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By Rebecca Traver During periods of prolonged dissatisfaction in our lives we can put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make poorly strategized or ill-timed changes in an effort to simply get it over with. Or we settle. If we do come to realize beyond any reasonable doubt that something needs to shift, we [...] By Joanna Kaser Dream 6/2 I was walking on the grass with a man, a friend, and I noticed a cute fuzzy little caterpillar. I bent to touch it and it turned into a large white fuzzy centipede-like creature and jumped up and attached itself to me. It had many tiny feet with suction cups on [...] By Colleen McCarthy-Evans You can start right in practicing forgiveness, the next time you’re searching for a parking space at Trader Joe’s around 5:30 p.m., and instead of cursing that hugely pregnant mother of at least two already, who just cut you off and took the perfect spot that was rightfully yours, you choose instead [...] By Colleen McCarthy-Evans “All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” — Pablo Picasso Creativity is as much a part of being human as walking upright, feeling compassion, and playing Scrabble. And that oh-so human urge to create is often followed by a secondary urge: to share [...] By Meg Coyle Irsay My yoga is on the move This blessed thread of Love that holds [...] By Jennie Marlow Extraordinary people come in very unexpected packages, and Aunt May was no exception. She was my mother’s aunt and the black sheep of the family, known for cussing, smoking cigarettes, drinking whisky and living down by the railroad tracks that ran through the small mining town of Madrid, Iowa. A photographer who [...] By Diana Caughell We marvel at how perfectly synchronized and in harmony everything is on this planet we call Earth. After the growth period of spring and summer, she is retracting into the dormant period of autumn and winter. Without our doing, every year nature is following its natural cycle of birth, life, death and [...] By Jennie Marlow No, I didn’t misspell it. And yes, it’s a very big game that largely goes unnoticed because it happens, not in a coliseum, but in the field of consciousness, within the arena of living the transformative life. It is surely human to strive for a goal, to seek supremacy in the outer world, [...] By Jennie Marlow “I know it’s a big, DUH!” said my friend. “There is almost no pain when I am being authentic to my own needs and feelings.” It was so well-put, I felt compelled to share it with a little commentary on why this is vital to living well when we are facing big [...] By Jennie Marlow On our Tools For Living Well page, Marvin Luzum’s article, What Is Freedom?, offers us his insights into how our fantasies and projections medicate our longing and regret, and take us far from the essential nature of emotional freedom. In his article, Marvin describes how our longing to experience emotional freedom can [...] |
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