This feels like a dangerous topic and a forever question. My intention is not to create division or argue about biology and what someone should or should not do, but to bring light to some wisdom teachings and build discussion on the topic for all of us, whatever our age, gender and ways in which […]
Tim Hahn
Tim Hahn and his wife, Molly, are Springfield natives and have been running a wellness center since 2010. They have two small children with one on the way. He teaches and is an avid student of spiritual psychology and personal growth.
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Remember your inner artist
Being around kids makes you revisit your own youth and the child inside yourself. It reminds you that you were once small. The inner child never truly grows up and can serve as a beacon back to the early developmental stages of life. This was a time of innocence, creativity and freedom, but can also […]
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How to be awe-full
“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.” – Nisargadatta Maharaj Awe is defined as “a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder.” It can come from different stimuli, including observing something extraordinary, a theoretical sense of being in someone’s presence and […]
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Finding light in the darkness
Officially the darkest day of 2024 is the winter solstice on Dec. 21. It’s the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Parallel to that seasonal darkness is the current social, political and economic scene. It brings the feeling that dark days are upon us and have been for some time. […]
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Invest in yourself
Got any good stock tips? Should we buy or sell? Where should we invest? And not just our money, what about our precious time and energy? Important questions to consider as we look towards the future and want to ensure stability in unstable times. I remember my freshman-year business professor advising us to begin saving […]
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The Path of Yea and Nay
We are in a time of great divide with little common ground. If life were a pendulum it would be in the extreme forward or reverse direction, depending on one’s point of view. Every category of life seems to be up for regeneration in this edge state of cultural evolution. Change is already here and […]
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The power of purpose
A recent scientific study published in Preventive Medicine showed a link between individuals who felt a greater sense of purpose in their lives with a decreased mortality rate, by about 20% in some cases. The study used around 13,000 Americans who were 50 years and older who were studied for two years with an eight-year […]
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Spiritual gardening
“Your mind is like a piece of land planted with many different kinds of seeds: seeds of joy, peace, mindfulness, understanding and love; seeds of craving, anger, fear, hate and forgetfulness. These wholesome and unwholesome seeds are always there, sleeping in the soil of your mind. The quality of your life depends on the seeds […]
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The intelligence of discomfort
Get comfortable being uncomfortable. It’s a common saying, especially in the fitness world of pain and gain. It is one I am quite familiar with, being a fitness coach for 15 years and an athlete my whole life. Seeing and personally experiencing how leaning into the edge of discomfort can elicit favorable adaptations with the […]
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Learning humility
Humility is a delicate quality. It has been said that humility is the foundation for all of the other great virtues in life. Qualities like compassion, patience and steadfastness all benefit when they are grounded in humility. Like a blank canvas that all things spring from, it requires a high level of awareness. Like walking […]
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Little deaths
Life is in a constant cycle of regeneration, with both a flowing of abundance and a vast emptiness. It is an ongoing dance of creation where the fullness secretly contains the emptiness, and the void of emptiness contains the elements of abundance. Older ways of seeing considered all aspects of creation to have purpose and […]
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The seasons of life
When the story of the world becomes less clear, we can look for guidance at the patterns of nature as well as continue unfolding the inner life of the soul. After we grow up in life, the next turn is to grow down, to grow deeper and fuller. This is the way of the true […]
