A Meditation Exercise
“You’re on a journey. Going beyond the body. Beyond name, beyond form, beyond activity.” As you sit in meditation, the first thing you will experience as you close your eyes is a voidness, a darkness. Look into your eyelids as if looking with your eyelids open. Meditation is an activity. Close your eyes and feel [...]
Everyone knows that meditation is useful, but not everyone knows how to use it. Meditation in our culture is particularly useful for calming the noise pollution, air pollution, rude and ungracious persons, crowded buses and subways, ungrateful bosses and co-workers, family invasion of privacy, unpaid bills and like. We need to meditate for clarity of [...]
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Meditation benefits people with or without acute medical illness or stress. Recent studies show that people who meditate regularly feel less anxiety and depression. They also report that these people experience more enjoyment and appreciation of life and that their relationships with others are improved. Meditation produces a state of deep relaxation and a sense [...]
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It kept raining heavily these few days, so it was not a very good timing to do any kinds of sun gazing practice. We had a good sun just the day before, my friend went for her usual sun glazing practice as it was her off day and there was no need for her to [...]
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ou can also jumpstart the relaxation response with more formal meditation techniques. Although you can do some of these at home (with the help of a few books or tapes that talk you through the steps), we recommend that you start out by consulting a qualified instructor. Besides helping you make sure that you’re doing [...]
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YOGA is an age old tradition believed to have developed in the region of India. The stages of yoga are defined in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Yoga means unity. Unity of our self Unity of our community It is the coming together of all aspects of who we think or feel we are into a [...]
Continue reading …Take Time to Breathe – Simple Techniques for Breathing That Will Help Refresh, Destress, and Energize You During the Day
September 22, 2011 No Comment
Do you know how to breathe? Sure. But do you know how to breathe healthily? Inhale and exhale, right? Wrong. Sounds strange, but most of us just don’t know how to breathe properly. If you learn to breath better, you can fight stress, nervousness and even indigestion. Inhale like a yoga Pranayama is an aspect [...]
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Meditation is the process by which a person learns to shut off the thinking mind and to begin feeling. Feeling should not be confused with emotions however where one “feels happy” or “feels sad”. You can feel an emotion, but feeling isn’t the emotion itself. An emotion is a state of being where a person [...]
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There are so many different types of yoga today, this can cause problems for beginners starting off. It is best to choose a form of yoga that is appropriate for each individual’s level of fitness, physical and spiritual goals and health condition. Some of the most common types of yoga are listed below and briefly [...]
Continue reading …Beyond the Body: A synopsis of Meditation According to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
September 17, 2011 No Comment
Today, in much of the West, the term Yoga denotes an association with a specific style or form of exercise. It is often viewed as a category in the workout smorgasbord along with aerobics, cross-training and tae-bo. Yoga, however, is not a mere set of physical drills for the body; rather, it is a complex [...]
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