodies and minds that ultimately will lead to disease. Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
Click Here To Read Article
____________________ Becoming A Survivor: How To Find Peace Of Mind
Following Life's Traumas
by V. Alex, and Joseph Kehayan, and Napoli
In the United States, about 51% of women and 61% of men will experience at
least one traumatic event in their lifetime, be it domestic violence,
fires, motor vehicle accidents, natural disasters, or terrorism. In the
aftermath of tragedy, we must all learn how to be more resilient “take
charge” survivors.
Click Here To Read Article
____________________
Om Sweet Om
by Katharina Bishop
Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, is a hipper than thou, unique L.A. experience. A younger and shabbier version of Rodeo Drive, it’s a garish frenzy of graffiti and neon, pierced lips and red Ferraris; displaying mile after mile of eccentric, cutting-edge shops and cafés. The weather beaten storefronts are decorated in the most fluorescent of rainbow
colors.
Click Here To Read Article
____________________
Working with the Angels
by Jacky Newcomb
Listening to the music playing in the bathroom, I thought I was going mad.
The sound was loud and pleasant, like a thousand harps singing in the air
around me, yet I could not find the source of this amazing musical
vibration…
Click
Here To Read Article
____________________
What Dreams May Come: Rewriting The Script, Repainting The Canvas, Reshaping The Clay Of Your Life
by Judith Pennington
Some years ago I read a brilliant book (later made into a movie), What Dreams May
Come, depicting life in a colorful plasmic afterworld, where people perceived only the reality created by their thoughts, beliefs and expectations. They lived in this reality until they woke up to their infinite potential to create and inhabit magnificent worlds of love, beauty and service.
Click Here To Read Article
____________________ Accessing Your Spiritual
Guidance For Healing
by Margaret Paul
Everyone in a state of healing knows that they cannot heal without a
connection with their Higher Power; yet for many, this connection is
illusive. Still, it is the birthright of each of us to have a direct line
to God, whatever God is for you. Yet few of us have learned how to do
this, at least on a daily basis. Surprisingly however, it is not hard to
do.
Click Here To Read Article
____________________
The Out-of-Body Experience
by David Lindsay
Numerous surveys and anecdotal studies
report that people all over the world are having lucid experiences outside
their physical bodies. The out-of-body experience, also known as astral
travel or astral projection, is a natural phenomenon that everyone
experiences nightly during sleep, although very few ever become aware of
it. Despite being so little understood, it offers unrivalled potential as
a vehicle for us to obtain answers to fundamental existential questions
such as: what happens when we die, what is our purpose in life, and what
is the meaning of existence?
Click Here To Read
Article
____________________
Stretching Out
of Depression
by Pam Ann Parker
We all feel a little blue from time to time. But when those blues turn
into a seemingly never-ending tunnel of black, it may be a signal that you
are suffering from depression and a nudge from the universe to look for
help. The good news is that there are sources of help and relief for
depression beyond designer drugs like Zoloft® or Prozac®. Many sufferers
are now turning to the four thousand-year-old healing art of yoga to
create a permanent shift away from the pain and suffering of depression,
and towards a new life of hope, insight and good health.
Click Here To Read Article
____________________
Field Notes On The Compassionate Life
by Marc Ian Barasch
Life offers up its own daily catechism, even if it's just seeing people in
a little better light. Why not just resolve to give everyone the benefit
of the doubt? "If we treat people as they ought to be," said
Goethe, almost nailing it, "we help them become what they are capable
of becoming." Or more to the point: Treat them as they already are,
if we but had the Good Eye to see it.
Click Here To Read Article
____________________
Accessing Your Higher Mind
by John Holland
The more we stay connected to our higher mind - which we also call the
universe, the source, or spirit - the more we strengthen and build that
crucial bridge between ourselves and our higher consciousness. While we're
all born connected to this divine awareness, we have a tendency to pull
away from what was once natural. It's reasonable to assume that when we
become disconnected from our higher mind, the source that once nourished
us will be replaced with another source or substitute. In other words, the
connection could be with food, alcohol, nicotine, co-dependency to someone
or even work - hence the term workaholic. Many of us spend our lives
trying to fill that void which was created when the link was broken.
Click Here To Read Article
____________________ Why Even
Bother? The Importance of Motivation
by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D
If, from the meditative perspective, everything you are seeking is already
here, even if it is difficult to wrap your thinking mind around that
concept, if there really is no need to acquire anything or attain anything
or improve yourself, if you are already whole and complete and by that
same virtue so is the world, then why on earth bother meditating? Why
would we want to cultivate mindfulness in the first place? And why use
particular methods and techniques, if they are all in the service of not
getting anywhere anyway, and when, moreover, I've just finished saying
that methods and techniques are not the whole of it anyway?
Click Here To Read Article
____________________
How to Get What You Want Every Time!
by Nelson D. Berry
You know that YOU are the creator of all that occurs in all of your life
experience, right?
Click Here To Read Article
____________________
Running Into Magic
by Larry Alboher
The day began with a routine morning jog and ended with my initiation into
timeless mystery and mind-bending magic.
Click
Here To Read Article
____________________
The Steps As Sila
by Kevin
Griffith
In Buddhism the initial, purifying stage of
spiritual development is called sila, usually translated as
morality or virtue -- what one teacher calls "cleaning up your
act." This involves living an ethical life; treating others and
ourselves with kindness; and letting go of destructive behaviors. In
Buddhist teachings, sila is formalized in the Five Lay Precepts -- and
number five is "I take the training to abstain from alcohol and drugs
which make me heedless." So, guess what? The Buddha didn't think
getting loaded was that good an idea either -- the Twelve Steps are, in
fact, sila.
Click Here To Read Article
__________________
Prayer: A Sure Way to Fight Stress
by Michael Rayel
I usually put my children to sleep. Routinely, each one takes turn saying
prayers before dozing off.
“Dear heavenly Father, thank you for my family and relatives and for all
the blessings. Thank you for giving me only good dreams and good
thoughts.”
Click Here To Read Article
____________________
Spirit
Writing For The Ungifted
by Bob Olson, OfSpirit.com Editor
If you're the type who
can't predict tomorrow's date with a calendar in your hand, have never had
a dream visitation from a deceased loved one, or wouldn't recognize a sign
from spirit if it knocked you over, Spirit Writing might be for you.
Similar to Automatic Writing, but without the "automatic,"
Spirit Writing is a method of communicating with spirits through writing
(with a pen, keyboard, crayon or any writing tool you prefer).
Click Here To Read
Article
____________________
Positive Energy: How To Build
Vitality And Stop Energy Vampires From Draining You
by Judith Orloff, M.D.
Adapted from Positive Energy,
Harmony Books, April, 2004
I learned to honor my energy needs the hard way. As a psychiatrist who
specializes in intuition I knew how important it was to listen to my body.
Yet still I’d vacillate between intense weeks of speaking tours to bouts
of utter exhaustion at home. I couldn’t turn down “irresistible”
opportunities. Here was my dilemma--I trusted my intuition, and was
committed to living by it. But I had a blind spot: Although I was quite
successful at helping others at trusting intuition and leading high energy
lives I was ignoring my own energy crises. Finally my fatigue was so
profound I had to change.
Click
Here To Read Article
____________________
Ask Psychic Medium Laura Scott
(Issue #10)
by Laura Scott
What do you think of all
the Martha Stewart hoopla? Is this a case of someone reaping what
they sow? Will she go to jail?
Curious
Click Here To Read Article
____________________ The Subconscious Mind, Prayer and
Healing
by Brother Aleksei
The main impediment in the way of any prayer is too much intellect and too
little devotion. If we do not pray at all or pray without intensity and
devotion, it is not what we consciously want to happen in our life that
does happen--it is what we believe to be true of ourselves and others deep
in our subconscious mind.
Click Here To Read Article
____________________
Using
Colors And
Stones With Meditation
by
Keith Zang
Meditation
is a very powerful tool to use for reducing and releasing the stress of
the day as well as for healing and bringing enlightenment into your being.
There are many methods for meditation. Some tap into mindfulness to bring
the present moment into focus. Others utilize the breath to create a sense
of timelessness by focusing on a single sensation or point and letting all
other distractions go. This article will be focused on another type of
meditation, that of the energetic healing form where the energies of the
body and surrounding life force energies are focused for dynamic and
accelerated healing.
Click Here To Read Article
__________________
Yoga
And World Peace
by Megan McDonough
Last
week my husband and I went to war with each other. It was nothing as
dramatic as a divorce or separation; just a commonplace marital spat with
intense emotion behind it. It all started with what should have been a
joyous occasion: a trip to the maternity ward to visit a nephew and his
wife who had just given birth to their new son.
Click
Here To Read Article
____________________
Crones Don't Whine: Concentrated
Wisdom For Juicy Women
An Interview With Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD
Webster's dictionary definition of a crone is "a withered old
woman." Does a woman have to look like a crone to be one? Warts on
nose?
This
is not what being a crone is all about--at all! Another name for a crone
would be "inner wise woman" or "wise and compassionate
elder"--the development of which grows through life.
"Crone" is ageless though she develops mostly in post-menopausal
women. Crone is what a woman is in her psyche and not what she is expected
to look like.
Click
Here To Read Article
____________________
Meditation: Going Beyond Ego
Barriers
by Dr.
Darryl Pokea
This author views meditation and relaxation as essential to healthy
survival in our painfully chaotic, often insane world. The events of 911
and continuous re-generated fear of further terrorist attacks and
multi-country world conflicts can be overwhelming for even the most mature
adults. A mind congested by fear can easily slip into the habit of
fragmented thoughts and loss of objectivity. The mind continually
chattering in response to our deepest fears may become so loud, that it
drowns out the gentle, calming whispers of our Creator's Spirit.
Click Here To Read
Article
____________________
My Journey Back
by
Ronnie Allen, Ph.D.
On November 14, 2000, the universe threw me a curve that I am sure is
going to change my life forever. At 7 P.M. I took my son David and, Lisa,
his girlfriend to a brand new buffet style restaurant. The food was
inedible, spoiled and cold and everything was sent back. We then came home
where I saw clients and prepared to go to work the next day. Nothing
unusual.
Click
Here To Read Article
__________________
Out Of “Control”
by Trish Whynot,
D.C.Ed.
A channel named Rho once told me that relationships were about learning to
honor, respect and cherish. As I explored her words of wisdom, I began to
look at what I had learned about honoring, respecting and cherishing
growing up. I also began observing what my clients had learned regarding
honoring, respecting and cherishing themselves and others and how what we
were taught had impacted our lives. The results were rather enlightening
so I thought I’d share. Since growth and healing are why we are here,
why not enjoy the process. Relationships can be an awesome playground for
personal growth and healing when we can take our energy off of blaming and
direct it toward learning, healing and understanding.
Click
Here To Read Article
__________________
Health and The Metaphysical
Practitioner
by Keith Zang
The world is filling with light. It is doing so because more and more
people are awakening from their slumber of physical delusions and into the
realm of spiritual enlightenment. We are now at an age where information
and tools for the metaphysical practitioner are available almost anywhere
in the world.
Click
Here To Read Article
__________________
A Female Soldier Goes to Zen Heaven
by Donald Schnell
I arrived at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in 1974, in my 19th year, into
the heart of the 82nd Airborne Division at the John F. Kennedy Center. The
old timers called Fort Bragg “Little Hell.” The 82nd Airborne was the
first to engage the enemy on land to protect America’s freedom. Even in
peacetime, there was always a natural tension of readiness and alertness
among the troops and around the base itself.
Click
Here To Read Article
__________________
Clean Slate
by Alan Seale
My morning meditations of late have been focused on an exercise I created
for the first evening of the Soul Mission * Life Vision four-day intensive
retreat: Clean Slate. Each morning Spirit seems to be reminding me to
clear away everything within my thoughts and create a mental “clean
slate.”
Click
Here To Read Article
__________________
As Above, So Below
by Alan Seale
My friend Dorothy died on Sunday afternoon after a very long and
challenging illness. When the call came that evening, I heard the news
with such relief. She was finally released from a body that had
presented her with major challenges for most of her 62 years. While sad
that our many years of crazy adventures were really over, I felt such a
lightness in my heart knowing her new-found freedom.
Click
Here To Read Article
__________________ Get To Know Yourself
by Kimberly Fulcher
Eight Baby Steps To Knowing Your Self
Who are you? What do you stand for?
What do you believe in? What engages your passion? What brings
tears of gratitude and joy to your eyes? Do you know, or have you
lost yourself? In my work as a professional coach, I’ve helped
many people rediscover themselves. The first step on the road to
rediscovery involves spending time with you, which is why I liken the
process to dating yourself.
Click
Here To Read Article
__________________
Conquering Epilepsy With
Maharishi Vedic Approach To Health
by Alex Kachan
Epilepsy is a tough health disorder. These
of you who have it know. I was diagnosed in 1990, during my military
service in the Israeli army when I began having sudden seizures, which
would make my body shack violently, lose control over my bladder and leave
me unconscious for hours. As a result I was dismissed from service but
although the fatigue and tension associated with military life have ended,
the disease kept on. My EEG, though, was normal. The CT scan revealed
nothing unusual and so my doctors could not identify the cause. Seizures
have come from time to time with no warning and occurred in many
embarrassing locations and circumstances...
Click
Here To Read Article
____________________
It’s A Miracle!
by Nancy Hassett Dahm
Miracles happen every day to ordinary people living ordinary lives. So
why don’t we hear more about these incredible events? Perhaps people
want to keep secret what is most precious and private to them. Or perhaps
there is a fear of being called a zealot, and therefore not to be taken
seriously. Or maybe as a society, we have “outgrown” our sensitivity
to things beyond our understanding and control. Whatever the reasons for
not revealing what would be considered by many to be miracles—we should
reconsider and tell all. Why? We should reveal miracles in order to keep
hope alive, to keep faith alive, and to keep the belief in possibilities
alive.
Click
Here To Read Article
_________________
A Healing Energy
by Sherry Healy (sHEALy)
Source energy is available always. We simply have to be alive to
experience the refreshment and relaxation of its ways. Yet, many new
practitioners are sprouting up instructing and performing these ancient
healing therapies for the public? Recently a renewal of old healing
modalities has made its way into the mainstream media and the lives of everyday
people.
Click Here To Read
Article
|
The
Olson Interviews
Recommended Books
Click on the book links below to read more
about—or buy—the recommended book from Amazon.com (the Internet's
largest bookstore):
More Articles
& Education
The
Secret To Eliminating The Root Of Your Problems: Physical, Social Or
Financial
by Bob Olson, OfSpirit.com Editor
Every
few years, I stumble upon something so powerful and enlightening that it
rocks my world, totally changing my perception and understanding of life.
Recently I had one of those rare life-altering experiences. I couldn’t
wait to get home and write about it.
It
began with an interview I had arranged with a counselor named Dr. Trish
Whynot in Middleton, Massachusetts. I had heard some incredible
testimonials from her clients, so I was intrigued. Still, I could not
imagine what would possibly be out-of-the-ordinary about a counselor. So I
showed up at the interview with great curiosity.
Click
Here To Read Article
____________________
4 Ways to Find Answers to Life's
Questions Using Intuition
by Lynn Robinson
My favorite definition of intuition came
from a 15-year-old girl I know who said, "Intuition is where, like,
you know something, but like, where did it come from?" I believe that
intuition is a reliable inner resource for wisdom to guide our lives.
Fortunately, everyone has it, and we are capable of developing it for
practical use in everyday life as well as for discovering and achieving
life goals. Learn to listen to your intuition and learn from it by tuning
in to these four cues.
Click
Here To Read Article
____________________
Meditation and the Higher Self: An
Interview With Neal Ryder
by Don Ferrari
Don: Neal, thank you for taking the time to talk with us. You have
created The School Of Radiant Healing. Could you please tell
us how this came about?
Click Here To Read
Article
____________________
Suggestions For Meditation
In This Time Of Healing And Reflection
by Dr. Trish Whynot
Words cannot appropriately express what we as individuals and
as a nation our feeling today. Many may feel very helpless, feeling that
there is nothing that they can do. Below are some suggestions for
reflection and for direction of light and love that can be very active in
the efforts toward healing our nation.
Click Here To Read
Article
____________________
Find a Quiet Corner: A Simple Guide to
Self-Peace
Introduction
by Nancy O'Hara
I used to wish my life away. I lived my
life thinking ahead to the next thing—the next day, when I had a date
with so-and-so and wouldn't that be nice; the next job, because I hated my
current one so much; the next year, when I was planning to take that great
vacation which held the promise of changing my life; the next prince
charming, who would rescue me from my life because the last one was really
a frog and I was meant to be saved.
Click
Here To Read Article
____________________
Second Sight
The Beginnings of Wisdom
by Judith Orloff
I am large ... I contain multitudes.
-WALT WHITMAN
It was 3:00 A.M., the summer of 1968. A
magical southern California night. I was sixteen years old and had spent
the weekend partying at a friend's house in Santa Monica, oblivious to my
exhaustion. The soft, warm Santa Anas whipped through the eucalyptus
trees, blowing tumbleweeds down deserted city streets. These winds were
seductive, unsettling, conveying a slight edge of danger.
Click Here To
Read Article
____________________
A Yogini From Conception
by Portia Brockway
One afternoon before I was born, my mother
and father were watching TV. They happened upon a show on which India's
Prime Minister Pandit Nehru was discussing the affairs of the day with
Aldous Huxley, author of Doors of Perception and father
figure-to-be for the '60s counterculture. The year was 1956. The subject
of yoga came up. My father had never heard of yoga before, but what Nehru
and Huxley said fascinated him. He turned to my mother and asked her what
yoga was. She said that she didn't know; why didn't he get a book on it?
Click Here To Read Article
____________________
Some
Might Call Me A Shaman
by Trish Casimira
As a shamanic practitioner and a teacher of
shamanism, I am often asked how one becomes a shaman and how, indeed, I
became one. I was chosen.
Click Here To Read Article
____________________
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
by Roberta F. Lewis, M.S.W.
Does not a day go by that many of us don't
wonder how we manage to juggle the pieces of our lives and honorably hold
up our responsibilities to family, friends, work, our health, our
financial well-being, as well as lead full and satisfying lives? It
sometimes doesn't take much to unsettle the delicate balance of forces
that constellate as our world, sending it off into a wobble, leaving us
struggling to right the course. How do we find a way back?
Click Here To Read Article
____________________
East and West Shake Hands
by Portia Brockway
When I was a little girl, my American
father taught me the principles and practices of yoga. Its seed has grown
into my tree of life, governing my moral and ethical considerations, my
physical practice, and the ways in which I serve, contemplate and learn.
Click Here To Read Article
____________________
A Precision-Tuned Body
by Pat Burke
We often use the term stress to refer to
the negative effects of external factors such as noise, crowding,
performance expectations and deadlines. Most people experience stress as
something that happens to them. More accurately, stress itself is neutral,
referring to pressures on an organism or system. Health, adaptation and
evolution can be desirable outcomes when an organism is forced to respond
to a large amount and intensity of stimulation or change. An experience
that creates excitement and exhilaration in one person can cause deep
anxiety and debilitating stress for another. Anytime an organism is
overloaded, stress can occur, possibly followed by disease.
Click Here To Read Article
____________________
Yoga & Fatness
by Portia Brockway
All my life I have struggled with fatness.
Baby fat, teenage fat, grownup fat. It comes and it goes. Fat itself is
not so bad. It's how we torture ourselves about its pinch-ability, its
rolls, the way it slows us down and makes our thighs rub or our shorts
ride up. Oh, fat and the shame of it!
Click Here To
Read Article
____________________
Meditation:
Tranquility Within (An Eleven Step Exercise)
by Dr. Vicki Monroe
Meditation is one of the only tools
that every human being can use to improve their life. It has been used for
thousands of years by eastern cultures, yet here in the West we are just
now learning and using it. Let's face it, when a body is at ease within
itself, there can be no "dis-ease", no illness or unrest. Yet,
when the body is tense, upset, irritated and "out of balance",
thus follows illness and even death.
Click Here To Read
Article
____________________
Creating
a Life of Joy:
A Meditative Guide
Preparing for Joy
by Salle Merrill Redfield
We are all capable of living
lives characterized by great joy. Within each of us is an amazing human
spirit that is strong enough to overcome pain and disappointment. And no
matter what our current situation happens to be, or what beliefs we may
currently harbor about ourselves, we can tap into that inner strength and
wisdom and move forward to create more joy.
Click
Here To Read Article
____________________
Breathing
In Life
by Anja Heij
"And God formed figures from clay, blowed on them to breathe in life,
and they became men."
This biblical story highly puzzled me when I was a child; I did not
understand how grown-ups seriously could believe such a thing. It surely
wouldn't work with the clay dolls I made… But then it wasn't to be taken
literally. It was symbolically explaining that we are spiritual beings in
a physical body, sharing God's life force and creative possibilities.
Click
Here To Read Full Article ____________________
Working In The Subtle Realm Of Thought
by Asoka Selvarajah, Ph.D
The spiritual realm is the world of Causes.
The manifest material world, that is so familiar to us through our senses,
is the world of Effects. Thought always precedes manifestation in the
material world. All that is manifest in the material world, whether in
nature or man-made, was first a thought; a grand design.
Click
Here To Read Article
____________________
Fibromyalgia: A Challenging Condition
by Peg Doyle, M.Ed., LMT
Fibromyalgia is a complex disorder
involving several etiologies and symptom patterns. Not always definitively
diagnosed by medical professionals, there is general agreement that those
who have the syndrome experience a variety of symptoms, with widespread
body pain the most universally reported complaint.
Click Here To Read
Article
__________________
Quest for Quiet
by Louise Morganti Kaelin
We live in a very exciting time. New advances in technology and science
are exploding around us. Ideas that were pipedreams two years ago are
reality today, and about to be replaced by newer, better, more
cost-efficient innovations.
Click
Here To Read Article
___________________
Harnessing The Power Of
Imagery
For Happiness And Health: How Deep Spontaneous Imagery Can Change
Your Life
by Florence Gaia
What if you found passage to a
magical place that not only brought moments of wonderment and surprise but
also real positive change in your life? What if this place had humor,
quiet moments of warm intimacy, playfulness or daring adventure, as well
as suspense and heroic challenges, yet there was never danger to life or
limb and you could emerge with a new sense of self and your own
possibilities? You could really improve your life. There are others who
have gone before us and know this place well. You do not have to travel
far for it is located within reach of anyone wishing to open to the unused
powers of their own imagination.
Click
Here To Read Article
__________________
Self-Healing Basics
by Cristin Snyder
All beings require equality.
There must be a balance between the spiritual, emotional, and physical
being. When the balance is off, we are off. We feel the repercussions
through physical pain, discomfort, anxiety, anger, and depression. When we
go to the doctor to seek pills for physical ailments, typically we are
focusing treatment on the symptoms and not the underlying problem.
Click Here To
Read Article
___________________
An Open
Heart
by The Dalai Lama and Nicholas Vreeland
When we look at the happiness we seek and
the suffering we wish to avoid, most evident are the pleasant and
unpleasant feelings we have as a result of our sensory experience of the
tastes, smells, textures, sounds, and forms that we perceive around us.
There is, however, another level of experience. True happiness must be
pursued on the mental level as well.
Click
Here To Read Article
__________________ I
Cried, Shivered And Shook!
The Physical, Emotional And Psychological Impact Of A Successful Past-Life
Regression
by Bob Olson, OfSpirit.com Editor
If you’re like me, you either
don’t believe in past-life regression or you simply don’t believe that
you can do it. Three years
ago, I would have fallen under the category of full-blown nonbeliever.
Today, after researching spiritual phenomenon for three years, I have no
doubts that other people can achieve hypnotic regression to a past life; I
just don’t believe I can
do it. At least that was my story until recently, after experiencing a
successful past-life regression of my own.
Click
Here To Read Article
___________________
Gaia In Our Hearts
by Susan Meeker-Lowry
As far back as Paleolithic times ancient
peoples fashioned clay and stone images of the Great Mother, images with
voluptuous breasts and thighs and the protruding belly of a woman who has
given birth many times. Her face is often featureless and her head tiny,
but her body is full and soft, the essence of fertility and nurturance.
Over the course of time the Great Mother was honored and worshipped by
virtually every culture.
Click
Here To Read Article
____________________
Instant Relaxation Anytime, Anywhere
by Peter Murphy
If there was a way of relaxing quickly and easily in any situation would
you want to know what it is?
Click
Here To Read Article
___________________
Who Is The Higher Self?
by Asoka Selvarajah, Ph.D
Throughout the ages, Ancient Wisdom has
taught the existence of something that transcends everything we know, and
yet is an integral part of our very being. It has been referred to with
many titles: Guardian Angel, Inner Genius, Higher Self.
Click
Here To Read Article
___________________ The Hour Of Power
by Asoka Selvarajah, Ph.D
Aristotle said that if you gave him a lever big enough, he could move
the world. The same principle of leverage applies in your life. In this
case, we are talking about the use of a small amount of time each day to
revolutionize the results you get from the rest of your day and your life.
Click
Here To Read Article
____________________ Inner Silence In Daily
Life
by Remez Sasson
Jim’s mind was very frantic. All kinds of thoughts raced through his
mind and he couldn’t sleep. Tomorrow he has an important interview, and
he is afraid it might go wrong. When the morning came, he was very tired
and tense. Though he washed and dressed, he looked exhausted.
Click
Here To Read Article
___________________ How The Light Wins Every Battle For
You
by Guy Finley
The true spiritual battle occurs in the "dark" of us, a contest
between the light of our wish to be better than the bitterness in us, or
higher than some heartache or hatred dragging us down. Whatever its
nature, this struggle is between forces that are dark and denying and
those light and affirming. The ground fought upon is for possession of our
interior; to the victor go the spoils.
Click
Here To Read Article
___________________
Change - What's It Really About?
by Joanne Victoria
As you sit in your office wondering what other successful business owners
are doing differently than you, have you ever asked yourself if you should
change your methods?
Click
Here To Read Article
__________________ The Law Of Perpetual Transmutation
by Asoka Selvarajah
In his book, "The Science Of Getting
Rich", author Wallace D. Wattles talks about the Law of Perpetual
Transmutation. Simply put, energy from the formless realm is constantly
flowing into the material world and taking form. This energy is limitless
and inexhaustible. As old forms are exhausted, they give way for new forms
to emerge from the invis |
