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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Develop a Positive Attitude with Gratitude
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 [...]
Finding Inner Peace – 6 Ways to Be More Peaceful
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 [...]
How to be Joyful and Find Inner Happiness
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 [...]
How to Have Compassion for Others
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. [...]
How to Increase Your Energy Levels With the Power of Intention
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 [...]
Spiritual Ways to Cope With Illness – Beyond Prayer
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 [...]
Spiritual Christmas – How to Increase Spirituality at Christmas
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 [...]
Emotional Vampires – 10 Ways to Protect Yourself From Negativity
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 [...]
