While it’s a healthy stepping stone toward deeper self-discovery, many of those labels can make us feel like there’s something wrong with ourselves and others, when there isn’t. As we read trending definitions and discussions on each of those labels, we can feel as though we either enable one of them or we are one of them.

As we expand our consciousness, it’s not unusual to ask why we do certain things and whether or not it supports the inner freedom we seek. Or, is it just another set of conditions we were subjected to live by?

As someone who grew up in Hong Kong during the 80’s and 90’s and has been living in Australia for nearly three decades, I often ponder questions regarding my identity: Who am I? Chinese, British overseas citizen, or Australian?

We live in a society that often typecasts us in a certain role based on our outward appearance and demeanor. Expectations start to form about who we are based on those impressions that reinforce and motivate us to be that person.

What we don’t realize is that radical change is possible. We don’t have to be the person we always have been. We can be different, not just the same person with different qualities and characteristics, but a different person.

This remains the safest place, where
we perfect the cosmic play…

It’s not easy to choose kindness in every moment of our lives. Our world can be harsh and unforgiving, full of people who operate from survival mode desperate to take from others.

Empaths feel our way through life and have compassion for all living beings. When we give, we give genuinely without expectations in return. We need a special formula of success in a world that consists of mostly monetarily driven ecosystems.

Spiritual experiences are not that hard to have, but to incorporate it into a life that works so that it actually leads to transformation takes time, and you can’t really shortcut that process.

Excessive thoughts and feelings are often those suppressed, unorganized or unexpressed. If you find your thoughts overwhelming and uncontrollable then the first step is to get them out of your head and into the present moment.

Frequency and vibration is everything. Our body is made mostly of water. Vibroacoustic Therapy brings the water in our body to a harmonic resonance. There are harmful frequencies and there are healthy frequencies.

Having a little sanctuary to retreat to provides a sacred space and sets the tone for all mindful practices. No need to relocate to the high mountains or a remote island to feel peace and higher connections.

Once I accepted that I will sometimes have dark and negative thoughts, I felt relieved to just be. I understood they don’t define me.

Forgive me, children,

in my stained-glassed pride
I tried to hold us all together,
masking a disfigurement of peace—

For millennia, the feminine energy has been seen as weak and inferior. As a result, it’s been suppressed and dismissed in many cultures and societies.

I was looking for a way to gain insights, a way to cultivate higher human capacity, and I chose to go to Zanskar, the oldest Buddhist valley in the world.

Simple, practical and applicable wisdom taught to us in childhood still stands in our sophisticated (and complicated) modern world. It seems to me, as I look around, many of us have forgotten these valuable lessons.

Meditation has really softened me without making me soft, in terms of my personal goals and aspirations. I don’t feel the need to be right or to convince other people to incorporate what I say into their lives.

Fear is the reminder of boundaries not yet crossed. It defends against irreversible error by reminding each person what he cannot do and preventing him from moving where he is not ready to.

Despite what we already know, which is perfection doesn’t exist, we strive anyway. When, in fact, perfectionism is a true limitation.