Realigning Your Soul/Realigning Your World
Tweet In Jewish tradition the 10 days between Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, the day of atonement/attunement, is a time for deep reflection and inner realignment. We all carry...
View ArticleAutumn: Death and Renewal
Tweet Autumn always reminds me of the necessity of death for the sake of renewal. Have you noticed that just before the leaves die and drop to the ground, the trees are covered by striking colors of...
View ArticleOpening Our Emotional Center
Tweet The heart, home to our emotions, is innocent and direct. When it is open it is a source of love and joy, a generator of playful bliss and creative impulses. When the heart is closed, caged or...
View ArticleRosh Hashanah: The Cycle Of Soul Renewal
Tweet Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of a ten day purification and realignment process. Just like nature is getting ready to shed and move into a renewal pattern, the human soul is getting ready for...
View ArticleRelax, Release, Receive, and Rejoice
Tweet In Jewish tradition the New Year begins on Rosh Hashanah. I am taking this opportunity of a new beginning to recommit to the four magic R’s: Relax, Release, Receive, and Rejoice. For me,...
View ArticleAbout Prayer
Tweet What comes to my mind are the words of spiritual teacher Joel Goldsmith, “…understand yourself to be the instrument of God’s grace, and the benefit that you can be to anyone is in proportion to...
View ArticleFreeing Your Energy Field
Tweet Painting by Anthony P. Cerretani The whole universe is a grand symphony of energy. We are energy fields dancing, ideally free and joyous, within it, not ideally somewhat stuck. All...
View ArticleWhat Acupuncture Taught Me About Love
Tweet What would happen if all of us, each one separately and altogether, could beam love? Powerful, warm, compassionate, accepting beams of love that would fuse our selves, all around us, and way...
View ArticleNavigating A Troubled World
Tweet In the midst of greed destroying the environment, the sabotage of personal and social freedoms, political strife, a life overwhelmed by media and the internet, as well as the basic struggle to...
View ArticleThinking Is Not Living
Tweet This morning, in my Yoga class, I found myself drifting away from the world of of my sensations, to the world of my thoughts. The world of sensations and emotions is rich, vibrant, and colorful,...
View ArticleGifts and Losses: Giving Thanks
Tweet Last night, as I was watching the news cycle through it’s newest tragedy, be it ISIS, Ebola, or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I thought to myself that we are a culture fascinated with loss....
View ArticleAbout Kabbalah: The Path Of Receptivity
Tweet Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical teachings, is more about losing ourselves, than about finding. Losing ourselves in the other, in the moment, in life, as opposed to being ego centered. The literal...
View ArticleThanksgiving: The True Stuffing
Tweet I love Thanksgiving for many reasons. One, it gives me an opportunity to consciously stop and consider what it is I’m thankful for. Two, it’s only the beginning of the winter, and I can enjoy the...
View Article7 Gifts We Are All Given
Tweet The holiday season is vibrating with the themes of joy, love, giving, and coming together. These themes should be close to our heart all year round. Still, it is good for us to be intensely...
View Article7 Gifts You Can Give To The World
Tweet In the previous blog I have mentioned seven gifts that you are given. Without those gifts you would not have the abundance of potential to give to others. Those same seven gifts are the gifts...
View ArticleDarkness & Light
Tweet The two holidays that we celebrate this month, Chanukah and Christmas, honor the dominion of spirit within matter. In the story of Chanukah, a handful of Jewish warriors are able to defeat an...
View ArticleA Renewed You
Tweet A new year is a wake-up call infused with a sweet invitation from destiny to take the next step up. Ideally, we should be in the habit of examining our lives weekly, asking the questions: What...
View ArticleWhy Are We Violent?
Tweet Violence does not depend solely on development and those behaviors that we are exposed to: there is an inner core that seems to make us prone to be violent, and those are our emotions....
View ArticleWe Are Guided By Each Other
Tweet In the last few years the news has been consistently troubling. It seems as if we have lost the right direction as a species. Where are we going or, better said, where are we taking ourselves? We...
View ArticleLife Under The Snow
Tweet In the darkness and heaviness of winter, we sometimes feels that the cold will never lift. Similar to how we feel we are stuck when sadness and despair grip the heart. If we can remember who we...
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