Articles about Cultivate Insight & Wisdom
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Try This Beginner Visualization
Adding visualizations to a regular meditation practice can have powerful effects on wellbeing. Here’s how to supercharge your meditations with visualizations.
5 Yoga Poses Anyone Can Do
These beginner yoga poses will help you stress less, sleep better, and strengthen mind-body awareness.
Echoes from the Grinding Stone
A Goan grinding stone sings with memories of hand-ground spices, packed with flavor and nourishment — and strengthens the bonds of family.
GROW: The Forest of the Sea
We consume seaweed daily, but not always in the most environmentally ethical or nutritious forms.
How to HALT Crappy Feelings
If the idea of pausing to check in with yourself sounds familiar, that’s because the HALT method is a mindfulness practice.
FORAGE: Dia(spore)ic Cooking
Food anchors us to our roots, but for those who are far from home, working with what's local and seasonal can invite constructive “troublemaking” in family recipes — adapting and redefining traditions of wellbeing.
Get Comfortable With Stillness
And contrary to popular belief, sitting in stillness isn’t siloed to meditating in a quiet room —you can also be in motion.
FORAGE: The Purslane Passport
Find out how a humble weed can be a portal to meaningful relationships, a new view on the world, and even hope for a climate-challenged future.
DIALOGUE: Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya
The New York-based Ayurvedic scholar explains why you are what you digest, not what you eat.
Mustard Greens & Gardening Wisdom
When you treasure your failures, even a fruitless garden can be a wellspring of abundance
RG Spotlight: Prakriti Poddar
Poddar’s decision to follow her purpose has led to an extensive career at Roundglass helping others actualize mental health.
SIP: Chai Is Life
Chai is family, chai is ritual, chai is coming back to the soul.
To put it another way, chai is who I am.
Rosie Acosta: You Are Enough
FOCUS: Our Backyard Superfood
Wellness companies call roselle a “wonder leaf.” To my family, its healing properties were part of everyday life.
Andrea Sonnenberg: Navigating Tragedy
The Garden as a Place of Solace
A garden can feed you, of course. But it can also connect you to your family, guide you though difficult times, and even show you the path to a new career.
How to Befriend Your Ego
Find Purpose Through Service
Living with Earplugs Out
Now that I wasn’t able to find time for my regular meditation routine, I wondered how it could help.
Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is
The next time you want to invest in a new product, app, or company, ask yourself if the venture compels you on an emotional level.
FORAGE: The Other Mississippi River
The practice of foraging is about much more than wild food — it’s about cultivating a relationship with the natural world
Wellbeing Programs Your Employees Need, But Don’t Ask For
The ideal employee wellbeing program must include doctor consultations, lifestyle disease management, stress management and one-on-one counselling sessions.
Best Ways to Give Feedback to Your Employees
The best way to provide feedback to your employees is by being constructive, listening to them, gauging their reaction and asking for their feedback as well.
Improve Employee Financial Wellbeing
Employee financial wellbeing can be enhanced by understanding their needs, offering financial education, and providing access to a financial consultant.
How Leaders Can Manage Remote Teams Effectively
Leading a remote team can be tricky. Make empathy the cornerstone of your leadership by checking in on your employees frequently and being patient at work.
The Synergy of Science and Spirituality
In a world so often torn apart by division, greed, and partisanship, a global dialogue between science and spirituality can be comforting.
The Power of Reforestation
Find out about the Plant for Punjab initiative and why reforestation projects are so important.
Embracing the flow of life through synchronicity
Tapping Into the Vitality of Nature
Walks in nature come with obvious physical and emotional benefits. But they are equally essential to our Planetary Wellbeing.
Expand Your Practice: Ayurveda
Ayurveda aims to find a state of equilibrium in the body, and meditation is one of the modalities used for this harmony.
Seeking Wholistic Wellbeing through our elders
From CSR to Corporate Citizenship
How can we extend the culture of giving back beyond the office space?
Should You Meditate With Your Pet?
We often come into meditation postures with a gentle touch and a lightness in our energy that invites our pets closer.
Meditation for Self-realization
Wholistic Wellbeing is about discovering who you are. For some, meditation for self-realization is a key stage of the journey of growth.
Why You Need A Gratitude Jar
Once your brain is trained to focus on positive experiences, you bring more positivity into your everyday life.
Start A Daily Meditation Habit
The more we practice meditation, the better we are at tracking what’s going on in our lives and the world around us.
Try This: Mindful Listening
Once you have awareness of what you are hearing outside and within, mindful listening encourages letting go of distractions.
Listening to Our North Star through Mindfulness Meditation
In astronomy, the North Star is constant all year round; our own North Star is our purpose: never moving, never changing.
The 5 States of Mind
To reach the state of absolute calmness and balance, we must first understand the different states of mind.
Beginner’s Guide to the Chakras
All that exists in the universe exists within the body.
How to reframe our view of disabilities through Wholistic Wellbeing
As we move away from the abled VS disabled binary towards a world where we value everyone's different abilities, Wholistic Wellbeing can help us create a more inclusive world.
The Joy of Connecting with Children
How can learning from those younger than ourselves improve our Wholistic Wellbeing?
Embracing Wholistic Wellbeing through intersectionality
In a world that increasingly values and recognizes the complexity of diversity, how does intersectionality inform Wholistic Wellbeing?
What's Your Meditation Style?
Some prefer guided-meditation, and for teachers or individuals with an advanced practice, self-meditation may work better.
Excellence V Perfectionism
How can we encourage employee excellence without pressuring perfectionism?
Yes, You Should Meditate in Your 20s
Being twenty-something is prime-time to understand your mind and heart, and to undo any intergenerational trauma.
How do we know we're choosing the right books on wellbeing?
What Are the 8 Limbs of Yoga?
When practiced, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras function as steps to controlling the mind in pursuit of liberation.
How to Find Life’s Purpose — Hint, It’s Not What You Think
Rather than searching for your purpose, or dharma, outside of yourself, ask why you’re feeling lost or unfulfilled.
Yoga for Positive Energy
What we put out into the world, we receive back from it, so it’s important to consciously work to keep negativity at bay.
Why I Created the Roundglass Foundation
Wholistic Wellbeing has been an inspiration to give back to the communities that shaped me.
How to Meditate for Beginners
Let go of what you think meditation is, what you believe meditating looks like, and if you're doing it 'right.'
Buddhism Helped Heal My Addiction
When I brought awareness to my dark parts and understood the chaos they were causing, my true healing began.
Feeling Lonely? Ask Yourself This
Like a stomach rumbling, the feeling of loneliness is an alarm bell. In this case, it’s telling us that we need connection.
The Importance of a Quiet Place
I gave up the Hong Kong jackpot for a garden in Taipei, where I nurture plants — and they nurture me
Find Your Center with Whiring
In whirling, we release dependence on the outside world and develop a deep inner centering.
5 Benefits of Chanting Mantra
When you chant mantra, you fall into a repetitive trance. This helps regulate your breath, training it into consistent rhythm.
How to Connect to Your Ancestors
These connections can help us feel more fulfilled and supported in our lives, and they are not mutually exclusive.
7 Benefits of Visualization
Creating better outcomes isn’t just about visualizing a situation; it’s also about being your best self.
The Secrets of Sanskrit
Many who study Sanskrit refer to 'the Sanskrit effect,' in which they experience what seems to be enhanced verbal memory.
How I Learned to Whirl
As my practice continues, I have learned that anything can be a teacher when we tune in to our hearts.
8 Common Myths About Whirling
Whirling can bring about misconceptions with its mysterious ways, but the practice starts and ends as a meditation.
You Are More Creative Than You Think
Creativity can be perceived as your unique style and imprint on everything you do.
Use Kundalini To Deepen Intuition
I was always aware of my intuition, but I did not always have the wherewithal to act on it before practicing Kundalini yoga.
Improve Your Spinal Flexibility
Introduce fluidity and ease into your body and life by stretching the spine.
Give This Mindful Gift to Mom
If you have a mother figure in your life, invite her to join you for a guided Roundglass live meditation.
Chase Peace of Mind, Not Happiness
I believe we should set our sights on peace of mind, because when our mind is calm, it doesn’t matter if you’re happy.
4 Ways to Build A Resilient Mind
If you want to live a fruitful life, you need to create resilience by focusing on purpose, persistence, sensitivity, and analysis.
5 Questions For Spiritual Detox
You don't need a shaman to detox your heart of negative emotions. Start with these questions, and the work will unfold.
Why Grief Never Expires
The honest thing to admit is that you're never letting go of your grief. It's like gaining the holiday five. Another way to consider your grieving timeline is giving yourself time to remember, not forget.
Preserve the Depth In Meditation
People, places, things, ideas, and experiences are all, at their core, made of the same source energy.
Mindful Insights In Meditation
The body constantly delivers signs and signals filled with insight and wisdom related to emotions.
Get Comfy To Meditate
I believe if the ancient yogis had sofas in their Himalayan caves, they would have meditated on them!
How I Learned To Like Myself
I want my students to know that it's possible to experience an awakening, and it doesn't have to be this big, lofty thing.
How Meditation Opened My Mind
I learned my current reality was one-dimensional and shaped by various habits and emotions.
How Meditating Connects My Path
You're not looking to other people to please you because you know what you want, and you can express it.
Daily Meditation: A Formal Practice
Accepting everything as is, was a pathway to acceptance and peace within myself.
Better Decisions From Meditating
When I do find myself in the throws of powerful emotions like anger or self-doubt, I'm not crippled by it the way I used to be.
Meditation Reveals More of What We Are
After some time, your whole life becomes meditation. Suddenly, you're alive in a life you mainly were distracted.
How to Let Go Of Old Stories
The ability to be comfortable in my skin and to show up for my life daily has allowed me to be more fulfilled.
A Daily Meditation 3-Part Practice
Our thoughts and feelings aren’t permanent, but learning this can take time.
Does Meditation Ever Get Easier?
As we get more experienced with meditation, it allows us to reap more of the benefits, outweighing the discomfort.
Meditation Helps Me as an Artist
The benefit of steadiness created a Miriam that's not that affected by the shifts around me.
Why I Chose Open Awareness
Through open awareness meditation, one rests in the intrinsic nature of our minds.
Here’s How I Teach Compassion
If there's one thing I like to teach, it's compassion as our natural way of being.
Why I Use a Variety of Meditation Styles
We all have different personalities, and our minds work in various ways.
Find the Right Teacher Training
Finding a good instructor is the first step to identifying the right program, but there’s more to it than that.
Why Meditating Is Like Cleaning Home
We are effectively cleaning and clearing our internal houses, the subconscious mind.
Emotional Sobriety Through Meditation
Through meditation, wellness mentor Ceasar Barajas has learned to better life with grace, and is helping others.
4 Tips for New Meditators
At first, you'll likely have enthusiasm, but that can give way to discomfort. Stick with it, though, and you'll be richly rewarded.
Seeker to Mastery In 5 Steps
Experience does not become knowledge (nor does knowledge become wisdom) in one step, one flash, or one moment.
My Anxiety After I Found Meditation
I had PTSD from 9/11, and my anxiety was through the roof. I was desperate for a solution.
I Found Meditation On the Ice Rink
While most of my friends hated figures, I fell in love with the quiet along with the sense of feeling focused.
An Effortless Meditation Style
It was like coming home, noticing that the safest, most peaceful, joyful, most loving place was inside of me.
Why Tibetan Buddhism Speaks to Me
Abandon this idea of a quick fix to one's problems — it's about patience and perseverance.
Build Resilience For Future Peace
We can build resilience and faith to ride the waves of our experience, with more peace and ease.
A Youthful Way to Approach Meditation
By harnessing the imagination, I could step that much deeper into my Self.
This Blue Dot Helps Me Meditate
Every time I see the sticker, I stop and take one breath. It brings me back to this place of presence
How a Chipped Nail Imparted Wisdom
My perfectly imperfect nails impart more wisdom than you might guess from their chipped appearance.
Concentration for a Mind at Peace
We tend to have a fixed and solid sense of self, which is not an accurate view and may also cause suffering in the long run.
Healthier Ways to Digest Emotions
Become aware of your internal communication system when someone enters your sacred space.
Kundalini Yoga For Trying Times
My meditation practice was a grounding force when I felt shaken awake by difficult life circumstances.
When Kids Daydream It’s Meditation
We do not have to teach our kids to meditate, especially if they are shy, passive and creative. They do this well on their own.
A Buddhist’s View On Cause & Effect
We all get affected by other people’s actions. The cause of your bad fortune may not even be your fault.
How Ants Taught Me About Generosity
The rewards flow back in many beautiful ways when you do things out of goodness and without condition.
Drop Mindfulness Into Each Day
Focusing on the present can change your entire perspective.
Meditation Styles That Work For Me
After much trial and error, I reached my meditation sweet spot a combo of three styles that feel the most authentic to me.
Balance Emotions With 5 Elements
Knowing a bit about each element and its properties can support you in staying present and balanced in life.
My Life-Changing Gratitude Journal
I was searching for hope, for something to help with anxiety. Then, my life improved with a gratitude experiment.
What Is The Seven-Step Approach for Mastering Meditation?
This progressive approach to linking body, breath, energy, and mind leads to a state of effortless relaxation and ease.
Defining Meditation: What Is It?
What is meditation exactly? Many people have an idea but struggle to explain it.
Create Joy with Mindful Meditation
Living 'mindfully' helps to create joy, compassion & love of life.
Facing Injustice: Know Your ‘Why’
To be silent in the spiritual and wellness community where unity is the ultimate intention is a complete contradiction.
Train the Mind: Choose Your Mantra
Once you have understood the nature of your mind, choose the mantra to which you feel attached.
Feeling Blue? Try This
Feeling blue? Use these tips to create some mindful harmony in life