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06 In the dark womb of the world I found my rebirth


by August Cyr Journeying to the high Arctic, to the land of the polar bear where blizzards and snowstorms are only matched by four months of darkness, August Cyr finds the strength to start again.


32 Are you wearing storm-tinted spectacles?


by Jena Griffiths Are you wearing tinted specs? Rather than wait for a shipwreck or a robbery or financial ruin, let’s do a bit of DIY lens testing right now. Try looking at whatever you see as your reality from a different angle or even totally reversed.


HEALTH & HEALING


10 When change is what you want


by Boris von Rechenberg Sometimes we want change, but most of the time we want comfort and stability. When is the right time for change? What can we do to make it less scary? Is there anything we can do health-wise to give our system the strength to cope?


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