ROBERT CANNESSA

The first hindrance is called “sensual desire.” Sensual desire arises in the moment when we are paying attention to something that is giving us a positive emotion. This positive emotion can originate from five gates of our body: Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, or feeling.

Sherry Turkle, author of the book Alone Together:

“You end up isolated if you don’t cultivate the capacity for solitude, the ability to be separate, to gather yourself. Solitude is where you find yourself so that you can reach out to other people and form real attachments. When w...

As our body serves as a vehicle that carries the spirit, the body carries emotions as well. Fear is an emotional energy that we can be able to neutralize, transmute and transform. It is an emotion that we can be able to release and let go. One that we cannot surrender to because it is no master w...