An article from

Barbara Harris Whitfield:

The lotus. The symbol of personal growth and enlightenment

Traits of a Practical Mystic

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Practical Mystics:
 
-- Celebrate our connectedness to Divine Energy
-- Find peace and joy in our daily life.
-- Love and honor ourselves and the Earth equally.
-- Celebrate our connectedness to our inner life.
-- Care and protect our True Self/Child Within
-- Treat our physical body as sacred.
-- Enjoy being in our bodies.
-- Thrive on direct experience.
-- Experience reverence in infinite variety.
-- Are passionate and faithful in all our relationships.
-- Are at our most powerful in compassionate service.
-- Have healthy boundaries and limits, yet…
-- Enjoy and thrive on boundlessness and unity.
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    About Barbara Harris Whitfield
    Barbara H. Whitfield, R.T., C.M.T., is the author of many published articles and five books:
    She is past president and a member of the board of the Kundalini Research Network and has sat on the executive board of the I.A.N.D.S. She is a consulting editor and contributor for the Journal of Near-Death Studies. She is on the faculty of The Center for Sacred Studies where she teaches a course with Charles Whitfield called Unity in Practice. Barbara was a key subject in Kenneth Ring's groundbreaking book on the Near-Death Experience, Heading Toward Omega. He writes about her again in his latest book Lessons From the Light.

    Barbara has been a guest on major television talk shows, including Larry King Live, The Today Show, Man Alive, Donahue, Unsolved Mysteries, PM Magazine, Good Morning America, Oprah, Joan Rivers, Sonya Freeman, and CNN Medical News. Her story and her research have appeared in documentaries in the US, Canada, Japan, France, Belgium and Italy and in magazines such as Redbook, McCalls, Woman's World, McClean's, Utne Reader, Common Boundary, Psychology Today and many others. She presented talks on the Near-Death Experience to a group in the Capital in Washington, D.C. and also the United Nations in New York.

    Barbara lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband, author and physician Charles Whitfield, MD. They share a private practice, helping adults that were repeatedly abused and traumatized as children.
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Visit my website at www.barbarawhitfield.com

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Last Modified: 01/20/2009

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