by Cynthia Bischoff | Jun 12, 2016 | Heartliving
Join my new, restorative workshop, Heal Yourself: Creating Wellness for Your Body, Mind & Soul, on August 13, 2016, from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. at the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel & Conference Center on the Chesapeake Bay!
This information-packed one-day seminar will help you learn and apply principles related to healing your body, mind, and soul. Through lecture, discussion, thought and energy exercises, as well as tools to “Heal Yourself,” you will learn how to:
- Identify blockages and clear emotional clutter
- Adopt healthy habits to balance yourself
- Use healing techniques for harmonizing your body, mind, and soul
- Evaluate your “personal soul connection”
- Implement keys to greater health & happiness
- Create the life you want by generating wellness
- Awaken your inner radiance!
Enjoy an Early Bird Special program fee of $150.00 (until July 20th). Regular program fee is $165.00 and conference space is limited so sign-up now to secure your spot. Ready to change your life? Click here to register: REGISTER
by Cynthia Bischoff | Jun 5, 2016 | Heartliving
Crystals are composed of minerals and are part of the Earth’s energy. Each crystal with its own color, configuration, and properties is believed to hold a different Earth memory and energy.
Throughout history, most religions and cultures have used stones and crystals for both decorative and symbolic purposes. For example, the Celtic people understood that garnet gave a person courage and energy to take appropriate action. Certain Native American tribes placed turquoise on the breastplates of warriors to provide protection. In ancient Babylon and Greece, agate was used as a charm of healing and protection. Amber has been used in ancient cultures as a bringer of courage and honesty.
While wearing jewelry containing crystals and stones is an age-old tradition, more recently it seems as a society we have rediscovered the beauty and power of crystals not only for adornment, but also for assisting in healing the body’s energy.
Stones can be used to stimulate and heal energy in the body. For example, the following stones, among others, are associated with specific purposes:
- To increase your general well-being: clear quartz and zircon;
- To balance your emotions and reduce depression: jade, aventurine, rose quartz;
- To aid in digestion and ease food allergies: citrine, turquoise, agate;
- To ease pain, agitation, and stress: amethyst, sugilite, labradorite.
You can place these stones in your pockets, in the area where you sleep or work, or wear jewelry containing these stones.
By understanding the therapeutic and historical associations of stones and crystals, you can wisely choose stones that can bring both beauty and healing power into your life.
by Cynthia Bischoff | May 29, 2016 | Heartliving
Every day is a new beginning. For most of us, the alarm ringtone starts our awakening to a new day. Often we get up quickly and hasten to the shower or the kitchen, whatever our favorite ritual to begin our day.
Whatever our routine, we must remember most of all that each day holds a promise for a new beginning. Every day you have an opportunity to “erase the slate” and create the day that you want to have. Reminding yourself of this idea can be a powerful part of your daily ritual.
Here are a few tips:
- Before going to bed in the evening, spend some time in prayer and reflection by remembering the blessings of your day–the challenges and the accomplishments–in essence, the learning.
The fact that you wake up and have another day is in itself a blessing.
- On awakening each new day, before getting out of bed, remember to express gratitude for this new day and an opportunity to be of service and to extend love and joy to others.
- Decide in the morning that, in addition to any specific intention you might have, this is your chance to start anew.
- Forgive yourself and others for anything that has troubled you.
- Be determined every day to make this a great day.
- Your intention may involve a desire to improve yourself somehow, whether this means reading a book, exercising, calling an old friend, or doing a neighbor a favor.
- Decide that you will be the best version of yourself today!
by Cynthia Bischoff | May 22, 2016 | Heartliving
Many books are written about relationships–how to attract the right partner, how to keep your partner, how to communicate with your partner, why your partner is not that into you, and so on! The truth is that relationships can be complex and do require some attention if two people are to grow together into more intimate union and love.
Most often, instead of understanding relationship dynamics, people think that if they can just change this or that about their partners, their relationships would finally work. Does this sound familiar? We must know that no one is perfect nor to be blamed and following some common-sense guidelines can help you to improve your relationship. They are based on effective principles of communication and should be practiced by both partners:
- For starters, don’t expect your partner to satisfy all of your relationship needs. Take good care of yourself. Maintain healthy friendships outside of your primary relationship, and you will be less apt to feel that you need your partner to “complete” you.
- Be sure to maintain a friendship as well as a love relationship with your partner. Most couples who stay together do so because of a sense of friendship and respect that exists long after the romantic sparks might not be as bright. Partners who are friends generally like and accept each other as they genuinely are.
- It’s important to practice active listening. Sometimes all your partner wants you to do is just listen. So listen carefully; then paraphrase back to your partner what you believe you heard him or her say. It greatly helps to keep all communication clear.
- Know that talking over each other or not acknowledging what we’ve heard causes monologues rather than dialogues. And when you do listen and especially when you pick up what matters to your partner, you can ask about it at another time, making your partner know you did listen and that you care.
- Know what you do want and communicate that clearly. We sometimes get stuck in repeating what we don’t want or like and don’t communicate clearly what we do want. Instead of “it bothers me when you say that” try “I appreciate that you shared that with me in that way.”
- Avoid arguments as a way of getting attention or engaging in drama. Find a more productive way to be in relationship and avoid taking your frustrations out on your partner. If your partner is doing that with you, have a conversation about how you feel–in a constructive way.
- If you must disagree, do what is termed “fight fairly.” The language we use during a conflict has a critical effect on our relationships. Calling each other names and blaming each other will dissolve trust and respect faster than anything else. And if this has already happened, you can commit to starting over now. Remember “up until now”!
- Commit to change. Know that a healthy relationship is one that continues to evolve. Establish regular conversations with your partner to be sure important issues are being addressed and understood.
- Most of all, soften your heart. Sometimes, you have to rise above the current situation and look at the overall picture of your relationship. How long have you been together? What have you been through? In what ways have you shared your lives and supported one another? What might you do differently now? Of all the tips, perhaps this is most important of all!
You can also set aside one “date” each week with your partner in which you don’t talk about the children (if there are kids), you don’t talk about work or about money, the house, etc., but you talk about each other. I have suggested this to clients who have done this. I remember a client telling me that she and her husband looked at each other and had nothing to say at first on that “first date.” The good news is that they stayed committed, though, to that date each week. By the second week, they started talking about what mattered to them, sharing some of their hopes and dreams as well as fears. –Or as she put it, “getting down to some deep inner stuff.” Over time, it greatly improved their connection.
All in all, we came into this world to learn to love and to know that we are love. Nothing is perhaps more powerful than heart connections.
by Cynthia Bischoff | May 8, 2016 | Heartliving
Quotes of Mother Teresa
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
“Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
“Good works are links that form a chain of love.”
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
“In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.”
