05.16.08
I’ve moved.
Please visit me at Practically Spiritual.
04.07.08
Big changes coming.
Same great taste, but a new look is coming to this website. Stay tuned.
02.23.08
Out-of-control anger can slow down the healing process.
From COSMOS Magazine:
The results were startlingly clear: individuals who had trouble controlling expressions of anger were four times likelier to need more than four days for their wounds to heal, compared with counterparts who could master their anger.
But the researchers were also surprised to find that anger has its nuances, too. Subjects described as showing “anger out” (regular outbursts of aggression or hostility) or “anger in” (repressed rage) healed almost as quickly as individuals who ranked low on all anger scales.
Only those who tried but failed to hold in their feelings of upset and distemper took longer to heal. This same group also showed a higher secretion of the stress hormone cortisol, which could at least partly explain the difference in healing time, the study noted.
H/T to The Daily Grail.
02.19.08
Give your heart an empathy workout.
There’s a lot of wisdom in this potentially life-changing article. (And I don’t say that kind of thing lightly.)
From Oprah.com:
There’s another form of cardio that works much the same way, though it affects the emotional heart rather than the one made of auricles and ventricles. This workout consists of deliberately cultivating empathy. To empathize literally means “to suffer with,” to share the pain of other beings so entirely that their agony becomes our own. I know this sounds like a terrific hobby for a masochistic moron, but hear me out.
The reason to develop a capacity for empathy, and then exercise it regularly, is that only a heart strengthened by this kind of understanding can effectively deliver the oxygen of the spirit: love.
Click here to read the rest of the article.
Check This Out: New Nutrition Class with Kathleen Moriarty at Boston Center for Adult Education
Don’t miss this one! Kathleen is fabulous.
Is your New Year’s Resolution to eat healthier stuck in a rut? Kick-start a healthy new you without making drastic lifestyle and diet changes you can’t stick with. As a Certified Holistic Health Counselor, Kathleen Moriarty will work on deconstructing your cravings, learning how to understand food labels and identify healthy food choices in the aisles of the grocery store, setting practical goals and how to eat for energy and optimum health, even if you’re pressed for time, have a demanding schedule or have very limited experience in the kitchen. Achieve your ideal weight, and feel better in your body and mind. Become more confident in choosing and preparing food, stop cravings and binges for good, and experience a remarkable increase in your energy and vitality.
If health is wealth, this class will make you a millionaire!
02.15.08
New Benefit For Mailing List Members
To celebrate abundance in 2008, all members of my mailing list will be eligible to win a free gift each month. This month’s gift is a free 15 minute Tarot reading and the winner has already been randomly chosen. Check your inbox to see if it’s you!
If you’re not already a mailing list member, click here to sign up.
02.13.08
Things going a bit wrong for you lately?
Mercury retrograde is back, and will continue until February 19th.
Astrologically speaking, Mercury retrograde is a period of readjustment that occurs several times each calendar year. In practical terms, this means that communications, electronics, and machinery tend to break down during Mercury retrograde. All the anecdotal evidence I’m hearing says that this particular retrograde period has been an especially bumpy ride for many people, so you may want to buckle your seat belts for the next few days.
(See my previous article on Mercury retrograde here, and an informative article from another site here.)
02.09.08
Tough room!
Today’s episode of NPR’s This American Life featured a moving story about a fifteen-year-old girl experimenting with Tarot cards. You can listen to the episode here — it’s the second story on the show, after the one about writing for The Onion.
