How to Have a Solstice Celebration
What do you do at a Winter Solstice party? Get ideas on what to serve, ways to celebrate the shortest day of the year, and how to entertain in ways that meaningfully mark the changing of the seasons. Includes a recipe for traditional wassail.
Jesus, the Novel: Chapter 1 + Q&A with Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra captures Jesus' untold transformation during the lost years from teenage rebel to leader of men, and ultimately to the Son of God. Read Chapter 1 of 'Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment' and an interview with Chopra about his portrayal of Jesus as never before.
Study Shows Meditation Increases Compassion, Love and Forgiveness
Can a quality like love, forgiveness or compassion be measured in the brain? Scientists are finding that meditation and mindfulness practices can increase your capacity for positive qualities. A fascinating look at the neuroscience of meditation.
Gaiam Life Meditation Rooms
Step into a Gaiam Life Meditation Room for a few minutes to calm your senses and melt away stress. Escape your worries and experience imagery of some of the most relaxing and beautiful natural gifts on Earth, as you listen to soothing nature sounds and music.
3 Techniques to Dissolve Stress Fast (No Yoga Required)
All stressed out with nowhere to do some yoga? Try these three simple stress-reducing techniques from The Anywhere, Anytime Chill Guide by yoga teacher and Ms. Mindbody columnist Kate Hanley. Get breathing techniques, fast stretches and mantra tips for anxiety-ridden family gatherings, stressful work situations and, well … anytime.
Can You Use the Law of Attraction to Achieve Financial Success?
What do financially successful people know that others don't? 'Money and the Law of Attraction' authors Esther and Jerry Hicks say the secret lies in asking yourself different questions.
Get a Life ... Coach
What exactly is a life coach, and how do you find a good one? A 101 guide to how a life coach could help you, where to shop for a life coach, what kind of training a good life coach has, and what fees and results to expect.
6 Ways to Create a More Peaceful Workspace
Have an ah-ha moment with Leslie Garrett's sensible, simple guide to freeing yourself from mental and actual clutter and getting more work done with less stress.
The Seven Miracles of Mindfulness
Mindfulness is our ability to be aware of what is going on both inside us and around us. It is the continuous awareness of our bodies, emotions, and thoughts.
Check Off Your Own Kind of 'Bucket List' The 5 Wishes Way
How to make your own kind of 'Bucket List' using Gay Hendricks' Five Wishes process. Make your life more fulfilling, peaceful and meaningful now.
How to Get Comfortable in Uncomfortable Situations
I'll bet there is something you'd like to do that you've been putting off for a long time. Whatever it is, I'll also bet that a fear of awkwardness is one of the main things holding you back.
Deepak Chopra Explains How Spirituality Can Be Funny
In this refreshing new take on spirituality, bestselling author Deepak Chopra uses a fictional tale of a comedian and his unlikely mentor to show us a path back to hope, joy, and even enlightenment—with a lot of laughter along the way.
Why Is God Laughing?
Is reality what we think it is? After all, rocks are solid, air sustains life, and the planet revolves on its axis. Yet these facts are not what the word illusion refers to.
How to Use Your Strengths and Weaknesses to Achieve Success
When we were young, we were taught ro Identify our weaknesses, then go to work to strengthen them so we'll become a well-rounded person. We think that’s a colossal waste of time.
What Is Intention?
It all begins with intention. Intention is higher-consciousness thought. In other words, it’s using the mind for a higher purpose—higher, meaning that you are not limiting yourself to certain outcomes or procedures.
How to Become a Mindful Parent
I’m constantly seeking the balance between work, family and my inner life. During my search I discovered that life is here to teach us as we go along, and parenting is just one very special course—with no textbook.
Kabbalah Secrets for a More Fulfilling Relationship
Why are men and women so different? Kabbalah answers this question from a spiritual standpoint, and in the answer lies the key to loving, worthwhile relationships.
Calm Mom: 5 Ways to Be a Present Parent
Composed mothering isn’t out of reach for you, say mindful mothering experts and moms who are borrowing techniques from practices like yoga and meditation to boost their calm-mom powers.
Try these five tips and make being a calm mom look like child’s play.
Do You Know Where You're Going To?
On my way home the other morning, I stopped at an intersection and asked myself which way I should go. I swear, the right side of my body started tingling as if someone had plugged my toe into a socket.
Everything I Need to Know About Mindfulness I Learned From Dolly Parton
There are some days when I sit down to meditate and I slip right into following my breath. These days are rare. Most days, my mind is babbling away.
Avoid the Traps of Unconscious Loving
Are you creating misunderstanding, hurt and conflict in your most cherished relationships — without even knowing it?
Deepak Chopra Shares The Happiness Prescription
When it comes to mind-body health, spirituality and peace, Deepak Chopra has long been acknowledged as one of the world’s experts. Now he has turned his attention toward happiness.
Meditation 101: Techniques, Benefits & Beginner’s How-to
Meditation is an approach to training the mind, similar to the way that fitness is an approach to training the body. Here is an introduction to the styles and benefits of regular practice.
Joan Borysenko Talks About Being Open to Spiritual Guidance
Integrative medicine pioneer and renowned mind-body connection expert Joan Borysenko talks about opening up to spiritual guidance.
Why Good People Do Bad Things
Author and psychologist Debbie Ford explains how and why embracing your dark side can help keep you from doing something rash that damages the life you work so hard to create.
Eckhart Tolle's Advice For Waking Up and Living Your Best Life
An excerpt from Eckhart Tolle’s "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose," an Oprah’s Book Club selection and webcast event. For many who may not even have realized it, the process of awakening has already begun.
10 Ways To Nurture Greatness In Your Child
Great kids are emotionally and intellectually healthy people. Great doesn't refer to a specific temperamental quality, such as boldness; nor does it depend on athletic skills or on musical or mathematical or artistic talent. Great kids come in all varieties. And, given the right nurturing and encouragement, all kids can be great kids.
How I Stay So Happy: Q&A with Patricia Moreno
What keeps powerhouse personal trainer Patricia Moreno so darned joyful — and how the rest of us can get our hands on whatever she eats for breakfast.
Stand By Your Mantra for a New Attitude
How to get started using mantras, how to choose a mantra, insight on the origin of mantras and their power for better well-being, and tips on using mantras to help with anything you're struggling with.
Utopian Intentional Community Has Thrived for 30 Years
A tour of the intentional community Damanhur, a 'social experiment' whose local economy, utopian values, and environmental sustainability have worked for 30 years.
Why Meditate? Science Finds Clues
Researchers are finding exciting evidence of meditation’s effects on the brain -- new clues to why it can help calm emotions, sharpen reasoning and even make you healthier.
Marianne Williamson Talks About Inner and Outer Peace
If you’re learning ways to find inner peace, are you really helping create world peace? Q&A with best-selling author and peace activist Marianne Williamson on what “being peace” looks like.
The Truth About Happiness: Q&A with Michael Beckwith
Michael Beckwith answers our top questions on the keys to becoming truly happy, based on the advice he shares as an expert featured in "The Secret" and "Living Luminaries."
4 Ways to Tap Into Your Intuition
Tips and techniques from experts on cultivating, tapping into, and trusting your intuition to help you make decisions -- in your personal life and even in business scenarios.
How to Break Through Toxic Emotions
Life coaching expert and author Debbie Ford helps you identify which of the 11 emotions are most impacting your life — and shows you important steps to breaking free of them.
15 Easy Ways to Be Healthier
A doctor, nutritionist and fitness trainer each recommend their top five changes they recommend in diet, exercise and stress management to improve your health without a big lifestyle change.
3 Steps to Being ‘Happy for No Reason’
Chicken Soup for the Soul co-author Marci Shimoff, a featured expert in ‘The Secret,’ shares tips from her new book ‘Happy for No Reason.’
How to Be Green in the Afterlife - About Green Burials
Death these days is bad news for the environment. Although you can't stop the steady march of time, you can ensure that your passing does not take such a toll on the earth by informing your loved ones to provide you with a green burial.
Creating a Sacred Space at Home
Create a special place for meditation, rituals, reflection and just renewing your spirit. These 15 tips will help you use candles, statues, sculptures, lighting, altars, cushions, furniture and more to express your spirituality and connect with what's meaningful to you.
Mariel Hemingway: Front and Centered
Finding peace wasn't always easy for Mariel Hemingway. In her book Finding My Balance, Mariel narrates a life story filled with painful memories compounded by a career that puts incredible pressure on women to look a certain way. But through yoga, Mariel was able to firmly plant her feet.
