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These are crazy times with Coronavirus spreading across the globe. Being quarantined can feel at times restful and restorative, and other times frustrating and stressful. If you find yourself in the latter category, sometimes adding a little something extra to your routine can help. While yoga, binge watching true crime, and taking up cross stitching are certainly worthy pursuits, I recommend adding some ...
Meditation has a lot of physical and mental benefits, although the latter is what people aim for from meditating. And meditation is a simple type of holistic cleansing that’s suitable for everyone -- all you need is discipline. Whether you’re a newbie or expert in meditation, the simplicity of the process urges meditators to squeeze this habit in their hectic ...
Meditation is a healing tonic for the soul, where we heal our soul-wounds and remove mental poisons like anger, grief, addiction or stress. As a teacher of mindfulness-based meditation, I have witnessed how transformative it is, to first recognize that all life is made of ‘energy parcels’, and their frequency changes with how congruent we are with them. When we align ...
Photo by Ankit Shukla It’s summer, 2015. I gaze out over the bridge of the cargo ship at the horizon, where the gray-blue waters of the Gulf of Oman meet the waxing twilight of the dawn. All week I’ve felt uneasy. Something is just not right in my life. Here I am an officer on a ship, a dream I’d ...
When I tried the Ananda Mandala chakra meditation with Punnu Singh Wasu in Bali, it was the first time I could actually feel the chakras, and what they're all about. I broke down in tears of awe... awed by the realization that there is so much that I don't know, so much that I may never understand. ...
Want to learn how to meditate? You've come to the right place! This short post will introduce you to the basics, and lead you on a journey that will last a lifetime. ...
Meditation isn't a doing. It's a non-doing. "Trying to meditate" is counterproductive. But that doesn't mean you should take it off your to-do list. ...
Learn about the different types of meditation that people practice. Each type requires its own kind of discipline, and provides its own benefits. ...
While the word “yoga” refers to a vast range of things (from moral-ethical codes to discipline of the body and mind) its practical emphasis always lies in the breath. Yogic meditation is often called pranayama -- loosely translated as “breath control.” While Buddhist meditations tend to focus on passively observing the breath, yogic meditations, like pranayama, focus on actively controlling ...
