Open up a whole new world in the astonishing space inside your head — I just got back from a most amazing retreat in the Colorado Rockies. We gathered for teachings on lucid dreaming, but we also explored a variety of topics — reality, enlightenment, death, and dying — adjacent to the dream world. Our teacher was Andrew Holecek, an author and spiritual teacher…

Even if you’re really down, gratitude for what IS good can help turn things around for you — With the news around the world being perhaps more unpleasant than usual, we might forget to see the abundance all around us. Sometimes we just have to be really intentional about seeing what’s good. With that in mind, studies around gratitude can help show us how to be more resilient…

We can’t know which practices will make a difference until we practice them — Choices. We’ve made a bazillion of them. Some have been profound, like the person or persons we’ve chosen to take as life partners or best friends. Some have been mundane, like the breakfast we decided on this morning. I made a choice a couple of months ago. It was a…

Our imagination can take us to surreal and surprising places — What do you see when you look at this picture? A wall socket, right? Just your average, everyday plug-in place for an ordinary lamp or another electronic gadget. But one day, while I was doing yoga like I do most days in my bedroom, I saw something completely different. …

What Am I Surrendering To? Life. Why? Because Giving Up the Fight Is Such a Relief! — Hello. Are you in there? Yeah? Who are you? I’m Roshana. I’m not my name, not those letters. And of course, you’re not just your name … or your body. If you cut your hand off, you’re still you, right? You’re still there. In fact, if they took away every…

This simple method to achieving greatness hides behind our desire to live rule-free — I started making rules for myself around the time a book came out called “The Rules — Time-tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right” by Ellen Fein. It was a dating handbook published around the beginning of the century (this one). I never read it (since I was…

Maybe You’ve Been Seeing the Headlines About How Everything is Falling Apart — Have you seen these headlines? These are from the BBC, New York Times, Resilience.org, and other publications. Suddenly, it’s hitting me … maybe life really IS going to change drastically … but when? And how? What does “collapse” even mean? What does it mean to you, in your life? …

I Love Thinking Positively … Is There Something Wrong With That? — A couple of books have come out recently, both with the title “Toxic Positivity.” One is by Chase Hill, who has written a number of books around the topics of positivity, negativity and personal growth. The other is by “sought-after therapist” Whitney Goodman. Full disclosure: I have a fledgling website…

What is the Real Difference Between Dreaming and Waking? — Those who obtain perfect mastery of the dream can enlarge it to the waking world. Recognizing that the waking state is not fundamentally different from the dream state gives them the capacity to create miracles. Kalu Rinpoche Meditation Master When we lie down, close our eyes, and begin to drift…