We often feel that peace is something outside of ourselves that we can only feel while on vacation or when surrounded by monks at a monastery. The only sustainable peace in our modern world is the kind that we create within ourselves, daily. What follows are 12 tools that can help with this:

1. Meditate- Meditation is a great tool for shutting out worry and distractions By focusing on a mantra or the breath you can return to a state of inner peace and hear the still voice of your…

Autumn is blowing in with Summer behind us. Every season has significance and is a spiritual opportunity for growth.  The Autumn Equinox is a time of equal darkness and light, masculine and feminine, sun and moon; balance.  What might Fall mean for your romantic relationships? 

1.    It’s Time to Harvest the Goodness:  The Fall is the time when farmers gather crops for winter storage.  It’s a time of abundance, beauty and taking…

A sacred bath includes prayer, meditation, intention, essential oils, crystals and visualization. It’s a consistent, inexpensive time and any bathtub will do.  Sacred baths have a specific intention, meditation and prayer, done with a colored candle, a few essential oils and a crystal.  All this energy supports the intention for that particular bath ritual, to build that thought form.  So, if our intention was to relax, we could have a…

Have you been told that meditation and prayer are great things to do in your daily routine? I had heard this and I knew that the research said that people who meditated were happier. I had long wanted to begin a daily practice of meditation. But in my busy life it was hard to sit in my room and say, 'Om' when my 5 and 8 year old were running around our apartment. It wasn’t until I started to take sacred baths that I easily and regularly instituted this practice.

A sacred bath is a…