Learning to Move Through Stuck Energy
Anyone who told you that a journey through yoga and meditation would be an easy one. . .lied. It isn’t that these practices are not profoundly healing and absolutely life changing. They are. The...
View ArticleConstant Craving
Everyone has their hook. Their drug of choice. Their got-to-have-it craving. For some it is a fairly benign scoop of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, for others it is a drug like cocaine or heroine that...
View ArticleMaking Room for Meditation
Meditation Path in Kyoto, Japan I’ve been guilty. I know you have too. With the best intentions I’ll write in my iCalendar, MEDITATE! Perhaps you’ve sent yourself a text or put it in your iPhone....
View ArticleMeditation Reduces Stress: Latest Study by Dr Ramesh Manocha
In one of the most thoroughly designed studies of meditation ever published, full-time workers who used Sahaja Yoga meditation became much less stressed and depressed compared to more conventional...
View ArticleWould You See Things Differently If You Were Steve Jobs’ and Marilyn Vos...
The World’s Religions Were Meant To Be Inclusive not Exclusive Any comparative religion course in any decent university can break down the differing doctrines and customs, ethics and metaphysics, as...
View ArticleAvoid Injury: Getting the Ego Out of Your Yoga Practice
Egoless Yoga Asana It’s true, yoga can wreck your body. I once jumped back into an over-zealous practice after a car accident, way before my bones and muscles were ready to be stretched and prodded...
View ArticleWhy Genghis Khan and Napoleon Never Reached Enlightenment
Taming the Narcissistic Ego “It is not enough to merely be aware. We must move beyond this to the realization that awareness and the power that comes from that awareness must also be balanced.”...
View ArticleSelf Reliance or Divine Providence, That is the Question
Head, Heart & Hands “There’s a Divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.” – Hamlet, Shakespeare I call on my own guru’s wisdom, the founder of the Bihar school of yoga, to address...
View ArticleFlip the Mind Switch, Yoga Sutras II.33 & II.34
Sutra II.33 translates roughly as, “When disturbed by negative (unwholesome) thoughts or emotions, opposite (positive) ones should be thought of.” vitarkabaadhane pratipakShabhaavanam Sutra II.34...
View ArticleGoing Within or Acting Out
In the yogic lifestyle we are often persuaded to go within. There are countless stories of mystics and holy men, sages and sadhus who retreat to Himalayan caves or deep forests, cloud-ensconced...
View ArticleSynesthesia: A Multidimensional Blur of the Senses
This article originally appeared at WakingTimes.com Christina Sarich, Staff Writer Waking Times Imagine biting into an apple and seeing the color purple, or smelling the salt of the ocean as the touch...
View ArticleAfter Silence: The Deafening Sound & Exquisite Beauty of Quiet Places
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ~ Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays, author of Brave New World John Lane, painter, author and...
View ArticleStudent of Neuroscience Shows How Meditation May Vanquish Mental Disorders
By: Christina Sarich, This article originally appeared on Natural Society Can mindfulness practice (meditation) help vanquish mental disorders? According to the National Institute of Mental Health...
View Article4 Best Scientifically Proven Benefits Of Meditation
By: Stephanie Flood This post originally appeared on Healthy Aeon Meditation: My secret weapon “How do you do so much?” a colleague once asked me in my graduate school days, after I explained to her...
View ArticleNot All Meditation is Created Equally
This article was reposted at Lightworkers.org SPECIAL BRAIN EXERCISE ‘ENHANCES BRAIN PERFORMANCE’ NEW STUDY FINDS ~ by Christina Sarich www.naturalsociety.com – August 31st, 2014 Special Brain Exercise...
View ArticleThe Ancient Science of Living from the Heart
This article originally appeared at Waking Times Yoga has reached an apex since its emergence, from at least pre-3000 B.C. based on archeological findings, amalgamating the lush heritage of the East...
View Article5 Enlightening Reasons to Meditate
This article was originally posted at Natural Society There are a million and one things that can get in the way of a daily meditation, but like the old Zen saying states, “you should sit in meditation...
View ArticleWhat Happens to First Time Meditators
This article was originally published at Collective Evolution There have been numerous studies detailing what happens to the brain in long-term meditators, but what exactly happens to people who...
View ArticleScientific Proof that Kindness Makes You Smarter, Stronger, and Happier
“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda What if the cure for your cold was opening a door for a complete stranger? Or watering...
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