by Nancy Next | Apr 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Step into welcoming, warm (or cold!) womb-like mindfulness with shower meditation. Your shower is your safe place. This small chamber allows you to be free, vulnerable, exposed. The shower is welcoming, warm, womb-like. It’s where you can be alone with your own...
by Nancy Next | Feb 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Water flows. It’s adaptable. It explores and fills the contours of its experience. Perhaps when Bruce Lee advised, “Become like water,” he had the second chakra in mind. Water is the balancing element for the second chakra. Svadhisthana, the energy center of this...
by Nancy Next | Jun 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
The United Way of Lee County sponsored the first Youth Violence Awareness and Prevention Initiative on the spring of 2019. Given the ubiquity of #MeToo, I sensed an opportunity to focus on violence against girls specifically and how to build empathy for all. Thanks...
by Nancy Next | Jun 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
Teens talk. That’s a rule. Yet, ten of them remained silent for a school day. With “I’m Silent Today” stickers on their shirts to alert the confused masses, these Speech students walked the din of South Fort Myers High School, and a new day began. Not only did they...
by Nancy Next | Dec 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
Published in The News Press on December 25, 2018 By Nancy Next Changing how we talk to people isn’t the same as changing who we are. In 2019, let our speech help all people, particularly ourselves, be empowered, confident, loved, and a little bit bigger....
by Nancy Next | Aug 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
There are problems with apologies Published in News Press on August 15, 2017 People are going to hurt us, intentionally or unintentionally. Ask yourself: “Can I move on if an apology never arrives?” If you are spiritually fit, the answer is yes. We are hardwired for...
by Nancy Next | Aug 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dragging the Shark By Nancy B. Loughlin Published in News Press on August 8, 2017 That shark video is tantalizing. It wasn’t the brutality of four young men mirthfully dragging a shark behind their speeding boat only to spread its shredded body over social media. It...
by Nancy Next | Aug 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
When grief takes over the body By Nancy B. Loughlin Published in News Press on August 2, 2017 I wouldn’t know an emotion if I tripped over it. I’m a mind person, a Jnana yogi. If anyone asks me how I’m feeling, my response never fails to begin, “I think…” As body...
by Nancy Next | Jul 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
Retreat and surrender is sometimes best By Nancy B. Loughlin Published in News Press on July 18, 2017 There is nothing shameful in retreat. Life is full of wars. We fight for custody of our children. We fight for lovers. We fight for jobs. We fight for justice. We...
by Nancy Next | Jul 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dealing with the spiritual move By Nancy B. Loughlin Published in News Press on July 11, 2017 Changing and moving your stuff is the same thing as changing your life. Therefore, be aware of energy, not only your energy, but the energy of the new home, said Zachari...
