Your Karmic A1c

"Your Karmic A1c" is a light comparative metaphor for accumulated patterns over time revealing unintentional habits and their outcomes. Just as the A1c test measures the accumulative average of your blood glucose levels over a few months, your karmic accountability can also be observed in actions over time. Call it your Karmic A1c. A1c or hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) is a popular in-office blood test to monitor your blood sugar usually over three months. Widely used to detect possible diabetic trends, it's not about what you ate yesterday, but the cumulative effect of your glucose control. This medical framework is useful because it [Read More]

2026-04-19T17:53:05+00:00April 10th, 2026|Healing, Mindfulness, Philosophy, Well Being|
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Lessons in the Language of Energy

The proverbial underpinnings of an Eastern saying like, “When the student is ready the teacher appears,” suggests a catalyst for change. A beckoning of sorts to finally act on something not entirely potentiated. As a student of yoga, the rich ontological practice and philosophy of the Yoga Sutras has been my introspective springboard if not a neurological adventure I’ve yet to fully comprehend. So when an opportunity avails, guidance is appreciated. I keep my finger on pulse of such things because as a teacher in my own right, I have a responsibility for the sake of reporting. From getting on my mat [Read More]

2025-10-10T06:02:54+00:00July 17th, 2024|Mindfulness, Philosophy|
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Find Wholeness by Intensionally Welcoming Opposites

Life, the beautiful dichotomy. No matter where you are, who you’re with or what you experience, there is a simple inner resource to help cope with the changing nature of reality. Taking the time to explore the opposite of what we’re feeling can be the difference between obsessing and the restoration of ease and grace. Divisiveness is unnerving. Hostility, within ourselves and between others has its costs. The price we pay is with our health and well-being. Sensing that pulse within us, we are sometimes caught by those feelings, emotions and thoughts. The mind can paint our inner landscapes with the contentment of [Read More]

2023-08-05T03:24:45+00:00August 1st, 2023|Mindfulness|
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Coming Home to Yourself: How to Walk the Path of Your True Nature

Life is a process of change. The human spirit has a natural inclination for growth and renewal while the mind has a tendency to resist. The mystery of what life presents and what one is to become seems threatening at times, driving us further away from who we actually are. Conscious awareness, intension and engagement are paths to get back on track and home to our true nature. Pathways to Transformation Marilyn Schlitz, PhD, vice president of research and education at the Institute of Noetic Sciences states in her book, Living Deeply, “Where there is resistance there is stress and disease.” Not [Read More]

2023-08-05T03:21:36+00:00July 28th, 2023|Healing, Mindfulness, Yoga Philosophy|
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Bhagdavad Gita’s Call to Action at a Glance

As part of a larger work, the Bhagavad Gita is known as one of the epic Hindu texts widely popular in yoga philosophy. Written about two thousand years ago, its essential theme of body, mind, and spirit awareness is a narrative between Arjuna and the avatar, Krishna. Their dialogue weaves a profound tapestry of poetic wisdom covering a deep enigmatic swath of the worldly and spiritual. However, the Bhagavad Gita can also can be seen in its simplicity at a glance. Training the senses, following one’s right path, and the soul’s purpose is the subject of many paintings depicting “Krishna’s Chariot.” Galvanizing [Read More]

2023-03-14T20:43:56+00:00February 12th, 2023|Mindfulness, Philosophy|
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Use the Eight Limbs of Yoga Inside and Out

From the inside out, The Eight Limbs of Yoga can be a useful tool for meditation as well as thoughtful daily reminders. As the winter approaches, so do the pressures of the holidays. Compounded by seasonal affect disorder, life’s complexities can dim the joy of merriment; however, there is good news. The Eight Limbs of Yoga offers a two-fold solution to the blues by balancing moods while managing our interactions in the cold months that lie ahead. Written by the sage, Patanjali, sometime between 200 BCE to 200 CE, Yoga’s Eight Limbs is an important section in the first of his four [Read More]

2022-01-16T22:59:55+00:00November 16th, 2021|Mindfulness, Well Being, yoga, Yoga Philosophy|
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Into the Lotus Wilderness: Traveling Light

In yoga, we learn to relax and calm the mind to feel the essence of our true nature. This peaceful liberated state may also occur spontaneously, just by communing with nature and connecting with its live elegance. Both can inspire an awakening, but how do we make it last? Venturing into the lotus wilderness with the Yamas and Niyamas reveals more about living in our true nature. Buddhist philosopher, Shinzin Young, calls the presence of our true nature an unobstructed clarity and equanimity. It’s easy to loose touch with it when physical, emotional and mental stresses become our compass. How do we [Read More]

2022-01-16T22:43:03+00:00September 10th, 2021|Mindfulness, Philosophy|
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Unmasking Social Intelligence

The study of social intelligence tells us we are empaths, all of us. Our brains are biologically wired to sense the experiences and feelings of others. Daniel Goldman’s book, Social Intelligence, The Revolutionary New Science of Human Relationships, uncovers how this empathetic link helps us to understand someone through a sense of feeling. New discoveries prove just how much relationships shape us and the significance of mindfulness. Because the pattern of another’s micro expressions can literally nurture us or poison us with bad feelings and poor health, masking is really quite revealing. Traveling in the covid-19 crisis, I saw some people not masked-up. The journey [Read More]

2020-08-02T00:14:11+00:00July 11th, 2020|Mindfulness|
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Rewire the Brain for Happiness

Happy New Year! In the advent of the new year we wish each other a “Happy New Year.” We want others to be happy, but what about ourselves? Recently, I saw the funniest episode on the PBS hit series, Doc Martin. The hilariously negative, insensitive bad mannered doctor asks the proverbial and exhausting question, “why does everyone need to be happy?” Of course, if he could answer that question and stop spoiling all the smiles waiting to spread around him, there would be no show. Happily, those in the field of neuroscience have discovered simple ways to elicit happiness. Even for someone [Read More]

2020-07-13T05:30:05+00:00December 31st, 2018|Mindfulness|
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Connecting with the Universe

Connect by Letting Go In holistic environs the idea of “connectedness” is no stranger. Likewise, the concept seems familiar because it drifts across a myriad of philosophical texts and often conjured by our yoga teachers as they say, feel a sense of connectedness with We are encouraged to “become one with the universe” because separateness is an illusion and a source of suffering. Great. How do you do that and what exactly does it all mean? Fundamentally, the impression of being “one” with everything seems impossible or subjective at best. In a culture driven by individualism and competition, it contradicts our modus [Read More]

2020-07-13T06:45:31+00:00July 22nd, 2012|Mindfulness|
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