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This week, I found myself having several conversations about a decidedly heavy, negative, upsetting topic.  I was talking to spiritually-oriented friend about it, and she advised me to take care to protect myself before and cleanse myself after these conversations. Say a blessing of protection before you go into the conversations, she advised.  And as…

This morning Good Morning America featured Beliefnet’s newest contributor, SQuire Rushnell, the author most recently of “When God Winks on New Beginnings,” and a former ABC exec. He talks about how coincidences are gifts in our lives we need to soak in. Those goosebump moments when you say, “What are the odds?” He says it’s like when a relative fondly…

We all have dreams, big-picture life goals that we imagine will, someday, come true.  Sometimes, though, those dreams actually hold us back, keep us from moving ahead with our lives because all we’re doing is dwelling on how they haven’t come to fruition.  Here’s a lovely verse from Ella Wheeler Wilcox on releasing old dreams…

That’s what a couple of people have asked me lately. It’s a bad sign that my mind goes blank and I just blink, right? Um, fun? Ohhh, fuuun. And a friend just posted to Facebook: “X is tired of being so hard on herself. She would like to be responsible, organized, and still have fun. There…

I don’t know if it’s the change of season, but I’m having some amazing technicolor dreams these days.  Last night, I dreamed I was in yoga class, and I was really struggling in bridge pose (something that I do struggle with in real life).  I kept piling blankets under my hips to lift them higher…

This fantastic TV ad shows how we really are reaching for youth with those downdogs… [via: http://www.socialworkout.com/2009/04/21/greatest-ad-ever]

Even though it’s allegedly spring, many of us are still being pushed around by gales and chills and storms. So this Mark Strand poem, posted yesterday on my new friend Laura’s blog in honor of National Poetry Month, seems very apropos:   Lines For Winter by Mark Strand Tell yourselfas it gets cold and gray falls from the…

Our awesome content partners over at Intent.com are running a program on their site and Beliefent for Earth Month–“30 Days to a Greener You.” Full of rich offerings all month on everything from green dating to green pet care, they’ll be posting new items every day. At Intent, a site created by Mallika Chopra (yep,…

Louis L’Amour once said, “No school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.”  What an apt Earth Day thought: the colors of the world are there for us to fill in.  Awareness, education, and celebration…

Happy Earth Day/Week/Month/Lifetime! We have a new feature on the site that we’re psyched about: 10 Steps to Making Your Diet Greener–from our partner Intent.com. And nope, kale, collards, and food coloring are not involved. But rather how to minimize your food footprint, taking a little pressure off our over-burdened planet. Check it here: http://www.beliefnet.com/Holistic-Living/Environment/Steps-to-a-Greener-Diet.aspx…
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