I did a water fast. Yes, water only. The last one was five days. Before that was seven days, and before that was ten days. Each time significantly spaced apart. Why did I choose this? There was one goal in… Read More »CLARITY AND CALM WITH WATER FASTING
“You suffer because you believe feeling sad or anything of the sort means there’s something wrong with you.” This is what I heard within me after I had been chanting for several rounds. I labored with feeling what felt like… Read More »FROM SUFFERING TO SEEING
When you choose to transform yourself, your first commitment is then towards yourself. No matter what else is, you’re entirely responsible for tuning the instrument that you are. You consciously choose that you are your first priority. This will require… Read More »BENEFITS OF BEING
I didn’t pack a towel. I knew that doing so would mean that somehow, I partly committed myself to submerging my body in 40-something degree water with a fairly large amount of ice floating around its surface. Furthermore, there was… Read More »LESSONS FROM THE ICE
A fact of life: life includes conflict. Also a fact of life: You can choose to perceive the conflict as an opportunity instead; an opening for growth. Why is conflict part of how we experience life in the first place?… Read More »3 MOVES TO UNBIND YOURSELF FROM CONFLICT
From the moment of our birth into physical life, we begin learning from and about our physical reality. This is the person who feeds me, that is an object I am not allowed to touch, these are the words that… Read More »SELF-STUDY | A PATHWAY TO SELF
I was in India, pacing my room, sobbing and wondering why I was feeling intense grief. I had long been engaged in the process of healing myself. Yet here I was, in a foreign country with nothing or no one… Read More »SELF-INTIMACY | A PATHWAY TO SELF