Have you ever thought about being more aware of what you eat? If you’ve ever tried a diet or fasted, then you for sure have. If you get sugar highs and lows, then you know how easy it is to measure the effect of food on your body after you consume it. If you knew
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Author: Ritu
Ritu is an Atma Kriya Yoga and meditation teacher. A long time blogger and writer, she writes about personal development, spirituality, and meditation.
How to live a life that is guided by the Universe
You want to follow the signs of the universe and you want to live a life that is Divinely guided. But where do you start? In this video, I share a 5 step process that will help you to live a life that is guided by the Universe. I call this the A.L.T.A.R. process, which
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An Interview with Swami Paranthapananda Spirituality
In 2014, when I was marooned on the great island of Australia, I needed some help. I was alone and cut off from my spiritual family, from Bhakti Marga, as at that time, there were no other devotees of Paramahamsa Vishwananda there. It is an understatement to say that I was in rough shape. During
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How commitment makes you stronger
My friend Abida, the founder of Rah Inc. and one of the fabulous 2015 queens that I interviewed last year, came by my place the other night. We had a long chat about life, our work, dreams and goals over dinner. One of the topics of conversation was commitment. As you know from my about
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A simple explanation of our relationship with God, by Paramahamsa Vishwananda
The fully realized Master, Paramahamsa Vishwananda, who is my Guru, Tweeted this today: Sitting and observing how this world is going makes me think that all in this mundane world, together with its illusive relationships and having this body, which is prone to death and diseases, people have forgotten what is true love and true
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Your spiritual duty in the 2016 US presidential elections
I’ve been caught up in the storm of the US presidential elections. The high-energy speeches are motivating, inspiring and subliminally convincing on so many levels. I hope that this election is inspiring a sense of responsibility within you because it is within me and I’m not even American. I can’t vote. My favorite thing about this
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Being a Humble Student
In order to be a good student, you have to be humble enough to be willing to teach what you are learning. Yes, it’s scary to put yourself in the spotlight and give everybody a chance to see what you do and don’t know. It is important because without teaching you may not truly learn.
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Being a humble teacher
Some of us who try to teach from our hearts only, we tend to look down on someone who doesn’t “feel” the love or the teachings in the same way as us. This is not compassion or kindness at all. The better way is for us to try and change our way of teaching or
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How to say sorry and ask for forgiveness
Everyone makes mistakes. I am not immune to that. Some mistakes sting you the most though, and that’s because these are the mistakes where you hurt the ones closest to you. I made such a mistake today. I hurt the feelings of a dear friend. The worst thing is that I only realized how horrible
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What is freedom anyway?
Something happened to me recently that has got me thinking a lot about true freedom. True freedom is acceptance of life and taking it for what it is. I had no idea that acceptance is directly connected to freedom as well, but it is. I’m not talking about being free to speak your mind or
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