It is my pleasure to bring you a guest post by my friend, Edward Sanderson of Visualize Meditate Heal.  Ed has been practicing meditation for over 30 years and his blog, Meditations for Healing offers many tips on starting and maintaining a meditation practice and using meditation for healing emotional and physical pain.  I met Ed when he was writing his wonderful blog “Ed’s Health Tips“.  Ed knows a lot about about health, healing and the body and it is a great honor to have him featured here today.  Thanks Ed.   To my readers I would love comments and if you would visit Ed’s site and say hello.  He is a wonderful person and has much wisdom to share.

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Art CAN help people to heal from emotional, spiritual and physical illness.  I talked about this in my post, “Art – Spiritual and Healing” when I profiled my step-mother, Darcy Lynn‘s healing from cancer.  I was recently introduced to a truly inspirational woman; Rita Loyd who healed herself through painting. Rita Loyd faced many hardships including abuse and depression and overcame them as well as her physical disease. Her healing taught her the value of self love which is a theme that runs through her work and one which I relate to VERY strongly.  It is my pleasure to introduce Rita Loyd to you and her movie that chronicles her healing.  Rita’s movie has been accepted into the international on-line film festival called SPIRIT ENLIGHTENED on cultureunplugged.com.  It…

What comes to mind when you hear the word prayer? Do you think of being in church reciting prayers with many others? Do you think of the times you felt lost in your life and asked for help or answers? Do you pray regularly as a way to solidify in your own mind what is good and what you want? Prayer has many different meanings to all of us. I was taught in Catholic school to recite and memorize but not to pray and truly FEEL the words. Over the last three years, in my own recent spiritual journey, prayer has become a daily practice though maybe not in any “traditional” way. I would like to share what prayer means to me and also to share a prayer I wrote recently. I was guided…

I was feeling pretty out of sorts recently and was wondering HOW I was going to find the answers I was seeking and feel better quickly. I decided a walk with my MP3 player was a good place to start.  I set my IPod to Shuffle and set my intention and prayer to the Universe — Please show me by the songs what I need to do.  I was pleasantly surprised when the first song came on and was exactly what I needed to hear.  I did it with other questions that have been popping up in my life and answer after answer came – in the form of lyrics in songs – some I had never heard but were B-tracks off of CD’s I had uploaded.  The walk in nature and the answers…

As people who know me are aware, I LOVE “LOVE”.  I was extremely touched when I heard about “The Love List Project”. The premise is simple; think and share what you love and WHY. The WHY adds another dimension and this project had me thinking a LOT this week.  In saying WHY you love something you not only connect with that person/thing more deeply but you also shine light on your inner self.   It is healing to concentrate on  what you love in your life and why. This project inspired me so much that I wrote a poem about SOME of the things/people I love and why.  Thanks to my friend Lance, from Jungle of Life for sharing this wonderful idea by Kristin Tennant.  If people took the…

Do you know your inner self — the TRUE you or are you a conglomeration of the roles that define you?  When people ask you about yourself do you answer by the roles you play, “wife, husband, mother, father, your career (whatever TITLE THAT may be), daughter, son, friend, etc. etc.?  Do you welcome distractions like TV, constant texting or cell phone use or do you relish the time when you can sit in quiet contemplation of life?  Getting to know your inner self is the first step toward healing whatever is wrong in your life. By figuring out what it is we truly believe about life, the roles we play and about our place in the whole big scheme of things we empower ourselves.  By examining the roles, quieting ourselves and listening to…

Do you do or say things you are not proud of?  Do you lash out at your spouse, your children or your co workers?  Do you have addictions to alcohol, drugs, food or something else?  Have you sabotaged your new diet or a new goal?  These are all parts of the Shadow’s Effect on our lives.  The Shadow Effect is a movie by Debbie Ford and features such inspirational leaders as Dr. Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson and Mark Victor Hansen.  This movie not only shows us how to unveil our shadows but how to understand and deal with them.  Bringing our shadows to light accesses power, happiness, consciousness and confidence that we are living our lives to their fullest potential.  It is my pleasure to review the Shadow Effect.

Debbie

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Dr. Mary Riposo received her Doctorate in Child and Family studies and has MANY gifts she shares with the world.  Mary is a healer (practicing MANY different modalities), licensed counselor, life coach, teacher of many healing modalities and works with the diagnosis and treatment of Autistic Children.   Mary is also a fellow New York Stater and I really hope to meet her as it would definitely be an honor.  Mary has such a kind heart and through her studies has recognized the importance of Energy Balancing for children.  She has included an Energy Balancing Technique you can use on your children that will help them whether they are special needs or not. Mary shares the belief that we are all healers and this technique can be done by anyone with great…