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Healing Home Begins with Atmosphere
The more I read and the more videos I watch about our power to heal ourselves and our families, the more it stands out to me when people use the word “environment” – we are not only what we eat, but what we breathe, what we hear, what we see; what we smell and what… Continue reading
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Don’t Bring It Home: Five Rituals to Keep Heavy Energy from Clinging After Cleaning
There are Extreme Cleaning videos all over my YouTube feed. While I agree with my husband, who calls this “a new low” in my viewing habits, I do it to learn what to do and what not to do when I do this myself. I also find it oddly relaxing, while also being gut-turning—a somewhat… Continue reading
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The Emotional Ecology Manifesto
A philosophy for tending the unseen landscapes within and around us Emotional ecology is the art and practice of honoring the subtle interplay between feeling and environment—how emotions shape space, and how space, in turn, mirrors and molds the emotional body. It is the language of soft shifts and sacred rhythms. It is a home… Continue reading
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An Experiment with Nonlocal Healing
Affirmations are a powerful tool for healing and personal development that can actually be improved upon with the use of technology. I’ve recently found a 30-minute presentation of healing affirmations that is clearly a total mind experience, engaging both hemispheres of the brain with sound that travels (with headphones) like a rainbow arc from one… Continue reading
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Surround Yourself with What You Love
When we look around and love everything we see, is it not the deepest of healing experiences? People go to botanical gardens, bird and butterfly sanctuaries, the beach, the mountains, antique shops and art museums for this gentle high. We enter such a space and often sigh a deep breath. We find ourselves in the… Continue reading
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Serene Spaces: Home As Healing Sanctuary
If there is one thing that I can recommend to stressed or depressed people, it is this: set up a room in your home that is especially for decompressing, relaxing, clearing the mind. Mine looks like this, and I simply call it my Healing Room: It’s something that can be done in a day (or… Continue reading
