Your Inner Ocean Blog

If you’ve spent a long time struggling with one big problem that seems to take over your life, this account might speak to you.

Is there one thing in your life so problematic that it ruins everything else and you just can’t shift it?

Few psychological conditions in life are as debilitating as what I call the “shame, blame, guilt game”. 

Predicting the future is a major industry, despite the obvious fact that most predictions turn out to be wrong.

A warrior’s life is characterized by a state of awareness. The present moment is the most important moment in a warrior’s life.

The summer months are ideal for working on certain aspects of personal resilience, so let's take a look at some of them.

In the world of personal resilience, one of the toughest nuts to crack is beating the OBE syndrome. 

The psychological purpose of perfectionism is to avoid shame.

Qigong is a specialized toolkit that can help you to achieve particular goals.

Optimizing our memories in the midst of our society's constant information overload is critical to learning new skills.

We often do not realize how deeply our assumptions about the nature of human beings determine how we approach illness and medicine.

Science has a problem, and it's the universe.

So why would you bother fasting? Perhaps because there are few if any other health tools in your arsenal that give such powerful results.

Sioux medicine man Frank Fools Crow said that the first task of a holy person was to make himself like a “hollow bone”...

The amazing Taoist master Wang Liping is someone whose name will come up a lot on this blog.

One thing we often forget when we talk about mental blocks is that some of them are simply mental overload.

Taoist medicine has studied longevity over millennia, and originated a comprehensive system to sustain it.

In the videos below, Eckhart Tolle introduces a key distinction that applies equally to creativity, creative work, and to manifesting.

I'd like to introduce you someone else whose work I consider authentic and powerful... Shifu Yan Lei, a 34th generation SHAOLIN master.

Today, we look more into the theory and use of Qigong for joint health, and especially for the treatment of long-term joint pain.

Bagua Zhang is perhaps the least-known and most intriguing of the Chinese “Internal” martial arts.

The list of ways 2020 changes our reality grows every day.

Have you ever really, really wanted to do something, to the point where you spend hours each day planning it, but you can't actually do it?

Whether you meditate for stress reduction or as part of spiritual practice, these three points from Tibetan lojong training will help you...

With nations struggling under lockdown, it’s no surprise that the conspiracy theory generation machine is at it like never before.

We human beings are in many ways self-programmed…

It's no surprise that the culinary world has changed substantially during the lockdowns.

Athletes throughout history have found that their performance inexplicably increases for certain periods of time.

His peers joked that his three attainments were eating, sleeping and defecating...

Welcome to One Minute Mindset Secrets!

It's no secret that learning to develop your body's primary "energy production facility" is central to creating superior health.

Take control of your motivation in the world of the telecommute.

I get this all the time. And I've already kind of answered it on this series, but it deserves more than I've given it.

If you really want DEEP health benefits from meditation, then you need to look at the Taoist meditation systems.

So, do you want your meditation practice to improve your health?

He broke one of Hollywood's glass ceilings, founded the martial art Jeet Kune Do, and inspired millions. But he also developed a philosophy

You might get the impression from my previous posts or videos that I have something against "mindfulness meditation". In fact...

Yesterday I outlined the two distinct types of meditation you need to practice. Today, we start that second type - Vipassyana or "insight"

There are TWO very distinct yet related types of meditation we desperately NEED to practice.

Which meditation will go better for you - one where your body is tense and restless or one where you start off limber and relaxed?

Focusing on your breath is not necessarily as easy as it looks.

Okay, we've started off by using the common meditative practice of focusing on your breath. While you should continue that regularly...

There are a zillion different types of "meditation" out there today...

In the unusual circumstances we find ourselves in, many people are finding both new challenges that they need to address, and opportunities.

Almost everyone who starts or re-starts a meditation practice runs smack dab into some seemingly major obstacles.

Most people seem to think meditation exists to fix their chronic stress problem.  Well, yes and no.  Mostly no.  Of course......

So , since you've got all this extra time on your hands thanks to the global pandemic, why not use it wisely?

National leadership now comes with a performance metric in cases and lives lost, and it is merciless.

With the threat of the coronavirus and the isolation of social distancing, it's all too easy for us to dwell on the seemingly concrete world

Many of us are consciously trying to manage what goes into our heads. We also need to understand how to influence our own thought processes.