Sport and movement have always been a really big part of my life. My teen years were spent on fields and courts - chasing, diving and running around after balls of various shapes and sizes. I bounced back from ankle sprains and jammed fingers…
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The third chakra is the solar plexus and its element is fire. It is the house of the ego and what ‘I’ would call ‘me’ and ‘you’ would call ‘you.’ After finding food and shelter in the root chakra, and the ability to move and reproduce in the sacral chakra, we…
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Lately I’ve been reading a lot of Alan Watts. In one of his journal entries he describes something he calls the paradox of happiness or the backwards law. Happiness is something that we all would like to have. Ask a little kid what he wants to be…
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*Trigger Warning: This article discusses the death of a parent. • As I sit here writing, I’m listening to the movie soundtrack from the iconic baseball film, Field of Dreams. It has always had a very special place in my heart. My Dad and I shared…
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My writing career, for what it is, got started back in 2018 with a self-study of the Yamas and the Niyamas. Each week I focused on one, and then posted a little meditation and small excerpt of how I did with that focus point…
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Hi, I’m Rae Lynn Minke. I’m an almost-40-year-old Canadian expat and ex-teacher, living in Germany with my little international family. If you were to ask me about myself, I would tell you that I’m fun-loving, confident, and extroverted. I’d tell you…
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It’s been a while since I’ve submitted anything to the site where I can say my writing journey began. The last article I wrote was posted on June 24, 2022. During the interim, life has come and gone as it usually does and I can honestly say that…
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Do I have words for today? In this moment I am acutely aware of how "out of practice" I am at writing here. When I started this Heart-Letter in late 2017, it began with me writing to you every week. Each Tuesday to be exact — I would sit and…
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