#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization #nondualawareness #nonduality #advaita To read my self-development articles please visit my site here:http://freedomfromtheknown.com Podcast: https://anchor.fm/bitesizewisdom Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bitesizewisdom Hello, I'm Ivan: travel junkie, blogger, teacher…

#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealizationToday's quote is by Sir Francis Bacon, “In charity, there is no excess” If you are on a self-development or spiritual journey, much of that journey at times can seem selfish as you are mainly focused on yourself. This can be ok because in order to truly help others we must be able to help…

#selfdevelopment​ #conciousness​ #spirituality​ #selfrealization ​I think it’s safe to say that most of us will spend our whole lives searching. Searching for love, money, happiness, success, and many other worldly desires. This search takes place mainly in our external world, a search that leads us further away from what we actually want and from …

#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization The title of today’s video is “How To Become a Leader: What Trump Taught The World”, but it’s actually based on an article I wrote a long time ago, which was “How To Become a Leader: What Hitler Taught The World”. It’s not my intent to discuss politics here, but if Donald Trump has done …

#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization Today's quote is by William James, “Genius...means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitable way.” If you have watched some of my videos you will know how much I stress and talk about the faculty of attention. If you are new to my channel check out my video where I giv…

Today we’ll talk about increasing our ability of working with our sensitive energies, of getting more acquainted with recognizing sensation for what it truly is. With learning to relax the body, emotions, and thoughts we are laying the foundation for our journey into our inner space. Our ability to perceive what’s going on inside us becomes more ac…

Living From Presence: How To Really Enter The Present Moment: https://youtu.be/-Px1k1XLJ2A Developing Presence 101: Relaxing The Body and Releasing Its Tensions: https://youtu.be/Yj6x1VzN874 Recently I made a couple of videos about living from presence, If you haven’t checked them out, I'll put the links in the description box. In the first video, …

Today's quote is by Epictetus, “For if a person shifts their caution to their own reasoned choices and the acts of those choices, they will at the same time gain the will to avoid, but if they shift their caution away from their own reasoned choices to things not under their control, seeking to avoid what is controlled by others, they will then be …

“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” They say patience is a virtue, and it truly is the number one quality to cultivate in our lives because it ties in and is a by-product of all our self-development work. Real patience is the result of our genuine inner work, of us, becoming more conscious. To read my self-development…

Recently I made a video about living from presence, If you haven’t checked it out here: https://youtu.be/-Px1k1XLJ2A In that video, I gave a brief overview of how our spiritual journey is one where we go from the gross to the very subtle, and the importance of learning to ground our attention in the energy of sensation in our bodies in order to gro…

Today's quote is by Mark Twain, “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” We're living in crazy times right now, and we all could use a little cheering up. Unfortunately, modern life in many parts of the world has encouraged more selfish ways of living, of being. It’s a dog eat dog kind of world out there. Which has b…

Today our topic is on living from Presence. Our whole self-development journey is one towards a deeper understanding and embodiment of presence. The more presence we invite into our life, the more our life comes alive. Living with little presence our life just slips through our hands and passes us by. We become passive participants in our life and …

Today's quote is by the Buddha, “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” I know it seems as if the sky is falling every day as we hear non-stop about all the…

#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization I have spoken before on the importance of making an aim for oneself in respect to our self-development work. Our aim is what keeps us on the right track. After careful and sincere self-observation, of being objectively mindful of our behavior we should be able to identify areas that we n…

#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization All of us have heard the importance of learning to be present, of living in the now, but how many of us are actually really living it, how many of us really understand what that means or how to do it… Today I’ll briefly touch upon this by emphasizing that we need to live like we really m…

#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization Today we will continue our discussion on negative emotions, specifically that you have the choice or right to not be negative. To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com

In recent years due to the success of the Secret, the law of attraction has enjoyed a mass revival. Although it was good that the focus was generally on being more positive, it lacked a comprehensive understanding and also gave birth to many negative outcomes due to this. I Instead of helping people become more free, it subtly enslaved many people …

On our journey of self-development, one of the key themes that you will find across all spiritual paths is that of purification...and specifically of the purification of our emotions. The emotions that we have picked up through life, that are now part of our false personality, is what keeps us at the level of being that we are currently at. False p…

Today we will talk a little bit about how we can use our habits to help us in our self-development work. In trying to change ourselves to live more consciously we need all the energy we can get. Much of our energy is spent through all the automatic habits that we have developed, and through all our various energy leaks such as indulging in negative…

Energy is all around you. On our self-development journey, one of the primary tools that we use to gain self-knowledge is our attention. We develop a deep and intimate relationship with attention. Which is just an aspect of our true Will. Not what most people take their Will to be which is a constantly changing little “i”, the will of our condition…

We live in a culture of me, me, me! We all occupy a very small part of the world, we live in our own tiny bubble that doesn’t make any real contact with the greater world. It is important for us to try to conceive of something greater than ourselves. To extend beyond our own little bubble, and in doing so new vistas will open up to us. For example,…

#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization Today's quote is by Saadi Shirazi, “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” In a world that seems to be exponentially moving faster, developing real patience will help us to navigate life much more intelligently. How can we develop real patience? Real patience c…

Today's quote is by Henry James, “Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind” I think we can all agree that our world can always use a little more kindness. Today, I just want to provide a little gentle reminder to deliberately be more kind as you go about your day. If yo…

#selfdevelopment #conciousness #spirituality #selfrealization We live in a world that is dominated by thought. Thought has allowed us to create a materially comfortable world. It’s allowed some amazing inventions to come to life, but at the same time has enslaved us as evidenced by the levels of unhappiness and depression that people deal with desp…

I think if you ask someone if they love themselves, a big majority will say that for the most part they do. The reality though is that many people only love the ideas, the images that they have of who they think they are. These images are very precious to us. They give us a sense of identity. If I have an image of myself of being an honest hardwork…

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” - George Bernard Shaw Today I want to touch on a few ideas that this quote inspired. While in our bodies we meet reality in a threefold way. Which is to say that we can only think, feel, and sense the world around us. And based on our own indi…

When settings a goal that will be fulfilling and achievable formulate one that will touch your mind, body, and spirit. We need to find inner balance among our various parts to be able to pursue our goals in a deeply meaningful way. To read my self-development articles please visit my site here: http://freedomfromtheknown.com…

#selfrealization #selfdevelopment #enlightenment #conciousness #spirituality #nonduality Today's quote is a Chinese Proverb. The proverb is “The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.” One of the big ironies of life is that most of us seem to go on missing what’s right in front of us, right under our no…

If you are trying to be more aware of your body, just pick one thing, one physical manifestation and work on it until you master it. For example, let’s take your tone of voice. Learn to be aware of it as if you were simply listening to a stranger. Be an alert witness, that doesn’t judge what he observes. It’s important that we make no attempt to mo…

The law of 3 is an ancient teaching known to all the great wisdom traditions of the past. In esoteric Christianity is was known as the trinity, in Indian teachings, they were expressed in the 3 Gunas of tamas, rajas, and sattva. The law of three can be used to explain how all manifestations happen at both the material and psychological level. It is…

So today I want to talk a little bit about how we can make the best choices for our life. In order to make good sound decisions, we need to become balanced and see and act from a place of presence. As I have mentioned many times on my channel most people have their center of gravity in either their intellect, their emotions, or their bodies. If you…

Throughout life we have people who can come into and are a part of our lives, then due to various circumstances are out of our life. We really need to appreciate all the people who come into our lives for however long it may be. We need to make an effort to restore, renew, revive. reclaim, and redeem our relationships. In life relationships are eve…

Today's topic is on Effort. Specifically, the importance of effort on our self-development journey. When we have ceased to make efforts, we can say that we are now psychologically asleep and drifting through life. Although it may seem that we are not drifting because we are being active in the world, but we are so identified, so immersed in worldly…

Today's quote of the day is by Norman Vincent Peale. The quote is “Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.” Today I want to take a few minutes to talk about the importance of learning to drop from your head-space, from our conscious thinking mind, into our heart space. Getting in tune with our inner knowing, the wisdom of the hear…

We're going to talk about about how in order to transform the world we need to transform the individual, for the individual is what truly exists. Society is a mental construct, show me this thing we call society? To transform oneself requires self-knowledge. Without knowing what we really are, there won’t be any foundation for clear thinking, witho…

Today's quote is “I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.” Most people understand that unless you love yourself, you cannot really love anyone else. If we don’t have a loving relationship with our very own self, we will project any of our own weaknesses unto the other person and end u…

If you are someone who has embarked on a journey of self-knowledge, of self-development and have found yourself to stop making any efforts in relation to your higher aim, we can say that you are now drifting in life. You have fallen asleep at the wheel, your mechanical tendencies have you under their spell, and as a result, you have forgotten all a…

In order to have this higher point of view, we need to learn to recognize and become established in our thought-free awareness. Much like the King in our story, being established in our presence is like we are at the peak of a mountain. From this vantage point, we look down and can see everything below us. We can see our thoughts, emotions, feeling…

Today our topic is on how we can use sleep to help us realize our true nature. On my channel, you always hear me talking about being present, being aware, being conscious, etc. Learning to let go of all that is false in order to discover what we really are. The problem for most of us is that we are too identified with our thoughts, emotions, bodies…

Today's topic is on Karma Yoga. We will define Karma Yoga simply as the science of non-identifying. This means that we learn to approach life in a way that is equal whether those events are pleasant or unpleasant. That is we approach them consciously. We do not try to avoid the unpleasant things in life, which most people spend their whole lives do…

In previous videos, I have touched upon how our main centers...which are our intellectual, emotional, and moving/instinctive center of our body...have a positive and negative half…. For example, the positive part of our intellectual center is its ability to say “yes” (affirmation) and negative part is ”no” (negation)..this natural division makes it…

Today I want to talk about bringing more original and new ideas into the world. Here we want to quiet and go beyond the purely associative part of our thinking. We want to simply contact our inner stillness and just be open to anything that emerges. If you really learn to be inwardly still and go deeply into it, you will be in a position where an u…

Humans are highly impressionable beings, what happens to most of us is that as we get older we become increasingly conditioned in our minds, emotions, and bodies. As they say, people get set in their ways. Not only do people have a hard time in changing themselves at the personal level, but also the way in which they perceive the external world bec…

Anxiety and fear keep us on a very narrow path. These limitations are an invisible prison that many of us are unconscious too. It becomes part of our identity, therefore, we no longer see it or question it, although we sense something is quite right. This is where we need to be able to clearly see if anxiety and fear are a major problem in our life…

Today our topic is on finding and appreciating balance. As the quote says happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. The problem is that as we go through life and we have a few amazing experiences, we then seek to only want and to maintain only good feeling states and avoid what we would label as bad experiences. We live i…

Society is artificial, we slowly get conditioned into having many faces. To be yourself in society can cause you great inconveniences, hence why almost no one ever shows who they really are. Many of us don’t even know who we are anymore, we just think we do. The word persona is a very significant word, it is a Latin word meaning mask. This is where…

I think we have all heard the expression that sometimes people feel like they are carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders. Physically you can also see it. For many of us regardless of our physical weight, in our inner space, we feel obese. We are weighed down by our thoughts, emotions, feelings, our addictions, our past, our expectation…

Today's topic is on understanding the wrong work of our bodies centers, that being our intellectual, emotional, and the instinctive/moving centers. In a recent video we talked about the importance of observing and really knowing your centers because doing so gives us a lot of self-knowledge. By properly observing our centers we can determine how co…

If we want to reclaim the creativity that was once ours, we need to get rid of all our social conditioning’s, otherwise whatever we create is truly not our own unique creation. Our social conditioning only allows us to modify and copy ideas that were never really ours. To be creative in the purest sense is to be an individual, to not allow our crea…

Today I want you to take the time to think about someone who you really dislike, nay, someone who you may even despise. What is it that irritates you most about them? Is it that they are inconsiderate? That they don’t listen? Or maybe that they are overly narcissistic? What if I told you that it is entirely possible to even learn to like these peop…