The scrutiny you apply when you read the content on some jar that you will consume, use it when you read information. Or, if you are good at assessing the information you read, read the ingredients on the products you consume with the same discernment. (Only great musicians deserve groupies. Even that is debatable. IContinue reading “Look Deeply: Watch Your Consumption”
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Animal Being, In Romance
Have you ever noticed that the courtship between animals is a lot more stylish than ours? A display of abilities that are cool and fun – flying, dancing, singing, home building. Thought for the week: All males on this planet are wired to impress. The two-legged are no different. Men want to impress, love toContinue reading “Animal Being, In Romance”
Neighbourly Thanks – While Social Distancing
Be safe. Be well. Send your gratitude to the nurses, doctors, hospital staff for their courage and service to life. Be grateful for everyone helping in this crisis, everyone providing you with necessities, everyone kind and sane, everyone who choses prosocial, neighbourly behaviour. Find the good in self-isolation. This too shall pass. NJ, 17 MarchContinue reading “Neighbourly Thanks – While Social Distancing”
Friday after #EarthDay
honour your commitment that you have renewed or chosen on Earth Day. Today we are meeting in our healing circle for the well-being of all life on earth. We say thanks to everything that is good, effortless and beautiful in our life; thanks to the cultivation of emotional stability; thanks to our elders who foughtContinue reading “Friday after #EarthDay”
Healing Circle on 17 April
A serene Friday filled with the revivifying scents of spring – or the harvest scents of fall, if you are in the global South – to you all. We are sending healing, thanks, love and smiles to everything that is going well in our lives, to the formation of our beautiful soul families, to theContinue reading “Healing Circle on 17 April”
Refine, Appreciate, Co-Create
#newmoon #April #newmooninTaurus #selfnurturing #renewalfromwithin Last night’s moon infused the air with a high-quality and genuine energy. A reminder that it is alright to beautify the spaces you spend time in, regardless of what everyone else is doing, how much it may be overlooked or appreciated, and whether the timing is right – because youContinue reading “Refine, Appreciate, Co-Create”
Earth Day 2020
Staying plastic-free during the pandemic has become very challenging. Most people claim that it is almost impossible in most regions. If you have embarked on a zero waste journey too, all I can say now is that the process (research and new choices) is something no one can take away from us – and thatContinue reading “Earth Day 2020”
Sun On Water
Do you knowthe music the lake makeswhen the sun of spring warms it? The snow that clung to the ice melts into water.Sun rays break the ice underwater into candles of ice.They rub and chime and clangin the meltwater, in the waves. This is the music the water makeswhen it changesfrom the frozen state toContinue reading “Sun On Water”
February Miracle
In the last months, I noticed that I am no longer attracted to “chaotic vibes” that used to hook into me energetically in the past. Via relationships. It isn’t easy being the sober and grounded one among addicts; it is hard to be the spiritual and compassionate one among the personality disordered — let meContinue reading “February Miracle”
“Music Is Sunshine.”
“Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose….. Music is something you can’t hold in your hands, or smell it, taste it, even see it, yet somehow just coming together and feeling these little vibrationsContinue reading ““Music Is Sunshine.””
The Pleasure Principle Wins Every Time
When Michael Franti traveled in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine/Israel with his guitar and camera person in the early millennium, he learned that people in war zones — just like people who enjoy some comforts and freedom from daily anxiety about making it through the day in one piece — prefer love songs and celebratory songsContinue reading “The Pleasure Principle Wins Every Time”
State of Emergency
#selfisolation #stateofemergency #March2020 #coronavirus #intheneighbourhood I am grateful to the kind neighbours who make themselves available to those who have difficulty obtaining medicine and provisions. It is so healing to observe the humane and loving attitudes in the neighbourhood. I already took care of this household, days before the state of emergency was declared. IContinue reading “State of Emergency”
What Is Yours Is Yours
Be grateful for what is most precious about your life. You might notice that it is a lot more than you think, that no one can pay for it, that no one can take it from you either. 05 February 2015 Photo by Jeanette Bergen
Out Of Harm’s Way
Putting yourself out of harm’s way is a quiet and powerful form of self-love. Your body will thank you for your caring forethought. — Message in the meditation on the full moon in Libra to all who resonate, starting with me 1 April 2018 #vitality #luck #serenity #clearing #selfcare #selfparenting #mindfulness
How to Calm Anxiety, By Rick Hanson
May it be of benefit. Cultivating these inner resources will reward you in the long run. Start today. Start small. Repeat. Make a habit of it. (I personally have benefited greatly from the approach. I am fond of it.) It is not only for days when you stay at home. It is for a longContinue reading “How to Calm Anxiety, By Rick Hanson”
Noteworthy In 2019
The best phrase I heard this year (and I have overheard a long list of fabulous wisdoms that gave me “aha” moments and deep, wonderful pauses) was that we weren’t born only to make money and to lose weight. It is okay to make money and to lose weight, of course, to make more moneyContinue reading “Noteworthy In 2019”
Grateful For All the Blessings In Life
Just for today, appreciate yourself, appreciate what is going well for you, appreciate the support and love in your life. Just for today, appreciate your path and its many highlights of your preferences. Because your preferences will be your future, if you honour them. They will be your future too, if you are unconscious ofContinue reading “Grateful For All the Blessings In Life”
For Vimala Thakar
Thank you, Vimala,for not letting me get awaywith excuses. I appreciate how much you caredfor humanity and our future.You wanted everyone to be strong,to live in peace and with heart wisdom. Your diamond-like clarity,your firm approach,your knowing of the psychemake me feel at homeand challenge me. You said,“Spirituality is the seedand social action is theContinue reading “For Vimala Thakar”
Leading With Love: Affirm Yourself
Fun fact: There are steps you make out of self-love and self-respect or to reduce garbage and toxicity. Those actions may appear strict or weird to others, but you are doing them in order to maintain or create a higher level of health, and to live in alignment with your values. Groups who are lessContinue reading “Leading With Love: Affirm Yourself”
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