Welcome to Mandala Mind. Each person's journey is unique. This blog is about helping you become yourself and live an inspired and authentic life. Every tool and teaching that inspires us or resonates with us is part of a larger guidance in our life helping us getting closer to our potential as a human being.
If Transformation, Healing and Mindfulness interest you, this blog is for you, and I hope you like what is written here.
Read MoreThe idea of momentum is an interesting one. In simple terms momentum is defined as "force or speed of movement" and gives you the idea that something begins at a starting point and then slowly gains force and speed to move into more expansion. There is a way to create momentum and that is to use our attention and intention. And of course ACTION. Taking a simple action step each day can create a habit and can help move us forward into more and more momentum.
Read MoreEach person's life is like a mandala - a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life."
Pema Chodron
The inner critic, or inner judge is a structure within each human being that sooner or later we will have to deal with in our journey towards more wholeness and inner freedom. As the title reveals this post will show you 9 ways to let go of your inner critic, which involves being aware of the inner critic, recognizing it's incessant messages, becoming able to let go of it and to start recognizing how easy it is to become productive and healthy without a constant nagging voice in the background of your mind.
Read MoreThe word mindfulness is used as a term to point to an inherent capacity to be aware and present. Our mind in its ordinary way is usually preoccupied with the past or with making plans for the future. Most people are rarely fully present, because it means being fully aware of what is happening at this moment and letting things happen. Mindfulness stands for the ability to be open and allowing to experience. Mindfulness is awareness of feelings, emotions, sensations, and thoughts.
Read MoreCan we heal and can we leave behind our limiting ideas of how things have to unfold for us? Healing can happen in many forms. Healing is fundamentally seeing through the identifications and limitations we created and recognizing who we are at a deeper level. Healing happens if we surrender and let the process of change and transformation happen. To heal something you cannot make it happen, just like you cannot make a seed grow. It needs it’s own time and organic living process.
Read MoreWhat is true transformation? What is change? How do we change? Is change possible and if it is possible what are key ingredients to change? Transformation is an alchemical process, that requires being with ourselves, our experience and understanding our experience through being with it in an immediate way. This means being in touch with, feeling what is going on for us and discriminating our thoughts, feelings and sensations. When people approach change, they often hope to get an “improved better version” of themselves or to fix or solve their problems or get rid of uncomfortable emotions.
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