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 [...]

According to Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, co-author of Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of Our Next Economic Revolution, and CEO of 20-first, a company that helps organizations develop more inclusive leadership styles, gender-balance in their management teams and better respond to women as employees and consumers – one in three new US jobs in next [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A new financing plan called a residential solar lease, may make going solar affordable by bypassing the high initial cost of installing a system. Popular in California, the world’s third largest solar-power market, twice as many people filed for solar power permits in 2009 than in 2008, much of the demand driven by [...]

During my ritual beginning-of-the-year cleansing of files, bookmarks and the like, I came across this short reflection about money called: Are You a Reverse Money Snob? from the Barefoot Executive’s site for At Home Professionals. Its musings on our attitudes towards wealth seem germane as we continue evaluating the meaning and role of money in [...]

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 [...]

Know someone tapping their experience to improve the lives of others? Finding new purpose, one that supplies a meaning, is one of the main drivers of The Purpose Prize. Directed by Civic Ventures the program is now in its fifth year, giving ten awards of up to $100,000 to innovators in encore careers – people [...]

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