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Music Can Boost Your Soul
Music has amazing power. It can help you after heartbreaks and energize you during exercise sessions. But most importantly, music can bring you inner peace. You can alter your life with this Mindful Living practice. According to the Greek philosopher Plato, music is a life necessity. A quote from Plato reads: “Music is a moral [...]
Reclaim Your Amma
By: Dr. Kathleen Hall, Founder and CEO of Mindful Living Network The feminine has been celebrated since ancient Greece and throughout the ages in all cultures, religions and spiritualities. When I was at Emory, I was fascinated by the theology of the Amma, the holy mother, governing the early monasteries. The Amma is the CEO [...]
The Festival of Colors
Spring rouses a sense of joy and excitement in us all. Each of us celebrates the new season in different ways. For the Hindu community this means gathering around bonfires and tossing colored powder and water during Holi, the festival of colors. Holi signifies the victory of good over evil as well as fertility and [...]
Your Home is Your Sanctuary
Our need for a haven is as old as humankind itself. Your home is your sanctuary, a place where stress is left at the door and your mind, body and soul are nourished. A family haven. Designate family space a beloved area of your home. There may be a shelf or a table that you [...]
Electing a New Pope
Catholicism is one of the largest faiths in the world, with over 1.2 billion Roman Catholics around the globe. So the news of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI has shocked many believers and has sparked further interest into the process of electing a new pope. In 2005, Pope Benedict XVI was elected to office [...]
Don’t Commit S.E.L.F.icide
By: Dr. Kathleen Hall, Founder and CEO of Mindful Living Network Selficide arises when you die psychologically, spiritually, and eventually physically. You likely are not aware that you are committing selficide – the crippling ingrained habits, thoughts, and emotions that insiduously take your life away. You become afflicted when you live your life overbooked, overworked, [...]
Gratitude: Wisdom From the Masters
If you look closely at the lives of great spiritual leaders, you will see they practice the simple but profound energy of gratitude every day. Nobel Peace Prize winners build their phenomenal lives on the solid foundation of a daily practice of gratitude, and as a result, they become gifts to our world. His Holiness [...]
What’s Your Animal Totem?
We can learn a lot from nature, not to mention animals. There are many communities around the world that celebrate our relationship with these creatures. This belief system is known as animal totemism. People who practice animal totemism believe that humans “have kinship or a mythical relationship with a spirit-being, such as an animal.” These [...]
Steps to Sainthood
Catholic saints are considered spiritual role models and this past week newly canonized saints were celebrated in Vatican City. On October 21st, during a special ceremony, Pope Benedict XVI named seven new saints including two Americans: St. Marianne Cope and St. Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American saint. They join 3,000 other Catholic saints (not [...]
A Thousand Cranes, One Wish
Mindful Living Network recently lost a writer to cancer. Prior to her passing, she was sent to hospice care after the doctors concluded they could no longer provide effective treatment for the metastatic tumors that began as malignant cells in her cervix. During her transition from hospital to hospice care, I wrecked my brains to [...]
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