Archive for the tag 'Awareness'

April 25 2011

How Much Did You Love?

It was Easter weekend at our house, and our family tradition is to attend mass on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday.  It is a lot of church for one weekend, and yet it is my favorite time of year in the church.  And I am grateful to hear my sixteen year old daughter [...]

April 15 2011

Are You Part of the Problem? Or the Solution?

Yesterday, I spent the afternoon with my friend Andrea Costantine watching the movie “I Am” Created by the producer of movies such as Ace Ventura and Bruce Almighty,  this documentary was made after his own close brush with death.  He took a camera crew and went around the world interviewing scientists and the lovely Desmond [...]

March 24 2011

Living the Imperfect Moments

The spiritual life is about being open to every moment, however incomplete, because every moment in life has something to teach us about what it means to live well. It is about realizing that sometimes the perfection of the moment lies in accepting its imperfections. Joan Chittister, Welcome to the Wisdom of the World I [...]

March 18 2011

Contentment Can’t be Bought

“Life, we think, is simply a series of tasks to perform, a list of things to do: get the job, buy the house, finish the degree, have the children, do the work. It takes years to figure out, if we ever do, that life is not a task at all. Life is far more difficult [...]

March 2 2011

Making Friends with My Body

I have have the privilege of taking a four week class from Wendy Kelly called “You are the Miracle.”  This class is about getting in touch with the wisdom of the body, becoming friends with your body, and trusting that your body, when given the time, love and attention it needs, can heal itself. I [...]

February 24 2011

A Mother’s True Calling: Not to Fix But to Be With

It was the disturbing quality of the scream coming from one son looking at his brother that alerted Cindy and told her something was terribly wrong.  Her fourteen year old son Stephen was lying as stiff as a board in the middle of the family room having a seizure.     The doctors were quick to tell [...]

February 21 2011

Less Stress Meditative Monday

Mondays are stressful days because people head back to work after time away, and move back into the stresses of work.  Studies have shown that classical music and sounds of nature can reduce stress, lower blood pressure, and even the diminish the need for pain medication. Take a few minutes now to breathe deeply and [...]

February 16 2011

Intentions to Live By

Recently I received a free audio recording of Wayne Dyer speaking shortly before his movie “The Shift” came out.  It is a thought provoking movie.  Anyone up for a movie night sometime? Anyway, I was struck  by the list of intentions by which he lives his life.  So many of us move through our days [...]

February 10 2011

Are You Up on Your Gratitude?

Have you thought about what you are grateful for today?  I have a running list and when I am stick at a red light in traffic, I often think about the people and things on my list and remember to thank God for all the good in my life.  I am grateful for amazing people [...]

February 8 2011

Limiting Beliefs need Psych-K

Yesterday, I talked about cleaning out the cobwebs that keep me from moving forward.  Those “cobwebs” are actually limiting beliefs that are running my life at the unconscious level, and no matter how hard I may work at something, I may not be achieving my goal because I am wired to believe that I can’t.  [...]

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