How to Take Care of Yourself During the Dark Night of the Soul
Are you in the dark night of the soul? Learn how to take care of yourself so you can fully integrate the lessons of your experience and emerge with greater peace and wisdom.
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Turning Poison into Medicine—the Buddhist Way
Buddhism offers both ancient and modern solutions for turning life’s challenges into great blessings.
The Spiritual Meaning of the Eight of Swords Tarot Card
The Eight of Swords may look like a challenging tarot card, but it offers us a way out of our current distress. Learn more about the spiritual meaning of the Eight of Swords tarot card.
5 Quick Ways to Manage Big Emotions
Overwhelming emotions are common but often feel insurmountable. Try these five techniques to ground yourself and unwind.
Experience Emotional Healing Through Chanting the Psalms
Chanting the Psalms, regardless of your own spiritual tradition, can offer deep healing for the subtle body. Learn more about the history of this practice and how to incorporate the Psalms into your life.
The True Cost of Bottling Up Your Anger
Anger itself is not an evil emotion, but when it’s bottled up, it can cause severe distress and disease. A holistic perspective on rage can help you balance your emotional scales.
Bless Me!
Place one hand on your heart and one hand on your lower abdomen. Focus on soft, fluid, and nourishing breaths. When you feel calm, read this blessing at least three times to yourself. Author Mara Branscombe suggests you return to this blessing as needed—or write your own blessing as if your inner elder is writing it for you and to you.
Spiritual Betrayal: When Spirit Lets You Down
Ever felt let down by the divine? Spiritual betrayal doesn’t mean we’re not spiritual anymore; it simply means it’s time to reframe our perspective of actions and karma.
Healing the Worry Habit
The "worry habit" can be inherited, but it can also be transformed. Explore one life coach and medium's methods for un-learning fear, and enjoy a short calming meditation.
A Goddess Ritual to Release and Manage Anger
Feeling overwhelmed by anger and challenged by vexing people and situations? Call upon the Hawaiian goddess Pele to help you honor your emotions.
Letting Go of Anger—the Buddhist Way
Discover six practices rooted in Buddhist teaching that can dissipate anger.
Yin Yoga to Cool Anger, Frustration, and Jealousy
Try this yin yoga sequence to cool down hot emotions before reacting impulsively. Then respond mindfully to life events.
Stories That Connect
“We are united in the emotions that drive us into the beliefs that divide us.”
Seeing Is Empathy
Mixed-media artist Morgan Harper Nichols explores how art can lead to empathy.
Do You Need an Emotional Detox? Five Signs and Their Symptoms
Are you suffering from these emotional detox symptoms? It may be time to make a change.
How to Release Emotional Blocks With Color
Use a color therapy exercise to release pent-up and unhelpful emotions.
The Language of Energetics
The goal of energetic herbalism is to enhance our terrain, which is our inner landscape, and to be in the flow.
Podcast: Neal Allen, Discover God Inside You
Author of Shapes of Truth, Neal Allen, discusses the 35 qualities of God that each human has within them.
What Would Spirituality Look Like if We Could Live Forever?
Thanatology focuses on life extension, but what role would religion play in our lives if we no longer feared death?
5 Vibrational Healing Methods for Chronic Pain and Body Aches
Vibrational healing isn’t new, but it has recently become more mainstream.
Nature’s Image for the Universal Oneness of Humanity
If we’re all one interconnected humanity, what’s our common root system? Do we exist in a state of universal oneness?
Music Review: We Are
We Are is the powerful new album from pianist/singer Jon Batiste, his first full-length studio album since Hollywood Africans in 2018. These 13 songs optimistically celebra…Tags:
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Spiritual Meaning of Pain in the Upper-Middle Back
To uncover the spiritual meaning of pain in the upper-middle back, ask if you’re getting enough support in the back of your heart.
Holding Difficult Emotions on Mother’s Day: A Ritual
Some have a simple and loving relationship with their mom. For others, Mother’s Day can be a day where we pull out our complex feelings about mothering and unpack them a little bit.
Tune Into Your Major Chakra to Design Your Optimal Sacred Space
Create a sacred space in your home. First find your major chakra, then discover the aesthetic that fits that chakra’s energy.
Podcast: Kevin Anderson, PhD on Using Nested Meditations as a Powerful Tool
The creator of the nested meditation form shares how to use playful language to release heavy emotions.
Become a Soul Nerd
(Re)learn to read deeply. The mental stillness required for a long read allows your mind to formulate a moral position. This kind of bibliotherapy provides a healing place for the soul.
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Podcast: Author Sarah Wilson on Reclaiming Your One Wild and Precious Life
Individualism and capitalism are simply not working. Author Sarah Wilson talks about the challenges we face as humans, such as climate change and racial injustice, and proposes healthier systems to heal a fractured world.
Releasing Trapped Emotions
Creative self-expression through movement and dance can help to release trapped emotions that have become lodged in the body.
Your Prescription: Look at Art
“Meditation on the 16th century Isenheim Altarpiece was prescribed to the sick. ... Could art still accomplish a miracle of comfort and consolation today ... and remind people of their mortality while also mitigating fear ... and instilling hope? ... Maybe it’s time to bring this practice of the past into the present—as a way to move into the future.”
Lovingly Managing Weight Fluctuations
Writer Julie Peters talks about a past eating disorder, how she overcomes feelings of food obsession, and how she frees herself from internal oppression.
Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma
“Over time, feeding and caring for my being this way, along with nourishing other diverse aspects of my life, built my fortitude to transform family meals into a time of warmth and care, ending a legacy of trauma and neglect.”
Poem: A Ream of Paper
“It may be that poetry’s work is preparatory, like the work of the earthworms in garden soil.”
The Alchemy of the Heart: Witnessing Grief
When we allow pain in fully (and then release it fully), the heart can transform pain into gold.
Meditation for Emotional Healing: Transformative Fire
This guided meditation allows the listener to release unwanted emotions.
Soul Talk with Sera Beak
Author Sera Beak talks to Rami about soul loss and her latest book.
Medication Meditation Part 3: Energizing for Lethargy, Sluggishness, or Emotional Blockage
Get a boost of energy with this Ayurveda inspired audio meditation.
3 Ways to Create Healing in the Body
Simple yet effective ways to keep your energy flowing.
Seeing from the Soul's Perspective
Explore a new relationship with reality by shifting consciousness from the personality/ego to the soul.
Connecting to Authenticity with Anna Yusim, MD
Host Rabbi Rami talks with Anna Yusim, MD about what a soul means to her, tapping into authenticity, and her book Fulfilled: How the Science of Spirituality Can Help you Live a Hap…
8 Ways To Decipher Between Your Altered Ego State And Your Soul
The altered ego is not to be shunned or rejected. It is to be understood, loved and brought into a higher frequency alignment with the soul.
Our Walk in the World: Original Steps
The life of a community depends on how we care for the ground we stand on and how we step lightly, walking side by side.
Holding Trauma With Love
For someone who has experienced trauma, the present moment may feel like the most dangerous place in the world.
Music Review: Freedom Highway
Freedom HighwayRhiannon GiddensNonesuch RecordsFreedom Highway is the new album of soulful Southern tunes by Rhiannon Giddens, who previously won a Grammy Award as a member of the …
Five Science-Backed Strategies to Build Resilience
When the road gets rocky, what do you do?
The Peace Process
Learn to embrace your emotions and heal your past with this powerful technique from The Freemind Experience by Tom Fortes Mayer.
Care of the Soul: The Spiritual Imagination
What is the role of imagination in matters of ultimate concern? This is one of the top issues in the spiritual life and certainly in religion: many religious and even spiritual peo…
The Unexpected Gifts of Pain
Excerpted from The Way of Rest by Jeff Foster
Does Spontaneous Crying Mean I’m an Empath?
Does it ever seem like you’re crying for no reason? Spontaneous crying may be a signal that you're an empath.
Getting to Know Our Anger by Connecting with Our Bodies
Excerpted from Detox Your Heart
3 Ways to Practice Self-Compassion
Self-compassion can make a person feel more energetic, alive, and optimistic.
Do Animals Have More Soul Than We Do?
Not only do animals live, they have lives—with “undiluted purity and clarity…”
Using Ayurvedic Mudras for Energy, Relaxation, and Focus
Explore the five movements of prana with simple hand gestures.
The Week I Burned My Ego
A life-changing adventure on what’s called Path of Love
16 Grief Affirmations for Coping With Loss
The universal experience of loss brings with it a deep sadness. May these affirmations for grief bring you a moment of peace during a tumultuous time.
Breathing Through Grief to Joy
A yoga teacher trainee experiences Max Strom’s breath work
Book Review: Emotional Rescue
Emotional RescueHow to Work with Your Emotions to Transform Hurt and Confusion into Energy that Empowers YouBy Dzogchen Ponlop RinpocheTARCHER/PENGUIN“Emotions get their power from…
Care of the Soul: Spiritual Complexes
Don't ignore or repress your complexes, instead try to befriend them
Book Review: Clearing Emotional Clutter
Clearing Emotional ClutterMindfulness Practices for Letting Go of What’s Blocking Your Fulfillment and Transformationby Donald AltmanNew World LibraryYou couldn’t swing a book bag …
Letting Go of Being Right
Excerpted from The Power of Forgiveness by Joan Gattuso
How To Be Spiritual When You’re Not
Try answering these five queries (and then make time to create a corresponding activity) to identify your own no-rules approach to spirituality.
Care of the Soul: Care of the Soul, 25 Years Later
In the late 1980s, after about seven years of developing my own approach to psychotherapy, I was looking for a different way to re-imagine psychology, one that would have depth and…
Create a Safe Place for All Your Emotıons
An Interview with Josh Korda
Book Review: Inside the Miracle
Inside the MiracleEnduring Suffering, Approaching Wholenessby Mark NepoSounds TrueSpiritual guide Mark Nepo is a consummate storyteller, as evidenced in this collection of essays, …
The Key to Stress-Free Living: The Tapping Solution
Q&A With EFT Expert Nick Ortner
Care of the Soul: The Veggie Soul
When I studied medieval philosophy in college, I learned that a human being has a rational, animal, and vegetable soul. At the time, it was all a matter of definitions and categori…
Letting Go of Emotional Pain
Most of us have felt self-conscious from time to time. Self-conscious emotions include embarrassment, guilt and humiliation. For simplicity’s sake, I’ll lump them together here und…
Humanity in Animals
The Evolution of Empathy, Altruism, and Even the Soul
11 Ways to Raise Your Vibration With Water
Throughout history, humans have sought physical relief, emotional healing, and even spiritual renewal in water.
How to Raise Your Spiritual Vibration
You have the power to up your frequency at any moment. Discover how to raise your spiritual vibration in ten different ways.
Soothe: Set Up Your Inner Sanctum
Have you ever noticed that when you walk into a spa, you feel the tension begin to melt away before you even have a treatment? You're likely being cloaked in a preplanned double wh…
Forty Years of Healing Music
... And the Grammy that almost was
Gary Zukav: The Seat of the Soul Turns 25
In 1980, Gary Zukav was awarded a National Book Award in the Science category for accurately explaining quantum physics in The Dancing Wu Li Masters. Then, in 1989, Zukav took on a…
Using Mindfulness to Tackle Clutter
Just as mindfulness helps us clear our minds, it can also help us clear a path through the house.
Soul Proprietor
Shamanic healers help clients overcome trauma and find healing through the practice of journeying and soul retrieval.
The Experience of Enough
I read Geneen Roth’s best-selling When Food Is Love 20 years and 30 pounds ago. For the first time in my life since I was six, I stopped dieting and started listening to what my bo…
A Better Way to Break-Up
The pain of divorce can bring us to our knees. What if there’s a way not just to regain our footing but to step onto a new emotional path?
Meditation on the Mat
Try yoga nidra for deep relaxation and profound healing.
Care of the Soul: Reclaim Your Spiritual Growth
When I was just turning 40, I went through some painful changes in my life, and I felt those developments in my body. I went regularly to the doctor, complaining of stomach upset a…
Video: Intro to Tapping
The fascination with our story The Tapping Technique led us to Brad Yates, an Emotional Freedom Technique expert who offers tutorial videos on the practice. Here we share his Intro…Tags:
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Affirmations Can Mess You Up
I came of age in the New Age of the ’90s. I had affirmation cards before I had business cards. And I tried to love affirmations, really I did. But affirmations didn’t do me any fav…
The Healing Power of Water
For millennia, humans have sought physical relief, emotional healing, and even spiritual renewal by immersing themselves in water. Writer Lindsey Crittenden soaks it all in.
The Tapping Technique
Emotional Freedom Techniques combines principles of acupressure and affirmations to resolve emotional and physical pain.
Cultivating the Values of Your Practice
Rabbi Rami shares his personal practice for elevating awareness and compassion to bring thoughts, actions, and values into alignment.
Hands-On Healing
Pat Fleury teaches doctors, shamans, and regular folks the art of energy healing
The Yoga Sweat: How Our Glands Process Emotion
Sweating up a storm? Discover the emotional and spiritual meaning of sweating.
Go With the Flow and Encounter an Ocean of Possibilities
I bent over, lifted my left leg, and tried to quickly slide my foot into the thick black rubber fin with as much grace as I could muster. My right foot toed the small sheath of my …Tags:
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3 Essential Practices for Gratitude
Experience more fullness of heart with these exercises embracing gratitude as a spiritual practice.
In the Arctic, A Hunger for Ancestral Foods
The loss of traditional hunting has forced many Inuit to rely on expensive imported food, but many find the Western diet leaves them feeling empty, body and soul.
The Heart of Meditation
We all want small, simple things every day―a good night’s sleep, a parking spot near the door, a satisfying dinner―but what happens when we want to identify or manifest our deeper …
Thwack!
The Surprise that Heals Trauma It started as an upset whisper that turned into a rant that’s become a roar during the last decade or so. You can hear it in professional circles o…
The Door Ajar
I had a dream the other night in which I found myself in the house where I grew up: a very modest bungalow in a neighborhood where most of the wage-earners worked in an automobile …
Care of the Soul: Mega-Soul
I had an unusually enjoyable afternoon recently, lying on the floor in front of my massive classical Greek dictionary and a copy of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, where he makes a…Tags:
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Finding Your Soul
At birth we each receive our own unique spiritual DNA, but life soon separates us from our true selves. Here’s a path toward wholeness.
