Past lives offer a unique perspective on our current experiences, enhancing our intuition and shedding light on the challenges we face. Here’s a concise exploration of their significance and how to connect with them.

The Essence of Past Lives

Past lives aren’t linear but exist simultaneously, offering different facets of our soul's journey. While reincarnation suggests a sequence of lives, in reality, all past lives occur at once, transcending earthly concepts of time. This understanding reveals the interconnectedness of our experiences across different lifetimes.

Time and the Higher Self

On Earth, we experience time as linear, but our higher self perceives it differently. Imagine your higher self as a ball of light, with a part of it incarnating into various lifetimes. From this higher perspective, an entire lifetime happens instantaneously, which explains why certain emotions or experiences resonate deeply with us, even if unfamiliar in our current life.

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Finding Inner Bliss

Many people ask me how the can begin finding inner bliss. They want to know how to get closer to touching that “bliss” that so many gurus speak of. My answer is simple, look inside yourself. Bliss is generated from within. It is a heightened sensation of eternity and perfection. This is achievable. This is a possibility. However, how you approach finding it is strategic.

A game plan is good. Occasionally one will stumble across this moment of bliss and be pleasantly surprised by it. But more often than not there is some work needed to reach it. There is inner “junk” covering it up. Baggage and stress blocking it. Personally, my “bliss” reduces dramatically when I am over-worked, over-stressed and over-worried. So, the game plan is to chip away at this “junk” bit by bit until you are lighter. With less mental clutter it is easier to go deeper within yourself, further into your soul. And it is at the core of your soul...

Don’t Drink the Poison

Don't drink the poison. Check!

“Not forgiving someone is like drinking the poison and waiting for them to die.” A friend of mine mentioned this to me the other day. I’ve heard it before and absolutely agree! However, it can be difficult to let go of grudges. People advise you to forgive, or just let it go, but you still struggle.

We want other people to change, other people to make things right. We want them to do what we want them to do. But we cannot change them. Moreover, we can only change ourselves. You can scream at the car in front of you to move over, but the driver won’t budge. Would you prefer to stay behind that driver and hold onto your anger? Or would you prefer to go around the car and continue on your path, stress free? Or perhaps you are fine behind that driver and decide that it’s not a race. In the end, you don’t need them to go faster.

This is About You

This is all about you, not them. Your reaction...

Deciding to Be Human

There is a balance between deciding to be human and deciding to be spiritual. So much emphasis is put on following a spiritual path that sometimes a person can go overboard. I’m not talking about those over dramatic, hamming it up, spiritualists that put on a good show. I’m talking about going so deeply into the spiritual realms that we lose our connection to the human world.

Day after day of spiritual connection, ignoring your human side, can lead to detachment. While this is a goal of some, it comes at a price. I hear people speak of detachment and all the benefits of it, and I agree. However, there is a line that can be crossed where we lose the want and desire for human connection, emotion and adventure.

My Dog Was Dying

When my dog was dying I had a choice. I could tap into my intuition, check to see what was going to happen to her and then settle in to the comfort that if she dies it was meant to be. “Everything happens for a...

Making Choices

Following in someone’s footsteps is not a requirement, it’s a matter of making choices. To clarify, many of us unconsciously make the choice. We allow status quo, habits and cultural requirements to push us forward. For example, we listened to the teacher in grade school and we obeyed our parents when we were children. These patterns, many of which are necessary in our society, can turn into adult habits. Later in life we fall easily into staying at job we hate, letting a mean friend control us, or even continuing in a negative relationship we know is bad for us. Thus we follow in the footsteps of the people who came before us, letting our lives ride down the same road.

Take a Step Back

If possible, take a step back from these situations. Take an even bigger step back from the idea that you have no choice. The pattern in your mind, telling you that you are stuck and that this is just how it has to be, is a pattern that can be changed. For some people,...

Stress is Solvable in the Moment, Not in the Future

Above all please know that stress is solvable. At some point in your life you will feel overwhelmed, lost, and perhaps you will feel confused. When this happens, I tell people to start looking for solutions, to problem solve. And while this is helpful most of the time, occasionally it is best to not look for solutions. Sometimes it’s best to look for emptiness.

What Does it Mean to Be Overwhelmed?

Think of what being overwhelmed really is. It’s your mind focusing on all aspects of your life - past, present and future, all at the same time. Overwhelmed is a state of being, not a reality. It is a mental experience, but not a real experience. Thus, before you start overwhelming yourself with even more thoughts on how to fix the situation, perhaps it is best to step out of the situation. Breathe and notice that the world, and yourself, are perfect in this exact moment.

An amazing friend once introduced me to the idea that...

When the Future Doesn't Look So Bright

Everyone can recall a moment in their life where they felt the future doesn't look so bright. The crushing moment when you think the road ahead will be just as bleak as it is right now. That moment when you decide it won’t get better. We have all been there, if even for just a moment and in those moments there is despair.

Be in the Feelings

A wise man once told me it’s okay to have those feelings. It’s okay to be in them for the moment you are in them. But it’s not okay to live in them. I hold those words dear to my heart as they have helped me through a tremendous amount of turbulence in life. Those words have allowed me to have my disparaging moments, to explore them to their depths. Then to pick myself back up again to keep moving forward.

It’s those words that have made the moments of despair shorter and more navigable. They have given me the right to feel the lows so strongly that the highs have become...