Trade in Your Troubles When you have nothing left but God, you become aware that God is enough. -Guideposts From "The Joy of Weight Loss: A Spiritual Guide to Easy Fitness"by Norris Chumley: What I'm encouraging you to do may seem difficult at first but will prove to be the simplest and most effective way to relieve all your suffering and find deep and lasting joy. ... [read more]

How to Choose a Primary Care Doctor by Monica Zangwill, MD, MPH Maybe you’ve moved or changed jobs. Maybe you’re picking a doctor for the first time or your long-standing doctor has recently retired. Whatever your situation, choosing a doctor can be a complicated decision. How do you know which one is good? What questions should you ask? Where do you start? With so many physicians out there,... [read more]

How Resentment Makes a Heart Heavy Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. -Hannah More From "The Woman's Book of Resilience: 12 Qualities to Cultivate" by Beth Miller: It is understandable and instinctive to experience the strong negative feelings associated with being harmed, insulted,... [read more]

7 Quick Ways to Calm Down \n"); document.write("\n"); if ( chkProp("curPage.ImageCaption") ) document.write(" \n"+ curPage.ImageCaption +"n"); document.write("n"); } // section for a sub heading in blue if ( chkProp("curPage.Header") ) document.write(""+ curPage.Header +"br /> "); ]]> Anxiety zappers that can rescue you from daily stresses... [read more]

Stress: Your Body Under Attack by Anita Harris Having trouble sleeping? Popping more antacids than usual? Or maybe you've had more colds this winter. Maybe these symptoms are related to stress. Just about everyone has experienced a pounding heart, tense muscles, and sweaty palms—the body's evolutionary "fight or flight" response when facing a threat. It's a well-known phenomenon that a certain... [read more]

Hay House and Doreen Virtue are thrilled to bring you Doreen's FIRST novel! In Solomon's Angels you'll discover the ancient secrets behind how Solomon's temple was built and the role that the archangels and sacred geometry played in manifestation and divine magic. This magically romantic story will inspire you in many ways . . . long after you've finished reading it! "I found Doreen Virtue's novel... [read more]

A Sign of the Heart Before my heart transplant, I was drawn to a special boy who appeared to me in a dream. Was he the donor who would save my life? By Jan Jimenez In 1999 I was admitted to a local hospital in Connecticut with symptoms including choking and water retention. One day right before breakfast, a doctor walked in and told me that I would not be leaving the... [read more]

Friday’s Recipe We are off to visit my mother, Queen of Hearts today; she who loves her tarts and has spent a lifetime pondering the existential question, "What is the point of having coffee without cake?" Here follows a 'lower-cal' recipe that is BIG time FUN for the kids and the grown-ups! Weight Loss Dishes the DIRT CAKE Ingredients: 1 lg. bag of Animal Crackers (they are fairly low in calories)... [read more]

How Ill-Mannered Are You? After I did a bit of research on etiquette, I was shocked to learn that my family is made up of a bunch of ill-mannered heathens. And, if I were to be perfectly honest, I'd have to say that I'm in violation myself and therefore, not a candidate of the Emily Post Manner Award. How does your family measure up? The Rules of Etiquette One should … * arrive at least 10 minutes... [read more]

Don't Wait Until You're Thirsty When the well's dry, we know the worth of water. -Benjamin Franklin From "Fit for God," by La Vita M. Weaver, pp. 68 & 72: Water is so important for life that we can survive days, weeks, maybe months without food, but only days without water. The human body is about 55 to 70 percent water, and no bodily function takes place without water... [read more]

Fighting Loneliness One Idea At A Time Editor's Note: The Information Age has transformed society, but not always for the better. More people are forgoing face-to-face communication in favor of e-mails, text messaging and other forms of communication technology that are chipping away at our basic human need for personal interaction, or so says a study published in the American Sociological Review... [read more]

"The Mathematics Of Relationships" They integrated from the very point of origin. Her curves were continuous, and even though he was odd, he was a real number. They both wanted to get skewed. The day their lines first intersected, they became an ordered pair. From then on it was a continuous function. They were both in their prime, so in next to no time they were horizontal and parallel. She was... [read more]

How Do You Feed Yourself? I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on. -Jean Kerr From "If the Buddha Came to Dinner: How to Nourish Your Body and Awaken Your Spirit" by Halé Sofia Schatz with Shira Shaiman: Most of us let our eyes decide what our bodies need. Our ideas about what we eat are more important... [read more]

Peace Starts in the Heart Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. From "The Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration, and Meditation" by Joel and Michelle Levey: Outer wars and conflicts come from and mirror the inner conflicts in each of our hearts and minds. A first step toward peace... [read more]

Kicking the Habit Kicking coffee isn't as hard as giving up drinking or smoking--or is it? By Debbie Farmer I haven't wanted to talk to anyone about this, but last week my husband came downstairs for breakfast and caught me yelling at the toaster. Much to his credit, he didn't take sides. Instead, he just patted my shoulder and said, "Honey, I think you need to cut down... [read more]

A Prayer in Old Age My secret for staying young is good food, plenty of rest, and a makeup man with a spray gun. -Bob Hope From "She Who Laughs, Lasts!" compiled by Ann Spangle: Prayer in Old Age, attributed to a Seventeenth Century Nun Lord, you know better than I know myself that I am getting older and will someday be old. Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking I must... [read more]

Song of Hope In the dark moments of my coma, a special song on the radio helped me find my way out. By Shelly Guidotti It had been over a week and the only sounds you could hear were coming from the machines that were keeping me alive. The brain hemorrhage had been massive and doctors say I should have died instantly. When I didn't, they immediately warned my family... [read more]

Finding Meaning in Loss Death ends a life, but not a relationship. -Jack Lemmon From "Violent TV, Religion and Death, and Wise Sayings,"by Sharon Linnéa: Psychologists have found that people who have a very strong religious faith react more profoundly to the death of loved ones than those with no faith at all. The study-which included 169 college students of Christian,... [read more]

The Spiritual Power of Massage \n"); document.write("\n"); if ( chkProp("curPage.ImageCaption") ) document.write(" \n"+ curPage.ImageCaption +"n"); document.write("n"); } // section for a sub heading in blue if ( chkProp("curPage.Header") ) document.write(""+ curPage.Header +"br /> "); ]]> Different techniques offer ways to balance our... [read more]

Cultivate Your Crone Qualities The hardest years of life are those between ten and seventy. -Helen Hayes From "Crones Don't Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women" by Jean Shinoda Bolen: I am proposing that it is time to reclaim and redefine 'crone' from the word pile of disparaging names to call older women, and to make becoming a 'crone' a crowning inner achievement... [read more]

The Game of His Life An autistic teenager from a small town captures the attention of the world with an awe-inspiring basketball game. By Jason 'J-Mac' McElwain with Daniel Paisner Jason McElwain, or J-Mac, is an autistic young man from the Rochester, NY area, who captured the nation's heart in 2006 when he scored 20 points in four minutes during the last home basketball... [read more]

j o k e ______________________ A young man excitedly tells his mother he's fallen in love and is going to get married. He says, "Just for fun, Ma, I'm going to bring over 3 women and you try and guess which one I'm going to marry." The mother agrees. The next day, he brings 3 beautiful women into the house and sits them down on the couch and they chat for a while. He then says, "Okay, Ma. Guess... [read more]

Recognizing Connections From Spirituality and Health magazine(March/April 2004), by Marilyn Schlitz: Humans have always been fascinated by the possibility of a "larger reality." Especially in times of transition - a sudden illness, a failed relationship, the death of a loved one, an unplanned shift in career - we may sense that there is more being to our everyday world, more dimensions than we... [read more]

  "The way we know the kids are growing up? The bite marks are higher"   - Phyllis Diller  [read more]

What Happened to Family Time? We have become so focused on having our kids participate in sports that we have lost sight of what's important. By Frank P. Cotter The other day I saw a father, mother and two sons on the line in front of me at Dunkin Donuts. It was obvious that they had just come from a soccer game. The two young boys were dressed in thin shorts and tee... [read more]

Should You Worry About School Violence? from Kids Health site featured earlier. School violence is in the headlines again with the shootings at Northern Illinois University. After hearing news of school shootings or other violence, it's natural for students — no matter how old they are or where they go to school — to worry about whether this type of incident may someday happen to them. It's... [read more]