We often ask ourselves, “What can I do right now, today, for the good of myself, others, the planet?” Luckily, we are surrounded by simple tools that can make life a better place, with very little out-of-pocket expense. Sometimes, all it takes is awareness. Color Consciousness One such good tool is color. In “Color Therapy [...]
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More Simple Tools
Posted in dreams, healing the self, new beginnings, practice, shamanism, therapy, transformation, tagged Beth Lumadue, color, color test, dreams, emotional healing, laughter, meditation, power animals, shamanism, snakes, stress, therapy on April 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Let There Be Music!
Posted in global community, healing the planet, healing the self, music, practice, shamanism, spirituality, therapy, transformation, Uncategorized, tagged Abdullah Ibrahim, Bob Edgar, Carol Proudfoot-Edgar, Furusato, healing, icaros, Jose Stevens, music, shamanism, Sounds True on April 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Who were the first black South African musicians to record a jazz album? The Jazz Epistles, in 1960, headed by Abdullah Ibrahim (whose stage name then was Dollar Brand). Now in his late seventies, Ibrahim is still going strong. We know this because of the terrific interview with him that appears in the online magazine [...]
Facets of Spiritual Healing
Posted in good news, healing the planet, healing the self, invisible world, new beginnings, practice, spirituality, therapy, transformation, tagged aboriginal people, alcoholism, Canada, Dory Cote, Edmonton, Florence Loyie, Gary Moostoos, Grant MacEwan College, healing, healing energy, hypothermia, journey, residential schools, stroke, sweatlodge, therapy, transformation on April 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For the Edmonton Journal, a very interesting writer named Florence Loyie interviewed Gary Moostoos, in Alberta, Canada, in a story called “Spiritual adviser brings hope to the lost.” Moostoos applies traditional healing solutions to current problems. He holds sweatlodge ceremonies on the reservation, and anyone who has maintained sobriety for four days can attend. Trunks [...]
Shamans, Gaia, and the Medsen Fey
Posted in animals, children, global community, healing the planet, healing the self, invisible world, practice, shamanism, spirituality, therapy, transformation, tagged birds, Gaia, Haiti, Hank Wesselman, healer, healing the earth, holistic, LouLou Prince, lwa, medsen fey, parenting, quality of life, Ross Heaven, Sacred Naturalism, shamanism, spirituality, Steve Serr, three souls on April 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In his article on Sacred Naturalism with Steve Serr website, “Close Encounters of the Bird Kind,” the author displays some strong convictions that are hard to argue with. For instance, he feels that humankind has become distanced from the Earth’s gifts of healing and wisdom. Dr. Serr goes on to say that shamanism, a natural and [...]
Music, Plants, and Humans
Posted in good news, healing the planet, healing the self, music, neuroplasticity, shamanism, therapy, tagged Carol Proudfoot-Edgar, growth, harmony, healing the planet, healing the self, health, Joel Sternheimer, Nick Begich, plants, psychology, shamanism, Shelah Begich Slade, sound, sound waves, vibrations on April 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On the Earthpulse Press website, Dr. Nick Begich and Shelah Begich Slade tell about the ideas of Joel Sternheimer about music and plants, which have been creeping around the edge of Western consciousness ever since the early 1970s. Many highly respected scientists in various countries have found that plants are influenced by sound, in both [...]
Plants, Minerals, and Healing
Posted in good news, healing the self, therapy, tagged anthocyanins, antioxidant, aromatherapy, bilberry, blueberries, diabetes, Groshan Fabiola, headache, healing the self, health, Kathleen Blanchard, lemon grass, lemongrass, memory, minerals, natural remedies, Robert Preidt, Ross Heaven, Sabrina Rashid, sin eating, stones on April 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Bilberry and Blood Sugar In BusinessWeek, Robert Preidt reports on research findings about the bilberry. For mice anyway, bilberry extract can help keep blood sugar levels where they are supposed to be, and there is hope that the same goes for humans. Eventually they would like to show that bilberry can help people who are [...]
Toxic Cells and Toxic Thoughts
Posted in event, good news, healing the planet, healing the self, practice, teachers, therapy, transformation, tagged anger, cancer, disease, don Juan, Edward Abbey, Francoise Sagan, Gail Walker, Gina Kolata, healing, Mina Bissell, organs, research, shamanic practice, Stephen Gaskin, symposium, toxic cells, toxic thoughts, tumors on April 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Mina Bissell, Ph.D., Distinguished Scientist, has been working for years in the field of tumor biology. She has made some astonishing discoveries that have influenced new generations of scientists, including the facts that cancer is not only a disease of the cell, but a disease of the organ; and there is an experimentally demonstrable mechanism [...]
Animals: Fair Play, Wisdom, Help, and Health
Posted in animals, good news, invisible world, shamanism, teachers, therapy, tagged alternative medicine, alternative medicine for cats, animal companions, animals, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, canids, Carol Proudfoot-Edgar, cats, dogs, Dr. Jessica Rychel, fairness, healing, helper spirits, Marc Bekoff, pets, play, rules, shamanism, The Huffington Post, therapy, totem animal, William Greenbaum on April 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The canid family includes the domestic dog and such wild members as the fox, the wolf, the jackal, and the coyote. Why would it be good to have a member of this tribe as a helper spirit? Well, for one thing, says Marc Bekoff in The Huffington Post piece, canids know how to play fair. Bekoff [...]







