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by Julia Rogers Hamrick.

Easy World is your "de­fault reality," the one you always go back to when you relax and stop resisting its powerful magnetic draw. You get to choose, ultimately, whether your Love-embodying, joy-inducing Spirit or your Difficult World–preferring, pain-mongering, fearful self is going to determine what you experi­ence. Your Spirit has the power to...

by Xorin Balbes.

Clutter is making us crazy, and not just because we can’t find anything — because every bit of wood, metal, and plastic we collect is an anchor tying us to something, somebody, somewhere. So why can’t we let it go? Doesn’t having fewer, more cherished belongings that really inspire you...

Like the swallows of Capistrano, the harbor porpoises of San Francisco Bay have decided to come back. The question everyone is asking is why now after all these years? You can research it and study the phenomena but the fact is quite simple: They hadn't come back because they hadn't wanted to, until now.

Facebook, in the constant quest to increase market share, keep tweeking the program... adding new stuff, removing some, etc. Just in case you're not spending enough time on Facebook, here's what you can do using some of the new features and options.

by Johanna Leseho, Ph.D.

Although we tend to compartmentalize our lives — this is work, this is family, this is entertainment — it doesn’t actually work that way. Everything we think and do and feel is interconnected, and what occurs in one realm of our lives affects all the others.

by Wendy Stokes.

When we look into any spiritual path, we notice that silence is an imperative part of contact with the divine. However, our busy and technological life causes us to be overloaded by man-made noise, such as traffic, alarms, piped music and trivial, attention seeking conversations on mobile telephones. Even in the countryside, we...

We've all been brainwashed! We were all taught the work ethic! "Work (and suffer) till you die, or if you're lucky retire. We don't have time to waste on frivolities. We have responsibilities to fulfill. We have to be serious, work hard..." I choose to change that programming in my life. I know that when I do something against my will, against my heart...

by Meredith Young-Sowers.

One of the best ways to heal a physical problem or reduce emotional stress is to interrupt our daily routines with experiences that reacquaint us with Nature. As we are swept up, captivated, and enthralled by the displays of Nature's wonder, we sense the immutable balance that is our own source...