In reality, with love and good cheer flooding our spirits and infusing our hearts, the likes of confusion, doubt, worry, fear, and unhappiness are no longer part of our daily experience. For when we exist in an ever-mindful state of love and good cheer, we are in truth operating from divine mind. In that holy place, confusion, doubt, worry, and fea

You’re probably familiar with this, at least to some degree: You have a weird or highly unlikely thought that evokes a deep sense of dread, fear, and series of “doomsday” scenarios in your head. You then keep coming back to it to the point that it even controls some part of your life.

The method that I call feeding your demons — based on the principles of Chöd — is a simple five-step practice that doesn’t require any knowledge of Buddhism or of any Tibetan spiritual practices. In the first step we find where in the body we hold our “demon” most strongly. This demon might be addiction, self-hatred, perfectionism, anger, jealousy,

So you must “receive” your demons, because when you fight them, you empower them. Has nobody ever told you this? When you renounce something, you’re tied to it. The only way to get out of this is to see through it. Don’t renounce it, see through it. Understand its true value and you won’t need to renounce it; it will just drop from your hands.