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Retrograde, Eclipse Close 2010 with a Bang

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The final Mercury Retrograde of 2010 stretches from Dec. 7-30, spanning the first six degrees of Capricorn and the last ten degrees of Sagittarius. The holidays are actually a pretty good time for Mercury Retrograde - we can use this energy to reflect on a particularly challenging and transformative year and concoct concrete, workable strategies for moving forward in 2011. The final eclipse of the year happens on Dec. 21 in the last degree of Gemini. With a lunar eclipse occurring within hours … [Read more...]

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Feed the Hungry

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This is the time of year when many of us turn our attention to feeding the hungry. When most people think about feeding the hungry, we consider giving canned goods to the poor or serving at a soup kitchen. And what a benevolent service that is! Yet, there is a hunger far more pervasive in our culture than the hunger for physical food, a malady from which hundreds of millions of people suffer every day. It is the hunger for presence and connection. Recently I was sitting in a club lounge at … [Read more...]

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How do You Respond to Criticism?

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Question: What is the best way to respond to criticism? Answer: Whenever you feel criticized, the first thing to do is determine whether you are being criticized or whether you are simply being given feedback about yourself. If it is feedback and not criticism, you would be wise to listen carefully and respond appropriately. Is there something being shared with you that you need to hear? It is foolish to defend against feedback that might reflect areas of unconsciousness within you. But in … [Read more...]

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The Split Hits the Fan

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Winter arrived in high fashion recently with a weekend storm and plenty of heavy, wet snow. I'm pleased that the temperature will remain warmish for several days so this first batch of beautiful annoyance can quickly convert to river water. I'll take it as nature's way of saying, "Put down that shovel, I've got your back," which is the perfectly apt metaphor for this vintage Minnesotan. Part of me wonders what the winter will bring to our larger story as the transition to the new reality … [Read more...]

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The Role of Beliefs in our Lives

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Question: You previously shared that it's important, as part of our emergence from spiritual adolescence to spiritual adulthood, to separate limiting historical beliefs from enlivening truth. How do you feel concepts or information become beliefs? Answer: We are exposed to data in the form of information and ideas. We take in the information and concepts, digest and assimilate them and then adopt the data as fact. These facts become beliefs. And more often than not, our beliefs take up … [Read more...]

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Put Yourself First

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Putting yourself first may seem selfish, but it's actually one of the most selfless things we can do. Until you have lavished upon yourself love, attention, kindness, sweetness, appreciation and rest, don't bother lavishing anyone else with what you don't have to offer them. Before setting off on a flight, the flight attendant will inform all passengers that in case of an emergency, they should place their own oxygen masks on before assisting others. Why should we do that? Isn't that a … [Read more...]

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What is your Body Telling You?

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What we feel in our physical bodies and our emotions, memories and experiences is inextricably wound together in ways that we can only begin to imagine. The connection between what we think and how we feel is becoming more and more well documented and well considered, but I believe that the room for exploration of this connection is still in its infancy. I also know that this connection can be exploited for the purposes of bringing people relief in a more profound and complete way. While you … [Read more...]

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Opening Up for Something New

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Something has to go. I can feel it. It's a familiar feeling actually. It arises whenever it's time for me to go through the house and evaluate what I own. It is usually motivated by an internal restlessness. I take a look at everything and determine if it still serves me. Do I currently use it? Do I love it? Anything that doesn't meet the criteria doesn't make the cut. It's the harsh reality that objects face when they live with a feng shui practitioner. The interesting thing about this … [Read more...]

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Bringing Back the Old Hollywood

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Fade In. We're in a family room in the year 2023. A couple in their early 50s are watching one of their favorite films on Turner Classic Movies as their teenage daughter walks in, sits next to them for a moment, and speaks. "You guys are so cute with your old movies." "Thanks, sweetheart," Mom laughs. "Can I ask you something?" the daughter responds. Putting the film on pause, Dad says "Sure. What's up?" "It must have been so cool for you guys to have lived during a time … [Read more...]

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Imagine!

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Sometimes, as you watch a diver pause to become centered just before lifting off, can you feel that moment of readiness in your own body? And as the diver takes off, body in perfect alignment, do you feel that dynamic tension and release in your own body? Can you feel inside yourself what it would be like to samba like Cheryl Burke or skate like Kristi Yamaguchi? Can you imagine it? Imagination can make us step outside the routine of our lives and take action to manifest the potential … [Read more...]

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On Time!

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"Be here now." Really? Has anyone ever stopped to think about this? By the time you even perceive "Now" it is the past! Then you may say "Be in the present time." The very present is built on fragmented memories of the past and projections of the future. If anyone ever did find "Now," they would soon realize that there isn't anything there, because time is fleeting and so too are we, chasing after it and getting stuck in it! Time is a necessary illusion, much like a language. They both … [Read more...]

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Winter Reading

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Awaken to Joy, by Laura Erdman-Luntz (Xlibris), 135 pages, $19.99 -- What if joy was tangible...with specific, easily defined steps you could take to create it for yourself? It is! What if we could shift our attitude by just making some small changes in what we do in our everyday life? You can! This book is your guide to helping you move beyond the ordinary and showing you how to bring greater peace into your life, creating more open and loving relationships with your friends and family, finding … [Read more...]

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Luminous Light: The Paintings of Nancy Stephani

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As I gaze at the paintings of Nancy Stephani, I am transported to aboriginal dreamsongs, petroglyphs of extraterrestrials, and the primitive emergence of life under a microscope. There is a shifting of all these sensations at once, as the paint strokes vibrate on the large canvases like living matter that Nancy describes as, "...energy patterns of emotion...something fluid and malleable - a tangible artifact of a fleeting moment." There is a pulsing movement in the brushstrokes that ask the … [Read more...]

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Be Authentic This Holiday Season!

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We all do it - we want others to like us and to think highly of us. We worry about what others will think if we choose a career that is unusual, or decide not to follow traditions at holiday time. We put our focus on others and their opinions. Our search for acceptance often takes us down a path of unhappiness. It could lead us to stay in a job that gives us no joy, do an activity we dislike, spend time with people who don't genuinely care about us, or even have a secret life that is only … [Read more...]

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Using Past Life Therapy to ‘de-hypnotize’ yourself

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Past life regression is one of the most potent ways to connect to the higher, wiser part of yourself in order to resolve issues or move through stuck periods in your life. We become so focused on the worries and stress of life that we rarely connect with the quiet, still witness behind the worries. We become hypnotized into identifying with the continual swirl of thoughts in our mind, rather than on the deep presence that can observe those thoughts. During a past life regression, you become … [Read more...]

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