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What are Emotions?

I realise that I tend to ignore my emotions sometimes, so I’m being more aware of them these days, noticing them, naming them, and letting them go.

Here’s a list of emotions that I might go through in a day: happy, joyous, sad, disappointed, frustrated, bothered, annoyed, delighted, awed, overwhelmed, doubtful, certain, pushed, balanced, scattered, whole, [...]

So Much is New

The speed of change in our lives can be subtle and slow or it can be in-your-face and fast. As I widen my areas of interest with my studies in natural holistic nutrition (see my many posts on this), I am making many beneficial changes in my daily practices, my knowledge base, my lifestyle, our [...]

Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Insight

Watch this 18-minute video delivered by Jill Bolte Taylor, neuoranatomist, on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) annual conference website. TED challenges people to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Jill Bolte Taylor’s talk will blow you away and give you a new look at reality, from the inside out.

Best of health, naturally,
Nina

The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg

Seeing this family of geese on Granville Island on Tuesday reminded me of the story of “The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg.” Here it is again, from my remembering.

Once upon a time, a farmer had a young gosling that grew up to be a wonderful goose and the reason this was a wonderful goose [...]

A Worker Bee’s Lifetime Production

photo credit to getye1 at stock.xchng

I have just learned that a worker bee produces 0.8g (1/10 tsp) of honey in her lifetime! And so it takes ten worker bees their whole lives – which in the summer is anywhere from 28 to 40 days – to create a teaspoon of honey.

And those ten worker [...]

Caroline Myss Looks at the Power Behind the Behaviour

Here are three quotes that are inspiring me today from three wonderful videos of Caroline Myss, Ph.D. in action.

“Forgiveness is the eye of the needle.”

“The soul is a vessel of service.”

“Nobody falls into life randomly…. Life is not an accident: it’s a spiritual design…. When you leave this planet, and you will, you will discover [...]

Which is More Hygienic? Intincting or Imbibing?

If you’re a church goer, and a church goer where communion is regularly celebrated, do you intinct or do you imbibe? Aren’t those interesting words?

I’ve been intincting, i.e. I’ve been dipping my wafer into the wine at communion, rather than sipping from the communal chalice. It was a choice based on what I thought I [...]

Dragons in My Life

I have many dragons in my life. All of them are good, inspiring, fiery, fiercely creative, and warmly embracing.

For a start, I was born in Wales, a principality of Great Britain whose emblem is the Welsh dragon. Wales’s flag is pictured here.

According to Data Wales, the red Welsh dragon was

seen as a symbol of national [...]

Monkey Mind

I’m very interested in meditating better. I mean, I don’t even meditate everyday, but I want to. And when I do, I really enjoy it.

I’m currently reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love, and having eaten my way through Italy with Elizabeth, I’m now in India in her near-Mumbia Ashram, learning to meditate. I laughed out [...]

A Personal Inventory

Here it is, January 1, 2009. Another year has come and gone in the circle of life. I want to keep the good parts with me and learn from what went wrong too.

Some time today, I’m going to sit down with a large piece of paper and draw a mind map of my personal inventory [...]