A healer once told me to say these three things as often as possible: Yes Thank you I love you I started saying them in the shower this morning. (Glad that no one would hear this coming from my shower!) Yes! Yes! Yes! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I love you! I love… Read more »
Last night I went to a latke party to celebrate Chanukah. Our host made latkes with creme fraiche and smoked salmon, endives with goat cheese, mandarin oranges and pomegranate seeds and profiteroles with raspberry sorbet and hot fudge sauce on top for dessert. Saturday night was a neighborhood Christmas party with homemade tamales and powdered… Read more »
Happy Holidays to you! I wish you good health and prosperity, strength and love. May this be the year that is different from all past years. May you do what you have been dreaming about, what you are not sure that you deserve, what you think is reserved for others, what will make you stand… Read more »
The qigong workshop last weekend dealt with nourishing our inner organs to prepare for the winter. This Chinese healing method looks at the body differently than we do in the west. If we have a stomach problem, we take digestive enzymes. If we have trouble breathing, we use an inhaler. If we have a headache,… Read more »
Here’s a parable that simply and purely illustrates the power of choice. A young girl went to the tribal elder with a problem. “I feel like there’s a wolf on my left shoulder telling me to be sad and afraid of all the terrible things that can happen. But, I also feel another wolf on… Read more »
“Drop negative thoughts. Stay positive,” our qigong master teacher said. “Turn negative into positive. Have a happy and peaceful heart. Anger churns up the waters, but a peaceful heart calms the water so we can see and reflect clearly.” Good advice. And, from her story, it is obvious that it can be done in… Read more »
I’m in Portland, Oregon, now for a qigong workshop (like tai chi) for women being held in a conference room of a nursing home. I met my daughter here and it’s just in time for her birthday in two days. We wanted to include a birthday celebration in our healthy weekend of learning how to… Read more »
You might have seen the video I posted on Facebook of monks making a sand painting. Before I leave this subject, I’d like to say a little more about it. The artists are a group of Tibetan monks living in India who come to the USA for eleven months to demonstrate the ancient practice of… Read more »
Thanksgiving Day! Nothing to do except make hors d’oeuvres and watch the Macy’s parade. My time to get to all of the things that I have been too busy to attend to. I was finally going to do laundry, vacuum, clean the kitchen and go over mail from the last two weeks. The parade… Read more »
This holiday season, rather than being thankful for specific things that are going right for me now (and a lot of things are so right), I think about being in a state of appreciation. Being thankful for particular things that I have received makes me wonder if I would be able to be thankful if… Read more »