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Being Gentle is Being Light
VICTOR KANNAN explores the nature of gentleness, and why it brings lightness in its wake
Travel Light
DAAJI shares two simple practices to remove heaviness from your system, become light and carefree, and reduce your thought footprint in the world
SPIRITUALITY AND ABSTRACTION: A JOURNEY BEYOND THE CONCRETE
KISHORE DEBNATH explores how science, art, and spirituality all take us beyond the physical world into subtler realms where we must understand and describe phenomena through abstraction
THE SCIENCE OF HEART COHERENCE
In December 2022, DR. ROLLIN MCCRATY, Director of Research at the HeartMath Institute, gave an online presentation at the international Heartfulness conference, \"An Integrative Approach to Health and Well-being,\" at Kanha Shanti Vanam. Here we share some highlights from his talk
Where do people find you?
This is how DR. ZACH BUSH deconstructs his sense of self. It could just be the medicine you need, too
WILD Intelligence
ELIZABETH DENLEY is currently living in the Central Highlands of Victoria in Australia, surrounded by natural forest. Why is this experience of living so close to Nature worth sharing? It has reawakened a more natural wild intelligence in her, the wild intelligence she remembers from childhood, which offers solutions to the current crises humanity faces
Happy Mothers Make Happy Families
In September 2022, DAAJI released his latest bestseller, The Wisdom Bridge, and throughout 2023 we are sharing highlights from the various chapters to give you a taste of the wisdom the book offers. This month the excerpt is from the chapter on Principle 4: Happy Mothers Make Happy Families
Julie Liger-Belair
Lead digital editor Brenna Lilly spoke with artist Julie Liger-Belair about sacred art, household altars, and the \"muscle\" of creativity.
I don't just take photos
ALSO PRACTICES THE ART OF GIVING THEM AWAY
DELIGHTFULLY DEEP IN THE WEEDS
Digital editor BRENNA LILLY spent a week apprenticed to a master seaweed harvester-and learned much more than how to gather kelp.
HACKER SPIRITUALITY
Theologian ANNE FOERST suggests that the young man who stole your identity set out to find himself on a quest for freedom.
THE MISSING MIDDLE
CORI HOWARD finds that it takes more than Marie Kondo and burning sage to transition to an empty nest.
THE FUTURE OF TOUCH
Spa aficionado MARY BEMIS traveled to New York to receive her first massage from a robot.
THE TIME OF OUR LIVES
AN INTERVIEW WITH CHIP CONLEY
CRISIS AND TRANSFORMATION
SUZANNE MARRIOTT's beautiful memoir on caregiving, published this month, began taking shape years ago with conversations at a S+H writer's workshop.
Practices for Shattered Nights
March 11th was a normal day, filled with typical responsibilities and joys, concerns and endeavors, practices and distractions.
DANCE INTO A NEW GROOVE
NOT MOVING is a good way to get stuck emotionally and intellectually, to remain the same, to avoid any new flow of old emotions, and to keep things locked up in our body and mind. Even if we do move regularly, when our bodies are always moving in the same way, we can lose the vital possibilities of sending breath into the areas of our bodies where those stuck emotions, inspirations, or ideas are hiding.
FAITH TECH
STEPHEN KIESLING has a virtual dialogue with venture capitalists bent on buying the stairways to heaven.
Becoming a Parent: Approach and Attitude
In September 2022, DAAJI released his latest bestseller, The Wisdom Bridge, and throughout 2023 we are sharing highlights from the various chapters to give you a taste of the wisdom it offers. This month the excerpt is from the chapter on Principle 3: Preparation Begins Long Before Children Arrive.
Who is really Running the Show?
STANISLAS LAJUGIE challenges the myth that we make most of the decisions in our lives. Why do we keep encountering similar circumstances, relationships, and problems in life? Why is it so difficult to change our behavior? He explains why, and also how we can transform ourselves.
Daily Practice Creates Balance
DAAJI introduces a new Heartfulness practice and shows you how setting up a daily routine can create balance in your life.
Create Wellness
DR. SNEHAL DESHPANDE is a Developmental Therapist and Certified Life Coach from Mumbai. She leads SNEH, an institution dedicated to improving people's quality of life, and actively drives the Heartfulness CME initiative for healthcare professionals across India. Here, she shares some simple tips on how to create wellness.
Kindness Makes a World of Difference
After thyroid cancer, Crohn's disease, and other autoimmune diseases defined her twenties and thirties, FRANCESCA GROSSMAN was left feeling alone with chronic pain. This invisible companion affected her whole life intimacy, motherhood, friendship, work, and mental health - but after more than twenty years she started talking to others and discovered that her story was not unique, and neither were her feelings of loneliness and seclusion. Francesca decided to help her fellow chronic pain sufferers feel a little less alone, and her latest book, Not Weakness: Navigating the Culture of Chronic Pain, is a testament to their ability to live and love with chronic pain.
Balance
ALANDA GREENE explores how to bring balance into a polarized world, even the polarized nature of the environment, climate change and politics. It all starts with us as individuals.
How to Protect Yourself from EMR
Last month, TERRAN DAILY explained how electromagnetic pollution can negatively impact us all. Here, she explores some practical measures we can all take to protect our families from its adverse effects.
Laugh More, Live onger
DR. ICHAK ADIZES celebrates the beauty and positivity of laughter in relationships and in creating a healthy atmosphere at work, at home, and especially in management.
COMIC joy
GRANT SNIDER began drawing and writing before he knew what he was doing. His comics have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Kansas City Star, The Best American Comics 2013, and all across the internet. You can explore his work at http://www. incidentalcomics.com/. Here he is interviewed by KASHISH KALWANI about what inspires him and brings him such success.
What Does It Mean To Lose Balance?
ROSALIND PEARMAIN explores the notion of losing balance and restoring it, and how we have to lose our old balance in order to find a new one.
The Balancing Act
KALYANI ADUSUMILLI shares some tips on leading a balanced life so that our time with others is also more harmonious
Why-Still-The Sound of Silence?
Three healing professionals-Amza Ali, MD,Justin Grant, PhD, and Mary-Elizabeth Gifford-consider the high costs of not speaking up for palliative care with psychedelics.