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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.

Why Dance Makes Brains Better

How an effort to help people with Parkinson's disease now helps everyone keep a healthier brain, mind, and body

4 Steps to Becoming Carefree

Victor Kannan explores the concept of carefreeness and what that means. He also offers us 4 simple steps to regaining lightness and carefree happiness.

GETTING BETTER Sleep

GHAZAL YADAV asks if we have been sleeping long enough and soundly enough. She explores the relationships between work-life balance, toxic productivity, FOMO, social media, and declining sleep quality around the world.

PRINCIPLE 2: Be Guided by Wisdom.Seek It.Cultivate It.Share It.

In September 2022, DAAJI released his latest book, The Wisdom Bridge, which is a bestseller. Throughout 2023, we'll be sharing excerpts from the various chapters of this insightful book to give you a taste of the wisdom it offers. This month, Daaji focuses on Principle 2 - Be guided by wisdom. Seek it. Cultivate it. Share it.

The Effects of Electromagnetic Pollution

TERRAN DAILY explores the effects of electromagnetic radiation on our lives, and offers us ways we can protect ourselves and our children by eliminating or minimizing our exposure. She also suggests how important it is that we relax into the natural frequency of the Earth to regain health and happiness.

When Needs Must

Nonviolent Communication, now also known as Compassionate Communication and Needs-based Relating, was developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, who firmly believed that people enjoy contributing to one another’s well-being more than anything else. Through an emphasis on deep listening, NVC helps us to learn to hear our own deeper needs and those of others, and discover the depth of our compassion. It brings an awareness that all of us are trying to honor universal values and needs, every minute, every day.

Interest, Intention, and a Yummy Breakfast

POOJA KINI shares her experience and tips for setting intentions and caring for your health on a daily basis. She also shares a great recipe for a quick, healthy and very tasty breakfast.

HEALTHY DIETARY PRINCIPLES

DR. PRASAD VELUTHANAR from the Wellness Center at Kanha Shanti Vanam shares some simple dietary principles from the ayurvedic perspective to bring about better nutrition and well-being.

Who Are the Clients?

DR. ICHAK ADIZES explores the needs of customers, clients, shareholders, and management, and raises a few realistic questions that will bring focus and purpose to any organization.