Entries tagged with “Personal Essay”
7 Ways to Take Care and Take Action
What do we do when facing what appear to be insurmountable challenges of our time?
And This Is How Our World Will Change
Those who have deeply suffered know the only way to attain authentic and lasting contentment is to turn our hearts outward in service to those who are suffering. Here are two stories…
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…
Breathing through Untangling Myself
Discovering yoga and embracing the constant transitions that come with the practice.
Discovering Gold on the Gold Coast of Australia
How a Trip to the Land Down Under Shifted My Perspective from Hole to Whole
Exploring the Power of Intuition
Within the quietness of mind you hear a kind of deeper process, a deeper wisdom.
Get a New Perspective on Your Regrets
A close encounter with a powerful force of nature gives writer Steve Lewis a new perspective on his regrets.
God is Everywhere
I grew up in a suburban neighborhood in Sacramento, California. I was always fascinated to go next door to our neighbor's, an older couple, who had the exact same house as us, but …
Heal Yourself, Heal the World
Drawing from the wisdom of spiritual teachers, writer Emma Pearse focuses on healing herself to heal the world.
How to Break the Spell of Fear
When you take control, you break fear’s spell. The concept is simple, but is difficult to accomplish because fear is the ultimate enabler. I saw that clearly when I went blind.
Make Your Story a Gift
To come to know and to make sense of and to share our stories is not an act of selfishness, but an act of growth, healing, and ultimately, generosity. But what is a writer to do with a violent story she cannot narrate—when it’s her own?
Peace Lessons From A War Horse
Could you teach a peace-loving and exquisitely sensitive animal to carry you across a battlefield into enemy fire? What would that teach you? A true story…
Prayers for Our Children
A soon to be mother asked me what prayers she could do for the child in her womb. It brought me back to my days as a pregnant lady. There was a sensation of something incredi…
The First Child in History Diagnosed with Autism
Adapted from In a Different Key: The Story of Autism
The Gift of Mistakes
Yes, it is true, we make mistakes. I have made plenty and as my husband often reminds me—it’s alright! In fact, he says I'll probably and we'll probably keep making mistakes. It is…
The Real High
My definition of a drug is any substance which alters your senses. I include alcohol and marijuana in addition to hard drugs. The following thoughts are a conversation I fantasize having with some of my friends who practice yoga and meditation and use drugs.
The Self-Loathing Look
In a public place thousands of miles from here, a stranger identified me as someone who lives in the same town as himself.I happen to hate this town, where the person behind you in…
The Wrong I Needed to Write
In the last two issues of S&H, I’ve written two articles. This is the one that was trying to get out…
What Is Your Crazy?
When I was twenty-one, my grandma was bedridden and needed full time care. She was worried that the lady living with her and taking care of her was crazy and asked us to get someon…
Yoga and the Journey to Sobriety
I grew up in a household of teetotalers. The only alcohol anyone in my family drank was at the altar during communion—until the church switched to grape juice. Despite my par…
