In light of just having shared the benefits of happiness and positive emotions on heart disease, we’ll share a resource and reprint an excerpt from our monthly newsletter about research on positivity. (Commercial pause: sign up to stay current on cutting edge research on body, mind, emotion and spirit health and vitality.) How negative are [...]

So which stereotypes about single women are true? The ones about women who’ve never felt more free and happy in their lives, or about those who are lonely, unhappy and inflexible? Before finding out how you – or your single friends – may compare to those in AARP’s study of single women over 45, it’s [...]

As a veteran global fund-raiser for the Hunger Project, consultant to the Nobel Women’s Initiative to leverage the influence of women Nobel Peace Laureates to advance peace, justice, and equality, and as a trustee of the Fetzer Institute, whose mission is to foster awareness of love and forgiveness and the power of letting go, Lynne [...]

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 and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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