Most people unknowingly give people and things around them permission to move their awareness from one area of the mind to another all day every day. The same way you give a director of a movie permission to move your awareness all around the mind while watching the movie. For most people, the people and the things in their lives become the director of their daily experiences. People and things dictate where their awareness goes, causing them to have a myriad of experiences throughout the day. Awareness is taken to so many areas of the mind – some uplifting and some not. Essentially, when this is allowed to happen, people end up becoming slaves to everyone and everything around them.
Who’s in charge of your awareness?
October 2, 2019 • Awareness & the Mind, Learn
Part 2 – Let’s Talk Meditation
January 11, 2024 • Meditation
Everybody and their dog has an opinion on meditation (including me). Most of these folks don’t meditate or have never been formally trained or even more so seriously committed to one meditation path. The latter truly is a telltale sign of how seriously one takes his or her meditation practice. Wh...
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Let’s talk Meditation! – Part 1
January 4, 2024 • Meditation
I’m starting the year by writing a 3-part series on meditation with the goal of bringing some clarity around it and dispelling a few myths. First things, first. Let’s get clear on terminology. This is important because we want to train our subconscious to understand the specific meaning of a word...
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Old Soul, Young Soul
December 27, 2023 • Conversations on the Spiritual Path
If I can accept myself for where I am in my evolution, then I can accept others for where they are in their evolution. As a Hindu and from personal experiences, I believe and subscribe to the concept of reincarnation. Simply said, reincarnation describes a belief that we are a soul living in a ph...
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The Things We Tell Ourselves
December 20, 2023 • Insights on Life
Well, it has been a really long time since I’ve sent one of these emails out. Apologies for my hiatus. October and November were filled with events I spoke at in the US, across Europe and in India. My travels culminated with a retreat that I held in South India where I led a group…
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