Today, I have the great pleasure of being the host on Day 9 of Daniel Parmeggiani's Virtual Blog Tour, whose new book, The Magnificent Truths of Our Existence, is currently celebrating its official launch.

Daniel Parmeggiani is a modern-day spiritual teacher whose approach is unaligned with any particular religion or tradition. Driven by intense psychological turmoil when he was younger, Daniel discovered within himself a deeper reality that he says not only saved his life, but also showed him the way to permanent happiness and inner peace.

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Rick Batyr, an intuitive sound healer and producer. His music is inspirational and is excellent for meditation and energy healing. Read below to find out more information and to purchase his album, Path of Light - Music for Energy Healing Volume 1. 

How does your music help a person during meditation?

RICK: The music I create can help a soul on many levels. The essence of what I do is using sound with the intention to heal the

When you become anxious or stressed you weaken your connection to your true inner essence. Some call this your spirit, higher source, inner guide, etc. You become so entrenched in your outer reality that you forget or don't notice the innate inner quiet that is within you. This inner quiet is truly there but you have to cultivate it. One way to do this is with meditation. With a regular practice of meditation, you begin to strengthen that connection. As a result, you become less anxious and

Meditating with a bench is a great way to hold a meditation pose longer when you are doing the kneeling position. The kneeling position is great for those who find it challenging to do a normal seated meditation pose such as the half-lotus or crossed-legged position.

Do know that it may not be the best pose for you, if you are experiencing problems with your knees. You may want to consider meditating in a chair or doing a moving meditation is this is the case for you.

The cumulative affects that you feel from a daily meditation practice is greater than that which you feel from a periodic practice. Even a daily meditation practice of only 5 minutes is a good start. Think consistency over longevity.

A daily meditation practice trains your mind and body in many aspects. It trains your mind and body to relax, to focus, to let go, to be present, to ground, etc. These are just some of the benefits of meditation. 

An accomplished musician or a star athlete,

Do you believe these words? Whatever we see everyday in our outer reality is actually nothing more than a projection of our own inner reality.

Do you believe your outer reality is a reflection of your inner reality? Do you believe that stress in your outer reality is a reflection of the internal stress of the inner mind? Have you noticed or do you see a correlation between your thoughts and your life/lifestyle? Take a moment to reflect on this, then tell me your thoughts. Really reflect

Be mindful while exercising

Walking is an excellent way to relieve stress and anxiety. Combine walking with the power of meditation and you magnify the benefits. Walk and train yourself to be in the present moment. Train yourself to observe what you are doing now and release thoughts and/or worries of the past or future. When you do this, you relieve stress and anxiety. Make this your exercise routine for a month and let me know how this has helped in your goal of stress and

Alternate nostril breathing is an excellent way to relieve stress and anxiety. In addition to helping to relieve anxiety and stress, alternate nostril breathing has other benefits:

• Relaxes you
• Harmonizes left & right brain
• Calms & centers mind
• Gives you a boost of energy

How to do Alternate Nostril Breathing

1. Sit in a comfortable position with your back erect and relaxed.
2. Close your eyes.
3. Raise your right hand & close the right nostril with your right thumb.
4. Inhale through the left nostril - 4

Connect to nature on a regular basis to relieve anxiety and stress. Practice the vibration of taking time for yourself to just let go and be “free” in nature. Nature has a way of reconnecting us to our true essence. When we truly immerse ourselves in the beauty and calmness of nature, we awaken to a better understanding of ourselves in relation to everything.

When you spend time in nature, leave everything behind. Be there and be present. You can do this by practicing spending time

Now take a break and list at least 5 things for which you are grateful. How did that make you feel? Did you feel better then when you started? Now you may not have noticed a difference in your mood right now, however, if you practice gratitude on a consistent basis, you will notice the difference. 

Gratitude is one of many ways to raise your vibration. When you raise your vibration, you feel good. When you feel good, you improve your emotional, mental and physical health.

Basic Philosophy

Energy

Everything in the universe, including humans is energy. Energy is all around us.  Everything our senses perceive is energy as well as everything our senses do not perceive.

Another way to explain this is that everything is composed of atoms. These atoms are further composed of subatomic particles, which are fluctuations of energy.  The basic subatomic particles are electrons, protons and neutrons. 

Levels of Energy

Energy vibrates at different frequencies. There are low frequencies, high frequencies and frequencies that range between the two.  Low

Join me at the 2014 Holistic Health & Wellness Expo in Royal Oak

The Expo will bring together vendors, practitioners, and instructors to showcase their services to community members interested in learning and participating in holistic health and wellness practices. The day will be composed of health and wellness exhibits, a number of short seminars and/or speakers, and introductory exercise demonstrations that all promote a healthy lifestyle. If you are interested in speaking or leading a class let us know and we will work to include you

Quieting your mind during meditation is simply a matter of practice, practice, practice. When you start to meditate, you begin to notice the abundance of thoughts that are roaming around in your head. That is part of the process. Just keep going. The more you meditate, the more you train your mind to focus. In other words, you build more neural connections to help you focus. You also break old neural connections of your old habit of a constant chattering mind.

Please listen below to my interview

How can I love to be in the present moment, when there is so much going on in my life?

I had the privilege of addressing this question in the latest issue of Wellness Woman, 40 and Beyond online magazine. Here is my response:

Before you can love to be present, you must first understand the concept of presence. Being present to me is being grounded and rooted in the present moment. You are out of your head, and literally in your “body”. You are rooted enough

Today, I have the great pleasure of being the host on Day 1 of Clifton Meador’s Virtual Blog Tour.

Clifton’s book Fascinomas is celebrating its launch from February 17th to March 3rd, 2014.

Clifton K. Meador, MD has a gift for filtering through tales and ‘can you beat this one’ stories that are passed around doctors’ lounges and operating rooms and coming up with succinct but extremely entertaining stories. A ‘fascinoma’, as Meador defines, is medical slang for an unusually interesting medical case. He has gleaned

• Meditate with your mate and begin the process of healing. 
• Designed to open your heart (heal your heart chakra).
• Simple, easy and fun to do and is less than 15-minutes.
• Sit facing each other (preferable), sit side-by-side or lie on their back and hold hands.

Audio Excerpt

Cultivate the relationship you desire by making a commitment to meditate with each other. Surrender and allow your heart to heal. Your current relationship maybe suffering from the "baggage" of your past relationships. Learn to surrender, release

While doing a meditation for anxiety or stress relief, it can be challenging to maintain a relaxing posture when your joints, muscles and body are stiff. When you are uncomfortable, your mind tends to focus on being uncomfortable or you wind up shortening your meditation practice. As a result, whether you are doing a sitting meditation or a moving meditation, warming up your body, joints and muscles is a great way to relax beforehand. It allows your muscles and joints to loosen, blood flow to increase and

I had the pleasure of being a guest on HippyFitMom's show, The Skinny. On The Skinny Episode, we talked about health, meditation and holistic lifestyle skills. It was a wonderful conversation and a great way for me to introduce myself and express what I love to do, which is teach meditation. Check out the short video below for an uplifting and engaging conversation with Amber Turner of HippyFitMom.

Discussion Topics

0:50 - What I do.
1:42 - Explanation of mind/body connection.
2:00 - Finding your strength

What is Reiki?

Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction, anxiety relief, relaxation and it also promotes healing. It is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" (qi) flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick, feel stress, or feel anxious and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

A Reiki practitioner acts as a "conduit" in directing this

Music is an excellent way to relieve anxiety and stress by helping you to relax and become more mindful. When your mind is stressed or anxious, it lowers your overall vibration. From a law of attraction perspective, this means at a lower vibration, you are attracting people, situations, environments, etc. that are also of a similarly low vibration.

The more you can relax and allow, the more your vibration raises. At a higher vibration, you are attracting similarly higher vibrational situations, people, environments, etc.

Take at least a couple of