February 23, 2012
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February 23, 2012
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Features, tips insight and strategies for honoring your spirit.
Researchers have found that media reports of good deeds inspire people to perform good deeds. In other words, good news, in its most literal sense, has the power to plant seeds for future selfless acts.
Solstice can be a magical, contemplative time—a night of spiritual reconnection and ritual. While solstice may not have gained the notoriety of Christmas, Hanukah, or Kwanza, many people celebrate it as a deeply meaningful holiday—a time to celebrate renewal, rebirth, and gratitude for the coming light.
A New Year is like a blank slate and many of us start the year with high hopes and a long list of resolutions. When we start our year with a list of the things we need to change about ourselves in order to be better, we set off on negative footing. Instead, what if we focused on what is right and invited more of the good stuff into our lives?
Thanksgiving is traditionally a day of family, food, and football—but shouldn’t it be more than that? There are two critical words in Thanksgiving: thanks and giving. It is a time to give thanks.
Rather than reserving kindness for the stranger behind you at the tollbooth, what about embracing kindness as a spiritual practice? Developing an intentional, ongoing spirit of kindness in your daily life will bless the lives of those around you—and you’ll find that you are different because of it.
We all get into bad moods sometimes; it’s part of the human experience. But that doesn’t make it easy. When you’re feeling down, grouchy, or generally out of sorts, it can feel like you’ll never experience happiness again.
Spending time in nature is critical to overall health and well-being. “If we want to improve our health and well-being as a species, there’s no substitute for being in nature.” (Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods and The Nature Principle) In our hectic, harried world, we’re all just looking for a little [...]
The Dalai Lama has long known the benefits of compassion—and now science is backing him up. There are physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits to practicing compassion. People who practice compassion produce more DHEA, the anti-aging hormone, and less cortisol, the stress hormone.
The only moment you truly have is this one. The past is done and the future hasn’t happened yet. However, if you’re like most people, the present moment is constantly slipping away from you.
We all need a break sometimes. It’s nice to take a step back and find a way to escape the daily grind. But what if that escape was actually an “inscape”? What if taking a break meant going on a retreat to find a sense of inner peace?
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