The Better Life Awareness Blog
Tips, practices, and teachings for living a happier, more awakened life.
Learn to handle painful emotions and destructive beliefs in a mindful, healthy way.
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Hey there Better Lifers!
Unlike many others,
I’m not a “you can manifest reality” kind of guy.
Oh, no.
Don’t even get me started about that.
But there is one thing you DO create all...
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Hey there Better Lifers!
The most important elections of your life happen inside your head.
Every. Single. Moment.
I’m not saying that the elections for president/prime minister are not important. But the more important question, perhaps ...
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Hey there Better Lifers!
What if there was a way for you to make it easier for your loved ones to forgive you?
After my post about forgiveness, people started asking me more and more about the relationship between apology and forgiveness.
So -...
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Hey there Better Lifers!
Every now and then, I feel like my heart is bleeding.
It’s usually because I get in touch with the deeper layers of my core wounds and the existential pain - the pain that comes with being alive.
Some days are like...
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Hey there Better Lifers!
560 fires. At the same time.
California is burning.
Over 1,000,000 acres have already burned in 1 week.
How big is that?
It’s like of the grand canyon burning on fire.
It’s like the entire island of Maui,...
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Hey there Better Lifers!
Pain and suffering are a serious issue.
But sometimes the best way to learn - and to remember - how to deal with it all,
is through a joke.
As the Course in Miracles says -
part of the problem is that we are...
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Hey there Better Lifers!
Who got it right - the east or the west?
Yes, you can see spirituality in the west, and psychology in the east.
But by and large, the west focuses on psychology.
The east on spirituality.
But the fact is that you...
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Hey there Better Lifers!
Life is full of challenging times.
That, in and of itself, is out of our control.
It’s an inevitable part of living; it’s part of the deal.
What we can control is how we react, how we...
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Hey there Better Lifers!
“Once you have recognized that there are other realities,
other than the one you have been familiar with,
your life starts to change.
I don’t care whether you got it from a joint;
whether...
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Hey there Better Lifers!
A Bedouin was walking with his son in the hot, unforgiving desert.
Their camel was all they had.
It was their hope for survival, too.
One day, after a long journey, they arrived in a small town.
All they...
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Hey there Better Lifers!
"Simply do this:
Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is;
all concepts you have learned about the world;
all images you hold about yourself.Empty your mind of everything it thinks is...
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Loved ones
While everyone is aware of the many problems the corona crisis is causing, it’s essential to pay attention to the gifts of the corona crisis as well.
One gift is that scary, stressful times such as these bring out the...
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So how are you these days, my friend?
As the corona crisis keeps evolving, almost everyone is taking a direct hit.
Health, work, social life, you name it - everything gets impacted,
even though only an incredibly tiny fraction of the population...
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A dear friend of mine confessed to me this week that she is having a very hard time.
It was really both beautiful and heartbreaking to hear her.
Human life can be so hard, you know?
It’s important to know and acknowledge this,
because you...
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Loved ones
Ram Dass, one of my favorite teachers, shared this story once:
There was a monk who lived in the monastery up on the hill.
The local girl down in the village got pregnant by the fisherman.
She didn’t want to...