Being a warrior in life means simplifying things. You wake up in the morning, do yoga or some other ritual, make a good healthy breakfast, with good coffee, juice and food filled with fibers. You dress up with clean clothes and tie your shoes. Then you go to work, simply order your agenda, write [...]
Sometimes, when you are a spiritual practitioner, you have to let go of your practice and just live for a while. Just let things be and let nature take care of things. Eventually that is the whole purpose of spiritual practice, right? Becoming our true selves. Paradoxically, sometimes our practice can obstruct us from actually [...]
A typical western thing is fighting against our selves, against our fears. If we only look at all the heroic stories in our myths and fairy tales, it’s always about killing the enemy, conquering evil, slaying the dragon. The difference with Eastern philosophy is beautifully portrayed in the story of Milarepa, one of the greatest [...]
Yesterday was the last recording session for the new Joensuu EP, which comprised of doing all the vocals. Beforehand I asked our producer Rene to give me some vocal exercises and he stressed that i should really try to relax the area of my vocal chords as much as possible and basically just let it [...]
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that by the year 2020, both Coronary Artery Disease and Depression will be the two major causes of disability, low life expectancy, use of medical care and mortality. Although these might seem like two independent diseases they have a very strong correlating factor; stress. I believe it to be [...]
It’s when we leave the heart of life, that we suffer. If we stick close to it, we’re safe, no matter what.
Mindfulness is the perfect way to tame the mind; not too hard and not too soft.
Why is it that so many musicians and artists suffer from some sort of mental illness? I believe they do because they have tapped into egolesness. I have heard so many artists say that their work doesn’t necessarily come from themselves, it just comes from nowhere. In Buddhism this would be referred to as egolesness, [...]
I am very delighted about the uprising of mindfulness into western science and culture. It has been too long thought of as a Buddhist, Eastern or even worse; New age thing. Of course, it has it’s offspring in Buddhism, but like Jon Kabat-Zinn points out; mindfulness is very much like gravity, it’s a law of [...]