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What Are Your Natural Rhythms?
Another component of self-love is self-respect – honoring one’s own rhythms. All of nature has a rhythm. The seasons bring change, hibernation, growth, planting and sprouting. Each of us has a rhythm as well. You experience cycles of quiet and activity, darkness and light, struggle and thriving. And when you experience a challenge, it is…
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How Do You Define Self-Love?
As the popular song says, “Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.” It is interesting that the composer chose the words “learning to love yourself.” Does this not come naturally? Not necessarily. The influences that can lead to or separate us from self-love can arise from our soul and from our environment.…
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Who Are You, Really?
This may sound a little harsh, but it is so true that when we deny our own feelings we not only negatively affect our health, we deny our authentic self, or essence. (I believe our essence is our soul, and is love). How many of us have been, or are currently, what is popularly known…
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Reconnect with Soul
Did you know that the origin of the word “psyche” is “soul”? My work as a psychotherapist involves seeing my client as a whole person – the physical body, the mind, and the “higher self,” the spirit or soul. When we connect more deeply with our inner soul-wisdom, we discover a new level of wholeness,…
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What is My Purpose?
It became popular in the 1960s for people to want to “find themselves.” Modern spiritual teachers ask us to “go within” to find our higher selves, and people go on retreats or vision quests to find their purpose. While there is still breath in your lungs there is purpose for your life. Your purpose may…
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Acceptance
We’re often told to “accept what is.” Accepting the idea that “this present moment” just IS can lead to increased serenity. You may have no control over circumstances you encounter but you can choose how to respond to them. Being aware in this very moment of how you feel means that you can act deliberately…
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Are You Unplugged?
What happens when you unplug a radio from the power source? Eventually the backup battery will drain, you’ll experience static, and then the power completely stops. Irritation. Confusion. Illness. Agitation and anxiety. Anger. Fear. When we are disconnected from our source, our soul, or whatever terminology you prefer, we may feel any or all of…
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Time For Yourself
It is important to set aside time every day to relax, even if briefly. Take a private mini-vacation from everything going on around you. How? One powerful method of unplugging from the world and plugging into “Source” is meditation. We in the Western world so often reach out for comfort or guidance – to smart…
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Laugh it off!
Adding humor to a stressful situation can lighten the mood. A former client related to me a story about an argument with her husband. When tempers flared, their dog raced into the bedroom where they were arguing, snatched my client’s frilly nightgown from the bed, and began to race through the house with it. What…
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Facing Your Inner Critic
In our society these days, there is a lot of polarization and contention between political parties and between individuals of different persuasions. We can each get very wedded to our beliefs about the world and how we should live. We lose our connection with a broader and deeper sense of what is true and how…