Inner Power

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:   I reclaim my power to create the life I desire. There are so many ways we may have given our power away. One of them is by accepting and believing, without question, the concept of hereditary or genetic causes of illness. As many self-empowerment schools and methods teach us, our mind is a powerful tool. And as science has told us...

Written by Matthew McKay, Ph. D.  Narrated by Marie T. Russell. The deepest truth of the universe is that love is eternal; our relationships to each other and the whole go on forever. We are always together (even though on Earth we forget), always united in love, always and irrevocably connected to all of consciousness. Reuniting is a myth born of our physical lives. Reunion is merely a cerem...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:  I choose to be a better person. "He makes me want to be a better person." As I reflected on this statement, I realized that this is the best compliment anyone could ever hope to receive. Being inspired to be a better person! What a vision for our own lives! That we would live our life so that not only are we a better person, but th...

Written and Narrated by Carmen Viktoria Gamper. Editor's Note: While this article is written with children in mind, its precepts may be applied to "non-children" as well. Children aren’t born with social skills. Children don’t need to learn how to learn but they do need guidance in socializing. They may naturally respect you as their significant caregiver, they may intuitively know about dignity,...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:   I am willing and able to change things. We've got great things to do. Life is a school of opportunities. (Don't call them problems.) Some people just need to become excited. They need to learn that they can change things. Perhaps at this moment in our time on Earth, we should all drop back about 200 years and consider again this c...

Written by Thomas Mayer. Narrated by Marie T. Russell. Even if we are not consciously aware of it, we live in the realm of elemental beings. Everywhere, and all the time, they penetrate our souls and slip into our hearts. The whole world around us is ensouled with elemental beings. Elemental beings participate in everything that is happening in nature around us. Our inner world, the world of our t...

Written and Narrated by Lawrence Doochin. “ At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by, ‘I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat. I was naked, and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.’”  -- MOTHER TERESA Being in a forced type of isolation like we ha...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:   I am aware of the wisdom of living in the present. Dorothy Day writes: "The sense of futility is one of the greatest evils of the day ... People say, "What can one person do? What is the sense of our small effort?" "They cannot see that we can only lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for th...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:   I choose to trust my body and its innate knowledge. So many things happen in life -- in our own life personally and in life in general -- that don't seem to be part of the plan. Whether it involves the end of a job, problems with a relationship, a home, our health, a situation takes place and we seem to have the rug swept out from...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:   I choose love, kindness, and benevolence. In 1999, Stuart Wilde wrote the following: "I think the biggest spiritual challenge in the new millennium will be trying to sustain a spiritual stance of love, kindness, and benevolence in what will be a chaotically imbalanced society." And here we are two decades later... Our society is c...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:   I maintain an open heart and a reverence for life. We possibly all have a bit of a perfectionist tendency. It was drilled into us by our educational system... always trying to be better than the other person... either in school, in sports, in looks, in being the best at something, and these days in the number of Facebook "friends"...

Written and narrated by Marie T. Russell. Our InnerSelf welcomes your inner self . This week we reflect on change... and the changes that come with aging (and, yes, the clock ticks for everyone, no matter your current age). But aging doesn't mean that we are "over and done with". Each year, the calendar turns another page, yet, we have choices to make as to how we shall move forward... with goals...

ritten and Narrated by Pam Younghans. Astrological Overview: June 7 - 13, 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 char...

Tomorrow always will come. It is up to you to be ready for it, to shape it and make it what it will be.                                         -- Jason Redman Ambushes don’t just happen in combat. In...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is: I am connected to everything and everyone. The secret of life is that there is continuous communication not only between living things and their environment but among all things living in the environment. An intricate web of interaction connects all life into one vast, self-maintaining system. "There is life on earth," biologist Lyall Wa...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:  I embrace cooperation and tolerance as my way of life. The following affirmation or manifesto is taken from a letter to the entire "human family": Let everyone act on his or her heart-desire to preserve this world. Let everyone act on his or her heart-yearning to preserve the society of human beings. Preserve these gifts -- by doin...

Cultures on every continent around the world have a collective memory of a time when their ancestors were hunter-gatherers and lived in the forest as a part of nature itself. The Aborigines of Australia, for example, were known to have lived a bucolic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle as recently as the early to mid-1800s, until they were forced to relinquish their way of life. Before colonization, the A...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:   I am willing to heal my relationship with my parents. This short prayer or affirmation is taken from the book The Age of Miracles , written by Marianne Williamson: Dear God, Please heal my relationship with my parents. Whether they're on Earth or have passed beyond the veil of death. May only love remain between us. May I not be b...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:   I bless people by sending them love. Saying, "Bless you," certainly works wonders when you become irritated at someone on the highway, in the supermarket, or wherever else you may be. Just bless them instead of cursing them as you go along. The words we speak have powerful vibrations just like our thoughts and feelings. Even thoug...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:   I choose to honor, respect, and appreciate myself. We've all heard of the commandment that tells us to "Honor thy father and thy mother."  But nowhere are we told to honor ourselves... What does honoring ourselves even mean? It means treating ourselves as well as we would treat other people we honor, appreciate, and respect....

Written and Narrated by Barry Vissell. This month (May 2021), both Joyce and I turned 75. May 18 for Joyce, and May 27 for me. Three quarters of a century! It's a milestone for sure. When I was younger, 75 years old seemed ancient. The house-mother in Joyce's dormitory at Hartwick College, when we were 18 years old, seemed ancient. And she might have been a bit younger than us right now. One of he...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:   I seek ways to learn from my pain. I'd like to share something written by Dana Ullman, in his book: The Steps to Healing Loving one's pain is certainly easier to say than do. It seems a lot simpler to feel irritated and angry about the pain, depressed and despairing about how horrible it is, and fearful and anxious about how long...

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration The focus for today is:   I get vitalized and healthy. We tend to look outside of ourselves for energy... whether we find it in food, rest, exercise, adrenalin-producing activities, interactions with other people, etc. Everything alive needs energy to live. However, we can self-energize. Our best sources of energy come from within... in our breath, our tho...

Narrated by Marie T. Russell Our InnerSelf welcomes your inner self . One of the most debilitating human emotions or beliefs is powerlessness. The belief that we are powerless, that we can't do anything about something in particular... whether that something is the state of the world, "things being the way they are", our health, our relationships, our jobs, our children, etc. Feeling or believing...

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. IN THIS TIME between eclipses, it may be hard to find our bearings in physic...