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How Buddhism Explains the Illusion of Life

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InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: September 6-7-8, 2024

Natural Secrets for Sweet Dreams: Tips for Remembering Dreams

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Silent Knowledge, Inner Truth, and Realization Are One

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Do Cats Grieve the Loss of a Companion?

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Tips to Help Your Child Start School Successfully

Help your child start school confidently with practical tips on easing the primary school transition. Learn how to foster excitement, build strong relationships, and manage the demands of...

Reduce Food Waste at Home: Top 5 Easy Tips

Most household food waste is preventable, and with simple strategies, you can make a big difference. Reducing food waste at home not only conserves natural resources but also supports...

Dream Recall Breakthroughs: New Findings You Should Know

Dream science is evolving rapidly with breakthroughs in dream recall and lucid dreaming. New research is shedding light on how our waking lives influence our dreams, and how lucid dreamers can...

InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: September 4, 2024

The Daily Inspiration is a short message to help set the tone for the day. It is linked to a longer article for additional insights and inspiration.

Living Our Lives with the Notion of "Divine Appointments"

Explore the concept of divine appointments and how embracing spiritual encounters can lead to deeper purpose and joy through meaningful connections in your life.

Understanding What Really Drives Inflation

Uncover the natural causes of inflation and the impact of economic policies on rising prices. This article explores how global events, supply chain disruptions, and government actions contribute...

InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: September 3, 2024

The Daily Inspiration is a short message to help set the tone for the day. It is linked to a longer article for additional insights and inspiration.

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The main thing is to move your body, somewhere outdoors, free from the distractions of this hyperconnected world we’re living in.

Life flows like a river, shaped by the positive energy we channel into it. Just as a river meanders, encountering rapids and calm waters, so too does our life follow a course shaped by our convictions...

This article delves into Buddhism’s profound teachings on the nature of reality and illusion. Join us on a journey to uncover how life’s illusions contribute to suffering and how Buddhist practice off...

This article explores how to develop belief in unlimited health and healing. By understanding how conditioning, introspection, study, and affirmation shape our beliefs, we can deliberately choose infl...

This article delves into ghostly encounters, haunted locations, and the growing popularity of paranormal tourism. Explore how the rise of paranormal experiences, from orbs to apparitions, continues to...

Are you ready to increase joy in your life? This article offers five easy ways to boost happiness, from engaging in joyful activities to making simple lifestyle changes. These tips will help you exper...

This article explores how the shadow and the influence of mind parasites can hijack our thoughts and behavior. Using the metaphor of the devil and angel on our shoulders, it delves into how our uncons...

Toxic relationships can undermine your health, contributing to chronic illness, anxiety, and depression. This article explores how interpersonal dynamics can cause physical and emotional distress, lea...

Soul writing is a meditative writing process to enhance creativity, spiritual growth, and psychic abilities. Learn how to do it and find out which famous writers and composers used it.

Learn a practical way to connect with your higher self. Discover a simple technique for higher self guidance that will enhance your spiritual journey.

Learn how to embrace love and create a more positive and connected world. Discover the excitement and opportunities of awakening to love's New Earth.

Discover how everyday people (you and me) can make a difference. We can create a better world through positive social change and conscious personal transformation.

Discover simple steps to increase feelings of love in your daily life. Learn practical ways to boost love and transform your relationships. Embrace love every day.

Discover the top 10 ways that block you from connecting with your spiritual guides and how to overcome those blocks. Open your heart to signs and synchronicities, and receive the messages you need to...

I was leading a big group of US and European students through holy places in northern India and bringing my ten-year-old daughter for her second trip. For a kid, it was an adventure to another world....

We are all psychic. Whether you believe it or not, we are all born with intuitive senses, and they are as innate within us as our other physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual senses.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: “True intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing thoughts and remain functional.” He was right. It’s easier to polarize to one position and get stuck there.

Dear friend; I hold you gently in the quiet of my thought. The stillness tells me clearly that this crisis in your life, which most call a breakdown, is a listening time.

Little did I know how much would be packed into the decade of the sixties or how deeply my life would be impacted by the transformational seeds that were being planted in an entire generation.

When we need to perform a new task, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, especially when it involves other people. The stress induced by the initial event combined with our emotions inhibits one’s ability t...

I don’t believe I have regrets. But don’t we all regret something ? At least one thing? Sure, there is that artistic life I missed, the dangerous and the reclusive. But what if I had embraced that lif...

The Lakota Sioux leader Crazy Horse supposedly uttered the phrase: “It’s a good day to die” as he headed into battle. But that sentiment has been expanded to describe readiness, living without regret....

Throughout my life, I've developed several helpful ways to enhance my ability to see Signs, interpret them, and take action. I've found these to be quite helpful to open, reopen, or keep open, my sens...

I want to note that fat is not a bad word. Fat activists and leaders of the body positive movement all over the world are working hard to reclaim this word. When I say, “My mother is fat,” I’m not ins...

Embracing simplicity is probably one of the hardest keys to embody because we've been trained to believe that the more complicated something is the more important and valuable it is.

At first Mark was very upset. Then, he realized that he had the choice of his thoughts, and rather than making himself miserable, he could do it with joy. So, the next day...

Problems. They’re everywhere. In our personal lives, in the world all around us. Who’s got solutions?

While I knew I had learned a lot about myself on this trip, I also knew there was a lot of work ahead of me. This was a big step in my healing journey, and I knew it wasn’t the last.

The original Mother's Day Proclamation (in 1870) was a statement of mothers who had lost sons in the North joined with mothers who had lost sons in the South during the Civil War, proclaiming a day on...

When we say such things as "You hurt me," "You made me do it," "You made me angry," or "You make me crazy” we are giving in to the impulse to blame our feelings externally. Blaming others for what we’...

The phrase “Get ready, get set, GO!” describes a formula for effective living. We screw things up when we leave out the middle step, by getting trapped on what I call the “see-do bypass.”

I interviewed over two hundred people in more than 100 organizations. I ended almost every interview with the question: "It's easy to see what's wrong with the world today... So, I'd like to ask you t...

I didn’t go to India to put on a Hindu costume; I got into Vedic teachings to uncover all the costumes I’d been wearing and to find out what I was at my core. The sacred literature of India explained...

Some of our biggest emotional challenges come from family dynamics. It’s a rare situation where everyone in the family gets along. If you tend to be the peacekeeper, you’re usually the one carrying ar...

If we find ourselves in a supposedly hopeless situation from which we see no issue, or if we are tired of fighting an illness that seems to drag on endlessly, or burdened with “impossible” family or w...

In loving and forgiving ourself in order to save ourself, we expand this love to everyone. Many ancient and medieval women mystics personified this theme...