The Biggest Benefit of Meditation
What would you expect to be the biggest benefit of meditation? To reduce stress? Regulate your nervous system? Calm anxiety? While it's true that meditation can do all of these things, the real purpose and biggest benefit of meditation is much deeper: It's to bring...
Manage Anxiety Holistically: 10 Science-Backed Strategies (That Aren’t Talk-Therapy, Meds, or Meditation)
How to Manage Anxiety Holistically In this article, we’re going to answer a fundamental question to help you manage anxiety: Where is your anxiety is coming from? Because until you know what’s causing your anxiety, you’ll just be taking shots in the dark to try to...
Awakening to Reality
On Awakening to Reality Why do we suffer? The answer is simple. When we cling to what we think life should be, who we think we should be, we suffer. But there is a deeper dimension in each of us that is not touched by suffering. This is the constant. This is who you...
How to Let Go: The Power of Surrender
How to Let Go: The Power of Surrender What's the first thing you do when you feel stressed? Your mind runs through all the possible scenarios and desperately tries to rationalize which one will give you the best chance at not feeling stressed anymore. This is really...
Life Beyond Fear
What would your life be without fear? There's no doubt that fear is important. It's here to keep you alive. Without fear, you'd be jumping off cliffs and eating all the pretty round red berries. Yeah...you wouldn't last too long on the physical plane. But I'd bet 1000...
9 Ways to Improve Gut Health
9 Ways to Improve Gut Health If you’re not focusing on your gut health, you’re missing a huge piece of the wellness puzzle. Because gut health is central to all health. A healthy gut is linked to elevated mood, improved immunity, lower inflammation, and increased...
Mindfulness for Trauma: How to Stay Present Through a Trauma Response
Mindfulness for Trauma: How to Stay Present Through a Trauma Response You’ve heard the masters say it, over, and over, and over again: “The path out of suffering is to stay present. Be here now. Now is the most powerful moment there is. Life is only ever now. The past...
Why Therapy Isn’t Enough to Heal Anxiety
Why Therapy Isn’t Enough to Heal Anxiety Therapy can be useful in helping you understand your anxiety, but very often isn’t enough to heal the roots of anxiety. And this is because in order to truly heal anxiety, mind, body, and spirit all have to be involved....
3 Ways to Feel Less Stressed and More Grounded When Things Change
3 Ways to Feel Less Stressed and More Grounded When Things Change Transitions, even the most welcomed ones, can be difficult. Death and illness are the most obvious examples of how change can affect your well-being. But even wanted transitions like the birth of a...
You Are Not Who You Think You Are
You are not who you think you are. This realization is your ticket to freedom. Because the person who you think you are is entirely limited by your imagination. You will never be free so long as you believe yourself to be what you call your identity. See, you live...