You spend your life invested in other people. Whether it’s through work, family, partnerships, friendships, or the external world you let in with news, TV or radio shows, and other forms of engagement, your attention and energy are mostly focused outside of you. Furthermore, you carry the world you’ve internalized as the aspect of ego I call your ‘sense of…
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Is Your Ego-Mind Gaslighting You?
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…
What Hides Behind Your Anxiety About Money?
Life is abundant. Nature is abundant. Love is abundant. You’ve heard this before: ‘wealth is your birthright.’ But more than a right, I’d say it’s your nature. I’m not implying everyone should be a millionaire; I’m referring to the bounty of your soul, the mystery within you that shapes everything you see, touch, feel, think, desire, and create. However, this…
How To Remain Confident In Spite of Criticism
Nobody likes to be criticized; it usually triggers memories and feelings of unworthiness or lack of love from childhood. Back then you didn’t have much control or a voice, and the adults in your life had most, if not all the power over you. This became what I’ve coined your ‘sense of otherness‘—the inner bully that traps you in a…
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 Develop Mindfulness & Mental Discipline
In a world of constant distractions, mindfulness is truly revolutionary. It transforms your experience of reality by slowing down the ego-mind, thus connecting you to the flow of your life from a place of greater clarity and peace. Being mindful means being fully present in what you do. Whether it’s walking, eating, working, doing dishes, or playing, your presence of…
How Your Need To Be Right Hurts You
The words of French philosopher and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin have become a New Age cliché: We are not humans having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Unfortunately, what gives us the opportunity to have a human experience is the ego-mind separating us from our divine essence. So what good is it to…