Treating Anxiety
One of the most prevalent things to hamper quality of life for many people is anxiety. While anxiety can be a normal response to stress, chronic stress can lead to chronic anxiety, an ever present …
Category: Healing
Healing Process
In Layers of Healing, I talked about how we could discover issues that are physical, emotional, and energetic. We could add mind in there but that’s about equivalent to how I was using “energy” in …
Dr. Vasant Lad film
Dr. Vasant Lad is an Ayurvedic doctor and educator who founded the Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico. He brought Ayurveda to the west. His introductory book I mention on the Books tab above was my …
Healing Everything – Part 3 of 3
< Part 2 – Prep – More Specific Issues Much of the above helps us improve the general tone of our lives but some knots or blocks are more pernicious. After our practice, we step …
Healing Everything – Part 2 of 3
< Part 1 – Intro – Preparation As long as a lot of this is unconscious, we’re not going to understand the mechanics and so can’t act directly on them. We’ll just continue to react …
Healing Everything – Part 1 of 3
Part 1 – Intro Everything can be healed, if we know the actual cause and understand it’s mechanics. However, that cause may be masked under layers of other unresolved debris making it very difficult to …
Kundalini is Not Causal
In articles here I’ve discussed the role of kundalini Shakti in the awakening process. However, it’s important to understand that kundalini does not cause an awakening. An awakening takes place when Self recognizes itself through …
Ahimsa – Non-Violence
Ahimsa is one of the 5 Yamas or observances, the first limb of Yoga. It means non-injury or non-violence. Other Yamas include non-theft and truthfulness, so they’re sometimes confused with ethics. For example, I was …
Brahmacharya & Sex
Brahmacharya is one of the Yamas of Yoga and key to many conceptions of spiritual practice. It is commonly translated to mean celibacy. Celibacy is thus deemed necessary for real spiritual progress. However, while a …
Empath Empowerment
As we’re in the energy age, it should be no surprise that there is a major rise in the presence of energy healing. You’ll now find all sorts of different energy modalities. Even a bit …
Consuming
Occasionally, I’ve written about food and diet here. How we sometimes use food as a form of protection, as a response to stress, as an escape, to ground, to support purification, as an avoidance of …
Q&A, Part 9
The discussion has gone in other directions now so it seems this Q&A is finally done. 😉 The start Part 8 … Yes, Nisargadatta had a spontaneous awakening with no tradition. He did not see …