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.

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.

In our attention-deficit era, cultivating a new and lasting relationship may seem challenging or even impossible for many singles.

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.

In some way or another, we were all probably shamed for our sensuality or sexuality. We were all shamed for our innate, natural biological urges.

Happiness is one thing we cannot get enough of. We want happiness in all magnitudes and in all areas of our lives.

My family wasn’t exactly the normal everyday family that was simple, down to earth, and focused on being there for each other. Since our immigration to the U.S. my parents lost their stability and struggled very hard to reestablish themselves in a foreign country they knew nothing about.

Finding our life purpose isn’t always a clear and easy journey. Most of us take many detours, trials and errors until we find that thing we know we have to do and keep doing.

While I am glad I have healers to look up to, healing inherently is an individualized journey. My healing will not look like anyone else’s, but I often fail to miss this important distinction.

There was a great sense of pride and honor in growing food. I feel that sense of pride is returning, and with a beautiful vengeance. Because more and more people are realizing the kind of damage that has been done to our planet as well as our health over the years and want to make some changes.

I wanted to raise my kids by working on myself to become a happier person knowing the side effect of that will be my kids picking up my characteristics.

Vulnerability is an act of courage, that can lead us to deeper and more intimate connections. But being vulnerable is by no means easy or painless.

Trusting ourselves is a fundamental quality we must develop in order to trust others. We often see the world through our own lenses, therefore projecting our own self-doubts onto the people around us.

However, emotional meltdowns and life events do not stick to a planned schedule, and feeling depressed during this season can be lonely and frustrating because the environment seems too cheerful for anyone to understand.

Tiny changes in your daily routine can sometimes make a surprisingly big impact. It may not be noticeable at first, but it can start a chain reaction that propels a series of other changes in every area of your life.

If we are peaceful and compassionate beings at our core, then by logic, any other strong emotional responses are preprogrammed or taught by external environments.

The first step in establishing boundaries is to give yourself permission to feel what you feel, as well as giving others permission to do the same.

If you are tired of superficial relationships that bear little fulfillment and want deeper connections you can build on, then your only option is to be brave, open up about your inner world, and let other people in.