Let nothing stop you from going within and finding your strength, your peace, your ability to weather any storm. Today was a windy day. A couple nights ago I had a dream that I was standing in my previous house which was built in 1925, looking out the window. It was a windy day and houses began to lift out and fly across the neighborhood. I was afraid my house would fly, but I looked closer and noticed a pattern: only the new houses were flying, completely detaching from thei

"...the attitude of the mind is everything." -Paramahansa Yogananda Of everything to do now, despite the common sense of the day, it is to seek peace and calm within ourselves. Calmness can begin as an attitude, but as we practice this way of being, it strengthens and it leads the way to a deeper and deeper sense of peace and true wisdom. Yoga is a way to realizing that our true nature is not how we feel; anxious, worried, happy, angry. On the contrary, those attitudes preven

Sound is so important. What are you listening to these days? Music? News? What you listen to is so important and affects you on many levels. Be careful with sound. It took me years to realize how sound was affecting me negatively: sounds of the news, talk radio, humming of refrigeration. It's been years since I've listened to the news partly because of this. Have you ever noticed echoes of talking chatter lingering in your mind well after you stopped listening to talk radio,

"Great things are produced first in the mind... There is no limit to the power of your mind." - Paramahansa Yogananda Thank you for hanging in there with me. I've sent you so many e-mails recently and a couple people got fed up and unsubscribed. It's not the first time and I totally appreciate and support unsubscribing to irritating things. On the flip side, I also appreciate the kind words many of who have shared with me now and in the past and I am also glad that these live

"Whatever I do, I do with the greatest love that I have in me." -Paramahansa Yogananda Over the past few months I have learned how to pray. It's big news for me because I banned the word "pray" from my vocabulary for years and now I use it carefully. I'm glad I had banned it because it's a word, like so many, that we can easily take for granted, misunderstand, and misuse. I didn't believe in prayer because I hadn't learned the true power of it. Now, I do not take the word for