http://www.freespiritcentre.info The Free Spirit Centre is a community centre devoted to personal growth, self-help, soul growth and healing where like-minded free spirits connect from around the world. en-us http://www.freespiritcentre.info/articles/11/30_color_your_life/ I recall the time when I was a child I used to see 'blobs' of colors almost all of the time! These colors would appear to be just floating around in the air and sometimes I would see them surrounding people.As children we haven't yet had the chance to develop that wonderful analytical mind that we do develop when coming to adulthood. With that in c Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:47:39 -0700 http://www.freespiritcentre.info/articles/11/31_auras_and_energy_fields/ Did you know that when you say something or someone has a pleasant aura about them, you are describing an actual energy field which exists around all things? This energy field surrounds everything that has an atomic structure, both animate and inanimate, but is most active and easily detected around plant and animal life. The energy emanations ar Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:49:48 -0700 http://www.freespiritcentre.info/articles/11/237_dear_our_beloved_crying_plan/ I read an article last week in "The Gazette", a local English paper here in Montreal. It was titled "Time is running out" and was written by Peter G. Brown. He is a professor in the school of the Environment at McGill University. Professor Brown emphasized on the fact that "Our survival requires that we fix global warming now and is arguing that th Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:31:08 -0700 http://www.freespiritcentre.info/articles/11/676_climate_science_keeps_on_tic/ If you didn't know what the Kyoto Protocol was all about a few weeks ago, you'd be hard pressed not to know now. The international agreement to reduce the heat trapping emissions that are causing global warming has been all over the news since it came into force last week. Leading up to the big day, I expected to hear from "both sides" of the iss Wed, 11 May 2005 07:34:34 -0700 http://www.freespiritcentre.info/articles/11/700_gardening_for_stress_relief/ In its purest form, gardening is about connecting with the earth and resetting our clocks to the simple, natural rhythms of life. Try as we may, we can't really speed up a tomato plant and make it grow by our time table. We must adapt and in doing so, gardening offers us a gentle reminder about what's really important in life food, water, warmth, a Mon, 16 May 2005 15:09:31 -0700 http://www.freespiritcentre.info/articles/46/711_a_parents_guide_to_coping_wi/ Colic is a common problem in infants and an even more frustrating condition for parents to deal with. Approximately 10 to 30% of all infants born have colic. If an infant is going to experience colic in its life, it will typically appear within the first few weeks of life and will subside by the time the infant is four month old. Babies with colic Fri, 20 May 2005 05:01:41 -0700 http://www.freespiritcentre.info/articles/46/909_the_challenges_of_single_par/ Having worked with parents for the last 35 years and written books on parenting and relationships, Ive discovered that one of the greatest challenges for us as parents is to be loving role-models for our children, showing our children through our behavior how to take personal responsibility for their own feelings and needs. Our children need to lea Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:32:29 -0700 http://www.freespiritcentre.info/articles/47/2037_from_codependent_to_indepen/ Have you ever wondered why it is that, with so many people calling out the need to make positive changes in their lives, so very little actually changes? This fact is fairly evident What isn't so obvious is the reason for this strange contradiction in our human condition. The truth is that most of us never effect any real changes in our lives becau Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:47:17 -0700 http://www.freespiritcentre.info/articles/46/2130_the_first_moments_of_your_b/ During pregnancy you sit for hours and imagine how your baby is going to look like and how will he or she feel the first time you are going to hold him. You wonder how birth for him is. How a normal baby looks, how will he react in is first hours of life. Let's answer some of these questions. 1. What does birth mean for the baby? Imagine you are in Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:22:40 -0700 http://www.freespiritcentre.info/articles/46/2139_very_early_signs_of_pregnan/ There are certain and varied symptoms that you can look for if you feel that you might be pregnant, or are hoping to become pregnant. The tell-tale signs of early pregnancy are not always there for every woman, and each woman experiences her pregnancy differently than others. * Missing a Period - This is one of the classic symptoms of being pregnan Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:52:45 -0700