All the philosophers, great religions and spiritualities encourage us to live in the present moment – to be here NOW. And yet it seems to be a basic part of the human condition to cast our consciousness into the future or the past. To some people, it appears to be very difficult to live in the present. Why is this … Read More
Getting Your Work Done In 2 Hours A Day
Getting work done in 2 hours in a day. Well, that sounds doable doesn’t it? Well, maybe not. Due to various distractions or emergencies, we often find ourselves spending more time on a task than should be, and thus allowing our overall productivity to decrease. The question then – Are we working too much? Would we be more efficient and … Read More
Mindfulness
ORDINARY CONSCIOUSNESS OR MINDLESSNESS The field of awareness in ordinary states of consciousness is contaminated with a variety of negative patterns of thought, feeling, and reaction. We remain largely unaware of these negative patterns and how they prevent us from reaching higher states of consciousness. In mindless states of unawareness, we are hypnotized, functioning like robots on automatic pilot, sleepwalking … Read More
Letting Go, Today
Unfortunately, as we continue on this journey in life, we have to leave the fairy tale endings to Disney. Sometimes the bad guy does win, the cheater ends up marrying his beautiful mistress and your worst fear does in fact happen. Since this is life and we can’t realistically turn to Disney for the happy endings, we need to let … Read More
Whose Advice Do You Take?
Long before the Internet became a staple in households, people went to their parents, doctors, clergymen, hairdressers, and bartenders for different kinds of advice. Nowadays, we can also add the Internet and YouTube as some of our advisors. But, does the Internet really qualify as an advisor? With all the information that’s out there, I would have thought so but, … Read More
The Manifestation Machine
What you think does matter! What you are thinking about is what you are attracting to you this very moment! What you are intending for yourself or for someone or something else around you is going to happen. And do you know why bad things more often than good things? Because we walk around this world with negative thoughts, fearful … Read More
10 Steps Toward Taking Control of Your Subconscious Mind
There are two parts to our brains- the conscious mind, which handles all things we are aware of and the subconscious mind, which controls everything else. The conscious mind works only some of the time (when we are awake). But the subconscious mind is always at work. Whether we are aware of it or not, the subconscious mind, not including … Read More