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Two paths toward inner clarity that quietly speak the same truth
The Bhagavad Gita and Internal Family Systems may sound worlds apart, yet both trust that your deepest nature is unbroken. This blog explores how their shared wisdom can soften fear, clarify dharma, and help your parts relax into a steadier inner lead.
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Relationships, Duty, and Love, Applying Gita Wisdom to Couples Parts Work
This article explores how the Bhagavad Gita and Internal Family Systems work together to help couples understand roles, resentment, and shared purpose with greater clarity and compassion.
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Grief and Surrender, Letting Go Without Abandoning Parts
This article explores how the Bhagavad Gita’s teachings on surrender and equanimity can be integrated with IFS to honor grief without bypassing pain, allowing loss to be held with compassion rather than pressure.
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Anger, Desire, and the Inner Fire, Transforming Krodha and Kama (Gita)
This article explores how Internal Family Systems helps people work skillfully with anger (krodha) and desire (kama) from the Bhagavad Gita, transforming raw emotional fire into clarity, boundaries, and purposeful action.
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Karma Yoga for Managers, Non Attachment to Outcomes Without Apathy (Gita)
This article explores how Internal Family Systems helps high achievers live the Gita’s teaching of action without attachment by supporting perfectionist and controlling parts with Self-led clarity rather than pressure.
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Gunas and the Inner System, From Rajas or Tamas to Sattvic Leadership (Gita)
This article explores how the Bhagavad Gita’s three gunas—rajas, tamas, and sattva—offer a powerful lens for understanding the energetic states of IFS parts, helping readers support inner balance without force or shame.
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Motivational Interviewing (MI) Course
A free IFS Academy course on Motivational Interviewing (MI) for beginners, taught in plain language as the real method of Miller and Rollnick. Covers what MI is, the spirit of MI (PACE), the core skills (OARS), the four processes, change talk and sustain talk, evoking, and planning, across twelve short lessons. Ends with Internal Family Systems (IFS) and parts work practice.
Module 12 — MI as a Way of Being | Motivational Interviewing Course
A free IFS Academy course on the closing idea of Motivational Interviewing: MI as a way of being rather than a toolkit. Covers how every MI skill expresses one underlying stance, why the spirit is what people actually feel, how to recognize good MI from the receiving end, turning MI inward toward your own ambivalence, and using MI in everyday conversations with family, friends, and colleagues. Ends with Internal Family Systems (IFS) and parts work practice.
Module 10 — Sharing Information and Advice the MI Way | Motivational Interviewing Course
A free IFS Academy course on sharing information and advice the MI way, using Elicit-Provide-Elicit. Answers whether you can give advice in Motivational Interviewing, and covers asking permission first, the elicit-provide-elicit method, offering options instead of directives, and the chunk-check-chunk rhythm for longer information. Ends with Internal Family Systems (IFS) and parts work practice.
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