https://aeon.co/videos/we-are-born-of-supernovas-our-spectacular-and-totally-ordinary-origin-story?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=58aa9b086e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_09_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-58aa9b086e-69120157 We are born of supernovas – our spectacular and totally ordinary origin story You might have heard that we are made of ‘star stuff’, but what exactly does that mean? In this collaboration between The Atlantic and the podcast TRBQ (The Really Big Questions), the NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller explains how every atom […]
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How to Treat Back Pain – Look to the Brain – Not the Spine
By Kitty Norris on September 12, 2017 in Ancestor Work, Boundary Work!, Brain Science, Challenges!, Changing our Stories, Collective Unconscious, Consciousness, Depression, Embracing Change, Empowerment, Energy Medicine, Fears, Healing energies, Mental and Emotional Health, Mind-Body Healing, Physical, Science, skills for our tool kits, Soul Retrieval, Soul Wounds, Spiritual Illness, Stress management, Trauma
Looking to one of my favorite topics – Pphysical manifestations of emotional turmoil…psychoneuroimmunology and all the other fascinating mind/body connections: This incredible book, Crooked, explores the topic in a personal narrative, and a very readable format. Here’s an excerpt! https://aeon.co/essays/to-treat-back-pain-look-to-the-brain-not-the-spine?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ebbf96b3e4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_09_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-ebbf96b3e4-69120157
The Sorrow and Shame of the Accidental Killer – New Yorker – Link
By Kitty Norris on September 12, 2017 in Brain Science, Challenges!, Changing our Stories, Compassion, Consciousness, Depression, Empathy, Empowerment, Healing energies, Mental and Emotional Health, Relationships, skills for our tool kits, Soul Retrieval, Spiritual Illness, The Drama Triangle
This is a phenomenal journalistic piece which explores the particular PTSD experienced by people who accidentally take another’s life. Highly recommended reading, sharing, pondering, bringing compassion… https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-sorrow-and-the-shame-of-the-accidental-killer?mbid=nl_170911_Daily_Monday&CNDID=26249229&spMailingID=11897312&spUserID=MTg2NDc2MDI4MzAwS0&spJobID=1240943615&spReportId=MTI0MDk0MzYxNQS2
Cognitive Dissonance – why people go haywire when beliefs are challenged – regardless of facts
By Kitty Norris on September 10, 2017 in Addictions, Anger, Brain Science, Changing our Stories, Embracing Change, Empowerment, Energy Medicine, Mental and Emotional Health, Mindfulness, Relationships, skills for our tool kits, Stress management
You Are Not Your Mind ~ Dr. Elson Haas
By Kitty Norris on August 27, 2017 in Beginners’ Mind!, Brain Science, Changing our Stories, Empowerment, From my own teachers, loving and encouraging words for the day!, Meditation, Mental and Emotional Health, skills for our tool kits, Wellness and Prevention
The one who wishes to be a true medicine person must be a person of faith
By Kitty Norris on June 23, 2017 in Beginners’ Mind!, Ceremony, Changing our Stories, Energy Medicine, Faith, From my own teachers, Healing energies, Law of Attraction, loving and encouraging words for the day!, Mental and Emotional Health, Mind-Body Healing, Sacred Space, Shamanism, Spiritual Worlds, Spirituality
Elder’s Meditation of the Day – June 22 “The one who wishes to be a true medicine person must be a person of faith, and they can only work successfully with those who also have faith.” — Fools Crow, LAKOTA Medicine People are spiritual beings who have made a decision to seek the Red Road. […]
The Two Wolves
By Kitty Norris on June 21, 2017 in Boundary Work!, Challenges!, Changing our Stories, Compassion, Complementary opposites, Embracing Change, Empowerment, Energy Medicine, From my own teachers, Healing energies, Law of Attraction, loving and encouraging words for the day!, Mental and Emotional Health, Mind-Body Healing, Relationships, skills for our tool kits, Spirit Animals, Spirituality, Stress management, Totems and Power Animals
The Two Wolves One evening an Elder told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all.” “One is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.” “The other […]
Note from the Universe for today!
By Kitty Norris on June 19, 2017 in ” Time “, Beginners’ Mind!, Challenges!, Changing our Stories, Consciousness, Empowerment, Law of Attraction, loving and encouraging words for the day!, Mindfulness, Quantum “Fun and Games”
Brace yourself! It’s time for more “good news, bad news.” The good news is that life is just an illusion. A playground of sorts for spiritual adventurers to learn of their divinity. Where absolutely anything can happen, thoughts become things, and dreams do come true. It’s like the ultimate test pilot’s paradise, where they can […]
Choose to change the way to perceive a problem
By Kitty Norris on March 13, 2017 in Andean Cosmovision, Beginners’ Mind!, Boundary Work!, Challenges!, Changing our Stories, Embracing Change, Empowerment, Energy Medicine, From my own teachers, Healing energies, Law of Attraction, Mental and Emotional Health, Mindfulness, Peru, Relationships, skills for our tool kits, Spirituality, Stress management, The Drama Triangle, Wellness and Prevention
“The Laika don’t live by rules or ideas. If they want to change their world they don’t pass new laws, they choose to change the way they perceive a problem.” ─Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D.
Carl Greer and OM Times!
By Kitty Norris on March 12, 2017 in Brain Science, Changing our Stories, Collective Unconscious, Compassion, Dreams & Dreaming, Embracing Death, Empathy, Empowerment, Energy Medicine, Energy Sensitivity, From my own teachers, Gratitude, Healing energies, loving and encouraging words for the day!, Mental and Emotional Health, Mind-Body Healing, Peru, Relationships, Science agrees with Shamanism & Spiritual Practices, Shamanism, skills for our tool kits, Spiritual Illness, Wellness and Prevention
I had the great good fortune to have Carl Greer as my personal mentor in the Way of the Sage program at The Four Winds Society. He is a marvelous teacher of Jungian Archetypes and dream work! He was a wonderful guide in the path of my training, and taught me how to do distance […]