by Dr. Stephen Ruppenthal | Health and Fitness
New Page 1 www.directawakening.com I would sum up physical well-being in one word: movement. By that I mean moving things through the both body and mind, rather than letting what we don't want get stuck there. For aging happens rapidly when we are stuck,...
by Dr. Stephen Ruppenthal | Spiritual
Aging can be a frightening experience for us all. This came home in a message I got recently from a reader, who says frankly: "No matter how many miracle products I buy, I feel my body is betraying me. It makes me want to give up. Just as I am beginning to figure...
by Dr. Stephen Ruppenthal | Health and Fitness
Untitled Document There is a vital relationship between creative expression and healthy aging. When we draw and paint, certainly we delve deep into the springs of vitality, increasing our sense of self worth, determination, and achievement. But the University of...
by Dr. Stephen Ruppenthal | Spiritual
Mother Teresa of Calcutta used to say that the world is hungry for our help and our love. Whether we seek to help people, animals, or the earth itself, the world's need for our service has never been greater. And the funny thing is, the more we help, the more...
by Dr. Stephen Ruppenthal | Spiritual
We live in a world that is obsessed with looking beautiful and young, and maintaining perfect health well into our older years. But youth is short. As we gradually age, panic can set in as the increasingly inescapable loss of our physical beauty fills us with fear....
by Dr. Stephen Ruppenthal | Spiritual
Recently, a friend told me she saw Susan Saint James and her husband on the Oprah Show. Having lost their 14 year old son in a plane crash last year, Susan was asked how she got through the experience without bitter anger. She said, "I have found resentment to be...
by Dr. Stephen Ruppenthal | Spiritual
If you had your life to live over, what decisions from the past would you like to do over? Would you choose a different partner or family, or find a new way to handle things better with that childhood bully who picked on you? Psychologists tell us that we can often...
by Dr. Stephen Ruppenthal | Spiritual
In these times of uncertainty and tragedy, children can really get upset. Whether it is trouble at school, fallouts with their friends, or whether a terrorist has just killed hundreds or a hurricane flooded thousands out of their homes, kids have nowhere to go. They...
by Dr. Stephen Ruppenthal | Spiritual
The times we live in are full of wealth and opportunities so great that a king or queen of olden times could only have envied them. Housing prices are shooting up to unbelievable highs all over the world, creating millionaires out of ordinary folk. On our computers,...
by Dr. Stephen Ruppenthal | Spiritual
Busy, complex lives in society at times can seem to kill the spark of life in us. Dealing with our boss at work or carting the kids to this or that event, we have no time for us. What about our spirit-where is it in all this hurry? Hopefully not dead, but certainly...
by Dr. Stephen Ruppenthal | Spiritual
Busy, complex lives in society at times can seem to kill the spark of life in us. Dealing with our boss at work or carting the kids to this or that event, we have no time for us. What about our spirit-where is it in all this hurry? Hopefully not dead, but certainly...