I have a question about how to introduce spirituality to teens. I was a single teenage mom and now I have a teen age boy 17 and girl 15. My son is very charismatic and very “what can I get out of the world”, my daughter is very compassionate, old soul and “what can I give to the world”. With two very different teens how can I introduce spirituality in a way that will appeal to them, especially to my son.

I have been wanting to ask this for a long time but didn’t want to bother you until had exhausted other sources. Anyhow, for the past year and half have been experiencing something that I haven’t been able to find an explanation for.

When sitting in meditation (i was doing healing bowls then, now chakra cleansing).I began experiencing a side-to-side swaying movement in my upper body–like a pendulum–which I couldn’t control without some effort..that lasted 6 months or so (I thought it was a spirit communicating with me 🙂
Also asked stu wilde about it (did a course with him) and he said side-to-side was a good movement because the body was trying to slip out or something ..which I didn’t understand.

Since then it has been like a spinning + spiralling kind of movement. you know sometimes can feel something like a butter-churning stick in centre of me, which is spinning and around it a spiralling energy–sometimes the spiral stays with the lower 2-3 chakras, sometimes goes up and down. And my upper body moves with it.
and now it’s become so weird that I can feel this spiralling movement if I sit motionless for even a few seconds, like right now in front of laptop! or if standing and chatting at a party or something..what I mean is I think the movement is going on all the time but when I am motionless it becomes obvious..i think.
so what is going on and what am I supposed to do with it?
thanks for any help

I saw your appearance on Ellen early in the New Year. You mentioned embracing uncertainty as a focus for this year. Could you speak more about this? More specifically, I have been living abroad for seven years and have been trying to deal with uncertainty since last July when my teaching contract was not renewed. Since then I thought I could work privately. In the fall it seemed as if I was riding a wave of uncertainty and was balancing my way through. I have never surfed before in my life, but it sure felt good at times. After spending the Christmas holiday at home and returning in the New Year I have not been able to get back on that pseudo-surf board to ride those waves once again. I feel rather lost and overwhelmed by the uncertainty that surrounds me. What are somethings I can do to embrace uncertainty and find my purpose again? Sending you a big hug and my best wishes.

Right now I’m reading “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success” and I’m having a little trouble understanding a portion that for the most part seems to make a great deal. In the chapter “Law of Intention and Desire” shortly before the applying section, one of the ideas embellished is to “release” one’s intentions and desires in the gap. I think I understand most of what is being inferred, however the “release” wordage has me a little confused on the specifics of what is being requested of me. Could you clear this up? And if this actually reaches Chopra, than thank you so much for your contributions to mankind, from what I’ve read of your work, not a great deal but some, I think what you say is wonderful.

I am feeling so lost… so confused. I have read several books of yours, of Eckardt Tolle, W. Dyer’s, and many more on personal growth, and spiritual development. As matter of fact, as I am reading (listening on CDs, I am blind), I understand what you mean, sometimes on a very, very deep level. I really am trying just to be, and have no labels, no names, no stories, no judgement. To the point that lately I started feeling as if I am crazy… maybe it is my ego trying to struggle to stay alive, I don’t know. Though I have moments of panic and chaos, and I cannot seem to ground myself.

I am in a marriage where I now realize that I entered the relationship almost 6 years ago for comfort, and because we both wanted a partner, not for love. Now, that I am starting to understand how just to be, how to simply let someone be… I am realizing that I have never seen my husband, and I don’t mean visually. We are separating in fact, because I decided that I need to be alone… mostly because I am so terrified of being alone.

My life long dream is to write books that help people, and I know that this creativity is pressuring me from the inside. I am already involved in some activities that are helping me tremendously, like training in the Martial Arts of Aikido as well as practice Yoga, volunteering on the local Crisis lines… and yet, most of the time I feel as if I want to, need to do something even more. Something that can really help me to express something inside, and of course, to better myself. I am now very happy that almost 10 years ago I have lost my eye sight due to diabetes. It is because I can’t see, why I feel like I can see inside people, and why I seem to be able to help people on the Crisis lines.

I am very confused with my relationship as well. I can be a very peaceful, loving, kind person, and I really am. And I am finding it hard most of the time to love my husband. I realize that I have resentments for him… but how do I let go of them?

In fact I have done something that I am not proud of, even ashamed of. I have betrayed him with an old friend of mine. My husband is a wonderful person, with many really amazing and beautiful qualities. Though I have to admit, he is unconscious, and very rarely does he see clearly what he is doing, or why he is doing them. He acts out of emotions, and he is struggling with road rage, anger outbursts, mostly over small things.

I know I need to take myself out of this situation, because I need to be honest, I need to speak the truth… and see, I feel so lost, that I don’t even know what my question really is.