It’s only when we start to awaken the master within that we can step out of the nightmare we have been living in - that one that we scripted out of fear and a scarcity mind-set that keeps us focused only on “me and mine” in the here and now. 

One of the biggest obstacles to our spiritual path is our ego. Typically, anything that might promote change is immediately and effectively beaten back by the ego until it no longer exists. 

Whatever you have on repeat becomes  your reality - what you look at every day, your thoughts, what you read, what you listen to, talk about and tell yourself.  It’s a sort of “repetition reality".” It’s also why repeating affirmations is so effective and why looking at a vision board over and over again is […]

The best way to begin to develop loving-kindness and compassion is to develop an open heart.

If we meditate regularly and we do not take care to pull out the weeds on a regular basis that are rampant in the garden of our minds, the spiritual seeds we are attempting to plant won’t likely thrive. 

Since we were very young, we’ve been taught to want to achieve fortune, fame, recognition and all of the material riches that might go along with it. But that path doesn't bring lasting fulfillment.

If meditation becomes something we think we have to DO, we are missing the point of meditation all together. Use your life as your practice.

When we meditate, what we are practicing is learning how to remain in a permanent state of consciousness. We’re trying to break our old patterns of running from the present moment or being hijacked by our thinking mind. 

I recently returned from a life-altering trip to Europe which included a week-long retreat with spiritual leader Eckhart Tolle. I’ve been a student of Eckhart Tolle’s for about a decade now and he, as well as meditation experts, has been the primary reason I now teach meditation and marry my meditation teaching and guidance with […]

Within the Japanese Buddhist community, this week marks a special Zen Buddhist celebration across Japan called Obon.