The Insidious Nature of Our Favorite Morning Brew
Is your morning cup of Joe helping or hurting your health? Considering that coffee is the most used psychoactive substance worldwide (With 90% of American adults consuming caffeine-infused beverages almost daily(1), its hard to find a control population to test the insidious nature of caffeine addiction- which is exactly what Michael Pollan soon realized when he wrote his book “Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World”. Shortly after reading his book, I took a long hard look at my own caffeine consumption habits, and how they were affecting my life. I knew that caffeine can cause anxiety and digestive issues…
3 Ways I’ve Overcome an Empty Page and A Bad Attitude
Writer’s block is just another name for a number of things:
- Perfectionism — I don’t think what I want to write is good enough, so you don’t write a single word.
- Fear — I don’t think I have what it takes, so I don’t share my work. (Now, no one can confirm my fear that I”m not good enough)
- Disbelief — I don’t believe in myself. I don’t believe at this particular moment that whatever I have to say is worth hearing or writing down.
I can’t tell you how many times I've sat down in front of an empty…
Unravelling Years of Self-Sabotage and Manifestations
Your perception is your reality. The things that you see, hear, and feel are filtered through the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is a powerful secondary system that runs everything in your life. It stores your beliefs, your previous experience, your memories, your skills, and everything that you have seen, done or thought. It is also your guidance system.
The subconscious mind constantly monitors the information coming from the senses for dangers and opportunities. Through my journey overcoming trauma, I’ve learned a lot about the tendencies of my subconscious as I focused on my mental health and emotional wellness.
I…
What does it mean to be awake? What are the characteristics of the state of ‘spiritual wakefulness’ or ‘enlightenment’? Is there a way to tell if you are having one?
Chances are- if you are reading this article, you are well on your way. Things or experiences might seem different, but is it just your perception? Is there a bigger change happening in the world around us?
Spiritual awakening is not an overnight venture. It’s simply a term that helps define the beginning of your initiation on the spiritual path. When we undergo a spiritual awakening, we literally “wake up” to life. The spiritual awakening process is complex, multi-layered, and different for everyone. In reality, it cannot be fit into neat categories. …
10 Essentials for Reducing Waste on Vacation
I spend about 6 months abroad out of the year, and try my best to keep my impact low, especially in countries where lunch food trucks pack my snacks in styrofoam. After spending years on the road, I’ve perfected my pack!
Gone are the days I hit up the local pharmacy for tiny bottles of what-not that end up in the trashcan after 3 uses. My Zero Waste Travel Kit has all that I previously needed. I’d previously settle for low-grade shampoos and conditioners- things I didn’t regularly use, and would end up in a landfill somewhere in the world…
Soul Exploration and Creative Expansion
Over time, I’ve developed rituals and practices with the aim of increasing my creative flow: to overcome writer’s block and to find inspiration in my daily life. I smudge my space, practice yoga first thing in the morning, and look for ways to expand my consciousness to open my mind. Through these self-exploration processes, I discovered automatic writing.
Automatic writing is a form of channeling, where you allow a higher power to create or guide the words that you write. It involves allowing Spirit, the universal mind or your higher self to simply flow through you.
When I first began…
Inspire Your Life with your Dreams
I’ve always been fascinated by my dreams, and love analyzing their meaning. I have fantastic dreams, related to people in my life or the stress I’m currently going through.
I think it gives me a window into my subconscious mind and helps me analyze what I’m not digesting fully at that moment. The problem is…I forget them almost immediately upon waking. A lot of people do, right?
Even as our body rests, we fulfill our suppressed or repressed wishes. Through our fantasies, we release our anger, tension, stress, and anxiety in a non-harmful way…
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Self Love & Soul Care
Not too long ago, I viewed others that believed in God to lack intelligence, “backbone” or the willpower to live on a planet alone, lost in a sea of vast nothingness. Through my atheist eyes, I stereotyped these people as lesser beings, unable to see that life was great without the need for an afterlife. I saw many God-fearing Christians as people that weren’t worth knowing, because they needed faith in order to live by a moral code. Thankfully, these sharp, antagonistic aspects of my personality have been dying. …
Cassy Marie
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