Gathering The Energies Of Fall Series: Part II: The Mind
With last week’s Harvest Full Moon, Venus/Saturn/Node conjunction, and the more recent activities of Pluto (which brings to light all of that which is broken) and the Fall Equinox, many of us have had a lot of cosmic action going on, especially involving addressing and releasing things that no longer serve us. It has been a […]
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Gathering The Energies Of Fall Series: Part I: The Body
With the Harvest Full Moon just 3 days away in the Western Hemisphere, Labor Day has come and gone (and people are still wearing white, ¡qué horror!), families are getting ready to send their children to school, teachers are getting ready to teach them, temperatures have started to drop, Duane Reade has already started their […]
Giving Ourselves Permission To Relax During Transition
I can see it already – Labor Day is now behind us, and we are soon closing our doors on Summer, and getting prepared for Fall clothes, kids going to school, obnoxious (but amusing) Staples television commercials of parents shopping for their children’s school supplies with glee. Is it really time for us to put […]
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How To Make Healthy Decisions: On Fear, Trust, Expression, And The Gall Bladder
We have been collectively doing much inner work – shifting our consciousness, paying attention to our bodies and what they are telling us (usually because distress, pain, or dis-ease has arisen), lots of strong releasing of what no longer works for us (which we will be continuing to do on a large scale), and now […]
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5 Proactive Things You Can Do When Loved Ones Sabotage Their Own Health And Power
“Where there is pain, there is no free flow. If there is free flow, there is no pain.” – Chinese Proverb We have all been shifting so drastically, and some people are able to hold onto the reins and do their best to keep up, while others may simply choose to let go of the […]
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How The Complexion Is Related To The Heart In Chinese Medicine
“The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.” – Rumi Your face can say a thousand words, without even opening your mouth. As a Chinese Medicine practitioner, not only am I listening to what you want to address during a session, but I am also observing the bigger picture. […]
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5 Tips To Fully Embrace Intense Emotions Without Self Combusting
We are finally out of Mercury Retrograde as of this past Saturday, the Water Trine that brought some of us into hyper-sensitivity has come and gone; and now, with yesterday giving us our third Supermoon this year, and entering the Grand Sextile next Monday, we have been given many planetary alignments to allow certain emotions […]
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When You Doubt Your Impact In This World, Remember These 5 Things
“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.” – Albert Einstein When I first read this quote, earlier today, it was like the universe […]
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Top 3 Misconceptions People Have About Being Enlightened: On Anger, Multidimensional Living, and Money
Do you battle with your journey towards enlightenment? Do you think that in order to follow the enlightened path, you must divest yourself of all human trappings and emotions – i.e. give away all of your worldly goods, take a vow of poverty, detach yourself from “bad” human emotions? To a certain extent, some of […]
How To Protect Yourself From Psychic Vampires In The Concrete Jungle
Why are vampire movies, like “Twilight”, and TV shows, like “True Blood” and “Vampire Diaries”, so popular? For some, it appeals to our sensual nature, or allows us to tap into the wonder of what it would be like to have superhuman or mystical powers, to fly, transform, be both evil and tormented, yet innocent […]
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