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If we are present and open to the experience of life, we get wiser with each passing day, week and year. We’re all students and we’re all teachers.
Share your first-hand experience, observations or questions through an essay. It could be about an everyday experience or a once-in-a-life hardship that led to an awakening. Or it could be about a person who touched your life. Or a mind-body-spirit healing therapy that helps you on the way to greater health and happiness.
Whatever moves you — share it. Take a look at the writer guidelines below, then Contact us.
Mindstream Writers’ Guides
– General spirit of essays: They are meant to explore the human experience in a real way and offer some practical learning or take-away. They are parables, either based on first-hand experience or observations and opinions drawn from research, trends and statistics. Take a look at previous stories to get the feel for our content.
– Word count: 750-1,500.
– Links: Please include links to other websites or news stories as appropriate. (External links boost the visibility of content in search engines.)
– Exclusivity: The work must be your original writing, and the first instance of publishing must be via Mindstream for at least 30 days.
– Author info: Please submit a photo of yourself and 1-2 sentences of a bio and links to your website and social media accounts. If you’d prefer to leave it anonymous, that’s fine; if you’d be willing to list your city and country, that would be great as it shows that our readership spans different places.
– Photos: Feel free to share any photos to accompany the story, but make sure you own the copyright or they are in the public domain (such as Pexels.com or other free stock photo services). We will find photos if none are supplied.
– Quality control: We wish to preserve the author’s voice and style, making edits only as necessary for form, flow, grammar, and punctuation. We reserve the right to final edits, and we’ll provide a final edit for the writer to review.
– Value exchange: We offer no compensation for editorial pieces at this time, but we will promote your work through MindstreamConnect’s distribution channels (website, newsletter, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn). We’ll tag you in the social media posts, unless you wish to remain anonymous.
At the age of 70, my academic studies and spiritual pursuit brought a profound encounter with psilocybin. I feel a renewed sense of meaning and purpose.
My first episode of severe depression emerged when I was 14 years old. I remember being immobile, unable to think or interact. An overseas trip brought my first meditation experience. It would lead to a profound process.
Our heart is our superpower. I knew this from my professional work and my spiritual practice, but lived it when someone close to me suffered a life-threatening emergency. I quickly mobilized a group to send energy healing.
Late one night while cycling home, I could no longer stuff down the emotions of my marriage breakup. It was getting exhausting. I started crying, then asked, "What am I feeling right now?"
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Is prosperity earned or granted? A bit of both. For me, it starts with taking care of myself to cultivate an environment to prosper. Intention, action and luck all play a part.
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The 2020 U.S. presidential election revealed serious symptoms in the body of 331 million people that are America. If the country were a patient, the diagnosis would be auto-immune disease.
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To renew is more than starting anew. It’s a moment of discovering something already known with the wonder of experiencing it for the first time. It’s stripping away the extraneous to get at a core truth so intrinsic to one’s self that …
2020 has been a dynamic year for collective identity. We experienced intense yet brief moments united — fighting the pandemic and systemic racism — but our inherent bias always will challenge us.
Preserving life would seem to be the most fundamental value to guide leadership decisions. Recent events have shown otherwise. It's time for the people to lead.
My upbringing taught that everyone was equal. As an adult, I've learned that racism and poverty are ingrained in society. We need all hands on deck to right this reality.
The George Floyd incident has really shaken me to the core. Shock. Disgust. Sadness. His murder comes five years after an NYC officer did the same to Eric Garner.
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