Building Clarity: Relationships, Communication and Energy Fields
Energy includes three aspects of the body’s systems: Pathways – meridians; Centers – chakras and Biofield – aura. Understanding how the interaction of energy around you can affect a relationship will help you to maintain your physical boundaries, which we discussed recently. By sensing your energy field and your physical boundaries, you can greatly improve […]
Understanding the Law of Attraction
What is the Law of Attraction? A simple explanation would be that you get what you are focused on. In other words; when you think a thought, you create a feeling— which in turn creates a vibration throughout your cells throughout your body and continues to vibrate that frequency out into the universe. This vibration […]
The Essentials of Aromatherapy
Many years ago, while studying healing at The Center of the Light in Great Barrington, MA, I developed a passion for Aromatherapy. Aromatherapy is a wonderful way to enhance your life— creating a comforting atmosphere of your choosing in your home or office. With smell being the quickest way to shift your own mood or […]
Experiencing the Journey to Live Our Dreams
“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.” –Paolo Coehol, The Alchemist So many times we hear commonly shared wisdom like “Happiness is not a destination, it’s a way of traveling.” But what does that mean? Like many things, in theory it sounds great, but it’s not quite […]
The Transformation of Time
‘Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive… and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.” –The Alchemist So often we hear that we live in a world of “me.” We are taught to fend for ourselves, fiercely clutch […]
The Issue of Aging
How many times have we heard someone told to act his or her age? It has become such a common phrase in our society; we rarely stop to think what it really means. This morning, while meditating, a thought came into my head; that I was 10 years younger than I am. Suddenly, I felt […]
Finding Our Personal Freedom
“Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns…We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices […]
Embracing Impermanence
“We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing — our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we live in. We can’t hold on to anything — a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/mind we call self […]
Believing in Your Own Truth
I recently had a rather heated discussion with a friend who was trying to convince me that she was right and I was wrong about something. She was quite irritated that I would not agree with her. I wasn’t trying as hard to convince her of my ‘rightness’ as she was in insisting that I […]
Magnificent Mantras Part 3: Do Good, Avoid Evil, Appreciate Your Lunacy.
This last installment of Magnificent Mantras, ties it all together. Its purpose is to allow our practice to “oscillate between two levels, the profound and the mundane.” Meaning, if we’re too full of wonder in our practice, it does us no good because we allow our thoughts to be too existential; we’re not able to […]