Mind, heart, and body connection… helps to heal…

With a sacred mind and heart, you are always in the new day, new strength, and new thoughts… to support yourself and the world… and to have a sacred mind and heart… at least need to take one little step, which is to honor your “actions” toward yourself, which the end of both corners are for greater humanity and God’s glory…


By random, pick one of the items nearby and then hold it in your hand. When you hold it in your hand, ask in your mind gently and confidently: “How this item has meaning for me? How precious is this item in my life?” Then, write freely about what comes to you, both your thoughts and feelings, as you hold it. Practice this step a couple times to the point you feel more contented and can connect closer to the things surrounding you. Continue to practice this exercise with your imagination.


Touch your body mindfully to the areas you like most and the areas you concern most. Give more attention to the area that you feel needs more attention (by stopping a moment) because of many reasons, such as it is in pain or wounded. Repeat this exercise a couple times. After you are accustomed to the sequences of the movement, then you start imagining touching the most vulnerable body and then holding it in your hands. Gently and confidently expressing: “How this… (Part of your body)… has meaning for me? How precious this… (Part of your body)… in my life?” Then, write freely about what comes to you, both your thoughts and feelings, as you hold it. Once you finish the writing, read it a couple of times thoroughly with the oneness of mind and heart. Say “Thank you” at the end of the exercises.

Advance the exercises by describing the body part you have chosen in the creative writings or artworks and then relate it to the other parts of your body. Describe the connection between them, such as your finger with hands, your hands with legs, your eyes with forehead, and so on… be as free and creative as you are. Furthermore, describe the body part you chose in connection with your family and ancestors. How do you feel about it and let the writing flows to where it will. At the end of the exercise, use your imagination to hold it in your hand, and with a sacred/pure mind, you offer it to the Creator of all.

Once you finish the writing, read it a couple of times thoroughly with the oneness of mind and heart. Say “Thank you” at the end of the exercises. Identify and pay attention to the needs of the body part you have chosen. Write down those needs and be specific to what you can offer to fulfill its needs. Offering those specific acts with a full sense of gratitude.

Rony Kusnadi, Ph.D.

Reflective mind…

It is around 7 a.m. in the morning. The water is calm. It is like crystal water where I can observe the depth in me and the unfolding scenarios of life. One wisdom that stays in my heart is the belief that this is a time to embrace renewed opportunity, fresh perspective, and an overall sense of rejuvenation. As my silent mind embraces the heart… clear… crystal reflective, the serene water in front of me reveals the true colors of “stones and any others” in depth.


Calm Mountain Lake… A little frog jumps in… Plop!

Many of us seem stuck in the water of our healing process because we have become complacent and comfortable, too dependent upon things running automatically because of the belief system that leads us to do that as if we don’t have any such power to open a new chapter of life. However, when we look more closely at complacency (i.e., self-satisfaction, especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies), we often see a subtle emotional paralysis.

We allow ourselves to become caught up in our work or causes and claim to be too busy or too difficult—too impossible to get into the waters of self; at the bottom of everything is often a fear of change. To move inwardly, we must face interior conflict that we may not even be aware of initially. It means entering a paradox and letting go of the tight controls we have prescribed over our destiny, facing the denial many of us have built into our system about who we are. Some people will have a hard time getting their feet wet. Change can be agitating because it beckons us, the travelers, into new territory.

As adults, we rarely allow ourselves to notice and then enjoy simple life events, such as fully sensing the reflective water or watching a little frog jump into the calm lake in the morning. We tend to question… tend to have to know why it jumped, how it got there, what else happened, and what it all means before we feel comfortable letting the frog jump into the water. Often we lose a precious moment. We often insist on deciphering all the problematic levels of our lives before we allow ourselves to enter a healing process.

We are probably wrong if we unconsciously think that reflective water of mind seems unnecessary! We often insist on building a great kingdom on earth to be the greatest and become too busy to experience a simple precious moment to connect to ourselves and others. Thomas Merton once said that many of us waste precious time exploring the complexity of who we are and who we have been before we allow ourselves to be healed. “There are no levels,” he said. “You can break any moment through into the underlying unity of God!” Mother Teresa said, “We do no great things; we do only small things, with great love!”

Rony Kusnadi, Ph.D.

How majestic is your name…

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! (Psalm 8:9)

While marveling at the limitless grandeur of God, the psalmist is struck first by the smallness of human beings in creation, and then by the royal dignity and power that God has graciously bestowed upon them. The Lord God is sovereign over his creation. The creation reflects his glory because it is his handiwork. The only thing we need to do is to attune our mind and heart before God’s creations. Experiencing the Ultimate Artist touches our soul with heavenly brushes. Then we can praise… O Lord, with our heart… Our heart is steadfast, O God! I will sing praises… even our soul rejoices…

Rony Kusnadi, Ph.D.

To love your body starts with mind…

At the Rocky Mountain hiking trail, I encourage myself to do mindful walking. Focus on the breath and experience the surroundings’ depth and texture. Let the mind and heart connect to the oneness of all creation, and then let the body accelerates and synchronizes. The blue sky, the cloud, the terrains, the stones, the dirt, wild grass, the wind, and the all… as oneness… even reconnect with the Creator of all. When I reached physical limitation, I mindfully tasted the sweat of the heavenly bliss…

Our bodies are continually responding to the messages of our minds. Everything we experience through our senses, even the most neutral stimulus, leaves an imprint on the mind. All experiences are registered in the unconscious mind, which will determine how we will react or respond to the surrounding. So the work of the mindful soul is how to be more aware of what messages your mind gives to your body?

Common wisdom says: Do you have a problem? Have a drink. Can’t sleep? Take Lunesta or Ambien. Got a stuffy nose? Take Benadryl or Tylenol Cold.  Got indigestion? Take Mylanta. There are chemical solutions for almost everything. We are led to believe that the innate wisdom of the body and mind doesn’t exist. Furthermore, since birth, we have been exposed to and programmed with bags of self-limiting beliefs by our surroundings. We only receive little life lessons that teach us how to activate our own inner power and create the lives we want to become.

Simply, this reflection only highlights that we all can learn and use our thoughts to positively influence some of our body’s physical responses. Enhancing the practice of unconditional thoughts liberates and heals the self and our communities.

Rony Kusnadi, Ph.D.

Joyous mind and heart…

Clandestine wisdom:

“The heart is supposedly lively for orange energies and warms the soul. The sensation is like tender rays in the morning, with a calm intensity, yet bursting with cheerfulness because it stimulates emotions with gladness. For the mind, the heat of summer is no longer a threat, but it is a mastery phase to welcome the cold winter with a passionate love of deliverance. At the delicate moment, this brick-orange T-shirt rejuvenates all senses, soothes the uplifting spirit in the depth of mind and heart…”

Apply this wisdom to life, and then you can feel the moisture of citrus on your inner skin…

Rony Kusnadi, Ph.D.

The art dancing of nature…

The golden light touched

The wind embraced

The bluish sky inspired the spirit

Nature colors cuddled one another

The eyes of the mind couldn’t perceive the total happenings

Only a serene heart could experience and dip into nature’s love

No breath of being lingered there

Because all moving in all directions with one purpose

Cheered the path of creatures

I then unstitched all senses

And… let love float downstream…

In the universe… unclutched…

Rony Kusnadi, Ph.D.

The gracious moment under the storm…

The weather suddenly changed. The dark cloud was merging with the golden rays in the late evening. The wind and rain were thundering, flashing the dark sky, and echoing the universe’s voices to all creatures who wanted to see and to listen. That moment generated a strange feeling within when I longed for the presence of the One I call WHO I AM. All the happening made me feel that I was a part of the universe. I was a part of the scents of the wind and the wild ambiance…

Rony Kusnadi, Ph.D.

Special roses…

Special roses are for special one… Wonder how love is born… She loves the roses so do I… The lavish and memorable moments happened unnoticed. The word is not enough. The mind is not sufficient. The heart is like a valley that is filled with abundant red, pink, orange, white, yellow, and many others combined colors of happiness. When we both are seeing the sky then the sky speaks the unspoken, listens the unheard longing, embraces the bliss of hope, and all at once.

Rony Kusnadi, Ph.D.

THE BEAUTY OF A ROSE … Is the perfect Image of God

THE COLOR OF ROSES… Is the Cosmos  joy of Creations

THE BLOOM OF THE FLOWER… It is when the gracious Heart is touched by the One

THE FRAGRANCES OF A ROSE…Is the offering of heart to Heaven

THE PETALS OF THE ROSE… Is the journey of One’s  Life

The memory of the Rose will keep the longing heart

To smell the beauty of True Love

… as all breath…

Beauty is a natural mystic…

In the morning the sun rises on all, as it should be. The air, the light, and the sounds of nature fill the heart, as they were envisioned to. All earth’s creatures breathe in and out the given fresh air and they embrace the nutrition and nourishment of the universe without mistrust. The blessings are given equality with equality of worth without distinction… Only a clear and reflective mind can understand. Only an open and gratitude heart can embrace the inner truth…