Take Responsibility, Stop Blaming
Who doesn’t hate that ugly index finger pointing at you followed by the words: “You! You! You…!” accompanied by a list of what you are blamed for instead of the blamer taking responsibility. It’s an easier lifestyle to blame others. Then we don’t have to do anything but to watch how everything around us falls […]
Yoga and Swami Shivananda of Rishikesh
Swami Shivananda of Rishikesh was a doctor by profession but eventually became a swami to settle in Rishikesh. Rishikesh is the main yoga town/center in Northern India. Every year thousands of yogis and wonna-be yogis from around the world come to Rishikesh to study yoga like with the Divine Life Society whose founding father is […]
Purpose of Life: The Path without Goals
A quick research for the term ‘purpose of life’ on Google revealed more than 8,580 million search results. A huge number of people are looking for their purpose in life and a huge number of advisers are available to help with this important question more and more people tend to ask themselves. I am one […]
Amazing Grace: Darshan by Enlightened Beings
It truly is amazing grace to have the darshan of an enlightened being. I just watched a short video of Mother Meera traveling from venue to venue and more venues in Germany. Seeing her travel from place to place I reflected. I thought, we are so blessed to have these enlightened beings live, sometimes under […]
Your life can’t change if you don’t change
Your life can’t change if you don’t change. We have to break the cycle of repetitive thoughts and actions, change our inside, in order to see a different result at the outside. If we think the same old unproductive and negative thoughts, how can there be change at the outside? We attract what we continuously […]
Desperate for Jesus – A Virtual Women’s Conference
Desperate for Jesus is the title of a virtual women’s conference I ran into online. Did I participate? No, but I had to laugh about the title. India is historically known to produce enlightened beings. Already thousands of years ago the master-disciple relationship existed to further the spiritual growth of a true seeker for enlightenment. […]
A Living Siddha – Toppi Amma
Toppi Amma means mother who wears a hat which she used to wear all the time. While living in Tiruvannamalai, I saw Toppi Amma walking the streets, on Girivalam Road around the Arunachala Mountain, and at Yogi Ramsuratkumar Ashram. She never talks to anyone but at times mumbles something. People say its some kind of […]
Can’t Go Out? Go In!
If for some reason you cannot go out, may it be due to the pandemic, some illness, or some other restriction, use your time wisely. The best way to use your time is to set up a meditation routine and go within. Let me help you to learn mindfulness and meditation practices that can change […]
Darshan with Siva Sakthi Ammayair – The Silent One
Whenever Amma is at her ashram I go and sit for 45 minutes for meditation in the morning. During this time Amma comes downstairs to the meditation hall which by then is often filled with up to 150+ meditators and devotees during the tourist season. Many line up outside the hall looking through the windows […]
Should a Coach break a Client’s Resistance to Open Up?
While working with one of my clients he suddenly got upset and said that as a coach I should break his resistance to open up or even to explore deeper. I was puzzled at first but then I intuitively decided against his suggestion. Here is why. Many times when I am at a loss I […]