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Heart Song

On May 24, 2024

In Divine Love, Dreams, Guest Posts, HU: An Ancient Mantra, Love & Relationships, Personal Growth, Self-love, Spiritual Exercises, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 4 minutes

Guest Post by RJ McBride

For many years I believed I was worth only what I had at the time. I was convinced that my destiny held nothing more than hard times and struggle.

“It’s all you deserve,” I would tell myself. “Don’t think about what you would like to have. Settle for things as they are and forget about it.”

I believed there would only be hardship and struggle…and that is exactly what there was. I did not understand that by limiting my imagination, I was limiting my possibilities. When I finally surrendered these self-limiting ideas, I began to see myself in a whole new light. I discovered that I was, and always had been, a spiritual being. I had not allowed myself to see my true worth.

At 61, I Am Coming to Terms with the Possibility that I Will Remain Single

By Michael Avery

On May 10, 2024

In Guest Posts, Health & Healing, Love & Relationships, Personal Growth, Self-love, Spirituality

Reading Time: 6 minutes

Guest Post by Edie Weinstein

When I walked down the aisle on May 2, 1987, to share the words “I do” with the man I had met seven months earlier, I anticipated that we would be spending a long lifetime together.

We had met when I was 28 and he was 36, introduced by a mutual friend during the intermission of a lecture by spiritual leader Ram Dass. Our marriage would be what I call “paradoxical,” with its share of love and its own major dysfunctions that I shudder to think I allowed for the time we were together.

A Return to Joy: How Sawyer Brown Helped Heal My Heart

By Michael Avery

On January 5, 2024

In Health & Healing, Love & Relationships, Personal Growth, Self-love, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 3 minutes

By Michael Avery

Before Sawyer Brown became famous, the band always stopped at the Douglas County Fair near my hometown on their whirlwind tour throughout Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. When I left the fair each year after hearing them play until well after midnight, one song always stayed with me—“The Walk.” Little did I know that, many years later, the song would facilitate a healing with my father.

The Journey Back to Loving Ourselves

By Michael Avery

On December 29, 2023

In Conscious Living, Health & Healing, Love & Relationships, Personal Growth, Self-love, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 4 minutes

By Michael Avery

When we glance back over our shoulder at the myriad events in our lives, some stand out for their solitary strangeness, others for their magic and mystery. They tug at our coattails, begging us to take another look with older, yet more discerning eyes.

I’d been reflecting on a conversation from several years before regarding a dog and his unusual friend, when I suddenly realized it held a valuable lesson about self-love.

Spiders, Sushi, and Books: My Shift from Atheist to Spiritual

By Pichaya Avery

On December 22, 2023

In Animals, Guest Posts, Meditation, Personal Growth, Self-love, Spiritual Exercises, Spirituality, Synchronicity, Waking Dreams

Reading Time: 5 minutes

Guest Post by Jamie Zella

For most of my life, I identified as atheist. This past year, however, something shifted.

A few things happened that pushed me onto my spiritual journey. First, it seemed that all the new people coming into my life were spiritual. My whole life, I had been closed off to believing in any sort of higher power.

There was no such thing as God, no spiritual beings, nothing and nobody watching over me. But after meeting these new people, I was also met with curiosity. I decided to befriend it. I opened my mind and started paying more attention.

An Exercise in Abundance and Love

By Michael Avery

On December 8, 2023

In Conscious Living, Health & Healing, Ho'oponopono, Inner Guidance, Personal Growth, Self-love, Spirituality

Reading Time: 3 minutes

By Michael Avery

Our judgments become the rules we have agreed to live by until we change them. Changing them is the easy part; uncovering them can be difficult.

As an example, while going over some early memories of my mom, I discovered a hidden judgement. I remembered how, during hard times, she would always say, “Don’t worry, we’ll always have enough.”

I attributed our family’s emotional stability to her wise and comforting words. And, true to my mom’s belief, the Universe always brought us enough. I was thankful for that. However, it struck me one day that we never had more than enough!

Every Illness Has a Spiritual Solution

By Michael Avery

On December 4, 2023

In Guest Posts, Health & Healing, Inner Warrior, Love & Relationships, Personal Growth, Self-love, Spirituality

Reading Time: 6 minutes

Guest Post by Bob Switzer

In the course of writing my book, Every Illness Has a Spiritual Solution, I was fortunate to interview many enlightened Souls who shared their healing journeys, taking responsibility for their return to balance and harmony. Here is Caroline’s experience.

Caroline’s Emotional Liberation¹

12 Inspirational Quotes from Rumi on Love

By Pichaya Avery

On October 6, 2023

In Inspirational Quotes, Poetry, Self-love, Spirituality

Reading Time: 3 minutes

By Pichaya Avery

Jalaluddin Rumi is one of my favorite poets. As an introduction to twelve of his inspirational quotes, I’ve included the following excerpt from “Rumi’s Untold Story,” a free online e-book by Shahram Shiva:

“Rumi’s life story is full of intrigue and high drama mixed with intense creative outbursts. Rumi was a charming, wealthy nobleman, a genius theologian, law professor and a brilliant but sober scholar, who in his late thirties met a wandering and wild holy man by the name of Shams. In Rumi’s own words, after meeting Shams he was transformed from a bookish, sober scholar to an impassioned seeker of universal truth and love.

Creating the Relationship of Your Dreams

By Michael Avery

On August 23, 2023

In Conscious Living, Guest Posts, Health & Healing, HU: An Ancient Mantra, Love & Relationships, Personal Growth, Self-love, Spirituality

Reading Time: 7 minutes

Guest Post by Tom Ziemann

After my divorce, I did some soul-searching. I started doing research for what became my third book, Creating the Relationship of Your Dreams: How to Manifest it from Fantasy to Reality.Failing miserably on the dating scene—Online, in-person, and distant ones—made me keenly aware that I was not seeing the whole picture. (More to come on both Online and Long- Distance relationships.)

I had inner work to complete. I was thwarting my happiness. My most important relationship, that with myself, had been severely neglected. I had not yet learned to control my inner Anger Dragon. I found the enemy, and he dwelt under my hat.

If Not Now, When?

By Pichaya Avery

On August 11, 2023

In Divine Love, Health & Healing, Inner Guidance, Inspirational Quotes, Love & Relationships, Poetry, Self-love, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 3 minutes

By Pichaya Avery

Dear Friends,

“The time for life is now. The time for love is now.
The time to do it is now, not tomorrow.”
—Leo Buscaglia

One powerful way the Universe communicates with us is through inner guidance. Learning how to recognize Its messages, we can be directed toward the right path, meeting the right people, and doing the right thing. Awareness is key.

What would happen if I didn’t follow my inner guidance? I wondered. One day I learned, and the price was extremely high.

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