Healthy Living

What is Trusting Spirit?

In the summer of 1999, I spent a week in the heart of the Grand Canyon in a lush and rare shangri-la called Havasupai. People go there to enjoy the magnificent turquoise spring waters that flow through the red rock valley, creating breathtaking waterfalls, pools, and eventually meshing with the Colorado River. People also gather there to meditate and to seek spiritual experiences.

With a group of single adults, most of whom I did not previously know, I shared a private campsite, catered meals, and guided walks by a native shaman.

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Judy Hansen, our official Guided Meditations Expert

self-love, esteem, and confidence for women

Do you value self-discovery, self-actualization and living your most authentic life?  I sure do!!  I have learned, sometimes the hard way as my mother likes to say, that it can be a rocky ride to truly show up for yourself and live your highest truth!  The following words are intended for inspiration on your living well, living fully journey – they are from a book I am reading called Circle of Stones: Woman’s Journey to Herself by Judith Duerk.  She offers…

“To discover who she is, a woman must descend into her own depths.  She must leave the safe role of remaining a faithful daughter of the collectives around her and descend to her individual feeling values.

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Lynda Monk, our official Self-Care Expert

Allowing I Am To Be

Here I am, sitting on a foreign beach of the massive Atlantic Ocean, watching the waves roll in. It’s La Pedrera, the stones, in beautiful Uruguay. Azure blue ocean and sand and stones—stones that have been here, holding onto the edges of the sand and waters, as far as the eyes can see, for as long, I suppose, as life has been happening.

Feelings of being more peaceful come to me near these stones, as if I too am strong and real and timeless. Being here is a grounding experience, bringing my soul and these rocks and all that we both represent, into a state of oneness. Such a spiritual connection is what I call, simply being. In this moment, I am here, and none of me is anywhere else. I simply am.

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Judy Hansen, our official Guided Meditations Expert