Spotlight on Conscious Business

Harmony For Life™ Supporting the harmonious self-empowerment of people and businessesUptown Office Park, 3249 Hennepin Ave. S., Suite 255, Minneapolis, MN 55408www.HarmonyForLife.com, info@HarmonyForLife.com(612) 825-4898, toll-free 1 (877) 825-4898On May 1, 2007, Mari Tankenoff and Scott Berger opened Harmony for Life™ - a worldwide wellness center for people and businesses who want to experience increased life harmony, satisfaction and success. With an unconditional and holistic … [Read more...]

Just Eating

The last time you ate, were you completely absorbed in thinking about something else, or were you just eating? Did you enjoy the food?Next time you eat, plan on just eating. Focus your attention completely on the smelling, the tasting, the chewing and the swallowing. Thoughts come and go. Remain in your moment-to-moment awareness of sensing and experiencing the simple pleasure of just eating.Once you've experienced benefits from just eating, you may find yourself the quiet one among those who … [Read more...]

Sound Healing, Gentle Births and the Sacred Raven in Hawaii

Sound Healing with the Five Elements: Sound Instruments, Sound Therapy, Sound Energy, by Daniel Perret (Binkey Kok, Holland, distributed by Red Wheel/ Weiser, Boston, MA, 2005), $19.95Whether banging on clay flower pots to work on issues of insecurity, playing a flute to bring more joy into your life, or listening to wind chimes to overcome close-mindedness, sound penetrates every level of our being and offers a temporary window for healing. While both music therapists and sound healers work … [Read more...]

It all Comes Down to Love

Visionary songstress Gina Citoli, who lives with her husband in rural Prescott, Wisc., is committed to sustainable living and promoting world peace through song and theater - in fact, in a combination of the two in the past couple years through her one-woman show "A Cabaret Of Consciousness," an inspirational journey of music, stories and humor on the nature of creation, evolution and human potential.Former lead vocalist with the band Alchemy VII, Citoli commands the stage with … [Read more...]

Luminaries Sparkles as a Journey to Awareness

Living Luminaries on The Serious Business of Happiness, directed by Larry Kurnarsky, featuring numerous bestselling authors, speakers and Cultural Creative leaders, 94 minutes, www.spiritualcinemanetwork.com Living Luminaries, promoted as the film to follow on the unexpect-ed blockbuster The Secret, is a quiet experience. Its energy is enfused with spirituality, and the journey of watching this film may leave the viewer with a sense of having walked a long distance and returning home with a … [Read more...]

Dancing the Way to Sacred Balance

>For thousands of years, the Dagara people of West Africa have called upon ritualistic dance as a spiritual channel for restoring balance to emotional and physical turbulence in the human condition. Dagara music, native to Ghana, Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast, is one of the oldest xylophone music in the world. The sacred sound of the gyil - the traditional pentatonic percussion instrument of the Dagara Tribe - is itself believed to come from a vibration of water that physically balances the … [Read more...]

Telling It Like It Is

It is said that when the student is ready, the master appears. This adage is usually associated with going to India to sit at the feet of some swami-ji who speaks in parables and gives his students the occasional whack on the head. Certainly I've met countless disciples who fairly waft through life inhaling the intoxicating wisdom of their manifested master. And I've always been left wondering when it would be my turn to find the one great sage who would sweep me into a state of eternal … [Read more...]

Deciding Peace

Peace, whether in our homes or on our planet, is a product of choice - an environment conditioned by those present. It cannot be forced, imposed, or expected to flourish before its time: thinking so confuses the law of cause and effect. Whatever is used to bring about a new social order remains a part of us. The idea of global peace is so big that many people are unsure how to approach the subject. As only one out of almost 6.5 billion, few think they can participate or that their leaders can … [Read more...]