July 24th, 2006 ,Teenage rebellion can be a sign of health, especially in girls. In an essay contributed to Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century, Nancy Gruver has written that girls are understandably outraged by injustices. However, the process of socialization teaches girls to swallow their healthy anger. Unfortunately, then, the anger that could fuel needed change in our society is misspent. It gets turned inward as self-destructive choices, or girls express it,...

Meditations of the heart for Good Friday and Holy Week

I found "Echoes from Calvary" by way of an article in The San Francisco Chronicle by a writer named Peter Steinfels under the label "Beliefs." It says as headline, "Haydn's music on Christ's last words, a transforming journey from concert hall to sacred setting." The book is a text of meditations and is titled "Echoes from Calvary: Meditations on Franz Joseph Haydn's The Seven Last Words of...

Michelle walked into my office smiling. I had seen her for the first time. I was impressed to see this lady who had come to seek help for her difficulties. As soon as she sat down on the chair, she started to cry. She had been in a difficult marriage. Her husband was physically and emotionally cruel to her and her children. This had affected one of her three children , who had started to fall behind in school. Though she had a job, she was finding it difficult to concentrate on her...

When you adopt Chakra meditation into your routine, you open a path that connects your mind and your body. New age ways to meditate including approaches like yoga make a clear connection between the mind, spirit and the physical realm. Hypnosis is a wonderful tool for maximizing your experience with your chakras.

Chakra Guided Visualizations

Visualization is a very important aspect of this new age form of reflection. Each of the chakras represents a part of your physical...

Are we just a body with a personality? From my understanding, we are much more than that. Each one of us has a higher aspect. This higher aspect has been typically called the Higher Self. If I am not wrong, others have also referred to it as the oversoul or overself.

Who and what is the Higher Self? From my experience, the Higher Self is the intelligence and wisdom aspect of our own self. Ironically, the Higher Self is impersonal and does not have a 'sense of self' like the way...

There are various methods to alter your consciousness, sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, drugs, alcohol and training. Most people have heard of all these things and the term “altered state of consciousness”, but don’t really understand what it means. Consciousness has three states.

The normal state of consciousness is waking consciousness. Most normal people go about their daily existence in this state. You see and talk to people, eat and enjoy your food,...

Over the years, hypnosis has picked up all sorts of weird associations from stage hypnotists, the media and superstition. This is a great shame, because in reality, hypnosis is your single most effective tool for change - ranging from smoking cessation and weight loss, to pain and management stress. Hypnosis is your birthright, and you should know how to use it so it doesn't use you. Here we dispel the biggest hypnosis myths.

Hypnosis Myth 1: All hypnosis is the same.
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Our Chakras are subject to both physical and nonphysical forces present in our environment on a daily basis. This makes Chakra cleansing a necessity. Achieving a balance between the physical and nonphysical facets of ourselves is necessary – and Chakra cleansing is the best way to do this. Performed regularly, Chakra cleansing can bring these vital energy centers into the proper balance, creating an internal harmony which allows our reserves of energy to be replenished. Chakra...

Meditation techniques for beginners are not as difficult as you may expect. While mastering the art of meditation is a life long journey, meditation is a wonderful experience that will change your life in so many different ways.  If you are new to meditation or struggling to silence your conscious mind and enter into complete relaxation, these meditation techniques for beginners will set you on the right path.

Meditation can helptreat depression, stress and...

Spiritual growth takes us away from the physical world of thought and things. Spiritual growth leads to internal autonomy beyond this physical life and connects to the conscience and the Lord, the unity of God.

Many researchers consider the growth of our wisdom of thought is our spiritual growth. Others consider the technology many objects have spiritual world of growth. . Many others try to understand the logic of spiritual growth with his thoughts. Many others try to...