![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Your Faith Through Questioning](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/7AFF0825-0D2F-44B8-9EA4-6D71AB1AFC0B-1080x675.jpeg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Seven task of questioning one’s faith as a path to deeper connection, framing independent study of sacred texts as a direct, guilt-free conversation with the divine rather than a betrayal of belief.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Your Body – Setting Goals And Making Progress](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0814-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Six task of setting body goals, building gratitude for the body and guiding the definition of small, achievable nutrition, exercise and wellbeing goals, then visualizing their compound effect for motivation.
A spiritual teaching essay on the law of reciprocity — that whatever we put into the world returns to us like ripples on water — culminating in the idea that ‘being,’ quiet presence in the moment, is where the divine is found.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Others – Forgiving And Accepting Others As Human](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0591-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Six task of forgiving and accepting others, practicing the recognition that another’s choices say nothing about you, and extending that acceptance to societal norms and groups previously rejected.
An examination of how money becomes a tool of control in intimate relationships — how one partner erodes the other’s financial confidence and seizes sole access — and why financial visibility is inseparable from equality and freedom.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Others – Seeing Yourself In Others](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0682-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Six task of seeing yourself in others, practicing viewing people’s defining traits as reflections of your own past, present or future self, as a way to connect more easily and read inner messages.
A relationship teaching offering playful practices — eye gazing, sustained touch, flirting, and consciously sending love — that deepen connection and compassion between partners, several of which one person can initiate alone.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Your Heart – Breaking The Trance Of Unworthiness](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0721-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Six task of breaking the trance of unworthiness, guiding the practitioner to distinguish the true self from the self built for others and to feel the divine love that has always been present in the heart.
A money essay describing three forms of financial manipulation in relationships — demanding payment for connection, turning cold once paid, and outright extortion — and tracing them to a lack of empathy and a broken capacity for real trust.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Yourself – Forgiving And Accepting Yourself As Human](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0733-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Six task of forgiving and accepting yourself as human, guiding you to revisit a past mistake, offer compassion to your former self, and release the regret so you can move forward wiser.
A relationship teaching redefining compassion not as shared suffering but as seeing another’s humanity as an aspect of yourself, and explaining why compassion for a partner must begin with genuine compassion for oneself.
An essay responding to Tim Ferriss’s remark that meditation had diminishing returns, arguing that a meditation practice, like a workout, must evolve through progressively challenging forms — mindfulness, objects, sound, mantra, somatic, energy and consciousness.
A money essay using homicide and domestic-conflict statistics to show how money, as a surrogate for survival, drives anger and violence in relationships, and offering three keys to keep money from sparking conflict with a partner.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Yourself – Taking Responsibility For Your Life](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0816-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Six task of taking responsibility for your life, guiding you to stop blaming others, accept your current reality, and recognize the authority you hold to improve your situation one small step each day.
A guided meditation for the Stage Three task of getting out of debt, using a dream-setting visualization of a debt-free life to build motivation and a deeper, more positive relationship with money on the path to financial freedom.
The landing page for the book of forty-four guided meditations that accompany the eleven-stage Purna Asatti roadmap, listing formats, ISBNs, and a full table of contents mapping each meditation to a specific stage and personal-development task.
The landing page for the book applying the eleven stages of the human experience to business, using an understanding of employees’, leaders’ and customers’ mindsets to improve hiring, management, marketing, sales and negotiation.
An examination of the guilt that often accompanies large-scale wealth: the discomfort of no longer struggling while others do, the search for renewed purpose, and how boredom and guilt frequently lead the wealthy toward philanthropy.
An artist’s statement for an abstract piece created during pandemic lockdowns, attempting to capture the felt sense of disillusionment: churning discomfort and fear in the body alongside an openness and sense of new possibility.
A personal account of an experiment to make love every day, describing why the couple prioritized daily intimacy, how they chose mornings, embraced efficiency, and used their desire or its absence as an indicator of overall wellbeing.
A guided meditation supporting the Stage Three task of connecting to internal energy and feelings, leading a head-to-gut body scan that names emotions, traces them to fear or love, and notices how each registers energetically in the body.
An examination of how building wealth trades one set of problems for another: the tiers of high net worth, the teams of advisors required, and how money magnifies existing character traits in oneself and in others.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Others – Seeing Their Humanity Through Their Needs](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Meditation.png)
A guided meditation supporting the Stage Three task of seeing others’ humanity through their needs, progressing from imagining the needs of a loved one to those of an acquaintance and finally someone disliked, cultivating compassion.
A business teaching on applying the eleven human stages to corporate and international negotiations: reading the dominant and in-the-moment stages of multiple decision-makers, using presentations to set the right stage, and translating the method across cultures.
A relationship teaching on integrating the physical, energetic and divine dimensions of sexual intimacy, allowing rather than forcing the simultaneous awareness of bodily sensation, energy exchange and each partner’s divine nature.