by Renu Gulati | Nov 22, 2020 | Practical Spirituality
We talk about being authentic. We talk about walking your talk. What does this mean in daily life?If one were to wear one’s self on one’s sleeve, what would happen? We would be judged, subconsciously or consciously by others. Ayurveda advises us to maintain a happy...
by Renu Gulati | Nov 18, 2020 | Practical Spirituality
Have you ever heard of the term, Spiritual Bypassing? It is also known as Spiritual Sublimation. They are relatively new terms in the field of psychology. They are one and the same thing and in brief, they refer to using ’spirituality’ as a tool for escape in the same...
by Renu Gulati | Nov 18, 2020 | Practical Spirituality
They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they’ve heard of unemployment and they’ve heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball – Frederic Ogden Nash, American writer and poet How real is your...
by Renu Gulati | Nov 18, 2020 | Practical Spirituality
The author, an Ayurveda teacher pursued spirituality for several years, only to discover that real spirituality lay elsewhere The day you stop racing is the day you win the race – Bob Marley Sometimes, I feel suffocated by ‘spiritual’ and wellness teachings. I am an...
by Renu Gulati | Nov 18, 2020 | Practical Spirituality
We all think about love and use the word regularly. But what does the word actually mean? We say ‘falling in love’, but perhaps we must amend that to ‘rising in love’. Love to me is a state of freedom where there is no oppression but open communication. I am not...
by Renu Gulati | Nov 18, 2020 | Practical Spirituality
We fought British colonialism valiantly and ended their rule on August 15, 1947. But the vestiges of the Raj continue to haunt some of us in our thinking and more so in our education system. There was so much of merit in our Gurukul system of education, where students...