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- 50 Ways to Feed Your Soul - by Submitted on May 17, 2009 from Adele McDowellRemember Paul Simon’s song, “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”? It’s a catchy tune, right? In fact, can you see me humming? I am loosely, very loosely, borrowing the concept. Instead of talking about ditching your lover, I am going for a gentler, happier thought and want to consider: 50 ways to feed ...
Views: 11408(2 votes) - Call back your spirit or die - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2011 from Adele McDowellHave you ever heard a story so powerful that it reverberated loudly through your interior landscape? Or it stopped you cold in your tracks and made you think – hard – about your life? I did in 1994, and it’s still with me today. For weeks and weeks after attending a professional conference ...
Views: 10673(1 vote) - Anatomy of Betrayal - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2011 from Adele McDowellA face reader once told me that I had kind eyes, a strong jaw, a good forehead, in fact, an excellent forehead, an emotional nose, and, more pointedly, that I absolutely could not handle betrayal. Really, though, who can handle betrayal? Its very name conjures up deep hurt and heartache. ...
Views: 9940(2 votes) - Are you suffering from spiritual depression? - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2010 from Adele McDowellEvery have one of those seemingly endless stretches of time, when it feels as if all your get-up-and-go has got-up-and-went? You are not sick, per se. You just don’t give a damn anymore. Nothing matters much. After all of your full-speed-ahead decisions, choices and actions, you feel ...
Views: 8763(2 votes) - Five Ways to Deal with an Emotional Hangover - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2011 from Adele McDowellEver have one of those weeks when there is palpable, anger-inciting tension between you and a family member? Or you have had a crushing misunderstanding with one of your dearest friends? Or there is an incident at work that has had you mumbling obscenities under your breath and double-checking ...
Views: 8570(5 votes) - Is Being Sensitive a Blessing or a Curse? - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2010 from Adele McDowellThere is the almost eye-roll and rather superior voice that announces to you, as if you were not aware, that you’re so-o-o-o sensitive. The implication is that this is not a good thing. You are somehow defective For years, I felt they were right. I was the one feeling all the bumps in the ...
Views: 8377(2 votes) - The Shaman, mystic and psychotic - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2009 from Adele McDowellIt sounds like the beginning of one of those three person jokes, i.e., the shaman, the mystic and the psychotic walked into a bar. But this isn’t a joke; this is more of a pondering aloud on the line between sanity and insanity, delusion and reason. What prompted these ponderings was that I ...
Views: 8073(4 votes) - How do you make sense of a sudden death? - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2010 from Adele McDowellThe question, itself, must be a Zen koan, because, really, there is no answer to sudden death. There is no making sense of the unreal, surreal, or unbelievable. Yet, it happens, day in and day out. Unfortunately, this week, I have had two poignant reminders of this very fact. In the ...
Views: 8025 - James Frazer-MannBrings Attention to“The Forgotten Babies of Thailand” - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2017 from Darleen PrangueBabies and young children in Bangkok are in desperate need of assistance, with over 300 living in Pakkred Babies Orphanage alone. Welsh traveler James Frazer-Mann recently completed a much needed educational trip to bring them supplies and is now hoping to raise awareness of their plight in the ...
Views: 5690 - ***A psychologist’s suicide - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2011 from Adele McDowellThe word came last week that a friend and colleague, a clinical psychologist, had committed suicide. She had suffered a hammering of profound losses and fell into a deep hole of depression. She had placed herself in good professional hands, was hospitalized for two weeks, and released with ...
Views: 5446(1 vote) - ***Overworked? Seven strategies to help you cope - by Submitted on May 06, 2011 from Adele McDowellAre you screaming unmentionables in your head all day long? Do you feel like the character in the movie, Network, bellowing out the window for all the world to hear, “I’m mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore?” Do you fantasize about walking away from your job when you are within ...
Views: 5173(2 votes) - Relationships Are Our Greatest Spiritual Teachers - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2010 from Adele McDowellYou cannot escape relationships. They are everywhere. They are the connective tissue of life. Be it friend, spouse, child, sibling, coworker, or neighbor, life is filled with relationships of varying dimensions, connections, and intensities. Each of us is a product of some kind of connection. ...
Views: 5001 - Symbolic Significance of Hanuman - by Submitted on Sep 09, 2016 from Harshad JethraLord Panchmukhi Hanuman, one of the heroes of the mythological epic Ramayana is indeed a greatly celebrated deity in India. He is known by 108 names, one of these is Kapeshwara which means the monkey lord. Nevertheless, Lord Hanuman is associated with deep spiritual symbolism, which is ...
Views: 4991 - Review: Medical Renaissance Series: The Secret Code (DVD) by C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2010 from Adele McDowellHarvard-trained neurosurgeon and founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. has created a documentary film, “Medical Renaissance Series: The Secret Code.” It is well worth a viewing. Norm Shealy, often called Dr. Wizard by his colleagues given his 10 ...
Views: 4598 - ***Help, I fell off my yoga mat - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2011 from Adele McDowellEver have one of those days? You are brimming with newly found motivation and re-aligned resolution. You haven’t even walked out of the door, yet, and the thought of what you are going to accomplish has you filled with button-bursting pride. You are puffed up with purpose. You are ready to ...
Views: 4592(5 votes) - Joan Pancoe: Portrait of a NYC Psychic - by Submitted on Aug 07, 2009 from Adele McDowellAre you a curious type? Do you ever wonder how someone becomes an intuitive, and what their life has been like? Allow me to introduce you to Joan Pancoe, a psychic, trance channel, and karmic astrologer in New York City since 1976. Recently, Joan gifted me a good portion of her afternoon ...
Views: 4501(3 votes) - Messages from the Other Side - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2010 from Adele McDowellOnce upon a time, a woman, let’s call her Shirley, lost her husband to the ravages of cancer. It had been a long and arduous battle. Shirley was completely depleted on every level. After the funeral service, everyone returned to the house. The coffee pot was plugged in; neighbors brought in ...
Views: 4497(2 votes) - When You Can’t Stop Crying - by Submitted on Sep 25, 2012 from Kristie BlankenshipWhen You Can’t Stop Crying! Friend, let me be there for you! I may not know you, but I know how it feels when you can’t stop crying. Pain and the accompanying broken heart and anguish and despair sometimes overwhelm us to the point that all we can do is cry. Sometimes just the littlest ...
Views: 4330 - Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2010 from Adele McDowellDo you believe in reincarnation? Past lives? A regular, hard-working, church-going couple, Andrea and Bruce Leininger were faced with these very questions when their two-year-old son, James, began have unremitting nightmares and shouting the words, “Plane on fire! Little man can’t get ...
Views: 4181(2 votes) - Pay It Forward - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2011 from Adele McDowellSomeone wise once said, “If you have much, give your wealth; if you have little, give your heart.” And here is the perfect occasion: Thursday, April 28 is international Pay It Forward Day. Based on the 2000 movie of the same name, Pay It Forward is the concept of doing a good deed for ...
Views: 4018(1 vote) - Thank You, God, for My Fears - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2010 from Adele McDowellDo you know those moments when you are driving in the car and you find yourself knee-deep in reverie? These are moments when, out of nowhere, you find yourself long in thought; it’s as if you have made a U-turn into the underground waters of your psyche. Maybe it’s the constancy of the ...
Views: 3991(3 votes) - ***Ernest Hemingway, Oprah, and my new spiritual discipline - by Submitted on Jan 30, 2012 from Adele McDowell“For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.” That’s how it started. Those six words, we are told, are the shortest of Hemingway’s short stories. And those provocative words inspired Smith Magazine writer and editor, Larry Smith to challenge his Smith Magazine web readers to describe their lives in a ...
Views: 3989(2 votes) - How to Gracefully Go with the Flow of Life - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2013 from Eloryia RAWhy is it that some people seem to live an enchanted life and others at the same time are struggling merely to survive? The difference is that those that live an enchanted life are choosing a state of grace where they peacefully surrender to the natural flow of all things. Grace allows them ...
Views: 3988 - ***Five ways to be happier, steadier, and more balanced in today’s upside-down world - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2011 from Adele McDowellCan you remember when you last felt happy, really happy? Would you like to feel steadier in a healthy, mind-body way that does not involve pharmaceuticals? Is straddling a teeter-totter the last time you consciously considered balance in your life? Today’s topsy-turvy world has us all ...
Views: 3980(3 votes) - Help, it's Dark in Here - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2010 from Adele McDowellDo you ever have one of those days, weeks, or, even, years when it feels nothing is going your way? There is no break from the gods. In a word, you would say that your life stinks, and it stinks out loud. I have recently had a number of conversations with folks who are finding themselves, ...
Views: 3963(4 votes) - Are you Jesus? - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2010 from Adele McDowellI didn’t realize it at first, but they happened on the same day. On Saturday morning I am taking a walk with a friend. We cover our familiar route, knowing the circuit automatically in our steps. We are on the home stretch of the walk, moving down a country lane, all green and leafy. Out of ...
Views: 3940(1 vote) - Were you Cleopatra? - by Submitted on Mar 11, 2011 from Adele McDowellOr, maybe, Julius Caesar or William Shakespeare or Marie Antoinette? Discussions of past lives are often met with a bit of a smirk. Do you really believe? And the answer is, “Yes, I do.” I look at past life information in a number of different ways. It serves as a teacher; it explains ...
Views: 3843(2 votes) - You lost hope - by Submitted on Jul 06, 2011 from Adele McDowellYears ago, a shaman looked at me and said, “You lost hope. You should never lose hope.” He was right -- and, boy, did I hate that. I have a long history of unflappable optimism. I’m able to make copious amounts of lemonade. I pride myself on my out-of-the-box thinking. But the shaman ...
Views: 3782(1 vote) - The Tao of 007 - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2011 from Adele McDowellI like James Bond. I like him for all the obvious reasons. He is dashing, witty, intelligent, sexy, fun, etc., but it's his less obvious qualities that make me a hard-core admirer. This man is present. He is 100 percent focused on the here and now. A mystic couldn't do it any better; he is ...
Views: 3781 - Welcome, Class, to Advanced Uncertainty - by Submitted on Jul 06, 2011 from Adele McDowellIs your world more down than up? Has sideways become your new vertical? Have your health, sanity, relationships, future plans, money, housing and/or employment concerns been in bucking-bronco states of flux? Have global warming, political warring, economic forecasting, ecological nightmares ...
Views: 3764(2 votes) - In a spiritual funk, untethered and free falling? - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2011 from Adele McDowellEver felt like you were falling through space? Everything that held you and tethered you has disappeared and evaporated. You are simply bobbing in the cosmos awaiting your next signal. You look to the right; you look to the left. Up, down, over and around, yet, there is no sign indicating your ...
Views: 3677(1 vote) - ***The stuckness of spiritual depression - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2011 from Adele McDowellEvery have one of those seemingly endless stretches of time, when it feels as if all your get-up-and-go has got-up-and-went? You are not sick, per se. You just don’t give a damn anymore. Nothing matters much. After all of your full-speed-ahead decisions, choices and actions, you feel ...
Views: 3652(4 votes) - ***The stuckness of spiritual depression - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2011 from Adele McDowellEvery have one of those seemingly endless stretches of time, when it feels as if all your get-up-and-go has got-up-and-went? You are not sick, per se. You just don’t give a damn anymore. Nothing matters much. After all of your full-speed-ahead decisions, choices and actions, you feel ...
Views: 3652(4 votes) - Have I Missed the Boat to Enlightenment? - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2010 from Adele McDowellI was at a workshop recently where a spiritual teacher made a statement that has been rattling around my cranium for a number of days. Now, mind you, this is not the first time I have heard this statement, but, perhaps, I had reached the tipping point vis-à-vis this information and could no ...
Views: 3576(1 vote) - ***Five ways to deal with today’s chaotic energies - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2011 from Adele McDowellCan you feel the energies bumping up against you? One minute, you feel pushed; the next minute, pulled. One minute, you’re ok, and the next minute, you’re not. It’s chaotic out there. Our world is in flux; nothing feels normal anymore. Disasters are becoming way too familiar, and terra ...
Views: 3552(2 votes) - ***The wandering brain finds happiness - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2011 from Adele McDowellThose trusty researchers at Harvard University -- and elsewhere -- have been busily exploring what makes us happy. It is called the neurobiology of happiness and speaks to what lights up our brains. The researchers are also examining the plasticity of our brains – how we can re-pattern our ...
Views: 3524 - High vibrational words - by Submitted on Sep 01, 2017 from Theresia ValoczyDear friend! I cannot say how much I like high vibration words! I like how they ring in my ears, I love the feeling that they are creating, I like to taste them, and love how they raise my life to higher frequencies in all areas. I love you. I'm sorry. Please forgive ...
Views: 3517 - Faith Quotes - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2012 from Tracing ABC Tracing ABCThese quotations will strengthen your faith. Smith Wigglesworth - “I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am moved only by what I believe.” Kenneth E. Hagin Sr. – “Faith begins where the will of God is known.” Joni Erickson Tada - “Faith isn’t the ability to ...
Views: 3491(2 votes) - The weight of wait - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2010 from Adele McDowellLike Oprah, I have spent my life dealing with weight and have recently regained once-lost avoirdupois. I hate that. I end up hating myself and then it’s that all-too-familiar battle of up and down, Monday is a new start, last hoorah Sundays and so forth in a addictive cycle that has its roots in ...
Views: 3413(2 votes) - Have you read The Shack? - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2010 from Adele McDowellThis is a book that has generated a great deal of conversation. Some love it; some hate it. For over a year, The Shack by Wm. Paul Young has been on The New York Times bestseller list. Young wrote this book as a Christmas gift for his six children. He also shared a few copies with friends and ...
Views: 3350(3 votes) - What Happened to My Epiphany? - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2010 from Adele McDowellWhat happened to my epiphany? I just had it. I know it was here. It had lit up my mind and thumped my heart with excitement. It has been with me a mere few days, and, now, it is gone. It has vamoosed and high-tailed it out of my life. I am heart sick. I want my epiphany back. It felt so right. ...
Views: 3323 - Tired and cranky? Time for a vacation? - by Submitted on Aug 14, 2008 from Adele McDowellHave you met anyone recently who isn’t tired? It seems to be a national, if not international, pandemic. Most everyone is a bleary-eyed, caffeinated automaton who is putting one cranky foot down after the other. Even the kids with their over-scheduled days and burgeoning back-packs can ...
Views: 3282(1 vote) - Tired and cranky? Time for a vacation? - by Submitted on Aug 14, 2008 from Adele McDowellHave you met anyone recently who isn’t tired? It seems to be a national, if not international, pandemic. Most everyone is a bleary-eyed, caffeinated automaton who is putting one cranky foot down after the other. Even the kids with their over-scheduled days and burgeoning back-packs can ...
Views: 3282(1 vote) - Tarot Readings 27 - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2017 from Jackie Wiliams BrockertChoose a number of minutes to gaze in to the credit card, committing the image to reminiscence. Then close your eyes, and envision your self entering the globe with the credit card. Discover your senses—what do you think you're seeing, feeling, listening to? Approach the characters, if you ...
Views: 3257(1 vote) - Losing Your Will To Live - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2013 from Cynthia Ortizo many people suffer from such severe dis-ease that they lose their will to live. They live with constant "pain" never believing that life could and can be better. I know this to be true because I used to be one of them until I made the choice to embrace life and all that it is. Easier said ...
Views: 3231(1 vote) - Hey, it's scary out there - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2010 from Adele McDowellEating tranquilizers, pounding Jack, inhaling carbs? Do you need to be sedated before you watch the evening news? Do you come home from work black, blue and bedraggled, feeling as if you have done a few rounds with the great Muhammad Ali? Has your relentless job hunting evolved into ...
Views: 3201 - The Visible Pain - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2017 from Lisa BoussonThey say that the eyes are the window to the soul, and I believe this to be true. Don’t we all look at someone’s eyes to gauge whether they’re happy, sad, confused, fearful or surprised, etc? Of course, we do, and not one of us is immune to each one of these emotions at certain times in our ...
Views: 3026(1 vote) - But What About the God in Me? - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2010 from Adele McDowellIt’s late at night. All around me is quiet and dark. I strike a match; the friction is amplified by the stillness. The match sparks with the wick in a bubble of flame, and shadows dance on the ceiling. The room fills with soft, yellow light. My eyes adjust, and I can make out the edges and ...
Views: 2979 - Understanding Attention - by Submitted on Aug 01, 2009 from Adele McDowellIn my gym, there are promo pieces that are played over the loud speaker. One such tag line is, “What gets measured gets improved.” The message is designed to encourage the clientele to get body fat levels measured and, ultimately, be inspired – or, more likely, shocked – and, as a result, hire a ...
Views: 2920(2 votes) - Got Stress? - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2008 from Adele McDowellDo you have a monkey mind that has run amok? Is there lots of chatter ricocheting around your cranium? Is there so much clamor and internal conversation that it’s standing room only in your head? Like the deli counter, do you need to take a number to discern which inner voice has taken over ...
Views: 2917 - Take god care - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2011 from Adele McDowellIt started simply enough, a run of the mill typo. Instead of signing off with my usual “Take good care,” I had missed an “o” and written “Take god care.” I noticed right away, but opted not to correct my mistake. This was fun and, besides, I look for messages and meanings in almost everything ...
Views: 2911(2 votes) - ***HOPE - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2011 from James RobinsonI was contemplating my navel the other day and realized how much we have going for us in this universe. The truth is that no matter what your circumstances, this is a kind universe and everyone in it has the primary motivation to work in favor of a peaceful, bountiful life. The only obstacles ...
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