Gateway to the Higher Self Let’s talk about your favorite food—maybe a burger; your favorite patty with fresh tomatoes and crisp lettuce, loaded with gooey overflowing cheese wrapped with soft fresh organic buns. Are you drooling already? Have you ever pondered over what happens when you look at advertisements with pictures of tempting food? How …
‘Yat Pinde Tat Brahmande’ is a Sanskrit axiom that holds a tremendous secret of this creation—’Whatever is in this body is in the cosmos too’. On a clear full moon night, it is difficult—if not impossible—to not be drawn to the cooling afterglow of this celestial gift; so much so that you can feel the …
This is a busy person’s meditation. Ten breaths. That’s it. A modest one-minute reset intended to take some of the wind out of the sails of whatever story line you’ve been racing around inside. The idea is simple: wherever you are, in any situation or mental state, count ten long, slow breaths. Meditation for Fidgety …
Have you ever regretted getting angry at someone to the point of self-detriment? Have you regretted writing that angry letter or saying something unpleasant that caused hurt and ruined a relationship? Chances are you are nodding right now. But what if our schools or the environment we grew up in taught us to do better? …
Nadi Shodhana: A Breathing Practice to Calm, Soothe, and Relax Read More »
Concentration is the skill of undivided attention, the super power of committing our attention to what we want at a given time, and nothing else. When all our faculties converge in a single activity or direction, the mind and the body are happy. Our background worry programs often fade, and we can find ourselves in …
There is an epidemic that the world—particularly the US—is grappling with, and it is not COVID-19. America’s infrastructure to handle a mental-health crisis was already being questioned when COVID-19 struck. The pandemic is the straw that has broken the proverbial camel’s back, with institutions struggling to meet the ubiquity of mental illnesses. According to the …
“I keep to this routine every day without variation,” author Haruki Murakami said in an interview with The Paris Review in 2004 about his writing process, “The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.” Some call it therapy and others use …
“Effortless mindfulness” is a new way to immediately enter an optimal flow state available to us in the midst of our busy lives. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, and ancient wisdom traditions, award-winning author Loch Kelly offers a practical guide to experiencing the next stage in the ongoing mindfulness revolution: effortless mindfulness. Learn how to enter an optimal …
The Way of Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly Read More »
What is Pain? Pain is a normal part of human life. And pain hurts. Although pain feels like a threat, pain is not attacking us. Pain is designed to help us survive. Pain and pleasure are signals. Pain is a signal that something is out of balance in your emotional, mental, spiritual, or physical life …
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In this video of glimpse practices from his book, Shift Into Freedom, Loch shows us some ways to immediately shift out of our chattering mind and into open-hearted awareness. We learn to unhook awareness from the “thinker” and come back to our senses, ending in our heart space. This heart space is not the physical …
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