Podcast: Dr. E. Elisabet Lahti, The Unsung Beauty of Ordinary Enlightenment

As we grow older, how can our spirituality and inner power also grow? Dr. E. Elisabet Lahti ...

Being Free From Delusion

What is "inner sobriety," and how can it help free us from self-delusion? Rabbi Rami Shapiro ...

Struggling to Relax? Try Softening Instead

Does a yoga instructor’s cue of “just relax” cause you to tense up even more? Experiment with ...

Using Awareness to Create a Meaningful Life

“What we need to realize is that this sense of meaninglessness does not come from our lives but ...

Mindfulness and Me: A Confession of Failure

Like any form of meditation, mindfulness meditation training can be a different experience for ...

Why It Never Rains on the Enlightened

Roshi Steve Hagen, a Zen priest and author of The Grand Delusion, sat down with Rabbi Rami ...

The Many Definitions of Hope

How do we find hope in dark times? After his recent conversation with Rev. Wendy Van Allen for ...

Dr. Michael Amster Explains the Power of Awe

A chronic pain specialist and meditation teacher shows us how to simplify mindfulness and ...

How To Be Weird: 2 Tips To Beat Monotony

Use these two spiritual and practical tips to embrace the strangeness of life.

Just Be: How Doing Nothing Sparks Creativity

“In terms of achievement, relaxing and ‘doing nothing’ can be extremely beneficial for nurturing ...

Replace Worry With Wonder

If we dig deep, we can unearth wonder(ful) ways to survive and even thrive through this ...

poem: CONFETTI

"to turn the world inside out, this / delicate force that sometimes hugs / itself so tightly, ...

Waking Up the Spine

Whether or not you live with back pain, chances are that there are times your back is speaking ...

Dr. Daniel Siegel's Wheel of Awareness

One of the leading experts in the human mind Dr. Daniel Siegel talks to Rabbi Rami.

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