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Features and Essays

Living Naturally

Even rocks or other seemingly inert objects.  Nothing stands still.  Living things of similar vibrations are attracted to each other.  However, if your energy is different from another person’s, you may be repelled by each other.  Some teach that you can change your vibration to match what you desire.  ………

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Relationships

Relationships form the fabric of our lives and can comprise our most joyous as well as most difficult moments. Some appear in our lives briefly; others may stay longer for myriad reasons. Although written with reference to couples, these principles can be applied to any relationship ………

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Polarization

When light is polarized, the transverse waves are wholly or partially restricted to only one direction.  Polarized light literally means you see some things, but not others. . ………

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True Fulfillment

An ancient Chinese poet wrote: “Trees are useful friends to me and they fulfill my wish for conversations with the wise”. ………

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On Relationships

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.  ……..

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We Will Only Walk

Thích Nhất Hạnh was a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet and teacher who passed away on January 22, 2022.   Known as the “father of mindfulness”, his teachings are beloved the world over. …………

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Divination

From time immemorial divination has been a part of the human experience.  There is a natural desire to make sense of situations and relationships, to develop better timing for taking action or to make better decisions in important life situations. …………

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S-M-I-L-E

Back in the late nineteen nineties qigong master Chunyi Lin, founder of Spring Forest Qigong, coined the acronym S-M-I-L E. It stands for Start My Internal Love Engine. ……………

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Hopi

“This moment humanity is going through can now be seen as a portal and as a hole.  The decision to fall into the hole or go through the portal is up to you.  If they repent of the problem and consume the news 24 hours a day, with little energy, …………

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Love

Love uniquely expresses our deepest bonds with each other.  We might differentiate the types of love …………

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Meditation

Have you ever noticed the continual stream of thoughts we have from the moment we wake up in the morning?  First comes a thought, followed by thinking about a thought. …………

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Water

Dr Emoto’s water research into the molecular structure of water shows how words, sounds and thoughts change water molecules in some of the most profound ways …………

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