If you’re wondering what to give up for Lent, this idea can help cleanse you spiritually and organize you physically. Here’s how to declutter your home in 40 days – in preparation for Easter. This guest post is from Elizabeth Kathryn Gerold-Miller – a spiritual blogger and write-at-home mother. Before her tips, a quip: “Eliminate physical …
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You can easily develop a positive attitude with gratitude. Appreciating what’s going well in your life instead of complaining about what’s going wrong, will lighten and brighten your mood as well as broaden your life perspective. What we focus on grows in our awareness. If we only pay attention to the problems, irritations and frustrations …
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Finding inner peace isn’t just about prayer and mediation – though praying and meditating helps! These ways to be more peaceful are practical, easy, and effective tips for calming your heart, mind, and soul…which leads to peace. “There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things …
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One way to know if you’re an empath is to reflect on how many times people have accused you of being too sensitive. Emapths are highly empathic and sensitive to the energy, emotions and suffering of others. According to Yvonne Perry, “as spirit or energy, we are all empathic to some degree, but some people …
Nothing can dampen your mood when you know how to be joyful and find inner happiness – no matter what the circumstance. When you carry a light of joy within it shines on difficult situations and challenging people, making them seem easy and benign. And there’s no need to wait for something special to happen …
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Many people want to have compassion for others, but they get blocked by fear, anger, or judgment. Viewing others as bad, wrong, or undeserving only serves to close the heart and dampen the soul. Seeing others through the eyes of equality, unconditional love, and kindness leads to forgiveness and acceptance, which are components of compassion. …
Wayne Dyer’s tips for increasing your energy levels are too good to keep to myself! We listened to The Power of Intention on a Vancouver-Edmonton road trip recently; my husband loved Wayne Dyer’s tips so much, he plans to listen to the audiobook regularly. Here’s one of Dyer’s gems: “If you focus on what others …
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These spiritual ways to cope with illness go beyond prayer. Don’t get me wrong: prayer is an effective way to cope with illness – but these tips highlight the importance of the mind-body connection. For instance, here’s what an art therapist says about coping with chronic pain: “Words may not be enough to express the …
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A spiritual Christmas will make your holiday more joyous, peaceful, and fulfilling. Here are five tips for increasing spirituality at Christmas, starting with an inspirational Christmas quotation… “Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in …
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Why protect yourself from emotional vampires? Because their negative energy makes you tired, listless, and spiritually empty! These ways to protect yourself from negative people (or even “energy vampires”) are inspired by a book on emotional vampires. “The best way to protect yourself from harm and undue stress is by helping [emotionally explosive people],” writes …
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