Dalai Lama: Unleashing Compassion in the World

How did the best-selling author of “Emotional Intelligence” and His Holiness the Dalai Lama grow into longtime friends? The two teamed up in 2000 for Goleman’s book “Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama,” in which His Holiness offers how and why to diffuse the human feelings that corrode our connection to ourselves and each other.  In 2015, the Dalai Lama asked Goleman to write another book to celebrate his 80th birthday: “A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Our World.”

When Goleman met the Dalai Lama, he was “surprised at how muscular his compassion was,” he says. Meditation was important, yes, but His Holiness practiced active, passionate and useful kindness. The ultimate goal was nothing less than changing the world! Click here to see Goleman’s discoveries.

What would Ernest Holmes have said to this Buddhist visionary? Read Dr. Roger Teel’s imagined conversation between the two, as well as an excerpt from “A Force for Good,” in the July 2016 issue of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine.

Do You Hear Life Calling You?

Each of us must “respond to the summons, and obligation, of being more conscious,” says Jungian analyst James Hollis. Otherwise, we suffer the consequences of unfulfilled longings, shame, fear and self-sabotage. In his book “Hauntings,” Hollis encourages us to take a good look at the “ghosts who run our lives” and in turn find true freedom.

How do we wake up spiritually? Be open to mystery and to what the soul is asking of us, Hollis says. Jung proposed that “neurosis is suffering that has not yet found its meaning.” Check out his video: “In a Dark Wood: The Lore of Shadows.”

Read more in Kathy Juline’s eye-opening article “Free to Be: Dispelling the Ghosts that Haunt Us” in the July 2016 issue of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine.

Quit Smoking, Give Up Caffeine and Lose Weight:
Claim Joyous Freedom Out Loud!

For three months before Rev. Dr. Petra Weldes quit smoking, she said, “I am a non-smoker.” She kept the ridiculous, apparently untrue affirmation to herself, knowing friends and family would scoff. But she continued to repeat it every time she bought cigarettes and every time she lit up: “I am a non-smoker.” One day, she went to get a cigarette and thought, “I am a non-smoker.” She put the cigarette down, and that was that.

Defining and embracing spiritual truth, despite contradicting appearances, can change how we see ourselves. More importantly, self-definition changes behavior. Here’s a video link of Weldes discussing freedom from addiction.

Don’t miss her article on "Defining Financial Freedom" in the July 2016 issue of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine. Weldes is also the co-author of the “Joyous Freedom Journal” with Rev. Dr. Christian Sorensen.

I Am Free Spirit
—Ernest Holmes

There is no bondage nor limitation.
Every part of me moves in perfect harmony and freedom. I cannot be tied, bound nor made inactive, for I am Free Spirit, and the Power of my Life is from on High.
There is no inaction or false action,
And I am now completely free.

This is an excerpt from “The Science of Mind,” written by spiritual visionary Dr. Ernest Holmes. Read more in the July 2016 issue of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine.

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