Facing the Reality of Your Fear

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 [...]

On the Move

By Meg Coyle Irsay

My yoga is on the move
My yoga is on the move
My yoga is calling me forward
Backward and forward and through
My yoga is turning me inside
and outside and back again
I am drawn by the hand of my heartbeat right now
to the rhythm of breath and limb.

This blessed thread of Love that holds [...]

The Body Human

By Rebecca Traver

Lately, I’ve been noticing that my attention has been gravitating to pondering the physical aspect of being human. Like many, I have been influenced by the recent political and corporate debates over health care and insurance reform. Out of that conversation, I am conducting a personal inquiry about what it means to [...]

My Great Aunt May

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 [...]

The Supra Bowl

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, [...]

Relieving Stress with Authenticity

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 [...]

Notes on Emotional Freedom

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 [...]

Selflessness & Martyrdom

By Jennie Marlow

“It’s good to be selfless, right,” my friend said after she had agreed to holiday plans she knew would batter her emotionally.

“Depends on what you mean by selfless,” I replied. “You’re afraid to upset your family, so you’re sacrificing your authentic needs and guaranteeing that you will suffer, just to give them [...]

What Is the Post-New-Age?

By Jennie Marlow

New Age spirituality began in the 19th century with metaphysical movements like Spiritualism and New Thought. In the 1960s and 1970s, many counter-culture groups gathered themselves under the umbrella of the term. Some ideas that characterize New Age thought include reincarnation, an afterlife devoted to the soul’s journey of evolution in consciousness, [...]

Watching God Work

By Janice Hylton

There is an old saying, “Work for God, work with God, watch God work.” For me, this saying represents my desire to get myself out of the way in any given circumstance, to remove my personal agenda from the path of others. It also sets me to thinking about a practical way [...]