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 Duke University. Join Emma and Arun, founder of karuna, on this journey into the depths of spirit and spirituality as they discuss everything from breathwork and mantras to living in tune with your intuition. The quest to connect with our personal sense of spirituality is never-ending, but there are surely people that can help us to find some of those answers - or perhaps, questions - as we go. Emma is without a doubt one of those people, and she shares with us some of the personal insight that she has gained as she continues on her spiritual journey. Come with us as we dive into the depths of Emma's incredible book and find out what value it holds for us all.  karuna is a social enterprise with one mission -  to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

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. As Amanda Gorman's poem The Hill We Climb ignited hope throughout the nation, Arun Sardana, founder of karuna, found inspiration in her words to create the best version of himself. Come with Arun as he walks us through his personal journey of reflection with this poem - the hill he must climb to find the best version of himself. As we follow along with him, we'll discover the golden nuggets of wisdom that this poem contains to help us all on our journeys to find our true authenticity…our most confident, joyful, and fulfilled selves. karuna is a social enterprise with one mission -  to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

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 powerful acronyms that, when expanded to their full meaning, may just help manifest your inner power, your inner potential. This week, join Arun Sardana, founder of karuna, on this fun and interesting Name Game journey.karuna is a social enterprise with one mission -  to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

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 potential, got lost in this journey of life. Then, he offers five ways - informed by the science of wellbeing and ancient wisdom - to help us all discover our inner child, our inner light, our true potential. This week, join Arun on this short journey with a big purpose - discovering our inner potential.karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

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 know the abused.In this episode, join Arun Sardana, founder of karuna, as he explores the dark side of humanity where trust is shattered under the covers of love. Using his personal experience with sexual abuse, we will examine how to help dissolve the shame, guilt, fear, mistrust, anger and other emotions associated with sexual abuse using the science of wellbeing and ancient wisdom. This week, join Arun on this healing journey to turn the damning word ABUSE into something positive.karuna is a social enterprise with one mission -  to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

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 seeking. Join Arun Sardana, founder of karuna, on this journey of science and ancient wisdom, including Zen Buddhism, to find out how to reach that state of awareness. karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

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 deeply can threaten our identities, making it feel that we are losing a part of ourselves.” But was it always this way? As children, we questioned everything, and we did so fearlessly. So where and how did we lose that curiosity? How did we adopt these belief systems that make us hesitate at the very idea of rethinking what we believe in?Grant refers to this reluctance, and sometimes even refusal, to challenge our beliefs and values as an “inner dictator” within us that protects us from attacks on our character or intelligence. He tells us that “those kinds of personal affronts threaten to shatter aspects of our identities that are important to us and might be difficult to change. The totalitarian ego steps in like a bodyguard for our minds, protecting our self-image by feeding us comforting lies.” But where did this inner dictator come from, and can it be changed? Join us as we search for answers and uncover how we can challenge this inner dictator that, while it attempts to protect us from harm, is doing us more damage than good.karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

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, we are in pursuit of a reason to be happy. The good news is that the reason that has the potential to give us durable happiness is highly attainable - all that's needed is a shift in our frame of mind. Join Arun this week on this perspective-shifting journey.karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

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 force and begin to savor the joys of life once again. It is possible to face your fears and to dissolve them - one at a time. In this episode, we take a close look at our seven deepest fears, and then utilize the wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh and Gary Zukav to discuss four ways to help dissolve them. These four tools are products of a merger between the science of wellbeing and ancient wisdom. Please, join Arun Sardana, founder of karuna, on this fear-busting journey.karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

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 of karuna, offers you seven such ways to blunt the effects of negative self-talk so you can find more positivity and joy in your life. karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

Money has been equated to happiness for time immemorial. However, this is not a straight line relationship. It is staggered at best and jagged at worst. Regardless, what we do know is that money does make people happy, but only to a certain point. Recent events such as COVID-19 have potentially changed our relationship with money in ways that have brought meaning and purpose closer to the surface. Does this have something to do with our realization about the impermanence of things? Does money affect our sense of mortality and how we want to be remembered? We explore these concepts, questions and more with Dr. Elizabeth Dunn, professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Dunn conducts experimental research examining how time, money, and technology shape human happiness. She is the co-author of Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending (Simon & Schuster) with Dr. Michael Norton. Her work has appeared in top journals, with three papers published in Science, and she has given a talk at TED, PopTech! and TEDx. She was selected as one of the “rising stars” in academia by the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2004 and was an honoree for the 2007 Mind Gym Academic Prize for pioneering work in positive psychology. In 2010, she received a New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, as well as UBC's Robert E. Knox Master Teacher Award. Her research has been featured in hundreds of media outlets around the world, including The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, The London Times, Maclean's, Time, and CNN. Dr. Dunn is also an avid surfer and skier.karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

"If you know the enemy and yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles; if you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained, suffer a defeat; if you know neither enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." This is the wisdom of Sun Tzu in the oldest military treatise called The Art of War that is still prized today as it was 2500 years ago.In this 3-part series, we transform 13 chapters of Sun Tzu's wisdom of winning wars in the battleground into 4 Principles and 9 Tactics of defeating your inner demons. So, join me on this powerful journey of ancient wisdom and modern science.karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

"If you know the enemy and yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles; if you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained, suffer a defeat; if you know neither enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." This is the wisdom of Sun Tzu in the oldest military treatise called The Art of War that is still prized today as it was 2500 years ago.In this 3-part series, we transform 13 chapters of Sun Tzu's wisdom of winning wars in the battleground into 4 Principles and 9 Tactics of defeating your inner demons. Please, join Arun Sardana, founder of karuna, on this powerful journey of ancient wisdom and modern science.   karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

"If you know the enemy and yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles; if you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained, suffer a defeat; if you know neither enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." This is the wisdom of Sun Tzu in the oldest military treatise called The Art of War that is still as prized today as it was 2500 years ago.In this 3-part series, we transform 13 chapters of Sun Tzu's wisdom of winning wars in the battleground into 4 Principles and 9 Tactics of defeating your inner demons. Please, join Arun Sardana, founder of karuna, on this powerful journey of ancient wisdom and modern science.  karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

The largest segment of the world's population believes in the existence of God, a higher power, a higher consciousness, a higher self, the Universe, or something bigger than ourselves. However, what we have been given to understand about God's message to us is largely defined by the interpretations of those who, for better or for worse, consider themselves the guardians of religion. IArun Sardana, founder of karuna, believes that one must try to ‘experience' this higher power through one's own unique lens. Such an effort has brought Arun new and, at times, deeply transformative understandings of God's words in the scriptures. For example, Arun now has a very different and highly personal view of what ‘chanting His name' means. It is definitely not what the priest told him to do - to recite His name. Arun believes the message contained in ‘chanting' does not equate to ‘reciting,' as powerful as that may be. He believes that it means living the qualities that are valued by humanity and by God - compassion, service, humility, kindness, equanimity, gratitude and forgiveness, among others.In this episode, Arun presents his personal experiences and interpretations of what God wanted to tell us or should have told us, but it didn't come across to us as intended or was completely shielded from us. While you may not agree with every observation or insight, it is sure to create a stream of thought that may lead you to your own discovery of God's messages and their interpretations that may bring you even more peace and joy. That would be the ideal scenario! Join Arun this week and follow along on this ‘Godly' journey.karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

"The best way to activate positive emotion circuits in the brain is through generosity." - Richard J. Davidson.Compassion and kindness are often thought of as ad-hoc actions that humans engage in from time to time. Science, however, shows that we are born with these traits. Despite this, we somehow become disengaged from this true nature of our mind. While there's a way to activate this circuitry in our brain, it requires work and nurturing to achieve a state of altered traits.In this episode, we explore this thought and more with multiple award winner Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D., Arun Sardana's personal inspiration in the world of mindfulness and a light for thousands who have benefited and have been transformed by his groundbreaking research in contemplative practices and methods to promote human flourishing.  He is the William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Founder & Director of the Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Psychology and has been at Wisconsin since 1984. He has published more than 440 articles, numerous chapters and reviews and edited 14 books. He is the author (with Sharon Begley) of The Emotional Life of Your Brain published by Penguin Books in 2012. He is co-author with Daniel Goleman of Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body, published by Penguin Books in 2017.karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

While the science of positive psychology has identified two primary categories of happiness, namely hedonistic or pleasure-based happiness, and eudaimonic or purpose-based happiness, Arun Sardana believes the actual experience of happiness manifests itself in five different ways depending on a variety of influences in the environment in which we were raised.After explaining these 5 Happinesses - yes, that's an actual word :-) - Arun, founder of karuna, will discuss the concept of Ikigai, or Way of Being, in Japanese culture and derive inspiration from it. We will then redefine the word HAPPY as an acronym that will give you practical strategies, embedded in the science of wellbeing and ancient wisdom, that you can utilize to find what truly makes you happy. Join Arun this week on this HAPPY journey.karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

Positive emotions are something we experience from time to time and, occasionally, we find ourselves in an upward spiral that brings immense joy and inner peace. When it comes to negative emotions, though, the opposite is also true. The resulting downward spiral can sometimes get out of control, causing stress, anxiety, depression and burnout. How can we build more upward spirals of love and positive emotions while reducing the incidence of anxiety-triggering downward spirals? Are there simple ways in which we can find happiness more consistently using simple techniques? How can we broaden and build on our positive emotions, including the capacity to love and be loved?Join us in exploring the answers to these questions and many others in this eye-opening interview with Dr. Barbara Fredrickson, a Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Director of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab (a.k.a. PEP Lab) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published over 110 peer-reviewed articles and her esteemed books, Positivity (2009, Crown, www.PositivityRatio.com) and Love 2.0 (2013, Penguin, www.PositivityResonance.com) have been translated into dozens of languages. Among the most highly-cited scientists, in 2017, Professor Fredrickson was honored with the Tang Prize for Achievements in Psychology, awarded to recognize exceptional career contributions to the well-being of humanity.karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

Intense grief, anxiety, pain and fear have become commonplace in the COVID-19 world and it is wreaking havoc on our physical and mental health. While we are capable of handling episodic stress and negative emotions, our bodies are not designed to endure long-term chronic stress of the kind we have been experiencing for the last several months. In a similar way, the renowned author, C.S. Lewis, experienced a similar cocktail of emotions when he lost his great love and his soulmate - his wife. He penned his emotions in a journal, which were later published in a book called A Grief Observed.We will use his work to first examine the root cause of these negative emotions and the impotence we feel against the silent enemy called COVID-19. Then Arun Sardana, founder of karuna, will offer five practical ways, derived from the science of wellbeing and ancient wisdom, to help dissolve them so you can find some sanity in these uncertain times. karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

The pursuit of happiness is an age-old endeavor, but this positive emotion has eluded much of humankind. Happiness is one of the strongest motivators in our personal and professional lives as it drives many decisions. Are successful people happier or are happy people more successful? Should our goal be to be happy with our life or in our life? Can we control the moments that lead us to experiencing joy and happiness? If yes, to what degree can we exercise control over our own happiness?We explore the answers to these questions and many others in this interview with Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, (AB Harvard, summa cum laude; Ph.D. Stanford) Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, and author of The How of Happiness and The Myths of Happiness which has been published in 36 countries. Lyubomirsky and her research on the science of happiness have been the recipients of many grants and honors, including the Diener Award for Outstanding Mid-career Contributions in Personality Psychology, the Christopher J. Peterson Gold Medal, and a Positive Psychology Prize.karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

The uncertainty we all face today - COVID19 - is not only unprecedented, it is threatening our financial and psychological wellbeing. Uncertainties, though, are a part of life, even if they are likely more short-lived and not as widespread and deadly as what we face today. In this episode, we derive inspiration from Steve Jobs' life, his personal story of getting fired from Apple at 30, and how he used that extreme uncertainty to launch into one of the most creative phases of his life that ultimately led to the creation of companies like the world-renowned Pixar Animation Studio and the Apple we know and love today.This week, follow Arun Sardana, founder of karuna, as he combines two Nobel Prize-winning theories from Quantum Mechanics and Developmental Economics to help solve the problem of the paycheck! Using the science of wellbeing and ancient wisdom, we will explore five tools to help us all deal with this extreme uncertainty and find some sense of stability and sanity during this very unstable time.karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundationSuggested Readings and Videos:Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacsonhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/...Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford University Commencement Speechhttps://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

We have all experienced a desire, a vice, or an attraction that was simply too hard to resist...and so we succumbed to its power. Does this mean that we don't possess willpower, dubbed as the greatest human strength, to fend off what may not be good for us? Is moral strength the same thing as willpower and self-control? Are we born with it, and can we strengthen this muscle of willpower or resilience to overcome adversities and "weak" moments?Join us in exploring these and other important determinants of happiness In this interview with Dr. Roy Baumeister, former professor of psychology at the University of Queensland. He is among the most prolific and most frequently cited psychologists in the world, with over 650 publications. His 42 books include the New York Times bestseller Willpower. His research covers the self and identity, self-regulation, interpersonal rejection and the need to belong, sexuality and gender, aggression, self-esteem, meaning, consciousness, free will, and self-presentation. In 2013, he received the William James award for lifetime achievement in psychological science (the Association for Psychological Science's highest honor).karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation 

Brené Brown's books Daring Greatly and Gifts of Imperfection had a profound effect on the life of Arun Sardana, founder of karuna. They gave him the courage to become vulnerable so he could face his demons, his deepest fears, and ultimately, find his authentic self. Her writing became the launch pad for Arun's journey which ultimately revealed the Five Vulnerabilities that allowed him to see his true image.In this episode, Arun shares these Five Vulnerabilities, and then offers you three practical ways of discovering that you are also worthy of love and belonging. So, join Arun on this journey of finding the courage to become vulnerable because the prize that awaits us is invaluable. After all, what is more liberating than finding your authentic self and your true inner voice?karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

The word forgiveness comes from the Latin word perdonare which means 'to give completely, without reservation.' In The Book of Forgiving, Desmond Tutu calls forgiveness the greatest gift we can give ourselves when we have been wronged. However, most of us find forgiving others and ourselves to be one of the most challenging acts in life. Why is it so hard to forgive? How can we do so more easily, and what is the greatest gift awaiting us in this act? Can we forgive and forget when we are wronged?In this interview with Dr. Fred Luskin, Director of Stanford University's Forgiveness Projects for over 20 years, we'll explore these and other profound questions surrounding forgiveness. He is currently a lecturer at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the School of Business as the co-founder of the Wellness Education Program. He is the author of the best-selling books Forgive for Good and Forgive for Love. He has created a train-the-trainer program for forgiveness and has helped people recover from grievous wounds in Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, Columbia and the World Trade Center.Stay with us and find out if the gift of forgiveness can bring you the joy that you deserve.karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundation

Oprah Winfrey had not published either of her books - The Path Made Clear and What I Know For Sure - when she appeared in Arun Sardana's (founder of karuna) Symbology exercise at Columbia University on July 6th, 2016. It was last month in April, 2020, almost four years later, that she finally ‘spoke' to him through her books and showed him how to achieve his life's purpose. If you believe in the power of symbols and their manifestations in our lives precisely when you need them, then this is a must-see episode for you. It might just lead you to your life's purpose! Please, join Arun on this very intriguing journey.                                                                    karuna is a social enterprise with one mission - to make happiness accessible to all. If you believe that happiness should not be a privilege of the few, but instead a birthright of all, come join us. Become a founding member of our completely free community called the reimagine happiness™ community. As soon as you join, 10 dollars will be donated to our nonprofit arm, the karuna happiness foundation. For the entirety of 2022, we will be donating $10 to the karuna happiness foundation for every new member for up to a total of $100,000. Our mission at the karuna happiness foundation is to empower marginalized women, youth, and children to break the vicious cycles of poverty and abuse. Plus, when our paid membership options launch, we will be donating 10% of all revenue to the karuna happiness foundation. Your membership to the reimagine happiness ™ community, however, will always remain completely free as long as karuna exists.If you're ready to make a real difference in this world, we need you to join us. Once you become a member of the reimagine happiness™ community, you will also receive access to the tools of wellbeing we all need to thrive - because stress, anxiety and burnout do not define your story...happiness does. Come start your happiness journey while spreading compassion where it's needed most. Now is the time to start a movement where happiness is no longer the privilege of a few, but a right of all. Join us.happiness lives here™ welcome homelearn more about karuna or the karuna happiness foundationSuggested Readings and Videos:The Path Made Clearhttp://www.oprah.com/own-super-soul-s... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx9zl...https://www.facebook.com/ownTV/videos...