Spring Awakening
With this Spring of 2016, the world is being awakened by the need for an increase in our consciousness. What does this mean for humankind? What is consciousness? Where does this exist? Where does it...
View ArticleFrom the Heart: How to Safely Remove Your Husband’s Skull
The Jawara Tribe in the Andaman Islands has fought off nearly all attempts by civilized people to penetrate their domain. As a result, this primitive culture has retained its customs for thousands of...
View ArticleRemoving the Layers of Separation from Spirit
We have 39 to 48 thoughts per minute as we go about our day, taking care of business…living…surviving. Unless we are consciously monitoring our process, thoughts just happen. But here is something to...
View ArticleThe Risk of Authenticity
Being authentic for some people appears to be easy and natural. Many of the people I know who are what I consider authentic are unselfish, kind and humble. Since I have tended to be a people pleaser...
View ArticleHow To Love Yourself
Recently while leading a group, someone shared that her goal was to learn to love herself, but felt it was an impossible task. Others agreed with this statement. Most of them were either bombarded with...
View ArticleNow is your Time to Shine
Your soul came into body to experience everything this earthly incarnation has to offer — and that, my friend, is a lot to consider. In our untold number of lifetimes, we have seen and done it all, and...
View ArticleDropping Your Self
When I was a Buddhist monk doing my studies there was a lot of emphasis placed upon the study of the self, and the study of the no-self. What it all basically boils down to on a practical level is...
View ArticleA Pleiadian Message: A Reunion to Self
Beloved ones, we greet you. Humanity is beginning a new potential of awakening, as another phase of the “New Dawning” energy on your planet is about to become self-realized. In the month of December...
View ArticleOur Essence
The inmates at the state penitentiary where I work often get stuck in their self hate. They did commit an awful crime, maybe with severe consequences for others. They have made bad and worse choices...
View ArticlePerception is Reality
“Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but you do not notice the log that is in your own eye?” Humans refuse to look at themselves. We constantly blame others for the pain that we...
View ArticleThe Necessity of Knowledge
An excerpt from In the Light of the Self: Adi Shankara and the Yoga of Non-dualism Some villagers, having traveled many miles on pilgrimage to Kashi, had now come to have the darshan of the young sage...
View ArticleIntuition Awareness: 3 Tips for Newbies
I realize now that as a young girl, I was guided to “protect” my younger brothers with my intuition. We often visited my grandma, and hung out at a house a few blocks away with some cousins. There was...
View ArticleLoving Yourself
An excerpt from We Consciousness: 33 Profound Truths for Inner and Outer Peace Loving yourself is the first essential step to creating peace in your life and in the lives around you. After practicing...
View ArticleYour Life: You are Meant to Enjoy It
Have you been hard on yourself lately? Let’s play a little game. Imagine that your mind is a smart phone screen. Every time a negative thought of judgment or self-criticism comes about, swipe it away....
View ArticleSoul Lightening Acupressure
Dr. Aminah Raheem, a transpersonal psychologist and bodyworker, developed Soul Lightening Acupressure in the early 1970s as a way to address whole-being health and consciousness. In her studies, Dr....
View ArticleAccepting Ourselves Completely
An excerpt from Heartfullness: 52 Ways to Open to More Love, written to honor a beloved mentor, Ram Dass, who passed on December 22, 2019 We all have parts of ourselves that we prefer to remain hidden....
View ArticleMe and Mrs. Bunker
Already as a relatively young person, I was totally outside of myself and my own life — a stranger in my own life. I didn’t have inside me a bright beacon with the help of which to navigate in my life....
View ArticleAuthentically You
The world can place a lot of demands on us every day. From waking up to sleeping, we mostly run through our chores, not our joys. And in doing so we forget we need to take our joy with us everywhere we...
View ArticleHow I learned to Navigate My Life from My Authentic Self
In my first day of kindergarten I nervously walked to school about five blocks. Once class started, the teacher told us she was a first-time teacher as she tried to connect with us. Later she invited...
View ArticleYour Authentic Self: Love Who You Are Right
An excerpt from The Dysfunctional Dance of the Empath and Narcissist Many of us live our lives on autopilot. We exist day to day programmed like an automaton and never consider the choices we have. We...
View ArticleHow to be Your Natural Self When You Are Not Sure What That Is (Hint: Gently...
In a perfect world I want to be relaxed, comfortable and free to express myself openly. And I don’t want to worry about being judged for doing it. I used to believe this was next to impossible, but...
View ArticleThe Self
It’s the 31st of December, the last day of the year. I felt like I spent the whole month of December contemplating life and its meaning, much more than I ever had. The truth is that I just experienced...
View ArticleHonoring our Authentic Self
When we are small children, before we learn from others that happiness depends on anything else but our innate joy of life — we are naturally happy. Small children, unless they are hungry, ill or hurt...
View ArticleNavigating Life From My Authentic Self
It is my belief that each of us is created out of an invisible “something” or “presence.” I call this presence, this entity, God — as do so many others throughout the world. After much study and...
View ArticleNavigating Our Changes in Becoming an Authentic Person
What does the authentic self mean? It is who you are, including your innate wisdom, in your deepest place — in your core. What does it mean to live authentically? It means you must go inward and spend...
View ArticleNavigating Life from the Authentic Self
The authentic self is the foundation of actualizing our evolutionary potential, and it is our birthright. It is an expression of being: us to the very core. It makes sense then that we can reap so many...
View ArticleLiving Authentically
Authentic living is a process of knowing who we are at the soul level and then, essentially, expressing that soul knowledge out into the world. Being our authentic selves is a “work in progress” that...
View ArticleHow to Live From Your Authentic Self
The permanent, more authentic, part of you did not come to Earth to live from fears and mental limitations, but rather came to become aware of and overcome whatever blocks hold you back. The soul part...
View ArticleComing Home to our Authentic Self
For many of us, life moves on a fast track. We are constantly jumping from one thing to another. It is all about doing and getting through our day as best as we can. How do we feel at the day’s end? Is...
View ArticleYour Self
Imagine time slowing down for a second, at any given situation. Perhaps when you overhear gossip, or when you’re having a heated conversation, being confronted directly; any time before the consequent...
View ArticleSticks & Stones: Letting Go of a Deep Hurt
Being 19 was the bomb! I was off at college, with no parental controls and loving the freedom and flexibility of creating my life. Each day was a learning opportunity — to discover who I was. Did I...
View ArticleSpirit Leaves: Authentic Beauty
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet… — T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Raised in the old energies, I worked to perfect my persona,...
View ArticleWhere I am Most Loved
“And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.” ― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are Many of us spend our lifetimes painfully searching...
View ArticleSpirit Uranus Speaks: Self-Awareness Exercise
You are capable of being aware of things from many different levels, and they are in you — although you are not conscious of them, for you have shut down this ability. The ability is hidden underneath...
View ArticleHealing is Spiritual
Have you given much thought to what healing is and how it happens? Like many, I took healing for granted. If I rested and gave it a little time, I got better. That was it. Healing was bandaging a wound...
View ArticleIf It’s Not Okay to Say It to Someone Else, It’s Not Okay to Say It to Yourself
Adapted from the book Out of Love: Finding Your Way Back to Self-Compassion I thought I had to be self-critical. If I wasn’t, who knew what would happen, what bad things I’d do, what a loser I’d be? I...
View ArticleSelf-Care Is Your Prayer
An excerpt from Your Life is Your Prayer: Wake Up to the Spiritual Power in Everything You Do “You, yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — The Buddha...
View ArticleHow to Defeat What’s Defeating You
The biggest problem facing us as individuals is that we have all been caught up in the race of looking for relief. Our time would be spent far more profitably looking for strength. We would never...
View ArticleFreedom from the Bondage of Self through Yoga Meditation
What is freedom? If you asked 100 people what freedom is, you may very well get 100 different answers. The reason for this is that no two people are exactly alike and each has his or her own set of...
View ArticleFinding Self-acceptance through Gratitude
Never in my life would I ever have thought I’d be grateful for my small, wide, Flintstone feet. Yep, these little piggies shaped like a rectangle get more compliments, all because I can find great...
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