Featured, Mind & Spirit

Hypnotism, Are You Convinced?

Maybe, like me, you have encountered a hypnotist performing live on stage, wherein the show itself was absolutely hilarious due to the participants’ performances, but at the same time, it was also intriguing. How can someone get another person to run around on stage arms akimbo, crowing like a rooster? How can someone snap their ...

Julie-anne D’Alcorn

A stage hypnotist performing hypnosis on participant.

Important Message From the Hopi Elders on Current World Events

You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.  “Now you must go back and tell the people that this is The Hour.”  Here are the things that must be considered:  Where are you living?  What are you doing?  What are your relationships?  Are you in the right relationship?  Where is your ...

Sofia Roma

Hopi Indians gathering water from a stream.

How to Alleviate Pandemic-Induced Anxiety in Children

With the advent of COVID-19, life as we have known it has changed drastically. Not only has it turned our adult lives upside down, but the lives of our children have also been drastically impacted. No one really knows how much anxiety they are under, or how their young world is being affected. Gone are ...

Tatiana Denning

Three children at a laptop computer.

2 Heartwarming Miracles 

Miracle one: Some wilted vegetables taught me a valuable lesson One afternoon, I went for a walk with a friend in the suburbs. Suddenly, an old man dressed in tattered clothes approached, carrying a bag of green vegetables in his hand to sell. The vegetables looked poor. Many of the leaves were dehydrated, brown, and ...

Emma Lu

Two raised hands around the setting sun.

A True Story: A Righteous Man Can Escape Disaster

Mr. Wang was a kind and righteous man. He ran a hotel behind the county hall of Jiangning County, in the Province of Jiankang during the Song Dynasty. Like all good people, he was straightforward, honest, and fair in his business dealings, and so people called him Honest Wang. He also liked to help Taoist ...

Tatiana Denning

A raging fire.

The Most Powerful Health Resource You Have Is Your Mind

Your mind is very powerful. If pharmaceutical companies could bottle and sell the placebo effect, they would be many times wealthier than they already are. A placebo, commonly known as a sugar pill, is what a new drug coming to market must be measured against to determine which works better, the drug or the mind. ...

Tatiana Denning

Soil with chalk outline as persons head and fresh green plant grows from the mind.

Returning to a Child-Like Heart

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” ~ Socrates A child-like heart When I was little, I was rather shy and reserved, preferring to stay in the background and observe. While I had some friends, I was just as content to do my homework or spend long hours reading on my bed, as I was doing ...

Tatiana Denning

Adult and child holding a red heart.

The Righteous Way Is the Most Valuable

The journey has many turns and twists. The righteous way of dealing with all conditions and circumstances of life is the most valuable, as eventually, the outcome is always rewarding and fruitful. Toward the end of the Qing Dynasty (1636-1912), a plague spread in a village in southern China. A road through the village divided ...

Emma Lu

A woman in water praying.

When Facing Adversity, if You Do Your Best, You Thrive

One way or another, at some time or another and at the worst possible time, adversity will show up at your door. Depending on the way you handle it, whether it is physical, spiritual, or emotional, adversity can be your friend or foe. Facing adversity can make you or break you. “If a man is ...

Tatiana Denning

A plant growing amoung rocks.

The Goodness of Perseverance

The dictionary definition of perseverance lets us know that it is continued effort; to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition; the action or condition or an instance of persevering; steadfastness. Perseverance. It’s not something you are really taught, and sometimes you are not even sure if you have it — until you are ...

Tatiana Denning

Mountain climber climbs up icy mountain using ice pick.