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Who Is In Your Corner, And How Do You Keep Them There?

April 22, 2013 Read 51 comments and add your own

Last weekend, a strange thing happened when I drove on the throughway toward Syracuse. I was just driving along minding my own business, listening to my book on CD, and I looked up just in time to see the 329th mile marker.

This strange phenomen happens almost EVERY time I make this drive. (In both directions!) 3/29 is my birthday. It is curious that I would never notice any other ones, but always look up just in time for this one. who is in your corner

It surprises me, because I make the drive so infrequently that I forget to anticipate it.

But, then again, I’m not really surprised. Continue Reading →

This Is By Far The Best Thing You Can Do For Yourself

February 24, 2013 Read 27 comments and add your own

I had a friend walking a beautiful spiritual journey. One day she told me that she was working on giving up preferences. This fascinated me and I think of this exercise often, especially when something has upset me. She wasn’t doing it in a hopeless way, she wasn’t giving up on pleasure. Quite the contrary. She was allowing herself not to be displeasured by not liking something “that way.” Or wishing for something to “go differently.”  And in this letting go of preferences, she was more free to embrace all the lovely things in her life. And she did.

We spend our lives searching for the quick fix to all our problems, while the answer is right under our nose. Teasing us again and again with its obviousness once we remember, till our foreheads are red from smacking it. Continue Reading →

Amp Your Spirit

February 7, 2013 Read 21 comments and add your own

This week a client of mine told me that listening to music, “Amped his spirit.”  This phrasing lingered in my head and I feel hopelessly in love with it. Today I share with you a video that I have watched countless times and each time it amps my spirit.

Hope it amps your spirit!

It features Amanda from Kind Over Matter. I wrote a guest post for her last summer: Kindness Comes From A Heart Without Fear.

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Prayer of St Francis Words to Live By

January 3, 2013 Read 25 comments and add your own

Prayer of St Frances: Brother WolfTina Barbour of Bringing Along OCD quoted the Prayer of St Francis in her post yesterday and I realized I’ve never told my readers about what this prayer has meant to me.

The song version, adapted and set to music by Sebastian Temple, is my personal favorite: Here are the words…

Prayer of St Francis

Make me a channel of your peace: Continue Reading →

Creativity is Healing: Do You Paint?

November 19, 2012 Read 33 comments and add your own

Healing is creative. Creativity is healing.

There are some changes in store on Heal Now. And I am excited about them. The first is that I am getting a beautiful new header for my blog soon from Flora Bowley.  Yippee!

I love, love, love her paintings and her life mission. The gifts she shares with the world is pure creative love. I want to dream in her beautiful paintings. 

Nest Inside Flora Bowley 2011

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Light Is All Around Us, Even In The Dark

November 1, 2012 Read 23 comments and add your own

Without the benefits of electricity, (they say it will be back on by Saturday) I was unable to write a new post for today. But I bopped over to the library to re-post one from the past. Yesterday, I posted new from my phone on the Anxiety Schmanxiety Blog. What else would I write about this week? Fear of the dark. To complement that, here is a post about light. Enjoy!

 

light is all around us

Let the light shine!

While listening to a Richard Rohr CD, I became fascinated and validated by his words. Richard Rohr is a Franciscan Friar author and speaker of non duality. Though he has authored many books, but my favorite title is Everything Belongs. Since this is the message I want people to hear. “You belong!” Continue Reading →

Calm Your Inner Storm: The Weather as Reflection of Inner Turmoil

October 29, 2012 Read 25 comments and add your own

The storm is ‘a coming.

Anyone who doesn’t believe that the earth is in turmoil, ought to check with the weather channel.

As Long Islanders hunkered down, Hurricane Sandy grew stronger and faster early Monday, bringing a “life-threatening storm surge” to the East Coast, forecasters said.

The maximum sustained winds increased to near 85 mph — up 10 mph from earlier Monday morning, the National Hurricane Center said in its 5 a.m. advisory. It was moving north at 15 mph — 1 mph faster than it was at 2 a.m.

Long Island Newsday

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Poems By Rumi

October 18, 2012 Read 27 comments and add your own

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī 1207-1273 

 

There is something about poems by Rumi that captures us, makes us understand what we may not have before. The phrases cut right through our minds, slicing it open and going directly into our hearts. We may not even realize the words, but they touch us on a deeper levels where we understand everything and nothing all at once.  They stand the test of time, since they know without a shadow of a doubt, time is an illusion.

These were the first poems by Rumi that I heard.

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What Is Race?

October 8, 2012 Read 25 comments and add your own

Debunking the competition metaphor.

Monica sent all the bloggers involved in the Race 2012 Blogging Project an email asking if any of us had an answer to commenter, Gregory Bagget’s, question:

What is race, generally, and what is the meaning of race in the title of this blog?

I’ll take a stab at it, Monica!

What is Race?

What is Race?

Race (n.) means both “people of common descent” and “an act of running” if you look it up in the dictionary. In this blog project, we are talking about both meanings. Plus all of the connotational meanings in which “race” is marinated.

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What Do You Think You Are?

September 17, 2012 Read 30 comments and add your own

"Zebra Question" by Shel Silverstein, what do you think you are?

What do you think you are?

As usual, my children and my clients are my greatest teachers. As I was flitting around one morning multitasking as usual, my daughter stopped me to read me a poem. It made me stop and ask myself: What do you think you are?

This was the poem:

 

“Zebra Question” by Shel Silverstein

I asked the zebra,

Are you black with white stripes?

Or white with black stripes? Continue Reading →

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