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How Awe Can Transform Our Lives

Jul 31, 2020 09:30AM ● By Jonah Paquette

Feeling a sense of awe provides many physical, mental and spiritual health and wellness benefits. Here are some ways we can find and elicit more awe-inspiring moments in our daily life.

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Buddha in the Weeds

Jul 29, 2020 01:37PM ● By Liz Driscoll Jorgensen

For three years or so I had completely neglected my garden, as I stretched my limits of endurance with work and family duties, including caring for elders. I did only the bare minimum maintenance so that my much-loved plants and trees did not die.

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Cultivating Contentment: The Spiritual Discipline of Evoking Joy

Jun 30, 2020 09:30AM ● By Marlaina Donato

Tending to our own happiness begins by seeing joy not as a mood dependent upon circumstances, but as a spiritual discipline like any other. Here are ways to create more joyous moments.

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Fathers Know Best

May 29, 2020 09:30AM ● By Neal Allen

Dads have a habit of imposing their own success goals on their kids, but letting go of this can lead to a greater emphasis on what children really need—love, kindness and strength.

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The Art of Seeing: Appreciation of Art Encourages Living Slow

May 28, 2020 12:27PM ● By Patricia Staino

Before we can see, we need to look. But what does it mean “to look”? Think back to your last art gallery visit.

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Happy Trails! Success Stories at Rising Starr Horse Rescue

Apr 24, 2020 07:36PM ● By by Debby Stein

Rising Starr Horse Rescue has helped many horses since its inception. Here are a few of the any happy and successful rescue stories at.

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Second Chance Horses Flourish: Wilton’s Rising Starr Horse Rescue

Apr 24, 2020 07:25PM ● By Debby Stein

Kelly Stackpole is the founder and Executive Director of Rising Starr Horse Rescue, a 501c3 farm, located in Wilton, where horses are given a second chance at life.

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Saving All Creatures, Great And Small

Apr 24, 2020 06:25PM

It takes a special person to become a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. They are the field medics in humanity’s war on the natural world, taking in wild animals who have been injured, poisoned, orphaned or displaced by human activity.

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Finding Calm During Trying Times

Apr 16, 2020 03:38PM ● By Laurie Nadel

How the global pandemic can serve as our spiritual wake-up call to learn how different traditions heal from life-shattering events.

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Making Luck: An Intentional Path to Good Fortune

Mar 31, 2020 09:30AM ● By Carol Kline

Research shows that we can, and in fact already do make our own luck. Here's how to quickly, with a little conscious attention, change your luck.

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Living In Synchronicity: The Power of Meaningful Coincidence

Feb 28, 2020 09:30AM

Synchronicities link us to an underlying order in the universe that is profoundly reassuring. Here are ways to encourage these moments to show up within our lives.

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2020: A New Decade Will Bring Master Change!

Feb 03, 2020 10:07PM

According to numerology, when two numbers are the same, they are considered master numbers because they have double the power of the number. In mastery, the energy will have a pivotal effect of change in our lives and in the world.

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The Trails Lead to Love

Feb 03, 2020 10:02PM

This is the story of two couples whose love has a special connection to the trails and nature. One couple was married on a mountaintop in Harriman Bear Mountain State Park, the other deep in the Catskills amidst 300-year-old birch trees and 400-year-old spruce.

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Use Your Thought Power: Three Steps to Inner Peace

Feb 03, 2020 07:51PM

No matter who you are, negativity can take over your mood and drag you down for a day, a week or even longer.

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Choosing Love: How to Cope With Fearful Times

Jan 31, 2020 09:30AM

Scarlett Lewis, the mother of a 6-year-old killed during the Sandy Hook tragedy, explains how we can choose love instead of fear in response to the anxiety and suffering in today’s world.

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Longevity Through Hiking

Jan 07, 2020 08:10PM

I’m a volunteer trail supervisor for the New York–New Jersey Trail Conference. Now in its 99th year, the Trail Conference has more than 2,000 volunteers and maintains over 2,150 miles of public trails

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Tidying Up The Bucket List: Deciding What We Really Want

Dec 30, 2019 09:30AM

Many people have a bucket list of things they want to make sure they experience. Tidying up that bucket list when it no longer reflects a person’s values and deepest desires makes sense.

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The Emerging Power of ‘We’: Awakening to the Evolution of Community

Nov 27, 2019 09:30AM

In this time of climate and societal problems, intentional communities that challenge the “It’s all about me” culture are pointing the way to collective solutions that can save the planet.

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The Generous Heart: How Giving Transforms Us

Nov 27, 2019 09:30AM

When we give to others, whether it’s an act of kindness, generosity or compassion, it helps us live from the heart instead of the ego.

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Forgiveness as a Spiritual Practice

Nov 04, 2019 12:14PM

To forgive does not mean to condone, and that is worth repeating: To forgive does not mean to condone.

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