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Key Lesson: There are a thousand different ways to wrap a gift, but there’s only one way to receive the true “present” moment… and that is to be open to what it has come to give you. For Further Study...
View ArticleA Sacred Turning Point: Eckankar Enters a New Spiritual Era
Sometimes the most powerful changes in life arrive almost without notice, like invisible ink seeping gradually through to the surface of a page. However, this fall one of the most sacred events in the...
View ArticleThe Oxymoron of Being Home and Alone
In the Tao de Ching, Chapter 47, Lao Tzu says “Without leaving your home, you can know the whole world.” This is quite a puzzling statement since travel is a big part of our lifestyle – often...
View ArticleConfronting Your Inner Critic in Your Workouts
As an instructor, I get to be the silent observer to how people react when their workout gets hard or pushes them outside of their comfort zones. What I have learned over years of training is the...
View ArticleAcceptance of Self Creates a Better World
All of humanity is going through a change right now which is showing up throughout the political, religious, health, and economic challenges that we are all witnessing and experiencing. This has...
View ArticleFinding Self-acceptance through Gratitude
Never in my life would I ever have thought I’d be grateful for my small, wide, Flintstone feet. Yep, these little piggies shaped like a rectangle get more compliments, all because I can find great...
View ArticleFreedom from the Bondage of Self through Yoga Meditation
What is freedom? If you asked 100 people what freedom is, you may very well get 100 different answers. The reason for this is that no two people are exactly alike and each has his or her own set of...
View ArticleHow to Defeat What’s Defeating You
The biggest problem facing us as individuals is that we have all been caught up in the race of looking for relief. Our time would be spent far more profitably looking for strength. We would never...
View ArticleSelf-Care Is Your Prayer
An excerpt from Your Life is Your Prayer: Wake Up to the Spiritual Power in Everything You Do “You, yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — The Buddha...
View ArticleIf It’s Not Okay to Say It to Someone Else, It’s Not Okay to Say It to Yourself
Adapted from the book Out of Love: Finding Your Way Back to Self-Compassion I thought I had to be self-critical. If I wasn’t, who knew what would happen, what bad things I’d do, what a loser I’d be? I...
View ArticleHealing is Spiritual
Have you given much thought to what healing is and how it happens? Like many, I took healing for granted. If I rested and gave it a little time, I got better. That was it. Healing was bandaging a wound...
View ArticleSpirit Uranus Speaks: Self-Awareness Exercise
You are capable of being aware of things from many different levels, and they are in you — although you are not conscious of them, for you have shut down this ability. The ability is hidden underneath...
View ArticleWhere I am Most Loved
“And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.” ― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are Many of us spend our lifetimes painfully searching...
View ArticleSpirit Leaves: Authentic Beauty
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet… — T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Raised in the old energies, I worked to perfect my persona,...
View ArticleSticks & Stones: Letting Go of a Deep Hurt
Being 19 was the bomb! I was off at college, with no parental controls and loving the freedom and flexibility of creating my life. Each day was a learning opportunity — to discover who I was. Did I...
View ArticleYour Self
Imagine time slowing down for a second, at any given situation. Perhaps when you overhear gossip, or when you’re having a heated conversation, being confronted directly; any time before the consequent...
View ArticleComing Home to our Authentic Self
For many of us, life moves on a fast track. We are constantly jumping from one thing to another. It is all about doing and getting through our day as best as we can. How do we feel at the day’s end? Is...
View ArticleHow to Live From Your Authentic Self
The permanent, more authentic, part of you did not come to Earth to live from fears and mental limitations, but rather came to become aware of and overcome whatever blocks hold you back. The soul part...
View ArticleLiving Authentically
Authentic living is a process of knowing who we are at the soul level and then, essentially, expressing that soul knowledge out into the world. Being our authentic selves is a “work in progress” that...
View ArticleNavigating Life from the Authentic Self
The authentic self is the foundation of actualizing our evolutionary potential, and it is our birthright. It is an expression of being: us to the very core. It makes sense then that we can reap so many...
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