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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]