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It’s Spring, and the time of celebrations of renewal – spiritual, religious, and cultural. Yet there is an underlying sadness because there is a war going on again. For those of us who are of a certain age, it is a feeling of deja vu, grieving about circumstances beyond our control that perverted the good…

The complete quote is found in the New Testament of the Bible in Mark 8:36. Depending on what version of the Bible you use, the words might read “How is a man the better for it, if he gains the whole world at the expense of losing his own soul?” It must be an important…

The Irish poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney texted that phrase in Latin (“Noli timere”) as his last words to his wife as he passed away in 2013. In 1933, President Roosevelt said in his first inaugural address “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. Good advice that has stood the test…

In the original manuscript of my book, “The Art of Radical Self Love: The First Steps to Healing and Well-Being”, the subject of laughter had its own chapter. In the final published form, it moved from Chapter Four to Chapter Six, and was combined with eating and relaxation. I am still uneasy with that decision.…

In the Reiki Healing Circle that I facilitate most Sundays after my spiritual community’s service, I have been emphasizing that setting an unconditionally loving intention for healing is more important than concentrating on technique and ritual. If we just allow Life Force Energy to flow through us without causing interruptions by inserting our ego-based will,…