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.

We have old memories embedded into the fabric of our fascia that we are just not aware of. One time, I had brought up an old memory of my grandmother receiving the news of the death of her brother. I realized that at that moment she had moved into a gesture upon her shock.

Another year. Another Valentine’s Day. Everywhere I look reminds me of my always single status in my 40-plus years of life. And sometimes the thought of it hurts.

As much as I believe in the existence of soulmates, what I know for sure is the staying power of a solid and steady connection built over time, which can also happen with a soulmate.

As human beings, we are frequently presented with scenarios that test our values, principles, and how disciplined we are in following through on being the kind of person we want to be.

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.

The subject of forgiveness comes up often in conversation, but I find that when it comes to the details of what that truly entails, what that process feels like is not actually talked about.

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.

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.

There have been a great deal of conversations about Fear being a negative emotion, an obstacle to our success. We have created a fear of having fear.

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.