The coming edition of Global Ayurveda Festival (GAF) scheduled to be held from May 16 to 20 at Angamaly Kerala will be unique in terms of participation of international business, industry, academic and diplomatic participants across continents, claim organisers.V. Muraleedharan,
If you organise everything— your feelings, your thoughts, your impulses, etc.— around the psychic centre which is the inner light, you will see that all inner disorder will change into a luminous order. If in your mind you go over
Meditation is just to be, not doing anything – no action, no thought, no emotion. You just are. And it is a sheer delight. Meditation is just being delighted in your own presence; meditation is a delight in your own
Much depends on the kind of meditation practiced and the context in which it’s being done. Practices that emphasize mindfulness are different in their effects on the brain than those that are designed to cultivate compassion or kindness. We are
You cannot do meditation but you can become meditative. Meditation is a certain quality. It is not a certain act. The mind does not like meditation because if you keep the body still, the mind will also naturally become still.
The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then, you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego; it doesn’t belong to the soul. When a
One of the most interesting studies in the last few years, carried out at Yale University, found that mindfulness meditation decreases activity in the default mode network (DMN), the brain network responsible for mind-wandering and self-referential thoughts – a.k.a., “monkey mind.” The DMN is “on”
The freedom of the Pureisha is its return to its original status of infinitude by way of abstraction of its relations with every form of objectivity, which is Prakriti in some degree of its manifestation. The pinnacle of Yoga is
Meditation is a mind and body practice that has a long history of use for increasing calmness and physical relaxation, improving psychological balance, coping with illness, and enhancing overall health and well-being. Mind and body practices focus on the interactions among the
I look inside and I become aware of things like my feelings, my emotions, my thoughts and I begin to wonder which bit of me is really me. It’s important that I learn to separate two identities, the material identity,
