Pick a card to focus your thoughts, uplift your spirit and calm your body
Every day for many years I have taken a few minutes to pick a card from one of my many decks. I read the message and take it to heart, trusting that everything that happens to me that day may be understood differently when the message is applied.

QVC recently asked me to create a 'Gift from LighterLiving'.

A couple of days of meditative thought and it became clear what that gift box should include. Obviously it must contain unique and personal treasures that would enhance peace of mind, heal and nurture your body and uplift your mood and spirit.



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You may have read that my Tom has been diagnosed with Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

When I first heard the diagnosis I was incredulously shocked, in denial and full of disbelief.

How is it possible when he looks so well, that he can actually have cancer of his immune system? Wouldn’t he be feeling sick or getting sick all the time?

I am often asked whether I believe in specific divination tools or whether I engage in the use of psychic readings to predict the future.

While I try to make it a daily discipline to live in the present moment and not to dwell on either the past or predict or worry about the future and I try mostly to perfect the skill that allows me to listen and trust my intuition, there are most definitely times when I use a tool to help confirm what I already believe.

I promise this year to better communicate with Tom, Louis, my male business partners and all my male friends! Have a laugh as you remind yourself of how easily we can be misunderstood. Perhaps John Gray is right and we are from different planets.

From the mouths of men all over the planet here are 9 of the most misunderstood words uttered by women to men....

(1) "Fine":

One of my most exciting discoveries, in recent years, has been that aromatherapy actually alters one’s physical, mental and emotional state. I diffuse oils and light candles throughout my home, every day, and after years of research have found the best ways to do so.

A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said.

"Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like".

It is the beginning of a New Year and I am excited.

Every New Year’s Eve I spend an hour or so preparing for the next year. I write down, in my journal, all the things that I want to accomplish over the next twelve months. I make certain that I have written these "resolutions" in positive language and always in the present tense. I spend time imagining how I will feel after each accomplishment and reinforce its occurrence with the belief that it already IS.

I was at QVC recently while Wayne Dyer was speaking and as always I became mesmerized by his wonderfully delightful stories. I, of course, bought the book and CD’s he was selling and have since listened to them and others many, many times. He mentioned that Lao Tzu, the original author of The Tao, said that you don’t own your children, they come through you and it is only for you to guide them into becoming the best they can be. My other favorite author Deepak Chopra wrote, "The job of a parent is to make your children understand and appreciate what makes them unique".

That we don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.

There, mired to his waist in black muck was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what would have been a slow and terrifying death.

A 92-year-old man, petite, well-poised and proud, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, hair fashionably coifed and face cleanly shaved, moved to a nursing home today. A move that was precipitated by the death of his wife of 70 years.