Do you remember how the promise of a better world got you excited when everyone was expecting December 2012 to change everything and mark the beginning of a brighter future? Now we look around and see what’s going on in the world, how much suffering and misery most of the population is going through, and we wonder if anything is…
Category: Yoga Philosophy
A Spiritual View on Depression and Anxiety
It is amazing how many people are on antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications nowadays. What is even more surprising is how many of them are teens and young adults who get diagnosed and put on drugs for the long haul. After antibiotics, the most common prescriptions are for antidepressants, and it is believed that depression is caused by low levels of…
Lord Ganesha and the Feminine Path of No Resistance
Feminine energies are becoming stronger than ever, both in a regenerative sense (Mother Earth re-balancing and re-shaping things) and in the awareness and sense of community and connection that global changes bring about. In order to embrace the Feminine within and without, it is time to remove the sense of competition, lack, hierarchical power, struggle, and control that arise from…
Life Flows Between Wisdom and Love
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, one of India’s greatest non-dualist saints, perfectly summed up the meaning of life for a true spiritual seeker when he stated, “Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two, my life flows.” Indeed, spiritual life is about finding the balance between wisdom, which aims to dissolve the ego-mind, and love,…
Understanding Energy and Matter
Before I can move on to the more practical aspects of healing, I think it is fundamental to understand a few concepts that are the core foundation to my thoughts on the healing process. Energy is probably the most important one. So let’s explore this a little further.
Bhakti Yoga or Yoga of Devotion
Devotion is love, and love is our true nature. The term bhakti comes from the root bhaj, which means attachment to God. Bhajan, bhakti, anurag, prem, priti, or worship, are all synonyms and refer to love and devotion to the Divine. According to the teachings of yoga, devotion to God is developed in nine different ways, and intense love is…
