ByMarcia Hinds
Though Marcia didn’t write this article herself, it is too important to not publish – it is written by her son Ryan. My mom wrote a book about my recovery from autism. How many kids have a mother who writes a book about every detail in their childhood? This is when I stand up raise my…
BySiobhan Purcell
People have always fascinated me. Before even beginning my training, I loved to observe people on the underground or on the street from a café and wonder what stories lay behind their eyes. We’re all connected. People all over the world go through life facing similar challenges, experiencing both pain and joy. Certainly, some people…
ByCaroline Nettle
We are programmed by a strong desire to seek pleasure and avoid pain. This is so deep rooted in our subconscious that it motivates pretty much everything that we do. Recently, there has been a movement towards positive thinking as a way of overcoming our challenges, and dispelling negative feelings. However, despite the thousands of…
ByGiora Carmi
Two days come now, in which I struggle with a core issue. It is not important to know what the core issue is. I feel it strongly and I work with the feeling or the experience. I find that sometimes the issues are so complicated when they appear as stories, that it does not help…
ByAudra Brown
Prayers! Sending out prayers. I’m praying for you or this that and the other. Have these become catch phrases along with “Just let it go”, “It is what it is”, “Sending love and light”? I for one use these phrases. I am also deeply aware that they truly mean something. I believe thoughts and words…
ByJohn Osborne
Pain comes in many shades – but which is which? Some years ago, when I was a gymnast, young and fit, I was lucky enough to be chosen to trial for what then was the UK Olympic Gym Team. At the time there was no such thing as “sponsorship” or money of any sort available…
ByGiora Carmi
Let’s start with a day of pain. I wanted to post this drawing alone, without saying anything, but the plan has changed. Now a second day like this has come, and a third day. And in the third day I have an appointment at the place where that workshop is taking place, to try all…
ByAudra Brown
Hello, Today’s post: DIVINITY! What am I referring to? I’m referring to the spiritual perfection that resides in each and every one of us. I know, I know we immediately want to jump in there and try to pick apart, and point out those folks that are not acting or being very Divine at this…
ByTeri Dluznieski
One of my teachers from South America noted- the most important and powerful thing we can do, individually and as a country: heal ourselves. Want to change the plight of the developing nations. fix the US problems. If we solved OUR energy crises- we would not be exploiting and polluting the rest of the world….
ByTony Samara
The Triple Gems of Jainism as the Path to Liberation from Karmic Bondage & Mundane Existence Liberation (‘Moksha’) is a blissful state of existence of a soul completely free from karmic bondage, and free from mundane existence (samsara) – the cycle of birth and death. A liberated soul is said to have attained its true…
ByGiora Carmi
I showed my life partner my posting “I am that”. She had an operation on her eyes and it was hard for her to read, so she asked me to make the computer read it aloud. We like doing it sometimes. The computer spoke. Some of the sentences sounded not as they should have, but…
ByDebs Atkinson
Our natural reaction, generally, when seeing a loved one in emotional or physical pain, is to try and fix it. Maybe there is someone you care for who is in a relationship which looks and feels destructive and unhealthy, yet they cannot seem to take steps to change it. Or perhaps someone you love is…