Empty your knowing. "I struggle with this over and over and over again. The irony of being willing to learn from a spiritual master is that I recognize I don't know it all like I sometimes think I do! Sidi will say something that I agree with and I'll say to myself,...
Question: Sometimes I am attached to a certain answer and I know this blocks receiving clear guidance because "I'm in the way." Any suggestions on how to remove these blocks especially when you feel the pressure to find an answer? Great question! No easy answers on...
Dr. Laird shares his thoughts on how we discover our true life purpose. I believe that each person has a destiny but it might not be specific to exactly how we spend our life and the activities we pursue. From the level of "divine truth" (al-haqiqah) Allah says in the...
Question: How do I know what I hear is right? When I feel fear or am attached to an outcome, how can I trust that the guidance I receive is from the Highest? Treat any "guidance" we receive as a "first draft" - meaning that it might be guidance which is "mostly true"...
There's a native American story, "I have two dogs inside of me. One is vicious and one is a sweet. When asked which one is stronger, the wise one replied, the one I feed." Shared by Susan Rahima Schmall, PhD and UOS faculty
"The typical current model of depression is that it is the result of a disruption of neurotransmitter processes that can best be treated with medication and some educational psychotherapeutic work. The first line of treatment is most often pharmaceutical. From the...
"My specialty as a psychotherapist was trauma, especially preverbal and sexual trauma. I now have a very different understanding of early trauma and also know first hand this new depth of recovery. This includes trauma that most hold as something one merely learns to...
Sufism is about awakening to God’s reality NOW vs the hereafter. The focus is on the experience of God rather than the intellectual understanding of God. The only way to focus on the experience is through ‘tasting.’ Tasting is experiencing the Divine reality. It’s...
President John Wadude Laird, MD shares about Islam, the religion of unity: love, peace, mercy, justice, and freedom. [youtube]UiVUzumi2V0[/youtube]
"I had relationship after relationship that was disappointing, unfulfilling and the pattern kept repeating itself. When I learned to be in right relationship to my body, myself, and other people. What I was looking for was inside my own heart which was very...
