Author Archives: Diana Rankin
A Game to Practice Intuition: Use Four Cards
Here’s an easy way to test and practice your intuition. Shuffle a deck of cards. Pull out four cards, but do not look at them. Lay them side-by-side upside down. Take a relaxing breath and ask to tune into your … Continue reading
Be Here Now
Flashes of intuition often come when we least expect them, but to receive them we must be present for ourselves. As Ram Dass said back in the 1970s, “Be here now.” But what does that mean? We wear a lot … Continue reading
Seven Ways to Awaken Your Intuition and Activate Your Psychic Powers
Developing your intuition is a healthy way to take charge of your life and use your own inner psychic powers to guide your life to greater happiness and fulfillment. Following are seven ways to awaken your intuition and activate your … Continue reading
Why Ritual Is Important
21 rituals to make your life better Our ancestors knew the value of rituals. Anthropologists have documented the rituals of the ancient ones across cultures. In our modern day, psychologists who have studied the impact of rituals on people, have … Continue reading
Daisy, Piper, and a Few Women The Way Dog Miracles Work
For a few weeks I’d been thinking about bringing a dog into our home. When Daisy died, months past now, I knew someday I’d be ready again, but I didn’t think it would be until the spring. But here I … Continue reading
Use Words that Are of Service to You and the World
To be of service to the world with our words begins with the words we say to ourselves about ourselves. Do we use kind words or harsh ones? Do we tell ourselves how well we’re doing or are we always … Continue reading
Why We Need to Pay Attention to Our Thoughts and the Words that Follow
Since we’ve been knee high to a grasshopper, we’ve been taught to be aware of the words that come out of our mouths; that they have the power to hurt as well as to heal. Although it may sometimes seem … Continue reading
Sitting In the Mist Between What Was and What Is to Come
In the Western/American culture in which I live, we are impatient. We do not like being in the space between what was and what is to come. Sitting in the Irish mist, I call it, because it reminds me of … Continue reading
Love or Fear; It’s Your Choice
In the 1970s I began studying A Course in Miracles. Rich with a spiritual depth I longed for, I found a home for my heart. Although complex (and at time I found myself arguing or in disagreement with the course) … Continue reading