Come Home to Yourself is a powerful soul guidance and personal development course that will allow you the space for deep self-reflection, to help you to know, understand, accept and love yourself like never before. In early 2001, after taking leave of my job and arriving at an ashram in India, I anticipated the months there would be filled with experiences of light, peace, and expansion. I want to believe that the moment we take our last breath on this side of the veil, we wake up on the other side.

By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. I began by being aware that as I was stepping with my left foot, I was at the same time stepping with my right, because my left foot could not be without my right. There this feeling of being homesick is simply an experience along a soul’s journey, and our awareness of it becomes a turning point. What we are actually doing is re-establishing these qualities and the energy inherent in them, to our psyche. It’s difficult to describe, but it has a quality of mild unease, of feeling unsettled, off-center perhaps, or a little ungrounded— like there is some place you belong, but you’re not sure it even exists.While these practices are a beneficial and beautiful support for stilling the mind, entering presence, and becoming aware of resistances, they are not “it. My “visions” are like seeing a vivid movie play out in my mind and hearing a resounding message or voice deep within me. In her second collection of published writing, Déjà Rae explores the highs and lows of letting go of past relationships and embracing loneliness as a means to discover oneself. A key step that can help us begin to settle ourselves when we are profoundly unsettled is to come home, to ourselves, in this moment, whatever is happening. I want to shake off any remnants of oppression that cling to me before I step into the next season of my life.

I celebrate my birthday each year by listening in and selecting a new mantra that inevitably serves as a guiding light for the year ahead. She spent fifteen years as a nun in Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic community and is now a lay dharma teacher in both the Zen and Vipassana traditions, with a focus on racial, climate, and social justice. This teaching is excerpted from her new book, We Were Made for These Times , which will be published by Parallax Press in October. I found Rae’s writing through social media and some of the posts resonated with me, so I thought I’d give this a try.One morning, when I was a novice nun, in slow walking after our early morning sitting meditation, I was very present and able to be aware of nearly every step. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of addiction in a relative or friend.