by Leigh Tremaine | Authentic Community, Self-Development, Spirituality
Spiritual community is essential for fully actualising our true selves. It empowers us to awaken spiritually and to form natural, heart-centred spiritual connections with others. With the mutual support of a spiritual community, we can more easily awaken to, accept,...
by Leigh Tremaine | Self-Development, Spirituality
Your true self is your true nature and identity found at the deepest core of your being. Unlike your personality self or ego, your true self is not your conditioned personality self formed from childhood that you most commonly identify with because of its link with...
by Leigh Tremaine | Mindfulness, Self-Development
Emotional intelligence measures how effectively we perceive, understand, evaluate, manage, express, and respond to our emotions and those of others. Think of emotional intelligence as emotional maturity. We can increase emotional intelligence by becoming more...
by Leigh Tremaine | Self-Development, Spirituality
What is Spiritual Awakening? Spiritual awakening is a natural and necessary stage in the evolution of your consciousness and the maturation of your ego. It is the process of evolving your consciousness towards more spiritual states, in which you experience an...
by Leigh Tremaine | Meditation, Self-Development, Spirituality
Activating your light body is a key stage of your journey of spiritual evolution, and helps you to move into greater healing, empowerment, and wisdom through your greater spiritual embodiment. Your light body is your core spiritual self. You can think of it as a...
by Leigh Tremaine | Mindfulness, Self-Development, Wellness
Metacognition is a key component of mindfulness. It is the awareness, established from your observer self, of your thought processes and emotions, and the patterns behind them. But what if I told you that metacognition is more than this? It is the most powerful tool...
by Leigh Tremaine | Self-Development, Wellness
Cognitive dissonance was coined by social psychologist Leon Festinger in 1957. It refers to a state of inconsistency between our thoughts or inner experience that generates discomfort and stress. To reduce this discomfort and stress, we will often distort our thinking...
by Leigh Tremaine | Self-Development, Wellness
Critical thinking is essential for freedom of thought and effective reasoning and decision-making. It’s required to attain higher degrees of awareness, truth, and wisdom, helping you spot faulty thinking that could hold you back and sabotage your development and...
by Leigh Tremaine | Mindfulness, Wellness
Comfort eating or emotional eating is the automatic compulsion or craving to eat in order to relieve stress, emotional difficulties, emptiness, and boredom. This is a maladaptive, avoidant strategy and is often unconsciously driven. Many people try to stop comfort...
by Leigh Tremaine | Wellness
For those of you who practise yoga, you will know that pranayama is a powerful, focused breathing technique used to direct the energy flow of the subtle body to promote healing, vitality, and spiritual self-realisation. It is one of the more esoteric practices of...
