~Reframing a Label

Turn It Around We live in a culture that uses labels as a means of understanding the world and the people living in it. As a result, many of us find ourselves laboring under a label that has a negative connotation. … Unless we can find a way to see the good in such a [...]

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~Peeling Away The Layers

Trees grow up through their branches and down through their roots into the earth. They also grow wider with each passing year. As they do, they shed the bark that served to protect them but now is no longer big enough to contain them. In the same way, we create boundaries and develop defenses to protect ourselves and then, at a certain point, we outgrow them….

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~Going With The Flow

The flow of the universe moves through everything. It’s in the rocks that form, get pounded into dust,
and are blown away, the sprouting of a summer flower, born from a seed planted in the spring, the growth cycle that every human being goes through, and the current that takes us down our life’s paths.
When we move with the flow, rather than resisting it…

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~Seasons of Beauty

We tend to associate youth with beauty, but the truth is that
beauty transcends every age. Just as a deciduous tree is stunning in all its stages—from its full leafy green in the summer to its naked skeleton during winter and everything in between—human beings are beautiful throughout their life spans.
The early years of our lives tend to be
about learning and experiencing
as much as we possibly can.
We move through the world like sponges,
absorbing the ideas of other people and the world.
Like a tree in spring,
we are waking up to the world.

In this youthful phase of life,
our physical strength, youth, and beauty
help open doors and attract attention.

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~You Are a Dynamic Decision Maker

Many of us experienced childhoods in which the words good and bad were used as weapons to control us—you were good if you did what you were told and bad if you didn’t.

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~Finding Our Own Paths

Entering into our own spirituality is a private journey. Each of us will be drawn to a different gateway to begin on our personal path to awakening to a greater experience of ourselves. Even though we may be taught certain philosophies…

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~Recognizing Happiness

Those of us on the path of personal and spiritual growth have a tendency to analyze our unhappiness
in order to find the causes and make improvements. But it is just as important, if not more so, to analyze our happiness. Since we have the ability to…

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~Softening and Expanding

Being Receptive to What You Want © www.dailyom.com In order to get what we want in life, we have to be willing to receive it when it appears, and in order to do that we have to be open.Often we go through life with defenses we developed early on in order to protect ourselves. These [...]

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~Reclaiming Our Roots

Some cultures are more rooted to the earth and connected to their inherent spirituality. But every one of us, even those of us who have been disconnected from our roots for hundreds of years, comes from a place that was once inhabited by people who worshipped and honored the earth on which they lived. In [...]

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~Opening to Receive Comfort

Sharing Grief Grief is part of the human experience. Sharing our grief allows us to ease our burden by letting someone else help carry it. When we experience something that causes us to feel shock and sadness, we may feel the urge to withdraw from life. It may seem like remaining withdrawn will keep us [...]

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