Thrive in Bhakti

This is a live example of a classic struggling Devotee and how they focus so much on the problems that they have and how the solution is simple

It's so important for the beginners and those in the early stages of Bhakti to understand and to know what their greatest practical assets are that will help them go through their struggles to reach higher levels of Bhakti. What are they? Fortified intelligence and a strong developed & Attitude (EQ). BG 2:14

One of the most essential ingredients necessary for tackling the difficulties of our neophyte journey towards perfection, is to understand how important it is to fortify the intelligence and build emotional resilience. One of the most often overlooked verses of Bhagavad-Gita is Text 14 work Krishna instructs us to tolerate happiness and distress in this world. This is such a deep verse and often w...

I get this question a lot. What is Thrive in bhakti all about and how can it help me? This podcast and video gives you insight into how Thrive In Bhakti can really help you build a stronger balance in your life materially and spiritually and ultimately assist you in obtaining the goal of bhakti

If you want to save yourself time, energy and minimise your suffering, then it is time to understand the most under utilised resource available to you! And use it! Mentorship and thus Getting Perspective! Yes, but what is the best way to utilise mentorship and what is our expectation? We use this word mentorship all the time but do we understand how to be a mature mentee?

In order to be successful in any arena including spiritual life, you have to conquer the mind. But we conquer the mind, as krishna says, by tolerating the happiness and distress. So how to get better at tolerating happiness and distress? Purposely bring on more uncomfortable situations and build you emotional resilience to tolerate what is going to come anyway. Why not prepare yourself like a Navy...

Why do we have trouble with commitments and duties? It's because of our thinking. And this thinking has been around a long time. If you want to improve your ability to hold down your vows and commitments, then you need to think in the mode goodness.

Just like our finances, we are often not tracking or where or where our money is going. Most people have poor finances due to lack of proper budgeting and awareness. Even in the arena of professional sport it is one of the key ingredients that one tracks one's progress specifically daily weekly and monthly. I need ability struggle or have challenges in a spiritual life, and even are unaware of...

Just like our finances, we are often not aware or even tracking where our money is going. Most people have poor finances due to lack of proper budgeting and awareness. Even in the arena of professional sport it is one of the key ingredients that one tracks one's progress specifically daily, weekly and monthly and so on. If you are a devotee who struggles or has challenges in your spiritual lif...

Thrive in bhakti delivers what it claims! A real life testimonial of a complete transformation of their spiritual and material life in just 90 days. When I talk about how you can change your spiritual habits and aspects of your life and just 90 days I was not joking. It isn't pie in the sky. please hear another success story from 2024 ..

It's so important that as we mature and age in our spiritual journey, we must make ourselves available to help others coming up behind us. The reality of completing the lifetime career of Bhakti is that it is fraught with struggles and difficulties. It's so important that we help those coming up behind us with whatever experience and wisdom we have attained along the way. Otherwise it is g...

The one word you see and hear in all the books and from all the speakers on success is the word 'think'. Even in Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna first of all has to change the thinking of Arjuna before he can change his actions. Similarly, all the problems we have even in regarding to our spiritual habits, stem from our thinking. So in order to address any issues you are having you must address you...

In order to be successful in life one has to make sure you are running the bases in the right direction and order. So many times devotees have problems with work, or with preaching and being in the world, or they have problems with their marriage, or ashram and they think they in themselves are the problem. But actually the problem is you have to go back to home and 1st base first. If you don'...

The core to our philosophy and bhakti culture is relationships. In order to have good relationships one needs people skills, true. We are people eternally. However, in order to action our people skills, which we need to develop, we need to start first at the root of relationships, which is how we SEE people. The mindset first then action skills. This is the mistake so many people and Devotee is ma...

People who are successful and who win in life in what they want to achieve have very specific common characteristics. Here i explain just 3 of the really important characteristics you need to move forward and succeed at anything, not just bhakti.

Self-confidence is so important if we want to be successful with our habits and services in devotional life. It is mentioned in the letter of instruction. However, sometimes we can misunderstand self-confidence and think it is something to do with pride. And we can stand our confidence and therefore remain stock or limited in our service capacity. This podcast simplifies and eliminates the importa...

In our spiritual community we have a great culture of feasting and chanting. But as we progress and mature in Bhakti we have to come to terms with the habits that affects our health long-term. We can't remain immature when it comes to our diet, exercise and overall health. Service to krishna is our life and soul and therefore we want to refine our habits so we can have the best mind and physic...

If we have the wrong road map it doesn't matter how good are techniques are or how positive mindset is. Although these are useful, unless they are applied to the correct map we will not get the end result that we want. This is so applicable to our Bhakti journey.

The secret of the Gita is the modes of nature. This subject matter is so important to understand and to grapple with if you want to get results by applying the Bhakti lifestyle. It's here a little bit about the mode of goodness

Hearing about regular habits seem so trivial and a small part of our journey and not as interesting as hearing higher spiritual past times and truths. However, this is a great trap and distraction, because regular habits are the means and the most powerful element to our beginning practices to bring this to higher levels of happiness, peace and spiritual success. How seriously do you understand th...

Courage is an essential part of our ability to practice Bhakti. It is a quality of the heart and Arjuna was chastised by Krishna for having weakness and therefore he needed to become courageous. Do you have courage? Are you developing courage? Because you are going to need it.

Most people are not successful because they don't understand the subtleties of goals. Having a goal is one thing, but understanding how goals impact your daily life is another. The real power of goalsetting is not necessarily in achieving them, especially in the timeframe that you wanted, but in how they help you better yourself every day

This episode looks at why we should try to focus on our strengths not just our weaknesses. Both are required, but often we lose sight of improving our strengths rather than just keeping them where they are and also ignoring them and focusing on our negatives. The second half looks at the law of attention, which dispels the myth and absurdity of the law of attraction.

We have to move from the baby stage to the mature stage and that takes a change in attitude and perspective. We have to develop great and emotional resilience if we're going to make it in the journey to perfection

This episode is a straight shooting talk all about the three things you need to be successful in anything including Bhakti. The main reason we struggle, have problems overcoming and also getting and moving forward is due to not understanding that these three aspects are so important working together. Hearing enchanting requires the learning of skill sets and the application of what you're lear...