Author: Tina Thrussell

DEVELOP YOUR BODY, INSPIRE YOUR MIND, OPEN YOUR HEART, ELEVATE YOUR SPIRIT

The Best Days Start with Gratitude

Suddenly it hits me! It’s Tuesday morning and we don’t have an article for Heart and Mind Matters! What to write about? Ask and ye shall receive. I go to my desk to write something, and there is Divine intervention! A simple little 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ booklet – 5 sheets of paper folded…
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3 October 2023 0

Freedom through Consciousness

On Sunday, I landed on the word ‘free’ during a random flip through an old copy of the Daily Word, a booklet of positive daily affirmations produced for over 100 years by Unity.org .  Reading the passage reprinted below brought forth an interesting trail of introspection…  and had me shaking my head at the irony…
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25 September 2023 0

Mindfulness makes a difference

I find myself in the place to be returning to the practice of mindfulness, having let it slide over the last few years (since the big world shut-down, to be exact). It’s funny how we forget to use the tools we have when we need them the most! I know I am not the only…
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20 September 2023 0

Tina’s Revelation: Connection and Expectations

Wow.  I hear Shrek saying, “Onions, donkey!” We are like onions, constantly peeling back layers. More layers of awareness, more layers of potential growth. On Sunday, an amazing coach (who happens to be the man I live with) invited me to close my eyes and imagine what it would feel like to connect with 100…
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18 September 2023 1
close up shot of a gold medal on a black surface

Let go of being good at___

I saw a beautiful, powerful message last week and found myself wishing I would’ve seen the message when I was a teenager. It might have changed my life. I can’t tell you why until you read this message: Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archaeological dig. I…
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25 July 2023 0

At-One-ment with Love-Beauty

Our blogs have been a bit heady lately, so I feel it’s time to step away from matters of the head and slip into matters of the heart.  I recently picked up our copy of Michael Bernard Beckwith’s book, “Spiritual Liberation – Fulfilling Your Soul’s Potential”. In his first chapter, he talks about the Source…
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12 June 2023 0

Ever experienced a Finger Labyrinth?

There are two items that we forgot to include in yesterday’s issue of Heart and Mind Matters, so we are sending this special message out… hope you don’t mind! One is that TONIGHT you can experience the chartres labyrinth in the Adirondack Mountains in New York State (that Tina is going to walk several times…
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24 May 2023 0

Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift!

I may have published this list before, but it’s simply the most concise and complete list of guidelines for living a great life that I’ve ever seen, so I want to share it again. Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio. “To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the…
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2 May 2023 0

Joy is Contagious

This past weekend we celebrated my mom’s 80th birthday with not one but TWO surprise birthday parties! She loved seeing so many of the people that she loves gathered together in one room…. especially her three children. We had not all been in the same room for ten years! Needless to say, she was over…
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25 April 2023 0

Naval Meditation

Recently, the topic of mindfulness and meditation has been showing up in nearly every arena of my life;  the Universe works in wonderous ways. Last Monday morning, the ‘day after’ the Peace Weekend (for which the preparations had occupied much of my time throughout the month of March) I realized it was time to get…
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3 April 2023 0