Affirmative Prayer

This show was intended to focus on the music of these talented singers, songwriters, arrangers, and musicians ... and the show took a turn when they described a life-changing experience that grounded their lives and their music even more. Are you ready to transform your life and your thinking? Take a listen. http://www.lisaanderika.com/

Come and join us at the Death Café! It sounds foreboding, but there are about 300 Death Cafés with more than 3,000 participants in Europe, North America, and Australasia. Kim Ryder is mom of a tiny daughter and is a doula (midwife) who helps families move through the death process of their loved one. She founded a Death Café in Ettalong Beach (Australia) and Skypes in for the conversation. Mark LaRocca-Pitts is a board-certified chaplain and cofounder of the Death Café in Atlanta, Georgia. The Death Café is a safe and friendly setting to discuss death, dying, and end-of-life concerns while enjoying tea and cake! More info at deathcafe.com.

Bart Smyth is a modern-day shaman-an American who has been living in Sweden and has traveled to the deepest parts of the Amazon in Peru and the caves in China to bring many kinds of healing modalities together. He started by healing himself many years ago and has helped countless others since then. Go to www.amoderndayshaman.net to find out more.

If you ever wonder what you will do for a vacation, perhaps it's time to GoSoular.org. Be a "magnificent vehicle of love, transformation, and service so that people can volunteer in helping create safe, healthy, self-sufficient communities around the world. Centers for Spiritual Living minister Rev. Jill Gwen Braginets founded this organization that has had volunteers in Ghana, Ecuador, Haiti, and in the U.S., after the tornados in Joplin and Chattanooga and the hurricanes in New Jersey. These volunteers are all about "seeing wholeness despite appearances."

Even when we don't consider ourselves to be writers, we use words and stories to communicate every day. We can use that same skill to communicate with ourselves at a more spiritual level-on the printed page. Author Karen Hering describes how we can tap into our imagination and memory to open up a new world of understanding and peace. Her book is Writing to Wake the Soul: Opening the Sacred Conversation Within.

If you or anyone you know has ever considered being an adoptive parent, this is the show for you. National Adoption Day is about finding a permanent placement for children who have been living in the foster care system because of the neglect, abuse, or abandonment of their family of origin. It's time for these kids to find a FOREVER FAMILY who will love, nurture, and support them throughout their life's journey. Go to www.nationaladoptionday.org for links and lots more.

Medical schools and hospitals all over the United States are paying attention to programs that involve healing with the arts. Why? Because they work. If you, someone you love or your community has something that needs to be healed, Dr. Michael Samuels explains how to start and where to go from there. You don't have to be an artist, musician, or poet to heal from sickness, depression, or post-traumatic stress; you can help facilitate healing all around you. Dr. Samuels' book is a 12-week program to heal yourself and your community. Websites to visit: www.pathofthefeather.com and www.ichetucknee.org (about the healing of a river).

Online dating has become a great way for people to meet each other in their later years. Three special guests (55+) describe why they got online and what they learned about themselves and the people they dated. All ended up with committed relationships. When you decide to Activate the Power of Yes with a dating service, interesting things can happen ... like expanding your heart and mind to new adventures and a bigger life.

Kids aging out of the foster care system are at risk of not completing high school, and nearly 50% of those aging out may become homeless within six months. That's why The Orange Duffel Bag Initiative is gathering community resources (human and organizational) to mentor kids on how to do basic life skills (open a checking account, rent an apartment, apply for a job), get these kids laptops, and provide them with a foundation they never had. A recent study shows that during the years between 13 and 24, a shift can take place in the brain, and many of these children/adults are learning a new successful way of viewing their lives. Download this show and pass it on to adults, nonprofits, and companies who can make a difference wherever they are.

Leading a prosperous life not only means having a feeling of abundance but having money too. Ernie Chu spent 30 years on Wall Street in investment banking and capital markets, and he is also a minister through Centers for Spiritual Living. Combining his knowledge, skills, abilities, and beliefs, Ernie gives us a practical way to increase our "spiritual portfolio" with the flow of money and good in our lives. His book, Soul Currency, has led the way to his next project, Solar Currency.

Catherine Carrigan is a medical intuitive who works with people all over the world. Her book, What Is Healing? Awaken Your Intuitive Power for Health and Happiness, provides us with helpful insights about how we can heal our bodies and stay healthy at the physical, energetic, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels (they are all One!). Catherine also leads us in a guided meditation that can be used again and again. For a free 15-minute intuitive reading, go to www.catherinecarrigan.com and mention that you heard her on this show.

Whether you are beginning your spiritual journey or are a longtime spiritual practitioner of Centers for Spiritual Living or Unity, you are ready to be in a Circle of Love! Beverly interviews Dr. David Leonard about The Circle of Love Gathering, which offers spiritual nourishment outside a traditional religious framework and combines introspection/meditation, talks, music, workshops, and experiential activities for all.

The Industrial Age, the Information Age ... What's next? The Age of Intuition. Penney Peirce describes how our physical and nonphysical worlds can no longer be separated. We can use our intuitive thinking to change our perceptions about ourselves and the world. She also leads us in a powerful meditation that shows how we can transform ourselves into vibrating, light-filled, energetic beings at the center of our consciousness. Sit back and let the good evolve out of this!

Gesha Lobsang is fulfilling the requests of His Holiness the Dalai Lama as Spiritual Leader of the only Drepung Loseling Monastery in the United States and through the Emory-Tibet Partnership, bringing together Eastern philosophy and Western science into a new kind of education and vocabulary. He talks about the Dalai Lama's latest initiative to promote human values through secular ethics; and leads us in a meditation on compassion for ourselves and others. You'll feel radiant after listening to this show!

Does your mind go faster than the speed of light and in all directions? Are there parts of life you may be missing because of your busy lifestyle? Your mind, body, and soul might want you to calm down, and Rev. Dr. Edward Viljoen has a way to do it. As a minister with Centers for Spiritual Living, he practices meditation on a regular basis and shows how it can work, even for beginners who can't sit still. His new book, The Power of Meditation: An Ancient Technique to Access Your Inner Power, can be purchased at www.steppingstonesbookstore.org.