Fear, certainly should be near the top of the list for "should have had a class on this topic as a child". Fear is one of the strongest emotions we experience in life and is the underlying driver of many of our decisions and behaviors. All of this impact and yet we invest very little time into understanding how fear really works and how we can handle it better. Fear's overall purpose is … [Read more...]
Why Relationships Fail
Have you ever realized the connection between the challenges we face in life and the challenges in our relationships? There is an amazing parallel between the two. In this article, we will dig into the connection between life, our perceptions and the relationship challenges we likely will face. Relationships can be beautiful and make us feel amazing but they can also be devastating and highly … [Read more...]
How to Stop Feeding Your Monkey Mind
In part 2 of the "Understanding the Mind" series, we are going to go much deeper down the rabbit hole and learn: The mind's connection to others (the collective)What the "Monkey Mind" is and why it happensWays to calm the storms of our mind In part 1 we learned the basics of how our minds work, what our awareness is and the basics of mental seeds and mental nourishment. Parts of the … [Read more...]
Learning Mindful Breathing
Breathing is the single most important source of life to us, yet each day we completely take it for granted. When we focus our attention on our breathing, we anchor ourselves in the present moment and naturally calm our mind. This focus technique returns our mind to our body and keeps our thoughts from wandering and jumping around (monkey mind). As we begin our journey of self and personal … [Read more...]
Everything is Connected
When we think about a connection, we picture a channel of communication between two things. However, life is a vast and interconnected network of energy. Not only a connection between two things, but a connection between many things. The more we learn and understand life, the more we begin to see the connection between all things. There are both physical and energy based elements in our … [Read more...]
Understanding Our Mind
Our happiness in life is dependent on our understanding of our mind. When we were growing up, we simply were not taught what we needed to understand how life really works. We go through years of education and yet we still did not learn the things that matter most. In fact, much of what we learn from our traditional education, locks us into a life full of suffering. By learning about our mind, … [Read more...]