Dear Readers, I wanted first to follow up on my note to you from our last issue, where I shared my commitment to say no, to do less. No sooner did I declare this to the world than I learned my father was dying, and within a day, canceled all appointments, commitments, and hopped on a plane to be with ... Read More ►
Craig Weiner, DC, interviews Larry Dossey, MD How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters David Bohm, the great twentieth-century physicist, said that “deep down, the consciousness of mankind is one, and if we don’t see this, we’re blinding ourselves to it.” It’s not just the sense of connectedness that people experience and are ... Read More ►
By Willa Maglalang "We’ve got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we’ve got to learn to stem the inflow. We need to think before we buy. Ask ourselves, 'Is that really going to make me happier? Truly?'" With those words, treehugger.com founder Graham Hill encapsulated in a TED Talk what we need to be conscious about these ... Read More ►
Dear Readers, With this issue I hope that you will be inspired to take steps to simplify your life. I am convinced it's the next big thing. I am fascinated that almost everyone I know is overwhelmed, over-extended, spread thin, and doesn't have enough hours in the day. Complaints of being too busy are common. I am a firm believer ... Read More ►
By Nancy Blanning What Are They Really Asking? Little children ask endless questions. Their initial wordless finger-pointing, which might mean “Take me there,” “What is that?” or “I want,” eventually gives way to verbalization. The first questions begin to emerge at about eighteen to twenty-four months, and are mostly “What?” But the third year brings more “w” questions: who? when? ... Read More ►
Jennifer Lipski, RN How Embodying Love and Gratitude Can Change the World Our lifeblood circulates through our bodies via a profoundly powerful biomechanical pump known as the heart. The heart beat is created by electrochemical interactions between the heart and brain; as the dynamic conversation between these two entities changes, so does the rhythm and intensity of the beat. Research ... Read More ►
Dear Readers, After living in bucolic land-locked Kentucky for more than twenty years, my family and I traveled to an island off the coast of Washington State with the thought of making a move. During this first visit to the town where we have now lived for three years, I stood overlooking the salt water passage which borders the island’s ... Read More ►
By Nancy Blanning Overstimulated and Underprotected in the Modern Media World Information, useful and trivial, wanted or not, bombards us constantly. Our senses are continually stimulated. In self-protection, I have personally found an email access that avoids a “home page”— I no longer am assaulted with the latest celebrity news, nor the disaster of the moment, whether actual or threatened, ... Read More ►
By Robert Kellum, ND Illness as a Bridge to Health I believe that we come from the spirit world and our journey is to burn that body away and find our true spirit body again through the exercise of life. Life is a kind of physical “buffer” of space and time, that, at its best, affords us some comfort as ... Read More ►
Dear readers, I invite you to consider that the humble and unassuming task of gardening is a profound method for learning about ourselves, getting touch with our souls, and exploring spirituality. For most of us, our lives are filled with thoughts and feelings that arise in response to what we observe in the world around us—our interactions with others, daily ... Read More ►
