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I was grumpy this morning as I rooted through my kitchen cabinets, irritated with myself for running out of green tea, when I located a small bag of Kukicha twigs I’d relegated to secondary tea status. I fixed a cup and yum–this is a tea no one should neglect! It’s nuttier than a green or…

Regardless of what your insurance company says, psychotherapy should not go away. Or end early. Everybody needs therapy at one time or another. Here’s a technique that’s catching on fast with spiritually-inclined Jungian people (like us!). It’s called Sand Tray or Sandplay therapy, and it was developed by Dr. Margaret Lowenfeld soon after H.G. Wells…

“Warm all the kitchen with Thy love, and light it with Thy peace. Forgive me all my worrying and make my grumbling cease. Thou who didst love to give men food, in room or by the sea Accept this service that I do, I do it unto Thee.” –found on a plaque at a flea…

Mentioned in a Newsweek article on new techniques in heart resuscitation, is the near-death experience research of Dr. Jeffrey Long. Here is Long’s website where you can read one or more of the 1,000 near-death stories he’s collected, share your own if you’ve had one, and fill out Long’s near-death research questionnaire. To see hand-drawn…

Dearest readers: After meeting with Beliefnet.com editors last Friday to talk it through, I’ve decided to stop writing Chattering Mind a week from today. While I’m nervous about this idea of mine and sad about the loss of my ability to connect with you through such prime online real estate, this change makes sense to…

Inspirational teacher and artist Jan Phillips recently posted this sweet video on YouTube.com. It’s all about the spiritual power of art. Watch the whole thing if you’ve been struggling to find time for your creative work. Learn more about Phillips, and subscribe to her wonderful “museletter” here. Every time she writes, I am uplifted.

Ammachi, the beatific Indian hugging saint, has received wonderful clips from the press this most recent U.S. tour. Here’s Erik Davis’s Salon.com article about his encounter with her. And he even got to speak with her! Here’s what she said: “Today people are willing to die for religion, but no one lives in the central…

Okay, I know. On the surface of it, “sacred self-centeredness” sounds insane. I hear the voices saying “What on earth is sacred about being self-centered?” How well we know those voices. But women taxed by career, cooking, grocery shopping, cleaning, childcare, eldercare, and more–women who’re calling out all their energy, heaving it up until few…

I sometimes roll into Child’s Pose, letting my shins and knees sink into my mattress before I get out of bed. I did this when I was a kid. I keep the center of my forehead on the mattress for several minutes and then might turn it slowly right and left. In yoga class, the…

New York City’s heart stood still yesterday when a 24″-wide, 80-year-old steam pump exploded under the ground near Grand Central Station releasing huge billows of sulfery steam and fountains of rock, mud, and yes, particles of asbestos (insulation that the pipe was covered in). Prolonged asbestos exposure is a known carcinogen, and damages the lung.…
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