Category: Personal Growth

Re-Creating Your Self by Christopher Stone
Last time, we began another major step in the Re-Creating Your Self process: examining and evaluating the beliefs that create your life and all of its conditions.
We looked at Principal and Supporting Beliefs, Positive Beliefs, and Negative Beliefs.
I pointed out that Negative Beliefs are frequently more difficult to recognize than […]

Are you cyclically confused? In a ceremonial quandary? Completely clueless? Wonder no more.
*Ask Your Mama™ The What, When, Where, Why, How, and Who of Ceremony & Spirituality
by Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman
Dear Mama Donna,
I work with a group here in Cleveland who cook and feed close to 200 men at a homeless shelter every Thursday. […]

By Jackie Lapin
As you begin to embark on an exciting new year, I’d like to encourage you to breath in the possibilities! Now is the time to release any of the pain and struggle from 2008, unhook yourself from fears related to the economy and your financial status. Let go of problems with family and […]

By Marlene Buffa
From stuffed turkeys to full tummies, we celebrate Thanksgiving by immersing ourselves in the moment.  We enjoy ourselves by coming together and sharing our food and memories. We reflect on our country, our faith and our family.  The day-long - and sometimes week-long - preparation of one meal, testifies to the significance of […]

Re-Creating Your Self By Christopher Stone
Change your beliefs, and the experiences created by your beliefs change as well.  Your altered ideas produce fresh decisions, and those changed decisions create different physical events.
Changing false and self-limiting beliefs is essential to Re-Creating Your Self. On the other hand, it’s premature, unwise to change your beliefs before you […]

An Interview with Robert Kull - Author of “Solitude”

In February 2001, Robert Kull travelled to a remote island in the Patagonia wilderness with enough supplies to live alone for a year. He sought to explore the effects of deep solitude on the body and mind and to find the answers to the spiritual questions that […]

by Stephen & Lynda Kane
When you decide to go to Bali for your holiday, your knowing it’ll be warm there probably influences your choice.
When you decide to go it’s because you believe you’ll have a good time.
What you choose to eat is because your senses tell you the food tastes good. Or you believe it’s […]

by Leah J. Utas, C.Ht.Treating others with love and kindness makes a noticeable difference in our lives.
When we freely offer love in its various forms and degrees it changes our own corner of the world. When others do it they change their corner, too, and these changes alter an even greater portion of the world.
Love […]

Re-Creating Your Self by Christopher Stone
The following ideas are the heart and soul of Re-Creating Your Self:
1. Your beliefs create your life.
2. You are who you believe you are.
3. The world is what you believe it to be.
4. In all areas of your life, your beliefs coalesce to create your personal reality.
5. You can re-create […]

by Gina Lake
Surrender is really just acceptance: You surrender to, or accept, the way things are-the way life is showing up right now. From the standpoint of the ego, surrender and acceptance seem so difficult. That’s because the ego doesn’t want to accept life, and that will never change. You will never get the ego […]

Re-Creating Your Self
By Christopher Stone
Adventure 2, My Personal Beliefs, Part One, serves two purposes: It gives you the opportunity to discover some of the ideas you accept as being true that are coalescing to create the person that you know as your self, and the life that you know as your own. It also gives […]

Are you cyclically confused? In a ceremonial quandary? Completely clueless? Wonder no more.
Ask Your MamaTM
The What, When, Where, Why, How, and Who of Ceremony & Spirituality
by ©Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman
Dear Mama Donna,
This has been a nightmare year for me. One terrible thing after another has been happening. My whacko neighbor keeps hinting that she […]