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What do you bring to the table?

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simonson

Grocery stores are bustling in preparation for a holiday season stuffed with opportunities to feast in the company of family and friends. Even with a kitchen full of delectables designed to create a perfect holiday experience, family dynamics can sometimes cause us to leave the table with a sour taste in our mouths. Perhaps the reason this happens is due to the wide range of unsavory, and often sugar-coated, ingredients that are thrown into the family pot, such as sarcasm, bitterness, … [Read more...]

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Hypnosis & The Fear of Fear

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hypnosis

There's an amusing and very enterprising sign on a restaurant tip jar near my office. It says: "Fear Change? Leave it behind...." I always smile when I see it, but it's a somewhat rueful smile. You see, I'm in the business of change. I'm also in the business of fear. I'm a hypnotherapist. But, I don't program people. I de-program them. I help people lose weight, gain weight, stop smoking, increase confidence, have more rewarding relationships or careers, even lose fears and phobias like … [Read more...]

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Talking Our Walk

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bloom

Do you know the worst accusation made against us? (By "us," I mean those of us who are part of this new holistic, open-minded, open-hearted spirituality.) It is that we don't have any morals. This accusation is crazy, because if there is one thing that I do know about us, it is that we come from the heart, know right from wrong and do our best to practice love in action. I first became aware of this accusation almost twenty years ago when I found myself representing new age spirituality in … [Read more...]

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A Special Comment: Why Three Lives were Lost in Sedona

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sedona

This Special Comment is dedicated to Coleen Marian Conaway, 46, of Park Rapids, MN, who failed to return home alive from a James Ray event in San Diego, July 2009. It is with a heavy heart that, on behalf of The Edge magazine, I offer condolences to the family and friends of those who lost their lives and were injured inside the massive "sweat dome" under the leadership of James Arthur Ray. Unfortunately, this loss of life and injury was totally preventable. Note that this is only my … [Read more...]

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The Three Treasures: Integrating Balance

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hyder

The concept of the triad or the trinity has existed over immeasurable time and throughout nearly every belief system. Most religions, as well as cosmological constructs, subscribe to the importance of the number three. Three provides the first geometrical figure, since three lines are necessary to form a plane figure. Three dimensions of length, breadth and height are necessary to form a cube. Three stands for that which is solid, complete and whole. There are three divisions of creation: birth, … [Read more...]

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Giving and receiving: We all share the healing

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sciandra

For a week I've hardly been able to go anywhere or have a conversation with anyone without the encountering the subject of giving. It began when I met a friend for dinner in Downtown St. Paul near her workplace. We were returning to our cars when a woman approached us asking for the location of a battered women's shelter. What it turned out she was really looking for was bus fare to Minneapolis, which I ended up giving her. As I drove home, I realized I was feeling resentment; I felt … [Read more...]

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Beyond Human Beings

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krown

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest...a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole … [Read more...]

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Awakening to a Healthier Life

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hypnosis

There's a great story about Milton Erickson, the most famous medical hypnotist of all time, in the book The Power of the Mind to Heal, by Joan and Miroslav Borysenko. As an adolescent, polio left Milton paralyzed. "One day Erickson's parents left him alone, strapped into a chair. Bored and wishing that he could get to the window, he began to fantasize about walking over to it. As he used his imagination, muscles that had been paralyzed began to twitch. Before long, Erickson had learned to use … [Read more...]

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The New Edge of Evolution

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freke

Right now I'm considering a question that is troubling me. Regardless of age, class or race, there is a growing body of us who are in the process of becoming deeply awake, yet our numbers are still extremely small. Why doesn't everyone wake up? What is standing in the way? I usually assume the problem is that we're just not ready to wake up. But maybe there's more to it than that? Perhaps the problem also lies with the state of modern spirituality? Spirituality has the role of waking us up, … [Read more...]

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In Transition: Mid Lives Crisis

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lafontaine

I'm wondering what goes through the mind of a caterpillar as it turns to mush in the chrysalis. No longer a caterpillar, not yet a butterfly. I don't mean to overwork a cliché, but the metaphor is apt as I sit on the cusp of my 61st year and my second life this time around. From the outside my days appear to continue as before, but on the inside I have surely entered a state even I don't recognize. The contrast in experience between my previous six decades and this moment is striking as my … [Read more...]

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