Gassho Reiki Meditation
Dr Mikao Usui, the first Reiki grandmaster, taught a meditation called the Gassho Meditation. Usui instructed his students to practise the meditation each morning and evening for 5-20 minutes. Gassho…
Brahmavihara Meditation
Brahmavihara meditation is a Buddhist practice that trains the mind in four sublime attitudes: loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. It is also known as the "four immeasurables" or "divine…
Ceremony of the Heart
With this embodied presence you have been entrusted with an ancient gift, passed from ancestor to ancestor, culminating in your heart, your hands, and your mind. Here you breathe at…
Integration
Integrating a mystical experience means anchoring profound, transcendent insights into your everyday life. It is the process of moving from a peak experience (the "high") to an ongoing plateau of grounded,…
Nadi Shoshana Pranayama
What is Nadi Shodhana Pranayama? Nadi Shodhana Pranayama is a popular pranayama, otherwise referred to as alternate nostril breathing or anuloma viloma. Nadi Shodhana means cleansing. This practice cleanses your…
New Myths from Old Stories
This practice is useful if you're stuck in old stories that are no longer helpful to you. Retell your story, but this time as a myth. You must tell it…
Ho’oponopono
Ho’oponopono is an ancient Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness designed to heal emotional wounds, resolve conflicts, and restore balance. The Hawaiian word translates into English simply as correction, with…
Dream Interpretation Practice
Take every emotion/verb/person/place/thing in your dream that you can remember and assign its attributive description to the words "part of me." So, if you dream about your father, you might…
Qi Gong sticks organ/creative cycle sequence
Watch the full video on the Balanced Flame site, here. Qi Gong organ/creative cycle: Liver (your right side): “Ssssshhhhh”. Green. Wood. Positivity, kindness and generosity. Heart: “Hhaaaaa”. Red. Fire. Love,…
Mirror it Back
While most suspected 'magical attacks' are actually self-perpetuated, sometimes a negative person can really hook their bad attitude onto you - a bitter, miserly person who indulges in constant negative…