Tips and Tools

Practical Tips and tools to help you in your spiritual and personal growth journey.

Shifting Out of Grief

By Kumari Three months after my beloved Teacher in doggie form, Suki, left her body, I found myself still feeling an enormous ache in my heart whenever I thought of her. I knew enough to realize that how we feel…

6 Ways to Let Go of Anger

By Rebecca A. Watson Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. —Indira Gandhi   I hate to admit it, but I am not good at letting things go. A few days ago I started getting worked up about a disagreement…

The Art of Forgiving and Accepting

By Rev. Spencer Rouse The concepts of forgiveness and acceptance are often misunderstood. In Western culture, we have grown up with instructions on these acts from Jesus in Matthew 39-40: “Whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other…

Diversity Matters: Do You Think You Are Prejudice?

By Nancy Selig Amsden Becoming aware of our own prejudice can help us eliminate it. If you’re reading this magazine, I can safely assume you’re on a path of personal development. You’re probably spiritual, perhaps a light worker or a…

Crushing Creative Guilt

By Noelle Sterne Many of us feel a strong calling to express our talents—in the literary arts, music, dance, media, crafts, sciences, or any other field. In my profession of writing, almost every writer I know feels guilty for not…

Who Needs Need? The Eleventh Pathway

By Gregg Sanderson “I am constantly aware of which of the Seven centers of consciousness I am using, and I feel my energy, perceptiveness, love, and inner peace growing as I open all of the Centers of Consciousness.”* The Centers…

How to Accept Yourself

By Sarah Sparks Five years ago, sitting on a spiritual healer’s sofa, being guided by her words of wisdom, she asked me a simple question: “How do I imagine Love.” I painted her a picture of what Love meant to…

Nothing in Life is Wasted

By Noelle Sterne Do you find yourself too often shaking your fist at God and asking, “When, oh Lord, oh when? . . . When will I finally get published or called back? . . . When will I be…

How to Be More Optimistic

By Rebecca A. Watson   If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity, is there any need to choose between them?”—Francis Parker Yockey On one of my husband’s and my first camping trips together, we were walking down a…

Tired of Shrinking? Get in the Power Seat and Thrive!

By Sarah Sparks Are you tired of not doing what you desire? Are you tired of listening to everyone else’s advice on how you should or shouldn’t live your life? Are you fed up with other people squashing your dreams?…