Creative Success Depends on Long View
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Dialing Down The Distress: The 1-Minute Breathing Box Meditation
Everyone can use a simple method for going within, getting in touch with your deepest self and finding a bit of serenity when life gets too intense or seems crazy.
One of the best methods I’ve found is a simple breathing technique that provides [...]
The Rooster is Coming–Prepare Now for Chinese New Year
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! ROOSTER UP! MONKEY DOWN!!
Finally Official!! 2016 Gregorian Calendar year is gone!! It is 2017!! AND with it the Yang Fire Monkey is slowly losing his grip and slipping away, as well. He has definitely been a wild ride for many. [...]
Switching Emotions
A lot of people, from the looks of it on Facebook and other sites, are feeling many negative emotions seemingly from the fallout of our election process – emotions such as anxiety, anger, or gloom.
(Many other people are feeling elation, some [...]
Podcast: Activating Your Chakras
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Anodea Judith PhD is an award-winning author of eight books on psychology, spirituality, and social change, best known for her groundbreaking work with the chakra system, the architecture of the soul that provides a profound [...]
Podcast: Awakening the Power of Your Intuition
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Dr. Judith Orloff MD is a psychiatrist, an intuitive healer and New York Times bestselling author. Her bestsellers are The Power of Surrender, Emotional Freedom, Second Sight, Positive Energy, and Intuitive Healing. Dr. [...]
Two Social Media Trends Show Hope and Optimism
Two trends I’ve noticed for some time on social media give cause for well-needed hope for society.
One is a great and growing kindness towards the entire animal kingdom, and the second is unphotoshopped evidence of incredibly precocious children [...]
Faith in Unconditional Universal Love
The world is consistently aiming to push us back into the benevolence.
The stars woo us to remember all we ask is here. The doves sing to our hearts, asking us to hear the grace in each silent second. The winds grab our arms, embrace our backs, [...]
Podcast: Healing Through Words
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Today’s guest is Colinda Aldridge, an up and coming author who shares her passion and most intimate feelings into a 4 book series entitled Emotions. For Colinda, coping with tragedy, conquering fears and reflecting on life [...]
Your Spirit of Adventure: It Carries You to the Ends of the Earth
The difference between an average life and a fantastic life of adventure as defined by you, hinges on three things…
Your thoughts that become realities by your hand; actions that move you toward your destiny; and, a deep persistence knowing [...]
Podcast: Ancient Secrets of Manifesting Revealed
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Ken Elliot is the author of the award winning book, Manifesting 123, and you don’t need #3. Learn simple steps to eliminate worry and manifest the desires of your life with Manifesting 123!
Ancient Secrets of Manifesting [...]
The 2016 Yang Fire MonKey Book is Here
The 2016 Yang Fire Monkey…Year of Changeability and Unpredictability is now available for purchase.
The book may be purchased at http://www.maryshurtleff.com, http://www.amazon.com/ or http://www.barnesandnoble.com.
This year will prove [...]
An Era Of Religious Troubles Marches Forth
The astrological pattern referred to is shown by Saturn’s entry into, and passage through, the sign of Sagittarius, which will last until December 2017.
It will bring forth clashes of ideologies, workable and unworkable solutions to mankind’s [...]
Loved Ones on the Other Side: Animal Readings and Human Readings
For one year after my Mom died in 1993 she turned a little lamp on by my bed every evening.
At first I thought I left it on by mistake. Next, that my housemates were playing music in my room and leaving it on! Soon I caught on. Since then she [...]
THE CECIL FACTOR
People’s stress levels are elevated, and some may even feel that matters are hopeless.
With headlines assaulting us with stories of maniacs shooting theatergoers, natural disasters in many parts of the globe and a general coarsening of the [...]
FENG SHUI ASPECTS FOR AUGUST 2015
Your home is an extension of your mind and your thoughts create your home.
Does your home support your needs—emotionally, financially, physically, spiritually, and mentally? This monthly Feng Shui aspect feature will help you to make those [...]
Blue Moon
Blue Moon—July 31st
What does it mean? The Blue Moon is considered the second full moon of a month. They occur infrequently, hence the saying….once in a blue moon. On July 31, 2015 at 4:42 MST, the blue moon will be fully visible in the [...]
DOES THE FLY-BY OF PLUTO MATTER TO OUR LIVES?
By now, everyone knows that a fly-by of Pluto occurred on July 14th, 2015.
A spacecraft reached this orbiting body at the far outskirts of our solar system, and sent back wonderfully detailed pictures revealing for the first time a lovely vast [...]
Feng Shui Aspects for July 2015
Intro to the Monthly Aspects:
Your home is an extension of your mind and your thoughts create your home. Does your home support your needs—emotionally, financially, physically, spiritually, and mentally? This monthly Feng Shui aspect feature [...]
OVERCOMING ANGER
On the internet recently, the Dalai Lama is quoted as saying “The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.” There it is in a nutshell!
Anger is a subject I know something about, and it’s been a lifelong challenge to deal [...]
Easy To Do Flying Stars Aspects Blog For June 2015
EASY TO DO FLYING STARS ASPECTS BLOG FOR YOUR LIFE, HOME, AND BUSINESS
Your home is an extension of your mind and your thoughts create your home. Does your home support your needs—emotionally, financially, physically, spiritually, and mentally? [...]
Chaos And Lawlessness – The Naming Of An Age, The Challenge For Us All
Chaos and disruption.
These are the energies I spoke of in my article called “DESTINY IN THE BALANCE: America’s Role in the Great Cosmic Plan ” in Dell Horoscope magazine in January 2010. “When I heard that the dwarf planet [...]
Your Creative Mind: Unpredictable Collision of Thought and Circumstance
How do ideas strike you?
When do they hit? Have you heard of the phrase, “Stroke of luck…flash of insight…eureka moment!” Creativity involves anticipation mingled with uncertainty. For the record, ideas grow out of your brain through [...]
Is Holy Week Politically or Religiously Incorrect?
Several years ago my husband and I had the pleasure of visiting Egypt and Israel with a Rabbi and his wife who made the whole experience extremely enlightening.
Some would ask, “Can Jews and Christians share their faith?” We were [...]
Arguing Your Point
I’ve never been on a debating team; my ability to come back with a “zinger” is questionable; and having a soft-spoken voice has probably lost me some points in a heated discussion.
Perhaps this is why I write: to get my point across more [...]
The Flash Mob Phenomenon in the Age of Aquarius
The Flash Mob phenomenon is a relatively new thing made possible by the internet and other social media.
It’s a marvelous concept in which, by pre-arrangement, a group of people come together in a public venue in order to perform (usually) [...]
Forget What You Have Lost
Sometimes, our lives can change swiftly.
Aside from the death of a loved one, change may actually be a good thing. If you are moving out of a long-term relationship, such as divorce, changing jobs/careers or retiring, dealing with a midlife [...]
Three of Me
2015 March, I was hanging out with my friend. I had purchased Blue Bell Butter Crunch and we went to her apartment.
It had been a minute since I had seen her so, she stopped by and scooped me up. As we sat at the table catching up on things [...]
Illusion of Being Right: High Level Fear Wearing A Mask
We humans make judgments on just about everything that comes into our eyesight.
We judge ourselves when we look into the mirror in the morning. We judge our friends by the cars they drive. We judge strangers by the clothes they wear. We judge [...]
Beating the Blizzard Blues
I concede I dreamed of a white Christmas.
I will even admit I sang, “Let It Snow, Let It Snow.” Several years ago, before I retired from teaching, the thought of a “snow day” meant a whole day of relaxing, catching up on grades and staying [...]
Becoming Empowered But Still Being Loving
Discussing the ways in which someone becomes more empowered on the spiritual path while increasing the ability to be loving is a subject of some confusion.
People tend to equate empowerment with toughness, and love with softness. Can these [...]
Feeling Discouraged Early in Another Year – Now What?
Are you failing your New Year’s resolutions?
Bored and onto a new trend? Starting another project because the current one isn’t going well? Feeling the let down of early winter? You’re not alone in your disappointment. I’m never sure [...]
A Simple Thank You Will Do
Just because you’re an adult, mature and wise, it doesn’t mean you should take this wonderful life for granted.
When something great happens to you, how do you show your appreciation? Do you just ignore it or do you make an effort to be [...]
Podcast: Secrets to the Feminine Art of a Beautiful Life
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Debra Brown Gordy MS MRET is a Women’s Spiritual Empowerment Mentor and founder of The Sophia Women’s Institute where she works with accomplished female professionals who hunger for more love and fulfillment, who want to [...]
Your Inner Life Elevates Your Outer Life
Back in our college years, my younger brother cut himself shaving one morning.
He bled all over the washbasin. Blood ran down his neck and into the drain. He yelled, “Howard, you stupid expletive, expletive and more expletives! How can one [...]
Your Invitation to a Great Life
In recent weeks, my son Trevor quit his well-paying pharmacy tech job in Denver, Colorado for a “room and board” position in a quiet village in the Austrian Alps.
He sickened of his role in filling drug prescriptions for people addicted [...]
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