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IFS and Sikhism: How They Blend Beautifully Together
IFS and Sikhism may seem like different worlds, yet both teach that healing comes from compassion, not suppression. This blog explores how parts work and Sikh wisdom meet in the same inner light, helping the mind return to clarity and loving awareness.
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The Five Thieves as Parts: A Compassionate Approach to Sikh Inner Work
This blog explores the Sikh Five Thieves through the gentle lens of Internal Family Systems, showing how anger, desire, attachment, greed, and ego soften when met with compassion. Instead of enemies to conquer, they become misunderstood protectors returning to the Divine.
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From Manmukh to Gurmukh: The Sikh Inner Shift from Ego to Self
This blog explores how the Sikh journey from Manmukh to Gurmukh mirrors the IFS shift from protector-led living to Self leadership. Both paths teach that healing comes through remembrance, presence, and letting the deeper Self guide the mind home to peace.
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IFS for Sikh Trauma Healing: Holding the Wounded Child with Naam and Compassion
This blog explores how Sikh compassion and remembrance meet the IFS approach to trauma. By holding our wounded parts with patience and Naam, the forgotten inner child softens, and the divine light within becomes visible again.
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Simran as a State of Self: Meditation, Inner Stillness, and Internal Leadership
This blog explores how Naam Simran in Sikhism mirrors the IFS practice of unblending. Both invite the mind to return from its scattered parts into calm, compassionate awareness, where the Divine and the Self meet and inner peace becomes possible.
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Therapy and the Sikh Path: Can IFS Fit My Faith?
Many Sikhs worry that therapy might weaken faith, but IFS aligns closely with Sikh values. This blog explores how parts work can deepen trust in Waheguru, support Naam Simran, and help heal trauma without ever turning away from the Guru’s teachings.
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Tao Te Ching — Chapter 9
The Verse Fill a cup to the brim —and it spills. Sharpen a blade too fine —and it breaks. Amass treasure, invite theft.Cling to praise, court collapse. Complete something…and it begins to rot. This is the way of the world.Step back before the fall.Retire before the flame gutters. This is the Tao. Essence — What Laozi Is Actually Saying Laozi isn’t warning you.He’s holding you —just before the edge. He’s not moralizing.He’s murmuring a truthyou already know in your bones: Too
Tao Te Ching – Chapter 5
The Verse Heaven and Earth are not kind.They treat the ten thousand things like straw dogs. The sage is not kind.He treats the people like straw dogs. Between Heaven and Earth,is not the space like a bellows? Empty—yet never exhausted.The more it moves, the more it yields. Too many words lead to silence.Hold to the center. Essence — What Laozi Is Actually Saying This chapter is not cold.It ’s not cruel.But it is cutting. Laozi is naming a reality most of us spend our lives t
In Dreamland Zen Story VERSION 1
Today we enter… In Dreamland. This story doesn’t shout.It wanders.Between sleep and waking.Between illusion… and the soft ache of truth. Let’s walk inside the dream together. Let the Story Unfold A monk once came to the Zen master Gasan and said,“Last night I dreamed I was a butterfly.” Gasan looked at him and asked, “Were you a man dreaming of being a butterfly…or are you now a butterfly dreaming you are a man?” Sit With the Meaning It’s a question with no answer.Not becaus
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