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From the upcoming book, Searching for Serenity: the Spiritual Way to Declutter your Life and Create Sacred Space
I’m intrigued by a Tarot card known as the “Two of Swords.” In most decks, the card features a person holding a sword in each hand, often in a defensive position. The [...]
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Cooling off on a hot summer’s day last year, with my bare feet in the fountain on my patio. Photo used with permission.
It’s easy to get caught up in everyone else’s world and forget to pamper yourself a little. In fact, pampering yourself can feel downright selfish, even if you did just put in a [...]
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From the upcoming book, 23 Ways I Screwed Up My Life with the Law of Attraction—and How I Fixed It
I had a date with a man I can’t get out of my head. Normally, that would be a wonderful thing because—normally–there would be something pleasantly fascinating about the [...]
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Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom.
Two women from the Philippines are helping me with a home project. They’re smart, they work hard, and they’re compassionate. Traits I obviously admire. And even though they’ve both been handed their share of tragedy, they still agree, “Life is good.”
One is a single mother of six who just [...]
Genuinely enjoying one another’s company. A family outing to Grayton Beach, with Lorna, Aislinn, Shannon, and Brian. All photos copyrighted.
In every dysfunctional family, there’s at least one do-goodin’ peacemaker who is either a blood relative, an in-law, or a “concerned family friend.” Ironically, it’s usually not so much about making peace among hostile relatives [...]
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Sitting in the cemetery at sunset, 8 months into a year with Solar Return Sun in the dreaded Eighth House; Photo copyright by Aislinn Bailey, AisPortraits, Niceville, Florida
My birthday’s coming up in just a few weeks, and you know what that means? I’m finishing up a year when my Solar Return Sun was in my [...]
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From the upcoming book, 23 Ways I Screwed Up My Life with the Law of Attraction—and How I Fixed It
I’ve really been screwing myself at work. The day job, that is. Once I realized what I was doing, I put an immediate stop to it. I’d let [...]
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Who doesn’t love a good story of a comeuppance? There’s justice in that, and balance. What goes around comes around, as you sow so shall you reap, what we send out returns to us three-fold, the Law of Attraction–it’s all the same. Karma, justice, balance, completion.
Every day, we [...]
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A few favorite cards from Raven Grimassi and Stephanie Taylor Grimassi’s The Well-Worn Path deck
I have a lot of friends who read Tarot cards–and every last one of them is pretty good at it! Invariably, when we get together, we somehow end up drooling over the beautiful artwork of the newest deck among us [...]
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Decluttering your home, your mind, and your life can help you find serenity. Meditation and clearing out clutter are two paths to peace of mind, more time, and less stress—and that means more happiness.
If someone says “peace of mind” and “inner peace,” you know exactly what they mean, [...]
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Time management techniques improve both your productivity and—if you’re willing to change your point of view—your quality of life. It’s not really about finding time to do all the things you must do, but finding time to be all the things you want to be.
I still recall standing [...]
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The Majestic Sombrero Galaxy (M104); Photo credit by NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Get in the vortex if you want to manifest your desires through the Law of Attraction. Per Abraham-Hicks, find that perfect place of feeling and you’ll find that perfect place of knowing that you already have what you want.
Late July, 2009–
Sharyn [...]
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Know your vibration? Just summarize the qualities of your friends and relationships, and you’ll find your vibrational match.
One of the basic tenets of the Law of Attraction is that we attract to us that which is similar in “frequency.” The problem is, how do you figure out what [...]
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A favorite example: When I chose paint for my home office, I took an iPhone photo of the paint can label, which included the color, mix, store name, etc. Then I uploaded it instantly to Evernote, which will OCR scan the label. If I need more paint or want to match another room to my [...]
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I believe in coincidences. And they believe in me.
I don’t believe they happen randomly, so I guess you could say that I don’t believe in them in that sense. Instead, I believe in them as messages and patterns. Or, if you will, gifts from the Gods. They are [...]
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NASA image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, was part of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey, a deep-sky study by several observatories to trace the evolution of galaxies.
Life is wide open and full of options. And I don’t really know where to go from here. I don’t recall ever having so many options open [...]
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My home is just how I like it. It’s serene, different, and…well, something of a refection of myself. I love that the men I socialize with romantically as well as guests who visit once a month for a spiritual or intellectual gathering find my home a sanctuary. They tell me that they arrive at my [...]
Is the Element of Water a symbol of emotional problems or a lack of flow in your life?
What’s with all these water problems? I mean by that, problems I’m have with the water element.
For several months, I’ve had every imaginable water problem. That includes roof leaks, leaky toilets, ice dispensers overflowing out the door [...]
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Today is a milestone day for me. It’s a milestone because it was 5 years ago today that I sued my 20+year mate for divorce and started a new life. It’s a milestone because that was a time of great uncertainty and wondering where I’d be in 5 years and if I’d “make it.” I [...]
***Pic: My home office’s annex. That’s my desk.***
A day to remember. Not for what I accomplished but for what I didn’t. It was my day off, my day to catch up on things around the house, including laundry and dishes and correspondence. I had a billion things on my [...]
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Are you getting what you want? I am. Finally. And the change is most evident by looking around my home.
While working on a refurbishment project both inside and outside my house, I had begun to notice a pattern I’d somehow missed. It’s a pattern of doing without, of sacrificing, of [...]
As my body tries to heal, I find that the usual drains on my energy are too much for me and I need to conserve and focus on myself. Helping other people has been such a norm for so long that it’s hard to make the switch, but I am slashing through some of the [...]
The Long-Awaited Honest-to-God Secret to Being Happy
(Plus 23 More Tips for Living Your Joy)
Author: Lorna Tedder
Publisher: Spilled Candy Books
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If you enjoy making others happy (or trying to) to the point of losing your own happiness—and [...]
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I’m a big fan of looking over your shoulder every now and then to know how far you’ve come. I can point to three different events in recent months that have been solid proof to me that I have my self-confidence back, and really, maybe even to a point [...]
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For many of us–especially those of us raised in an environment of real or imagined scarcity–getting into a mindset of abundance and prosperity is a real milestone on our spiritual journey. Reaching that peak is a true celebration, yet we can fall off that peak and back onto a pit [...]
