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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Continuing from the previous post, I would like to share with you some amazing research in this area. Dr. Bruce Lipton is a cellular biologist and best selling author, whose book, The Biology of Belief, was awarded 2006’s Best Science Book of the Year. In this book he describes his experiments, and that of other [...]
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 [...]