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Follow Your Hands

There is a quiet rhythm to most everyday routines. Do you ever feel like tapping into the strength of the regular, mundane tasks that you do regularly?
When performing household chores, try focusing all of your attention on your hands. While pulling laundry from the washing machine, feel the tension in your fingers as you […]

Creating a Practice

Developing a practice gives you grounding, a stable foundation from which to move forward every day. But what if you’re not drawn to the more traditional practices, like meditation or martial arts?
Create a practice out of anything that you love.
In The Way of Aikido, George Leonard talks about the marriage of practice and play. […]

Make Your Spiritual Practice a Priority

A friend of mine loves to step onto the training mats of her dojo. At the end of a long hard day at work, she describes it as feeling the stress just melt away.
For her, the practice of karate-do has its spiritual aspects. And she makes her practice a priority. There are three classes a […]

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