Time For Healing

2007 Articles

• 12/03/2007 — “Sad Santa”, or Feeling the December Blues
  Why, when everyone around seems to be hustling and bustling with Holiday happenings, do we find some people who just want to hide in their rooms and not emerge till way past January? I write “Time For Healing” this month for two separate groups of people, for those who enjoy the holidays and find comfort and peace in family and friends, and then for those of you who feel either nothing at all for the season or who dread it.
• 11/01/2007 — Setting Down the Heavy Load
  Imagine how it would feel if you had fifty pounds of weight strapped to your back right now. At first it might be uncomfortable, but bearable, then after some time, fatigue would set in and you might have to limit yourself in some areas. You would probably start having pain, and may even start whining, but the interesting thing is that you would eventually adapt. This is when the abnormal becomes normal and the unacceptable is accepted.
• 09/30/2007 — What Are You Waiting For?
  How many times have you told yourself you were going to do something, something significant, but came up with one excuse after another for not doing it, giving yourself all the reasons why you couldn’t do it , and then getting to the point where you lost all enthusiasm for your original inspiration?
  Maybe this idea just popped into your head, or it is something you have been thinking about for years. We all catch thoughts that excite us, like changing careers, going back to school, taking a much needed vacation, patenting that invention you thought of, or doing something for someone else, making that call to apologize or make amends, take a month off to volunteer your services overseas, write that book, organize your life.
• 08/20/2007 — Emotional Self Regulation
  So what do you do when you feel so out of sorts that you lose all sense of balance and coping ability? Do you just go to sleep and hope it will pass? Do you ignore it entirely, thinking it will go away if you get busy doing something else?
  The lucky thing is sometimes our moods do just improve with time and sleep, but other times the feelings persist, bringing to our attention whatever pain or challenge we need to face.
  During these times, and we all have them, we need a way to bring ourselves back to center, back to a feeling of steadiness and well being. We need tools that will enable us to feel a sense of self control regarding our state of mind. This is what is called “Emotional Self Regulation.”
• 07/12/2007 — Finding the Healer Within
  Do you sometimes think that the power to heal is only given to a certain elite group of people? The truth is this: anyone could be a healer; it just takes desire and focused intent. You don’t have to be a Nurse or a Doctor, a Therapist or a Medicine Man, all it takes is the recognition of the intuitive gifts within you, and a caring and loving heart. If you care about people, if you desire to lighten the burdens of those around you, if you are willing to move outside of yourself, you can have an impact on the well being of those with whom you share your energy.
• 04/05/2007 — Finding the Self Behind the Mask
  Have you ever thought about the masks we all wear, the façade we present to the world? What is it you want to appear to be? Is it the happy go lucky one, when underneath you really feel empty? Is it the tough exterior when the real you is just a creampuff? Or maybe you appear to be the caring, loving one, when you really want to spit nails?
• 03/04/2007 — All About Hope
  Hope is “to cherish a desire with anticipation.” Another dictionary definition is, “the anticipation of something happening, a notion of something expected.” What does it take for us to dare to feel hope?  What about the possibility of miracles?  What about expecting good outcomes?  It seems we fear expecting good things to happen, because we worry that we won’t be able to cope with disappointment, and so deny ourselves the permission to be hopeful.
• 01/29/2007 — Soft Eyes of Acceptance
  Have you ever looked around and really noticed the people in your life?  Those in your intimate circle, (the ones who know your heart), those you have to interact with every day, and even those in your peripheral world?  Then what about all the people you just pass on the street, only noticing with half an eye, the salesclerk, the tollbooth attendant, the shelf stocker at the grocery store, or those so far in the background that you never really focus on them at all?  What do they really have to do with who we are?
• 01/01/07— Getting What You Want in 2007
  So what is it you really want this year?  Is it something that will be good for you?  Is it something you’ve always wanted?  What has stopped you from having this in your life before?
  These are the questions to be asked before forging ahead to accomplish your goals and fulfilling your desires.  The questions are important because if you’re not clear on what it is you want, your vision will become blurred before the end of the week, and certainly by the end of the year you will have forgotten your hope at all.