Generous Kingdom

There is an undeniable fact that the day you are born is also the day that you begin your inevitable march towards death. Buddhism teaches a philosophy of impermanence. Nothing that you have at any given moment is guaranteed to be there in the next; old age, sickness, and death are guaranteed to be a part of your human experience. Simply put: everything that is “alive” (at least biologically) will one day “die”. We aren’t talking about the infinite reality of the human spirit, God-consciousness, or aspects of faith, love, and positivity that carry beyond the physical realm. We are specifically focused on the fact that you have a physical body, that this physical body lives and dies, and that this physical body will never be a permanent structure. Every cell within your body replaces itself within about a decade. [1] Lifetime wellness isn’t necessarily about sticking to the next fad diet, or pushing yourself through endless juice cleanses that have no lasting effects. Lifetime wellness ...

I once asked my Guru’s partner, “Do you know all the different things that make up [My Guru’s] lineage?” His partner Nicholas responded, “No. It’s a complex web that I could spend my entire life trying to track down and still never figure out.” I tend to feel that I fall into the same demographic as this. It would be apt that being a pupil of my master that I, too, would follow a similar chaotic path of eclectic faith and unique blessings. Insert my piece on shamanism, and you’ll find that I too have created a chaotic mixture of blended philosophies, spiritualities, and faith that I may never fully understand. My real introduction to shamanism would have been through my root Guru. A Tibetan Buddhist priest who was from Singapore, Victor was the offspring of a Singaporian woman, who brought her own shamanic culture and Christian heritage, and a White American male, who was sort of Jewish and atheist in his own ways, and whom I just so happened to meet as I attended school in the Los Ang...

When we get into a conversation about things such as frequency, tone, or pitch, you might immediately go to music. Some musicians may think about notes while some artists may think about how a particular sound would be heard in a room with large acoustics. Not often do we go into the idea that frequency is often about how things are felt through our bodies, or the vibrations that accompany such deep resonant thoughts in the form of actual healing of human tissue. Did you know that your cells are always constantly vibrating and moving? Or, that your body has a frequency that it “sits in” throughout the day? How about the possibility that just with the way you think or experience the world that your brain is on a particular frequency? Let’s start with a very basic first lesson: your brain has its own “sound-like” waves! Brainwaves are like musical notes. Low frequencies are like deep, penetrating drums while the higher frequencies are like a high pitched flute. Brainwaves can changes acc...

Before you understand the benefits of massage, you have to consider that massage is just a form of healing. Physical manipulation of tissue, fascia, muscle fibers, veins, and arteries helps to promote the body's natural regenerative process. It happens normally, without massage. However, because of the stress-based environment that we typically find ourselves located in, it is highly beneficial to have support. Healing can be defined as an act intending to return from a damaged or "incomplete" state to one of total wholeness. The fact is that massage has existed before the birth of Christ and can be traced back to the roots of the Ayurveda, which is an ancient system of Hindu medicine that is both holistic and psychological. During what could be best considered as an "Age of Remembering", these ancient teachings are finding statehood in today's medical discussions. "It is… not surprising that the new vision of reality comes very close to the views of my...

Nikola Tesla once said that if you look at life from the perspectives of frequency, vibration, and energy that you would unlock the secrets of the Universe. Like many masters who have come before him, Tesla promoted the theory that there is more than just the physical, seen, or felt Universe. What do you feel physically when you think about something you love? Ever thought about the way watching certain events makes you invigorated, or thrilled? What about inspiration? Is there some form of correlation between “feeling bad” and physical dis-ease? And, what even is “energy”? The Matrix wasn't far off when it claimed that a human being is a battery. Our bodies are literally charged everyday with the life-giving vibration of cells moving back and forth in our body, constantly clashing against one-another in an eternal tug-of-war of occupying space. Chemical and biological reactions within the body create energy. The human body is effectively moving energy potential and electrical curr...

  Most people see a handful of doctors, some good some bad. Pro tip: signs of a good doctor is believing in and practicing patient autonomy. This would mean they support things like: getting second opinions, being able to choose the specific treatment you desire and think is best for you, and the opportunity to select the alternative treatments that you desire, openly and freely, and without hassle but help from "the expert'. Autonomy is defined by Merriam-Webster as: the quality or state of being self-governing. When we refer to patient autonomy, we are saying that every individual who is in need of medical treatment has the right to decide for themselves what is best. Patient autonomy is not something that is often at the forefront of discussion when it comes to our interaction with physicians, nurse practitioners, or other medical and health professionals around our medical decisions. It is very common that someone will just accept what the doctor has to say about the parti...