healing
How to heal fully and properly.
The Art of Digesting One's Experience
Where I'm from, May heralds the deep of spring: cold rains and riotously colored blossoms. Evening comes, and the sun lingers on and on. I think that was the hardest thing, at first, coming to Australia. Spring had been blossoming into summer—and suddenly, upon landing among the submergent coastlines of Sydney, at 4:30 PM, the light was gone. It was as though night were a blanket pulled over my eyes. No cold air to tell my body it was winter—just a daily, evening blindness.
By Luna Jennifer Cross7 years ago in Motivation
Freedom
Freedom, one word with so many meanings. Each of you had a fleeting thought when you saw that word, what it meant to you. Maybe to you it was that you just retired and the world is now your personal playground. Perhaps you just graduated and you have no classes to study for or tests to stress over.
By Jodi Roberts7 years ago in Motivation
Dear You, I'm Taking My Power Back
It took me days and days to feel okay enough to publish this. I'm sitting at my desk, staring at my computer screen listening to the rain as I read this over and over and over again, debating whether or not to hit publish. I'm uncomfortable with the finality of hitting that button even though I know I need to do this. Not for you, or my family or my past; but for me, right now in this moment and for my future self. I need to let go of the fear and the control you have over me and have had over me since I was little. You don't control me anymoreand I refuse to let the thought of you stop me from living my life. I know I should have done this a long time ago but I'm proud of myself for feeling worth it enough to do it now. I'm done pretending nothing happened and secretly letting you tear me apart behind the closed doors of my mind. I'm done with it. I don't want you in my head anymore, and I will not let what you said and put me through stop me from becoming who I want and deserve to be.
By the.unstable.sibling7 years ago in Motivation
How We Make Sense of Our Lives
I woke up one morning to find my life upside down and scattered across the floor; and as I experienced my emotional response, I have become curious about how different people make sense of their lives. After the Growing Older exhibition in 2015, I have felt struck by the heartfelt stories shared.
By Alaias 7 years ago in Motivation
Crystal Blacksmith
Crystal Blacksmith In January of 2017, I made a commitment to myself and to the Universe to live a more spiritual life. I couldn’t really define what this meant at the time, I just knew I had to do this. I was called to work with thunderbird/eagle medicine. I had a tattoo designed of a stylized thunderbird and placed on my upper right arm. Since then I have worked to raise my vibration, open my heart, and live in the Light.
By Jean Sumrall7 years ago in Motivation
Walking My Talk with Grace
Wow! The lessons I have learned in the last two years have been big and real and just what I’ve asked for really. Not always fun but taking the bad with the good is just living. There have been some serious ugly-crying sessions, bouts with depression and some amazing and sparkling breakthroughes. I have come to know and accept myself more than I thought possible, and the ever-expanding gratitude for my life and capacity for love and joy is almost incomprehensible, until I experience it and reach for more!
By Debi Hammond7 years ago in Motivation
Master Mind Series (Pt. 2)
Welcome back to the Master Mind Series Today we are focusing on the subconscious mind. This portion of the min is known as the emotional mind. It's the bottom half of the mind diagram from the Introduction To The Mind article in the beginning of this series. The conscious mind is so fascinating and equally powerful. As humans, we are emotional creatures, and being such, emotions drive our actions that ultimately control our results. The subconscious is the portion of the mind that controls all of our habitual behavior, and most of our behavior is habitual. Think about your morning routine, when you wake up, chances are you do just about the same thing, in the same way, every single day. How many other aspects of your life are you living in a similar way? The emotional mind, unlike the conscious mind, has no ability to reject information. It functions much like a sponge and absorbs every thought, word, feeling and stores it. Let's think of the conscious mind as the internet, and the subconscious mind as the "Deep web" an ocean, vast of hidden information that we have collected consciously or unconsciously throughout our entire life, especially as a child.
By Trevor Feely7 years ago in Motivation
How to Know If You're in the Midst of a Spiritual Awakening
I can't explain it too well, but I had feelings leading up to that moment—feelings as though a big change would happen soon. Almost as if a new person was going to be born, or that I would change immensely. And I did!
By 7 years ago in Motivation
The Artist... The Nurse... The Servant
It’s the Fall of 2008. I’m a senior at the University of Miami studying Music Education. I’m in the top two ensembles singing Alto. I’m growing spiritually in Christ. Making new friends. Studying a mixture of the two things I love: education and music. I couldn’t be happier.
By Fran LaVoix7 years ago in Motivation
Walking into Deep Time
A silver doorknob. Aluminium? I suppose. A little loose, somehow, so it catches when I turn it—but wait, before I turn the knob I’ve got to reach up to the top lock—my mother calls it “the double lock”—and turn its much smaller knob to the right to open it. Now I can turn the doorknob. Now I am pulling open the metal door of my parents’ apartment, now I am stepping across the threshold to see, just to my left, a poster from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Beneath my feet, sturdy brown carpet scrolls all the way down the long hallway to the elevators, fifteen or twenty steps away. A mirror opposite the four lifts, the metal call buttons I still think of as “new”, even though they were installed when I was a teenager. I’m fifty years old now, and my parents have been dead for a dozen years, but their apartment, this hallway, remains—I believe—perfectly contained in my mind and heart, and so in my imagination, I decide to talk a walk, beginning here, in the place I tell myself I still know best.
By Erica Wagner7 years ago in Motivation
