Anxious feelings are common when you are going through a transition time and your life is changing, even if it is for the better. Our emotions can help us or keep us stuck, depending on what we do with them.

If you use your emotions to inform yourself, you can recognize the negative feelings are about resistance to what is because you are not in alignment with your authentic energy. If you your use emotions to drive a story deeper and reinforce the illusion that everything is happening to you, not with you, you will stay there for awhile until you are sick of yourself and stop resisting.

While staying home may have felt relaxing at first, prolonged self-isolation can become stressful. When tensions rise at home, whether between partners or family members of all ages, finding relief is challenging. Try these methods to help ease tension while sticking it out with quarantine protocol.

With the shutdown (or re-shutdown, in many cases) lasting longer than expected, plenty of households are experiencing tension. If your usual outlets aren’t available, it’s time to get creative, release stress, and help repair your relationships. Here are three quick fixes that can help you de-stress while staying in isolation as long as necessary.

Yoga has the power to transform your life for the better. If you’ve taken a few classes here and there, you may already know this. And if you’ve practiced at home during the COVID-19 lockdown, you may have watched your skills grow. But when you’re ready to take your practice to a new level, you may be more concerned with how taking more classes and lessons will transform your budget. Yoga can be an expensive habit to maintain, but it doesn’t have to, especially when you use these budget-savvy steps to build a better yoga practice.

Emotions are seemingly the easiest things to share amongst friends; it's almost like a virus. One person feels happy and passes it on to the next and the next and so on. That is ideal... but not always how it goes.

More often, one person in line is angry and yelling at the cashier which puts you in a "what is wrong with people?" mood. This, in turn, may lead to you going home and yelling at your kids, which makes them mad at each other and so on. Emotions are contagious and the sooner we learn to recognize the difference between our emotions and the people we are with, the easier time we will have in knowing ourselves.

Pay attention to your root chakra and see what you can manifest by paying more attention to it. This is the chakra that is at the base of your spine and in its ideal state, spins clockwise in a red color. This is where you store information about survival.

“I am worried about you.”

Kids, our friends, or family are all potential targets for our worry. We use it to express love and consideration. However, when you worry about someone, you are energetically saying "I don't trust you to be okay". Psychically you are sending them concerns about who, what, where, how they are. This psychic projection drops their energy down, potentially propelling them further into the issues they are in.

It seems like a lifelong process to get past our fears. Fear starts when we are babies and continues through our life, dictating our actions and keeping us stuck in the search for peace from it. Our minds are very powerful and fear can be something that stops our manifesting minds in its tracks.

This current situation is no exception. We are naturally afraid of the unknown and we are in a serious case of “what next?” We are powerful creators and what happens next is unwritten. Now is the time to use our thoughts and energy to manifest our next steps with love.

Alana Fairchild’s book The Kuan Yin Transmission, book review. This book introduces you to the various versions of Kuan Yin. The book describes Kuan Yin as “an ancient divine being and an enlightened spiritual guardian.” The author asserts you can use her power in combination with your religion or if you have no religion at all.

Good energy hygiene is key to protecting yourself from negative, harmful energies of the world. Working with your subtle energy fields every day can boost your immune system, strengthen your relationships and enhance your daily life. Here are a couple of tips on clearing out your energy, that you can do all on your own, in a matter of minutes.

Pregnancy is a time of joyful anticipation of your child. But for most women, pregnancy brings in stress, confusion, anxiety, fear, and depression. About 14-23% of women suffer from antenatal depression as compared to 1 in 9 women experience postpartum depression. As per the Centre For Disease Control And Prevention, the rate of pregnant women with a depression diagnosis at delivery increased by over seven times from 2000 to 2015. The reasons for depression may vary from hormonal changes to pressures of motherhood or even fear of labor. While the degree of depression is variable among different women and can happen at every stage in a woman’s life.

New to learning about your aura, your subtle energy fields, psychic energies, etc.? Here are a couple of books that I recommend to get you started.

This is no ordinary self-help book. The book, Waking up in 5D by Marueen J. St. Germaine, is attempting to guide us to move beyond polarity. If you don’t yet know what that means, or never heard of this concept, you might want to start with a simpler book about metaphysics and the quantum fields. In this book, the author invites us to open up to the idea that we are multidimensional beings and what we know about ourselves is changing. Furthermore, she assesses that we are moving into a fifth-dimensional reality and it is time to embrace that change.

It’s the twenty-first century, and self-care is a trend that thankfully isn’t going anywhere and one we can all get behind. Your well-being, however, extends beyond a relaxing bubble bath, a pre-made breakfast smoothie, or a hot-yoga class. It’s vital to seek a source that will satiate your soul and quench a craving for something deeper comes with making the time—and just as importantly, the space—to meditate.

This book would make a great gift for a new, open-minded parent. I could definitely find myself giving this as a gift at a baby shower or even suggesting it to a friend who is struggling with parenting. It is playful and gives a much needed reframe on the child-parent relationship and approach to parenting.

This book does require that you to shift your focus from being the one in charge to the idea that you and your child are equal in the lessons you have for each other. It is such an easy read and light-hearted, so it is and enjoyable read, if you let it be. 

I liked the little notes that she wrote in as if the child was talking. It breaks up the flow and is really sweet to think of your child saying to you these things. 

 Jade knows this and deals with it ALL in presence and grace.  It works in all types of dis-ease because of this.  Maybe that’s why it traditionally has been considered a Stone of immortality.  Jade is the first Stone that I (Marilyn) ever had a healing with and I believe it has imprinted all my cells with an empowered journey with my body that I gratefully adore. 

When life gets tough, stress has a tendency to increase. Whether you’re struggling at school or work, facing troubles in your relationship, or you’ve lost someone close to you, experiencing a difficult life event has a big impact on your mental well-being. And while sometimes that stress fades on its own, other times it can lead to long-lasting mental health issues. For some people, times of high stress and anxiety can trigger a suicide.

If you are struggling to find fun and play in your life, just ask the universe for a little help to bring more play into your day. Then just start to notice... and don't say no to any opportunity to have fun. Once you ask, the universe will present you with fun. Trust me on this. You just have to accept it. 

Trust me, people like you more when you have "me" time. So when you start to put it out there to have more fun, the universe (and your loved ones) will conspire to help. They may not know it at first, but you just have to show them how much more fun you will be when you get to remember what fun is.

Be willing to fail at it too and see what happens. For example, maybe you want to try dancing, but you think you are a horrible dancer. Give it a try a couple times, if you are a horrible dancer and you have a terrible time, then quit and find something else. If you are a horrible dancer but you loved it, who cares what people think and do it anyway!

Make it your goal this week to have more fun and see what happens next!

This book makes a great gifts for friends going through change. You can leave it out on the table and pick it up when you need a pick me up or better yet do a pay it forward and leave it somewhere with a note “this book is yours” note for someone who might need these messages.  It would also make a good coffee table or waiting room addition.

My favorite page was message 55. “From Your Soul – Prepared to be amazed.” What I loved about this message is that it reflects on the face that we forget who we are, on purpose, as part of our game to manifest. It reminds us to go back and remember our majesty, divinity and grace any time we would like.

Everyone experiences the highs and lows of everyday life, when euphoric moments of joy can be suddenly eclipsed by darker moments of sadness or despair. Although these peaks and valleys can happen at any time, feeling down without relief may be a sign that something bigger is occurring. It could be a sign of depression. It’s important to know what those signs are in order to get the necessary care in a timely manner, especially for a disorder that is often under-treated in older adults.