Spirituality

By Joyce and Barry Vissell   To really love a woman is to give her your complete trust. I love the line in Bryan Adams’s song, “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman,” “… and when you find yourself lying helpless in her arms, you know you really love a woman.” …

By Blair McKissock, MSEd, RYT Horses are a large piece of what makes up legend, mythology, and history. At the beginning of the year in the time of winter, we confront the darker aspects of our inner self, sometimes referred to as dancing with your dark horse. During this time, we …

By  Mary Montgomery   Last month’s column paid tribute to a local Chicago hero, the late James “Major” Adams, whose loving and kind ways made him a legend on the west side. I also shared my experiences with the Abraham-Hicks techniques (abraham-hicks.com), and how they are not only helping me become …

By Alan Cohen I saw a romantic greeting card which showed a couple kissing in the front seat of a car. The message said, “If you can kiss while driving safely, you are not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”   Anything that is worth doing, is worth doing …

By Joyce and Barry Vissell The first three steps of the twelve-step program for recovery from addiction have to do with asking for help; knowing that we are powerless without help from a higher power; and trusting that this higher power can restore our lives greater than we could even …

By Walter Perschke     Dreams are the primary way that our higher selves communicate with us. Dreams are a spontaneous product of our subconscious mind and beyond the reach of the will. If you understand your dreams, and the messages they hold for you, you have made a big …

By Blair McKissock Have you ever noticed how many different colors of horses there are?  Horses can come in almost 100 different varieties of coat color and markings with endless combinations. They are one of a few species that can have multiple variations in their markings within a group of the …

By Mary Montgomery Last month’s column paid tribute to the gifts given to the world by the late Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences(IONS). Not all heroes have such a national and international scope. We can often be inspired by people much closer …

By Alan Cohen Do you suffer from guilt?  Do you impose guilt on others? Nearly every religion, family, and belief system plays on guilt to keep its adherents in line. Yet there are ways to escape from the prison of guilt. Here are the top seven, along with practical applications …

By Mary Montgomery This month’s column is a tribute to a great light, a great man who is no longer with us on this big, blue marble of a fragile planet we call Earth. Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut and the sixth person to walk on the moon, made his …