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  • What Does It Profit A Man?

    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…

  • Be Not Afraid

    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…

  • Laughter Is the Best Medicine

    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.…

  • Making a New Year’s Intention Rather Than a Resolution

    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,…

  • The Holidays and Radical Self Love

    ‘Tis the season for giving, which can be an opportunity for practicing The Art of Radical Self Love. Put your health and well-being at the top of your gift list. Choose to free yourself from the stress of false urgency. Put your expectations into perspective. Set your intentions for benevolent outcomes. Maintain your awareness of…

  • The Big Picture

    In my book, “The Art of Radical Self Love: The First Steps to Healing and Well-Being”, I reference The Big Picture and briefly describe it as my worldview that there is more to life than the material world of our five senses and that we are all connected and participating in this thing called life…

  • Laughter is the Best Medicine

    We are living in stressful times made more intense by rapid, unanticipated changes caused by unexpected and unpredictable behaviors. Our thoughts are being disrupted by a constant barrage of unverifiable, opposing information like we are the captive audience to a tennis match of a dysfunctional family gathering’s emotional bloodletting. This is not a healthy situation.…

  • Thoughts and Prayers

    This is not a trivial sentiment. It is a call to engage as a united community with a powerful energetic healing force. The thing is, we have to actually take action. We need to take real time to focus our attention on the intention of sending unconditional love energy to the subjects of our thoughts…

  • Love Conquers All

    If my high school Latin serves me, this proverb is the translation of a declaration by the Roman poet Virgil, in 70 B.C.E.. A variation of his Latin phrasing is “Amor omnia vincit”. It is as true now as it was then. For the past few months I have had a problem seeing clearly. I…

  • Happy Birthday, Ringo

    A couple of weeks ago, I asked that everyone start to take just one minute a day to focus their thoughts on pure love in an ongoing experiment to reach a tipping point for positivity to outweigh negativity. Please, keep it up. We may not see the effects right away, but the energy is working…