Letting Go Of Everything
A teaching essay arguing that manifesting radical change requires letting go not only of what you want to change but of yourself and everyone else as they are now, closing with a meditation for dissolving into the divine.
Shifting – What Beliefs Will You Need In Your New Life?
A manifestation exercise focused on the inner self, guiding readers to catalog how they will feel and which beliefs must change to match a desired new life, since experiences file new beliefs into the subconscious.
Talk To Your God With That Mouth?
A short spiritual reflection arguing that how you talk to yourself is how you talk to the divine, since you are created of the divine, and inviting readers to reconsider their harsh self-talk in that light.
A Catalog Of Stress
A self-inventory cataloging the many sources of stress — from genuine hardship to fear, an overloaded task list, unmet needs, conditioning, and self-sabotage — and asking what one needs to BE (present, flowing, breathing, thankful) to release stress that isn’t necessary.
Lesson Themes For This Life
A reflective life review tracing the author’s challenges across 44 years — schooling, marriage, divorce, financial ruin, and letting go of possessions and grown children — to surface recurring lessons about truth, boundaries, the effect of money, and freedom through letting go.
Falling Back – Recognizing When Old Behaviors Are Dominating Your World
A candid personal essay on relapsing into martyrdom — how a season of family saving hardened into unnecessary self-sacrifice — and how recognizing the fall back to Stage Three, then reconnecting from Stage One forward, restores balance.
Following Sandards That Are Wrong For Me Pulls Me Back To Stage Six, And How To Get Back To Stage Eight And Higher
A personal essay on how creativity flows freely in Stages Eight and higher but stalls in earlier stages — tracing how the demands of marketing a finished book, album, and art pulled the author back to Stage Six, and how questioning those rules restored the flow.
All The Health Research Condensed
A condensed personal summary of the author’s reading across fitness, nutrition, anti-aging, and disease prevention — outlining diet, cardio, strength, and protocols for cancer, neurodegeneration, and cardiovascular risk, with a clear disclaimer that it is not medical advice.
Step AWAY From The Tornado – Letting Your Children Be Themselves
A personal essay on parenting teenagers into independence — describing the swirling chaos of the final year at home and urging parents to let go: stop advising unasked, stop projecting their own regrets, and let a child spin into their own becoming.
Your Greatest Strength = Your Greatest weakness
A teaching essay arguing that your greatest strength and greatest weakness are two sides of one coin — because whatever your current definition of self makes you focus on becomes strong, while its opposite atrophies — and how mindful balance dissolves both.
Stage 10 – Staying Connected – Recognizing Separation Triggers
A Stage Ten exercise from the Purna Asatti journey for identifying the situations, habits, and people that disconnect you — from yourself, others, and the present — and designing an environment that helps you return to connection quickly.
Stage 7 – Connecting To Yourself – Identifying And Replacing Limiting Beliefs
A Stage Seven exercise for identifying limiting beliefs absorbed from parents, peers, and society, then replacing or completing them with supportive beliefs and repeating those daily to retrain the mind over the course of a month or more.
Stage 7 – Connecting To Yourself – Healing Your Scars
A Stage Seven practice for recognizing and healing emotional scars formed by the amygdala’s survival responses, using mindfulness, repeated self-inquiry, and journaling or counseling to trace present-day fears to their childhood origins and release them.
Stage 7 – Connecting To Doubt – Questioning Everything
A Stage Seven teaching on questioning every belief — religious, political, social, and personal — to form one’s own interpretations, while managing the relational strain this causes and delaying major life changes until the questioning settles.
Stage 7 – Connecting To Your Faith Through Questioning
A Stage Seven teaching that reframes questioning one’s religion or faith — the dark night of the soul — as a natural, private exploration that can deepen rather than destroy belief and bring one into a closer relationship with the divine.
Stage 6 – Connecting To Others – Forgiving And Accepting Others As Human
A Stage Six teaching on forgiving and accepting others — even those who wronged you — as flawed humans, releasing grudges to free your time and attention, while still taking practical steps to protect yourself from genuine danger.
Stage 6 – Connecting To Others – Seeing Yourself In Others
A Stage Six exercise for seeing every person — liked or disliked — as a reflection of some past, present, or future aspect of yourself, and for consciously connecting to the divine light within each one to deepen compassion.
Stage 6 – Connecting To Your Heart – Breaking The Trance Of Unworthiness
A Stage Six teaching on breaking the trance of unworthiness seeded in early childhood, learning to feel the divine light of love within, and becoming the unconditionally loving parent-figure for oneself.
Stage 6 – Connecting To Your Body – Setting Goals And Making Progress
A Stage Six teaching on connecting to the body by setting specific, measurable, attainable goals for nutrition, exercise, and overall wellbeing, breaking them into weekly and daily milestones and celebrating progress along the way.
Stage 6 – Connecting To Yourself – Forgiving And Accepting Yourself As Human
A Stage Six teaching on forgiving oneself for past regrets and accepting one’s ongoing humanity — seeing the earlier self with compassion, learning from mistakes, and designing the future instead of reliving the past.
Stage 6 – Connecting To Yourself – Taking Responsibility For Your Life
A Stage Six teaching on taking full responsibility and authority for one’s own life — recognizing that one’s own choices, not other people, cause and can solve most problems — as the foundation for lasting change.
Stage 5 – Connecting To Others – Seeing Their Humanity Through Their Ideology
A Stage Five exercise for seeing the humanity behind people whose political, religious, or lifestyle beliefs differ from yours — tracing how their upbringing and experiences shaped those views, without needing to agree or change their minds.
Holidays With Family – The Cure For Enlightenment
An essay on why family can so easily trigger old subconscious baggage during holiday gatherings, offering mindfulness and healthy boundaries — including choosing distance — as the main defenses, and distinguishing supportive family from mere blood relation.
Stage 5 – Connecting To Yourself – Reading About Other Ideologies And Updating Your Own
A Stage Five teaching on reading about other ideologies from an anthropological viewpoint to grow comfortable with differing beliefs without feeling offended, and on regularly updating one’s own guiding principles as experience evolves.
What You Ingest – Getting Support For Your Efforts From All Six Senses
A teaching on treating everything taken in through the six senses — food, media, sounds, smells, touch, and energy — like a diet, deliberately curating a sensory environment that fuels your goals and filters out what works against them.