We’ve all suffered emotionally throughout our lives. Similarly, we’ve all experienced trauma, regardless to what degree it personally manifested. Yet once we become an adult, each and every one of us has the responsibility to alleviate our suffering and redesign our mind into a more functional and healthy state of existence. When we’re born, we’re…
Category: Self Improvement
In 2 Minutes Woody Harrelson Reveals A Secret The ENTIRE World Should Hear!
In 2013, Hollywood actor, environmental activist, and “happy hippie”, Woody Harrelson brought non-wood, tree-free paper to the market to help our farmers, our forests, and our future. In 2014, Woody hosted Ethos, a powerful documentary aimed at encouraging us to engage in ethical consumerism by awakening our consciousness about what’s happening in the world. In 2015, he told The Guardian: “We…
The Top 5 Buddhist Teachings That Will Change Your Life
These teachings may be simple, but they’re profound. 1) Awaken to Life! Mindfulness- being completely present to the life you’re living and what you’re doing- is something that can’t be understated. Expanding your awareness changes every aspect of your life, in every way. It really is as simple as that. The more you do, the more you’ll discover your…
5 Behaviors That Show You Are Reaching A Higher Level Of Consciousness
If there’s one thing we know beyond any doubt, it’s that all of life is an evolutionary process. Everything, from the smallest particle in existence to the universe as a whole is in the process of evolution. Immutability is the only truth. Expansion is the point. The only question is whether or not it’s happening…
16 Buddhist Jokes You Need In Your Life
Very rarely will you find someone out there that really understand Buddhism; not because of disinterest, but because of all the rumors and disinformation floating around out there. These jokes help to give a little more of an understanding about these deep and wonderful spiritual teachings. Pass it around to your friends for a chuckle!
10 Ways To Declutter Your Mind For Clarity, Focus, Peace, and Balance
“Life is as simple or complicated as we make it.” Donna Smallin The dreaded “C” word. Clutter. We all deal with it. In some part of our world, we face it: be it in our closets, in our offices, or even in our bodies. But the most distracting and debilitating cluttered space is in our heads….
30 Traits Of An Empath (How To Know If You’re An Empath)
What is an empath? Being an empath is when you are affected by other people’s energies, and have an innate ability to intuitively feel and perceive others. Your life is unconsciously influenced by others’ desires, wishes, thoughts, and moods. Being an empath is much more than being highly sensitive and it’s not just limited to…
Oprah Asks Thich Nhat Hanh: How Do You Transform The World?
Thich Nhat Hanh is considered to be one of the most important spiritual leaders of our time. In the 60’s, he was banned from his Vietnam home for 39 years for peacefully protesting the war. Since then, he worked with MLK Jr. and other important leaders to bring about peace, mindfulness, and compassion to the…
Science Confirms A Controversial Teaching Of Buddhism: There Is No ‘You’
It turns out the Buddhist concept of not-self, or anatta, is a verified scientific premise. Since the rise in popularity of the Dalai Lama in the 1980’s, the study of Buddhism has fascinated neuroscientists. This is because a team of scientists and the Tibetan leader came together and created Mind and Life Institute, which studied these…
20 Diagnostic Signs That You’re Suffering From “Soul Loss”
By Lissa Rankin MD, Originally featured on Wake Up World | Our entire culture suffers from what the shamans call “soul loss,” a loss of meaning, direction, vitality, mission, purpose, identity, and genuine connection; a deep unhappiness that most of us have come to consider as simply ordinary. The soul is our source of absolute uniqueness, a place…
Reveal Your Life’s Purpose by Asking These 15 Questions
By: Stephen Parato You came here for a reason, didn’t you? You can feel it in the depths of your being. Your life is inconceivably meaningful. You arrived on Earth for a purpose. What that purpose is, you have to uncover (and create) yourself. It’s an epic quest from cradle to grave, and that’s what makes…
12 Of The Most Important Secrets Forgotten By Mankind
By GILBERT ROSS | SoulHiker.com The more I ponder about life, the more I come to one solid realisation: The biggest curse and predicament of modern Man is forgetfulness. Like a creeping malaise, forgetfulness has seeped through all of Man’s being and doing. Individually, collectively, historically or culturally, we are spellbound to forget. We haven’t only forgot our…
How To Be Free From Karma And Addictive Behavior
Karma Karma means conditioned action. Meditation Master Lama Thubten Yeshe calls it ‘habit energy’. When you are controlled by habit energy that’s what the Buddhist call being trapped in Samsara the wheel of suffering; trapping you within an endless cycle. Another name for it is addiction. There is another way of being, an enlightened way, where you are…
The Difference Between Mindfulness and Awareness
Meditation is working with our speed, our restlessness, our constant busyness. Meditation provides space or ground in which restlessness might function, might have room to be restless, might relax by being restless. If we do not interfere with restlessness, then restlessness becomes part of the space. We do not control or attack the desire to…
How to Practice Mindful Self-Compassion: 6 Life-Changing Steps
by ALETHEIA LUNA “Imagine you are in a theater watching a movie. It’s a suspense thriller. You have attached emotionally to the main character. You have seen the struggles the character has been through. You identify with her story. You are on the edge of your seat, waiting desperately to see how it all ends…