Emotion
Gratitude Works! Revealing Research
I came across some simple but profound research thanks to Jonathan Kaplan’s Urban Mindfulness Blog about the effectiveness of Gratitude. We’ve all known that gratitude is powerful and it works, but there’s nothing like scientific evidence to please our rational minds. Thanks to our conditioning, the lack of evidence often sets us back much more [...]
Don’t Aim For Happiness
Aim For Balance. A friend wrote in recently and asked how he can stay focused on positive things, when through life experience his mind has come to focus on negative stuff. And it got me thinking. As young children we’re told that we need to look for the silver lining, the half-full glass and the [...]
The Science and Art of Pulse Diagnosis
Today I’m happy to share with you an esoteric and ancient system of understanding health. I’ve recently had an email conversation with Mahesh Krishnamurthy, one of the few people in India trained in Nadi Pariksha. He has an extensive education that spans Ayurveda, Yoga Shastra, Yoga Therapy, Nadi Pariksa, and integrates these systems into his [...]
The Pancamaya Model
During the course of my education in yoga the Pancamaya [sometimes spelt Panchamaya] model has been very useful in helping me see a holistic picture of health. This model is now one of the foundations of my work and I feel excited to share this with you. What is the Pancamaya Model? The Pancamaya model [...]
Affirmations – How they work
In this article: What is an affirmation | Your communication with the universe | How affirmations work | Some astounding numbers An affirmation, at its very basic, is a thought. And It is more. It is a consciously chosen, positive statement that allows us to shift our energy, and communicate in masterful ways with the [...]
Am I flowing?
Am I motivated? Inspired? Is my living light? Does life flow for me? These are some of the questions that came to mind as I sit down for this contemplation. I am doing a workshop this weekend about relationships, and this morning I began debating the importance of my life experience and how it affects [...]
Healing with Feeling
I wrote in length about the role of thoughts and feelings in creating illness. This power of feeling can be used consciously for healing yourself as well. This is the method behind the energy healing techniques of the world. I have been lucky to meet Nithya Shanti, who has introduced me to several resources and [...]
Can Thoughts Change Nature?
We’ve seen how emotions can affect your health, and how your beliefs can change your DNA. These evidences indicate that we are much more powerful than we were educated to believe. I am tempted to question – Just how powerful am I? What else can my thoughts and feelings do? Your thoughts, research shows, can [...]
What Emotions are Causing Your Illness?
As I began to dig deeper into this work, I began to notice how my own emotional journey corresponded with my struggle with weight. The most emotionally difficult periods of my life was when I had the least amount of desire to stay healthy – i ate indiscriminately, closed myself off from the world, and [...]
The Emotions of Health
I just received an email from a reader who is suffering from a chronic back pain. Waking up each morning in pain is limiting, frustrating, and over a period of time, de-spiriting. My deepest compassion goes out to all that are suffering. I want to use a Ken Wilber video on You Tube make a [...]
