The Open Book Journey: Revealing the Wisdom of Happiness

What happens when you deeply connect with your sense of spirit and spirituality? Who do you become?

To Emma Loewe, connecting with your spirit means uncovering that inner voice that lives inside us all. It’s discovering who you really are, and what you want…and going after those things. 

Emma Loewe is the co-author of The Spirit Almanac: A Modern Guide To Ancient Self Care, which she wrote alongside Lindsay Kellner. She is the Senior Sustainability Editor at mindbodygreen and received her B.A. in Environmental Science & Policy with a specialty in environmental communications from...

What happens when we lose the layers of beliefs that cover our true authenticity? 

When we shake that inner critic that keeps telling us, “you are not enough. You just don’t belong. You don’t fit in. You’re not good enough?” 

We emerge as the best versions of ourselves. 

Please, come join us for this special episode of the open book journey where, for the first time, we will be referencing a poem to derive inspiration for something that’s incredibly important on this human journey…to find the best version of ourselves. 

Do you know what's the sweetest sound in the Universe? Yes, it's the sound of your name! Your name has a mystical energy and vibration that makes you feel connected with the world like nothing else does. Names help build the bridges between people and give us an identity that is unmistakably ours...even when you are not very fond of your name. :-) 

In this episode, we will explore the hidden potential of your name that was always uniquely yours. We will use concepts from the science of wellbeing and ancient wisdom to convert names into p...

Do you wish you could uncover your inner potential? Do you sometimes get frustrated with questions like "what's your passion?"  Do you sometimes ask yourself, "What's my life's purpose?" Do you ever wonder how you lost the innocence and light of your childhood? Do you want to discover your inner child? If you answered yes to any of these questions or if they ‘spoke’ to you, then this episode is for you.

In this episode, Arun Sardana, founder of karuna, explains the revelation that came to him in a meditation about how his inner light, his inner poten...

You probably know someone or have personally experienced sexual abuse or sexual assault. The trauma of abuse not only scars our soul but it lives at our cellular level, as explained in the book The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk. Unfortunately, sexual abuse is not only all too common, but also incredibly well hidden in almost every society - almost 90% of sexual abuse and 80% of child abuse is never reported. As shocking as the statistics are about the prevalence of this dastardly and damning act, what is even more surprising is that 93% of the abusers...

We all exist in different states of awareness depending upon our unique experiences and conditions of life. However, we all share one thing in common - we all receive 23,000 daily reminders about how to live our life. Whether we heed them or not and the degree to which we connect with these reminders depends on our state of awareness. 

The good news is that we all have what it takes to become fully aware and connect with our inner child, with our innocence that has the potential to lead us to the peace and joy we are s...

This open book journey podcast episode is the first of a three-part series. In this episode, we unpack and discuss the prologue and first four chapters of the New York Times bestselling book Think Again by Adam Grant. Grant is an organizational psychologist who spends much of his time thinking about how to make people’s lives at work more productive and meaningful. He is willing to challenge the status quo and rethink his thinking, which is why his ideas have stayed so fresh and practical.  

In his book, Adam Grant says that “reconsidering something we believe deepl...

Man's Search For Meaning is one of the most inspirational books of our time. Authored by Viktor Frankl, who survived four death camps and Auschwitz, it's a story of finding meaning and positivity amid chaos, hopelessness and death. In this episode, we derive inspiration from the chapter titled "Tragic Optimism" to identify three practical ways, based on the science of wellbeing and ancient wisdom, that have the potential to give us hope and meaning even during chaotic times like the socio-economic crisis caused by COVID-19.

As Viktor Frankl said, we are not in pursuit of happiness; rather...

What's your greatest fear? Is it the fear of death? Of harm occurring to your loved ones? Of not being able to provide for your family? Or the fear of facing your inner demons? 

Whatever your fears may be, they are nature's way of keeping us alert and safe from danger. But, when fear takes a seat inside us and grips us too strongly, it can become a paralyzing emotion. We cannot function in the face of such fear and we feel completely powerless.

Here's the good news. You can gain control over this immobilizing f...

Do you find yourself engaged in negative self-talk at times? Do you find yourself going in a downward spiral of thoughts, even when you don't want to be? Do you sometimes say to yourself, "I'm not good enough," "I am not sexy enough," "I am not intelligent enough?" If you do, you are not alone. 

This is nature's way of protecting us from danger, but unfortunately, this can also become our narrative. The good news is that such negativity can be diluted and offset by evidence-based wellbeing tools and ancient wisdom. In this episode, Arun Sardana, founder o...