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Reflections for Daily Living

The Mukta Center blog shares weekly insights on mindfulness, psychology, and the art of living in the present moment. You’ll find simple practices to quiet the mind, reflections on freedom and clarity, and fresh perspectives on health, relationships, and purpose—plus previews from upcoming ebooks and workshops. It’s a way to stay connected, inspired, and supported as you bring more awareness into daily life. 

Hope

Oh, what a thing is hope. Hope is often defined as to cherish a desire with anticipation, to want something to happen or to be true. How natural this is. It seems woven into the very fabric of being human, part of the movement of life itself. And yet, at the same...

The Arc of Becoming

The Arc of Becoming Entering this world, each person carries innate potential: unique traits, interests, and talents that begin to reveal themselves early in childhood, while others unfold gradually over the course of a lifetime. Yet the world we enter is not simple....

Awareness and The Shadow

Awareness is the space of presence within each of us. Yet it is often described as something separate from our personality, separate from our thoughts. In fact, personality is frequently portrayed as the obstacle — the very thing that blocks access to this clear inner...
Mental Chaos?

Mental Chaos?

Mental Chaos? It’s hard to know what life was really like for people in the past—and perhaps even harder to imagine what their innerlives were like. The reason I wonder about this is that people back then were exposed to far less stimulation than we are today. As...

Inner Sight

Inner Sight

 I’ve engaged in awareness practices practically my whole life. It’s something that has been intentional and from these literal ‘sittings’ over time, I’ve developed a great deal of insight (inner sight) into my psychological make-up. I now understand my ‘conditioning’...

We Hear the Call

We Hear the Call

The Mukta Center derives its name from the Sanskrit word Mukta, which means freedom, loosening, and opening. Of these meanings, I resonate most deeply with loosening and opening—they feel so fitting for the human journey. In our lives, we can become locked in to...