To a shaman a kachina isn't really a doll or a child's toy. Also, it isn't a collector's piece of art or a decoration. However, it is often used that way, and that's ok too. There is a place for that approach in our lives. They do make a powerful addition to any home's decor, and make a great conversation piece.

Physical illnesses in my view result from an individual's reluctance to feel feelings such as sadness, hurt and disappointment that live inside them and that are trying to warn them that something is wrong. Without feeling these feelings and taking appropriate action any other approach to healing is only temporary and symptomatic.

Many times, we are blinded to our own sins. This poem is about a man who will not believe what he sees in the mirror in front of him. It represents our sinful state, and the many times we are unwilling to face our flaws and pursue change.

A healthy spirituality can be one of the most effective tools at our disposal for managing stress. However, for reasons as individual as they themselves are, many people feel leery of anything to do with the spiritual. This article draws the all-important distinction between spirituality and religion, and explores how spirituality can reduce stress levels.

A brief study of King Herod's slaughter of the young boy sin Bethlehem in Matthew 2:16-18

Imagine, for a second, if someone came up to you and said, all of your children, and their spouses and children were visiting each other, all in the same house, and the house collapsed and they are all dead. Immediately after this person gives you this horrifying information, another person appears and tells you that all of the money you’ve invested in the stock market was bad investments and now you are penniless. Can you even imagine that?

Do you ever have one of those days when you wonder if God is really there? Does he really exist? If he does, then why can't you see Him or even sense His presence? I was in that place a few days ago.

The time we spend on earth is very short when you consider the scope of the universe. Often, we don’t see the big picture and get lost in the details. What is our purpose in the few years we have?

Echo was a flea-bitten gray horse, with brown speckles everywhere, and crystal clear hairs in her mane and tail. We met in October, 1976, when she was a broodmare on an Arabian farm in New York State. A beginner at riding doesn't usually start out with a novice horse, but I fell in love at first sight of her. Somehow, over the years, we learned how to have great times and not get in trouble. We enjoyed trail riding and had fun doing dressage, too. Echo loved to be ridden and to gallop across field. She was always as eager for my companionship as I was for hers.

I was in the bank's vault. The Brink's armored truck had just delivered several million dollars in small bills. Bags of money waited, stacked in a pile on the small counter. Methodically, I opened each and proofed the total it contained by counting the wads. I then took each wad, removed the wrapper and put the bills through the counting machine. When the machine finished, I hand counted it. The air was filled with the stuffy, musty smell of money.

Imagine that from the time of your birth your parents had your eyes covered. You grew up believing that this cover was a part of you and you couldn't remove it. You grew up in a world of darkness with images that you created, but not from experience. Imagine someone removing that blindfold. Imagine...

The earth is wrapped in a thin, loose shell of gases - which we call the atmosphere. The mix of gases that make up the atmosphere has changed greatly over the eons...

Over the past five years, many people have been committed to mental institutions, tortured, detained, imprisoned, and even killed, simply for refusing to give up this practice...

Depression is a very scary disease

The basic problem with panic attacks is that they may occur with or without any known cause. If you can pinpoint what has triggered the panic attack in the first place, preventing it next time becomes rather easy.

Offers suggestions of things you can do to calm down when you are upset.

The key to self help for anxiety and depression is to understand that for all but severe cases anxiety and depression are manageable syndromes. Read on to learn how . . .

A blend of essential oils can be more effective for promoting relief and healing than any single essential oil. In this article I share the best oils to use in a blend to calm your nerves and relieve anxiety, worry or fear and why, along with my favorite methods of application!

Are you as excited about summer as your kids are? Or are you secretly dreading those long, lazy days? Inside you will learn the 3 keys to experiencing more joy and less stress this summer.

Most of us through out our lives have experience stress or just feeling anxious. Sometimes when we are so worried about something in our lives in ends up we have an anxiety attack over it. That feeling when you first have one is such a horrible experience we don't know what is happening to us which makes us feel even more anxiety because we panic and don’t understand what's happening.

Work and home life can slowly, but surely, wear you down Visit Fort Worth spas to fight the wear and tear on your body and mind.

Lubbock spas should be places you visit at least once a month. The treatments will rejuvenate your mind and body.

When was the last time you sang in the rain? For that matter when was the last time you went out in the rain and soaked up the fresh air?