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Written and Narrated by Pam Younghans. Astrological Overview: August 23 - 29, 2021 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 personal...

Written and Narrated by Sarah Varcas. All dates and times are UT so may vary in your time zone. 22nd August 2021: Blue Moon in 30th Degree of Aquarius This blue moon completes a period of mental recalibration that began with last month’s full moon ). Occurring in the final degree of Aquarius, it unlocks the most expansive mental planes that have largely lain neglected by humanity for way too long....

Astrological Overview: August 16 - 22, 2021 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 personal chart. Aspects of Note this Week: All t...

Written and Narrated by astrologer, Pam Younghans. Astrological Overview: August 9 - 15, 2021 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 Pam Younghans. Astrological Overview: August 2 - 8, 2021 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 personal ch...

Written by Ewald Kliegel.  Narrated by Marie T. Russell. What is more important in our lives than health and healing? Even prosperity and security are found far down the list of our most important values. Our body is like an orchestra in which the organs play the symphony of life with the greatest virtuosity. If we listen closely, we will experience that what is important is happening in betw...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:   I choose to enjoy life rather than try to control it. Do we want to be in control of it all, or do we want to enjoy it instead? After all, we can't enjoy what we are anxiously trying to control. The song of birds, the voices of insects, are all means of conveying truth to the mind. In flowers and grasses we see messages of the Tao...

Written by Allison Carmen. Narrated by Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com. “Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.” —Henri Frederic Amiel When I think back to the beginning of my separation from my husband, I can’t decide which was harder: his actually leaving me or being in counseling together for seven weeks. Sitting in counseling with someone whom I’d had to beg to stay was overwhelmingly pain­ful. Th...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:  I relax and let go of trying to control. As we learn to accept ourselves with our mistakes, we relax. Relaxing is important on the spiritual path. As we relax the personality -- the brain and the mind -- we can allow the spirit self to take over. We then allow ourselves to pick up the intuitive thoughts that try so hard to reach us...

It’s no secret that aerobic exercise can help stave off some of the ravages of aging. But a growing body of research suggests that swimming might provide a unique boost to brain health. Regular swimming has been shown to improve memory, cognitive function, immune response and mood. Swimming may also help repair damage from stress and forge new neural connections in the brain. Continue Reading

We all know the burning sensation we get when eating chillies. Some can tolerate the heat, while others may be reaching for the milk carton. Some people even actively choose to participate in chilli-eating competitions, seeking out the world’s hottest chillies, such as the Carolina Reaper. The global hot sauce market has grown substantially in the last few years. It sits at around US$2.71 billion...

Written by Thomas Mayer. Narrated by Marie T. Russell. How do you experience elemental beings? Can you consciously make it happen? And how do you distinguish between truth and fantasy? Experiencing elemental beings is generally prohibited by mental blocks. These mental blocks tend to come up particularly when you begin with practical exercises. You think your own perceptions are figments of the im...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:   I take the time every day to calm my mind. Many of us know that a few moments of connecting with our inner resources can have dramatic and healthy effects in restoring a sense of balance to a hectic day. But who has the luxury of spending 45 minutes to one hour calming themselves down in the middle of a rushed day? Webster's defin...

Written by Barry Vissell.  Narrated by Billy Joey, AI. There is a rapid on the Rogue River called Rainie Falls. There are three choices of routes. The main falls is a class five drop through very turbulent water. I have successfully run this rapid as a paddler in our daughter, Rami's, boat, with her at the oars in the back. However, the last two times I tried this, the powerful turbulence kno...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:  I give myself permission to say "no". "Overload syndrome" is a temporary anxiety and depression state that results from becoming overburdened with too many work, household, volunteer, or social obligations, and it subsides promptly after reducing the excessive number of responsibilities. It can best be likened to overloading an ele...

The disconnect between how old we feel and how old we want to be can offer insights into the relationship between our views on aging and our health, according to a new study. Subjective age discordance (SAD)—the difference between how old you feel and how old you would like to be—is a fairly new concept in the psychology of aging. However, the work to this point has used SAD to look at longitudina...

The precarious economies of many traditional seaside towns have declined still further since the 1970s when an explosion of cheap holiday flights and package tours to Spain and Greece took away swathes of their summer trade.  “Turkey and Tinsel” weekends still draw the odd coach, but cannot keep a town afloat. Although UK seaside resorts are having a booking spike this year because of the pan...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:  I see everything as an opportunity for service. it isn't really important what we do, so long as we see everything we do as an opportunity for service, for applying energy creatively, for working for the welfare of all, for expanding our sympathies and awareness, for attuning our consciousness to the Infinite Intelligence. Once you...

Millions of people returning to the workplace means millions of dogs left home alone, some of them never having experienced their people being gone all day. “This is something that’s a big deal for a dog, if you have been around home most of the time and now you’re going to go back and be gone 40-50 hours a week,” says Brian Hare, a professor of evolutionary anthropology and the co-director of the...

An impossible standard is at the root of gender inequalities in the workplace, according to two new studies on inflexibility and discrimination against mothers. Put simply: Working mothers are often expected to work like they don’t have children and raise children as if they don’t work. Continue Reading

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:   I am respectful of my own needs and desires. Shakespeare declared, "Self-loving is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting." When we speak of self-love, we are not talking about a adoration type of energy. Rather we are talking about self-respect, honoring one's desires and needs, and being true to our own self. Self-love is not abo...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:   I am worthy of receiving blessings. Sometimes we don't believe we truly deserve blessings, love, riches, whatever goodness we desire... After all, we recall some of the times we behaved "badly" and because of our ingrained belief in a punishing and avenging God, we don't really believe that we deserve what we are asking for. We mu...

Written and Narrated by Pam Younghans. Astrological Overview: July 26 - August 1, 2021 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 perso...

Written by Peter Ruppert. Narrated by Marie T. Russell. Courage isn’t the absence of fear but rather the decision that something else is more important than fear.                                        &nb...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:   I choose to enjoy everything that I do. Sometimes it just takes a change of attitude to make your current job, relationship, or where you live, more fulfilling. Listen to your heart. Ask for guidance. Pay close attention to the answers you get and be willing to respond accordingly. Spirit can only do for you what it can do through...