QUANTUM-TOUCH: Q&A Interview with Richard Gordon
There's a lot of skepticism surrounding energy healing. In some instances people test their skepticism by trying it out for themselves. In other cases, the dou...
Kiva Bottero
INTRO TO MANDALAS: Sacred Circles Art Therapy book excerpt
An excerpt from The Mindful Word's first volume in its Art Therapy Coloring Book Series, Sacred Circles Mandala Coloring Book.“Each person’s life is like a ma...
ACCEPTANCE AND EQUANIMITY: A lesson learned from a falling mandarin
As I was walking through the Shechen Ogyen Chodzong nunnery in Bhutan with my guides Tsering and Lobsang, a lone mandarin tree dropped one of its few fruit righ...
LESSONS AT VARANASI: Reflecting on life and death in India’s most sacred city
Wrapped in a white sari, she sat cross-legged on her paper thin mat waiting to die. The solemn look on her deeply creased face complemented her hunched over pos...
VISUALIZE IT: Interview with Friar Justin Belitz on manifesting your truth
After entering the Franciscan order in 1954, Friar Justin Belitz has since set out on his own path, helping people by the thousands change their lives, heal rel...
TIGER’S NEST: Sublimation and the essence of transformative travel
I was making my way steadily up the mountain to Bhutan’s most famous site: Tiger’s Nest monastery. The prayer flags thickened until I hit a whole wall of them. ...
SOBA RIGPA: Good health is all in the mind
A plaque at the National Institute of Traditional Medicine in Thimphu, Bhutan, summarizes the root cause of illness as being a lack of knowledge of the self.T...
The Ultimate List of the Best Online Travel Sites, Apps, Tools and Resources
The following is an excerpt from Journeybook: A Guided Travel Journal and Trip Planner to Inspire and Facilitate Your Travels, . The book is a guide to both the...
ACTING FOR SELF-REFLECTION: Q&A with actor and mindfulness practitioner Binh Doan
There's a lot more going on in acting than you might think. Just ask French actor and Plum Village mindfulness practitioner Binh Doan. Though he's rather...
Kiva Bottero
Kiva Bottero writes for The Mindful Word and works as the publisher of Engaged Living Books. Passionate about discovering deeper truths of life and living those truths, he has been on a journey to connect with like-minded community and live in resonance with what is most important in life.