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Let There Be Light

Posted on03. Sep, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

Guess which window was the first to get cleaned today after an embarrassingly long period of time (read: years)…?
Imagine how much more of the world might be available to us with a little bit of loving up (and elbow grease). I’m thinking I should change my tagline to: “Clearing a path to your true nature–one window [...]

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Starting Over

Posted on31. Aug, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

September. It’s my favorite month of the year.
More than just it being one of the most beautiful and bountiful months in New England where I live, September has always been a time of shift and new beginnings…
An invitation to show up, regroup, renew, start over.
But you don’t need to wait until September or New Year’s [...]

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In Praise of Spending Time Alone

Posted on20. Aug, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

If you could have a day or a weekend just for your self, what would you do?
After spending a weekend watching my two selves battling each other – i.e. delighted self vs. worried self [that I've lost my social mojo] – someone posted an affirming video link on Facebook called “How to be alone.” It’s [...]

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Clearing the Residue of Previous Occupants

Posted on06. Jul, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

How many times have you gone into a big warehouse store feeling just fine and come out totally depleted? Or, maybe you’re standing in the checkout line of your supermarket and suddenly feel a wave of emotion, like depression, worry about money, anxiety—something you weren’t feeling before? Perhaps you walk into a room and feel [...]

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Loving Up the Gulf

Posted on15. Jun, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

As I see it, there are two ways to go about clearing the disturbing effects of a major ecological disaster:

Clearing from a place of fear, judgment, and blame.
Clearing from a place of deep compassion, gratitude, and love.

Which approach do you think might lead to a more successful outcome?
If it resonates you might consider this email [...]

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Your Calling Card: How Well Does It Reflect You?

Posted on04. Jun, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

I need a microscope to read some of the business cards I receive these days. It amazes me when I see the email address and phone numbers –  in the tiniest possible font – jammed into one of the corners. Surrounded by white space.
I don’t get it. What’s with that?
Here’s what I’m wondering today: Is [...]

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Birdsong + Coffee + Back Porch = Heaven

Posted on28. May, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

The title comes from a swoon I posted on my Facebook Page last week.
Actually it read: “Birdsong + Coffee + Back porch (after spring cleaning) = Heaven.
I had spent a good part of the previous day scrubbing and cleaning and decluttering our back porch – the catch-all spot for wayward winter accumulations. I was grooving [...]

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Gathering Your Clearing Mojo

Posted on23. Apr, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

What needs gathering in your home or life that you can do in one minute or less?
My spring newsletter might inspire you.  The theme this quarter is about “gathering” – as in loose ends, all those papers cluttering up your desk, the clothes that you no longer need or love…
Gathering steam… gathering your self.
Click [...]

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Love, Earth

Posted on22. Apr, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

Hugh MacLeod is a cartoonist with a beautiful, if quirky message. I subscribe to his daily cartoon blog: Gapingvoid.
Below is his message for today. Happy Earth Day everyone!
“Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanic Eruptions, She may not be happy right now, but she’s all we’ve got.
Let’s take care of her.”
–From Gapingvoid
Cartoon image: “Love Earth” by Hugh MacLeod, available for [...]

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Simple Rituals of Clearing and Letting Go

Posted on12. Apr, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“To the unconscious mind, ‘real life action’ and and ‘conscious intentional ritual’ are the same thing!” –Your Spacious Self
If you think of dreams as the way that your unconscious mind communicates to you in special symbolic code while you sleep, ritual is one way you can consciously communicate back to your unconscious while you’re awake. To [...]

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Extreme Clearing vs. The Slow-Drip Effect

Posted on02. Apr, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“Change happens slowly, then all at once.” – Unknown
Thanks to Mother Nature and major flooding in our area, we got a head start clearing the junk in our basement this year. Not easy. Not pretty. Not ideal. This form of “extreme clearing” is not worth waiting (or hoping) for. It’s too consuming and jangly.
I favor the [...]

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The Grace in Gathering

Posted on30. Mar, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.” – Anne Lamott
It’s springtime: A return to my rituals of gathering.
Gathering clothes I no longer love (or can wear) to take to the Goodwill. Gathering and tossing the growing [...]

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A Clean House

Posted on09. Feb, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

How important is it to have a clean house? How do you juggle a demanding job and a family and still have the time for basic chores like cleaning? My sister Martha, a hospice nurse and mom to a possé of adorable dogs and cats weighs in:
I used to clean my house as a way [...]

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Perception

Posted on02. Feb, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.” –Anais Nin

In a common place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty?
Do we stop to appreciate it?
Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?

These three questions were part of a study conducted some years ago.
I learned about it in an [...]

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One Part Love, Two Parts Gratitude

Posted on29. Dec, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

One part O, two parts H = H2O. One part Love, two parts Gratitude = Peace on Earth.
For optimal effect, according to Dr. Masaru Emoto, the ratio is key. In this interview excerpt, the pioneering Japanese scientist and author of the Hidden Messages in Water explains the importance of this balance as the basis of [...]

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Peace

Posted on24. Dec, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

Close your eyes and soak in this classic melody sung by the Regensburger Cathedral Sparrows.
Peace.

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Moving Forward to the Beginning

Posted on11. Dec, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“A new species is evolving on the planet, and you are it.” – Eckhart Tolle
Can you handle a little mind bending?  Here’s a YouTube video that caught my eye recently. It  goes nicely with my previous post: Forecast for Our Times: An Opportunity to Let Go. If nothing else, this 9-minute piece is illuminating,  hopeful, [...]

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