Archive for March, 2010

“I’ll Try”

When we say “I’ll try,” what we are really feeling is, “I don’t think I want to.”
To live an authentic life we must make commitments for ourselves and stick with them. Fear leads us down the “I’ll try” path. It’s our way out, our excuse before we fail. We set ourselves up to fail by [...]

Drink your Water…with Lemon

Upon rising, THE BEST thing we can put into our body is warm water with lemon (always fresh, not bottled lemon juice). This honors our body in more ways than we can imagine.
After our last meal of the day is taken in and digested, our bodies delight in the relaxation of our innards. What actually [...]

Right Brain Living

Following the latest post on “Living From the Heart” is an exquisite example of this.
This video is on  Jill Bolte Taylor and her experience of having a stroke which shut down the left hemisphere of  her brain. This forced her to live completely from the right hemisphere of the brain and she lives to tell [...]

Living from the Heart

How often do we hear, “How does that make you feel?” versus “What do you think about…?”
When we begin asking ourselves “How does this make me feel” throughout the day we begin to shift our energy into the right brain, the intuitive, feeling part of our brain. This is where we connect into our essence, [...]

Love Your Food

I remember growing up saying a blessing before we ate our meals. I never quite understood why we did this until a few years ago when I learned the relationship between food and energy.
This is a beautiful excerpt from the book Nourishing Traditions that reminds us the importance of being present in performing every daily [...]

Thanks for Listening…or Not

Someone says or does something not so nice to you and you feel so angry that you have to call someone else to tell them about it, we call it venting. We tell the whole story, every detail, sometimes yelling, screaming or maybe even have a shocked tone to our voice and say something like, [...]