Feb
28
Defining Moments: Act on Your Insights
February 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment
I found this beautifully written essay simple and powerful. Psychotherapist Mel Schwartz describes insights as initiators of change – but only if we pay homage to them. As forerunners of our growth, he says, they need our attention. If we don’t commit to our fragile new insights, we simply aren’t taking ourselves seriously enough. From [...]
Feb
26
Letting Go: A Practice to Forgive, Forget and Heal Hurts
February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment
While you’re reviewing your intentions for the year and deciding what you want to let go of and what you want to take with you this year, releasing a hurt, thought, injury or old issue may well be on your agenda. Use this simple process as a tool to help you. A ritual is a [...]
Feb
24
Eckhart Tolle TV: Creating a New Earth Together
February 24, 2010 | 1 Comment
Eckhart Tolle, the runaway bestselling author of A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, and The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, continues to inspire with his stated goal of creating an online community intended to help usher in a new state of consciousness into the world. A long time in the [...]
Feb
22
An Eater’s Manual for Anyone Who Eats
February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto put forth three simple “rules” for eating healthily while being mindful of the impact your food choices make on the planet: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” His latest book, Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual uses these categories, but adds what he’s learned about the [...]
Feb
20
Tips from Chinese Medicine on Staying Healthy During Deep Winter
February 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment
In Winter’s Emotional Weather it’s suggested that winter is a time when energy retreats deep inside the body. According to traditional Chinese medicine, lifestyle choices should shift with the changing seasons, and winter is a time to explore the interior landscape of your body as well as your thoughts, feelings and aspirations. Physically, stretching, yoga [...]
Feb
18
Carolyn Myss: Why You Settle For Less
February 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment
A central dilemma to come to terms with in so many midlife passages Carolyn Myss tackles the ‘spiritual stickiness’ of settling for less than what you want, in this piece on Oprah. Myss bypasses the easy answer of looking at ‘settling’ as a passive choice that lets you off the hook for the choices you’ve [...]
Feb
16
Vitamin D and You at Midlife
February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Vitamin D is in the news a lot, and it’s wise at this stage of life to pay attention. Why? Because vitamin D deficiency has been linked to many chronic diseases that tend to emerge later in life – from cancers, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, and depression, to fibromyalgia, chronic muscle pain, bone [...]
Feb
14
This Valentine’s Day, Develop the Second Most Important Quality in Your Relationship
February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment
When asked what the second most important quality to develop in a relationship is, beyond mutual recognition of spiritual awareness, counselors, teachers and author of several books including their classics, A Shared Heart, Models of Love & The Heart’s Wisdom, Joyce Vissell, RN, MS & Barry Vissell, MD would respond with a litany of qualities [...]
Feb
12
Winter’s Emotional Weather
February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment
This new series explores how becoming aware of the impact of seasonal change on health and well being can provide insight and new tools to guide your actions and improve your quality of life. It’s not coincidental that, instead of celebrating the new year a week after the winter solstice, the Chinese calendar falls nearer [...]
Feb
9
Jimmy Carter Chooses Women’s Equality Over Church Affiliation
February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Thank you! says Marianne Williamson on her website, posting this open letter by Jimmy Carter, Losing My Religion for Equality, to say that he is severing his ties with the Southern Baptist Convention after years of trying to change its views over its treatment of women. Indeed! He also speaks as part of fellow global [...]
