Nothing can dampen your mood when you know how to be joyful and find inner happiness – no matter what the circumstance. When you carry a light of joy within it shines on difficult situations and challenging people, making them seem easy and benign. And there’s no need to wait for something special to happen [...]
Archive of posts tagged present moment
Meditation Practice Reveals Your True Spiritual Nature
You may appear to be a human being living in a 3D world, but in reality you are spiritual being expressing and experiencing yourself through a human body. Over time, meditation practice reveals your true spiritual nature. It takes your awareness beyond thoughts, judgments, emotions and physical sensations into the spacious, eternal, oneness of your [...]
During the Full Moon Let Go of the Past and Release Negativity
As the moon waxes from an arc to a full moon it represents growth and expansion. When it reaches its fullest illumination it symbolizes completion. This is a perfect time to let go of the past and release negativity from your life. When you’ve finished a project, you admire it and move on. When your closet [...]
Overcoming Addiction with Spiritual Surrender
Overcoming addiction with spiritual surrender is at the heart of most recovery programs. Because addictions are locked into the mind and body, sheer will power often doesn’t work. Surrendering to your spiritual self and a higher power is what releases the tenacious grip of addiction. Millions of people have experienced freedom and serenity by following [...]
Healing Emotional Pain with Radical Acceptance
Radical acceptance is a mindfulness approach to healing emotional pain. In Buddhist philosophy, mindfulness practices such as present moment awareness and meditation support people to awaken to the realization that they are not their thoughts or emotions, but they are the expansive, loving presence behind and within all aspects of life. This allows painful emotions [...]
Use the Power of Intention to Create the Life You Want
We can each create the life we want with the power of intention. When we are conscious of the influence we have over our thoughts, emotions, attitudes and perspectives we can set the tone and direction to manifest what we want in our lives. No one creates our life for us; we do this with [...]
How to Maintain Spiritual Balance Throughout the Day
How does one maintain spiritual balance throughout the day in such a fast paced society, with a multitude of tasks to accomplish and external pressures to deal with? How do you touch into your spiritual center for renewal and serenity when so many distractions abound? It requires putting yourself first and creating new habits that [...]
