A meditation practice is the most important habit you can have. Hands down. The reason why meditation is so essential is that it’s the foundation from which everything else in your life is built upon. If you care about your well-being, meditation should be as embedded in your daily routine Read more…
The human brain is the most complex piece of hardware in the known universe. It’s an immensely powerful tool. The brain is also the device through which we decode and perceive reality. So to say that it’s important to optimize brain function is a severe understatement. I think we can Read more…
Floatation tanks (aka float tanks, isolation tanks or sensory deprivation tanks) are lightless, mostly soundproof tanks filled with Epsom salt and water at skin temperature, which makes you float on the surface of the water. In this setting, you experience little to no external stimuli and are able to relax Read more…
Note: This is the same general practice as the Coffee Mindfulness Meditation, but with some slight variations. Are you living your life consciously or through unconscious patterns? Are you mind-full or mindful? If you’re mind-full (lost in thought), you’re living life on auto-pilot, unconsciously reacting to everything that comes your Read more…
Mindfulness is the very most important state to be in. Literally everything else in life is hinged upon mindfulness (or lack thereof). When you’re mindful, you’re fully immersed in what you’re doing, completely present and conscious of your own state of being. This not only allows you to more fully Read more…
A Prelude to Nothingness “Only nothingness can be infinite; somethingness is bound to be finite. Only out of nothingness is an infinite expanse of life, existence, possible – not out of somethingness. God is not somebody: He is nobody or, more correctly, nobodiness. God is not something: he is nothing Read more…
If you don’t love yourself, then how are you going to love someone else? If you’re not empowered, then how are you going to empower others? If you don’t grow an inherent capacity to give from, then how can you consistently give? In order to serve, you must first be Read more…
Note: This is a guest post by Katie Kapro. Some of my closest – and most spiritually badass – friends are independent counselors. It’s a career that attracts sensitive, resilient, and altruistic souls. It asks a lot of them. And it gives them the opportunity to give back to their Read more…