Soul Expression

A brilliant question out of Asheville, NC: I understand that the energy we put into the world contributes either to peace or strife. I’m working on expressing only love and releasing judgment. But how do I express love/withhold judgment towards terrorists, murderers, and rapists? First of all, don’t be hard on yourself! You are learning to love, healing those parts of you that withhold love, and this is part of the human process. But understand that it is a process. So it’s okay to falter and fluctuate. And understand that you don't necessarily have to feel love towards these ones, but you can stop feeling hate. You can transform judgment into understanding.  That said, let us introduce a new way to look at those in your world considered awful or malicious. They are a divine spark, just as you are, just as Jesus was, just as Mother Theresa was. Everybody has the same divine thread running through them. With this knowledge it is easier to understand ...

M.A. from Charlotte, NC asks: Do people still hold grudges when they cross over? Following is the answer as it was explained to me by my spirit guides:  This is completely dependent on the vibrational space one is in when they leave the physical body. Assuming they cross over, as most souls do, then the energetic frequency of an emotion such as spite, or anger (those that would be associated with holding a grudge) isn’t in resonance with the vibrational plane they are in and would be released. However, if one leaves the body but does not immediately cross over, staying instead in the earth plane, where such vibrations are possible to experience, then yes, one can still feel “human” emotions like anger and spite. The space that a person goes to when they leave the body that is termed “heaven” or “the other side” resonates at a particular energetic frequency that is much different than that of the earth plane. It is because of this difference in vibrationa...

Recently I’ve been considering this whole ‘art of manifesting’ thing. Specifically, why it seems to work so well sometimes and other times, well, not so much. I realize there are other factors at play, such as divine timing, and the free will of others involved. But I was just feeling like I needed some clarity, a very brief refresher course on manifesting. So I sat down with pen in hand and asked my guides on the ‘other side’ to weigh in. Nothing too in depth, just some bare bones reminders on how this works. As we move into a new year, full of hope, full of promise, I thought what better time to get really clear on how to create the life we want as we look ahead into 2014. This is what my guides (always appreciated, thank you dudes!) had to say: “Manifesting” is a term that has become widely used and widely misunderstood. People tend to feel discouraged when they attempt to manifest things in their lives and to no avail. The notion of manifesting then quickly be...

             This has been a crazy week. People getting sick left and right. People are feeling depressed, sad, anxious, worried, fearful. If you are experiencing any of this, the good news is you're not alone! There are some big energy shifts taking place right now and we are all being affected, perhaps in not so joyous ways. It is such a doozy of a week that I decided to check in with my guides on the other side and see what was up. Below is their message. Take care of yourselves as we ride this one out!                            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~             The energetic shift taking place right now is a big one. It is quite the “shake up”. It is bringing to surface unresolved issues—deep seated insecurities, fears and beliefs. This is causing a heavy upheaval and purging of long held energies in the emoti...

I've been paying attention to something lately. I have become interested in this phenomenon where spiritual seekers consistently engage in the very behaviors they are claiming to denounce. I have discovered that, as ironic as it is, spirituality is quite often used as yet another mask of the ego. There seems to be a tendency along the spiritual path to feel a sense of spiritual superiority. A point where many, many books have been read, many hours have been spent in meditation or self reflection, many seminars and workshops have been attended and a level of understanding has been reached where one feels they know more than others. Where they feel they are "awake" while others remain "asleep". And in this feeling of being in a higher state of consciousness than others, all of the same old ego baggage shows up--judgment, criticism, feelings of superiority. It seems that the path to enlightenment can serve as yet another form of identification...

As my initial training to be a yoga instructor is coming to completion, it is natural I think to turn introspective on that journey. I sit and look back over the course of the past 10 months and marvel at how dramatically my thoughts, my feelings, my beliefs, and my paradigms have shifted. I laugh now, as I recall the me who entered into that very first training weekend of our teacher training program. That version of me had no intention of being a yoga teacher, no intention of learning Sanskrit, no intention of ever sporting a mala (similar to prayer beads). I in fact scoffed at such things. Learn Sanskrit? How arrogant! Nobody in my yoga classes will know Sanskrit so why would I speak it to them? Isn't that just showing off? Wear a mala--and jump on the "yogi bandwagon" since every yogi I know is sporting one? Seems like another form of being sheep to me! Such were my thoughts 10 short months ago as I entered my training program. The sole reason for even joinin...

Very little of yoga is actually about the asanas , or physical postures. The yoga poses are a very small fraction of the practice. The bulk of the yoga practice is in living the principles, or ethics, of yoga. Very simply put, this involves moving towards greater kindness, tolerance, and patience. It is a way of life in which we become supporters of loving kindness and become consciously aware of what we speak, how we treat others, and the way we live our lives. Yoga, in part, is learning and practicing compassion, contentment, non-violence, and merging with the One. So as a blossoming yogi, I had to ask myself (in light of the presidential election) how to approach politics from a yogic perspective. As we are rapidly approaching November 6 and the moment of truth (who’s it gonna be?!) I have turned introspective, not so much about the nature of our political arena but about our personal approach to it. I firmly believe that global change starts at the individual leve...