Learning to listen with an open mind rather than a defensive attitude opens us to learn and allows us to grow — When I was a kid, my friends and I would play a board game called ‘Life’. The game was pretty simple; you would spin a wheel and move along the board in a car color of your ... Read More about Living on the Offense or Defense: Replacing Reactivity with Understanding
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The Power Inside You: 10 Secrets to Self-Empowerment
No one can fix your world for you, but everything you need to find peace, power and love is within you already; you simply need tools to access it — We live in a world where becoming powerful is defined by individuals and social standards which tend to lie outside of our own minds. We have ... Read More about The Power Inside You: 10 Secrets to Self-Empowerment
What Is Ayurveda and How Can It Benefit You?
Ayurveda is a powerful ancient healing science, yet remains shrouded in mystery; here is an overview of Ayurvedic constructs and benefits — Ayurveda is an ancient healing science that stems from the Vedic culture. It is a system of medicine that evolved in India over 5,000 years ago. ... Read More about What Is Ayurveda and How Can It Benefit You?
Bravery: An Invitation of Becoming, Loving & Healing
We know that love and unity are beautiful ideals, but the question remains: How do we get there? — If it wasn’t for bravery, I would never know the joy of moving past each inner barrier within me. Barriers that I had no idea were self-imposed limitations until each edge was challenged. If it ... Read More about Bravery: An Invitation of Becoming, Loving & Healing
What’s Cooking? A Q&A With Vani Hari (Plus 5 Healthy & Delicious Recipes!)
Vani Hari, the Food Babe, puts her recipes where her activist mouth is and guides us to simple, healthy, real food options — Inconvenient facts are still facts. ~ Vani Hari Vani Hari aka the ‘Food Babe’ has dedicated her career (and life) to unraveling the food industry’s ... Read More about What’s Cooking? A Q&A With Vani Hari (Plus 5 Healthy & Delicious Recipes!)
To Be Here Now Is To Feel Here Now: The Vulnerability of Being Present
In a world where we are told to bypass vulnerability at all costs, we miss its hidden gifts of healing, understanding and potential — Bodhichitta is our heart — our wounded, softened heart. Now, if you look for that soft heart that we guard so carefully — if you decide that you’re going to do ... Read More about To Be Here Now Is To Feel Here Now: The Vulnerability of Being Present
Choose Love: A Vital Strategy for More Success
How do you react when you don’t think about it? Do you react from a place of fear or from love? Pause, take a deep breathe and then act deliberately. — I believe people are either moving towards love or running from fear. We do this in every daily activity. Think about driving in your ... Read More about Choose Love: A Vital Strategy for More Success
The Inner Alchemy: Qi Gong and the energetic path to happiness, health & vitality
Pedram Shojai, aka The Urban Monk, shares how to practice Qi Gong to read and clear your energy fields and bring forth renewed health and vitality. — When I was in the thick of my martial arts training, my teacher would have us go into the mountains at night during a new moon. We would spend a ... Read More about The Inner Alchemy: Qi Gong and the energetic path to happiness, health & vitality
A Time For Rain: A Mother Daughter Reclamation of Feelings
In a world that tells us to get over and move through emotions as fast as possible, a breath of fresh air comes from a mother daughter team who craft a tale in honor of feelings — Musings from Sofia Brogan Fink (9 years old): I love writing books, when I was about 7 years old I wrote ... Read More about A Time For Rain: A Mother Daughter Reclamation of Feelings
Truth or Dare: From Secrets, Lies & Vatican Ties to Transparency…and Freedom
Untangling web of family secrets, lies and Vatican ties, a woman discovers a path to freedom through truth and transparency — I grew up the youngest of thirteen children in a home oozing with religiosity and steeped in Catholic dogma. My five brothers were named after the Apostles (they ... Read More about Truth or Dare: From Secrets, Lies & Vatican Ties to Transparency…and Freedom
Our Best Self in the Face of Fear and Failure
Mindful strategies to shift our flawed thinking and patterns that invite the illusions of fear and failure — I can barely breathe. The possibility of failure on an epic scale threatens everything my team and I have worked to achieve. I feel paralyzed. How in the world do I reach deep within ... Read More about Our Best Self in the Face of Fear and Failure
Interview: Elizabeth Lesser | Lessons of the Soul
Elizabeth Lesser Lessons of the soul Interview by Kristen Noel, January 5, 2017, Woodstock, New York Photographs by Bill Miles Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you ... Read More about Interview: Elizabeth Lesser | Lessons of the Soul