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Health and healing to all in your quest for integration of your body-mind-soul!


Remember, your body is a window to your soul as it reflects back to you your inner condition!


'Every light begins with darkness
Every flower was once a seed
And with the sun and wind to test us
We are bound to be released.'


~ Patty Loveless


Spiritual Significance of Breast Cancer

I found your site when trying to help a friend at work who is having a very difficult time dealing with a recent change. She suddenly got pink eye.

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Chakra Balancing for Your Seven Chakras

Chakra Balancing of all your seven chakras will bring you calmness and health!

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Chakra Healing Meditation for the 7th Chakra

The 7th chakra healing meditation brings you in touch with the Divine by living in the present moment.

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Chakra Healing Meditation for the 6th Chakra

The goal of this chakra healing meditation for the 6th chakra, more commonly know as the "third eye" is to find insight into yourself, through intuition and wisdom.

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Chakra Healing Meditation for the 5th Chakra

The focus of the 5th chakra healing meditation is on self-expression.

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Chakra Healing Meditation for the 4th Chakra

The heart is the center of it all. This is the lesson for the chakra healing meditation for the 4th chakra.

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Chakra Healing Meditation for the 3rd Chakra

The 3rd chakra healing meditation focuses on your personal power as it relates to the external world.

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Chakra Healing Meditation for the 2nd Chakra

The 2nd chakra healing meditation centers on the ability to adapt to change, by letting go and creating flow.

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Chakra Healing Meditation for the 1st Chakra

Use this chakra healing meditation for the root chakra to heal your foundational issues.

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Interstitial Cystitis

Hi! I came across your website and it really struck me because I suffer from a chronic illness, and my goal is to become a holistic nurse practitioner.

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The Earth Has Music

This photo inspiration is a picture of the sunset on the beach in Roatan, Honduras. We went there recently and I filmed lots of Chakra clearing meditation videos. Some were filmed on this very pier! Watch for my articles, coming soon!

Roatan, Honduras Sunset

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Tension Myositis Syndrome ~ A New Diagnosis for Chronic Pain

Tension myositis syndrome is perhaps the most significant new diagnosis of our modern time.

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The Power of Chakra Yoga for Balancing your Chakras

Chakra yoga helps you become aware of your body's subtle energy system and aids in opening and balancing your chakras!

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Colon Cleanse / Bowels blockage

Hi, I drink water and tea for colon cleanse, so it is says that 48 to 72 hours, 2 to 3 days, I will have colon cleanse. But I drink colon cleanse tea and

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Inspirational Photos from my Personal Collection

These are my Inspirational photos from my personal photo collection.

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A Yoga Injury that Resulted in a Trapezius Strain

You are not supposed to get a yoga injury if you are present to your current way of being... are you?

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Simplify Yourself and Your Expectations of Yourself

If you simplify yourself you will have more time for health and healing of your body-mind-soul.

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Declutter and Simplify Your Wardrobe

Declutter and simplify your wardrobe. You can find health and healing of your body-mind-soul by simplifying your life!

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Possible Anterior Tibial Tendonitis

I would first like to compliment you on your site and information! I stumbled across this looking for relief for “anterior tibial tendonitis” symptoms.

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Walking the Edge - Neither Insider Nor Outsider

Ever feel like you are walking the edge? This is my story...

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Remake Yourself

My latest Facebook inspirational image, taken on the Catwalk at Whitewater Creek near Glenwood, New Mexico:

Catwalk, Whitewater Creek, Glenwood, NM

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Yoga at Home - Developing a Personal Yoga Practice

If you never practice yoga at home you are missing out on the full spiritual aspects of yoga.

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What is Your Identity Attachment?

When your attachments are to externals, you open yourself to great suffering!

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An Attitude of Gratitude

When you shift your attention from self absorbtion to an attitude of gratitude, your whole world changes.

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The Great Cholesterol Myth

Photo of Book, The Great Cholesterol Myth

If you have high Cholesterol, I urge you to consider reading this, The Great Cholesterol Myth,icon written by two physicians. According to Dr. Christianne Northrup, a holistic M.D., statin drugs are risky and are associated with an increasing epidemic of conditions such as "diastolic dysfunction," a serious problem for most women. She states that just because your cholesterol is high, does not necessarily mean you need to be treated with these type of drugs called statins, especially if you lead an active lifestyle.

In my own experience, my husband has an abnormally high total cholesterol. Fortunately, his high density lipoproteins (HDL) the "good" cholesterol is high and his low density lipoproteins (LDL) the "bad" cholesterol is low, where it should be. If any doctor tries to put him on drugs, it will be refused. He is 6'2" weighs 188 pounds and is extremely active.

I have always thought this subject received way too much hype, and now, finally there is documentation to back me up.

Another drug company drug-du-joir that is being refuted. It is about time. The authors even believe that lowering your cholesterol will not prevent heart attacks! Get yourself up to date by reading it now, The Great Cholesterol Myth.icon

The Best Colon Cleanse of All

The Best Colon Cleanse, Naturally ~ The answer may surprise you!

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Creating Positive Affirmations for Health

You can obtain healing of the body mind soul with positive affirmations.

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Conquer Your Fear

Arches National Monument, Utah


My trip to the Arches National Monument in Utah inspired many an inspirational quote. Click on my Facebook url to see many more.

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Adrenal Fatigue and Sciatica Pain

I have adrenal Fatigue and handle the problem with food and vitiamins. The Sciatica causes alot of pain and stress- my back and hip are bad.What can I

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Yoga for Healing ~ Overdoing Versus Undoing

Therapeutic yoga for healing can undo your stress and ill health from overdoing.

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The Benefits of Yoga

The benefits of yoga offer you a way to discover your body's metaphors and apply them to your program for health and healing.

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Life is Deep

My latest Facebook inspirational image, from my own personal photo collection:

Snow on Autumn Leaves

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Seasonal Depression

Effective strategies for combating seasonal depression as the winter approaches.

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A Christian Contemplative View of the Body-Mind Connection

Elle Bieling, low lunge yoga pose, Colorado

The Low Lunge

When Christianity speaks up on the issue of the body-mind connection, my ears really perk up. This type of thinking is becoming more accepted in Christian literature, especially among the Christian contemplatives, or the Christian "mystics" as they are also often called.

Finally, our Western traditions are being interpreted on the basis of what we have already learned from the Eastern philosophy! The body cannot be disconnected from ourselves!

I believe that this is even what Jesus really taught. Friar Richard Rohr describes this beautifully in an unpublished talk from Assisi, Italy, May 2012:

"We separate our body from our minds. The mind is given pre-eminence in almost all people. The mind starts steering, judging, analyzing, fixing, controlling, and trying to dominate body and soul. Most people think they are their thinking! That’s what contemplation can help you resolve. It allows you to find the deeper self—prior to thinking about it, prior to the judgments you make and the preferences you have, and your endless mental commentary on everything.

It really doesn’t matter what you think about things, believe it or not. This is a revolutionary and humiliating breakthrough for most people. What matters is WHAT IS.

Your mind doesn’t make you human. You are something bigger than your thinking.

Where the mind gets preeminence, the body becomes the lower entity. Many of the problems we have with addiction, obesity, anorexia, and sex are all to do with this feeling that the body is not good, worthy, or holy. Sexual addiction is just a body trying to compensate, as are drugs, alcohol, overeating, overbuying, and overdressing.

Jesus, however, has patient sympathy for what we later called the sins of the flesh. He is never harsh or judgmental here. Jesus is only hard on what we call sins of the spirit—arrogance, pride, hypocrisy, ambition, and deceit. These are the sins that really destroy the soul and separate us from God and other people."

Reflections on a Labyrinth Walk

A labyrinth walk is a symbolic journey . . . but seen metaphorically the difference between the labyrinth path and the real world become blurred.

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Remember to Breathe ~ Why the Breath is so Important

When we remember to breathe, the whole world of relaxation, and therefore, optimal health is open to us. It is physiologically impossible to hold tension when you breathe deeply!

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A Hiking Trail Metaphor ~ Trust the Trail

A mountain hiking trail becomes a metaphor for the journey of life.

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Mountain Climbing Vestal Peak

An epic adventure of mountain climbing on Vestal Peak, deep in the heart of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado

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Vestal Peak Climb, 13,864 feet

Elle Bieling and Rich Bieling on summit of Vestal Peak, near Silverton, Colorado

Elle and Rich on Vestal Peak summit!

On Labor Day weekend, my husband and I sumitted Vestal Peak, near Silverton, Colorado. It was our 96th Centennial Peak Climb.

It was an epic climb for sure. We were so very fortunate to have my stepson and his friend climb with us! It made the whole adventure just that much more fun.

The remaining 4 peaks will have to wait until next year! If the snow holds off for a few more weeks, we may be able to do one more. We shall see!

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The Story of the Chinese Bamboo Tree

Tree Growing out of Utah Slick Rock Cliff

Pine tree growing out of a slick rock cliff
~ Utah Canyonlands

It seems that the Chinese Bamboo tree when planted, watered, and nurtured for an entire growing season doesn’t outwardly grow as much as an inch. Then, after the second growing season, a season in which the farmer takes extra care to water, fertilize and care for the bamboo tree, the tree still hasn’t sprouted. So it goes as the sun rises and sets for four solid years. The farmer has nothing tangible to show for all of his labor trying to grow the tree.

Then, along comes year five. In the fifth year that Chinese bamboo tree seed finally sprouts and the bamboo tree grows up to eighty feet in just one growing season! Or so it seems…. Did the little tree lie dormant for four years only to grow exponentially in the fifth? Or, was the little tree growing underground, developing a root system strong enough to support its potential for outward growth in the fifth year and beyond? The answer is, of course, obvious. Had the tree not developed a strong unseen foundation it could not have sustained its life as it grew."
By David Inout Moves from his Facebook Timeline

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One Day at a Time

Lupine in the Field, One Day at a Time

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Examine Your Beliefs

Denver City Sunrise

Denver and the Front Range



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Adrenal Exhaustion ~ Is Your Adrenal Bank Account Empty?

You may have adrenal exhaustion if on a daily basis you feel like your life is spinning around you.

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