I recently went to the Art of Living Retreat Center in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to experience the Happiness Retreat—a meditation and breathwork retreat that is offered twice a week (mid-week and weekends). Our teacher, Charlie Baldwin, lives and works at the Center, organizing and leading a variety of retreats and workshops. …
What is the promise of recovery, if not to become more solid, more okay, more peaceful inside no matter what?
Forgiveness is a topic that comes up constantly, especially for people who struggle with addiction.
Trying to achieve balance in our busy lives is a constant effort, but striving for harmony yields inner peace, purpose, and fulfillment.
Want to stay healthy and disease free? Hug it out! A good hug is like Prozac for your body, mind, and soul! Would you believe it—a warm cuddle from your partner in the bed can save you from a bout of common cold every now and then! But that is not all! It builds social …
It is the month of giving thanks for all our life’s blessings. After spending the last 2+ years wrapped in grief, fear, darkness, and illness, humanity is slowly starting to come out of the shadows of the pandemic. As emotional as the year has been, we strangely find that something like a pandemic has given …
HAPPY PRIDE! June is Pride Month, a celebration of the LGBTQ+ (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer/Questioning) community which still faces debilitating discrimination and stigma. Pride in the US started as a riot at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 by Queer folks and mostly Black Trans women who were being attacked for their gender identity …
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There is a certain joy in getting something. That’s the joy children experience when they get things like toffees and toys. Parents and grandparents feel happy when they give. The joy in giving is much more fulfilling than the joy of receiving. Have you noticed how happy we feel when we share? When we see …
When the pandemic struck in India, we (Indians) jostled helplessly for oxygen cylinders for our loved ones as oxygen levels dangerously plummeted in cases with the new infection. Despite trying everything, we could not get oxygen to save my uncle. But there wasn’t any time to mourn. There were thousands who were witnessing their loved …
You may need to consider taking steps towards emotional healing if you, like many do, tend to bottle up difficult emotions. Grief, sadness, anxiety, depression, addiction, unhealthy obsessions, anger. We hide them in the basement of our minds and continue living under the pretense that they are gone.
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