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    Tune into your chakras Start off this year with a simple intention - pay attention to your feelings.  You can do this by checking in with yourself at different times during the course of a day.  Let me be more specific - How about starting right now?  Take 15 - 30 seconds to do a once over from your feet to your head, checking to see where your energy is concentrating.  Be sensitive to areas of your body that feel heavy, tense, nervous or sore for no particular reason.  Jot down where these feelings occur.  Try this three times today....

CELEBRATING THE SOLSTICE Congratulations!! We've made it to the Winter Solstice. The solstice is the official beginning of winter.  It the longest night and shortest day of the year.  From now until June, the days will be getting longer.  It may not be noticeable for a few weeks, but each day, the sun is shining on our part of the earth a tiny bit longer.  It begins with adding a few seconds of sunlight to every day, but by the summer solstice in June, our days stay light more than four hours longer than at the winter solstice.   It is generally noted...

  Flashy Labradorite Labradorite is a tricky sort of stone.  In the right light, it displays breathtaking flashes of color, from lavender and pink to neon blues and greens.  It is like holding stone made out of the northern lights.  Wow!  What makes it tricky is that the orientation of the stone has to be exactly right to reveal the brilliant flashes of color inside.  If the stone is not cut to show the flash, it appears a watery dull gray.  This makes cutting the stone of utmost importance!  One tiny tweak in how the stone sits in a piece of jewelry...

Thanksgiving from the heart chakra. While we associate Thanksgiving with feasting, merriment and family, the spirit of Thanksgiving comes from the heart.   It is a commemoration of the kindness of Native Americans, who shared their knowledge of living off the land, sharing their food and survival skills with the starving white skinned people so woefully inept at living in nature. As we celebrate this Thanksgiving holiday, we need to remember that it is not what we eat, but the gratitude of having enough to eat, the humility of realizing how fortunate we are and the love for humanity, not just our families...

  What is a Gong Bath? Recently, I had a dear friend who celebrated his birthday by having a gong bath.  He invited a few lucky friends to come along, and I was fortunate enough to be one of them.  I had been to a gong bath once before, and I enjoyed it much more the second time around.  If you have not heard of gong baths, I will attempt to give you my best interpretation of the experience. The Gong Bath Experience We entered a small room in that was dominated by several very large gongs maybe 4 ft....