My Beach Trip Morning Routine ft. Peaches the Buddha Princess
When I am feeling overwhelmed or stressed, I love to start my mornings at the beach with Peaches. And this is the perfect setting to practice one of my favorite pattern interrupts.
Why You Don’t Need to Be Perfect
Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in. —Leonard Cohen Hello Spiritual Warrior! Welcome to this week’s Life Tools. Today we are exploring why you really don’t need to be perfect. Excuses, excuses! We have a million of them; a million reasons why … Continue reading Why You Don’t Need to Be Perfect
3 Simple Tips to Reduce Your STRESS Right Now
Yes, stress! We know it. We all have it. We all experience it. It’s part of the human condition. The first step to reducing your stress, is understanding your stress.
Overcoming Fear & Anxiety in Your Life, Relationships & Love
The first step to overcoming fear is realizing that we always have a choice on how we want to perceive the world. If nothing else, we control our perception.
How to Stay Calm When You Are Triggered
Suppressing our feelings is now scientifically proven to lead to poor memory, relationship challenges, and deeper health issues as our body is influenced so strongly by our subjective conscious experiences.
Use Mindfulness Everyday to Show Up as Your Best Version
Sometimes we need to take that 20 minutes (or even just 16 seconds) to be able to slow down and meditate so we can show up as our best version.
Everything is Connected Through Energy Exchange
All the energy on the planet already exists. It can be transformed, transmuted, or morphed into another form of energy; but energy cannot be created nor can it be destroyed.
How to Know You Are Receiving Signs From the Universe
When receiving signs from the Universe, it often feels like a coincidence. It is the Universe tapping you on the shoulder & whispering in your ear “Pay attention!” It is a moment of powerful alignment between you and something much bigger than you. It means your awareness has expanded way beyond your typical day-to-day. It is a higher state of consciousness!
What’s Your Moral Code? 10 Life Lessons from Osho
Many of Osho’s teachings irritated people, and many others found them irreverent. But at the end of the day, his purpose was to challenge us to reach deep within our souls and find our own constrictions.
Practice Acceptance to Release Resistance
When we resist we don’t show up as our best version, but instead we can fall into non-nourishing thought patterns, lose our motivation, and feel as if we no longer have agency over our lives because external influences have become too overwhelming.
6 Stages of the Present Moment Experience
Presence is the powerful stillness and silence that already exists before activity arises.
Planting Subtle Intentions Guided Meditation
One powerful, tangible result is that these affirmations ripple through our awareness all day long and the practice will help you to be a more conscious choice maker.
True Compassion is Independent of Attachment
I have found these emotional healing processes to be powerful pathways to forgiveness, true compassion, growth, and self-love.
Current events: What is going on, and what can we do?
We must remember George Floyd – along with the way-too-long list of African American martyrs who have been slain out of fear, arrogance, entitlement, self-loathing, privilege, lack of presence, & preservation of the status quo.
10 Steps Toward Living Your Best Life
We know that at your core, you are pure, perfect, whole, and enlightened. But most likely, many of the decisions you’ve made came from scenarios in which you were forced to make a choice that ultimately was not in your best interest or not of your own design, and it did not support your divine purpose.
Awakening the Teacher within You
When we are “in our dharma,” we are aligning our intentions, thoughts, words, and actions with our essence.
Mindfulness Meditation: Exploring Different Techniques
We can place our intentions into the future, but the only action that can impact the future is the one we take right here, right now, in the present moment.
(Self) Kindness Matters
Timeless wisdom teaches that the source of all kindness is self-kindness; the source of all compassion is self-compassion; the source of all forgiveness is self-forgiveness; and the source of all love is self-love.
5 Ways You Can End Suffering Now
There are common threads of suffering in life first identified thousands of years ago in the most ancient teachings of the Vedas.
Become the Stillness Inside the Storm
Krishna replies in Chapter 2, Verse 48, “Yogastha kuru karmani—establish yourself in the present moment, and then perform action.”
All Compassion Starts with This
Imagine if our compassion could transcend our relationships and the attachment we have to them – pure sympathy, pure empathy, and pure desire to help them heal.
Do This 5 Times a Day to Completely Destress
Sometimes, even just the thought of an irritating situation or person can trigger a stress response; but in 16 seconds you can connect to the present moment.
Stoke the Embers of Your Passion with this Exercise
Sometimes it’s a little voice in our head telling us we can’t do it, a person in our life shaking their head or smirking, or simply daunting circumstances. But don’t give up. Instead simply reach for an archetype.
Write Your 2020 Story!
Our desire to transform is the seed that sparks the process. And then our commitment helps us to lean in the direction of the dream.
You Are Stronger than Your Worst F.E.A.R.
When we hear the voice in our head telling us we are less than or not worthy, we need to know that the word TRUST can be re-configured into STRUT!
Learn How to Invite Love
After a few weeks of practicing this teaching, the metta meditation will become the gentle way you start your day. You’ll quickly notice that your heart is more open, you are more tolerant of irritations around you, and you have a ripple of a smile flowing through every word, thought, and action. You’ll also realize that it is a pure present-moment experience to help you connect to your essence.
There Is a Crack in Everything… That’s How the Light Gets In
The Six Perfections are profound virtues that when studied and used to cultivate the best versions of ourselves can help us make a powerful shift in our lives for the better.
Patience is More than a Virtue!
As the swirl of life sweeps through you each day, allow these three powerful stanzas to become an ongoing contemplation. Gently rippling them through your thoughts will help you gain clarity, cultivate patience, and trust in the moment.
Moving on from Regret
Give yourself permission to acknowledge your less-conscious choice AND make a personal commitment to making more conscious ones going forward.
Raising Our Vibration with 3 Simple Phrases
When these basic needs are not met, anxiety, sadness, detachment, pain, anger, depression, self-hatred and blame can begin to bubble up and manifest in our daily life.
Moving through Grief and Loss with Greater Grace, Ease
But there is another side to the story… integrating the magnificent gifts you’ve received from what you’ve lost – the sweet memories, the joys of your past, the special moments – and that magnificence is something to celebrate.
This is Why Failure is Never the End
Extraordinary people use failure as a catalyst to grow, and if you’re not failing sometimes, you might not be pushing yourself to become your best version. So this week, reflect on a recent failure… it can be giant or small… but none is insignificant!!!
Quick Tip for Centering Yourself in the Moment
When we introduce a pattern interrupt into our flow of thoughts, we can gently step aside from the uneasy memories of the past or the anxious thoughts of the future – and truly ground ourselves back into the present moment – our bodymind moves beyond all that irritation, anger, discomfort, anxiety, less-than, or “it’s not fair” thinking.
Practicing Presence and Surrendering to Trust
This time-tested process will instantly infuse all the conversations in your head with a tiny bit of stillness.
What Connects You to Source?
Tears were streaming down my cheeks, a profound sense of well-being rippled through me, and Jinghan was gone. As I looked around, I wondered out loud, “Was he even really here?”
Why We Cling to ‘Familiar Discomfort’… and How to Let Go
Like any birth, the process of REbirth can include some prickly discomfort as you hold the mirror up. It requires total self-honesty. But the end result is a magnificent liberation.
Making Choices in Everyday Life
This conscious choice-making process can be activated in any moment – and is ALWAYS worth taking the time to first slow down and pattern interrupt from your relentless swirl of thoughts, mental activities, chatter, and confusion.
What does it mean to live with more acceptance?
When you awaken the Sacred Power of Acceptance, you finally recognize that wherever you are, every moment of the past is carved in stone and for you to evolve your life, improve your situation, or find deeper fulfillment you must own the present moment.
How Do You Choose between Your Heart and Your Commitments?
The Divine Principle of Awareness is the evolutionary starting point for transforming the world around you as you transform yourself! It’s the cornerstone for every step you take to move your life from where it is to where you’d like to be.
Struggling with Forgiveness? Here’s How to Lighten Your Heart
The ancient teachings remind us that when we forgive, we free ourselves from the threads that connect us to the one who hurt us. So start to loosen your grip on those threads.
Finding Your Own Divine Flow with the Universe
Many of Osho’s teachings irritated people, and many others found them irreverent. But at the end of the day, his purpose was to challenge us to reach deep within our souls and find our own constrictions.
Soothing Healing Love Guided Meditation
With each breath we will allow, accept, and receive soothing, healing, love into every aspect of your heart and body with this body scan guided practice.
Master Elements Guided Meditation
When you have each of these elements flowing through you, you are balanced and connected to the divine.
This is Why Ritualization is So Important to Your Meditation Practice
Starting your day with a meditation ritual provides the perfect environment for your intentions to embed and for your day to unfold with greater grace and greater ease.
How to Make Your Inner Fire Burn Brightly
If our fire is burning brightly, we trust, we listen, we stay fully present, and we risk being vulnerable. And, ideally, once we have absorbed all that we believe will nourish us, we release, sidestep, or let go of anything that will not serve us.
When We Struggle with Feelings of Self-Worth
Your awakened heart knows all, sees all, feels all, and is capable of healing all the pain and suffering that rests inside you.
Soul Light Guided Meditation
Kleshas include states of mind such as anxiety, fear, anger, jealousy, desire, depression, etc.
Letting Love in Guided Meditation
Resist nothing, and you will receive unconditional love. Enjoy. – davidji
This is How to Discover Your Passion
You may be very clear on what you think matters to you right now. But how much of that is based on what’s happened to you over the course of your life, and how you’ve reacted to it?
Every Athlete, CEO, Cop, Soldier, Parent, Student… Should Do This
As the pace of technology in brain-imaging software increases, we are finally able to look deep into the brain and see what happens when someone meditates.