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Some people in our modern world, only believe in things they can touch and see. Others, believe in the invisible -- potential, possibilities, and a better future. However, in order to be open to a better future, we have to be open to things changing, and to believing in people (including our own selves) also changing.
This week, we bring you articles focused on helping you see the potential around you (and inside of you), and provide avenues and visions to help create this new loving and compassionate world that resides in our hearts and that we yearn to make manifest all around us.
This involves trusting ourselves, trusting others, and trusting that the future can indeed manifest on a more aware and loving level than we perhaps are seeing around us right now. So this week, we encourage you to believe in magic, in the future, in yourself, and be willing to let go and forgive actions (yours and other people's) in your past, present, and future. And then, move forward taking the actions necessary to create this world our heart dreams of. Paraphrasing Wayne Dyer: If you can believe it, you will be able to create it and see it becoming reality.
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Wishing you enjoyable insightful reading, and of course a wonder-full, joy-full, health-full, and loving week.
Marie T. Russell
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InnerSelf.com
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NEW ARTICLES THIS WEEK
Is Our Modern World Really Unmagical?
Julia Paulette Hollenbery
In modernity, magic has often been dismissed, ridiculed and banished as suspect, woo-woo nonsense. It can seem that only those people who are foolish, young and crazy deal in such things.
Wild Practices for Listening to the Intelligence of Your Body
Rebecca Wildbear
Our dominant culture trains us to be disembodied. Separating our minds from our bodies makes humans less healthy but more docile and obedient to external power structures.
Escape the Noisy Now with Futureback Thinking
Bob Johansen, Joseph Press, Christine Bullen
Looking futureback will help you find clarity so you can be very intent but very flexible about how you’ll get there.
Letting Go and Taking Forgiveness to the Next Level
Joyce Vissell
A lot has been written about forgiveness and how it blesses the person who forgives. I hope to add another aspect which is very important in the journey of full forgiveness.
4 Relationship Killers and How to Cut Them off at the Pass
Jude Bijou
The demise of marriages and relationships in general, is not over money, children, or health but crummy communication styles.
What Happens If You Don’t Get Enough Sleep?
Olave Krigolson
Sleep may be the single biggest factor in maintaining a healthy brain and positive mental health. This is especially true if you are under the age of 20.
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: Inviting Moments of Stillness
Marlise Karlin
March 5, 2023 - One of the best ways to hear that voice or those insights is by consciously inviting moments of Stillness into your life.
Does Your Ideal Office Space Depend on Your Personality?
University of Arizona
When employers design and allocate workspaces, it may be beneficial to take an employee-centered approach...
A Bit of Narcissism Can Be Normal and Healthy
April Nisan Ilkmen
During former President Donald Trump’s campaign and presidency, the word narcissism became something of a buzzword. And in recent years the word has been popularized on social media and in the press.
How American Gun Culture Is Based on Frontier Myth
Pierre M. Atlas
70% of Republicans said it is more important to protect gun rights than to control gun violence, while 92% of Democrats and 54% of independents expressed the opposite view.
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: Developing Wisdom & Love
Chönyi Taylor
March 4, 2023 - My hope is that we can find out how to develop our own wisdom and love toward others and ourselves.
How Signals from Your Body Could Be Making You Anxious
Jennifer Murphy et al
Most of us would agree that when we experience an emotion, there is often a change in our body.
The Dark Side of Tiktok’s Extreme Positive Thinking Trend
Lowri Dowthwaite-Walsh
While this trend may have started with the best of intentions, it could actually do more harm than good.
Getting a Second Cat? How to Make Sure Your First Pet Doesn’t Feel Threatened
Jenna Kiddie
Many people choose to live with a cat for companionship. As a social species, companionship is something we often crave. But this cannot necessarily be said of our feline friends.
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: Choosing Our Beliefs
Noelle Sterne, Ph.D.
March 3, 2023 - Beliefs are not irrevocable, sacrosanct sets of truths. They are only thoughts we continue to think.
How Anxious Dogs Can Benefit from Group Exercise
Amy West
Humans weren’t the only beings doing it tough with mental health issues during the pandemic. Our pets suffered too – particularly dogs, who are known to pick up on and share our own anxiety and stress.
Can Affirmations and Talking To Yourself Let the Light In?
Glenn Williams
Despite being a source of constant bad news, the internet is also awash with attempts at countering negativity. A quick search for “inspirational” content yields heaps of speeches, songs and sayings intended to make sense of tough times.
Why People Can’t Agree on Facts and What Is True
James Steiner-Dillon
Does wearing a mask stop the spread of COVID-19? Is climate change driven primarily by human-made emissions? With these kinds of issues dividing the public, it sometimes feels as if people are losing our ability to agree about basic facts of the world.
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: Making New Choices
HeatherAsh Amara
March 2, 2023 - Being your true, authentic self means you can say no from a place of love rather than say yes from a place of fear.
3 Ways to Feel Joy More Often
Jolanta Burke and Padraic J. Dunne
Joy is an emotion experienced by many but understood by few. It’s usually mistaken for happiness, yet is unique in its impact on both our mind and body.
When Does Depression Become an Emergency?
John B. Williamson
Clinical depression, or major depressive disorder, occurs in 20% of the population over the lifetime. It can surface and differ from person to person in a variety of ways.
Why Sibling Aggression Can Have Lifelong Repercussions
Corinna Jenkins Tucker and Tanya Rouleau Whitworth
Nearly 80% of U.S. children grow up with a sibling. For many, brothers and sisters are life companions, close confidants and sharers of memories. But siblings also are natural competitors for parents’ attention.
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: Choosing Our Use of Time
Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
March 1, 2023 - In the practice of mindfulness, we are reminded to make each action consciously.
Rejecting Science Has A Long History
Katrine K. Donois
Fear engulfed everyone during the pandemic. Yet when a vaccine became available, it was met with fierce resistance. Anti-vaccination crowds formed, and some of these groups argued this vaccine was against their religious beliefs.
What Is the Metaverse, and What Can We Do There?
Adrian Ma
You’ve likely heard recently how the metaverse will usher in a new era of digital connectivity, virtual reality (VR) experiences and e-commerce. Tech companies are betting big on it...
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: Experience Harmony & Peace.
Susan Ann Darley.
February 28, 2023 - By being true to yourself, you will begin to experience harmony and peace.
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration: Releasing fear-based models of love.
Alan Cohen
February 27, 2023 - As we release fear-based models of love, we open to the gift we were born to receive...
This Week's Astrological Overview
Astrological Overview & Horoscope: March 6-12, 2023
Pam Younghans
This weekly astrological journal is based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your personal chart.
For the video version of this Astrological Overview. see section below (Videos added to YouTube this week).
Videos Added To YouTube This Week
Astrological Overview: March 6 - 12, 2023
Written and Narrated by Pam Younghans
Kids Free To Roam: Do kids free to roam on their own feel more confident in adulthood?
Written by Vanessa Vieites. Narrated by Marie T. Russell
It's Not About the Food: Overeating, Addictions, and
Written by Jude Bijou. Narrated by Marie T. Russell.
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