I was whipping cream the other day for some lovely strawberries I had purchased at the market, and as I was concentrated on my task I started thinking about how similar some things in life are to this churning process. You start whisking the liquid cream and maintain a certain pace as it slowly becomes thicker and thicker, until it…
Author: Yol Swan
A Spiritual View on Depression and Anxiety
It is amazing how many people are on antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications nowadays. What is even more surprising is how many of them are teens and young adults who get diagnosed and put on drugs for the long haul. After antibiotics, the most common prescriptions are for antidepressants, and it is believed that depression is caused by low levels of…
Understanding Abundance and Inner Power
Most people fail to understand the true meaning of abundance and power. In the modern world, power has become a synonym for wealth and we have been trained to believe that abundance is just money, since we are used to exchanging our time for it. The old saying that “time is money” has been ingrained in our minds. Time and…
Finding the Spark to Rise Above Suffering
My daughter and I recently watched Girl Rising, which is a movie about nine girls from nine different developing countries sharing personal stories of poverty, discrimination, and suffering while trying to find a way through education to rise above the constraints imposed by their culture and environment. Although somewhat intense, the film is really beautifully made. These are true stories…
The Power of Emotional Self-Expression and Self-Reflection
The path of self-awareness is not a highway. It is a long, slow process of uncovering and emerging; of discovering and nurturing; of expressing and releasing. In our rush to get where we think we want to get, we forget that our purpose here is to experience the world in human form and then also to transcend it, as we…
Choosing Between Victimhood and Personal Empowerment
There is a choice before us all, whether we are aware of it or not. As the old world structures continue to collapse, the battle for the dominion of our energy is becoming more intensely obvious. It’s time to make a conscious choice regarding the direction of your life: will you maintain the old fear-based beliefs and emotional wounds or…
Shift Your Relationship With Money and Abundance
We live in a fast-paced world that is continuously bombarding us with messages of lack, imperfection, disease, suffering, and fear, while at the same time we are expected to accomplish everything quickly; in turn, we have come to expect to get immediate results and instant gratification. We want a quick fix for our problems, our financial situation, and even our…