Family drama can feel impossible to escape. Someone says something hurtful, crosses a boundary, or brings a storm of negativity into the room — and suddenly your peace is gone too. In this talk, we explore how to deal with difficult family members without stuffing down your emotions, exploding in anger, or losing yourself in the chaos. You’ll learn how to stop feeding the internal thought storm, set boundaries without…
Some people feel immense suffering and think that life is too long. Then there are other people, who may be unhappy themselves, who want to live longer. And they haven’t really thought about it deeply, like: Why do I want to live longer? Do I want to live longer alone, with all my loved ones gone? The more we really look at that, the more we can see that the…
It’s very easy for any of us to get into road rage at different times in our lives. Sometimes we have really bad road rage. Sometimes, when we’re driving to work, we feel like we have nowhere to go and we’re just totally relaxed and flowing with traffic. We can go in and out of road rage. We can keep it for decades. It can get progressively worse, or…
At some point, we all wonder: Did I make the right choices in life?We replay the past, think about “what could have been,” and question whether we wasted time or missed our chance at a better life. But what if nothing actually went wrong? In this podcast, we explore how to stop regretting your life choices and finally make peace with the past. You’ll learn why overthinking, comparison, and attachment…
This article is part of the ongoing Meditation for All challenge. Subscribers to the free newsletter receive weekly guidance and a daily practice.The fact is, it is very common for a wide variety of sensations and reactions to occur when we meditate. It's not that meditation causes these feelings, but rather that it allows buried emotions, trauma, or pain to rise to the surface so we can begin the healing…
We all have these most advanced, incredible bodies of infinite potential. When we lose our gratefulness, we lose sight of our infinite nature. Instead of seeing infinite possibilities, we see only obstacles. But when we are grateful for ourselves, we know we can overcome anything, that there is nothing that somebody else has that we do not possess in terms of our inner ability. Every single one of us wins.…
We live in a world that tells us we should always be happy.So we smile, say we’re “doing great,” and hide what we’re really feeling — even from the people closest to us. But what if this constant pressure to be happy is actually making things worse? In this podcast, we explore how forcing happiness, avoiding discomfort, and chasing pleasure can create more suffering, not less. You’ll learn why unhappiness…
News addiction, unlike most addictions, is one that we think we should have. We think it's important that we stay on top of the news and that we stay informed on what's going on in the world. We are taught from a very early age that it's important and necessary to read the daily news or check in on what's going on in the world. Today, with 24-hour news channels…
This article is part of the ongoing Meditation for All challenge. Subscribers to the free newsletter receive weekly guidance and a daily practice.A mantra trains our mind in the lost skills of focus, patience, and concentration. It puts us in a very relaxed state that de-stresses us and provides many health benefits. Some people will find it difficult at first. When we're used to constant stimulation, constant doing, and constant…
We think we see the world as it is. But we see the world as we interpret it to be, and that interpretation is everything. If we see a picture in the newspaper, and it is a woman crying in front of a burned house, and the caption says, “Woman saved by neighbor,” and we read that and realize this is a happy moment, this isn't a tragic loss. But…
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