By Janice Hylton
A compassionate body/breath practitioner said to me today that she felt the common definition of “perfection” was very constrained. I had been a recipient of her work as we shared some observations and questions about the nature of perfection.
What had come up for me a few minutes earlier as I lay on [...]
By Diana Caughell
Just this! Human evolution can not be seen as separate from cosmic evolution. Our Universe is a living organic entity and we, the human race and our ability for survival are an integral part of this infinitely on-going metamorphosis of great power and energy. Knowing how to dance to the cosmic rules [...]
By Rebecca Traver
“It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.” — Seneca
A couple of afternoons ago as I was getting into my car I noticed that a jeep in the space ahead of me had a license plate [...]
By Euphrasia Carroll
My interest in overcoming fear feelings around massive uncertainty (both real and imagined)… this is what prompted me to study, practice, and apply this model. When I say “this model,” I am referring to the evolving work of a group of guides who channel through Jennie Marlow, the most grounded channel I [...]
By Jennie Marlow
Question: Help me with the word fear. For me, the word has come to mean awe. Or a verb, an arrow pointing me to the unknown, a place of resistance sometimes, and a trusting that an opening will occur.
Fear is a painful emotion caused by our perception that something bad is about [...]
In the course of anyone’s lifetime, “bad” things are guaranteed to happen. Yet there is nothing wrong with these “bad” things—nor is there anything “right” about them either. They simply happen. They are neither good nor bad, right nor wrong, and human judgment is best left out of the equation. It is much more useful [...]
By Jennie Marlow
How we deal with life can look a lot like that old Monty Python sketch called, “The Fish Slapping Dance.” We really do think we are so clever as we dance around our fears and issues, playing at confronting them, prancing to-and-fro, kidding ourselves into thinking we are really doing something—really getting [...]
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 [...]
A Poem by Meg Coyle Irsay
This plan you have for staying calm cannot get through you’ll need a bomb
You’ll need a crisis and lots of time, to balance all this yours or mine
This plan that you’ve have been driving hard, cannot release you from your guard
This plan you built out of the sticks your [...]
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 [...]