Mar
13
The Benefits of Happiness and Positive Emotions in Reducing Risks of Heart Disease
March 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment
In a ten year study seeking to understand more attitudes affect our health, a team of researchers from Columbia University has found that, just as negative emotions such as anger, depression, and hostility are risk factors for heart attack and stroke, feelings of happiness seems to protect the heart. Specifically, the study examined the impact [...]
Mar
6
Live Online Course with Carolyn Myss & Norm Shealy: The Science of Medical Intuition
March 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment
This is a special post for our special intuitives and Carolyn Myss fans. She is offering an online audio course with Dr. Norm Shealy, The Proven Power of Medical Intuition: Self-Diagnosis and Healing with Your Body’s Energy System beginning on March 16. I attended this course live with these two pioneers in energy medicine [...]
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 time [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Jan
21
Commit to Taking the Drama – and Trauma – Out of Your Divorce
January 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Going through divorce is by nature painful enough on so many levels, commit to not adding to your stress by making it as peaceful as you can. Don’t fill it with high drama and conflict, but acknowledge the sadness, pain and loss on all sides, and try not to increase it. Start with [...]
Dec
21
Opening to the Fierce Feminine: Tuning into Archetypes of Feminine Strength
December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment
This latest talk in the continuing series on feminine power by Sally Kempton, author of The Heart of Meditation: Pathways to a Deeper Spirit is particularly relevant for women in their middle years. She speaks exactly to the attributes of the Guardian stage we inhabit as authenticity, integrity, confidence, and talking to truth [...]

