Wanted to share a lovely informative post written by Ryan Rivera just for YOM readers! His background is: Ryan Rivera has spent 7 years of his life suffering from, as he calls it, the “whole package” – panic attacks, severe anxiety, agoraphobia, social anxiety, unbearable physical symptoms, headaches, neck pains, constant tension, diarrhea, palpitations, pounding …
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#The video is under 4 min., the female narrators voice is a bit sing-song sweet. I want to thank an anon reader who searched for “world chant day.” That alerted me to the fact that something like that exists! And strangely it’s tomorrow-May 17th World Chant Day. The video to it’s credit lists chants from …
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Namaste all. So this is a wonderful short for East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland they are bursting out of their storefront space. Writer Alice Walker & Buddhist teacher/writer Jack Kornfield, ; and others share what is special about the center. They are needing monetary support to move to a better space. Here’s …
Read more »This article was first published as This is Your Brain on Meditation: It’s Growing! by Kala Viv Williams, on Technorati (where I’m a contributing writer.) It’s here at Embark to encourage taking up meditation as it’s the key tool to putting the Yoga of Manifestation into action in your life! Check it out. A recent …
Read more »By Gianluigi Calcaterra @Flickr under cc. license some rights reserved Well?? Ahhmm…. You can do it alone You don’t have to shower after, your won’t work up a sweat No chance of becoming a baby daddy/or mommy Nil chance of catching an STD You determine the length…of time Now that the tease has worked …
Read more »Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, a flickering lamp, a phantom and a dream. –The Buddha This saying was given to me on a little bookmark, by one of my favorite meditation teachers-Myoshin Kelley, formerly …
Read more »Chakra Meditation is it for Beginners? If you have practiced any yoga or read “new agey” kind of books, then you have heard of chakras, no doubt. Chakra meditation is one type of meditation technique. This is an overview for beginners to chakra meditation and it continues on the series of posts on various types …
Read more »If you find this post useful-use the share button at end to spread the word. NAMASTE. Update: Richard Freeman, a respected yoga teacher with a truly “tuned in” to Spirit voice, has the featured chant on his cd: The technique of chanting, repetitive prayer or mantra works for overcoming anxiety for several reasons: the mind …
Read more »Mindfulness Meditation Mindfulness Meditation builds on my previous post Types of Meditation Part 1, about breath awareness meditation, both are excellent meditation techniques for beginners. Anapana sati (breath awareness) is the basis of mindfulness, the latter’s focus is just narrower and is excellent for building one pointed concentration. Once you feel pretty stable on the …
Read more »Share | As I mentioned the last post one of the easiest types of meditation to start with is probably the breath awareness method. It’s simple, non-religious, since we all breathe and the breath is always there so. This is sometimes called anapanasati and was taught by the Buddha in the early scriptures, which are …
Read more »If you like this post: Please Share | IntellectYantra This is going to be an overview/introduction post about types meditation. By necessity it needs to be in parts and will cover meditation how-to’s and include links to reputable sites for each type of meditation. So do check back in as I’ll post every few days …
Read more »Podcast: Get Clear, Don’t Succumb to FearOk tried to post latest podcast with player, didn’t work, here it is directly the latest one: Podcast: Get Clear, Don’t Succumb to Fear. There you will see a “media file” link, with images, links to the music used in podcast and so on. It is a …
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