Perfect Crystals and the Right Mindset Curious about working with crystals but don’t know where to start? I have good news! It can be easy for even a ‘crystal newbie’ to collaborate with crystals. In fact, they are useful for so many things that many people miss out by not exploring how to work and […]
What’s Up with Spirit Guides?
What’s Up with Spirit Guides? BY OMTIMES MAGAZINE Are you familiar with your spirit guides? Who do you turn to for spiritual guidance? When? Why? One constant throughout human history is our need and desire for spiritual guidance. Yes, we often turn to fellow humans for that, from friends to counselors and spiritual advisors, but we […]
Preparing Families for a Beloved’s Death
In this two-part series on preparing for death and grief, we’re covering how to prepare others, and yourself, for a beloved’s death. Preparing for Death and Grief You’ve just learned a family member is dying. Whether they’re human or animal, the feeling is the same: you’re stunned by grief and struggling to decide how to […]
The How-to’s of Self-Care as Beloveds Die
In the first article of this two-part series on preparing for death and grief, Preparing Families for a Beloved’s Death, I covered how to prepare others for a beloved’s death. Here I’m offering simple but necessary things you need to do to keep yourself healthy and balanced as you support the living—and the dying. These are […]
New Ways to Deal with Grief in the Pandemic
With loss all around us, we’re tempted to withdraw deeper into ourselves, to keep love at bay, to not feel pain. Ironically, that’s when grief can support us. Yes, grief. Grief is an emotion that helps us process change. In the pandemic, we are grieving our loss of freedom and fear and deceased loved ones. […]
Understanding the Five Stages of Dying
We all know that death will ultimately claim our loved ones and us. In modern times we’ve removed ourselves from the process, so neither we nor our dying beloveds understand how our bodies and souls separate in death. In this article, we will explore the five stages of dying by relating them to ancient mystical […]
When Souls Face Tough Choices
When we or our families, human or animal, face tough circumstances, how does that affect our souls? Here we look at physical and emotional impairment and opt-out points and how a soul could view them as challenges or opportunities on its eternal journey to grow in love. Here’s the good news: our souls are eternal […]
Creating a Culture that Acknowledges Death
So, how do we create a culture that acknowledges death? While death frequently takes us by surprise, creating a culture that acknowledges its inevitability offers mind, body, and spiritual support to both the dying and their grieving survivors. What could it look like to live healthy, balanced, intuitive lives that recognize they will end? Gratitude […]
Nurturing Our Animal Families Through the Pandemic
We’ve been so busy adjusting to our new reality in this pandemic, that we might not have considered how it’s affecting our animal families. Here are some tips on helping them through it, which will help us as well. We’ve been so busy adjusting to our new reality in this pandemic that we might not […]
Our Animals and Euthanasia
We quail at euthanasia, and we should, because it is murder. But euthanasia is also mercy and compassion when only suffering remains. Most of us will have to face the end of a beloved animal’s life. Here’s how to look at their body, mind, and spirit needs. It’s the worst thing we face as a […]