How shall we live? What shall we live for, if anything? How we can decide right from wrong? Is there any reasonable way to answer these questions that doesn’t require us to fall back on blind faith? Let’s Ask the Old Greeks People have been striving to answer these questions literally for thousands of years. […]
Louise Hay passed over on August 30th 2017. Her name needs no introduction. For the uninitiated, she was the woman who revolutionised our thinking about mind, emotions and body. She said it loud and clear – mind and body is connected – in more ways than we have previously known or imagined. The author of
Buddha says: When action comes out of nothing it creates no karma. When you act out of nothingness, you respond; it is no longer a reaction. It has truth…
Relationships are an invitation for each one of us to dive and look inside of ourselves. A very real and practical ground for spirituality to flower within us and discover all shades, aspects of ourselves. With the busyness of our lives, and the habitual patterns we are caught up in, we often do not look tenderly and intimately within ourselves and see the undercurrent of our relationships. Are we innocent, vulnerable, genuine? In a very simple human way, are we in connection with ourselves and the significant others in our lives?
A scientist has written to me. He works in a scientific lab where artificial human organs are made – hands, legs, liver, heart – all human parts. His confusion is “whether I am going against nature, because the factory-produced heart is not as good as the natural heart. Am I doing something wrong by being
India celebrates Independence Day on August 15. Independence also refers to the liberation and freedom of our soul. Just as one country may be a colony of another country, our soul has been colonized and taken over by the coverings of our mind and body.
Every time society shames you for showing intense painful emotions like shame, fear etc. it is killing an important part of your emotional self loading to a variety of mental illnesses
A survey I did a while back revealed that about 40% of my readers have zero friends they’d consider growth-oriented, and another 20% only have one such friend. Many people who are attracted to my blog don’t have much social support for their personal growth pursuits. They often feel isolated as they explore different ways
Friendship has a higher quality than love. The next step of love is friendship. Not that it is lower, as it is understood ordinarily; it is not. In love there is passion, lust; love is more rooted in the physical. Friendship is purer, not rooted in the sexual at all. Friendship is between two beings:
It’s important to learn to be alone. Alone is not lonely. It is about enjoying your own company, not needing someone or something. Being alone is not being sad. It’s about learning to enjoy your company. The gift of aloneness is meditation, contemplation and awareness. When you stop needing someone, you are ready for a
Do you remember what it was like to first fall in love? Relationship expert James Bauer suggests that this wonderful feeling doesn’t have to stop. This is a great read, so please enjoy! The Light of His Life Here’s what it feels like to a man when he first falls in love with a woman. He
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The psychology of anger is that you wanted something, and somebody prevented you from getting it. Somebody came as a block, as an obstacle. Your whole energy was going to get something and somebody blocked the energy. You could not get what you wanted. [pullquote-left]“Even humbleness can become an ego trip. Egolessness can become an
Teenage and youth is also age of dreams, when we indulge in day dreaming without any effort. I remember, day dreaming was my favourite time pass. I could spend hours in day dreaming thinking about my desires and wishes. I was told that I live in utopia and I’m impractical, as day dreaming is waste
For many battling addiction, years of substance abuse has eroded all traces of self-assurance and makes recovery seem like an impossible goal. There comes a moment…
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Through life our paths are crossing paths with other people. From our parent to our children, from our brothers and sisters to our marriage partners. According to karmic teachings, we always meet the same souls, only under different masks and different roles. The soul goes through this cycle of physical incarnation because it has some
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As it is said, “Gratitude opens the door to abundance.” When we talk about abundance many think it as a far fetched dream which is very difficult to manifest in reality. We have limited set of beliefs based on our experiences.The universe work under some set of laws that need to be known for example,
Personalities can be divided into two categories. One, psychologists call the T-personality, toxic, and the other they call the N-personality, nourishing. A toxic personality is always looking at things in a negative way. A perfectionist is a toxic personality. You cannot say that something is wrong in a perfectionist, but
The “outrage script” is the mindset that balks at seeing someone spend $10,000 for a hotel room stay. It’s the mindset that would label this an extravagant or wasteful purchase. I believe this mindset is a huge mistake.
Abundance is not a big outer far fetched dream, rather abundance is an inner flower that blossoms first within. When we see dreams we have their blueprints, before they turn true. A seed contains all the possibilities of a tree. All you need is to nurture and take care of the seed in such a
1. Stuffed Closet Syndrome 2. Its not my Fault 3. Old wine in a new bottle 1. Stuffed Closet Syndrome What? Stuffed closet syndrome refers to the situation when we keep suppressing negative emotions, memories and past events in our relationships without really resolving them because its too painful or depressing or embarrassing to remember them
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I feel alone, which is good, but I am confused. I don’t know what is happening. Things are changing around inside me so sometimes I feel frightened, sometimes there is a floating feeling. It is natural. Whenever you feel frightened, just relax. Accept the fact that fear is there, but don’t do anything about it.
Here’s a mock conversation about getting started with a lifestyle transition, one that models many conversations I’ve had in the past. Friend: I really don’t like my job. Steve: Why not? Friend: The environment sucks, I don’t feel like my work actually matters, and I don’t feel connected with my coworkers. I feel empty when
I never thought I would be working in the area of healing and creating relationships. It has always been a weak point for me. Brought up as a single child with no siblings, not many friends and not much contact with the outside world for a long time, relationships have not really been my forte.
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Being in relationships can be a beautiful experience but it can be confusing and difficult as well. Many a times people ask me how do I know if this guy is the right one for me or should I date this guy or not or I am not sure what’s wrong with the relationship but
Life is unimaginable without friends. Friends act as a life line at times of need. If someone asks me why friends in my life come on the top, because I was not given the choice to choose my parents, siblings and other relatives…. Rather I was born in certain circumstances and family… without asking me.
As I sat and thought of my emotions and feelings and where they were emanating from – I realized they were not coming from the heart region, that remained a
