Contrary to what the common conception might be, vision boards aren’t about magically getting your wishes granted, or expecting the perfect house, career or love interest fall into your life as soon as you put up a picture. Like all intention setting, making a vision board is an act of focusing your desires. How are you ever going to get what you want if you don’t even know what that
Mindfulness is a powerful tool for moving through life with awareness and perspective, but it can be hard sometimes to know exactly what it means to practice mindfulness. At times it can feel like an abstract buzzword, hard to connect to or put into motion. The truth is that mindfulness can help us more meaningfully experience the present and develop a more solid understanding of our own thoughts, and this
For as long as we’ve been human, we’ve sought out the sacred in nature. Something about crystals, rocks and precious stones has always called to us, whether through their appearance, the vibrations they emit, or something deeper. We are from the earth; it makes sense that keeping pieces of it would bring us comfort and strength. Connecting with crystals is a deeply personal practice. Anybody who has worked with or
I think there’s a reason tea has such significance in so many different cultures. There’s an intentionality to making tea, the heat of the water, the length of the steep, the brewing of the leaves. It’s its own kind of magic. When I lived in Japan I learned of Japanese tea rituals, where so much thought, patience and time are put into the preparation of just one cup of tea.