Spirituality

Hearing the Whispers of Your Soul

Dreams are a way our soul gives us to learn our life lessons. Your dreams are illuminating the life path your soul wants you to take. The key is to start acting on them. Could your soul be begging...

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Jun29

How to do a Retreat

It's important for people to turn their attention inward and listen in silence to life’s inner callings, where truth and wholeness are finally revealed to the earnest seeker. Creating an Inner...

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Jun24

Synchronicity - Viewing forest through glass sphere

Spiritual Synchronicity

Mysterious forces beyond our understanding are not only at work in the universe but directly involved in our daily existence. This may sound ominous, but it shouldn’t be frightening. Synchronicity...

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Jun08

Man holding and selflessly loving a baby

Tonglen (Cultivating Selfless Love and Compassion)

There is a traditional Buddhist Practice called Tonglen. You may know it by its English name – “Giving and Taking” or, “Sending and Receiving.” Its aim is the cultivation of selfless love and...

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Mar21

Awareness

Awareness can neither be perceived by the senses nor known by thought. It is the ever-present basis of all we experience, our fundamental nature. Experiencing your natural, unaltered, and simple...

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Mar06

Man laying in field experiencing calm still mind

Calm Mind or Still Mind

We've all experienced cultivated situations of harmony that slows and calms mind, body, and spirit. There is also a very different inner stillness that comes from uncultivated experiences, evoking...

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Feb23

Oct30

Meditation: Relaxation or Awakening

Elliott Dacher MD

Human Flourishing is the realization of our innate potential for an enduring happiness, optimal well-being, expansive consciousness, and effortless serenity. I used the word realization because these qualities are already and have always been innate...

Oct30

Enduring Happiness

Elliott Dacher MD

Achieving genuine and lasting happiness can be said to be a central goal of human life. But if we so strongly desire happiness why are our lives so often filled with stress, distress, and overt suffering?

Oct29

Touching Life in Silence

Robert Rabbin

There is life, and there are thoughts about life. If we see our thoughts as thoughts, we don’t become our thoughts; we recognize that we are different from our thoughts. Silence is the recognition that thoughts about life are not life itself.

Oct29

A Precious Life

Elliott Dacher MD

Humans are endowed with the seed of a potentially very precious, happy, and meaningful life. We possess the ability to know and unite with the very nature of our being. We can gain freedom from suffering and prosper in our own lives and in...

Oct01

7 Strategies for Empaths to Heal Trauma & PTSD

Dr. Judith Orloff MD

Empaths and sensitive people often experience some level of post-traumatic stress. This is, in part, because they’re on sensory overload for so many years their systems are flooded with adrenaline. Other reasons include early neglect, abuse, or...

Reflection - You are not who you think you are

Jun12

Do Not Believe You Are Who You Think You Are

Elliott Dacher MD

You are the imperishable, unchanging, timeless, and nameless essence of being. That experiential truth, however simple when touched, is unreachable by reason, knowledge, or the efforts of our ordinary “I.” It is thickly obscured by the deeply...