This is a powerful mantra for balancing the five root chakras in the body. Chant with me and experience the results.
You Are Always OK
No matter what is happening in your life, you are always fundamentally okay. Your True Nature is one of great peace, contentment, unconditional love, and complete freedom from all suffering. Nothing that happens in this life can take that away from you or change it in any way. It is only your conditioned thoughts that hide the direct experience of this from you. May this video help you remember.
Radiant Light Healing Transmission
This is a very popular video that has a powerful affect on people. This is a radiant light healing transmission I have used for years healing people. This is the first time I have done it on video. Use it for your own healing in whatever you need. It works for body, mind and spirit. The true ultimate healing is your own awakening, freedom from all suffering. If you open enough, this can unlock your True Self.
Pain – Meditation and Practice
Dealing With Pain – Guided Meditation and Practice
A powerful and effective guided meditation for dealing with pain. All bodies will experience pain at some point in their lives. Is it possible to have chronic pain and not suffer? Yes. Changing your attitude to pain changes your experience of pain.
Here’s a powerful yet simple practice that will help you do it. I was inspired to create this video for my son Noah, who just had hip surgery in India and is undergoing persistent pain during his recovery. This is a very effective practice I learned over years as a healer and someone with a human body.
It’s a practice and also a guided meditation so you can see how to do the practice. It’s very simple but it can be life changing. Since it is a practice, it gets better the more often you do it. If you have chronic pain, you have the best opportunity to do the practice. When you become proficient at it, it will change the way you deal with any pain for the rest of your life. It’s a whole new experience sitting in the dentist chair.
From Broken Heart to Love
We’ve all experienced a broken heart at some time in our lives.
Someone we love dies,
leaves us,
betrays us.
lies to us,
abuses us,
cheats on us.
There are many causes for this broken heart. We are left with suffering, pain in our heart and a deep longing for a more ideal life, a life where this person did none of those things.
A broken heart can continue for many years. It can prevent us from moving on with our life, finding a new and healthier relationship, not only with others but with ourself. It can distract and prevent us from finding True Love.
There is a simple practice that can immediately heal this broken heart and lead directly to the experience of True Love. To work, you must do this practice. Just knowing it is not enough. You must do it to see the amazing results.
Step 1
Please understand that a broken heart does not come from love. It has nothing to do with love. A broken heart comes from thoughts, illusion, and a fundamental misunderstanding of you, the person you love, and of love itself. If you can accept that this might be true, we can continue to the next steps where we actually put this fundamental understanding into direct practice. This entire website is full of opportunities to be free of thoughts that create suffering in your life and prevent you from living the vital, happy, and loving life that is your True Nature.
Step 2
You undoubtedly carry a picture of this person in your mind. For the purpose of this practice, you need a physical picture. If you no longer have one, see if you can find one on Facebook or other social media. If you don’t use social media, ask a mutual friend if you can borrow a picture. Choose the most ideal picture you can find. Choose a picture that immediately causes your heart to ache. Be brave. It’s well worth it. It’s easier if the picture only contains the image of your loved one. But it will work if others are in the picture. Your focus will be riveted on this person anyway. Once you have this picture or several pictures, you’re ready to begin.
Step 3
As you gaze on this picture, the pain in your heart may increase. Longing may increase. Many emotions will arise. Don’t turn away. Allow all these emotions to be exactly what they are in this moment. As you stay with them, you will notice how they change. Be with this experience. Realize that you are enough space to handle these emotions or any emotions without being overwhelmed or drowning in them. You can experience them fully. Allow whatever emotions arise to be in this space of you. There is much more here than these emotions. Be the space for these emotions to be whatever they are. This is the painful part of this practice. The more you allow the emotions to be without resisting them, the less painful it will be. You cannot be aware of illusion without being fully open to it.
Step 4
As you look deeply into this picture, as you deeply feel all the emotions that come up, realize that all these emotions come entirely from your thoughts about who you are, who the person in the picture is and your perceptions of whatever happened between the two of you. Realize that these are just thoughts. Accept the truth that these are just thoughts. They are not reality. They are not truth. To experience truth, to experience true love, you must let these thoughts go. Letting go means you no longer believe these thoughts are reality. You realize they are just thoughts. Just this realization and acceptance alone helps your attention fall away from them.
The truth is you do not know who you are. You do not know who the person in the picture is. You don’t have a clue. Nobody does. You are believing your thoughts and your belief in these thoughts as true are creating all this suffering you feel.
So right now, just for a moment, let these thoughts go. Continue looking at the picture, but let go of all thoughts that you know this person, that you know anything about this person and that you know anything about the one looking at this picture. Most of us are not used to doing a practice like this. We’ve believed our thoughts for so long. That’s why it’s a practice. The more you can let go of your thoughts, the more your broken heart will change to peace, love, and joy. The more you let go of your thoughts, the more your perception of the person in that picture will change. Where there was suffering, there will now be freedom, peace, happiness, and an unconditional love that includes all. That experience doesn’t take any thoughts or effort at all. It is the simple realization of truth.
This is the part that takes practice. And this is the part that shows the amazing results. I said this was a simple practice and it is. Understanding this practice is very simple. Doing this practice will take practice. All of our lives we have been conditioned and addicted to our thoughts. We believe our thoughts are reality. This not only causes suffering in our intimate relationships but in every aspect of our lives. Doing this practice will not only change heartbreak to love, it will free you from suffering in all aspects of your life.
Step 5
Repeat Step 4. Because of our lifetime of conditioning to believe our thoughts, we need to continue this practice and continue seeing the very tangible and obvious results. We have spent a lifetime being conditioned. It’s impractical to think that one experience of freedom is all we need. The addiction to belief in thoughts as reality will be triggered again and again and again. The difference is now we have a practice to counteract this. Now we have an understanding of what is really going on. The more diligent we are with this practice, the easier it will become. Eventually thoughts will no longer cause suffering at all. Eventually we will realize the freedom we’ve always had.
Thoughts are wonderful. They help us do many things. We could not communicate through language without thoughts. We would have no culture or identity. But thoughts are not an accurate representation of reality. They are an abstraction and limitation of what is really here. A single moment of freedom from belief in thoughts as reality shows us this. The world appears to change completely. We appear to change completely. The object of our affection seems to change completely. Everything appears to change completely. It is only the end of illusion and the realization of truth, what we call in spiritual terms Awakening. And Awakening is the end of all heartbreak and suffering.
Individual Sessions
Because this is a new practice and experience for most of us, it can help to have someone guide us through this in the beginning until it becomes more familiar. If you’re interested in having me guide you through this process, you can sign up for an individual session on my website: Individual Session
The Zen of Love
The Zen of Love – Discover Your Own Awakened Heart is a book about True Love. It will be helpful to read this book to have a deeper understanding of what love really is and what you’ve been missing. You can find out more about this book here: The Zen of Love
Your Past Never Happened
Your past never happened, at least not the way you think it did. This is quite a profound realization. It is extraordinarily healing. And it is very true as you will soon see.
Many of us are not yet able to deeply experience the present moment, but, if you are, try this. Allow yourself to simply be fully present. Let all past worries and concerns melt away. Be here now. Allow your attention to soften and expand, taking in more of what is here. Notice that your awareness is actually very vast and has no boundaries or limits. You are aware of what you see, hear, sense and feel. But even more than this, you are aware of awareness itself, of being awareness itself beyond any limitations of a separate self. In this vast awareness, this is what is happening right now.
Now imagine if you could capture this experience of presence in a memory or thought. How could you? It is far too vast and inclusive to be contained in any thought or memory. There is just far too much here. What was really happening in your past was this, this vast, all-inclusive presence. And no memory could ever capture this.
If you were to sit down with five people you shared a moment in the past with and deeply discussed your experiences of that event, you would find that there were five different memories of that event. How can this be? Each person has a different memory. On the very superficial level, it may seem like you are speaking about the same event. But, as you go deeper, it is clear that each of you have a different impression of that past event, a different memory. Each of you was affected in a different way. To you, your memory of that event is the correct one. You know that is what happened. It is your memory, so it must be true. That is your experience.
But is it?
Memories
Memories are interesting things. They are like a tiny fraction of what actually happens. When we truly experience presence, we realize it is impossible to place that experience into a memory or even a thought. A memory is just a thought attached to and held on to for a period of time. The original thought is not even one percent of what was actually happening in that moment. Over time this thought deteriorates and changes a great deal, making memories even less accurate than the original thought that occurred in that moment. Many studies have been done showing the extremely poor accuracy of memories.
Problems With Eye Witness Testimony
Stanford Law School
The original thought was only your limited impression of what occurred in that moment. Like all thoughts it is only a limited abstraction of the fullness of the moment. The moment is interpreted through the limited perspective of a limited, separate self – you. It is not an impression of the moment that takes in everything that is happening and everyone else’s perspective. That would be far more accurate.
Change Your Memory / Change Your Past
Let’s say you have a childhood memory of being punished or severely scolded by a parent. Your memory of this may be that the parent was cruel, unfair and didn’t even love you. This is the very limited perspective of a child. Yet you may keep this memory of your childhood all the way up into your adult life. This is your memory of childhood. And you are totally convinced this is the way it was. This becomes part of the story of me, of who you are. This is why I am the way I am today. You may have told this same story to many people. And you keep telling it today, both to others and to yourself. On each telling, it feels more real, more solid, more true.
Now what if you looked at that same memory and simply expanded it just a little. You know your childhood perspective. That’s what your memory is. But what if you expanded it just a little to include your parent’s perspective? Is it really true that your parent was cruel, unfair and didn’t love you? Were there any moments in your life when your parent was not cruel and unfair, when they showed that they did love you? Did that ever happen? If you can remember any moment when your parent did love you, then perhaps they still loved you at the moment they were punishing you or scolding you. If you have become a parent yourself, you will understand this. Perhaps they were actually punishing or scolding you in that moment because they loved you. Maybe they were not as skillful as they could have been. If you are now a parent yourself, you know how that goes.
See if you can remember that same event, but now include your parent’s perspective too. This will open up and expand your memory. It will actually change your memory and thus your past. Instead of only the memory of one person – you, you are including the memories of the other people involved. In this way, a more accurate representation of the past begins to form. If you are able to be present, you know this is still a very limited representation of the past. No accurate memory of the past is possible because no thought or memory can include all that is in any moment. Thoughts and memories can only encompass a very small and limited piece of the whole scene.
The memory of your parent scolding you probably does not also contain the sound of the bird chirping outside your open window, or the feel of the breeze on your skin coming through that same window. It probably doesn’t include the spider crawling across the wall behind your parent’s head or the small crack in the paint that wasn’t there just the day before. And, as we already mentioned, it probably doesn’t include the feeling of great love and concern your parent is feeling toward you that is prompting this fear and anger that you did experience. There is infinitely more that your memory does not include. It is like reading a great novel and out of the entire book only remembering that a body was scolded by his father or found a quarter on the street. All the other characters and events were completely forgotten, to say nothing of their perspective on all the events.
By freeing your memory from the prison of its limited perspective and opening it even a little more fully, your impression of your past will change completely. It will still be very limited, but far less limited than it is now. As you continue doing this, eventually your memories as something real will simply dissolve. You will realize that the past and present are exactly the same. There is only this full experience of the present moment always and forever. It includes everything, not only every perspective, but literally everything.
This is why I say that your past never happened. You may have pictures pasted into a photo album to prove that you were at one time a young child. And even that you had a bizarre haircut in one picture. Yes, that is true. But your memories of that time are not really what was happening back then. And the pictures are still going to be seen through those memories, until you change the memories, which you now see is very possible. What was happening back during the time that photograph was taken, was exactly what is happening right now. It was just a present moment, full of everything that exists. Just as it is right now.
Is It True?
If memories of your past are causing you problems or suffering today, take a closer look at those memories. Are they really true? Are they accurate? Is what you remember everything that was happening back then or just a very tiny piece of it? And has even that tiny piece of your original experience remained the same for all these years? Or has it, instead, shifted and changed to make the story more dramatic and interesting, to make you more interesting, to make you the focus of the story, to make you the focus of all stories? What, if anything, of that memory that seemed so important to you is actually true?
And, if it isn’t true, why continue holding on to it? If you can see that this memory isn’t true, that, at best, it only holds the tiniest sliver of what was actually occurring back then, then perhaps the other memories are also not true. Perhaps the whole story of your past, of who you think you are, is not as true as you once thought. Don’t be frightened. This is actually a good thing. It’s a wonderful thing. It is very freeing. As your belief in your past begins to crumble and fade, your experience of presence opens up. Your experience of your True, Unlimited Self begins to come forward and be revealed.
The Only True Healing
There is nothing that can be more healing than this, than the truth of things as they actually are. When you no longer identify with this separate, independent self, created out of all the stories, thoughts and memories of your past, all those old traumas just fade away. This is true healing. This heals everything. It heals the story of the separate self that experienced all those traumas and suffering. In presence, in life as it actually is, there are no problems. There is no suffering.
In Zen, we call carrying memories of the past into the present “dragging a corpse with us.” Until we free ourselves of attachment to our memories, thoughts and beliefs, it is as if we are carrying a corpse with us wherever we go. Our memories of the past create a thick veil over the present so we cannot perceive life as it is in each moment. Our experience of the present is filtered through the past preventing us from directly experiencing it as it is. Only by surrendering these attachments can we wake up and see the world as it is. But this can be done. You can do this. Simply by looking deeply at your memories and honestly questioning their truth just as we’ve done here, your attachments will dissolve. You will let go of what is not true and make room for what is. You will come into alignment with truth. And this is the only healing you will ever need.