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I Am Successful
How does it feel to say this to your self? “I am successful.” What thoughts come to mind, feelings or emotions? Does if feel strange or good to say that. Do you believe it? The desire for fame and fortune is likely about feeling love, safe and accepted. We are often conditioned in Western culture that success means primarily financial success, and then anything else we want to add in the mix as secondary and tertiary. Financial success is probably about feeling you have and are enough. How do you define success? What do you feel you have accomplished? What more do you want to accomplish? Can you be okay…
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Love Remains
Having recently lost a loved one, what is most important is that #LoveRemains🌷 Love Remains for Sally “After the first sprout, your days in the sunYour days in the rainOften lit by moonlight and your own magic when in the sky there was none,shining your love,shining your smile,your joy After you toiled, you made it look effortless,gradually transforming “the system”greeting people into your heart, they couldn’t resistinto your home After creating your family with all of the artists, poets, singers and filmmakers, all the way to great grandchildren,inspiring others to be their authentic self, you’d say “Be original.” After the words left your mouth and the presence grew stronger,your eyes grew…
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Living in a Wild Country: Is a Community Based on Love Possible?
On the Healing Connections Podcast, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L interviews thought leaders and health care practitioners about integrative health, wellness, prevention, spirituality, and consciousness. Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L interviews Niren, also known as Philip Toelkes about “Living in a Wild Country: Is a Community Based on Love Possible?” Niren has been a lawyer for over 40 years, a daily meditator for over 30 years, and a mediator and coach for over 20 years – from big firm lawyer, he has come to a very quiet life, in nature, meditating, writing and doing his work as a Consciousness Coach. He may be best known for being Osho’s lawyer and was featured in the…
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Mindfulness Meditation “Loving Yourself” Recording
New Recording – Mindfulness Meditation “Loving Yourself” By Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L Listen Here Here’s a new 10-minute guided mindfulness meditation I recorded that is easily accessible on YouTube that you can listen to for your own self-care. If you are a health care practitioner you can play for clients, or they can have as a tool they can use in between sessions, or after discharge. Read the researched benefits of meditation here. * Do not listen to this recording while driving a car. Once practiced enough you can bring these concepts into your activities of daily living – ADLs.
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Love is the Greatest Healer
By Emmy Vadnais, OTR/LOriginally published at I Love You Institute What is Love? “I love you.” Isn’t that what we long to hear? How often do you hear it or say it? How often do you feel love? Love is what everyone seems to be looking for – to be seen, valued, accepted, cared for, cherished or adored, treated with kindness, and to feel pleasure and connected instead of isolated and alone. Love is what unites us instead of dividing us. We are social creatures and we need each other to survive, learn, and grow. Truth, beauty and wisdom may be synonymous with love. Many believe one of the reasons we are here on this earth is to learn how to love. Some consider it…
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Love, Art & Healing
I interview thought leaders and health care practitioners about integrative health, wellness, prevention, spirituality, and consciousness on the Healing Connections Podcast. Art, Love & Healing I had the pleasure to interview Anne Labovitz about “Love, Art & Healing” on the Healing Connections Podcast episode 11 on 2/7/19. Labovitz is an American artist based in St Paul, Minnesota, whose practice includes painting, drawing, and printmaking as well as experimental film and sound. Labovitz has a degree in psychology and art from Hamline University in St. Paul and a Masters in Fine Art from Transart Institute via Berlin and New York. Her work considers many themes often returning to the central notion…
