Self-awareness

Lost and Found

Last Saturday, I left for my first “post-vaccination vacation” to a remote Lake Cottage in Washington. All of April this is all I could think of. Getting away from all of it for a week of tranquility and no digital connectivity. Don’t get me wrong. I LOVE my life and all the people in it. Yet, the…

It’s a Wave

A few years ago, I was suffering from Plantar Fasciitis. It was severe and I could barely place my feet on the ground. As part of my treatment, I enrolled in Pilates for core strengthening. The rehabilitation was slow and painful. My body and my abilities would be all over the place each session. My…

Non-Resistance

I kicked-off this year with my series on Enlightenment and outlined the three basic building blocks for the enlightened state namely — Non-Attachment, Non-Resistance and Non-Judgement. In my last blog, I discussed the topic of Non-Attachment. Today we shall explore Non-Resistance. In my experience, I…

Enlightenment

Happy New Year to all my readers. May 2021 usher in a year of good health, healing, peace and unity. Recently, my 20-year-old son requested that I write about Enlightenment and what it means for lay people. I was shocked. Firstly, because he was interested in such a topic at his age and more importantly…

The Victim

A couple of blogs ago, I talked about the power of story-making ending with the question “Who would you be without your stories?” In that regard, one of the most powerful stories that can keep us stuck in life is the story of feeling like “The Victim”. The Victim archetype is very powerful and can sometimes…

Stories

The Spiritual teacher Byron Katie asks a poignant question: “Who would you be without your stories?”

The Hippocampus in our brain is a puzzle piece assembler and it is always trying to make sense of what is happening to us. It does that by assembling whatever information it can infer…