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How Your Life’s Experiences Create a Beautiful Tapestry

By Steve Larsen
Steve Larsen

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Every experience—challenge, passion, loss, and victory—adds a thread to the tapestry of your life. When woven together, they form a meaningful whole. Discover how embracing every part of your journey can bring clarity, purpose, and a deeper appreciation for the connections that shape who you are. 

Not Feeling at "Home": The Inspiring Kern River Miracle

By Barry Vissell
Barry Vissell

A sycamore tree with a heart and the name Joyce carved into the trunk

What if home isn’t a place, but a feeling? After months on the road, Barry Vissell and his wife Joyce received a divine message that forever changed their perspective on home. A miraculous carving at the Kern River reminded them of a truth we all need to hear.

Living Life Fully: How To Make Time for Joy Now

By Sean McMann
Sean McMann

Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay 

Are you waiting for "someday" to live your dreams? Life can change in an instant, reminding us that making time for joy and passion must start now. Learn how to identify what truly matters, and take action on your bucket list. 

Healing Journey Steps: Unlock Your True Potential

By Paris Stephenson
Paris Stephenson

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Whether dealing with pain or seeking transformation, this guide inspires you to take action toward growth, healing, and a deeper connection to yourself and others. Discover healing journey steps and meditation for self-healing to unlock your true potential. Explore how life’s challenges, relationships, and self-awareness lead to personal and spiritual growth. Learn how meditation fosters inner peace and emotional healing, helping you embrace unconditional love and forgiveness. 

Your Roadmap to More Wisdom and Happiness

By Laura Gabayan, MD, MS
Laura Gabayan, MD, MS

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Transform your life with this roadmap to wisdom. Explore eight essential elements like resilience, kindness, creativity, and curiosity for a fulfilling journey.

Start Small: Why One New Year’s Resolution is Enough

By Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com

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Achieve lasting change this New Year by starting small. Learn why one manageable resolution can set you up for success and simplify your path to personal growth.

Aging Magically: Growing into a Strong Sense of Self

By Cait Johnson
Cait Johnson

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Discover how to transform your home into a sacred space for magical aging. Clear clutter, embrace your authentic self, and create a nurturing environment that reflects your spiritual growth.

We Teach Best What We Need to Learn

By Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com

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Discover how life often mirrors what we most need to learn. Explore how everyday encounters act as a mirror, reflecting our growth, challenges, and opportunities for self-discovery.

Our Internal Rule Book: Friend or Foe?

By Alexandra Leclere
Alexandra Leclere

an old book entitled The Rules of Life

Explore how our Internal Rule Book shapes our responses to life's challenges from youth to old age. This article looks into how events and emotions recorded in our psyche influence our behavior and reactions throughout different life stages, highlighting the importance of adapting our internal narratives for personal growth and successful aging. Discover strategies for modifying the Internal Rule Book to enhance well-being and resilience as we age.

Why You Should Imagine Advice from Your Older Self

By Clare Walsh, University of Plymouth
Clare Walsh, University of Plymouth

Imagining advice from your older self can help you reflect on life decisions. By Clare Walsh, University of Plymouth.

Imagining advice from your older self can help you reflect on critical life decisions and make better choices. Learn how this mental exercise can shape a more positive future, offering both wisdom and new perspectives on life’s possibilities.

Our Cancer Journey: Learning Strength and Being Love

By Stu Crum
Stu Crum

a couple standing together, she with her hands over her face, and he with a gentle hand on her head

This article shares how love helped our family navigate the challenges of a cancer diagnosis, strengthen our family bonds, and create a legacy of helping others. Discover how love can be a guiding force in even the most difficult times and learn about the impact of being there for others during their cancer journey.

Becoming the Best Version of Yourself by Cultivating Empathy

By Judith Orloff, M.D.
Judith Orloff, M.D.

a woman holding the shining glove of Earth in her palm

 It’s never too late to tip the scales toward compassion and goodness. A lack of empathy has helped get us into this personal and global predicament. Reclaiming it will help get us out.

Off the Hook: Embracing Simplicity

By Cate Montana
Cate Montana

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Embracing simplicity is probably one of the hardest keys to embody because we've been trained to believe that the more complicated something is the more important and valuable it is.

Deal with Your Shadow and Other Negative Forces (with video version)

By Cate Montana
Cate Montana

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One of the most powerful things you can do is a personal clearing of your own energy field. The following is an energetic clearing that Robin Duda, the soul alchemist I've been working with from Santa Fe, has supplied

Butterfly Dreaming: Awaken in the Dream

By Paul Levy
Paul Levy

woman laying down, sleeping in the water

One of the great spiritual teacher Sri Aurobindo’s main messages is that humanity is a transitional being. Our current state of being is not final, we are in the process of transitioning into a new state of being.

Being Displaced: Its Shocking Impact on Your Health and Well-Being

By Richard P. Hsung
Richard P. Hsung

three unbuckled old suitcases stacked on top of each other

I never knew how extreme an impact reviewing one’s life can have, or writing a book about it. I’ve learned that in facing traumatic memories, it’s essential to have the support you need to proceed.

Feeling Like Something Is Off? Are Your Basic Needs Being Met?

By Gregory Ripley
Gregory Ripley

woman holding a laptop with a background of puzzle pieces on the wall behidn her

In our modern world we have our own ideas of foundational or basic needs, but they aren’t so different from what ancient texts like the Neijing described two thousand years ago.

Truth as Lifeblood of the Inner Self

By William Wilson Quinn
William Wilson Quinn

lighthouse sending a bright light in all directions

The conflict or struggle within oneself of which “self” shall rule—the Inner or the Outer--is as old as time for wayfarers on the higher spiritual path, and the attributes of the opposing sides are recognizable to us all.

How to Rise Above the Confusion

By Pierre Pradervand
Pierre Pradervand

man sitting at a computer with a complicated drawing of charts and graphs behind him

For thousands of years, humanity disposed of very limited amounts of information. Whatever understanding people had of the world came from the tribal elders, members of the extended family and other close sources of information.  How things have changed!

Living on the Edge: When Things Go Really Bad

By Barry Vissell
Barry Vissell

The authors sitting on a dried lava flow on the Big Island of Hawaii.

By the way, the official title of the retreat was "Living from the Heart." Sometime during the retreat, the name became changed to "Living on the Edge."

How to Go All-In to Live Your Best Life

By Jeanne Collins
Jeanne Collins

two pairs of bare feet standing firm

What if you asked yourself, "Do I make myself a priority?" How would you answer? Most of us would hesitate before boldly declaring "Sometimes yes!"

You Are A Shaman, Healer, and Dreamer

By Paul Levy
Paul Levy

a young woman surrounded by birds and an elephant

We are all potential healers and dreamers; our very nature is shamanic. We all have shamanic abilities that knowingly or unknowingly we use every day.

Becoming a Family Pattern Breaker

By Kate King
Kate King

breakwater

If I know one thing for sure, it’s that patterns don’t break on their own. When something is stuck in a repetitive rhythm, the path of least resistance is to keep on keepin’ on. But, the path of least resistance does not lead to a radiant life.

 

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