Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
“The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart”
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- Written by: Joyce Vissell
Our connection with nature, with the out of doors, is absolutely important to our physical and mental health. Being outside helps bring peace and quiet to our minds.
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- Written by: Laura Aversano
The Coronavirus pandemic represented a current in our psychic and physical spheres of reality that challenged our internal definitions of both the light and the darkness. It compelled us into stillness as much as it compelled us into chaos.
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- Written by: Robbie Holz
It can seem like a cruel joke when we find ourselves spending years, or in some cases even a lifetime, recovering from a single painful moment...
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- Written by: Noelle Toumey Reetz, Georgia State University
For many people, middle age arrives with some minor mental slip-ups. These “senior moments” are universal experiences that come with aging—and typically harmless. The Centers for Disease Control says one in nine adults ages 45 or older report at least occasional confusion or memory loss.
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- Written by: Joyce Vissell
We are all wishing that we could do something to help. Yes, we could send money and that is good, but not all people have the means to send money. But there is a powerful way in which each one of us can help on a daily basis...
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- Written by: Joyce Vissell
We are all wishing that we could do something to help. Yes, we could send money and that is good, but not all people have the means to send money. But there is a powerful way in which each one of us can help on a daily basis...
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
We are all in need of healing in one form or another. Whether that healing is emotional, physical, financial, or spiritual depends on each one of us, and probably even on what day or time it is, or even on how we look at it. We are a work in progress, and we continue to build and refine what is already there.
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
We are all in need of healing in one form or another. Whether that healing is emotional, physical, financial, or spiritual depends on each one of us, and probably even on what day or time it is, or even on how we look at it. We are a work in progress, and we continue to build and refine what is already there.
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- Written by: Phyllida Anam-Áire
We talk about resonance with other organisms, but for me it is important to have resonance with my own internal states of being.
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- Written by: Phyllida Anam-Áire
We talk about resonance with other organisms, but for me it is important to have resonance with my own internal states of being.
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- Written by: Kathryn Hudson
Sometimes we choose crystals, but at other times it would appear that they choose us! The Universe sets things in motion that will ensure the “meeting”: of course, we still have the free will to accept the crystal’s invitation or not!
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- Written by: Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N.
Historically, healing has been one of humankind’s higher functions, leaving its mark recorded throughout more than 10,000 years of human civilization. All of the major religions include healing as one of their expressions of spirituality...
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- Written by: Lara Goitein, MD
If your family member has just been admitted to the ICU, you may be overwhelmed by the number of people coming and going. Just who are all these people — and who’s in charge?
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- Written by: Paul Pearsall, Ph.D
"Fight or flight! That's the only way we cope with stress," said my professor years ago. This is our automatic alarm state that pushes our body to the max so we can do something very aggressive to win over a predator or perceived source of severe stress, or to hightail it away as quickly as possible.
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- Written by: Paul Pearsall, Ph.D
"Fight or flight! That's the only way we cope with stress," said my professor years ago. This is our automatic alarm state that pushes our body to the max so we can do something very aggressive to win over a predator or perceived source of severe stress, or to hightail it away as quickly as possible.
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
Unfortunately many of us have become victims of instant gratification. We want to succeed and we want it now. We want to heal and we want it now. Whatever it is we want, we want it now.
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
Unfortunately many of us have become victims of instant gratification. We want to succeed and we want it now. We want to heal and we want it now. Whatever it is we want, we want it now.
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- Written by: Kimberly Meredith
Looking at life in this modern world today, there’s no question that a lot of people are dealing with many challenges, both physically and emotionally.
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- Written by: Kimberly Meredith
Looking at life in this modern world today, there’s no question that a lot of people are dealing with many challenges, both physically and emotionally.
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- Written by: Eileen Day McKusick
Cultivating neutrality is how I describe the process of acquiring equanimity. What I mean by this is a state where you are neither happy nor sad, neither elevated nor depressed, but simply neutral.
