Holistic Living
Our Featured Topic: The Value of Serving Others "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Mahatma Gandhi In April 2011 I flew to Monrovia, Liberia. From there I was driven 3-1/2 hours to Robertsport - a fully functioning city struggling to rebuild after over 20 years of civil war (1980-2006) - and The Strongheart House. The Strongheart Fellowship Program [strongheartfellowship.org] is a groundbreaking healing and learning guidance program … [Read more...]
Our Featured Topic: The Value of Serving Others I had been thinking about becoming a hospice volunteer for a while. It would come as a passing thought that I would consider and then put aside. Little did I know how quickly and how clearly my decision would be made. Our hospice house is on the outskirts of town surrounded by farm fields and trees. It looks like a home - not a place of death. I had a tour shortly before it opened, but had no other contact with it, other than to read the … [Read more...]
Our featured topic: The Value of Serving Others About four years ago, in the latter part of 2007, a friend and I were asked if we were interested in volunteering at the Red Wing Juvenile Correctional Facility (in Red Wing, MN), teaching meditation to young offenders there. We gladly accepted the offer. After a criminal background check and a four-hour orientation, we began our monthly sojourns on Saturday mornings down the St. Croix River Valley to Red Wing. After about one year, we added … [Read more...]
Our Featured Topic: The Value of Serving Others Kundalini is an evolutionary energy that is designed for humanity's next step toward a luminous physical and spiritual expression. The Kundalini is in everyone. It is an untapped resource of divinity within us all that is waiting to be awakened and experienced. Never has the time been so right and crucial for a change of this magnitude to be explored and initiated. And so, let me introduce you to the power within you, right now at this … [Read more...]
In a current movie, a brilliant medical student moves through his training thumbing his nose at the establishment, spreading laughter and hope among the medical staff and patients. From the roiling confusion of mental illness, he experiences an epiphany of his life and purpose, and begins forming ideas about how to make a difference. He does medical school his way, including joy and laughter and high creativity in his daily rounds. At graduation, he accepts his diploma with great dignity, then … [Read more...]
I remember listening to radio and early television as a child. The commercials for, say, an appliance store, or grocery store, or gas station, often included the phrase “Service with a Smile.” Of course, service without a smile is an oxymoron—then it is not service, but a lifeless act, an obligation, an impersonal job. Dr. Patch Adams understands this “service with a smile.” In fact, he believes in and practices service with a belly laugh, with a guffaw, with giggles and farts and … [Read more...]
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