I believe if a person could spend his whole waking time being aware of his hara – as is taught in some Eastern religions - his life would be so different. He’d always have his own
The basic problem of all existence, the root cause of all human suffering, is alienation from the mother. She was the whole world to us - the source of all love, and the cause of all
So many people complain, “But I did the affirmation. I can’t understand why the problem is still there!” If the affirmation is performed in a desultory manner, the effect will be quite short-lived—in fact, it may
The word altruism was coined relatively recently, by Auguste Comte in 1858, from the Latin, alter (other). To me the essence of healing is altruism. The more I can surrender my ego, give up any self-centered
“Composing,” the composer proclaimed, “is creating within restraints.” And I did hear it right: restraints! I have always believed that more restraints mean less creativity. Creativity comes from the Muse, and It must be free to
It has been said that muscles have memories. And no muscles have more memories than the external muscles that control the tongue. Every negative emotion that has afflicted us throughout our lives, it seems, is held
Lenny, the giant of a man in Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men had a pet mouse that he kept in his pocket. Although he loved it – or apparently loved it – he stroked it
When I was six I was admitted to hospital extremely ill, not thought to live. I vividly recall my mother waving good-bye to me through the glass screen. (I must have been in an isolation unit.)
Just what do we mean by “holistic”? So many holistic health centers offer professional work in many different areas – yoga, meditation, biofeedback, reflexology, nutritional counseling, patterned exercises, relaxation therapy, massage, acupressure and so on. But
The word abstraction is defined as “A small quantity containing the virtue or power of the greater,”and comes from the Latin, abtrahere, meaning “to draw out from.” The process of abstraction is implicit in the creation
