Tag Archive for: thanksgiving

Gratitude, Turkey & Choosing Love

The great spiritual teacher, Ram Dass (“Be Here Now”) once said: “If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.” For those of us who consider ourselves to be loving, conscious people on a spiritual path, we are sometimes flabbergasted by just how easily being with our family can trigger negative emotions […]

Permission to INDULGE!

Happy Thanksgiving! This is a day for gratitude, as well as nourishing ourselves with delightful, tasty foods and nurturing our hearts and souls with those we most love. When we allow ourselves the joy of indulging all of our senses, we enhance our brain chemistry, especially by increasing the amount of dopamine in our brain.   Dopamine activates […]

Gratitude, Turkey & Choosing Love

The great spiritual teacher, Ram Dass (“Be Here Now“) once famously said:   “If you think you’re enlightened, go spend a week with your family.”   For those of us who consider ourselves to be loving, conscious people on a spiritual path, we are sometimes confounded by just how easily being with our family can […]