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Disaster Recovery Burn-Out Prevention
It is natural for us to extend help in a crisis. It is also natural to get tired, when stress is prolonged. Because of this, recovery from mass disaster tends to follow a very particular pattern. Zunin and Meyers were the first to identify how communities go through different stages of healing. . What to look… Read more
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Summer Solstice June 21 2013
Friends, What an amazing Solstice this was for us. For me, Solstice is usually a time of prayers, gratitude and visioning the future—Even more-this season—with Mother Nature reminding us, here in Alberta, of our essential dependency upon each other and upon nature as we faced massive evacuations and floods! Because my husband Harold, and I… Read more
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Honoring and Respecting the Polarities
Being whole is a state in which there is room for all of who you are. Self-awareness spans your full human potential and your human frailties. Self-awareness is neither pole; it is synergy between the two. In order to perceive clearly the nature of reality and our own nature recognize the paradoxical nature of being… Read more
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Deep Listening
Some of us think our way through life, others feel our way through. See, hear, feel and perceive the subtle flow of hidden forces at work in your daily, ordinary life. Clear your mind, open your heart and expand your awareness. We learn to listen to ourselves by listening with our whole body and soul.… Read more
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Take a deep breath…
[image from www.sacredbodyinstitute.com] Breathing practices help you become aware of subtle energies and rebuild your vitality and inner spiritual force. You can use breath work to over-come obstacles, maintain clarity of focus, energize your spirit, relax your body or calm down when you are over excited. Folk wisdom says to calm yourself when you are upset, ‘take… Read more
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Following Inner Guidance to Realization
Inner guidance is a spiritual sense that takes you in the direction of realization of your true nature. Those . . . .’ah ha!’ moments that bring a spontaneous break-through beyond ordinary limitations. When we unify with our spiritual Self, and awareness expands—we emerge into feeling peace, happiness, infinite possibility, creativity mystical states of ‘oneness’ and freedom– all independent… Read more