Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Andrea Mathews, author of the new Letting Go of Good. Most of us have been taught that we must seek guidance from wise instructors, such as parents, friends, significant others, or spiritual leaders. Some look for signs from the external world to tell them what to do. What we don't as commonly know is that we have our own internal messaging system that can guide and protect us as needed on a daily, even moment-by-moment basis. The components of this system are described in detail in my book, Letting Go of Good: Dispel the Myth of Goodness to Find Your Genuine Self. But for a brief overview of these components, the internal messaging system

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Diane Brandon, author of Dream Interpretation for Beginners, Intuition for Beginners, and the new Born Aware. Have you ever craved some alone time after a full day with other people? And have you felt guilty about wanting to spend some time alone? Please don’t feel guilty! The need for alone time is natural. It’s also healthy. And some people need it more than others. If you’re one of those who enjoys spending time by yourself and yet feel guilty about it, ask yourself how you’ve felt after having some of that alone time. Did you feel different? Did you feel better? Were there any other differences you experienced? Alone

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Amy Leigh Mercree, author of Joyful Living and the new Compassion Revolution. Cultivating a loving voice in ourselves that is compassionate, aware, kind, and patient yields a better quality of life. As we start being nicer to ourselves, more accepting of our shortcomings and exercising patience, this feeling of openness and understanding ripples out to the world around us. After all, compassion is not only heroic deeds, but small unseen and often thankless kindnesses done by any one of us. And those apparently small effects do resonate out into the world. 10 healthy reasons to practice compassion: It makes us feel good (e.g., helping

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Melanie Barnum, author of several books, including Psychic Abilities for Beginners, The Book of Psychic Symbols, and the new Llewellyn's Little Book of Psychic Development. If someone had told me twenty-five years ago that one day I would be a professional psychic and author, I would have told them that they were crazy. Never in a million years would I have thought it possible. After all, I had a good job, a rational job; I was an accountant. The two careers, shouldn't be compatible, right? That's what I thought at least, because I discounted the interest I had in the metaphysical world. I didn’t think that my pleasure in having a reading