Alternatives To Meditation
“I don’t have that much time to meditate, but I want to do something good for my brain, what else can I do?”
10 Ways To Improve Your Meditation Results
Before you begin, its important to get physically comfortable. Before you sit for meditation, move and stretch enough to start feeling physical sensation. Then you are ready to begin. Don’t rush into meditation from busy mind to meditation mind, because getting there isn’t the point. There is no where to get to, except here. When…
What Buddha Taught Us About Change
When Buddha learnt meditation, he had been suffering for years. Ever since birth, he had been expected to be his fathers son–The future king. Imagine the pressure, but also the sense of total control from the father, whose expectations he had to live up to, in order to have his love. He was expected to…
Harmony with the Inner Critic
Self – judgement or self criticism is a part of the ego and is created at the time the ego becomes aware of a self. Until the child sees himself or herself as part of the mother, there is no ego, and there is a feeling of deep vulnerability. Separation from the mother creates a sense…
What is Astrology and How Does It Work?
A friend wanted to know about my thoughts on Astrology—especially vedic astrology. Here is a series of Q & A about Astrology i.e., Vedic astrology—Indian. What is Vedic Astrology? Astrology and especially vedic, is rooted in a non-dualistic view of life. It is therefore unscientific because scientific method is based on dualism. Dualism helps…
How To Pray For Hopeless Situations
Prayer is an art. It is not the simple reciting of words, but a way to open the heart and connect to the vast unconscious, omnipotent intention that is the consciousness. Thus love is an important component of it. In fact prayer begins when we hold the feeling of love in the heart.