Chattering Mind

Hey gals: Do you want to have a good menopause? This may not be the most burning question for all of my readers, but for those of us contemplating it, please, can we talk? I was just saying to the critical care nurse practitioner/nutritionist who has become my reproductive health caretaker that I really want…

“I sometimes wish you were more of a religious teacher,” I once told a therapist I’d been seeing for years. “My own children have said the same thing,” he said. Then I think he chuckled softly. Today, many more psychotherapists are acquainting themselves with life’s spiritual dimension in spite of their training. Times have changed,…

If you work as a manager/team leader, or if you know someone currently struggling to stay conscious and heart-centered in a business management or ownership situation, the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society is coordinating a “Power of Mindfulness” retreat October 27-November 1, 2006 for leaders within business and nonprofit organizations. The…

This month’s Sage Woman magazine (“celebrating the goddess in every woman”) gives Real Simple and other slick, “complicated lifestyle magazines” a run for their money with articles like “Simplicity as an Act of Worship,” and “Packing Light.” Formerly the mag of choice for goddess worshippers and pagans, this now 94-page long publication has much to…

I think we did so well by Paul (whose spam filter has kicked back my note telling him we tackled his relationship problem last week), that I’m now encouraging all readers to ask me for assistance in addressing personal/spiritual challenges. You may email me any time at chatteringmind@beliefnetstaff.com, and I will send you my best…

Let the sunshine in! Naturally. I’ve purchased three seven-ounce tubes of UV Natural SPF 30+ sunscreen, which is now selling at Whole Foods, Nordstrom, and in the Chinaberry and Isabella catalogs. (Pssst: here’s a link to a place that reduces the price if you buy more than six tubes.) Glowing write-ups insist this non-greasy formula…

Share this with your friends who are clinging to any particular best-selling diet book regimen! “Do not become so diet-conscious as for the diet to become master, rather than the self being master of the diet.” –Edgar Cayce, from “No Soul Left Behind: The Words and Wisdom of Edgar Cayce.”

Brooklyn-based, internationally-known Feng Shui teacher Nancy SantoPietro recently sent the following invitation to those interested in studying what she calls “Chakracology,” a healing method she created that combines shining colored light on the body with music and sound to heal and re-direct stuck energy. Of more general interest to CM readers, perhaps, is the language…

Thanks to reader Wendy for recommending these two uplifting, well-reviewed GameCube games: It’s a Wonderful Life (part of the “Harvest Moon” series), and Animal Crossing. I’m ordering them today (since the elder Chattering has a birthday in May), and I’ll report back.

I have seen the future of jewelry and this is it: beautifully arranged, energetically potent gemstones charged with healing Reiki energy. Wow. Wouldn’t you love to wear jewelry that has been prayed over to bless you? If you were ill, wouldn’t you want to wear stones that might give you a physical and psychic boost?…

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