Preparing for the spiritual path. Those were the words of advice I read the other night in a book that now I can’t get out of my mind. Have you ever read something in a book that gets your attention to the extent that you can’t sleep? The book is by Marianne Williamson entitled Everyday [...]
Are you familiar with the poetry of Rumi ? He is now the number one selling poet in the America. This, despite the fact that he was a Sufi living in Turkey — born 800 years ago this September. Why is he so popular? I think it’s because his words strike a deep cord [...]
Self-esteem gets a lot of hoopla in self-help circles these days, and that’s fine. but its also possible to go beyond self-esteem. There is no doubt that a person who has a high opinion of him or herself is happier than the person who doesn’t. However, there is another dimension to being that reaches so [...]
My wife and I first heard of Nutribiotic Grapefruit Seed Extract when her homeopathic doctor recommended it as a treatment for a skin condition. It worked. I recently have used it for treatment of a digestive disorder. It worked for that too. And while doing that, it eliminated my sore throat and the arthritis [...]
The impact of social intelligence is silent –it impacts you even when you’re not aware of it. It could be compared to a subtle energy field. You can walk into a room full of frowning people and consciously not even be aware of their expressions. But your brain picks it up and your emotional state [...]
Coconut oil health benefits are many but there seems to be a lot of misinformation about it by misinformed health professionals. Tell your doctor you enjoy the health benefits of coconut oil and see what the response is. If the response is disbelief and disdain, then maybe you need a new doctor.
I was reading a [...]
I have ADD. And that’s OK with me. I’m glad I have it. I have lived successfully with ADD without drugs. And the reason I don’t take the drugs is because I don’t want to be fit into the mold of normalcy.
Because I am someone with the traits or characteristics of what is often called [...]
Viktor E. Frankl was suggesting conscious awareness when he wrote, “Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.”
I hear a lot of people say they would like a chance to live life over again so they could get it right. OK. What do [...]
The purpose of life is deeply important. When living with purpose, life works. It gives a certain self-satisfaction. When not on purpose, life has a sense of dis-ease, of discontent, of unrest.
Yesterday I came across a passage from the Sufi Master Rumi that conveyed this sentiment more strongly than I have ever seen it before:
The [...]
I came across an oxygen-based colon cleanser that should be of interest to everybody. It’s of special interest to me. As someone who was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease (many years ago) I am always focused on ways to keep my digestive system in optimal health. I never want to suffer the extreme [...]
The sense of unworthiness is a trap. It leads to self doubt. It is this sense that blocks the beauty of the soul from expressing itself in our daily lives. It is this sense that blocks spontaneity, creativity, and love. This is the doubt that stops us from traversing the spiritual path. The [...]
Energy is the foundation of abundance. Positive energy increases it, negative energy decreases it. When we can get free of all the negative, hurtful, limiting, and binding energy inside us, we can become attractors of positive energy.
When we are able to smile, we get smiles back. When we are no longer afraid to talk [...]
I have been on both sides of the continuum on self-confidence. I remember being so nervous speaking in front of one of my college classes that the teacher forced me to enroll in speech therapy. But a few years later I was regularly winning speech contests in Toastmasters in the Los Angeles area. I [...]
Personal development is self-defeating if you attend to one dimension of yourself at the expense of another dimension. At best you will experience lopsided growth. At worse, you will become dysfunctional and obsessive.
All areas of life (emotional, physical, spiritual, and mental) work synergistically with each other. When one area suffers, they all suffer. That is [...]
Meditation and stress relief are tools to keep the map accurate. If you feel overstressed, anxious, stuck in a rut, and apathetic about life, then you can benefit greatly from meditating. You will find this to be the case whether you try guided meditation, Zen meditation, breathing meditation, or Transcendental Meditation. They all have [...]
A holistic health lifestyle is a lifestyle dedicated to wellness, achieved with awareness and conscious choices. If you are living such a lifestyle you are someone who enjoys taking charge of your health. You don’t take it for granted. You cultivate all aspects of your life-the spiritual, the physical, the mental, and the emotional.
Energy flows [...]
Consciousness is the definer of our reality. I know this from my own personal experience from when I was only 21-years-old. In my case, a brush with death deepened and expanded it overnight. What normally is a long and gradual process happened quickly.
I witnessed the results. I felt it in my inner being. Bliss [...]