Welcome! In this section, you’ll find blog posts related to Inner Knowing and finding your Inner Teacher. Topics include learning how to pay attention in order to make perception shifts to become more awake, deepening our spirituality and connection to nature, as well as developing a strong connection and conversation with our Inner Teacher or Inner Knowing. These terms may be used interchangeably.
Use the right sidebar Articles Menu to find full-length articles and transcribed excerpts from Karen’s classes.
Q: What is it that we are afraid of? Is it just fear of the unknown?
You can’t be afraid of the unknown, because it’s unknown. In this case, you’re afraid of what your imagination conjures.
What people are really afraid of is losing the known.… Read More
A few thousand years ago, back when the Buddha was alive—that was a very different world. There weren’t the distractions that there are today. Living back in that time, you were already much closer to being able to be in the now, because there was very little to distract from the now.
There are different challenges now. The principles are what they are, and they still work. But the effort that’s required now is much greater. So it requires a … Read More
The current world energy could be summed up as a “Do Not Enter” sign with its red outer circle and horizontal bar. But if you look with a shifted perspective, you can also see that the bar can also be viewed as a handle that can be used to push the door open.
Presently, many people are experiencing a kind of holding, where they don’t know how to proceed or believe they cannot proceed because they take at face value … Read More
The human mind equates emptiness with negative things—lack of meaning, hunger, deprivation—rather than what it truly is—freedom from pain, the beginning of a healing process, cleanliness, a space opened to be full of creativity or love or other positive experiences and emotions.
Because people are so afraid of emptiness, even when they release a negative emotion, once they feel the emptiness, the tendency is to fill it right back up with another negative emotion. I feel empty therefore I feel … Read More
From moment to moment, focus on what you can be now.
It always comes back to paying attention.
Don’t allow unproductive thinking.
Don’t wait for someone to pat you on the back.
Realize that you are the beneficiary
when you do what’s required to help yourself grow.… Read More
Can it work that there are certain numbers of people in a community or around the world, who if they think good thoughts, they can overcome the destructive thoughts?
On one plane, yes. But on the physical plane, destructive energy is a very dense energy that overtakes most things in its path.
An angry person has a much greater chance of making other people around them angry than a happy person has of making people around them happy. Negative energy … Read More
In pursuing a spiritual path, what do I need to do to have an awakening experience? I tried going to church but didn’t have the experience I was hoping for.
The way many people go about “pursuing” an awakening experience can actually backfire because they set up the experience as a goal. “My goal is to have an awakening experience.” It becomes the craving for the sensation, rather than understanding what an awakening experience is.
That’s the difference between setting … Read More
