Inner Power

Written and Narrated by Pam Younghans.   Astrological Overview: May 30 - June 5, 2022 Astrologer Pam Younghans writes this weekly astrological journal based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your p...

Written and Narrated by Pam Younghans.  Astrological Overview: May 23 - 29, 2022   Astrologer Pam Younghans writes this weekly astrological journal based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your...

Written by Gabriel Kram. Narrated by Marie T. Russell. In a world that often seems intent on destroying itself, I find myself curating beauty. Not the skin-deep beauty that graces magazine covers, but the roots of beauty—the kind of beauty that grabs us and shakes us out of the narcotic, dystopian alienation through which modernity slumbers and lumbers these days. There’s so much beauty around us...

espect is profoundly meaningful, but costs nothing to give . Here are ways you can demonstrate (and model) respect for your diverse cow­orkers, regardless of who they are or what their positions are within your organization Respect is profoundly meaningful, but costs nothing to give . Here are ways you can demonstrate (and model) respect for your diverse cow­orkers, regardless of who they are or w...

 Written and Narrated by Pam Younghans.   Astrological Overview: May 16 - 22, 2022    Astrologer Pam Younghans writes this weekly astrological journal based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by tra...

Written and Narrated by Pam Younghans .   Astrological Overview: May 9 - 15, 2022   Astrologer Pam Younghans writes this weekly astrological journal based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to you...

Written and Narrated by Marie T. Russell. When people speak of compassion, they mostly are referring to having compassion for others, for those less fortunate than themselves. And this is definitely a wonderful practice, however, in order to be able to practice compassion towards others, we may first have to learn to be compassionate towards ourselves. Changing Self-Beliefs and Judgments We all ha...

 Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration   The focus for today is: What could I choose to think rather than this upsetting thought?     Compassion is a much-needed quality in our world. If someone is rude to you, or unfriendly, or whatever, practice choosing alternative thoughts. Rather than going on the defensive or even the offensive, focus compassionately on why the person...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration    The focus for today is:   I let myself be guided by the writings of my compassionate self.   Journaling, or writing to and for yourself, is a great way to get in touch with your feelings as well as with your inner guidance. Writing, without restrictions, allows you to vent and release your emotions, and then it also makes room for your co...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:   My inner compassionate teacher offers guidance and wisdom with love. We all have inner "critics" and detractors. These are the voices inside our own head that tell us we've messed up, we didn't live up to expectations, whether that of others or of our own self. We also have the voice of an inner teacher. Some teachers, as you prob...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration    The focus for today is:  I ask myself questions and speak to myself compassionately .    A way to get out of our fear-based thoughts is to ask ourselves questions. For example when your mind comes up with worst case scenarios, ask yourself: "do I really believe that .........." or "does that sound realistic?" Lynne Henderson, in her...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration    The focus for today is:   I seek positive alternatives to my fear-based thoughts.   Our mind is very good at imagining scenarios. For example, you call a friend and they don't answer, and you know very well they are home. So your mind jumps to the conclusion that they don't want to talk to you and are ignoring your call. The negative assu...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration   The focus for today is:   I self-monitor and bring my mind back to the present.   The thoughts that run randomly in your head can be your worst enemy. And, if we don't know what harmful thoughts are running around in our head, how can we change them? So the first step in developing compassionate thinking is discovering what is going on with our...

Written and Narrated by Pam Younghans.   Astrological Overview: May 2 - 8, 2022    Astrologer Pam Younghans writes this weekly astrological journal based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to...

Written by Nancy Windheart and Narrated by Marie T. Russell.   In my many years of teaching animal communication, I have found that there are certain attitudes that support people in reclaiming their natural, inborn ability to communicate with all life. I often call these Attitudes and HeartSets (as opposed to “MindSets”), and I share them with students in my beginning classes and workshops....

 Written and Narrated by Marie T. Russell.   Harmony  "Walk with inner guidance in harmony with your environment and with others. Obstacles facing you begin to disintegrate. What you have been working toward is now within your reach. You begin to see how you fit into your surroundings and to acknowledge your role within the chord and measure. "  -- Lakota Sweat Lodge Cards (Sac...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration   The focus for today is:   I attend to my life with reverence that comes from the heart.   When I think of reverence, I think of respect, honor, and love. When we revere someone, we see the best in them, we see their Divine Self. The word Namasté comes to mind which in its simple form means "I bow to you" and is further interpreted as: I honor t...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration   The focus for today is:   Through service, I come to know the Beauty of Spirit and the joy of life.   To live in true harmony means to live in a state of social consciousness, aware of the highest good of all, not just our own good. This includes our "two-legged" brothers and sisters as well as all animals, plants, and the Planet herself. The L...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration   The focus for today is:   I choose to live in harmony, both within myself and with others.   The word "resolution" has many meanings. There are two definitions that pertain to our topic today: 1) "a promise to yourself to do or to not do something" and 2) "the act of solving or ending a problem or difficulty". (definitions from the Cambridge Di...

 Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration   The focus for today is:   I give myself time to be separate and silent, allowing deep and guided knowing to emerge.   As things occur around us, and to us, we may find ourselves confused as to what direction to take. We all have access to our inner wisdom. But it is usually not found at the surface where all the noise and chatter resides....

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration    The focus for today is:   I reclaim my lost selves with love and restore my internal harmony.    We all have a shadow self, or selves. This is the part of ourselves that we do not acknowledge, that w e deny exists. We pretend it isn't there, yet as with a smoldering fire, you may not see flames, but the heavy smell of the smoke persi...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration    The focus for today is:   I trust and know that the lessons I need are always presented when I am ready.    The School of Life is not without its ups and downs, its lessons as well as its rewards. Some of the teachings come through joy, such as the birth of a child which brings the teaching and experience of unconditional love. Howev...

Written and Narrated by Pam Younghans. Astrological Overview: April 25 - May 1, 2022 Astrologer Pam Younghans writes this weekly astrological journal based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your persona...

Written by Paul Levy and Narrated by Marie T. Russell.   Living through a global pandemic can feel surreal, as if we are living in a dreamworld. Though it can feel like we are living through a collective nightmare, there are precious gifts encoded within the experience that should not be overlooked. Of course it is imperative to deal with the physical outbreak of the virus by every means at o...

Written and Narrated by Marie T. Russell.   Everyone wants to be loved. And most of us have had difficulty not only loving others unconditionally, but also loving ourselves unconditionally. And those two are tied together very closely. Understanding Our judgment of others is often a projection of our judgment of ourselves. So the first step in being able to connect to others with an open hear...