A list of things to be aware of if you are on any spiritual path — whether you are on the path of new age, whether you are Christian, Buddhists, Muslim, Hindu or others….
A – Arrogance
Holier than thou and condescending attitudes do not sit well with people in general. Moreover, it is pure arrogance to think that you are right while others are not. No one has the ULTIMATE answer while on earth. Everyone is doing what they perceive as best and just get on with life. This is...

All of us procrastinate. Some of us more than others.

We tend to do better when there is a deadline. So for work, we usually deliver, for important stuff with deadlines where our reputation may be on the line, we deliver.

However, for things that are specifically for our own personal lives -- lose weight, work on personal accounts, file taxes, personal and spiritual growth, clean the home etc, all of these do not have deadlines per se. And so we sweep them under the carpet, and not think...

I meet lots of people in the personal development circle on a regular basis, and most have the idea that to grow, they need to have the knowledge, they need to learn, and so they go for workshops after workshops only to realise that after spending lots of money being a workshop junkie, they are still the same. 

What is missing?

If you are a person who believes in personal development, and you want to grow as a person emotionally, mentally and spiritually, one of the most important...

Happiness is our psychological immunity.

Just as we get our daily dose of Vitamin C to up our physical immunity, we also need a dose of happiness to up our psychological immunity. 

Then you may ask, I can pop a Vit C pill, how do I pop a happiness pill (other than state altering pills, which is not only dangerous and in most places illegal)?

What if we could “manufacture” this happiness pill in our own minds? We all have this capacity, we just don’t use...

Have you heard of this saying: Designed to win, programmed to fail? This quote is talking about us, humans.

If we believe that we have a soul, or spirit, or inner energy, whatever you want to call it, you will believe that we have been designed to win. Why else would we go into our inner sanctuary and do self-talk, or pray in an outer sanctuary if we do not believe this to be true? Think about it -- whenever we feel out of sorts, or things are not working out, or if we feel deep sadness,...