Dec 142011
 
Bless Away your Holiday Stress

Reading Time: 9 minutes Bless Away Your Holiday Stress   By Maria Mar         The tree is up. The lights are on. The music plays. The Holidays are here, full of bright colors, smiles and good spirits. So why do you feel so blah? You go along and do the deeds, but your heart is not in it.   Or perhaps you are feeling quiet the opposite, like a renegade train running so fast that it is missing the Holiday station! Could it be that you are speeding past the Holiday Spirit? Read on and find out what may be causing your Holiday Stress and how to bless it away. There are four main sources of Holiday Blues or Stress:   Broken Heart, Broken Back, Broken Bag or Broken compass. Let’s take a quick look at each: Broken Heart You have experienced an emotional loss. You got divorced or you are remembering a loved one that died recently or during the Christmas season. Basically, you are grieving. Broken Back You are the victim of too many pressures, exhaustion or emotional stress. [Read more.]

Dec 222008
 
I am living my Dream. Come sing with me!

Reading Time: 3 minutes I remember Angie, the beautiful, magical child I was once. She would create poems and dances and organize participatory, creative events for the family reunions. Even before she could talk, she would get up on a big can of  “Sultana” crackers and tell stories to the invisible crowd from her future life that only she could see. I invite you to join my “I am my Dream Celebration” today by leaving your comments and sharing your stories. Here’s mine. Through my inherited wounds and blows in life, Angie lost some of her creativity and luster, and she became a caretaker, someone who carried a lot of psychic weight as an atonement for being so happy and creative. She lost her singing voice. She lost her visual art skills. She came to believe that she only had a right to do art if she was NOT enjoying it and if she focused on the problems. After all, that is what she saw everyone around her small world focusing on! Though I never betrayed my creativity or my life’s purpose, I paid [Read more.]