Change can be as simple as a shift in room temperature or as destabilizing as losing one’s job. Since change happens nearly every instant, we have a stress response nearly every instant. Stress is natural and necessary.

This isn’t the only way to give a foot massage. And, if you’re a novice, it will get you started. It’s great to give yourself a foot massage just before bed. Better yet, trade massages with your spouse or partner.

Working with the physical body is key. The meditation and breath-work is key. This practice makes day-to-day reality sweeter while delivering a person from darkness to light, from addiction to recovery, and from dis-ease to Ease. This is Kundalini Yoga and I wish it for you.

To vibrate the Cosmos is to come into rhythm and harmony with the natural order of this Universe. Our fast paced modern world has moved us farther away from our own natural rhythms and intelligence.

As we pursue a path of conscious living, we must extend our awareness to the environment, which ultimately is a part of us and will affect us physically and spiritually. With awareness we can contribute to the healing of the Earth, decrease the impact of our own ecological footprint, and share our knowledge with others.

The pandemic is a shared experience, but we aren’t all sharing it the same way. It’s a trauma and a shock to the collective consciousness, and one that will require healing on many levels.

Cold Depression is when the external demand is greater than the internal capacity to deliver and we have spent our reserves. We are depressed but we are so numb and insensitive to our own self, we do not feel it. The depression is therefore “cold.” This leads us to inner anger and isolation from our soul.

Besides being good for your liver, eating beets is a great way to see how well your elimination is coming along. Your urine, shortly after eating beets, will be pink. Your stool will be beet red/purple. Because it is so obvious when those beets find their way out, it is easy to tell how “on time” and well-functioning your elimination is. It is most important that what we eat is eliminated within 24 hours.

Your energy is probably one of the single most important determinants of how the next twelve months will go for you, and I say this based on personal experience. Like many of you, around this time last year the pandemic was wreaking havoc on my life—multiple income streams collapsed all at once.

The word “seva” means selfless service, but when I reflect on it, I think I get as much out of my acts of seva as the people I’m serving. Some of my first volunteer positions were in homeless shelters in San Francisco, and today I volunteer to support the refugee population here in Greece.