By sidestepping the chaos of airports, you protect your mind. By enjoying the freedom to move and relax in a spacious environment, you care for your body. Importantly, by selecting a lower-impact journey, you also honor the planet.
A beautiful location and an inspiring schedule do not automatically make a retreat a good fit. Choosing with care helps ensure that the experience supports your well-being both during the program and when you return home.
We take incarnation into the sphere of Earth for many reasons, but I believe that at the core of all of them, we are each here as an agent of life, to foster, nourish, and expand the expression of life both within ourselves and in the world — in Gaia — around us.
Each season begins with a pro-active cardinal sign. Libra is the sign of partnering, engaging the mirror that every relationship presents. Libra’s eternal question may well be, why can’t we all just get along? This is the time to seek harmony with friends as well as rivals.
Nature is bursting with creativity at every moment. You contain a unique expression of that creativity. The world wants and needs it to flourish. How to receive the wisdom and wonder of the world about you.
Imagine trying to smell a fragrant flower with a stuffy nose. Now imagine smelling that flower with clear nasal passages and the most refined olfactory senses. Imagine all of your senses open, receptive, and refined in ways that enable you to sense with them in the most delicate, subtle, and nuanced ways.
Soul rotation allows us to access the higher levels of soul gifts we have longed for and always known were within us. As we grow into expressions of the larger potential that our higher self holds, it gives us new strength and confidence.
People who scored highest on gratitude were also most likely to eat well, engage in regular physical exercise, get enough sleep, and handle stress well, the constellation of behaviors and habits that are both signals of good health and things that explicitly promote good physical and mental health.
The “fix” is not in another class, more friends on Facebook, more likes, or another way to medicate yourself or dumb yourself down enough to be with others. The fix, if you will, is in spending time with yourself. Alone.
You can transform part of your home into a zen space that sets the stage for meaningful practices to disconnect you from the chaos of daily life, and reconnect you with your inner self and a positive, energetic flow in your life.
While antidepressants can synthetically boost mood on schedule, psychedelics offer depression sufferers a new worldview and a reason to be happy.
Quieting the mind often means speaking the language of your body and spirit first. Experiment with these techniques to find what helps you feel a little lighter, and eventually you will discover the peace you've been seeking has been there all along.
To fully harness the power of journaling, it is important to understand it’s a two-way street. It’s not just dumping and dumping and dumping (although it can be seriously useful for that). It’s a learning process, too.
For five seasons beginning in 1959, Serling appeared on American television in a black suit, holding a cigarette, introducing stories about the impossible. The episodes ran in front of millions of viewers. The sponsors sold their products in the commercial breaks. The network executives watched the ratings with satisfaction.
Cloud gazing works because it slows the brain down long enough for that quieter voice to surface. I found that the sky often feels most helpful when I stop asking it for answers and simply let myself notice what appears.
We are not just the sum of this lifetime, or a lifetime of sequential lifetimes. Our lives are multidimensional simultaneous lifetimes which allow us to view and interact with our essential nature in order to heal, learn and grow from these experiences.
The sacred art of grief reminds us that love is larger than absence and that the deepest part of every life is not measured by what we accumulated or achieved, but by the love we awakened in others.
Women are healing our inner wounds, and learning to express our feminine being without fear or shame. Women have a need to get to know ourselves, after long centuries of being subjugated and twisted by patriarchal expectations.
Over time, The Buddha Project evolved from a photography project into a personal exploration of presence, silence, impermanence, and the search for peace in a world that rarely slows down.
More people are recognizing the significance of emotional well-being and actively seeking practical ways to regain balance. They are asking deeper questions: How do we remain centered while living in a world that often feels unstable?
Over time, fungi have adapted an incredible resilience that allows them to survive in extremes. Humans have done something similar. Humans belong on this planet. We are a part of the interconnected web of life.
Behind every belief, we hold a perspective on life and our self-image. From there, we create self-judgments and interpretations about ourselves, which remain in our minds continually. Then, they move to our subconscious and manifest automatically.
The eventful summer season includes an important sign change for Jupiter, planetary retrogrades and two eclipses. Seize the opportunities. Relish each pleasure and learn from the obstacles. Whatever comes your way, embrace it fully.
The forest doesn’t feel like a place. It feels like someone. Or, more accurately, like many — a standing community of beings that knows you’re there before you know how you feel about being there.
Trauma imprints occur in individuals’ minds and bodies at the moment they first feel shocked, surprised, and/or frightened during a traumatic experience. Regardless of what caused the trauma, the imprint remains frozen in the body until the person uses techniques for clearing trauma from the body.
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