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How Can You Incorporate Mindfulness into Daily Tasks and Activities?

That is a great question, and it allows me the time to ask a couple more questions: Where do thoughts arise from? Can you pinpoint a thought? Where do they go? Does the mind have a border or perime…

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Create the Life You Want- Start an Action Journal

by Sherri Carter, MS, ATH Supervising Editor of AllThingsHealing.com A Note from ATH Supervising Editor, Sherri Carter: Here are some suggestions in starting an Action Journal. Based on the idea o…

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Poem of the Month: Fishing With My Father

by Perie Longo, PhD, LMFT, Contributor to Writing & Poetry Therapy on Allthingshealing.com Editor's Note from Susan de Wardt: Celebrate Father's Day by sharing family experiences with your fath…

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The Similarities Between Poetry and Music

In the car today, I was listening to the music of Vienna Teng. She has a beautiful, haunting voice and her lyrics are incredibly poetic. In fact, as someone who writes poetry, I have often felt tha…

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Wisdom from Theo Wilson

Tell me, what wouldn't have happened If you had never lived? Had never been born. If the ambulance driver rushing your mother to the hospital Had fallen asleep at the wheel... Who would we blam…

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How Poetry Can Heal You

  Write a poem. Yes, you can, even if you’ve never written one before! Just sit down with a nice, smooth pen and crispy paper and dip into your heart. Let your thoughts and feelings flow freel…

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The Power & Legacy of Poetry

  Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a shade tree. ~Astrid Alauda My childhood’s most memorable moments were made up of pen and paper and muse. My father and I lo…

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Embracing Pain as a Friend

By Erica Sofrina, Speaker, Teacher and Author "The time will come when with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welc…

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A Friend’s Parting Words of Wisdom

"Show the world beauty." Cheryl Rocco In December of 2010 I wrote a blog for Care2 entitled 3 Poems That Inspire. I was inspired by my long and treasured friendship with Cheryl Rocco, a schoolteach…

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Write an Earth Day Haiku!

We all know that the much-anticipated Earth Day is coming up on the 22nd of April, but did you know that here in the United States, we're also in the midst of National Poetry month? The Academy of Ame…

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