In some philosophical and spiritual traditions, such as Buddhism and Hinduism, external reality is somehow a manifestation or reflection of the internal reality or consciousness.

But what really is consciousness?

In simple terms, according to what neuroscience understands, consciousness arises from the brain’s consistent neural activity, which involves integrating information from our daily experiences. These processes underlie our ability to make decisions and experience emotions. 

However, ...

When we come into the world, we don’t have many options from which to choose our reality. Our consciousness simply lands within our mother’s womb, and we’re immediately bombarded by the different emotions our mother experiences, by all the sounds we perceive through the placenta water that can feel welcoming or unwelcoming, and by who knows what else makes up the mix of what we experience from our perception as newly arrived human beings into this world. Then suddenly we’re expelled from the coz...

In previous blogs, we talked about how crystals work in our body and mind and in ancient sites. But what makes these earthly transparent objects such essential pieces in our living and evolving mechanisms and in healing?

Having had the direct experience of working for more than twenty years with crystals, personally and in my one-on-one practice—having experienced and witnessed the aftereffects they’ve had on me and on my clients—I can tell you that crystals are powerful tools that can help ...

“You are a link in a chain of causation that stretches before and after your life for thousands of generations.”

—Rev. Chris Michaels, founding minister of the Center for Spiritual Living

Maybe you’re not aware, but your behaviors have an origin—one you may never think of. It’s not necessarily genetic, as you may believe. Rather, the origin is within your mind, passed down through many generations.

What we see as our daily behaviors, reactions, preferences, and rejections might mirror b...

Have you ever met a person and just felt that you did not like her or him or did not feel at ease near her or him? What about the opposite? Have you met someone who you instantly felt happy and at peace being around?

That is resonance!

Resonance attracts similar things and repels dissimilar things. So we go through life attracting and repelling people, beliefs, and situations.

If through resonance we attract what is similar, this means that we can attract to ourselves what we think a...

Are you struggling because you split from your partner or because you’re thinking about doing so? Is a recent or past divorce causing you to feel unworthy or incapable of moving forward, uncertain about your future, or simply trapped in the pain of your loss? Whatever the stage or whatever the reason, when a chosen life partner is no longer that person in our lives, suffering is almost inevitably part of the equation. But as strange as it may seem, these painful situations can also become the pa...

In some way or another, we have all been there, although some of us have chosen to deny it or disguise it. For some, it may feel like a sense of emptiness or uneasiness, like being unmotivated, unhappy, and struggling to find personal fulfillment in life. For others, it bears the weight of a life crisis, filled with sadness and suffering.

And no matter what we do, the feeling does not seem to go away.

We ask ourselves, Why am I feeling this way?

Although we may find it hard to imagin...