I believe our most important job right now, is to learn how to live in our bodies. How to manage all the distracting input of our physical senses – our unruly, roller coaster emotions, our busy drunken monkey minds, the stresses and strains of living on a wobbly planet with it’s own agenda and weather patterns, and still remember that we are more than all of it.
How do we deal with gravity and digestion and inflammation and enlightenment? It’s a full time job. Fortunately, we have lots of tools. We have healing foods and medicines, we have energy systems and meridians, we have our amazing capacity for imagery and metaphor and meditation and laughter. And we are not alone…
I named my blog “Living In Your Body” because we are here, on Earth, in these amazing and frustrating physical forms with no owner’s manual, no training wheels and no reset button. My intent is to address different aspects of our experience that randomly catch my fancy and share with you my experience, knowledge, intuition and the wisdom of both ancient and modern teachings to be of service to you on your journey.
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Understanding Viruses: Colds, Ebola and Louis Pasteur
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What makes a person spiritual?" And how do we - whatever our job - bring our own sense of spirituality[...]
Breaking My Wrist or How Long Does Healing Take?
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Tapping World Summit
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The weather has been crazy in the Northeast this year. A heat wave in March sent all the plants and[...]
Our brains are such busy little things, always looking for something to notice to comment on, to judge. When we[...]
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I am so pleased and relieved to be beginning the new year with a new bridge connecting my home and[...]
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Living In Your Body…
I believe our most important job right now, is to learn how to live in our bodies. How to manage[...]
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The CDs of my new guided imagery meditation Releasing Stress, Finding Peace just arrived! I am so thrilled to have[...]
I’ve been trying to write a new page for my website about the sessions I offer by phone or Skype,[...]
Transforming surgery – close to home…
I haven't written for a while, I've been helping my mother prepare for and recover from triple bypass surgery. Helping[...]
One of my favorite teachers, Byron Katie, talks about loving what is; letting go of our innate, knee-jerk reactions of[...]
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Imagery and kindness…
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A young friend of mine recently got involved with a young woman who lied to him about being over 18,[...]
Everyone's talking about abundance these days, tapping on it, saying affirmations, sucking up to the Law of Attraction, and generally[...]
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Help Breast Cancer Options
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I offered my guided imagery meditation "Breathe in Peace" as a free download on the Self-Help Giveaway that Dr. Joe[...]
One of my patients called me a “new age Marcus Welby” today! I was quite flattered. Do you remember the[...]
Self-Help Giveaway!
Empowerment, and helping you find the skills, tools and philosophies that allow you to help yourself is fundamental to the[...]
Tapping at Sunrise…
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Profound Paths teleseminar series returns
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