Finding your calm is easier said than done when everything feels all over the place. When you seek peace, calm is what you need. Without calm, there’s only chaos. Everything seems out of control. There are two types of people. One who wakes up peaceful and feeling calm. Over time, they lose that peace and...
Financial Freedom will not bring you Personal Freedom. The greatest freedom of all is personal freedom. Money gives you options, but not complete. Walking away from a bad relationship, a work situation, or where you live brings you respite for a while. To truly feel free in your bones and blood, you must work on...
As a working mother, daughter, sister, and friend, I am an unlabelled caregiver. I love to take care of those around me, honor them, and make their time with me pleasant and rewarding. Now. if you think about it, wouldn’t you want that for yourself as well? So, do unto others what you want to...
How to balance your feast and famine during Mercury Retrograde? Mercury Retrograde is a term for those who dabble with on the surface to start blaming nearly everything on this phenomenon called Mercury going retrograde. I will not get into mercury retrograde because it has an astrological significance as it’s a perception. It’s not an...
How to stay true to the promise your soul made before you were conceived? Life is wild. Sometimes it’s the wild desert, or the wild forest, swamps, mountains, or urban dwellings, nevertheless wild. No matter how the landscape shows up during the day, at night when you look up at the sky, it’s the same...
The position the Moon was in the sky at the time you were born has a lasting effect on your mood and personality, as it determines your Moon sign. For the skeptics out here, you might have heard that the tides are highest during a New or Full Moon. Scientifically speaking, like the Earth's surface...
The truth is, no one likes to be told what to do. One of my teachers used to say “don’t advise unless someone asks you for it.” To enjoy and thrive in any relationship, unless you are a project leader or a parent, do you really need to tell others what to do? Children surely...
Growing up in India in a non-religious household, I assumed that everyone did yoga and meditation every morning. My dad would do his yoga and prānāyāma (yogic breath work) followed by a few minutes of meditation. My brother and I still follow this childhood habit half a century later. To us, yoga and meditation are like...
When I see promotions and ads for spiritual retreats that claim to help you find yourself, I wonder — with all the love and humility within me — how I can find myself by going somewhere else. I am right here, already within. Well-meaning event organizers entice you with a promise to help you center yourself. To which I...
Most people seek happiness. Yet there comes a time when you want to transcend happiness and seek inner peace. Happiness is like ice cream. It comes in many flavors — joy, contentment, euphoria are a few that come to mind. And while happiness is great, what you truly seek is peace. You want peace at...