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One of the themes that has come to the forefront in 2020 is the one of connection. We have come to realize, at least in physical terms due to the Coronavirus, that we are all connected. Our connection, however, goes much deeper than just the physical. Quantum physics tells us that not only are we connected as energy, but we all affect everything we come in contact with.
This week we take a look at our perception of reality and our connection to each other. We reflect on the need for connection both to our own Self and to others around us for the healing of ourselves, our fellow humans, and the planet. We start off with "The Mystic’s Journey: Life Is An Illusion" and continue our journey with "A Shifting Sense of Self: From Separation to Care and Connection".
Alan Cohen recommends: "Change Your Frequency and Stay Tuned to Inner Peace" while Deepak Chopra shares "How To Heal Human Suffering: Reconnecting to Our Source and to Each Other" Whether male or female, we are assisted on our way with the energy of "The Fierce Feminine: Challenging Old Values, Old Beliefs, and Old Ideas".
Richard Hobday brings us information about the healing power of the sun in "Coronavirus and the Sun: A Lesson from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic". And Pam Younghans shares insights into the energies of the coming week in her "Astrological Journal".
Please scroll down for the featured articles in this new issue of InnerSelf, and also the recap of all the articles that were added to the website during the week.
Wishing you enjoyable insightful reading, and of course a wonder-full, joy-full, and loving week.
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The Mystic’s Journey: Life Is An Illusion
Written by Jim Willis
In shamanic cultures it’s the task of the shaman to travel out of body to other worlds, experience new realities, and then bring knowledge back to the tribe in order to heal and restore balance. To experience a different reality and remain silent about it is simply not an option.
A Shifting Sense of Self: From Separation to Care and Connection
Elizabeth E. Meacham, Ph.D.
Our sense of ourselves, our beliefs about our SELF, are so ingrained that we rarely stop to examine them. Even if we do take the time to explore our beliefs about ourselves, many of the most basic assumptions and values that underlie our experience are not visible to us; they are deeply embedded in the historical and cultural belief systems of our families, communities and nations.
Change Your Frequency and Stay Tuned to Inner Peace
Written by Alan Cohen
Many of us are tempted to change jobs, houses, or spouses, and sometimes that works. Yet it’s not unusual that when you get to your new situation you find it to be simply a repeat of the old one. In many cases you didn’t need to change the situation. You just needed to change the point from which you were looking at it.
How To Heal Human Suffering: Reconnecting to Our Source and to Each Other
Written by Deepak Chopra
There have been calls to reconnect to the source of the subjective world. In every case, it was the troubling ignorance about the human mind that motivated a few outstanding thinkers to try to bring down the Chinese wall dividing the physical from the mental.
The Fierce Feminine: Challenging Old Values, Old Beliefs, and Old Ideas
Written by Anaiya Sophia
Allowing the Fierce Feminine to have Her voice creates a lot of waves and surprises! We must realize that by speaking Her voice, we will be challenging the core of those around us.
Coronavirus and the Sun: A Lesson from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Written by Richard Hobday
Records from the 1918 pandemic suggest one technique for dealing with influenza — little-known today — was effective. Some hard-won experience from the greatest pandemic in recorded history could help us in the weeks and months ahead.
Buyer Beware: Counterfeit Markets Can Flourish During A Public Health Crisis
by Jay Kennedy
Rapid acceleration of coronavirus-related infections and fatalities in countries like Italy, Spain and the United…
We Simulated How A Modern Dust Bowl Would Impact Global Food Supplies And The Result Is Devastating
by Miina Porkka et al
When the southern Great Plains of the US were blighted with a series of droughts in the 1930s, it had an unparalled…
Why Exercise Gets A Death Marker Protein To Refresh Muscles
by Kristian Levring Madsen
Even just a bit of intense physical activity prompts a “clean-up of muscles” as the protein Ubiquitin tags onto…
by Daniel Baldwin Hess and Alex Bitterman
The United States and Canada have long enjoyed a stable relationship. The countries share history, the longest…
My Vitamin D Levels Are Low, Should I Take A Supplement?
by Peter Robert Ebeling
If your blood test results suggest you’re low on vitamin D, you’re not alone – nearly one-third of the Australian…
Some Gardening Advice from Indigenous Food Growers
by Stephanie Woodard
Many Americans are now experiencing an erratic food supply for the first time. Among COVID-19’s disruptions are bare…
Why Picky Eaters May Not Grow Out Of It
by Beata Mostafavi
If your preschooler pushes their dinner plate away or wages battles against taking another bite of a vegetable they…
Why Americans Are Tiring Of Social Distancing And Hand-washing
by Gretchen Chapman and George Loewenstein
States are beginning to open up their economies after successfully slowing the spread of the coronavirus. Much of the…
Why Lockdown Life Is A Lot Like Insomnia
by Patrick Levy
As a philosopher who researches insomnia, I’m struck by how similar the lockdown experience is with lying awake through…
How The First Modern Pandemic Made Key Workers Its Early Victims
by David R Green
The 1889 outbreak of influenza was first reported in the Russian city of Petropavlovsk in September of that year.
Why ‘The Scream’ Has Gone Viral Again
by Allison Morehead
Few works of art are as iconic as The Scream, by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863–1944).
How To Stay Safe In Restaurants and Cafés
by Lisa Bricknell
Now we have fewer cases of COVID-19, and restrictions are lifting, many of us are thinking of rejuvenating our social…
Will We Be Less Healthy Because Of Climate Change?
by Alexandra Macmillan
Do you expect an increase in health issues due to the effects of climate change?
What We Know And What We Need To Learn As We Exit Lockdown
by Zania Stamatak
As lockdowns ease, scientists worldwide are engaged in an unprecedented search for new therapies and a race for vaccine…
Can Exercise Offer The Same Mental Boost As Caffeine?
by Anisa Morava and Matthew James Fagan
Your alarm goes off and it’s time to start another day. What’s your first step? Perhaps making a cup of coffee? You may…
Five Ways Online University Learning Can Be Better Than Face-to-face Teaching
by Kyungmee Lee
The University of Cambridge has announced that all lectures will be offered online for the academic year beginning in…
Lockdown And Tech Overload – How To Escape Your Screens
by Sina Joneidy, and Charmele Ayadurai
From churchgoers to nursery school children, video calls, conferences and quizzes have become a lifeline at this time.
Why For Some People, Returning To Normal Might Be Scarier
by Amy Dawel et al
All being well, restrictions will continue to be lifted in the weeks and months to come, allowing us slowly to return…
Herd Immunity In Europe – Are We Close?
by Jeremy Rossman
While no country claims to be pursuing herd immunity as a strategy, some – such as Sweden – have taken a more relaxed…
Dating Over Zoom? Don't Be Surprised If Those Online Sparks Fizzle In Person
by Sheril Kirshenbaum
For those dipping their toes into the dating pool during stay-at-home orders, it’s been like swimming in a version of…
How The Pandemic Has Changed Our Perception Of Time
by Felix Ringel
Take something as fundamental as our experiences of space: our mobility has become severely restricted – reduced to…
Lyme Disease Symptoms Could Be Mistaken For COVID-19, With Serious Consequences
by Jory Brinkerhoff
Summer is field season for ecologists like me, a time when my colleagues, students and I go out into fields and woods…
Here Are The Characteristics Of Strong Mental Health
by Simon Rosenbaum and Jill Newby
Amid the coronavirus pandemic we are being warned of a “second wave” of mental health problems that threatens to…
How Leadership In Various Countries Has Affected COVID-19 Response Effectiveness
by Christine Crudo Blackburn and Leslie Ruyle
COVID-19 has put political leaders and health care systems worldwide to the test. Although lockdowns are the common…
As States Reopen, Tensions Flare Between The Rule Followers And Rule Breakers
by Michele Gelfand
Since Republicans, on average, are five times more likely than Democrats to believe it’s safe now to resume normal…
Fogo Island Shows How Social Enterprises Can Help Rebuild Communities Post-coronavirus
by Natalie Slawinski and Wendy K. Smith
More than 30 per cent of the world’s population now faces restrictions related to COVID-19. The impact on mental health…
Is Your Neighborhood Raising Your Coronavirus Risk?
by Jeremy Németh and Sarah Rowan
The 1-square-mile neighborhood mixes small, ranch-style homes with auto body shops, metal fabricators and industrial…
What Makes New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern An Authentic Leader While Trump Is Not
by Andrei Alexander Lux
The qualities that have made Jacinda Ardern New Zealand’s most popular prime minister in a century were on display this…
Why Powerful People Are The Most Likely To Break The Rules
by Andre Spicer
A very large number of people in the UK have been complying with coronavirus lockdown rules and staying at home,…
How The Pandemic Could Change Our Homes Forever
by Tara Hipwood
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, our homes have been serving as makeshift workplaces, schools, gyms and…
The Best Way To Exercise To Burn Fat
by Justin Roberts et al
When it comes to losing weight, people often want know the best way to shed excess pounds – and there’s no shortage of…
Gentle Medicine Could Radically Transform Medical Practice
by Jacob Stegenga
Numerous criticisms of medical science have been articulated in recent years. Some critics argue that spurious disease…
Can't Resist Splurging On Online Shopping? Here's Why
by Adrian R. Camiller and Eugene Y. Chan
Less obvious are the subtle psychological drivers behind our collective online shopping splurge.
How To Beat Coronavirus Anxiety When Going Back To Work
by Olivia Remes
At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, people’s anxiety levels shot up. Daily reports were coming in about the…
Here's How Exercise Can Help Chronic Stress And Your Mental Health
by Jennifer J. Heisz and Maryam Marashi
Suffering a quarantine dip in mood? Struggling to find motivation to do anything? You are not alone.
How Coronavirus Has Transformed The Grieving Process
by Lucy Selman
As I write this, the UK government has just announced that 13,729 people have died in hospitals from COVID-19. Care…
How Authoritarian Regimes Have Used Coronavirus To Their Advantage
by Saltanat Janenova and Jonathan Fisher
The authoritarian Central Asian state of Tajikistan admitted to its first cases of COVID-19 in late April.
Astrological Journal for the Week
Written by Pam Younghans
This weekly column (updated every Sunday afternoon) is based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies... Read this week's journal here
It is also highly beneficial to reread the past week's astrological journal as it gives a hindsight view of the events that took place and may provide many "ah-ha" insights.
OLDIES & GOODIES:
by Marie T. Russell
Sometimes when things don't go the way I want, rather than letting things go their own way, I start pushing and shoving…
by Marie T. Russell
Have we not all asked ourselves this question at one point or another? "What's it all about?" Since to every question…
All About Soap and Making It Naturally
by Susan Spencer & Jeanne Rose
Go into any bath and body store and you are sure to find soaps in a huge variety of scents, fragrances, colors, types,…
Change From The Heart: From Anger and Hatred to Inner Peace and Love
by Shane Archer
A testimonial from someone who went from self-hate and self-destruction and ended up behind bars to discovering the…
Attaining Immortality and Compassion without Attachment and Greed
by Stuart Alve Olson
We play our loud music, engage in all sorts of play designed through technology simply to distract us from…
Freedom Through Self Awareness: You Are A Blessing
by David Montini
The fear was so intense that he could feel his heart beating in his throat. Moments before he had been enjoying the…
Accidents and Synchronicities: The Big Stuff and the Little Stuff
by Ashok Bedi, M.D.
The soul often whispers to us through synchronistic events. A synchronistic event occurs when we recognize that two or…
An Open Letter to the Entire Human Family
by Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj
This is the moment of truth for humankind. Critical choices must now be made in order to protect the continued…
Forgiveness Meditation: Clearing the Ties that Bind
by Nicki Scully
When I began to study Huna in 1982, the first subject we dealt with was forgiveness, for good reason: it cleared the…
Turn Work Into Play and Success Will Soon Be Yours
by Ernest Wood
When purpose and pleasure are brought together work becomes play. Every bit of work done in this spirit strengthens the…
Color Therapy: Colors That Provide Vitality, Optimism, Contentment, and more
by Romy Rawlings
Color therapy is an ancient approach to healing that has been used since the earliest of times. Practitioners of…
Aspiring to Beauty: Is Beauty In the Eye of the Beholder?
by Eve Bruce, M.D.
Is beauty truly in the eye of the beholder? Can we call whatever we see beautiful, depending on our perspective?…
Expecting the Best: Living by Faith Instead of Fear
by Tom Butler-Bowdon
Sometimes, intensity of desire can actually turn away things that are good for you because it suggests faith only in…
Allies in the Spirit World: Your Spiritual Support Team
by Christopher Penczak
Everybody on this planet has a spiritual support team. This group is our backup in the game of life. We come into the…
Notice Your Anger: It Is A Path to Awareness
by Ezra Bayda
If we could see our angry emotional reactions clearly, it would become obvious that they deplete us and narrow our…
Also check out the InnerSelf section, Remember Your Future, for articles dealing with issues that are related to you and the upcoming 2020 US election for President, Senate, etc.
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