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How to Turn a Breakdown into a Breakthrough
Daily life in today’s world can be crazy. Overwhelm and exhaustion are on the rise as endless to-do lists pile higher and higher with each passing day. Responsibilities pertaining to your career and...
How to Avoid Summer Distractions and Stay Focused on Your Goals
Having meaningful goals you want to achieve in your life is what keeps you motivated and inspired to stay focused on what is truly important to you. Summertime, with all it’s fun and excitement, can...
Self-Worth: 5 Ways to Identify Your Unique Gifts
It’s said that each of us comes into this life with a set of unique talents and special gifts, and that a desire to be an integral part of the collective is inherent in us all. History books,...
Deconditioning: How to Create Pattern Interrupts and Learn New Behaviors
Creating Pattern Interrupts and Learning New Behaviors More and more people of all ages and walks of life are recognizing that they’ve adopted unhealthy behavior patterns and they’re...
Emotional Healing Techniques – Get Acquainted With Tris
If your thoughts keep you from being happy, then you might benefit from emotional healing and transformation. For your emotional healing and transformation to be successful, having a relaxed mind...
Everyday Magic: 3 Daily Rituals to Connect You to the Present
Psychologist Dr. Jean Houston has said that we are the victims of an "age of interrupted process." Meaning, you generally know a bit about how things begin and how they end, but you are rarely...
A Guided Meditation to Embrace Summertime
With summer rapidly approaching, you may be gearing up for the fun, excitement, and spontaneity that are just around the corner. Out comes the camping gear, hot dogs, bathing suits, and beach towels...
How to Set Healthy Relationship Boundaries in All Areas of Life
Setting and enforcing healthy boundaries can be the thing that enhances or sabotages relationships in any area of your life, having a detrimental effect on your happiness, confidence, and sense of...
8 Yoga Poses for an On-the-Go Energy Boost
Let’s face it—life is busy, and unless you take the time to consciously make room for the things that are important to you, it’s quite easy to get swept away in the everyday hamster wheel of your...
Meditation for Childbirth: How to Calm Your Nerves Before Labor
One of the most exciting times in a woman’s life is when she finds out that she is expecting a child. Feelings of exhilaration around starting a new family—or adding to it—consume the new...
How to Harness the Power of Your Emotions
Are you using your emotions to inform you or are you letting them control you? Your mental and emotional baggage is primarily responsible for creating the discrepancy between what it is that you say...
Meditation Mindset: 7 Steps to Set Yourself Up for Success
More and more people are turning to the ancient practice of meditation for cultivating clarity, peace, and purpose in their lives. While meditation is simple to practice, for some it is anything but...
Feeling Stuck? How to Create a Strategy to Move Forward
If you’ve ever felt “stuck,” you know what it’s like to have a certain mood that lingers over you like a dark cloud. Procrastinating on deadlines, confusion about what to do or where to begin, and...
A Guided Meditation for Setting Intentions
More and more, people are doing away with New Year’s resolutions and instead setting intentions for what they would like to achieve over the next 12 months. Resolutions, intentions, goals—whatever...
5 Steps to Plan the Next and Best Chapter of Your Life
A new year, a milestone birthday, or a transition like getting married, starting a new job, ending a relationship, or sending the kids off to college are all, in some way, symbolic of the...
5 Ways to Create NEW in the New Year – and All Year
While the beginning of a new year does signify new beginnings, every single day of your life is an opportunity to begin anew. As you’re wondering how to approach the coming year, and...
Time Management Techniques: 4 Ways to Tackle Your To-Do List
Time management is one of the biggest challenges people struggle with today. There are only 24 hours in the day, and no matter what you do, that will remain constant. The National Sleep Foundation...
7 Tips to Stick to Your Meditation Practice While Traveling
Travel can be exhausting, especially when there isn’t any down time in between taxis, flights, meetings, dinners, and social obligations. Traveling also tends to be one...
What Your Values Can Teach You
Everyone operates with some kind of understanding of what’s right or wrong, good or bad, scary or safe. But not many people ask themselves why they think this way or do what they do....
How to Just Be You During Yoga Practice
Everywhere you look, people are trying to get validation as to whether or not they fit in. By comparing yourself to others, you are using contrastive analysis as a gauge for measuring your own...
Overcoming Anxiety: A Guided Meditation
Anxiety can be a daunting emotional state to find yourself in, regardless of whether the driver of the emotion is significant or totally benign. It’s that...
“How can I figure out which thing to focus on when I have so many ideas and possible paths to take? They all seem right and I feel scattered.”
This is a great question and one that many people struggle with. Whenever I have come upon a crossroads and I'm not sure which direction to take, I pull over, consider my options carefully and then...
The Pain and Wisdom of Letting Go
Letting go of anything that is meaningful in some way – be it relationships, jobs, negative emotions, belief systems, or ideals – is probably the most difficult, painful, confusing and...
8 Ways To Teach Your Kids Conscious Communication
Kids are incredible and they have so much to teach us about communication. Kids love to communicate. They so are eager to openly express their feelings, ideas, needs, and viewpoints—whether it be...
Break on Through. A Meditation For Overcoming Obstacles
Let’s face it, obstacles are a part of life and none of us have the playbook on how to overcome them. As ideal as it may sound, dodging obstacles isn’t possible; although you can learn how to work...
Charisma: 7 Ways to Improve Your Communication With Body Language
Have you ever wondered why it is that what you are trying to communicate to someone else isn’t actually being heard—or why it’s being misinterpreted entirely? It’s like, no matter how you approach...
9 Ways To Transition Gracefully Into The Fall Season
As summer draws to a close, the warmer weather, longer days, and time spent outdoors begins to fade. The start of school (or work), cooler temps, and shorter days signify the end of summer and, for...
How To Explore Your Spiritual Dharma
It’s pretty amazing that we live in a time when being spiritual has become more popularized; where meditation studios are now trending, yoga studios can be found on nearly every block, and...
Compromise, Negotiate, Mediate: 3 Factors For Conflict Resolution
Effective communication is without a doubt one of the most important skills you can develop. In every area of life, you rely on communication to effectively translate your thoughts into words and to...
Moksha, Ending The Cycle of Emotional Pain
In the Vedic wisdom tradition, moksha is the liberation of the soul from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, or samsara. It is considered to be the end of all suffering. According to Advaita...
The Difference Between Compassion and Pity
In a world with so much suffering and pain, compassion has the ability to connect and heal. Starting with our families and friends, and extending into larger communities, and out to the world in...
3 Meditations to Calm Your Mind and Help You Fall Asleep
It’s no surprise that so many people have a hard time falling asleep—and getting quality rest once they do. In today’s hustle-bustle society, many people rush from their beds out into their lives...
How to Rewrite Your Life Story
Everyone has a story. Your story consists of various chapters that span the course of your lifetime. Those chapters run the gamut from happy to sad, traumatic to transformational, and everything in...
5 Qualities to Look for in a Meditation Teacher
The practice of meditation is becoming society's go-to antidote to stress. More people are incorporating mindfulness into their daily routines to create more peace, clarity, and balance in their...
Do you Have an Attitude Problem?
In a world where stress has reached an all-time high, attitude problems are in abundance—from the impatient person behind you in the grocery store checkout to the friend who constantly blames others...
How to Beat the Boredom in Meditation
Our results-driven society can make it difficult to slow down, let alone stop and sit in silence. At times, launching a successful business and raising a family can seem easier than sitting in...
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