Action and Support
The recent article Natures Support lead to some further questions and discussion that are worth exploring. Karma is an eastern word that means action. It is energy with a motivator in it. For every action …
Category: Practice
Awakening Attitude
Recently, I saw an excellent article by John Welwood in Tricycle magazine called The Psychology of Awakening. Too often, awakening and psychological health are seen as different worlds even though they’re closely entwined. “…even among …
Ways of Seeing, Modes of Living
The world around us can be perceived through several distinct lenses. Our past experiences certainly are a major influence, not to mention our dominant sense, our culture (group consciousness), our stage of development, and so …
The Yog Vasishtha
As most readers know, I started my path through Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He’s had a strong influence on my perspective as he brought great clarity to ancient philosophy and enlightenment. Maharishi spent a great deal …
Offering Back Everywhere
Previously, I wrote about Offering it Back, then Offering Back Everything. When we shift from being a “me” that wants to control into recognizing ourselves as wholeness, we can directly experience the benefits of …
Nature’s Support
I wrote about Nature’s Support last spring but the topic has come around again from a different angle. There is an idea in eastern philosophy known as the support of nature. As we stop …
Spinning or Seeing
There is a simple principle to understand about our life experiences. If there is an experience showing up in our life, it’s there for our benefit. The difficult customer, the meeting going sideways, the crazy …
Offer it All Back
Recently, I wrote an article called Offer it Back. It’s an important insight on the spiritual journey as we shift from experiencing ourselves as a ‘me’ trying to control life to an awareness observing life …
Feelings vs Emotions
On this blog, I use Emotions and Feelings to mean different things, although English is a little limiting. For example, we “feel emotions,” we don’t emote them (although some sure do (laughs)). I use this …
Waking the Body
Back on The Healing Algorithm, the topic of kriyas and flow came up in Comments. I thought it worth expanding on. As we move through the process of spiritual awakening, we may run into styles …
Healing Hazards
Recently, Dorothy Rowe made a video called The Three Greatest Dangers of Energy Healing. I know some of you are following her work but I wanted to point out this insightful video. The issues revolve …
To Retire
There is a word in the Rig Veda, Nivartadhvam. It means to “twist within” or return or retire. We retire from the world through samadhi or transcendence. Then we return to the world by …