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Mystic Minds

·Nov 8, 2021

My Dead Grandma Helps Me Lucid Dream

And yours can, too — I am sitting in my parents’ living room, holding my grandmother’s hand. My mother and sister are there, too. Suddenly a clear knowing hits me. My grandmother died earlier this year. So unless I found a working time machine, this experience can’t be real. I must be having a dream…

Lucid Dreaming

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My Dead Grandma Helps Me Lucid Dream
My Dead Grandma Helps Me Lucid Dream
Lucid Dreaming

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Oct 17, 2021

A Message From Your Intuition

It’s tired of being misunderstood — Intuition. We have many names for it. Sixth sense. Spidey Sense. Instinct. Gut feeling. Inner knowing. But it’s hard to capture the concept in words. To fully grasp it you must experience firsthand, either by following your intuition on something, or wishing you had, in retrospect. Intuition is NOT a thought or a feeling That inner knowing does…

Intuition

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A Message From Your Intuition
A Message From Your Intuition
Intuition

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Oct 1, 2021

A One-Step Guide To Finding Yourself

Step One: Unhide Yourself — I was painfully shy as a child. It was painful for me, anyway. I desperately wanted to come out of my shell, but that process would take years. Decades, in fact. Flashback to seven-year-old Alla. Midway through math class, she desperately has to pee. The number of class minutes left…

Life Lessons

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A One-Step Guide To Finding Yourself
A One-Step Guide To Finding Yourself
Life Lessons

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Sep 19, 2021

7 Life Lessons From My Babushka

My Babushka (Grandma in Russian) died at 85. Her wisdom lives on. — Earlier this year, my Babushka died from Covid. She was the center of gravity for our entire family. Its very soul. Babushka was both highly sensitive and fiercely tough. A good hug could make her cry. And yet she was strong as Soviet steel. Surviving war, illness, persecution. …

Life Lessons

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7 Life Lessons From My Babushka
7 Life Lessons From My Babushka
Life Lessons

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ILLUMINATION

·Sep 14, 2021

The Best Analogy For How To Deal With Your Emotions

It’s equal parts funny and useful — Here it is, my friends. The secret to dealing with our emotions in a healthy way: Emotions are like children. You don’t want to let them drive the car, but you can’t lock them in the trunk, either. I first heard this little nugget of wisdom in a yoga teacher…

Personal Growth

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The Best Analogy For How To Deal With Your Emotions
The Best Analogy For How To Deal With Your Emotions
Personal Growth

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ILLUMINATION

·Sep 2, 2021

Not Getting Your Way Is A Gift From The Future

A modern twist on the old proverb “Good Luck, Bad Luck” — You may have heard a version of this ancient proverb about the wise old farmer and his horse. An old farmer had a single horse. It helped plow the field, sow the seeds, and transport the crops to the market. That horse was his livelihood. One day the horse ran…

Life Lessons

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Not Getting Your Way Is A Gift From The Future
Not Getting Your Way Is A Gift From The Future
Life Lessons

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Mystic Minds

·Aug 24, 2021

The First Step To Enlightenment Is To Lighten Up

Inner work can feel more like play if we let it — What do Neo-hippie havens like Bali, Guatemala, and Sri Lanka have in common? Sure, you can take a very scenic and affordable yoga class in all three, sandwiched between a cacao ceremony and a Tantra workshop. But that’s a surface-level similarity. I mean on a deeper, energetic level. Over the…

Spirituality

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The First Step To Enlightenment Is To Lighten Up
The First Step To Enlightenment Is To Lighten Up
Spirituality

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Aug 19, 2021

The Confusing Art of Holding Space

People often cry around me. It’s a good thing. — Recently I realized that all throughout my life, people have been crying in my presence. Not just close family and friends, but people I barely know. Strangers seated next to me on long flights. Tough guys who normally shove emotions down. …

Self

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The Confusing Art of Holding Space
The Confusing Art of Holding Space
Self

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Mystic Minds

·Aug 10, 2021

How To Know If You’re Ready For Ayahuasca

And how to tell a true healer from a drug dealer — In the last decade, Google searches for “ayahuasca” have quadrupled. And it’s no surprise since ancient plant medicine has found its way into modern culture. Jim Carrey has tried it. So have many other celebrities and creative types. Ayahuasca ceremonies have starred in movies like Wanderlust and While We’re Young. …

Ayahuasca

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How To Know If You’re Ready For Ayahuasca
How To Know If You’re Ready For Ayahuasca
Ayahuasca

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Mystic Minds

·Jul 22, 2021

Don’t Mistake Synchronicity For Fate

Maybe you were meant to meet but not meant to be — Last summer my good friend set me up with a guy. As I got to know him, the crazy coincidences kept stacking up. Manhattan has 214 numbered streets. We had lived on the same exact one for years, two blocks apart. We took classes at the same yoga studio. …

Relationships

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Don’t Mistake Synchronicity for Fate
Don’t Mistake Synchronicity for Fate
Relationships

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