Who is Rumi?
Rumi’s poetry is very beautiful with meanings hidden from the linear mind. I have always felt connected to this mystical poet due to his sharing my birthday and his date of death being my father’s birthday. The poetry of Rumi is haunting and still quite a mystery to me, yet it brings great peace of…
Love Yourself Enough to Love Others
I was born a Christian… By this I mean I was born into a Christian family, and therefore grew up with the stories from the bible in the Old Testament, and the ones in the New Testament about the life of Jesus Christ… I belonged to a lively church group from the age of thirteen…
Living Mindfully in the Face of Fear
Bill and I were guests on the Lift Your Spirits Show with Dena Marie on the Alternative Talk Radio Station in Seattle. (You can listen to the archive here). We had a lovely chat before and after the show with the guest host Ann Dorn who produces the Seattle Natural Awakenings magazine, She was planning an article…
5 Things That Will Transform Your Life Overnight
Here are 5 things that will change your life for the better forever. None of them will cost you a thing but they may save you a lot of time, trouble, tears and turmoil. Gratitude: We tend to live life from a place of lack – constantly seeking more possessions, power, love, knowledge …you…
The Kingdom of Graceonia – A Fairy Tale (Part 3 of 4)
Chapter 5 – The Disconnection After much deliberation Connie decided to walk to the next village in the hope of getting some help. She didn’t know what had happened in her own village and thought that maybe she could find the answers elsewhere. She set out on the long walk, drinking water from the river…
The Universe Moves
Here is an intervention from outside. I spoke with my friend Shirley. We have been talking every morning for a few years now, to help each other evolve. Only lately we have reduced our conversations to four times a week. This morning, as I described to her what I felt she instructed me to go…
Where Does Poverty Consciousness Come From?
Poverty consciousness is the belief that there will not be enough for you. This could be food, money, attention, or any number of things, but it manifests as a fear of lack. There can be many reasons that you suffer from these beliefs. Many of the people alive today were raised by a generation that…
Treating the Many Levels of Depression
Again on the discussion threads of LinkedIn. Great food for thought originates from topics there. Someone asked about treating depression naturally. There were several responses from practitioners touting whatever approach they were employing. Exercise is beneficial, hypnotherapy can work to elevate serotonin levels in the brain. Meditation can be helpful. While all of these things…
Natural Remedies – Do They Work?
The medical industry is the most powerful in the world. It is also the most profitable. But, for centuries, man had successfully used a natural remedy for all his ailments. It is only recently, in the last 130 years or so that man, in his wisdom, or for his bank balance, has pushed natural remedies…
Self-Love – The Silent Healer
Self-love is a big issue in spiritual awakening and healing processes and yet so many people experience such vast and all-encompassing self-condemnation, some to the degree of complete emotional and functional paralysis. Given the bio-chemical connection between emotions and the body, it’s only logical that feeling good about yourself supports the body, and negative feelings…
The Girl and the Raven
Haida Nation Story One day a father of a girl returned from fishing on the ocean, he gave the fish to his wife, who cut up and cleaned the fish. The girl took the fat and the liver of the halibut and gave it to the Raven. Every time the father came back from fishing…
Understanding Ghosts in the 21st Century
There is a history of haunting, folklore and ghost stories in the world, and it has been widely publicised and popularised by Western society since the Victorian times. People would happily enter into group séances led by older women who would appear to fall into a trance and call forth the spirits of deceased loved…