All Entries Tagged With: "Healing"

As eternal beings, we carry all our thoughts, impressions, emotions, and feelings from time immemorial into our present being. Hence, most of our so-called ills have their roots in some of these thoughts, impressions, feelings, and emotions.

When do you feel like giving up? What discourages you, or tempts you to doubt that sweetness is on the way? Now, write down three remedies for discouragement….lunch with your best friend; a visit to church; dusting off your diplomas, re-reading a love letter, swimming twenty laps; warm soup eaten in silence.

What repels you? Nosy neighbors. Organized religion? Bohemia? Modern design or gold-gilded embellishments? Knowing what does not work for you is a powerful tool for creating more of what does work for you. Measuring positive feelings against negative feelings is one of the constructive ways to use comparison, and it’s a great way to tune [...]

One of my best friends and I have a sick tradition. We get excited about each others’ hardship.

I’ve subscribed for years to this occasional email from Dadi Janki. She’s the current leader of the Brahma Kumaris spiritual organization. I loved last week’s message from her: Dear Friend, Om shanti. Sometimes when we are together, you ask me why I don’t seem to get tired when I travel from India or give programs [...]

Wouldn’t it be great if when you are born, someone hands you a book of guidelines, titled “Life Guide” to show you how to live your life? Instead, we stumble, fumble and stutter our way through our lives toward our ultimate demise. If you are lucky, a realization springs on you somewhere along the way [...]

Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. Paul J Tillich, The Eternal Now In today’s fast paced life we all seek peace and happiness. We set material goals and work toward achieving them. But, in [...]

Whenever the 3 of Swords appears in someone’s tarot reading I wince. The card of heartbreak, sorrow and betrayal symbolizes deep emotional pain in the querent’s life in the past, present or future, depending on where it turns up in the spread. And as all of us know, pain is hard enough to experience but [...]

I don’t think I’ve ever been “clinically” depressed. Well, maybe I have, but it certainly didn’t feel clinical. It felt morbid, cosmic, and unavoidably essential.

A hug requires two active participants, each individual taking part in the embrace experiences the pleasure of being embraced and the joy that comes from hugging someone. As both individuals wrap their arms around one another, their energy blends together, and they experience a tangible feeling of togetherness that lingers long after physical contact has [...]

To begin with, turned in late the previous night due to unavoidable circumstances? Over slept too as the alarm did not ring on the day? It should have but it did not. Got out of the wrong side of the bed? Burnt the toast? Missed the office pick-up? Starting problems with the engine? Rushed into [...]

Tummy trembles. Brain fuzz. That discombobulating feeling that you’re not quite sure what you should be doing but you should be something to keep your act together. Anxiety. Sometimes it slips away with a few deep breaths, other times you need to beat it off with a stick or some little white pills. Naturally, we [...]

To do that, you don’t need an instrument. You need yourself, to begin with. You can dial and connect anytime. Stay connected too, for as long and as often as you desire. The receiver always connects and listens to you. The two way transmission is always “strength 5″. The receiver is never off the hook. [...]

This is about how my gesture of booking an air ticket for my father, his maiden flight, brought forth a rush of emotions and made me realize how much we all take for granted when it comes to our parents. My parents left for our native place on Thursday and we went to the airport [...]

“No problem can be solved from the level of consciousness that created it.” – Albert Einstein We all have sensitive moments, times when we take life to heart. Sometimes, when sensitivity dominates, we feel and sense our way through the day, aiming for the miraculous place just before feeling fully spills over into feeling too [...]

So much about modern culture is about speed, about pushing through. Getting ahead. Being the best. Breaking records. Making it to the top. Getting there first. To heck with it. I’ve got a first-class ticket to the back of the line, and that’s where you’ll find me. I’ll be the one hanging out on that [...]

One of the questions I get asked most is “How did I get an Inner Critic?” That question is usually followed by “How do I get rid of it?”  These are both great questions and since I get asked about the Inner Critic so often I’ll answer these questions here. How did I get an [...]

When the performance gurus talk about riding out the highs and the lows of business, what they mean is that when business is swinging, you act cool, and when it goes wrong – you still act cool. It is not wrong to celebrate success, but if you are still partying a week after you land [...]

When we give something we are always keeping a track of every penny that is going out but when we are receiving we feel that we have never received enough. And then we compare our giving with what is coming in and always the final balance shows a negative balance because compared to what we [...]

If there is a singular thought you must equip you with, when faced with a pink-slip, it  is to reiterate to yourself that what happened is owing to extraneous factors – the event per se is no reflection of your own professional or personal capabilities. Embedding this deep down in your mind will keep you [...]

Last night I searched in Google, typing ‘Prof Daya Krishna’, the name of my most loving teacher, rather a lovely, witty friend with white beard. When I joined the philosophy department in university, he had already retired. I met him as a helper student who was supposed to read and write for him as his [...]

No matter what life brings you, you can make a choice at how you want to see it. Choose happiness! Make a choice each day; choose to be happy with what comes and what has gone. There are plenty of things to rejoice about. Do not forget the little things: Your smiling colleague. The little [...]

What happened in your childhood or another life informs patterns in your current reality. But sooner or later, you’ve simply got to get over using yesterday to explain today’s behavior.