5 of the best self-reflection questions to ask yourself for increased personal development and self-awareness.
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Dr. Orloff, author of Emotional Freedom, discusses how to transform fear and experience more joy.
Ram Dass invites us to move toward our fears, sitting with them and slowly softening until we can embrace the things that scare us. Our resistance only exacerbates the fear and through observation we begin to understand its roots. (LA, CA - 1/31/1987)
How can we balance fear with equanimity? Ram Dass shares the antidote to fear, and the ways that we can allow our own humanity in order to extricate ourselves from the web of thought forms that create our own suffering.
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Fear is a wonderful and necessary emotion that is connected to your instincts, your intuition, and your ability to be present in the moment. Strangely, most of us have been taught to hate and avoid fear, but that's silly.
She's Oprah Winfrey's soul sister, and her books became big best sellers: Elizabeth Lesser. Back in the day, she used to be a midwife. It taught her that when you are going through a rough patch, it's just like in labor: resistance is useless, try to relax and embrace the situation.
The purpose of this video is to relay the most sublime teaching of Sunyata—silence beyond any idea of silence, peace beyond any idea of peace, love beyond any idea of love, and the vast emptiness of the omniscience that defies description (gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā).
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s advice on how to deal with negative emotions during his meeting with a group of young women at his residence in Dharamshala, HP, India on April 27, 2018.
When it comes to seeking truth, Tibetan Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön says, there's a telltale sign that you're getting close. 'Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth', she says. Learn why Pema says a little fear can be useful.
Where will we look when we are afraid? How do we find strength? In what can we place our trust? According to Tibetan Buddhism, there are four noble aspirations, known as the Four Great Catalysts of Awakening, which we can call on to cultivate strength and openness in any situation.
As a Buddhist teacher and author, Andrew Holecek is well renowned for his extensive knowledge of the death and bardo teachings of Tibetan Buddhism-which regard times of transition and groundlessness as rich opportunities for spiritual development.