How to Practice Gratitude Meditation When Everything Goes Wrong

Gratitude meditation is a different form of utilizing mindfulness. It’s about being thankful in so many ways for so many things in life. Before you can ever understand how to practice this form of meditation, you must first appreciate gratitude itself. Gratitude, in a nutshell, is thankfulness, but in the…

How to Use Carl Jung’s Active Imagination Technique to Find Answers Within

Anyone familiar with lucid dreaming knows the power of control in a dream. But what if you could simply pluck a person from your dreams and talk to them while you are awake? What questions would you ask? Could their answers help to make us better people? It might seem…

5 Proven Ways Mindfulness Will Strengthen Your Mental Health

What Is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is your ability to bring awareness to experiences, feelings, and emotions. Buddhists believed that through prayer or mediation, you can shift your thoughts away from distraction and into an intention. The mind has on average 3,000 thoughts per minute. A Harvard study claims that the average…

The Cult of Spiritual Materialism: Have You Become Its Victim?

Spiritualism is growing in popularity as we seek more answers and comfort in these trying times. Unfortunately, not everyone is following the spiritual path for the right reasons, or in a genuine way. There is no correct way to practice your spiritualism, but there are certainly incorrect ways. Spiritual materialism…

The Five Buddha Families and How They Can Help You Understand Yourself

The Five Buddha Families are a vital principle in Buddhist philosophy. Buddhism is primarily concerned with reaching a state of Enlightenment, wholly separated from the individualistic and earth-bound tendencies of the Ego. Through the purging of ego-based beliefs and emotions, we grow to inhabit a space of Connection and Oneness…