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Enter the Invisible Flow of Life and Free Yourself from the Fear of Unwanted...

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...

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A 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...

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The 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...

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Confronting 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...

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Acceptance 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...

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Finding 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...

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Freedom 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...

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How 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...

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Self-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...

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If 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...

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Healing 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...

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Spirit 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...

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Where 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...

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Spirit 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,...

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Sticks & 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...

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Your 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...

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Coming 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...

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How 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...

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Living 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...

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Navigating 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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