Click lower right-hand corner for FULL SCREEN Take a few minutes to reduce your stress with this video meditation guided by Jacqui Neurauter. What is iRest? The Integrative Restoration, iRest protocol is a guided deep relaxation meditation and inquiry practice that is profoundly transformative. When the nervous system is...

Our New Year’s resolutions of starting over and embarking on a healthier, wiser path often tend to fade when we discover how difficult it is to change our behaviors. Yet we do have the ability to rewire our circuitry—our patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors—by engaging IRS’s positive change agents...

  When I heard the word “Taoism” mentioned on the evening news one night, my ears pulled me in front of the TV. A former Wall Street investment banker, entrepreneur–and ordained minister–was talking about achieving abundance and fulfillment using spiritual principles. Was this yet another sign that the world is changing, that there...

Every January we talk about abolishing old habits, starting new healthier ones and moving in a direction of greater success and fulfillment. We can’t recreate a new past. The past is over and must be laid to rest. Yet we do have the ability to chart a course along a...

Physical sensations, feelings, emotions, thoughts and beliefs are messengers sent to help you on the path toward harmony and wholeness...

Third in a three-part series In this series I’ve been exploring how consumerism has come to dominate our culture in the form of craving, getting, having and hoarding. We’ve lost touch with our best self that is concerned not just for the individual, but for all people. The sense of...

We are in the midst of a cultural evolution where old values that ultimately produce greed and self-interest are being replaced by new core values of equality, caring for the human community and our Earth. In this world of Generosity Cosnciousness, we’ll be known as good citizens rather than simply...

First of a three-part series During the last half of the 20th century, the concept of “citizen” was hijacked and became that of “consumer.” This great loss has made it extremely challenging to exhibit our “best self”—a concept that earlier generations worked so hard to instill in us. While we...

We all face losses and disappointments throughout our lives, ruptured relationships, unsatisfying jobs, no promotion, missed opportunities and lost dreams. But we can emerge from our plight with a renewed vision to start down a new path, embrace the hope of creating something new, and forge something better...

Read also “Let Go and Start Anew One of the best cures for ruminating over loss and disappointments is to for-give (before giving). The process of forgiveness ultimately brings you back in harmony with the good feeling state you experienced before the loss – before the hurt enveloped you. This isn’t...

Second of a series. See also: “Follow Your Soul’s Calling” and “Put Your Soul’s Calling into Action” Dark winter nights at the beginning of the year are the perfect times to explore your dreams. Dreaming can be the fun part of working with your spiritual GPS or inner guidance system...

(Part 3 of a series. See also: Follow Your Soul’s Calling and Soul Reflections on Long Winter Nights In this articles series we’ve explored how to uncover your soul’s calling by tapping you’re your spiritual GPS system. This soul-searching process is not a one time shot, but an ongoing process...