A Goddess Ritual to Release and Manage Anger

Feeling overwhelmed by anger and challenged by vexing people and situations? Call upon the Hawaiian goddess Pele to help you honor your emotions.

Letting Go of Anger—the Buddhist Way

Discover six practices rooted in Buddhist teaching that can dissipate anger.

Yin Yoga to Cool Anger, Frustration, and Jealousy

Try this yin yoga sequence to cool down hot emotions before reacting impulsively. Then respond mindfully to life events.

Seeing Is Empathy

Mixed-media artist Morgan Harper Nichols explores how art can lead to empathy.

Stories That Connect

“We are united in the emotions that drive us into the beliefs that divide us.”

Do You Need an Emotional Detox? Five Signs and Their Symptoms

Are you suffering from these emotional detox symptoms? It may be time to make a change.

How to Release Emotional Blocks With Color

Use a color therapy exercise to release pent-up and unhelpful emotions.

The Language of Energetics

The goal of energetic herbalism is to enhance our terrain, which is our inner landscape, and to be in the flow.

Podcast: Neal Allen, Discover God Inside You

Author of Shapes of Truth, Neal Allen, discusses the 35 qualities of God that each human has within them.

What Would Spirituality Look Like if We Could Live Forever?

Thanatology focuses on life extension, but what role would religion play in our lives if we no longer feared death?

5 Vibrational Healing Methods for Chronic Pain and Body Aches

Vibrational healing isn’t new, but it has recently become more mainstream.

Nature’s Image for the Universal Oneness of Humanity

If we’re all one interconnected humanity, what’s our common root system? Do we exist in a state of universal oneness?

Music Review: We Are

We Are is the powerful new album from pianist/singer Jon Batiste, his first full-length studio album since Hollywood Africans in 2018. These 13 songs optimistically celebra…

Spiritual Meaning of Pain in the Upper-Middle Back

To uncover the spiritual meaning of pain in the upper-middle back, ask if you’re getting enough support in the back of your heart.

Holding Difficult Emotions on Mother’s Day: A Ritual

Some have a simple and loving relationship with their mom. For others, Mother’s Day can be a day where we pull out our complex feelings about mothering and unpack them a little bit.

Tune Into Your Major Chakra to Design Your Optimal Sacred Space

Create a sacred space in your home. First find your major chakra, then discover the aesthetic that fits that chakra’s energy.

Podcast: Kevin Anderson, PhD on Using Nested Meditations as a Powerful Tool

The creator of the nested meditation form shares how to use playful language to release heavy emotions.

Become a Soul Nerd

(Re)learn to read deeply. The mental stillness required for a long read allows your mind to formulate a moral position. This kind of bibliotherapy provides a healing place for the soul.

Podcast: Author Sarah Wilson on Reclaiming Your One Wild and Precious Life

Individualism and capitalism are simply not working. Author Sarah Wilson talks about the challenges we face as humans, such as climate change and racial injustice, and proposes healthier systems to heal a fractured world.

Releasing Trapped Emotions

Creative self-expression through movement and dance can help to release trapped emotions that have become lodged in the body.

Your Prescription: Look at Art

“Meditation on the 16th century Isenheim Altarpiece was prescribed to the sick. ... Could art still accomplish a miracle of comfort and consolation today ... and remind people of their mortality while also mitigating fear ... and instilling hope? ... Maybe it’s time to bring this practice of the past into the present—as a way to move into the future.”

Lovingly Managing Weight Fluctuations

Writer Julie Peters talks about a past eating disorder, how she overcomes feelings of food obsession, and how she frees herself from internal oppression.

Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma

“Over time, feeding and caring for my being this way, along with nourishing other diverse aspects of my life, built my fortitude to transform family meals into a time of warmth and care, ending a legacy of trauma and neglect.”

Poem: A Ream of Paper

“It may be that poetry’s work is preparatory, like the work of the earthworms in garden soil.”

The Alchemy of the Heart: Witnessing Grief

When we allow pain in fully (and then release it fully), the heart can transform pain into gold.

Meditation for Emotional Healing: Transformative Fire

This guided meditation allows the listener to release unwanted emotions.

Soul Talk with Sera Beak

Author Sera Beak talks to Rami about soul loss and her latest book.

Medication Meditation Part 3: Energizing for Lethargy, Sluggishness, or Emotional Blockage

Get a boost of energy with this Ayurveda inspired audio meditation.

3 Ways to Create Healing in the Body

Simple yet effective ways to keep your energy flowing.

Seeing from the Soul's Perspective

Explore a new relationship with reality by shifting consciousness from the personality/ego to the soul.

8 Ways To Decipher Between Your Altered Ego State And Your Soul

The altered ego is not to be shunned or rejected. It is to be understood, loved and brought into a higher frequency alignment with the soul.

Connecting to Authenticity with Anna Yusim, MD

Host Rabbi Rami talks with Anna Yusim, MD about what a soul means to her, tapping into authenticity, and her book Fulfilled: How the Science of Spirituality Can Help you Live a Hap…

Our Walk in the World: Original Steps

The life of a community depends on how we care for the ground we stand on and how we step lightly, walking side by side.

Holding Trauma With Love

For someone who has experienced trauma, the present moment may feel like the most dangerous place in the world.

Music Review: Freedom Highway

Freedom HighwayRhiannon GiddensNonesuch RecordsFreedom Highway is the new album of soulful Southern tunes by Rhiannon Giddens, who previously won a Grammy Award as a member of the …

Five Science-Backed Strategies to Build Resilience

When the road gets rocky, what do you do?

The Peace Process

Learn to embrace your emotions and heal your past with this powerful technique from The Freemind Experience by Tom Fortes Mayer.

Care of the Soul: The Spiritual Imagination

What is the role of imagination in matters of ultimate concern? This is one of the top issues in the spiritual life and certainly in religion: many religious and even spiritual peo…

The Unexpected Gifts of Pain

Excerpted from The Way of Rest by Jeff Foster

Does Spontaneous Crying Mean I’m an Empath?

Does it ever seem like you’re crying for no reason? Spontaneous crying may be a signal that you're an empath.

Getting to Know Our Anger by Connecting with Our Bodies

Excerpted from Detox Your Heart

3 Ways to Practice Self-Compassion

Self-compassion can make a person feel more energetic, alive, and optimistic.

Do Animals Have More Soul Than We Do?

Not only do animals live, they have lives—with “undiluted purity and clarity…”

Using Ayurvedic Mudras for Energy, Relaxation, and Focus

Explore the five movements of prana with simple hand gestures.

The Week I Burned My Ego

A life-changing adventure on what’s called Path of Love

How to Deal With Anger

Sponsored Content from The Isha Foundation

16 Grief Affirmations for Coping With Loss

The universal experience of loss brings with it a deep sadness. May these affirmations for grief bring you a moment of peace during a tumultuous time.

Breathing Through Grief to Joy

A yoga teacher trainee experiences Max Strom’s breath work

Book Review: Emotional Rescue

Emotional RescueHow to Work with Your Emotions to Transform Hurt and Confusion into Energy that Empowers YouBy Dzogchen Ponlop RinpocheTARCHER/PENGUIN“Emotions get their power from…

Care of the Soul: Spiritual Complexes

Don't ignore or repress your complexes, instead try to befriend them

Book Review: Clearing Emotional Clutter

Clearing Emotional ClutterMindfulness Practices for Letting Go of What’s Blocking Your Fulfillment and Transformationby Donald AltmanNew World LibraryYou couldn’t swing a book bag …

Letting Go of Being Right

Excerpted from The Power of Forgiveness by Joan Gattuso

How To Be Spiritual When You’re Not

Try answering these five queries (and then make time to create a corresponding activity) to identify your own no-rules approach to spirituality.

Care of the Soul: Care of the Soul, 25 Years Later

In the late 1980s, after about seven years of developing my own approach to psychotherapy, I was looking for a different way to re-imagine psychology, one that would have depth and…

Create a Safe Place for All Your Emotıons

An Interview with Josh Korda

Book Review: Inside the Miracle

Inside the MiracleEnduring Suffering, Approaching Wholenessby Mark NepoSounds TrueSpiritual guide Mark Nepo is a consummate storyteller, as evidenced in this collection of essays, …

The Key to Stress-Free Living: The Tapping Solution

Q&A With EFT Expert Nick Ortner

Care of the Soul: The Veggie Soul

When I studied medieval philosophy in college, I learned that a human being has a rational, animal, and vegetable soul. At the time, it was all a matter of definitions and categori…

Letting Go of Emotional Pain

Most of us have felt self-conscious from time to time. Self-conscious emotions include embarrassment, guilt and humiliation. For simplicity’s sake, I’ll lump them together here und…

Humanity in Animals

The Evolution of Empathy, Altruism, and Even the Soul

11 Ways to Raise Your Vibration With Water

Throughout history, humans have sought physical relief, emotional healing, and even spiritual renewal in water.

Take Sweet Care of Yourself

An Excerpt from Soul Vows

How to Raise Your Spiritual Vibration

You have the power to up your frequency at any moment. Discover how to raise your spiritual vibration in ten different ways.

Soothe: Set Up Your Inner Sanctum

Have you ever noticed that when you walk into a spa, you feel the tension begin to melt away before you even have a treatment? You're likely being cloaked in a preplanned double wh…

Forty Years of Healing Music

... And the Grammy that almost was

Gary Zukav: The Seat of the Soul Turns 25

In 1980, Gary Zukav was awarded a National Book Award in the Science category for accurately explaining quantum physics in The Dancing Wu Li Masters. Then, in 1989, Zukav took on a…

Using Mindfulness to Tackle Clutter

Just as mindfulness helps us clear our minds, it can also help us clear a path through the house.

Soul Proprietor

Shamanic healers help clients overcome trauma and find healing through the practice of journeying and soul retrieval.

The Experience of Enough

I read Geneen Roth’s best-selling When Food Is Love 20 years and 30 pounds ago. For the first time in my life since I was six, I stopped dieting and started listening to what my bo…

A Better Way to Break-Up

The pain of divorce can bring us to our knees. What if there’s a way not just to regain our footing but to step onto a new emotional path?

Meditation on the Mat

Try yoga nidra for deep relaxation and profound healing.

Care of the Soul: Reclaim Your Spiritual Growth

When I was just turning 40, I went through some painful changes in my life, and I felt those developments in my body. I went regularly to the doctor, complaining of stomach upset a…

Video: Intro to Tapping

The fascination with our story The Tapping Technique led us to Brad Yates, an Emotional Freedom Technique expert who offers tutorial videos on the practice. Here we share his Intro…

Affirmations Can Mess You Up

I came of age in the New Age of the ’90s. I had affirmation cards before I had business cards. And I tried to love affirmations, really I did. But affirmations didn’t do me any fav…

The Healing Power of Water

For millennia, humans have sought physical relief, emotional healing, and even spiritual renewal by immersing themselves in water. Writer Lindsey Crittenden soaks it all in.

The Tapping Technique

Emotional Freedom Techniques combines principles of acupressure and affirmations to resolve emotional and physical pain.

Cultivating the Values of Your Practice

Rabbi Rami shares his personal practice for elevating awareness and compassion to bring thoughts, actions, and values into alignment.

Hands-On Healing

Pat Fleury teaches doctors, shamans, and regular folks the art of energy healing

The Yoga Sweat: How Our Glands Process Emotion

Sweating up a storm? Discover the emotional and spiritual meaning of sweating.

Go With the Flow and Encounter an Ocean of Possibilities

I bent over, lifted my left leg, and tried to quickly slide my foot into the thick black rubber fin with as much grace as I could muster. My right foot toed the small sheath of my …

3 Essential Practices for Gratitude

Experience more fullness of heart with these exercises embracing gratitude as a spiritual practice.

In the Arctic, A Hunger for Ancestral Foods

The loss of traditional hunting has forced many Inuit to rely on expensive imported food, but many find the Western diet leaves them feeling empty, body and soul.

The Heart of Meditation

We all want small, simple things every day―a good night’s sleep, a parking spot near the door, a satisfying dinner―but what happens when we want to identify or manifest our deeper …

Thwack!

The Surprise that Heals Trauma It started as an upset whisper that turned into a rant that’s become a roar during the last decade or so. You can hear it in professional circles o…

The Door Ajar

I had a dream the other night in which I found myself in the house where I grew up: a very modest bungalow in a neighborhood where most of the wage-earners worked in an automobile …

Care of the Soul: Mega-Soul

I had an unusually enjoyable afternoon recently, lying on the floor in front of my massive classical Greek dictionary and a copy of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, where he makes a…

Finding Your Soul

At birth we each receive our own unique spiritual DNA, but life soon separates us from our true selves. Here’s a path toward wholeness.