Editor's Note from Sandra Miniere: Oprah Winfrey shares how she worked the process of surrender while she was in high stress and waiting to hear about a movie role in The Color Purple. When she realized that she had done all she could do, she turned it over to a Higher Power. She reached an inner state of empowerment, peace and flow. Her description of the letting go process is moving and inspirational. It reminds us about the extraordinary power of surrender, one outcome at a time. Enjoy!

Sacred Living

by Karen Sherman, PhD

One of the concepts you’ve probably heard about is that if you want to be less stressed, you would be wise to learn to let go of little things. I totally agree! Another idea that aligns with this one is: What you focus on will become greater...

Editor's Note from Sandra Miniere: Dr. Karen shares a few tips about how to work with your negative emotions. When you allow them to move through you, you become empowered by them. This feeling of empowerment affects your relationships too. When you feel your negative emotions instead of judge them, everyone benefits.

Sacred Living

by Christine Nightingale, BA, RM, CH

Hypnosis is well recognized for its effectiveness in smoking cessation, weight control, eliminating phobias and general habit changing. Interestingly, some of these issues pose the greatest threats to fertility. In fertility work the goal is to attain personal empowerment, which will let nature take its course through inner peace, and the ability to accept, appreciate and embrace life..

Editor's Note from Cynthia Lindner: Hypnosis is well known as an affective tool for issues like smoking, stress and weight, however this article takes you into the area of fertility and explains how the mind-body can resolve fertility issues when hypnotherapy is utilized.

Hypnotherapy

by Friedeman Schaub, MD, PhD

We often resist change as something bad and uncomfortable. However, change is inevitable, because it is the essence of life – how we change is up to us. Healing, whether emotionally or physically, is a form of change, from the state of disease and discomfort to the state of health and wholeness...

Editor's Note: A great look into the subconscious filters we use on ourselves that keep us from change and how we can ultimately remove them.

Integrative Medicine

by Leslie Hewitt, DC

The doctor of the future will give no medicine.

Your belief in the power that made the body heals the body is needed in the world where many people are lost, sick, uninformed, and looking for truth. Let’s get out of the language that perpetuates fear, disempowerment, and victim...

Editor's Note from Elizabeth Wisniewski: Dr. Leslie Hewitt has a special way of explaining the chiropractic story from the most loving and genuine heart space. She truly lives a holistic lifestyle and is an amazing role model for women. In order to achieve living a life that accurately reflects your authentic self you must first get clear. In this article she provides several easy steps on how to live the life you are meant to live.

Chiropractic

by Zoe Newman, M.F.T.

'This very moment is the perfect teacher."
~Pema Chodron

What would it be like to discover in our waking life the same creative insight, connection to deeper wisdom, and possibilities for transformation that dreams offer. To find in our everyday encounters, even the difficult and challenging ones, an opportunity for insight and empowerment? And what would it be like to be truly awake and conscious in our everyday life -- in the same way that dreamers attempt to become lucid and conscious while dreaming...
 

by Elizabeth Thompson MBBS, BAOxon, MRCP, FFHom, DM

Receiving a diagnosis of cancer can be a very frightening experience and many people remember the exact moment of hearing this difficult news. The experience can cause shock and anxiety and the feeling that one’s life is spiraling out of control...

Editor's Note from Judith Hanna Doshi: Elizabeth Thompson provides homeopathic care to patients undergoing conventional cancer treatment. In Part 1 of her article she describes the various reasons patients who have received a cancer diagnosis seek out homeopathic treatment.

Homeopathy