Category Archives: Tips and Tools

by Sandra Musial What is Fiber? Dietary fiber is a very important component in a healthy diet. It is part soluble fiber and part insoluble fiber—and both are important not only to gut health but to overall human health. Fiber … Continue reading →

by Sue Musial Bigelow 1) Believe To believe is very powerful. Believing in the unknown, the unseen and the intangible is to have faith—a state of mind and awareness used to harmonize with universal powers. Having faith creates hope, and … Continue reading →

By Rena Greenberg Mandy asked, “How can I stay motivated? In the beginning, whenever I go on a diet and start losing weight, I get excited with the progress I’m making. But before long, the old feelings creep in, and … Continue reading →

By Maya Benharroch Many people know that anger can be a destructive and harmful energy. We see examples of it quite often in the media and even in our own lives. It causes people to be violent, to act out … Continue reading →

by Gregg Sanderson “IF you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison.”—G. I. Gurdjeif The Prison What’s your prison? Are you stuck in a bad job? Is it … Continue reading →

By Alan Cohen While Dee and I were waiting to be served in a restaurant, I picked up an Etch-a-Sketch-like toy on a rack near our table, a plaything designed to keep little kids entertained while waiting for food. Curious, … Continue reading →

by Stacy Musial What Are You Focused On? A penny for your thoughts. Are they helpful thoughts or harmful thoughts? You get what you focus on—whether you want it or not. You may have heard this statement before. Are you … Continue reading →

By Joran Slane Oppelt We all have a daily routine. We’ve all felt the need to break out of it. By allowing ourselves to wear the same path in the carpet or highway, we become rigid, fixed in our ways … Continue reading →

By Jo Mooy “Sitting quietly. Doing nothing. Spring comes. And the grass grows by itself.” This Haiku poem by Matsuo Basho (1600s) floated into my inbox one morning after the U.S. presidential election. Sitting quietly and doing nothing was definitely … Continue reading →

By Marla Sanderson “It feels so unbelievably great to be liberated from the consciousness-dominating barrage of desires, demands, expectations, inflexible patterns, models of how the world should treat you—addictions of every kind.” —Ken Keyes Jr. Ken Keyes’ Handbook To Higher … Continue reading →