This is an old article. On compassion. I dare to disagree: compassion is not a feeling, compassion is not an emotion. It is a capacity. It is a human capacity to recognize the other person as a person like you, recognize their state as a state you have seen or experienced, and, surprise, compassion is … Continue reading “”
Yoga Teachers And The Yoga Alliance
Yoga is fashionable, it is an exercise for most. But yoga used to be a serious spiritual practice. How and why? Yoga can give you superior control over your attention, over your body. Once you have control over what you can have control over, the next step is to recognize that you are neither your … Continue reading “”
Little Known Ways to Stop Procrastinating Homework
The most important thing to know about procrastination is that it’s an avoidance tactic. We all have it, it is a matter of degrees. Successful people, successful students avoid what they have to do, in this case doing their homework, less of the time. But just know: every time the idea of doing comes up: … Continue reading “”
Trying To Connect to Source? Not Sure If You’re Connecting?
Trying To Connect? Not Sure If You Are Connecting? Some Answers For You… Here are some questions and some answers to issues people are having: In my conversations with some of the Pioneers, I muscle test if they connect and the muscle test often says “no.”
Motivation and Fear: The Importance of Both
What is motivation? It is the desire that moves… People say they are not motivated, but the truth is that every time you do something to fill a desire: sit down, watch tv, order a pizza… there is a motivation. People like to say that they are not motivated, but what they are saying is … Continue reading “”
What Is the Difference Between Alcoholism and Addiction?
This is an article that I copied over to my blog… so I can talk about some of the differences between how main stream handles alcoholism and how I handle it. In my work, alcohol is an avoidance strategy: the person with the drinking would rather feel positive emotions, than deal with what there is … Continue reading “”
Life Is Like a Bruce Lee Movie – Create Positive Outcomes and Adventure With Your Mind
The gist of this article is to go within. Within really means: go to the vertical, instead of staying and living on the horizontal plane with all the drama, all the conflicts, all the bumping into this and that. Being fluid like water is only possible when you approach life from your vertical being… the … Continue reading “”
Why Knowing Yourself Is The Foundation Of Personal Growth
Know thyself… said the Greeks, and I can’t agree more. Unless you are clear about where you are, what are your limitations, what are your inner pulls (conation), your results in life will be puny, in every area of life. Know Thyself If men would search diligently their own minds, and examine minutely their thoughts … Continue reading “”
Spirituality and Personality: The Psycho-Spiritual Controversy
If you have been involved in either therapy or counselling, or spirituality and meditation, in recent years you have probably encountered two basic, polarized viewpoints concerning personality. Essentially it amounts to this: therapists are pro-personality (and its improvement through healing neurosis etc.) while spiritual teachers proclaim personality a big waste of time, since neurotic or … Continue reading “”
Maintaining Almost Daily Habits and Commitments
This article has a good idea… it suggests consistency as the way of establishing any new habit and making sure it will happen. Anything worth doing is worth doing every day… day in, day out. Meditation, spiritual work, being active, reading, learning… as a campaign they are all doomed to fail… but as a daily … Continue reading “”