Daily Spiritual Practices

It is the discipline of consistency, even when the heart is not present, which allows natural gifts to soar. In the absence of natural gifts, the discipline of consistency develops the tools and the mastering of the skill sets to raise your abilities to whatever capability

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Mutation or Evolution

I still remember the first time I watched the movie X-Men First Class. There is a quote from the character Charles Xavier which deeply resonated with me.“No, seriously. You mustn’t knock it. Mutation took us from single cells organisms to being the dominant form

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A Time for Renewal

“April showers bring May flowers.” I remember hearing that saying as a child. Granted, I typically heard it when the April showers were interfering with my playing outside. And what good are May flowers to a child trying to have fun in April? I couldn’t appreciate its wisdom

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Always Wanted to Be Someone

Our world is rife with artificially enhanced and exaggerated role models, mixed messages of right and wrong, and what we should do to become like them. It is no great surprise that children today are struggling more than ever. Not a day goes by where their supposed ‘role

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Communicating With Young Children

Adults often become frustrated when communicating with young children. Parents and teachers often ask me, “Are we really communicating? Do they understand me? Do I truly understand them?”. Children, especially young children, are still learning to use words. Their

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What Creates a Bully? How Do We Stop it?

Bullying can come from a couple of different places. The first is being simply shown, or role modeled. For instance, a child watches their parents act like bullies. Their young minds reasonably conclude that there are two kinds of people in the world: bullies, and the ones

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Why the Buzz?

Four Loko, should we ban it? For those of you who aren’t aware, it’s the equivalent of four beers and a strong cup of coffee in a single 24 oz can. It’s raised many questions from various news outlets, many of which focused on the dangers, recommended better critical

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Mixed Messages

We send a number of mixed messages to our youth. We tell them to shoot for the stars but to remember their limitations. We guide them to be an individual, as long as they fit in with the “options” we have given them. We encourage them to take risks but nothing too risky, or

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Ghosts – Myth and Reality

For years death has been looked upon as either the last stop or the transition to some sort of afterlife. More often than not, the latter holds true. Those of us who have worked as healers over the last thirty years, however, have found one thing to be abundantly

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Finding the Fun in Spirituality

Fun and the spiritual life – how do those two concepts go together? After years spent working in corporate America, followed by dealing with the challenges of trying to run a successful full-time spiritual business at a time when most people did not think it was

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