Take One Minute to Recover Joy

We’re all busy this week. Nevertheless, in between shopping, baking, decorating, gift-wrapping, card-writing, cooking, standing in line at the post office, and last-minute runs to the mall we’re also expected to be joyful. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, after all. At least, so we’re told …
Because we all have enough to do [...]

The Way Not to Reach Enlightenment

When I was just beginning my spiritual journey, I studied meditation at a ten-day Vipassana retreat. These retreats are not for the faint of heart. “Noble Silence” is held for the duration of the course (not easy for a chatterbox like me) and the schedule calls for about ten hours of meditation daily. [...]

Living A Divinely Guided Life

What does it mean to live through Divine guidance?
First we have to recognize that Divine guidance doesn’t come from some spiritual authority outside of us. There is nothing we’re “supposed to” do in this lifetime. Divine guidance comes from our own Divine Self, our Higher Self. To live a Divinely guided life [...]

Shift happens

How can we weather the storm after a significant spiritual awakening as we settle into our new-found awareness? We sometimes go from bliss to upheaval as we return to “real life.” The weeks after a profound shift in consciousness are best met with great awareness. This article offers some useful tools for you along the way …

Is meditation not for you?

From time to time, I encounter the idea that the practice of meditation should be a time of peace during which the mind is quiet and we connect inward. That’s certainly the experience we’re aiming for! But as beginning meditators, we are rarely blessed with a quiet, peaceful experience. Instead, our thoughts [...]

Ascension, anyone? Or everyone? Or …

Thanks to a lively discussion on Slade Roberson’s blog Shift Your Spirits (read the comments, people - awesome stuff), I’ve been thinking about this whole ascension business.
Now, it’s my understanding that we are in the process of shifting the overall collective vibration of Souls on our planet to reach a turning point - a point [...]

An Exercise in Gratitude

As a first-time author wrapping up (finally!) the last finishing touches of my book before it goes to the typesetter next week (hurray!), I had never had the experience of acknowledging in writing the wonderful Souls that have contributed to my life and work.  Until today, when I started writing my “Acknowledgements” page.  I was [...]

What is a Lightworker?

I came across the perspective the other day that being a Lightworker means bringing more Divine Light into a world that is in desperate need of it. I would disagree with this notion.
The concept that anyone or anything would have need of “more Light” and that somehow we could be the ones to impart [...]

Meditation Exercise

One of my favorite meditation exercises to give my clients as homework is as simple as it is challenging.  I invite you to try this one for yourselves!
Light a white candle, sit down and breathe in through your nose, and out through your mouth.  Count your breaths - this helps minimize mental chatter.  Staring at [...]

Levitation

One of the benchmarks of attaining a high level of spiritual development is undoubtedly the art of levitation.  Spontaneous levitation occurs when the vibration held within the physical body is so high that there is an actual shift in its molecular structure.  The body, for a few moments, becomes lighter than matter.  As we begin [...]

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