Awakening Energy

If you cannot let go, love becomes attachment. Fear makes you believe love is what brings you pleasure.    If you cannot let go of attachment, it becomes addiction. Fear makes you seek more pleasure to avoid pain. If you cannot let go of addiction, it becomes your identity.   Fear has convinced you that … Continue reading When You Can’t Let Go….

When processing emotional stress there is the feeling and then there is the narrative.  The feeling arises in your body, the narrative arises in your mind.  When you root your awareness in your body, you fully feel the sensations of whatever is stressing you out.  That means if you feel anxious, angry, sad (or whatever … Continue reading Get Out Of Your Head And Into Your Body

We are all imprinted with different versions of what it means to love and be loved from the world around us.  When stress arises in any relationship, our definitions of love are tested.  If your definition of love is unchanging then the relationship stagnates or ends as the conditions for love are no longer met.  … Continue reading What Is Your Definition of Love?

The mind likes to categorize, label and judge.  If we buy into these fragmented perceptions of self and others, then we get trapped in a repetitive cycle of stories that create conflict and division.  As you learn to still the mind, it allows for greater awareness of the feeling in your heart space that is … Continue reading The Mind Divides, The Heart Unifies

Rather then see negative experiences as events to be avoided, it can help to see them as our teachers.  The lessons we need to learn from such experiences corresponds to the resulting negative emotion that is arising from the event.  Underneath every negative emotion there are untapped virtues that our emotions are trying to guide … Continue reading Negative Experiences Can Be Our Greatest Teachers

Life is a story.  Our personal story is based on how we each choose to define our own experience from moment to moment.  As we label events from a place of negative or positive judgement then the quality of our experience matches up accordingly.  Are you enjoying the story of your life?  The story is … Continue reading Are Your Beliefs Aligned With Your Experience?

This article is a continuation of a previous article called Thought Barriers.  Click here to read part 1. Coherence - the idea behind recognizing the mind traps I have been posting thus far is to build coherence.  This is the quality of a unified whole.  Our minds are highly compartmentalized. Without any self inquiry we … Continue reading The Importance of A Unified Mind

Answer: The new habit is engrained when it becomes your default behaviour under stress.   Explanation:  Underneath each bad habit is faulty perception guiding the behaviour.  Without sufficient time or energy to process the associated emotional charge that guides the negative behaviour, the habit will only last so long as it is not tested under stress.  … Continue reading How long does it take to develop a healthy habit?

We all get in our own way sometimes. The following are common ways of thinking that bring about self created barriers in life.  See if you can identify which one fits you best and embrace the strategy given to overcome the internal block. Doubts – A part of you does not feel safe moving forward … Continue reading Thought Barriers

There are two main realities.  The outer world that you are connected to by your senses and your inner world which you are connected to with your consciousness.  Our senses guide us outward, so it is natural to have our attention directed that way. Whatever happens in the external world triggers a response inside of … Continue reading Build Awareness Of Your Inner Reality