Redefining Meditation

“Meditation is listening to the Divine within.” —Edgar Cayce This is how I define meditation now. But if you’re anything like I used to be, not very long ago, you might think of meditation as

Shining Her Light

On the heels of last week’s post about following your heart, here’s a profile I’ve written about one of the most inspiring people I know. I met Vanessa Lindsay-Botten in 2011 when I joined

The Calling of Your Heart

“Devotion is recognizing your true being and falling in love with that. Be who you really are and then find that love everywhere.” —Krishna Das I saw Krishna Das last weekend in Halifax. For those

“Urgency without alignment is wasted energy.” I read this recently in a business article and was struck by the parallels to a spirit-filled life. In business terms, alignment is about being in synch with the

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Went Looking for a Key…Found a Map

A few weeks ago, on a gorgeous day, I went for a run through Halifax’s Point Pleasant Park. I was with a friend of the heart, the kind of companion you know you can veer

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Mission Connection

There was a day recently, when I needed to leave my desk and clear my head. I was intending to do one of those “it is solved by walking” walks, where more clarity and creativity

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Choosing Happiness

Happiness as a choice? Please, some of us might say. First of all, it’s fleeting. And second, who could be happy with all the crazy things happening in the world? Not to mention the genes

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The Flip Side of Fear

(continued from “Facing A Fear“) Theatre was always one of those things I was entirely drawn to, but never thought I could do. If you read the last post, you’ll understand why. The small problem

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Ten Minutes of Nothing

I challenged myself to spend 10 minutes a day doing exactly nothing. If you read the last post, you’ll know that I was plagued by demons of the mind so this was a terrifying

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