I am in the process of starting the practice on the principles outlined in your book, The Secret of Letting Go. I feel it is a process that will take its own time for getting the expected results. Meanwhile, how do I successfully deal with actual difficult circumstances in my life? I was swindled and cheated on several years ago in a promised marriage relationship, and have since been involved...

I grew up as a loner, not really connecting with nor wanting to connect with family, friends, or people in general...while in reality I was starving to connect, and was unbearably lonely, even as an adult. But it still couldn't be admitted to or seen as such. I tried to convince myself I really didn't need anyone. Recently in speaking with a friend, I was shocked to discover this big unseen pa...

There are many villages in India where people believe in "dark magic." In our country, when a person has some ill thoughts about another person, then the former goes to a dark magician and tells him to destroy his/her life by some of his magic. This has ruined my family. Can meditation be helpful in protecting ourselves from ghosts and dark powers created by such dark people? My relatives are...

When I receive approval -- get patted on the back -- my mind tends to process and reprocess that praise. You said in your talk, Deep Spiritual Magic, "The next time you start to suffer over something, Don't let your mind talk to you about it. Your mind will try to reduce it down into something it can deal with." I sense that the same principle applies with being happy about something -- as in...

Recently, several people connected to me have had been diagnosed with serious cancer. This of course saddens me. I have an accompanying fear of "what if someday it happens to me?" I thought I grasped the teachings about how the physical means very little, and that living and dying are one in the same, but after experiencing an unusual minor discomfort I have yet to have diagnosed, I attempted...

My difficulty is that, according to "dog eat dog" biophysical laws in which we live out our lives in the physical, every positive and loving action has an equal and opposite reaction -- a sort of hell of angels! And that it's logistically impossible according to these physical laws, to "first do no harm" -- our core value on a soul level. Rather, we are obliged to play the role of heart-shat...

Most of the popular spiritual/new age/people giving advice on how to manifest the life of your dreams etc, are telling us that we need to imagine and dream and 'think positive thoughts' to be able to manifest the life we deserve. We are told to construct 'dream boards' and to feel the excitement of our desires as though they have already manifested. Can you help me understand this a little bet...

Lately, I have noticed a growing sense of desolation...as if I am wandering through an endless, dry desert. My days seem utterly empty of anything important. Indeed, the whole world looks this way to me. Sometimes it feels as if I have come to some plateau where all is meaningless, and above it there is nothing more. Sometimes even the mountains look...unbeautiful. What's happening to me? (...

Question: I often overtalk in conversations and am working hard at engaging in give-and-take conversations where I say a few things and then stop and wait so the other person can give a few of their thoughts. To do otherwise can lead to excited talking non-stop, which sounds selfish. What can one do to remedy overtalking?

My mother died this year and I have never felt such agony of grief. To say I am tortured in my misery would be an understatement. I admit that I neglected my mother and I accept responsibility for that. But even if I dedicated the rest of my life to serving others, it wouldn't compensate for the suffering I caused her. It is a given that I should not take my life. For me to try to alleviate my...

I work consciously every day with many of your suggestions to overcome inner resistance, doubts, etc., but I have one problem I don't know how to crack... as a 7 year old kid I developed juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Until age 21 I followed medical protocol but since then I have wanted to work with this illness mainly as an emotional, energetic problem. Twenty years later I have had mostly go...