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Rosh Hashanah, the celebration of the Jewish new year, begins today at sundown. This is a time for feasting and celebration, a time to look back at the year past and to look forward to the year ahead. Traditionally, sweet foods are consumed at Rosh Hashanah, because they help to usher in a sweet, productive, and abundant new year. Make this simple, traditional food to mark this day and bring sweetness to your life. Core and slice crisp, tart apples. Prepare a small bowl of honey. Dip the ...
I’m a recovering addict, and the last day I got high was August 21, 1990. Every year I call to mind the dirty, gritty, and hopeless reality of my last using day so that I am regularly in touch with the pain that led me into recovery. Use this binding spell to bring things to an end. You need a pen, paper, and a string. Sit quietly. What do you want to end? Write it on the paper. Say: I call your name, I know your game. I no longer want to play. Fold the paper and say: Out of sight, ...
It is time to harvest what we have been growing in our gardens and to consciously harvest the power of the sun. Take five minutes to sit quietly in the sunlight. Close your eyes, yet see the light of the sun within. Focus on the solar panels in your skin. Feel them warm and generate energy as you harvest the sun. We can take vitamins from a bottle, but our skin is the most efficient tool for producing vitamin D. Outdoor sunlight provides ultraviolet radiation that the skin uses to produce ...
This simple magical practice for creating increased cues of safety in the body, even in uncertain situations, can transform our ability to respond effectively to situations. Sit with your spine stacked over the sitting bones. Feel your head sitting atop the spine. Now use your nose to draw micro circles in front of you—tiny, subtle, and in both directions. Notice the movement in your first (atlas) vertebra, which sits just below the skull in the neck. Now trace miniscule figure-eight ...
