SNS Articles

The following articles have been posted on the Spiritual Naturalist Society website under the name Leigh Anderson.

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Spiritual Journaling
published 5/12/23

Through spiritual journaling, you can work through difficulties and uncover insights about yourself that you never knew existed.
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Gratitude Journaling
published 3/9/23

Gratitude and being grateful are beneficial to our health. Almost everyone feels a little better immediately when they think of the things they are grateful for. …
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Mindful Journaling 
published 1/12/23

I have been journaling on and off for over thirty years.  There are times when I’m in the habit of not only journaling daily but writing multiple pages at a time. …
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Asking Open Ended Questions to Pursue a Personal Philosophy
published 11/10/22

The book, Building a Second Brain, by Tiago Forte is about productivity and how we collect and connect information. He goes through a specific methodology …
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Finding A New Meditation Practice In Nature
published 9/8/22

I find it hard to concentrate on anything for more than a few seconds if I’m not focused on what I am doing at that moment. It’s easy to recognize the feeling of being fully focused …
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Understanding Forgiveness as Self Care
published 7/14/22.

As I get older, I find it easier to learn things by experience than by reading about subjects or listening to someone wise and sage talk about them. It wasn’t always that way, but now concepts tend to …
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Finding Compassion for Others through Self Compassion and Loving Kindness
published 3/10/22

When we look at what it takes to have compassion for others we must first look at what it means to be a compassionate being.  That starts with self-compassion and our own well-being.
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Writing Wild by Tina Welling – A Book Review
published 10/9/21

These days I am outdoors more often and around people much less often than in previous years. I look inward and read more books. I begin to wonder if I’m losing touch with a part of the world that …
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Mindfulness and Memory
published 4/8/21

I’ve lived in the same place the last seven years and I now observe specific things as “signs of change”.  A slowdown in the daily breeze indicates a forthcoming change …
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The Emotional Cost of Continual Chaos
published 10/29/20

Living through our current environment of chaos has left me feeling shell-shocked and numb. We are in an election year, and it’s normal to be bombarded by …
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Walking To Find Wisdom
published 4/30/20

Lately I become distracted often. This tendency has only increased in a world where people read and write in 140 characters or less. I’m old enough to know that living life …