Annie B. Bond is the best-selling author of five books, including Better Basics for the Home (Three Rivers Press, 1999), Home Enlightenment (Rodale, 2007), and most recently True Food (National Geographic, 2010). She was named “the foremost expert on green living” by Body & Soul magazine (February, 2009). Annie is the founding editor of GreenChiCafe.com. She is also an energy and sound healer. Annie welcomes you to communicate with her at annie [at] greenchicafe [dot] com.
How can we apply the Law of Pure Potentiality, the field of all possibilities, to our lives? If you want to enjoy the benefits of the field of pure potentiality, if you want to...
Pleasure and the Goals of Life Human beings, whose lifetime is allotted at one hundred years, should pursue three goals in life: virtue (Dharma), material success (Artha) and desire or pleasure (Kama) each in its own way and...
"I am Responsible for My Relationships" Since relationships are two-sided, you can be responsible only for your part. To take responsibility, a few guidelines help:
By Deepak Chopra and Annie B. Bond Let Synchronicity be Normal At truly synchronous moments, the universe is embracing you, and you see who you really are. Leaders are expected to produce results, so it's not surprising that...
What Does Responsibility Mean? Responsibility means not blaming anyone or anything for your situation, including yourself. Having accepted this circumstance, this event, this problem, responsibility then means...
Gifts of Unpredictability Despite the fact that your ego hates unpredictability, the truth is that you have benefited from it again and again. Think for a moment about the unexpected...
Our materialistic worldview has reduced love to a haphazard flow of hormones coupled to psychological fantasies. The spiritual truth is very different. Once the walls fall down...
Affect Your Reality Being able to affect your whole reality at once is the essence of "simultaneous interdependent co-arising." There is no limit to how far your influence can reach but...
Law of Least Effort The fourth spiritual law of success is the Law of Least Effort. This law is based on the fact that nature's intelligence functions with effortless ease and...
Find Harmony When mind, body, and spirit are in harmony, happiness is the natural result. Signs of the absence of harmony, on the other hand, are discomfort, pain, depression, anxiety, and illness...
Light has the power to fill the void afflicted by darkness. Healing yourself comes in two stages--releasing the energy of suffering, then replacing it with the soul's energy. It...
Purify Your Shadow Energy Everyone has a shadow because of the natural contrast between darkness and the light. Negativity assumes its overwhelming power from the fact that it feeds off all...
Find True Self Esteem True self-esteem is not the same thing as improving your self-image. Self-image results from what other people think of you. The true self lies beyond images. It...
When you see the world in yourself, there are no more outward obstacles to happiness. The inner and outer worlds are mirrors of each other. They change according to your level of consciousness. If...
Seeing the suffocating animals in the Gulf is making me want to leave the planet. The picture of the pelican gulping for air on the home page of nytimes.com was enough to give any who saw it a visceral feeling of what it would...
My friend Sally used to corral her three teenage children to clean their house every Saturday morning. I was envious of her chutzpa to demand this of her kids, but the part of the story that was always tragic to me was that every...
Posted April 13, 2011 | 20:46:00 (EST)