The small woman Builds cages for everyone She Knows. While the sage, Who has to duck her head When the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the Beautiful Rowdy Prisoners ―Hafiz Welcome to this week’s edition of Life Tools where we discuss becoming more mindful about our tendencies to want to … Continue reading How Well Do You Handle Change?
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior! I’ve just returned from a week with the distinguished officers of the Blue Courage program celebrating law enforcement – the men & women who have pledged their lives to serving & protecting. Blue Courage is a transformational leadership development program designed for all levels of law enforcement – from police & sheriffs, to … Continue reading Awaken Your Courage and Step into Your Power Weekend Meditation
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior!!! Let’s take our dimmer to shimmer!!! Today is not the day to play small; it’s not the day dim your light; it’s not the day to let your dreams drift away. Today is the day to step up!!! Give yourself permission to thrive, to soar, to flow, and to express the … Continue reading From Dimmer to Shimmer Weekend Meditation
Hello Spiritual Warriors!!!! and welcome to another edition of The Source – the newsletter that translates ancient teachings into modern world practical application. This week we’re exploring Slowing Down the World around you. You have the ability to control the speed and frequency at which life comes at you! Science is now proving that we … Continue reading How we can make life happen in slow motion
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior! This week has been a painful, trying time for a dear friend of mine. The past has suddenly thrust itself upon her sending her world into what feels like a tailspin. Her greatest fears… all the thoughts of what-ifs… keep swirling through her mind threatening to confine her to a space … Continue reading Healing the Past Weekend Meditation
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source in which we explore various moral codes people live by, including the 10 “commandments” of Osho. What set of codes do you live by? Maybe it’s the Ten Commandments or the Four Agreements or the Seven Spiritual Laws. Or perhaps you live by the Golden Rule or … Continue reading The 10 Commandments of Osho – What codes do you live by?
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior!!! This weekend let’s return to our most divine, infinite state — stoke the fire of emotional freedom. Allow yourself to surrender to the fire of transformation — let go of what no longer serves you — and invite your true self to shine through. Forgive and love yourself with this meditation. … Continue reading Fire of Emotional Freedom Weekend Meditation
Welcome to this week’s The Source in which we dive into the painful process of, well, healing pain. Living with, coping with, dealing with & transcending pain is a powerful process of healing. When we get to the other side, we are stronger, braver, clearer, and transformed. As the African spiritual teacher & author Sobonfu … Continue reading Embracing Wholeness… Including Our Pain
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior!!! Welcome to this week’s guided meditation. Each day, we SELF-domesticated ourselves as we created agreements in our mind of who we should and shouldn’t be, and what we should and shouldn’t do. And at a certain point that became engrained into every muscle in our body – every fiber of our … Continue reading Awaken Your Best Version Weekend Meditation
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior!!! Welcome to this weekend’s meditation in which we place attention on the adage, “this too shall pass.” Life is filled with peaks and valleys, rabbit holes, long climbs, highs and lows, crossroads and dead ends; we can use this powerful tool when we find ourselves stuck, unwilling to on, when we … Continue reading This Too Shall Pass Weekend Meditation
Hello, Spiritual Warrior, welcome to this edition of The Source in which we explore tips for distinguishing thoughts from signs from the Universe. Coincidences are the universe tapping you on the shoulder whispering to pay attention! As we live our lives in the material realm, coincidences are “signs from the universe” that we are actually united with realms … Continue reading How Do You Know if It’s a Sign or Merely a Thought?
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior!!! Over this next week, let’s progressively quiet the fluctuations of the mind, slow the swirl around us, relieve our stress and open our heart to trust by awakening the Shakti energy that flows through us. Mantra: Raam shakti om Want to add this to your personal meditation library? Download it here.
Welcome, Spiritual Warrior, to another edition of The Source in which we explore what happens when we find ourselves at a crossroads. It never fails. Life tosses you a curveball; throws off your mojo; lays difficult decisions at your feet. And, we find ourselves at a crossroads feeling confused and overwhelmed about what we really want. We … Continue reading Finding Ourselves at a Crossroads
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ―Truman Capote Welcome to another edition of The Source!!! The concept of success gets all the limelight, but exploring our lives through the concept of failure can be just as inspirational… if you look at it through a new lens. These are a few of my … Continue reading Failure is NEVER the End!!!
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior! We’re doing some serious heart searching this week, elevating our life, stepping into our power, and owning our impact more than ever!!! I just launched the new 30-Minute Commitment, and I invite you to join me and hundreds of like-minded individuals (and growing!) who are ready to take their lives to the next … Continue reading Elevating My Life Weekend Meditation
Instant Karma’s gonna get you Gonna knock you right on the head You better get yourself together Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead What in the world you thinking of Laughing in the face of love What on earth you tryin’ to do It’s up to you, yeah you… –John Lennon from his song “Instant … Continue reading Karma: How Do Our Actions Control the Direction of Our Ripple?
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Source in which we explore treating every precious moment as a teacher. Some of the most profound messengers of peace, awakening and truth have graced the planet for thousands of years; and as we have evolved and grown, we have resonated with differing voices and different messages depending … Continue reading When the Student is Ready the Teacher Appears
Mantra: Om Moksha Ritam Happy weekend Spiritual Warrior!!! Let’s allow clarity to unfold this weekend by settling uncertainty about something in your life that is creating anxiety, pain, or emotional turbulence. We can start this process by identifying a starting point and an end point of the issue, which allows us to begin to grasp … Continue reading Mastering Uncertainty Weekend Meditation
Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior!!! This week you’ve noticed, if you follow me on facebook or on Instagram, that I’m at the Meditation Nest in the Sweetspot of the Universe with 30 of my Masters of Wisdom & Meditation Teachers-in-Training. Today is the fifth day of the in-residence portion of my 4-month long certification course. We’ve been … Continue reading Stepping into Clarity Weekend Meditation
You have become so overflowing with love, with compassion, and you want to share. It happens at the fourth center, the heart. That’s why even in the ordinary world people think love comes out of the heart. For them it is just hearsay, they have heard it; they don’t know it because they have never … Continue reading Awakening Compassion & Empathy for Yourself & Others
Welcome to another edition of this week’s Life Tools as we explore awakening your inner teacher! The best teachers help you awaken to the essence already resting inside you. They help you translate universal knowledge into personal wisdom. They help you see things in a new light. They channel the universe and then step out … Continue reading Awakening the Teacher Within
Photo: Taken at my Awakening Your Inner Healer Weekend Immersion in 2015. The next Inner Healer is coming up in October 2017. You can learn about it here >> Mantra: Ananda Maya Moksha Surrender to the power of our own healing: the power of the word, the power of our thoughts, of the meaning we’ve … Continue reading Awakening Your Healing Power Weekend Meditation
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source in which we explore awakening our power to heal from within. Throughout our lives we have distanced ourselves from the whole by resisting, protecting, pushing back, guarding, defending, preventing, and stopping. But we could – just as easily – allow, receive, and accept that this moment and … Continue reading You Have the Power to Heal from Within
Hello spiritual warrior! Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source in which we explore the concept of resisting nothing. Peaches the Buddha Princess teaches that if you resist nothing you will receive unconditional love. What that really means in our real lives today is that if we just show up, put our very best … Continue reading Resist Nothing and You’ll Receive Unconditional Love
Welcome Spiritual Warrior!!! Five chapters, and 150 pages later… I’m excited to announce that the second edition of my award-winning book Secrets of Meditation is launching in March. But the best part? You can pre-order your copy on Amazon today and get it before everyone else!!! In 2012, I wrote Secrets of Meditation as an invitation for … Continue reading All NEW Secrets of Meditation is now available!!!
Artwork by Kari Anapol www.bloominglotusstudio.com Mantra: Sankalpa samma vaca We live in a crucial time of identifying needs & consciously sharing them. Not so easy when we reflect on all the ama – the toxic residue – we leave out there throughout the day… in emails, texts, phone calls, and innocent conversations. The Buddha taught 2600 … Continue reading Cultivating Right Speech Weekend Meditation
Hello, Spiritual Warrior! Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source in which we explore present moment awareness & mindful performance. Around the 5th century, the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita was written. Chapter 2; verse 48 says, “yogastha kuru karmani,” which means establish yourself in the present moment, and then perform action. Right … Continue reading How Present Moment Awareness Can Increase Your Mindful Performance
Photo by Nancy MacLeod Mantra: Om Yum Ritam To find your heart, or anahata, chakra simply place your hand on your heart. That’s where your loving energy radiates from. This is your center of compassion. This is where your ability to be peace, love unconditionally, trust in the divine, and, most important, to forgive reside. … Continue reading Healing Your Heart (Anahata) Weekend Meditation
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source in which we explore the idea that there really is something called good stress… and it’s called eustress. In my video, you probably heard me mention something called eustress. As I briefly described, good stress is the thrill that we experience when we feel excited but not … Continue reading There Really is Good Stress… and It’s Called Eustress
Happy weekend, spiritual warrior! Join me this weekend in getting lighter. This week we’ve been exploring several scientific studies that I outline in my book “destressifying.” You can watch my most recent video on the subject here. Researchers have shown that a regular meditation practice actually changes the physical structure of our brains by shrinking that … Continue reading Getting Lighter Weekend Meditation
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source in which we explore the scientific results meditation has on the brain. Imagine that some random stranger rushes up to you and starts yelling unintelligible words right in your face! You might interpret it as a scary, potentially violent threat. And you’d have all the emotions that … Continue reading How Meditation Affects Your Brain & Shrinks Your Amygdala!
Artwork by Kari Anapol www.bloominglotusstudio.com Happy weekend, Spiritual Warrior! This week we’ve been exploring how to get clear on what we really want for ourselves in the new year and setting our course for the best year yet, and we talked about it on this week’s episode of “LIVE! from the Sweetspot” on Hay House … Continue reading Set Your Course for New 2017 Weekend Meditation
When I let go of who I am, I become who I might be. –Lao Tzu Welcome to the last edition of The Source 2016!!! Many of the guests at my November retreat in Maya Tulum, participated in a unique experience with me… a Mayan temazqual. It’s essentially a sweat lodge in which we go through … Continue reading The End of a Year: Becoming Who I Might Be in 2017
Share this holiday blessing with your friends! Good tidings spiritual warrior!! Do you know how beautiful you are? I think not my dear… But I can feel your courage right here in the sweetspot as you step into your power thousands of miles away I can hear your mighty voice expressing your tender heart with divine whispers … Continue reading A Holiday Blessing to You
Hello Spiritual Warriors, and welcome to this week’s edition of The Source in which we explore the idea of invoking archetypes and how they can help us on our journey to be the best version of ourselves. It’s often said that . If we can envision an archetype of us that is growing, trying to … Continue reading How Can an Archetype Help Me Become My Best Version?
Mantra: Aham Brahmasmi Happy weekend, Spiritual Warriors!!! I’m traveling to Miami to be participate in the first-ever mass meditation at a sporting event at the AmericanAirlines Arena for the opening of the Miami HEAT vs. Boston Celtics!!! Only a day left to get your tickets for this historic event!!! Join me, Miami Heat, Shelly Tygielski Meditation + Mindfulness, lululemon & … Continue reading Soothing Your Heart Weekend Meditation
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source in which we discuss mantras. The traditional image of a meditator is someone sitting cross-legged with eyes closed and their hands resting on their knees, with thumbs and index fingers touching to form a circle as they chant the sound Om. That chanting of Om is what’s … Continue reading Mantra: The Object of Your Attention during Meditation
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. —Leonard Cohen Excuses, excuses! We have a million of them; a million reasons why we haven’t started that project, why we haven’t made that commitment, why we’re waiting for the right moment. … Continue reading Embracing the Wholeness of Life
The truth you believe in and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new. -Pema Chödrön Mantra: Om ganapataye namaha Today is the seventh day of my retreat in Maya Tulum with 40 spiritual warriors going deep into the Five Realms of Existence and exploring the fifth Pancha Mahabhuta, prithvi, or earth. This master element represents the … Continue reading Release All that Weighs You Down Weekend Meditation
The small woman Builds cages for everyone She Knows. While the sage, Who has to duck her head When the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the Beautiful Rowdy Prisoners ―Hafiz Welcome to this week’s edition of Life Tools where we discuss becoming more mindful about our tendencies to want to … Continue reading Letting Go of Our Control Freak Nature
Mantra: Om Yam Ritam Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good. ―Maya Angelou Happy weekend, Spiritual Warriors! I’ve landed in my other SweetSpot of the Universe — Tulum, Mexico — for my 7-day Get … Continue reading Heart-opening Sutras Weekend Meditation
Mantra: San kalpa ritam The Sacred Power of Intention and Attention is a powerful tool for manifesting our dreams and making solution-oriented, conscious choices. Wherever you shine your light of attention, that thing will be become more prominent in your life. And that’s why intention is the partner of attention. If our intention are to raise our … Continue reading Sacred Power of Intention Weekend Meditation
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source in which we, in the spirit of the recent super moon, explore the concept of one-ness. What part of the world are you in? Can you see the moon (weather permitting)? Can your family 2,000 miles away in another part of the world see the same moon? … Continue reading Realization of One-ness: Exploring the Concept of Non-duality
Mantra: Om jyoti ritam Merging ourselves with the divine – the divine light – is our perfection. Opening our heart just a little bit more, is our perfection. If there aren’t cracks, slivers, weaknesses, sadnesses, and moments of disappointment how can the light get in? Your perfection is in your growth, in your evolution and allowing … Continue reading Divine Light Weekend Meditation
Hello Spiritual Warriors!! and welcome to this week’s edition of the Source in which we talk about rebirth, reinvention and rejuvenation. Lao Tzu is known to have said, “When I let go of who I am, I become who I might be.” But what does that truly mean? There is a part of you right … Continue reading Are You Ready for Rebirth, Reinvention & Rejuvenation?
Safety is simply an interpretation that there is no threat. It’s the absence of fear – the perception that there is no danger. That, instead there is a challenge… that we can lean into & soar beyond. ~davidji Hello Spiritual Warriors! & welcome to another issue of The Source – where we work on transcending … Continue reading Transcending the Illusion of Fear
Photo Credit: lennox_mcdough via Compfight cc Share this meditation with your friends! Mantra: So hum Happy weekend, spiritual warriors! So much of our lives is a giant swirl of family, work, kids, friends, commutes, grocery shopping, cooking, dog walking, holidays, texting, facebooking, and more. This weekend, let’s take some time to slow down… to nourish our … Continue reading Slowing the Swirl Weekend Meditation
Hello Spiritual Warriors! And welcome to another transformational week of learning to resist less so we can receive more! As the Seventh Dalai Lama wrote: “All things found in the world and beyond are illusions created by one’s own concepts. Grasping at them but further distorts perception. Give up grasping and see things as they … Continue reading Learning to Resist Less So You Can Receive More
Photo Credit: Sumana Khanom Flickr via Compfight cc Share this meditation with your friends! Mantra: Om raam ritam If you find yourself stuck in any direction in your life, this meditation can help take you from where you are to where you want to be. But first we have to ask ourselves a few questions: Do … Continue reading Starting Anew Weekend Meditation
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Source, where we’ll explore sitting with our emotions. I’ve just returned from an amazing weekend in Fort Lauderdale for the Hay House’s very last I Can Do It! where I had a truly blessed opportunity to commune with more than 2,000 spiritual warriors. Here’s a clip from my keynote. I cover emotions … Continue reading Sitting with Your Emotions