How to Find Inner Peace and Clarity

I am happy to present this guided meditation on how to find inner peace and clarity, written and read by Doreen Virtue. Doreen as a noted Hay House author and teacher. Her teachings call upon the help of your angels and universal archangels to help relieve your suffering. Sri Chinmoy says, “Listen to the inner […]

On Having the Courage to Disappoint Your Family to Be True to Yourself – Purpose Fairy

On Having the Courage to Disappoint Your Family to Be True to Yourself. There is something about family that makes us behave in strange ways. Something about family that makes us think that it’s okay to betray our own Soul just so that we won’t disappoint them. And that it’s okay to neglect our own […]

One Thing You Can Do About Mindful Consumption

Here is one thing you can do about mindful consumption: turn off your TV:)! Mindful consumption is the subject of the Fifth of the Five Mindfulness Trainings. It reads, Aware of the suffering caused by unmindful consumption, I am committed to cultivate good health, both physical and mental, for myself, my family, and my society by […]

A Gratitude Practice You Can Do

I just read about Cheri Huber‘s delightful gratitude practice. This is certainly a gratitude practice you can do. Here is what Cheri says: Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself. Say thank you at least ten times an hour, direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large. Compliment yourself […]

How to No Longer Allow Your Expectations Get in the Way of Your Happiness – Purpose Fairy

How to No Longer Allow Your Expectations Get in the Way of Your Happiness. Isn’t it interesting that even though life has its own rhythm and its own natural course to follow, we still insist on trying to control how everything unfolds? We have so many expectations about how things should be, how people should […]

What Will Carry You

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The Happiness of Uncertainty

The Happiness of Uncertainty Part of the reason we try to understand the causes of our experience is that we believe we can make these experiences happen again. The problem is, understanding also makes the experience less valuable, because we adapt to it. It’s surprising things, uncertain things, things we don’t fully comprehend that seem […]

Meditation Changes Your Brain

Harvard neuroscientist, Sara Lazar, reveals how meditation changes your brain. In a report by the Washington Post, Brigid Schulte interviewed Sara Lazar and asked her a bunch of questions. The first question was, “Why did you start looking at meditation and mindfulness and the brain?” Sara replied the she tried yoga because of a running […]

Delusion Is Like a Stepladder

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Just Pay Appropriate Attention

Here is another quote from Matthew Kelly, this time from his book, Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness. He is teaching us to just pay appropriate attention. He calls it “just do the next right thing.” Appropriate attention is an important Buddhist concept that came down to us as yoniso manasikara. It implies paying […]