Connecting with the soul: Sacred Space
When you feel good, are in the moment and are creating your life as you want it, you're in sacred space. Joseph Campbell defines sacred space as any place where…
Chakras: Lower Triangle Vs. Upper Triangle
This is not at all like east coast rappers vs. west coast rappers, to be clear.
The first three chakras are often referred to as ‘the lower triangle.’ The heart is the fourth chakra where everything ‘bends’ as it were. Then there are the upper three chakras, often referred to as ‘the upper triangle.’
Chakras have basic archetypes:
- Survival
- Creativity & Sexuality
- Will power – Core directive power
- The heart – Compassion & Love
- The Power of spoken word – Throat
- Intuition & Wisdom – Third eye
- Humility & Divinity – Crown
- The Aura – Radiance of the True personality
The lower three correspond to earthly issues: Survival, creativity, and will power. (more…)
On Depression, on dancer, prancer, vixen
I don't know about that title. It just seemed a little too heavy leaving it at "On Depression." Anyway... Depression is a feeling of hopelessness created by lack of movement…
All yoga is…
All yoga is designed to raise the kundalini energy. What's that saying, "All rivers lead to the ocean?" Yoga gives you an activity, which stops the mind and allows your…
The Long Time Sun
Thought while meditating this morning: The sun shines on us all equally. It warms us equally. It casts our shadows equally. We should light upon all we meet like the…
Service: The Selfless Vaccum?
So I was re-reading some of these posts and I realized they’re really long and quite a bit heavy. Not to mention they’re two months old. (I can mention it, you probably shouldn’t) So I thought I would put some things down in more raw form as they come to me. For example, this morning during Sadhana-meditation some stuff occurred to me. Yogi Bhajan saying (and I can’t reference the quote directly but…) basically when you serve others, The Creator serves you. I understood it as it came to me in meditation, but explaining what I think it is, is a whole other thing. (more…)
Can A Human Be Greater than God?
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? —Woody Allen,
The soul comes through the human to experience duality, the world of good and evil, opposites. If God is so great, how can there be so much suffering?
One of my yoga teachers was telling a story about someone in their family who, while meditating went to the place beyond time and space where souls decide to come into this life. She related that these souls are fighting for a chance at human life. Being human is so great that souls fight to come here to earth and angels are jealous of humans because of all they are able to experience. Yet, when we get here, each of us suffers. That makes no sense. Life is cloaked in suffering. Out in the world of duality, the world of opposites, we bounce between good and evil and we suffer. Why on earth would a soul want to come into that? Perhaps it is to become more powerful than God. (more…)
The Paradox of Worship
When you worship, when you bow, you’re bowing to your own soul potential within. This is why idols and graven images are so dangerous. The ego wants to classify and…
The Paradox Of The Common Soul
A Word About The Common Soul We live in a dual world. Everywhere you look outside there are opposites and polarity. Up and down, hot and cold, in and out,…