If you want peace rather than conflict in your life, it’s important to look at people and appreciate them rather than being a self-appointed critic. The act of judging others leads to separateness, conflict and blocks you from higher consciousness, harmony and love.

It is challenging to stay connected to soul and Spirit while busy with daily activities. Learn yoga practices which lead to sahaj, a natural, continuous attunement with Spirit.

If you’d like to experience or ultimately live in bliss, then you need to let go of the bliss blockers — ongoing states of need, fear, anger or ego dominance. By practicing humility, you can become free of the ego states that block you from enjoying bliss.

This is a series of two videos on humility. Spiritual experiences humble or dissolve the ego (the false sense of self) and transform one’s character. Astral experiences usually exalt the ego. While astral experiences may be vivid, they rarely lead to spiritual growth.

You can’t make harmony, bliss, love, joy or samadhi happen. But what you can do is move from living at a creature level to opening your life to a higher power. The secret to enjoying the great bliss and joy of yoga is contacting and receiving the higher prakriti, the higher expression of life force.

What’s your reaction when people and situations don’t align with your expectations? Your subjective life, the stew of thoughts and feelings constantly moving within you, prompt most of your actions. If you’re like most people, addictive demands — automatic emotional states that come when you don’t get what you want — can run your subjective life and block your happiness.

Does the idea of developing spiritual awareness seem challenging? If it does, no worries, you’ve got help from the monks and nuns of the middle ages. They went through four stages in preparation for the awakening and development of spiritual awareness.

If you’re dealing with frustrations in your life and your relationships, yoga has a solution for you. Did you know that we have five powerful drives within us that are just craving to be fulfilled? If you deal with these drives, you can have a fulfilled life. And by helping the people you love fulfill these drives, you’ll have happier relationships.

Explore how the practices in Patanjali’s eightfold path can help you get free of vrittis, whirlpools of consciousness, that keep your mind feeling turbulent and feeling separate from the one mind, from spiritual awareness, from knowing the spiritual facts.

In The Gentle Art of Blessing, Pierre Pradervand explains that we ourselves are never the bestower but simply the witness — and instrument — of life’s abundance and blessings. As we grow spiritually, our level of consciousness shifts in a way that allows us to become clear instruments in which Spirit blesses others through us.