Spiritual practice

A temazcal is a low heat sweat lodge coming from pre-Hispanic Indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica. What is referred to as temazcal is this traditional structure as well as the temazcal ceremony held inside. The term temazcal originates from the Nahuatl word temāzcalli, meanin...

Children depend on their parents for more than just their basic needs (food, clothing, and shelter). In fact, during the earliest stages of our lives, we learn from our parents how to process emotions and how to validate our feelings. Good parenting teaches children emotional in...

Across the globe, numerous diverse cultures have evolved during the ages, each with its unique approach to healing. These healing traditions are the result of evolutionary processes in the necessity for health and well-being. (Pesek, 2006) Despite the many differences, there is ...

Yoga nidra (yoga of sleep) is a type of guided meditation where the practitioners lay down, close their eyes as if they are about to fall asleep and follow the facilitator as they are guided into the deep layers of awareness. This practice facilitates a state between waking and ...

Spiritual activism is a form of activism that is grounded on spiritual philosophies and practices. Spirituality and activism may seem contradictory at first glance as spirituality is considered an inward practice whereas activism is aimed at  the outer, material world. Howe...

Spirituality and religiosity are two terms that have been used synonymously historically. However, over the past couple of years, these words started to adopt distinctive characteristics. More and more people move away from conventional religious practices and adopt a spiritual ...

What if I told you that spiritual growth is possible for anyone committing to only ten minutes of your day? This probably sounds like a cheap commercial where the salesman promotes a magical cure-for-all that will most likely turn out to be a waste of money in the end! However, ...

Everywhere in the world, regardless of currency, children overestimate the physical size of money so when we ask them to draw a coin, they draw circles where diameters larger than their actual size. The size of a coin is relatively more overestimated by poor children than rich c...

Article by Izet Jusufbašic One in ten people during their lifetime claim to have had an out-of-body experience. An experience during which a person feels their soul being separated and floating outside of its body, often looking at it from a height, and those who have ex...

Humanity has come a long way in its understanding of the nature of reality. Our curiosity and intelligence have always pushed us to understand our place in the cosmos. As such, we have been able to ask some tough questions and pursue their answers. Over centuries of work by coun...