60 Tiny Love Stories to Make You Smile

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!! Here’s a selection of 60 tiny love stories recently submitted to our sister site, Makes Me Think, that not only made us think, but warmed our hearts and made us smile too.  We hope they do the same for you. Today, my 75-year-old grandpa who has been blind from cataracts for almostContinue reading “60 Tiny Love Stories to Make You Smile”

8 Things You Must Give Up to Find Peace

 “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” –Albert Einstein Peace of mind transpires and thrives when you let go of the things that limit your growth and happiness. You work for this peace every time you give up… 1.  Old regrets and excuses. You can’t always choose what happensContinue reading “8 Things You Must Give Up to Find Peace”

9 Powerful Ways to Spend a Day

All the time given to you in life is valuable; you just have to know what to do with it.  Let’s make it count.  Shall we? Starting today, spend more time… 1.  Thinking for yourself. The uneducated belief in something false that someone tells you is the greatest enemy of your own truth.  Do notContinue reading “9 Powerful Ways to Spend a Day”

Lose Weight with a Good Night’s Sleep – Ten Tips for Sweet Slumber

From premature aging to a compromised immune system, the side-effects of sleepless nights can add up, according to Barbara Harris, editor-in-chief of Shape magazine and author of Shape Your Life: 4 Weeks To A Better Body — And A Better Life! (Hay House, 2002). During her more than 15 years at the helm of ShapeContinue reading “Lose Weight with a Good Night’s Sleep – Ten Tips for Sweet Slumber”

The Nocebo Effect: How Negative Thoughts Can Harm Your Health

Most of us have heard of “the placebo effect”—the heal-inducing effect patients in clinical trials experience when they believe they’re getting a fancy new drug or surgery but are actually getting fake treatment. The placebo effect is real. It works about eighteen to eighty percent of the time, and it’s not just in your head—itContinue reading “The Nocebo Effect: How Negative Thoughts Can Harm Your Health”

How to Build Self Confidence: 6 Essential and Timeless Tips

 “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.” Helen Keller “Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.” Brian Tracy “Confidence is courage at ease.” Daniel Maher I believe that one of the most common wishes is simply to feel more confident in various situations inContinue reading “How to Build Self Confidence: 6 Essential and Timeless Tips”

A Comprehensive Resource Guide for your Holistic Health & Wellness Journey

The information provided below is the most comprehensive resource that I have found to date to help you on your journey towards Holistic Health & Wellness.  Namaste!  12 Universal Skills You Need to Succeed at Anything There are a lot of skills you don’t need.  You can be happy and successful without knowing how toContinue reading “A Comprehensive Resource Guide for your Holistic Health & Wellness Journey”

A Pilgrim in Your Body – Energy Healing and the Spiritual Process

Whether you use energy work as part of your personal practice or as a healing modality in your work with others, it can evoke changes in consciousness and perspective that are best understood in the context of the human spiritual journey. At its core, energy work–basically, anything you do in a knowledgeable and purposeful wayContinue reading “A Pilgrim in Your Body – Energy Healing and the Spiritual Process”

Energy Medicine: A Field of Potential – A Look at This Enigmatic Modality

The “unknowns” of energy medicine are the aspects that make it seem unusual, unique, and — unquantifiable. The very things that make the work profound are also the things that have kept much of the medical establishment at arm’s length on this side of the world. Now, as science is slowly proving out what energyContinue reading “Energy Medicine: A Field of Potential – A Look at This Enigmatic Modality”

Are you positive? How and why affirmations work

“An affirmation opens the door. It’s a beginning point on the path to change.” – Louise Hay I talk to myself a lot. Most of the time I do it in my head, but some times I will do it out loud. The latter is usually only in the company of my dog. I’m notContinue reading “Are you positive? How and why affirmations work”