Every Christmas the Yuletide card portrays a silver star in a navy blue sky and every year the same heavenly object sparkles from the top of the decorated evergreen. At season's end the three wise men and their fellow shepherds gather at a hastily set up manger for the familiar nativity scene. Though it shimmers on the greeting card and its brilliance lights up the tannebaum, it wasn't a star that erupted into a supernova on that dark Judean night. The star that shone so brightly two thousand years ago was wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.

Life is full of ups and downs, trials, and tribulations. They are called the storms of life. Whether it’s losing a job, the end of relationship, death, divorce, financial problems, sickness, homelessness, peer pressure, etc…. everyone is going to have some type of storm that they must deal with.

The human hand is majestic and elegant and the most utilized of all our physical members. If you want to know something about a man’s depth, then watch his hands because every man’s hands tell us something about the man.

How is it that animals without elaborate expensive technology were able to predict the largest Tsunami in human history while humans, the most advanced species, were caught unaware? Have we lost our connection to the natural forces around us and to our natutral ability to communicate with nature?

A brief study of baptism as portrayed in Matthew 3:4-6

This article is an introduction to the meaning and message of the Gospel of Matthew.

Tibetan Singing Bowls have stirred the interest of many spiritually-inclined healers. But is every singing bowl out there really Tibetan? And do they all have healing properties? Don't buy one until you read this article.

Meeting someone so attractive, so beautiful. Your heart beats like the rhythm at the races and your knees become Jell-O. We all know this feeling of falling in love and seeing the amazing beauty in ...

This is an article about how I came to the decision to move to Guatemala and become a teacher at an International school.

What's the difference? How are we supposed to tell the difference between the real healers and those who are selling snake oil? It's a big seller to claim that your work is divinely inspired. Even...

Limiting beliefs, just like positive, empowering thoughts, provide a foundation for our experiences and what we demonstrate. Old beliefs can leave us behind – and are often stale, lingering ideas left-over from our childhood experiences or from other areas of life that no longer carry any useful meaning. Abandoning negative assumptions about lack opens room to develop an abundant mindset. We can do that by setting a new mental equivalent that resets the dial on our trust channel – the channel we listen to that tells us to trust that we already have everything. A belief system must change in order to create a new reality.

How to meet your guardian angel and improve the quality of your life. Guardian angels have been helping people for thousands of years, and still have a valuable role to play in helping humanity in the future. Your guardian angel is your link to the divine, and will help you develop the spiritual side of your nature.

Discover 2,000 Year Old Zen Secrets To Feeling Calm, Balanced And Positive No Matter What's Going On In Your Life. See some of the things that steal your peace of mind and how to turn them around. Direct pointers included and ways to utilize material in your life.

In an exercise program, the muscle groups you concentrate on are the ones that improve. In a garden you can tell what is negelcted and what is lovingly sprayed, weeded, and enriched. Our spiritual lives are no different. Here are four ways to measure spiritual growth. Can you tell you are making progress?

This article uses the metaphor of a box of paints to describe how we colour our lives...

Humanity's interpretation of Unconditional Love is based on personal bias. In a world of contradictions and opposites, one decides how conditional he/she will experience love by applying unconditional love to conditional love.

Every single thing we do in our lives, personal and business, pleasure and work, affect others. So are we being careless or are we being salt and light?

In Shamanism, there is much importance given to animals as guides, totems and helpers. This is more than just having a favorite animal or being attracted to butterflies. Animals have been used as a source of diagnosis in healing and counseling by Shamans all around the world throughout recorded history.

Spirituality is uplifting, warm and makes us feel comfortable. It can lull us into believing that if we're on the path we can relax and have all that we need come to us. Here's an article that gives the pros and cons and seven ways to stay balanced during the experience.

Are you too stressed to be blessed? If so, take time to do some stress relieving hobbies that are useful to your life. They are the ones you can do just for the fun of it. See the hobbies listed . . .

Do you feel discouraged because you are not reaching the milestones that you have given yourself in school? Are they not going through the way you thought they would? Do you feel that you are letting your parents down with the grades you are bringing home? The thing to do is to take a look inside and what is making these things happen.

You may already know what the symptoms of an anxiety attack are. What you may not know is that recognizing these symptoms can give you a way to end your anxiety attack. By learning how to recognize and acknowledge your symptoms, you can learn how to make yourself free from the crippling effects of these attacks.

If you have every thought about pampering yourself for a day, you should go ahead and do it. Fresno spas are the places to go.