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51 Meditations for Tending the Heart Fire
Find your flow in the new year with these “micro meditations” for renewal, connection, and inner strength.
A Boy, His Dog, and Their Heart-to-Heart Connection
Energy from one heart can make a real connection with another…and spread love in surprising ways.
A Purr for Help: How A Rescued Cat Opened My Heart
Nearly broke and pessimistic about the world, journalist Jane Ganahl heart and mind were opened by one abandoned cat.
A Strong Sense of Purpose May Protect Your Heart
In just a few decades, our understanding of the mind and body has risen dramatically. Topics that were rarely talked about in the 90s — omega 3’s, probiotics, and how the gut…
Alternative Pharmacy: Supplements to Open the Heart
Try these herbs and supplements for the physical body and homeopathics and flower essences for the emotional and spiritual body.
Audio Meditation for Connecting to the Heart
The heart holds our love, connection, joy, and forgiveness. It can also hold grief and anxiety. Sometimes what the heart feels is very different from what the mind thinks it wants.…
Book Review: Love Hurts
Love HurtsBuddhist Advice for the HeartbrokenBy Lodro RinzlerShambhala PublicationsThis book, by 34-year-old author and meditation teacher Lodro Rinzler, had an unusual genesis: fo…
Compassion Fatigue
When the heart is balanced, the rest of the energy body can maintain a greater sense of equilibrium.
Cultivating the Values of Your Practice
Rabbi Rami shares his personal practice for elevating awareness and compassion to bring thoughts, actions, and values into alignment.
Heart-Opening Yoga
We learn so many great lessons in yoga that totally fall apart in relationships. You are trying to learn about detachment and going with the flow, but you are in love with a person…
How Mental Stress Affects Your Heart
Constriction of tiny blood vessels, especially in women, can be deadly.
Is Your Heart Chakra Open to Love?
We are all psychic, and it is through the heart chakra that we can access this information. ~ Servet Hasan
Living Wide Open
I will not die an unlived life.I will not live in fearof falling or catching fire.I choose to inhabit my days,to allow my living to open me,to make me less afraid,more accessible;t…
Nourishing Heart: Yin Yoga for Fearlessness (Video)
Nourish your heart with this yoga and meditation video designed to explore themes of self-love.
Puppy Love: It’s official! Having a pet is good for your heart
While all animal lovers know instinctively that living with a pet can lift their spirits, a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association confirms it is literally go…
re/VIEW: Mark Nepo
Mark Nepo reflects on his spiritual journey, our polarized country, and how being open-hearted can change the world.
Restorative Yoga to Open Your Heart
Find internal peace with this practice designed to powerfully and gently open the heart center
Roadmap for Resilience After a Broken Heart
Opening ourselves to life means becoming vulnerable, which means that at some point we will suffer loss and pain. Being achingly present to the experience helps us recover.
Start with Heart: 3 Steps to a Healthier Relationship
While practicing self-observation recently, I noticed that my automatic impulse is to retract my energy when something uncomfortable or potentially emotionally painful is going on.…
The Alchemy of the Heart: Witnessing Grief
When we allow pain in fully (and then release it fully), the heart can transform pain into gold.
The New American Heart Association Cookbook
8th Editionby The American Heart AssociationKnown fondly as “Big Red,” the American Heart Association’s cookbook has proved for more than 35 years that you don’t have to sacrifice …
Warning: Long Work Hours Bad For The Heart
Toiling for 55 hours or longer per week can threaten your ticker.
Yogis Need Boundaries Too
Before I became a yoga teacher, I assumed all my teachers must have had it all figured out. They always had such great lessons, and seemed so calm and collected. I wanted to be lik…
You Are Better than Your Fitbit
The Simplest, Cheapest, And Most Accurate Way To Know How Hard To Work Out
Zen and the Art of Not Tearing Your Hair Out
If you had a time machine, would you speed forward into the future or relive the past?Someone asked me this once in a car on a road trip, and while my car-mates reminisced about ti…
