Meditating on the small things – a Monday meditation after stressful weekend Meditating on the small things? I am enjoying Spring since the area around our lake at the back of the house is literally springing into flower! The local church couldn’t keep up with watering and spraying turf, so two years ago now they…
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Affirmations are positively framed words that help influence our state of mind. Check out my Using Affirmations page for my take on how to apply them in life. Using Affirmations from my 8-year-old son (well, 8 and a half!) My son wrote these affirmations for me last week when he saw me getting overwhelmed and…
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Ask and You Shall Receive I’ve always liked this phrase, which I believe is paraphrased from Matthew 7:7 “Ask and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” As a very independent person, I’ve found the asking part hard, and so, as always the…
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Sitting with a Tibetan Monk and the spiritual journey I have recently had the experience of sitting with a Tibetan Monk. It was so transformational and beautiful, yet so natural and peaceful. If you are focused on the spiritual path and you get the opportunity to spend time sitting with a Tibetan Monk – do…
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Joy Rising For Friday – Oprah’s Lifeclass this week “I had no idea who I was touching and who was touching me but we were all one.” “The energy was something that I had never ever experienced in my whole life – it’s like if you could have plugged each one of us into an…
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A Complaint Free World? If you haven’t heard of this movement, it was created by Will Bowen, the lead minister of the One Community Spiritual Center in Kansas City, Missouri. As an innovative Christian leader, he gave a sermon one day about the damaging nature of continuous complaining – and what a great place a…
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Meditation – what is meditation? I’ve often been asked “What are the best ways to meditate?” and “What is a good meditation to use?” It is easier than you think to bring even a small amount of meditative practice into your day, busy parent or not. Meditation in my opinion is a simple shift of…
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Kung Fu Panda and Kung Fu Panda 2, hmnn mindful movies they are on our spiritual journey and an aid to inner peace! We took our children to see Kung-Fu Panda 2, recently and I found some inner peace. I really think it’s a mindful movie and a great one to watch for walkers on…
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Welcome to Tracey Fritz, my first guest blogger. Tracey is excited to be teaching at this new studio in Lexington Park, MD (a dedicated yoga studio!). Check it out at http://www.evolveyogawellness.com. Tracey has been teaching and practicing yoga since 2001. In 2008 she completed her 200 hour Interdisciplinary Yoga Teacher Training with Ann Hunt in Southern Maryland. She…
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