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Broadening of Consciousness

Are You Awake?

by Nicolette Beard on November 7, 2009

in Broadening of Consciousness

How often have you said, “I wasn’t think­ing,” in response to some action you took that turned out badly? It wasn’t that you weren’t “think­ing,” per se; your mind was focused some­where else. When our phys­i­cal, emo­tional and men­tal bod­ies are unaligned, we are not present. Our essen­tial self is absent. If you want to be […]

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Peace Begins When Hunger Ends

by Nicolette Beard on October 26, 2009

in Broadening of Consciousness

It’s not yet Hal­loween here in the U.S., but neigh­bors already have Christ­mas lights up and the hol­i­day cat­a­logs arrive daily. One such cat­a­log that got my atten­tion was a gift cat­a­log where you send an ani­mal to a com­mu­nity. It came from an orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to end­ing world hunger. From bees to lla­mas to […]

President Obama Speaks on Iran

by Nicolette Beard on June 20, 2009

in Broadening of Consciousness

From the White House Brief­ing Room: “The Iran­ian gov­ern­ment must under­stand that the world is watch­ing. We mourn each and every inno­cent life that is lost. We call on the Iran­ian gov­ern­ment to stop all vio­lent and unjust actions against its own peo­ple. The uni­ver­sal rights to assem­bly and free speech must be respected, and the […]

Irritation: Scourge of Our Time

by Nicolette Beard on May 26, 2009

in Broadening of Consciousness

Do we ever won­der about the cumu­la­tive effect of life’s lit­tle irri­ta­tions? Beyond the obvi­ous dis­tur­bances like air and noise pol­lu­tion (Whose won­der­ful Memo­r­ial Day week­end wasn’t inter­rupted by lawn movers and leaf blow­ers?), these annoy­ances and the irri­ta­tion they cause pre­vent higher ideas from pen­e­trat­ing not only the planet, but also our­selves. “Ema­na­tions of […]