How to Heal Your Heart Chakra

How to Heal Your Heart Chakra

In contemporary chakra practice, the heart chakra, often called Anahata, is used as a symbol for compassion, connection and boundaries. Green and pink are common visual associations. These are spiritual interpretations, not a way to diagnose the heart, lungs,...
How to Know if You Are an Empath

How to Know if You Are an Empath

“Empath” is a personal or spiritual label some people use when they feel particularly responsive to other people’s moods. You may find the word helpful, but identifying with it does not prove that you absorb emotions, read minds or detect illness. Notice...
How to Stay Grounded in Your Mind and Body

How to Stay Grounded in Your Mind and Body

Here, grounding means bringing attention to your present surroundings through simple observations and ordinary activities. It is different from spiritual claims about removing energy or from “earthing” products. You can try a comfortable exercise without believing it...
Using Magic for Shadow Work

Using Magic for Shadow Work

Some contemporary spiritual practitioners use “shadow work” to describe reflecting on feelings, habits or parts of themselves they find difficult to acknowledge. Magic may be part of a personal ritual around that reflection. It does not prove that a hidden force...
What is an Old Soul?

What is an Old Soul?

“Old soul” is a phrase people use for someone they experience as reflective, thoughtful or drawn to quieter interests. Some spiritual interpretations connect it with reincarnation. You can find the phrase meaningful without treating it as proof of past lives, superior...