Like many of you, I am working on claiming my voice and stepping into my power. But what does that mean? (tee hee) Personal power is freedom from dominance and control. Stepping into my power is taking conscious steps toward my goal. According to last week’s whisper, saying no...
Reading an article by a highly successful billionaire led to some interesting food for thought. His advice: Just say no. The explanation was equally simple. People who are ambitious can easily fall into the trap of saying yes to everything. The search for an opportunity lures a person with...
We often define melancholy as a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause. The difference between sadness and melancholy is that sadness is an emotion, while melancholy is a state of mind. We all feel sadness at some point, but it can easily pass with a little...
Pelican Bluff was our destination on the Texas coast for a few days of much-needed down time. The large expanse of blue water, the gentle cool breeze, the privacy, and walks on the beach were just what the doctor would have ordered (tee hee). Beckie and I watched a...
The experiment conducted by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov involved feeding his dogs and measuring saliva. Pavlov would ring a bell and the dogs did not respond or release saliva, but after ringing the bell at feeding time, his dogs began to salivate at the mere sound of a bell....
Talking to a trusted friend or therapist about your past challenges definitely provides a well-proven therapeutic effect. To tell the story of what happened can be the most courageous act you take, because you’re choosing to be vulnerable. In order to heal from trauma, repeating the story could be...
Have you ever felt genuine excitement with a new job, new relationship, or new beginning, only to be let down because it isn’t turning out the way you had hoped? Disillusion refers to a feeling that arises from the discovery that something is not what you expected. Disillusionment can...
Our training and resource website iel-institute.com will be down from Sunday night through Monday at midnight for maintenance and for the exciting new changes coming to the IEL Institute for the Spiritual Arts. In the mid-seventies, delivery room nurses saw a large influx of babies with indigo blue auras....
Name-calling, rude behavior, and putting people down have become more normalized. It seems that common courtesy and demonstrating good manners are quickly becoming passé! (tee hee) Manners describe a person’s outward bearing or way of behaving toward others. When you practice good manners, you’re showing others consideration and respect...
In psychology, behavior comprises an organism’s external reactions to its environment. Conscious is defined as aware of and responding to one’s surroundings. Conscious behavior represents who and what we are, while clearly indicating the direction we have chosen our life to take. The philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson identified spontaneous...
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