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“There are hundreds of activities designed for protection that are supposed to prevent negative energy from disrupting the healthy or healing state, such as wearing amulets or saying magical words. I’ve probably tried them all! “After a lot of disappointment, dashed hopes, and discouragement regarding techniques, I found that the only true stability and protection…

Many Buddhists are observing an intensive period of meditation this week. You can learn more about Rohatsu, the commemoration of Buddha’s enlightenment, by reading the marvelous articles here and here. Writes Shodo Harada Roshi: The Buddha was enlightened on the eighth of December when he looked up at the morning star, the planet we call…

From now until the Winter Solstice on December 21st, we will be experiencing some of the year’s darkest, shortest days. I used to hate stumbling around with the kids and their bookbags at 5 p.m. in the early dark. I still find it harder to rise at 6:30 a.m. to walk the dog before sunrise.…

As an act of atonement, I guess, Phillip-Morris has launched a television ad campaign and a website to counsel parents on how to prevent their kids from smoking cigarettes. Here’s a chart they use to explain why kids keep smoking: “stress relief”–a.k.a. not looking cool–apparently is the most common reason.

Here is the most beautiful description of why believing in something made-up and then not believing in it is a wonderful part of growing up. What follows is from Betty Smith’s famous novel “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”; it was sent to me by “Urban Shaman” Donna Henes. In the passage an immigrant grandma, Mary…

Well, the eldest Chattering son desperately wants a cellphone for Christmas. To him, it’s a symbol of being grown up. I am in the minority of parents concerned about cellphone health risks; my own cell leaves my cranium with a warm, tingling feeling every time I foolishly indulge in a long conversation without the hands-free…

Thanks to Beliefnet’s Valerie Reiss for blogging so beautifully in my absence. I took last week off to rest my tired typing hands, massage my elbows, see my optometrist, clean the house, and get ready for the holidays. I didn’t do as much yoga as I’d hoped, but I now feel freer of a few…

My fellow Beliefnetters and I have been working over the last few weeks to gather a collection of some of the lovelier holiday gifts on the web this season. We just published them last night. We’ve got a list of relaxing gifts to chill out your recipents (and you too, if you’re buying online instead…

It’s the beginning of a new month. Which means one great thing in my world: horoscopes! Susan Miller, beloved astrologer to many, comes out with her ever-lengthening monthly forecast on AstrologyZone.com for each astrological sign on the first of ever month. And what often comes through her writing, more than what it will mean for…

Yesterday I stumbled across “40 Facts About Sleep You Probably Didn’t Know (Or Were Too Tired to Think About)” from the National Sleep Research Project in Australia. Here are some of my faves–and things I in fact did not know about sleep: – Anything less than five minutes to fall asleep at night means you’re…
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