Holistic Health. Learning through experience. Exploring initial starts into the way of meditation. Musings on life: good, bad, indifferent. Encouragement in a difficult world
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In the American Indian spiritual tradition, each person has a totem animal. A totem animal is a guide or guardian that helps you move through life, with all of its challenges and joys. Much like a guardian angel. In my own visioning, I have been shown...
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Our lives have not only ups and downs; but edges. Times when we find ourselves standing on narrow or misshapen platforms. Times when it seems our feet and our bodies are dangling precariously over our fears, situations we don't think we can handle, or...
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Plain and simple: You learn how to relax your entire body how to recognize when a muscle is tense and when it is relaxed how to relax your body when YOU chose to when in difficult or demanding situations, to relax all of your body that does not need to...
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a gentle step into the mystical with a guidance for all
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That pressure on your cheek when you wake up? It depends on how you choose lie when you sleep. That pressure in your life when you become aware? It depends on how you choose to live when you are awake.
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I can recite gratuities with ease. Thanks for... I am grateful for... I like... I'm happy to have... I have...so much more than I can even keep track of... I say these phrases of gratitude and remind myself of all that i have... I belong to a 'gratitude...
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There are days, weeks, months, and even years that go by...when we suddenly realize we've been gliding and sliding, not noticing our own life. We don't notice because we are 'making it'. We are responding to questions, seeming to 'walk-the-walk', but...
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Fatigue A message from our body, telling us we need rest or sleep, to ‘vegetate’ or sit quietly, to decompose and recompose Fatigue Spoken by the body in terms of energy (or lack thereof), aching muscles, head pain, neck pain, or the lack of willingness...
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Sharing Emotions How can I tell you how I feel? How can you hear me with only your ears? Shall I put it in writing? Would offering my love to eyes and ears double the intensity of the love I transmit? It would not be enough. How can I communicate my innermost...
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