The Key to Having A Grateful Heart
I’d like to say I’m grateful all the time because I am an avid studier of profoundly enriching Sufi spiritual tools – the deepest I have EVER studied! But the truth is, I get angry, upset, hurt and sad...
View ArticleEgo Giving vs. Heart Giving
This is a time of year when giving is a major focus in the U.S. culture. In many cases giving has been commercialized. We may feel many expectations from family and other communities we belong to. When...
View ArticleFour Steps to Giving with Real Meaning
Giving is an opportunity to purify yourself and to open up a deeper understanding of how your heart wants to share and make a difference in someone else’s life. When we give in this way, it comes back...
View ArticleHow to Survive and Love Your Family during the Holidays
“Dear Nura, I love my family, but I get so stressed out when I am with them during the holidays. What can I do? Thank you. J.K. Texas Thank you for writing in J.K.! There are a couple of spiritual...
View ArticleHow to Help People Get Unstuck
“I was dragged to the Sufi University kicking and screaming” says Mark when asked what got him started. “At that point in my life”, he said, “I was looking for something to help me in my work with...
View ArticleThe Importance of Divine Love
What flows through your heart flows throughout your entire body. If the heart is full of pain, turbulent emotions, negative thoughts, it is believed that the blood is actually being imprinted...
View ArticleWhat It’s Like to Be Free
What does freedom feel like? Do you know? Do you really know?Feeling free is like sighing and allowing your whole body and mind to relax, similar to the experience after a really great massage.Imagine...
View ArticleLearning to Remember
When I first started remembering, there was a fantastic initiation experience like nothing else I had ever experienced before. I felt something open and I “dropped” into a secret place in my being,...
View ArticleUnderstanding Shame and How To Move Past It
Shame is probably the most pervasive and least understood of all human experiences.If you accept the premise that we are innately predisposed, even hardwired, for connection (connection with other...
View ArticleCongratulations to our Graduates!
On Friday March 6th, a beautiful blue day here at the land, the University of Spiritual Healing and Sufism held our graduation ceremony, granting Year Four graduates Masters Degrees in Peacemaking,...
View ArticleCompassion vs. Tough Love – are they mutually exclusive?
I received this question from one of our community members the other day, and I thought it would be a great one to explore this week.When to use compassion, when to employ “tough love” – are they...
View ArticleThe Grateful Dead had it right too…
As we’re preparing for a new Year 1 class to begin, I was thinking about the weeks before my first school session. Of course there’s a story! It makes me smile and bow my heart in gratitude every time...
View ArticleLoving through the Fear
Have you ever felt like someone you care about was making mistakes that could cause them harm? These situations can bring up a lot of fear. And that fear can turn the situation ugly despite your...
View ArticleThe Importance of Community When Making Life Changes
Sometimes the decision to turn your whole heart to God makes it’s harder to fit in with the old hang out buddies. Sometimes it feels like you’re being left behind. When they are making plans to have...
View ArticleWhere is the mercy hiding for you?
This morning brought an opportunity to see yet another way I was compartmentalizing what I see as the presence of God in my life. I was in a blissful state of remembrance, writing statements of...
View ArticleWhat Your Heart Has to Say to Your Valentine…
Could your heart be speaking to your Valentine without your knowing? Find out what science has to say in this interview with research scientist, Dr. Cheryl Rahima Ritenbaugh, about The Science of the...
View ArticleDo you need a refill?
It’s officially Fall – a time of change. The kids are back in school, and hopefully, you are getting established in this season’s rhythms by now. It’s hard to believe this year is almost in its fourth...
View ArticleDo the qualities of Strength, Power & Might bring up fear for you?
This topic came up in discussion with a beloved yesterday evening. We were talking about what is means to carry strength as women in this world. Sometimes the thoughts of Strength, Power and Might...
View ArticleExplore. Dream. Discover. Dare to be YOU!
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in...
View ArticleHealing is not just about struggle…
The poet Rumi said, “If you get irritated by every rub, how can your mirror ever be polished?” When you embark on a path of healing and transformation, sometimes the mirror gets rubbed pretty hard....
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