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Health & Wellness

BODY MIND SPIRIT: October 2024

The Therapy Of Tears I have been exploring information on a therapy that I have been using for many, many years: the therapy of tears.

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BODY MIND SPIRIT: September 2024

September Nostalgia As a young girl living on the farm in Missouri, September was a very busy time. My grandmother, Clementine, would refer to this

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BODY MIND SPIRIT: August 2024

The Human Family A week or so ago, my husband and I were having lunch at a small restaurant, seated at an outside patio. The

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BODY MIND SPIRIT: July 2024

AIR We have done a brief exploration of earth, water, and fire. Now we will explore the final of the basic four elements of our

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BODY MIND SPIRIT: June 2024

FIRE Fire is the third element in our series of the four elements. When we think about the element of fire, we can consider that

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BODY MIND SPIRIT: May 2024

WATER Last month we explored the nature and importance of the earth’s energies as they relate to our bodies and emotions. This month we are

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BODY MIND SPIRIT: April 2024

EARTH Earth is a German-English word that simply means “ground.” Of course, earth means much more than that to the inhabitants living upon it. Mother

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BODY MIND SPIRIT: March 2024

Reverence For Nature EARTH, WATER, FIRE, AIR—the four life-creating and life-sustaining gifts of nature, and they are free—no prescription needed. When we live our lives

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BODY MIND SPIRIT: February 2024

Encounters On The Road Of Life In the 1970s my husband and I used to drive to Mammoth Lakes, California at every opportunity we could

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BODY MIND SPIRIT: January 2024

A Prayer For The New Year I remember many years ago, while on the farm with my grandparents, there was a devastating tornado that was

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BODY MIND SPIRIT: December 2023

Yuletide, Christmastide Have you ever wondered why we sing of the Twelve Days of Christmas in an old and well known Christmas carol? Or the

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BODY MIND SPIRIT: November 2023

Tidbits Of Life “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” — Rabindranath Tagore When

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BODY MIND SPIRIT: October 2023

Mystery, Yes I am sharing a story with you today not only because it is interesting, but also because it provides us with one more

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BODY MIND SPIRIT: September 2023

Self Loving Kindness Have you ever considered taking an inventory of the unkind or unloving thoughts you have about yourself? As some of you have

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BODY MIND SPIRIT: August 2023

All Life Is Precious “What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in

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BODY MIND SPIRIT: July 2023

From the Heart Steven Petrow writes in his book: Stupid Things I Won’t Do When I Get Old – “Sending missives into the future, telling

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BODY MIND SPIRIT: June 2023

Transcending Separations As humans, we don’t always agree with each other and that is the natural order of things. We are not here to convince

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BODY MIND SPIRIT: May 2023

Magical Muscle Molecules of Hope What are the magical muscle molecules of hope?  Relatively new discoveries show that movement of the body allows the muscles

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BODY MIND SPIRIT: March 2023

How Do You Want To Be Remembered? Many years ago, when I was 19 or 20 and had been living in Denver, I made a

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BODY MIND SPIRIT: February 2023

Being In Awe An article in the New York Times speaks of the health benefits of AWE. The focus is on psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner