Article Topic: Self-Help

You may not realize it, but there's a place within you that holds the seeds for healing your heart and cultivating peace and joy; author Debra Moffitt calls this the secret garden. How can we get in touch with our inner self and reap the benefits of cultivating our inner secret garden? Garden of Bliss author Moffitt provides 4 ways to explore your secret garden.

Because it houses our clairvoyant abilities, people often identify the brow, or third-eye, chakra as our bodies' main psychic center. This is incorrect; indeed, the throat chakra, which houses the abilities of clairaudience, clairscent, and clairgustance, is the true psychic center of the body. Anysia Kiel, author of Discovering the Medium Within, discusses these psychic abilities and the importance of a balanced and empowered throat chakra.

Oftentimes, women in particular have questions about relationships, including how to find a good man, knowing when the time is right for marriage, and calling it quits when the relationship isn't working. And what about sitting by the phone, waiting for his call? Louise Helene & Kim Osborn Sullivan, co-authors of I Saw Your Future and He's Not It, offer four activities to help you regain your personal power and confidence...and to make him call.

Who doesn't want to be with their true love? How do we find our soul mates? Do they really exist? Cyndi Dale, author of several books, including the new Beyond Soul Mates, explains the nature of soul mate relationships and how we can attract them.

We've all been in a toxic relationship at some point or another. Perhaps you are in one now. So how do we deal with toxic relationships, those that involve negative, pessimistic people that trip us up? Cyndi Dale, author of the new Beyond Soul Mates, explains that the change must come from within us before we can combat our toxic relationships.

Although you may not be consciously aware of it, you're reading faces every day. You assess a person's character by looking at their face, and most of the time your first impressions will be correct. Why do we do this? Can we improve our face-reading skills? Could we spot a liar if need be? Richard Webster, author of Face Reading Quick & Easy, discusses ways to spot a liar—and why reading faces is so important to our everyday lives.

It seems that those who practice meditation have healthier lives in comparison to those who don't. How do we implement a meditation practice in our lives, choosing the method and style that will bring each of us the best results? Robert Butera, Ph.D., author of Meditation for Your Life and The Pure Heart of Yoga, explains.

Metaphysics isn't about adding something else into our lives, like a ritual. It's opening up to, and tapping into, the generous flow of prosperity that is already in existence. Consciously manifesting things that bring us joy, then, is a process of opening up to who we really are and aligning with the divine energies that naturally want to flow through our life experience. Tess Whitehurst, author of The Art of Bliss, explains the concepts of manifesting joy and happiness in our lives, and provides a quiz to discover how each of the nine keys to bliss are currently present in our lives.

What is enlightenment? How can it be achieved? Why do we even seek to attain it? Fred H. Meyer, Ph.D., author of Don't Give Up Until You Do, explains why we need to find the freeing power of enlightenment though meditation and examining the inner workings of our mind.