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“And how does that feel in your body?” What a dreadful question. Unfortunately for me, it seems it’s my therapist’s favorite one.  After a tornado of external processing in session, I’m eventually invited to set aside all my analyses. My therapist then encourages me to think less and feel more. As a professional overthinker, you might as well ask me to lift a Greyhound bus.  For years, the idea of slowing my mind and tuning into my body didn’t compute. The notion that my body holds memories, energy, and wisdom was bizarre, foreign, even scary. Isn’t my body just a…

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The Good Trade editors endorse products we’ve personally researched, tested, and genuinely love. We earn a commission when you purchase products or services through some of the links provided. Learn more about our methodology and business model here. Our editors have researched and worn dozens of sustainable jewelry brands throughout the years — these are our favorites for pearl earrings that are thoughtfully sourced with high-quality materials, at a variety of price points. Nothing says “classic” like pearls. Whether it’s a string of pearls worn around your neck, a pearl pendant dangling from a chain, or pearl studs in your…

Most of the time, I am a very enthusiastic person. If I find something I love — a food, a product, a mindset, a book — I passionately recommend it to everyone I know. I want to enjoy myself, and I want you to enjoy yourself too. A good friend describes me as the person to go to when you need a cheerleader. And this is mostly true. If someone I love has a bad day, it seems like the perfect occasion to celebrate. They got through it, after all. I’ll bring the champagne and the potato chips! “Because I…

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“We are the ancestors of descendants yet to come,” writes Norma Ryuko Kaweloku Wong Roshi in her most recent book, Who We Are Becoming Matters: The Courage, Wisdom, and Aloha We Need in the Timeplace of Collapse.  Wong herself is a descendant of Native Hawaiian and Hakka Chinese ancestors. As the abbot of Anko-in, an independent branch temple of Daihonzan Chozen-ji, she was a student of the late Tanouye Tenshin Rotaishi. Wong—who is also a former member of the Hawaii state legislature, having worked in electoral politics for over thirty years—is now the host of a new podcast called The…

Journaling is not the glamorous habit I make it out to be in my mind. I envision luxe hard-bound volumes full of pristine, poetic calligraphy written by candlelight before dawn. Reality finds me sitting sleepily in a robe, writing nonsense into spiral-bound notebooks until my coffee kicks in. My initial plan for a consistent hour of cataloging my deepest thoughts has turned into 15-minute increments of jotting things I’m grumpy about, interrupted by phone-checking and wandering over to pet my rabbits.  Or, more recently as I’ve been at a loss for words, I’ve been slapping watercolors on random junk mail…

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Then Remember This―And Remember!Always remember—You will conquer where you have failed—You will reap where you have sown—And till the ground where clods are turned—The furrows be as driven snow.Your wish so cherished will be blessed—And heaven will be your rest.All life is spirit, is spirit life. You can easily understand how the tiny spark of life, which the Creator has implanted can evolve until it becomes the complex spirit that inhabits the material form or body that you call you―The you in your head.You can further understand how this spirit that is in you may continue to evolve until it has…

Donna Quesada: I guess I have two questions. Why isn’t this stuff taught in our curriculum? Why is it so antiquated? And then, number two, I would really like to talk more about language. I think that it is overlooked how important it is. Caroline Myss: Yeah, 90 percent of what needs to be taught, is not taught, including, civics…including, teaching kids what their civil rights are. Basic civics. What our basic rights as citizens are. So, they have taken from us our curriculum, morality. They don’t teach anything about what their consciousness is about. When was the last time…