We live in the world of appearances. This has become painfully obvious when we hear politicians and the mass media talk about ‘fake news’ in an attempt to manipulate and confuse us. Granted, some news may be fabricated, but the overall purpose seems to be erasing all critical thinking to impose a particular agenda. This is known as gaslighting, which…
Category: Spiritual Healing
What Is the Spiritual Cure For Anxiety?
Do you worry about the prospect of events you judge as negative or the possibility of future suffering? How about past events and the way you responded to them? Perhaps your concerns relate more to a current self-perception—in terms of being right or wrong, perfect or imperfect—and how others see you now. You worry about whether your self-images are getting…
How To Live a Truly Fulfilling Life
We all want fulfillment, it’s a natural yearning of our human condition. But we’re so attached to the external world that we believe satisfying our desires and ambitions is the way to achieve it. Desires fuel life, because the world is made of ego and we identify with our ego consciousness—which is made of desire and attachment—to exist and accomplish…
3 Reasons Why Daily Meditation Is Essential
I’ve always perceived life as energy, but in my 20s, while I was on a “personal retreat” of deep introspection in almost complete isolation, it was much easier to observe the fluctuations of energy within and around me, since all the usual distractions of the external world weren’t there. It was just me and my emotional baggage. Since it was…
Why You Need To Stop Hiding From Yourself
I used to feel invisible. For a long time, my interactions with people left me with the sense that they couldn’t actually see me or understand what I was saying. Especially those I cared about. It was hurtful, confusing, and all around frustrating that the people I loved appeared to speak a different language and refused to see me for…
The Spiritual Power of Grieving
Nobody likes to suffer. We all want to hold on to what brings pleasure, if momentarily, while doing whatever we can to skirt around our wounds and uncomfortable feelings. The external world is very fixated on sensory gratification and avoiding the pain that comes from being human—often disregarding the emotional and spiritual price of such disconnection. But life is fluid,…
What Can You Learn From a Squirrel?
I was on retreat a couple weeks ago, in a cabin surrounded by nature, doing my spiritual practices, writing, reading, walking, and often also sitting quietly doing nothing, just taking the silence in. Aside from birds, squirrels tend to be the loudest in this pristine piece of land, continuously chirping and rustling the leaves as they move and run around,…