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11/22/2022

8-Day India Retreat: Awaken Your Soul's Healing Power

Who’s coming? India retreat February 2023. Details below.

February 17-24, 2023

11/16/2022

In Eastern teachings spiritual therapy and Japa, can be used to heal emotional wounds— difficult or traumatic past experiences that have left an imprint in our psychological and emotional centers.

Japa is primarily the meditative repetition of a mantra or a divine name, a practice found in Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and Buddhism. It may involve other practices as well, like meditative prayer with the intent to heal an emotional wound.

In Western terminology we can use meditative mantra in spiritual counseling or energy healing.

Claudia

11/06/2022

Every crisis is a turning point. We can be victims and stay stuck in a negative experience or we can learn from that experience and transform our life.

10/29/2022

Awaken Your Soul's Healing Power Retreat | innerwellbeing

INDIA RETREAT AWAKEN YOUR SOUL’S POWER TO HEAL

You are invited to join our India Retreat 2023: Awaken Your Soul’s Healing Power, with Claudia Carballal and Dr. Vivek Mohindra. February 17-24, 2023.

During this 8-day retreat, you will enjoy meditation and yoga sessions, classes on eastern wisdom, breath work and energy, the link between life purpose and spiritual energy or consciousness, Ayurveda consultations and detox treatments by experienced Ayurvedic technicians.

For details about the location, hosts, teachers, agenda topics, pricing and accommodations, click the link below.

Join Claudia Carballal for a one-of-a-kind 8-day healing retreat in India 2023. Learn how to overcome unconscious patterns and let go of the past to heal by using the methods of eastern wisdom teachings and the Yoga and Ayurveda sciences.

10/28/2022

One of the most important messages of the mystics is that one is in the whole, and the whole is in one, if you take one out of the whole, the whole remains the same and the one still contains the whole.

Each one of us are one and belong the the whole of the universal consciousness. We are consciousness and consciousness is us. If one of us dies, universal consciousness remains the same and we are still universal consciousness.

10/22/2022

Hi, everyone! I hope you are well. Do you know the connection between the chakra system in Eastern teachings and the popular Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs in modern psychology?

Here’s a short version of an earlier video of mine about the chakra system and the luminous body. Many people don’t know that the chakras or energy centers were also studied in ancient Latin America, Egypt, and China, they just called these energy centers with different names.

I hope you enjoy it!

Love and Light,
Claudia

10/16/2022

HI, everybody! Why is the Brow Chakra the most important chakra? It’s also called Ajna Chakra or the Third Eye Chakra, the chakra that helps activate our wisdom and intuition.

In Bharat, now called India, the Yogis and Rishis developed the era of intuition before the age of intellect and reason. This readiness and ability for Self-discovery, along with long periods of intellectual and spiritual freedom, allowed for the developed of a vast system of knowledge, which created the six great schools of Eastern philosophy, and three of the most important philosophical and religious systems in the world— Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism.

10/15/2022

Awaken Your Soul's Healing Power Retreat | innerwellbeing

I’m excited to announced our India Retreat 2023: Awaken Your Soul’s Healing Power.

Dr. Vivek Mohindra and I will be hosting this 8-day retreat in Goa, in the west coast of India, during one of the best seasons to travel there- February 17-24.

I have sent a private email with an invitation to those of you on my e-mailing newsletter list who have expressed an interest in attending this wonderful retreat.

If you are interested in attending let me know. For details about the retreat and how to contact me and Dr. Vivek, visit here:

Join Claudia Carballal for a one-of-a-kind 8-day healing retreat in India 2023. Learn how to overcome unconscious patterns and let go of the past to heal by using the methods of eastern wisdom teachings and the Yoga and Ayurveda sciences.

10/11/2022

We bring our childhood wounds to our relationships with the unconscious hidden agenda to heal those wounds through our partner, often inadvertently turning them into enemies instead of creating connection and expanding love.

- Claudia

10/11/2022

What happens after a painful breakup? We go through stages that help us heal.

10/01/2022

You are not controlled by your emotions. Even though you may have heard the opposite all your life, remember— your thoughts and emotions do not control you. You can manage them through consciousness and presence.

09/28/2022

This coming Sunday, October 2nd, we will be talking about what happens after a painful breakup, the stages we go through, and how do we heal.

Stay tuned on Sunday or watch my video on YouTube at your convenience. Don’t forget to click the ring bell to receive a reminder notification when this video is published.

See you on Sunday!

09/28/2022

RELATIONSHIPS AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION

We bring our values and beliefs into our relationships. When relationships are in trouble, it’s helpful to explore our core beliefs. Many of our values are transferred to us from our family of origin without questioning them. Exploring your core beliefs is a great technique to understand yourself and your partner and avoid and resolve conflict.

• How did your father and mother resolve conflict?
• What did your parents teach you about relationships?
• How are your values and beliefs affecting your ability to be a good partner?
• When there’s conflict with your partner, do you try to connect or to avoid?
• What is your identity outside of a romantic relationship?
• What does healthy control mean to you?
• What makes a relationship successful for you?

~ Claudia

09/24/2022

Being a vegetarian, people always ask me “where do you get your protein?” They believe that it is impossible to get protein from plant-based sources. This is the result of decades of marketing by the meat industry and cultural aspects behind the social status that meat appears to bring.

A skinless, cooked chicken breast (172 grams) contains 54 grams of protein.

If you eat the following plant-based sources of protein in one day, you can get the same amount or more of protein as eating one chicken breast.

Morning: 39 grams of protein
- A milkshake with half cup oat milk (3 grams of protein), 3 spoons spirulina (12 grams of protein), and 3 spoons h**p seeds (10 grams of protein) = 25
- A whole grain toast or fruit with 1/2 cup cottage cheese (14 grams of protein)

Lunch: 16 grams of protein
-One large potato (8 grams of protein)
-1/2 cup of green peas (4 grams of protein)
-1/4 cup lentils (4 grams of protein)

Night: 33 grams of protein
-1/2 cup of hazelnuts (10 grams of protein)
-1/2 cup Greek yogurt (23 grams of protein)

Total: 39+16+33= 88 grams of protein, more than 47.5 grams of protein from a chicken breast.

~ Claudia

09/22/2022

Aquí les dejo unos pensamientos sobre los retos de no hablar bien inglés, la importancia de la inteligencia cultural y la humildad cultural.

09/16/2022

8-Day India Retreat: Awaken Your Soul's Healing Power

Hello, Free Spirits!
We are announcing our India Retreat 2023: Awaken Your Soul’s Healing Power, with Claudia Carballal and Dr. Vivek Mohindra. February 17-24, 2023.

During this 8-day retreat, you will enjoy meditation and yoga sessions, classes on eastern wisdom, breath work and energy frequency, the link between life purpose and spiritual energy or consciousness, Ayurveda consultations and detox treatments by experienced Ayurvedic technicians.

For details about the location, hosts, teachers, agenda topics, pricing and accommodations, click the link below.

February 17-24, 2023

09/05/2022

Where you fix your attention and energy, that you will become. Don’t become so well adjusted to your culture to the point of not exercising your independent thinking and your intuition. Instead, pay attention to the subtle energies of your being. It will elevate you to the higher nature if you know how to recognize it and how to respond to it. Unlike the culture around you always trying to pull you down towards the lower nature, your higher self within you will give you a solid ground.

~ Claudia

08/31/2022

We think that the longer we live the wiser we become, but it is the elevation of our consciousness, the development of our spiritual aspect, that makes us wise.

Knowledge is accumulating information; wisdom is consciously applying the right knowledge in an effective way. Our ability to use our wisdom expands when our thoughts and behavior are informed by our spirit within which is connected with universal consciousness.

Claudia

08/25/2022

SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION

There is a spiritual dimension beyond the material facade of our existence and a process for accelerating our spiritual evolution.

The ancient rishis of india discovered this spiritual reality thousands of year ago. They compiled their intuitive experiences and set forth a process for accelerating spiritual evolution.

-Claudia

08/20/2022

OUR DIVINE SOURCE

Human beings are much more than the result of random evolution. We have a divine source for we have been blessed with three aspects that are linked to our life purpose on earth:

1. Being born as a human being.

Human beings are the only species on earth that can raise their consciousness, their connection with source or creation. For this, we have the chakra system, which connects with the pranic system (breathing, life force) and nervous system.

The chakras are part of the subtle energy body, the human energy system that allows us to raise our consciousness. The chakras act as energy conductors and are vital to physical health, mental clarity, and emotional balance.

2. Having a deep need and desire to know the highest truth.

Human beings are the only species that can look within themselves. We have the capacity to reflect, to become aware, to go within in order to reflect on situations.

3. Having the potential and capacity to know the highest truth.

When we know the highest universal truths, we gain a broader perspective in life, an understanding of our connectedness to everyone and everything, and our belonging to a greater whole. This knowledge helps us have a more relaxed and balanced outlook in life.

- Claudia

08/20/2022

08/17/2022

“Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain. It is not meant to be cultivated and abused.”

-Paramahansa Yogananda

08/12/2022

Meditation is a form of internalizing consciousness for the evolution of the human species.

-Claudia

08/07/2022

KNOW YOURSELF

If you don’t know yourself, you can’t understand your emotions. You react to everything that comes your way without even noticing.

Understanding yourself is more than knowing your preferences or personality. In fact, focusing too much on your own preferences, on your likes and dislikes, only creates more emotional reactivity because you take things personally. When you have an identity that is too rigid and self centered, you have to defend it and that only creates more emotional turmoil, division and separation from others. Your personality is a socially -conditioned entity; it’s not the essence of who you are.

The first step to learn to manage your own emotions is to understand why you react the way you do. Spend time alone, meditate, think about things that you may be responsible for that could have contributed to feel the way you feel or to be in the situation you are in. Think about important events that happened in your childhood that shaped who you are today and how you react to situations.

Spending time alone is important. When you spend all your time with people, you don’t know who you are because people are constantly telling you who they think you are or who you should be.

-Claudia

07/31/2022

Who is it that is the essence of your being?
Who is it that sees when I say “I see”?
Who is it that hears when I say “I hear”?
Who is it that speaks when I say “I speak”?
What is it that lights up the mind?
What is it that makes the mind conscious?
Who is the God who sees through my eyes and hears through my ears?
That which not even the mind can conceive of.

- Isha Upanishad

07/27/2022

The body changes
The mind changes
The true Self never changes
This is what it means to be centered in the true Self

07/22/2022

We have been socially conditioned to believe that aging is a problem. A new need has been created producing billions of dollars to industries that exploit the human ego. In reality, aging is a natural process that should be honored and celebrated.

The focus should be not on anti-aging but on aging without mental suffering. The process of aging helps awaken our spiritual dimension, it should be one of the most important processes in our lives. Perhaps our last chance for liberation.

Claudia

07/16/2022

Red Flags of an ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP 🚩 - Claudia Carballal

In this video you can hear about the red flags of an abusive relationship.

-What is an abusive relationship?
-What is abuse?
-What is a healthy relationship?
-What questions can you ask a partner to see if there could be a potential for abuse?

Claudia shares valuable information derived from decades of work with survivors of human rights violations and domestic violence. This video Includes tips th...

07/13/2022

“The multiplicity is only apparent. In truth, there’s only one mind.”
Erwin Schrodinger, Nobel Pfize winning physicist (1887 – 1961)

The Upanishads in India explained this concept thousands of years earlier.

06/30/2022

THE SPIRITUAL LEGACY OF INDIA

Two of the main differences between Western thought and Eastern thought are the concepts of knowledge and time.

In the West knowledge tends to be an accumulation of information, sometimes memorization, by using cognitive abilities, reason, the five senses. In India there’s also this cumulative knowledge but it’s not as important as a deeper knowledge (paravidya) or Higher Knowledge— the knowledge that comes through Supreme Consciousness, which has no beginning and no end. Infinite knowledge enters the human spirit or psyche and we can access this supreme knowledge through meditation, if our karma allows.

In Indian thought, time is not so much linear but cyclical. When life is not measured in linear time, there’s no beginning and no end. There are cosmic cycles. Higher Knowledge is eternal and this knowledge can merge with the human spirit.

Claudia

06/23/2022

CONQUERING OUR LOWER NATURE

It is not people but the Universe—the Divine through his Shakti—that is behind all action.

It is the Shakti that makes everything possible with her light, knowledge, consciousness, and love acting upon us—the higher forces of consciousness.

In order to change something in our life, we must allow the higher forces of consciousness upon us, so we can conquer the forces of our lower nature—desires, demands, cravings, selfishness, pride, confusion, arrogance, lust, greed, jealousy, envy, fear, anxiety, frustration, hostility to new ideas and change.

Change also requires some personal effort—to be consistent and focused; to open our heart; to reject our mind”s constructs, obstinance, obscurity, and resistance to change; and to surrender to the higher consciousness so it can find in us a calm mind and open heart.

Claudia

06/15/2022

WE ARE GUESTS IN THIS BEAUTIFUL PLANET

The Western Ghats are a vast mountain forest area parallel to the west coast of India crossing six states. A UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most important biodiversity hotspots in the world, with an exceptionally high level of biological diversity.

This site influences the Indian monsoon weather pattern and is considered of immense global importance. It is older than the Himalayan mountains which started to form between 49 and 50 million years ago. The human species started living only about 300,000 years ago.

06/07/2022

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06/01/2022

Through these enigmatic temples and centers of energy our ancestors connected with cosmic consciousness-universal intelligence.
Mahadeva Temple, at Tambdi Surla is a 12th-century Shaivite temple dedicated to Lord Shiva. Built in the Kadamba style from basalt, carried across the mountains and carved by talented craftsmen. Located in a remote location in the forest at the foot of the Western Ghats.

05/31/2022

COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND BUDDHA’S TEACHINGS

Some people come to this life with an innate understanding of human suffering. Instead of being themselves immersed in psychological pain and turmoil, or oblivious to other people’s suffering, they somehow develop a high level of compassion which involves a profound interest in the mechanics of psychological suffering and how to keep it to a minimum.

One of such souls was Siddhartha Gautama— the Buddha (563 to 483 B.C.) He observed suffering and studied its causes. He taught the “Middle Way” and the “Eighthfold Path”approach to minimize suffering.

Buddha concluded that one of the main causes of suffering is not accepting that it is part of life. This doesn’t mean that we must suffer or create suffering; it means that pain and joy come together like two sides of the same coin, day and night, ying and yang, life and death. One is not possible without the other.

Life was not meant to make us always happy and give us constant pleasure and comfort; that would just makes us stagnant and mediocre. Life was meant to challenge us so we can continue our evolution as physical beings, and more importantly, as beings of light. Buddha accepted the inevitability of disease, death, and emotional pain.

My interpretation of this is that when we understand that physical life comes with challenges and some pain, there’s no unnecessary tension with life thus we free our mind to focus on how to minimize unnecessary suffering which most of the time is caused by our mind-thoughts.

We suffer primarily because of our excessive attachment to things, people, possessions, experiences. The remedy to suffering, Buddha said, is simple – free yourself from attachment, remain balanced, remove excess baggage.

Buddha said that to keep mental and emotional suffering to a minimum, we must observe eight practices in our daily life (Eightfold Path):

1.Right speech
2.Right action
3.Right livelihood
4.Right concentration
5.Right view
6.Right intention
7.Right mindfulness
8.Right effort or resolve

Some of these practices are a form of cognitive psychology. Having the right view, for example, means being aware that our mind forms thought patterns and cognitive schemas which create our view of the world. Is your view of the world clear or is it clouded by social conditioning and past experiences? Do you project your own fears and past experience onto others and to the world?

Having the right mindfulness means that you must live with awareness and presence. Are you aware of your thoughts and actions or do you live unconsciously and impulsively? Are you connected with universal consciousness guiding your decisions?

- Claudia

05/25/2022

Many of our problems are generated by our environment. In the field of addictions, which is intimately related to attachment and emotional pain, we know that in order to break a negative habit, you have to get out of the environment that’s enabling it.

The same principle applies to emotional healing, improving relationships, and even finding your life purpose. You will not create the shift that you want unless you make a change in your environment— that includes the mental and physical environment where you are right now and which is contributing to the unbalance or discomfort that you feel at the moment.

Many times the environment cannot be changed and it becomes necessary that you leave the environment. That could involve moving away, ending relationships, setting boundaries, and yes…being alone— the most feared word in our vocabulary.

Going on vacation or traveling for pleasure is okay for fun and relaxation, but most likely it will not change your life, improve your relationships, or help you find your life purpose. Your mind is still the same. Your vacation becomes just another experience in a collection of past memories.

The most important change has to happen in your mind, here and now, moment to moment. Even if you leave your environment, you take your conditioned mind with you wherever you go. You also take with you the collective mind, sometimes called the subconscious, sometimes in the form of generational trauma. An unmanaged mind creates havoc wherever it goes. It creates problems where there are no problems. It creates suffering for self and others. A shift in mindset is deeply feared because it implies the death of “you.”

This “death” of who you are is perceived by the ego-mind. It’s the death of an identity. The mind will do anything to preserve the status quo. The mind, especially the heavily-conditioned mind, constantly seeks safety, security, the environment that we know, even if toxic. A free and healthy mind identifies toxicity easily and is not afraid of change.

If you understand your mind and know how to manage it, even in a stressful and negative environment you could still flourish, because you will have balance and power within.

A free mind is a balanced mind. A free and balanced mind doesn’t create problems, it discovers solutions with the help of presence-consciousness. A free mind can manage many things that affect most people— stress, fear, anxiety, excessive worry, imposed expectations, bullying, uncertainty, failure, even disease.

This doesn’t mean embracing these conditions; it means that we can manage them in a healthy way, without going out of balance. How balanced your mind is depends on how much you have discovered and connected to your true essence or consciousness.

- Claudia