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IFS and Sikhism: How They Blend Beautifully Together
This article explores how Internal Family Systems and Sikhism describe the same inner journey, showing how Self leadership and Gurmukh living both restore compassion, clarity, and divine connection.
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The Five Thieves as Parts: A Compassionate Approach to Sikh Inner Work
This article explores the Sikh teaching of the Five Thieves through Internal Family Systems, showing how compassion-based parts work transforms inner struggle into remembrance and healing.
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From Manmukh to Gurmukh: The Sikh Inner Shift from Ego to Self
This article explores the Sikh journey from Manmukh to Gurmukh through the lens of Internal Family Systems, showing how Self-led awareness mirrors Naam-centered living and inner surrender.
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IFS for Sikh Trauma Healing: Holding the Wounded Child with Naam and Compassion
This article explores how Sikh compassion (Daya) and Naam Simran align with Internal Family Systems, showing how parts-based trauma healing restores remembrance, gentleness, and inner wholeness.
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Simran as a State of Self: Meditation, Inner Stillness, and Internal Leadership
This article explores Naam Simran in Sikhism alongside Internal Family Systems, showing how remembrance and unblending both return us to calm, compassionate inner leadership.
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Therapy and the Sikh Path: Can IFS Fit My Faith?
This article addresses common Sikh concerns about therapy and shows how Internal Family Systems supports healing without compromising faith, aligning with Naam, Hukam, and compassion.
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The Sufi Self and the Beloved — God, Guidance, and Healing in IFS
This article explores how Sikh compassion (Daya) and Naam Simran align with Internal Family Systems, showing how parts-based trauma healing restores remembrance, gentleness, and inner wholeness.
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Sikhism Meets Internal Family Systems
This article compares Sikhism and Internal Family Systems, showing how both paths use compassion, inner guidance, and remembrance to restore peace and reduce inner conflict without suppression.
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The Five Thieves as Parts: A Sikh Lens on IFS Inner Work
This article explores the Sikh teaching of the Five Thieves through Internal Family Systems, showing how parts work transforms lust, anger, greed, attachment, and ego through compassion and Self leadership.
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Anger (Krodh): The Part That Wants to Protect You
This article explores krodh (anger) through Sikh teachings and Internal Family Systems, revealing anger as a protective force that can transform into courage, clarity, and compassionate action when led by Self.
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Greed (Lobh): The Part Driven by Fear of Lack
This article explores lobh (greed) through the combined lens of Sikh teachings and Internal Family Systems, revealing how fear-driven protectors soften into contentment, trust, and gratitude when met with compassion.
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Naam Simran and Self Energy Why Sikh Meditation Naturally Supports IFS Healing
This article explores how Naam Simran naturally cultivates Self-energy in Internal Family Systems, showing how Sikh meditation soothes protectors, calms firefighter parts, and offers divine holding for exiles.
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Gurbani and the Inner Child, Using Sikh Shabad to Heal Emotional Wounds (Sikh)
Gurbani is more than scripture in Sikhism; it is vibration, medicine, and love made audible. Through shabad, kirtan, and daily Nitnem, sacred sound reaches the tender places words cannot, soothing exiled parts of the psyche and restoring a sense of belonging. In this meeting of sound and presence, healing unfolds without force.
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IFS for Sikh Families, Healing Trauma, Conflict, and Communication Through Compassion (Sikh)
This article explores how Internal Family Systems helps Sikh families understand conflict, intergenerational trauma, and emotional silence through compassion, Self-leadership, and values deeply aligned with Sikh teachings.
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Chardi-Kala and Self Leadership, What Sikh Resilience Teaches Us About Inner Transformation (Sikh)
This article explores Chardi-Kala through the lens of Internal Family Systems, showing how ever-rising spirit emerges naturally when Self-energy leads with compassion, courage, and trust in divine order.
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Free IFS Enneagram Course
This free course explores the Enneagram as a system for understanding motivation rather than behavior. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it offers a grounded approach to the nine types without simplification or pressure to type.
Free IFS Ray Course
This free course explores the Seven Rays as fundamental streams of consciousness shaping psychology, spirituality, and human development. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it offers a grounded way to understand these forces without turning them into labels.
Japji Sahib Pauree 17
Japji Sahib Pauree 17 points toward the boundlessness of the Divine, naming countless forms, names, qualities, and expressions that can never be fully captured or contained. Guru Nanak emphasizes humility before the infinite, reminding the seeker that language and intellect fall short. Through an Internal Family Systems (IFS) lens, this pauree softens parts that crave certainty or mastery and invites Self-led presence with mystery rather than control.
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