Coming down to earth

“Get yourself grounded and you can navigate even the stormiest roads in peace.” — Steve Goodier

Grounding, aka earthing, is a practice of putting your skin in direct contact with the earth, or through earthing products in your house. Some forms that you may be familiar are the Japanese practice of “forest bathing” or the increasingly popular practices of natural water swimming. When we feel “ungrounded” we can experience dizziness, anxiety, depression, feelings of not belonging, etc. So, mentally, it has immediate impacts to no be grounded. However, it has been found that physiologically it has equally profound impacts.

Emerging…

The conscious expression of anger

“Angry people are not always wise” — Jane Austin “Pride and Prejudice”

Psychology researchers are pretty much split down the middle as to whether anger is an emotion or an expression of an emotion. I subscribe to that anger is an expression of emotion just like laughter is. However, I see it as the underlying negative emotion transforms into anger if we lack the emotional intelligence to identify and and consciously express the original negative emotion. So it becomes a “catch-all” for any negative emotion we cannot name.

Because of this, anger is not something you can control once it…

Trusting your authentic self

As we delve back in to the concept of Spiritual Bypass, we share some stories of our own experience with it. We can all agree that in order to do one’s own “work”, we need to develop a keen sense of self-awareness and being in constant observation of one’s own experiences. Eckart Tolle describes the process of learning to observe oneself beautifully in the his ground breaking book “The Power of Now”; a must read for anyone serious about evolving.

The more you observe yourself and start making conscious choices about the three things you can control; your words, your…

Resisting life’s lessons leads to bigger lessons

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” — Lao Tzu

We do not control anything but our thoughts, our words and our actions, yet we are insistent on controlling our external experiences. Like a river that doesn’t control the path it takes, nor does it stop when ever there it are obstacles in its way, it flows where it is meant to flow. Life is the same process of flow. …

Strive to bring your pure essence into physical manifestation as an expression of your soul

As with all choices in life, we are individually responsible for the ones we make. Spiritual bypass is such a choice, however, not necessarily a conscious one. Often the choice is made in order for us to learn a very valuable lesson; what spiritual bypass is and how it feels and what to do to avoid it going forward. Below is a beautiful excerpt from an interview with John Welwood by Tina Fossella (full interview):

I noticed a widespread tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks…

Balancing to make you whole

Our societies, communities, religions, etc. dictate to us the ideal versions of men and women. However, these ideals are tens of thousands of years old. They did fulfil a purpose when we were in groups and communities where assigning roles based on physical and mental abilities by gender made sense. Today we have evolved past that, but as always society is slow to catch up. We are still instilled with the programming that men should not show emotions or cry and women should not be tough and strong. …

See it, feel it, be it and live it — Gratitude Podcast

“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more?” Roy T. Bennett “The Light in the Heart”

Gratitude practice is in vogue at the moment, and rightly so, and it isn’t a day too late. As a foundation for this interest are a plethora of studies that have been to ascertain the effect of practicing gratitude. When we receive a compliment, a gift or something else we can feel grateful for it, but it wears off quickly from…

Forgiveness is felt in your body

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule” — Siddhartha Gautama “The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha”

Forgiveness is both a process and a result. However, forgiveness as a result is binary in nature; either you have forgiven or you have not. Our relationship with forgiveness and our misconceptions of it comes from our societal programming. We are raised to tell people we perpetrate against that we are sorry. What does that actually mean? We aren’t told to ask for forgiveness, we are not taught how to repent nor are we taught…